Tagging!
Are they worth the effort on a website?
- Alistair: no-one really looks at them, maybe I could remove them
- Fran: tags for myself, as a way to see trends over time
- Colin: square brackets about words, concepts, as [a less-than] an intention to think about or write more about it; close to a tag?
- James: do they scale? is a tag with 100 post useful? Search or analysis of article bodies might be more interesting
Cutting out extra features or side projects to budget time and attention. Choosing by looking at what has the most positive impact on your life?
The note taker is a bit distracted, quality might plummet!
Grayson: still looking into animations
Alistair: working on a conference talk, website took a step back
The "stack" page: Fran and Alistair started one, but found it boring / not interesting enough.
Images and performance
James: now converting all images to WEBP and AVIF, and offers alternative formats via the <picture> element.
Colin: action taken✅ Wrote a blog post following last months discussion (with many images, that's how we got there)
Alistair: serving image with good performance can be tricky, there are services that can deal with conversion and resizing automatically (e.g., Cloudinary). Jake Archibald has good articles on the subject. (note: Alistair knows everything about image formats)
James: "will it work on a train?" as a guiding principle for good performance.
Fran: a good article on <picture>
and <img srcset>
: MDN: Responsive images
Would be nice to have a prefers-reduced-data
media query, but there are concerns about fingerprinting.
Oh no, they are chucking us out! That's all folks, thank you for coming 🙏