Spurious Correlations
Correlation does not imply causation.
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How Ireland became Europe’s data watchdog - BBC News
The coming GDPR storm:
Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner, Helen Dixon, is expected to circulate her decisions on some cases by July or August, with final rulings made by the end of the year.
(That’s my sister-in-law, that is.)
Preload, prefetch and other link tags: what they do and when to use them · PerfPerfPerf
Following on from Harry’s slides, here’s another round-up of thoserel attribute values that begin with pre.
More Than You Ever Wanted to Know About Resource Hints - Speaker Deck
Slides from Harry’s deep dive into rel values: preconnect, prefetch, and preload.
Performance Calendar » All about prefetching
A good roundup of techniques for responsible prefetching from Katie Hempenius.
Voxxed Thessaloniki 2018 - Opening Keynote - Taking Back The Web - YouTube
Here’s the talk I gave recently about indie web building blocks.
There’s fifteen minutes of Q&A starting around the 35 minute mark. People asked some great questions!
How to get on the #indieweb!
As well as graciously hosting Indie Web Camp Berlin on the weekend at Mozilla’s offices, Yulia has also drawn this super-cute comic.
The Font Loading Checklist—zachleat.com
This checklist came in very handy during a performance-related workshop I was running today (I may have said the sentence “Always ask yourself What Would Zach Do?”).
- Start Important Font Downloads Earlier (Start a Web Font load)
- Prioritize Readable Text (Behavior while a Web Font is loading)
- Make Fonts Smaller (Reduce Web Font load time)
- Reduce Movement during Page Load (Behavior after a Web Font has loaded)
The first two are really straightforward to implement (with rel="preload" and font-display). The second two take more work (with subsetting and the font loading API).
“Designer + Developer Workflow,” an article by Dan Mall
Dan compares the relationship between a designer and developer in the web world to the relationship between an art director and a copywriter in the ad world. He and Brad made a video to demonstrate how they collaborate.
Ways to think about machine learning — Benedict Evans
This strikes me as a sensible way of thinking about machine learning: it’s like when we got relational databases—suddenly we could do more, quicker, and easier …but it doesn’t require us to treat the technology like it’s magic.
An important parallel here is that though relational databases had economy of scale effects, there were limited network or ‘winner takes all’ effects. The database being used by company A doesn’t get better if company B buys the same database software from the same vendor: Safeway’s database doesn’t get better if Caterpillar buys the same one. Much the same actually applies to machine learning: machine learning is all about data, but data is highly specific to particular applications. More handwriting data will make a handwriting recognizer better, and more gas turbine data will make a system that predicts failures in gas turbines better, but the one doesn’t help with the other. Data isn’t fungible.
Keynote: The Building Blocks Of The Indie Web - YouTube
Here’s the video of the talk I gave at Design4Drupal last week in Boston. There’s a good half an hour of questions at the end.