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I'll be speaking at OSCON 2015

I'm very happy to announce that I will be speaking at OSCON 2015 with my good friend Robin Osborne. We will be presenting a tutorial entitled "Automating web performance" which will run through a step-by-step guide to web performance and show you how to automate as much of your development

A Basic Guide to the Fetch API

As web developers, we often need the ability to retrieve data from the server in order to update our applications asynchronously. Traditionally this data is retrieved using JavaScript and the XMLHttpRequest object. A simple example of this might look something like the code below. In the code above, there are

Service Workers

Push Notifications on the Web - Google Chrome

A while ago I built a fun side project on Github to keep a collection of typography links and tools that caught my eye. There are a number of people that follow the project on Github, but every time I make a change or add a new link, I normally

Web Performance

Faster Mobile Websites - Slides

Earlier this year I was lucky enough to get the chance to present at UpFront Conference in Manchester. This was the inaugural year for the conference, and it was great to be apart of this event. A few people have asked about the slide deck and wanted to know more.

Web Performance

Responsibly harnessing the power of Prefetch using Google Analytics

If you browse the web today, there are many articles that explain what browser pre-loading is and how to use it, but very little explain how to actually use this feature in the real world. The ability to prefetch resources is powerful, but if used incorrectly it can turn out