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As an respectable unemployed person must do, I tried to make Postgres as slow as possible

Learn some of the most important elements of tuning Postgres for performance and get a better understanding of Postgres fundamentals along the way.

JavaScript went against the grain in only using floating point numbers initially, and now we pay the price

JavaScript has a lot of room for improvement.

Design decisions core to JavaScript have caused a multitude of problems for benchmarking.

Images are one of the most significant contributors to slow websites.

Learn about different strategies for delivering data from multiple servers

Images are one of the most significant contributors to slow websites.

While there are many benefits to using Tailwind, it also comes with unique challenges when scaling.

Monorepos are becoming more and more popular with web development.

We look over some of the JavaScript projects to watch in 2023.

Currently, React is extremely popular, and for good reasons.

ES (ECMAScript) Modules is a modern module format with many advantages over previous formats like CommonJS.

React and Svelte are both prevalent libraries for creating user interfaces.

JavaScript is one of the biggest contributors to long website loading times.

Bun is a new JavaScript runtime that claims to offer more features and performance compared to Node.js and Deno.

State of JS 2021/2022 is a major survey in web development.

Learn more about the past, present, and future of React and things like Remix, React 18, Solid, and more.

Font loading can slow page load times significantly.

Learn more about the past, present, and future of Atomic CSS and frameworks like Tachyons, Tailwind, and more.

Static Site Generators have been changing quickly with new trends like Jamstack.

Why and how I rebuilt my blog in Astro

Learn more about the past, present, and future of bundlers like Webpack, Rollup, and Vite

What are serverless functions, why do they matter, and how are they currently used for server-side JavaScript?

A quick introduction to the Maps datatype in JavaScript, and when to use it

Learn the difference between Array.map() and Array.forEach() and how to use each in JavaScript

What is Deno, why does it matter, and how is it currently used for server-side JavaScript?

What is WebAssembly, why does it matter, and how is it currently used on the web?

How I built Microdiff and how it is faster than most other object and array diffing libraries

While very popular, React is not always the best web framework to use.