Ramblings on web development

Accelerated Mobile Pages is a testimate to the failure of web developers everywhereAccelerated Mobile Pages is a relatively new initative supported by amongst others Google. In short it's a new "standard" of sorts for making r...

C# XSLX file reader without any dependenciesThe need to load data from an XSLX file for importing into your application is a common one and there are many solutions out there. However, not...

MailKit AttachmentsToday I found myself trying to download attachments from a mail message I'd downloaded with MailKit from an IMAP account. When it comes down to i...

Pingdom Website Speed TestPingdoms Website Speed Test is probably the best way to measure the speed of your website. Not only does it incorporate most of the things Google P...

Lazy loading images, a minimalist implementationAdding Lazy Loading to images on your site is a great way to make your site faster and lighter. With lazy loading you'll load images only when...

A lightweight alternative to Require JSRequire JS is one of the most used methods online to dynamically load JavaScript on the client, however it is probably more than most of us will...

Using Font Awesome the fast wayFont Awesome is a great way to add scalable vector icons to your website, however what most people may not realize is that the method Font Aweso...

Google PageSpeedGoogle PageSpeed is Googles tool for identifying performance issues with your website. It is available both as an online tool and as a browser plu...

Google Fonts - Skip a step and make your site fasterGoole Fonts is a fantastic resource to add some more interesting typography to your website, in fact this blog is using it right now. But as wi...

What are Render Blocking stylesheets / scriptsOn this blog there are frequent mentions of render blocking javascript and render blocking stylesheets (or CSS). So what exactly is a render blo...

Website Performance and Quality Analysis ToolsOn this page I've gathered some useful resources that you can use to get a feel for how your optimization efforts are going: Pingdom Webs...

Fetching data from your server without jQueryThe ability to load content from the server without forcing a page refresh is useful in so many ways. You can use it to dynamically load parts of...

What makes a website fastWhat makes a website fast should come as no surprise to anyone. But since the web is currently in so many ways a horribly slow mess it might not b...

It's about time we stop supporting old browsersDeveloping for the web means developing for a wide range of browsers, the bad news is there are still quite a few older browsers in use that makes...