⌛ Dive Deep: Page Speed Test - Monitoring vs. Measuring
Tags: webdev, javascript, design, css
Published: 2023-08-17 13:41:39


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🐦 How new Twitter X logo fails
🖥️ I'm betting on HTML
🫙 A Future of Themes with CSS Container Style Queries

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### 📦 Resources

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Discover some awesome libraries.

[**Running A Page Speed Test: Monitoring vs. Measuring**](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2023/08/running-page-speed-test-monitoring-versus-measuring/?utm_source=unicornclub.dev&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=unicornclub.dev&ref=unicornclub.dev)

There are all kinds of tools available for measuring page speed, but what data and assumptions do they use to measure performance?

### 🎨 Design

[**How new Twitter X logo fails**](https://pimpmytype.com/twitter-x/?utm_source=unicornclub.dev&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=unicornclub.dev&ref=unicornclub.dev)

To better gauge people’s understanding of data visualizations, it’s essential to define the concepts of numeracy and data literacy.

### 🧠 UX

[**Scrolljacking 101**](https://www.nngroup.com/articles/scrolljacking-101/?utm_source=unicornclub.dev&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=unicornclub.dev&ref=unicornclub.dev)

Altering the normal pace or direction of scrolling can contradict user expectations, control, and freedom.

### ⌨️ HTML

[**A Blog Post With Every HTML Element**](https://www.patrickweaver.net/blog/a-blog-post-with-every-html-element/?utm_source=unicornclub.dev&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=unicornclub.dev&ref=unicornclub.dev)

After learning a little bit more about web accessibility last year I had been exploring some of the less common HTML elements.

[**I'm betting on HTML**](https://catskull.net/html.html?utm_source=unicornclub.dev&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=unicornclub.dev&ref=unicornclub.dev)

With the advent of large language model-based artificial intelligence, semantic HTML is more important now than ever.

### 🖌️ CSS

[**A Tool for Learning to Classify CSS Selectors and Combinators**](https://dev.to/arbaoui_mehdi/css-selectorscombinators-classifier-3lc5?utm_source=unicornclub.dev&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=unicornclub.dev&ref=unicornclub.dev)

If you find yourself constantly struggling to categorize the numerous types of CSS selectors and combinators.

[**A Future of Themes with CSS Container Style Queries**](https://chriskirknielsen.com/blog/future-themes-with-container-style-queries/?utm_source=unicornclub.dev&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=unicornclub.dev&ref=unicornclub.dev)

You can style based on a theme property, but how would we go about actually implementing that idea on a site-wide scale?

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