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Images play a significant role in the overall page weight of many websites, significantly impacting performance. Employing optimisation techniques, such as lazy loading, can help alleviate this issue. However, the absence of image placeholders can create confusion for users, giving the impression of a page error. Incorporating image placeholders are a great way to enhance …
👍 Bunny Fonts (GDPR Friendly) CDN In this instance, we are going to be importing the font directly from Bunny via their <link> URL for your website or application development. The Bunny Fonts API was designed to be fully compatible with the Bunny Fonts CSS v1 API, making the switch as easy as changing the …
Why use hCaptcha? Captchas are an essential tool used to verify the authenticity of website users, distinguishing humans from automated bots. This helps to protect against malicious activities such as spamming, data scraping, and brute force attacks, thus enhancing online security and user experience. While Google’s reCAPTCHA remains a popular choice, it is not without …
Config 2023, Figma’s highly anticipated annual conference, saw the launch of several huge updates to the popular design tool. With a focus on empowering teams and streamlining workflows, Figma’s new features and releases promise to revolutionise the overall design and development process. Dev Mode Introducing Dev mode, a new workspace in Figma designed specifically for …
We are excited to announce that we have recently become Xero developer partner, a partnership that allows us to offer our clients even more robust custom software development integrations with the Xero service. As a Xero developer partner, we have access to the latest tools and resources that enable us to build more advanced software …
# PHP Doc Blocks Whether you’re a Laravel software developer or any other type of PHP software developer you’ve no doubt written docblocks in your code at some point. Docblocks are extremely helpful at providing insight into your application for other developers and for static analysis tools to understand the context and provide suggestions and …
When it comes down to QUIC cloud vs Cloudflare while you’re out looking for a cloud CDN, there are several things that you’ll want to consider including if you’re going to be using a LiteSpeed web server, whether you need to do any image optimization, whether you’re hosting WordPress sites and require dynamic caching and …
👍 Google Fonts CDN In this instance, we are going to be importing the font directly from Google via their <link> URL for your website or application development. With more than 50 million websites using Google Fonts, there is an extremely high chance that a web user already has the font in their browser cache; …
We recently faced a JavaScript error when running our production build process that proved impossible to debug. This was only an issue when running our production build process, the development process worked fine. We’d just switched our build tools from Webpack to Vite due to the huge improvements it provides to the developer experience, and …
Why change your repository branch from master to main? Git repositories are one of the most popular source tracking tools in use today, and renaming master to main has become more of a spotlight recently due to the master slave type notion that it implies. Many want to follow best practices and trends and change …
Overview A common approach to setting up a new application or web service at Hatchet involves us provisioning a new SSL certificate on our own web server. You can use a CloudFlare certificate but there are a lot of times where a CloudFlare cert won’t suit your requirements due to the fact they use shared …
Should Tailwind Be Your First Choice CSS? When I first examined Tailwind CSS I was rather grossed out by the number of classes that were being written…. But after one of our developers spun up a single page application using the framework during our Friday “code and learn afternoons” there was no turning back! So …
Is QUIC.cloud a Contender for Best WordPress Cache Plugin in 2021? LiteSpeed is our go to WordPress Cache Plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/litespeed-cache With LiteSpeed Technologies recently launching their latest product QUIC.cloud Content Delivery Network (currently in BETA) that has the ability to cache dynamic WordPress pages, use the latest HTTP/3 and QUIC protocol as well as having …
