The psychology of site speed and human happiness

In the fourteen years that I've been working in the web performance industry, I've done a LOT of research, writing, and speaking about the psychology of page speed – in other words, why we crave fast, seamless online experiences.

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Top 5 React Design Patterns That You Should Know in 2024

If you’ve worked in React, one of the first things you’ve learned is to think in components. Rather than implementing one single component for an entire UI collection, you’re encouraged to break it down into smaller, reusable units. For example, consider the React component diagram:

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Goodbye Electron. Hello Tauri!

Many a developer can tell you about their love-hate relationship with the JavaScript GUI framework that helped revolutionize the way many desktop applications are made.

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The Performance Inequality Gap, 2024

The global device and network situation continues to evolve, and this series is an effort to provide an an up-to-date understanding for working web developers. So what's changed since last year? And how much HTML, CSS, and (particularly) JavaScript can a new project afford?

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Frontend Application Security: Tips and Tricks

Since everything nowadays runs on computing and relies on interconnected systems to provide cutting-edge business services to keep up with the never-ending demand set by customers, it is no surprise that businesses need to adopt state-of-the-art technologies to stay ahead of their competition.

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Git Tips 1: Oldies but Goodies

For the first in our short series of Git tips, I wanted to start with stuff that's been around for a while, but it still seems like a lot of people don't know about or don't know how to use. None of this is new, but I find them useful and they're arguably a little obscure.

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Starters Upgrade: WebContainers and Vite

It finally happened: Vite and WebContainers have pushed us to make significant changes to our Starters list. Let me explain. When StackBlitz first launched in 2017, the primary focus of our experience was what we now call “Starters.

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