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Making GitHub’s new homepage fast and performant. A couple of really clever tricks in this article by Tobias Ahlin. The first is using IntersectionObserver in conjunction with the video preload=“none” attribute to lazily load a video when it scrolls into view. The second is an ingenious trick to create an efficiently encoded transparent JPEG image: embed the image in a SVG file twice, once as the image and once as a transparency mask. # 29th January 2021, 7:05 pm

Why I like Redis

I’ve been getting a lot of useful work done with Redis recently.

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10:58 am / 22nd October 2009 / chriswanstrath, github, guardian, hurl, interactivedevelopment, ipython, leahculver, opensource, performance, python, redis

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