Things learned this week #3
Another pack of interesting links. Mostly about image performance optimization.
Videos talks, tutorials
Still mysterious topic for me but I’m sure that that thing is the future of API building. Quite good overview from facebook with live demos.
Blog posts, specs or articles
The technology behind facebook cover photos
Facebook approach for reducing content load time. Quite simple but it helped them to speed up the page load by 30 percent.
Good checklist of image optimisations from Google.
Everything You Need to Read and Watch About Muhammad Ali
RIP
Imagemagick for optimizing images for the web
Awesome article with lots of details about image optimisation algorithms (in Russian)
Interesting research about page size growth. Interesting fact that average page today is almost 150 times larger than the average page twenty years ago.
My increasing frustration with Clojure
This article highlights concerns about how Clojure is moving.