Cellular noise

Random points

  • true randomness is hard
  • pseudo random number generators usually don’t have even distribution
    • or “slow”
    • or cannot be used in a parallel way
  • OpenGL does not have random API (reasons above)

And in most cases higher “entropy” is more pleasant to the eyes.

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Deploying a webapp

Backend

  • app to the server
    • scp
    • git
    • maven/npm/pip/whatever
  • start it
    • prefer using a “webapp container” like tomcat or gunicorn
    • on a “high” port like 5000, 8000, 8080
  • make it start on reboot
    • systemd
    • supervisord/pm2
    • …
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Core Web Vitals

Google: “page experience” will be (June 2021) part of search ranking

What

  • LCP: Largest Contentful Paint
  • FID: First Input Delay (RUM only)
  • CLS: Cumulative Layout Shift
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Rendering content to HTML

  • offline/static
  • online/dynamic

Offline

Somebody or something generates the raw HTML “offline”, long before the request, then the generated HTML is served via a static webserver (nginx, apache, …) or CDN.

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Container Queries

The problem

Currently we have media queries, but in most cases widgets have not the full width of the viewport.

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CSS Painting API

One of the new CSS Houdini APIs:

  • CSS Parser API - possibility to implement sass/less/etc support
  • CSS Properties and Values API - more advanced CSS properties (variables)
  • CSS Typed OM - CSS values as typed JS objects
  • CSS Layout API - create custom layouts (like grid or flexbox)
  • CSS Painting API - draw something in CSS
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WebComponents

  • reusable custom elements
  • framework independent
  • standardized
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Loading JS

How can we load JavaScript code into a website?

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