Sia Karamalegos | Blog

I'm a big believer that everyone should have their own little corner of the internet — a home base that reflects you, not just whatever social media platform is popular this year.

One of the best ways to grow your career in tech isn't just through formal training or on-the-job experience; it's by getting involved in a community.

What does blogging mean to you?

What should you be worried about when it comes to web performance in 2025?

For two years at Shopify, I helped merchants and theme developers make their online stores and themes faster.

2024 was a transitional year for me.

Did you ever notice those social media share images that automatically pop up for a site and think to yourself, "wow, it would be really cool if I could get that set up for my blog"?

I'm an independent content creator that uses my content partly as a way to to get interest in my paid services.

This post was originally published on the Shopify performance blog.

If you've ever approached a blank page with an idea for a long blog post, you'll understand me when I say that it can be daunting.

This post was originally published on the Shopify performance blog.

This post was originally published on the Shopify performance blog.

A lot of e-commerce solutions exist, but many of them charge a monthly fee.

This week I held a mini-workshop called Let's build and deploy your blog already.

Sometimes it's hard to discover all the great web performance measurement tools out there.

Lighthouse Treemap is a new tool that helps us evaluate the efficiency of the JavaScript on our websites.

I just enabled AVIF on Cloudinary and...

In November of 2019, I decided to try out a new way to deliver web performance tips to my Twitter followers.

You might be here because Lighthouse told you to "eliminate render-blocking resources".

This post is a companion to the talk I give on buidling serverless functions with Netlify (slides).

I like to talk and write about Eleventy a LOT.

While working at a smaller dev shop, our team hit the point at which the inconsistent code formats between and within projects was becoming a pain.

Video is great, but the default YouTube embed share is both bloated and not privacy-minded.

Responsive images can be challenging to set up, from writing markup to generating the images.

Webmentions are an exciting standard which help enable the IndieWeb.

Eleventy is a static site generator that makes building static, performant websites a breeze.

More developers are starting to understand that web performance matters.

Want to learn how to make your images more responsive and more performant?

Step 1: Buy a domain.

In today's episode of Making Sia's Blog Better™️, I wanted to better encourage readers to engage in the conversation about my blog posts.

I am a huge fan of the static site generator Eleventy so far, and I was super excited to try out Webmentions with them.

Many of us who love the web and want to make it fast feel like we’re shouting out into the ether that performance matters, but I’m not sure anyone is listening.

In this article, I will show you how to: Choose the best way to import your Google Fonts Skip over some of the latency time for downloading fonts Fix flash-of-invisible text (FOIT) Self-host your fonts for faster speed and greater control Struggling with…

Today the FedEx man delivered my brand new Pixelbook.

Today I learned that you can import your Google Analytics data into caniuse to determine how many of your users would be able to use a particular front-end technology in their browser of choice.

The UPS guy just knocked.

Sometimes you just don’t like any one particular reference out there.