Hello 👋
A few of the things I’ve read and found worth mentioning this past week.
A broken heart 💔
An interesting read about finding a bug in Safari that was slowing down a site by 10x just by using an emoji font.
On AI bubbles popping 🎈
A lot has been said about AI, about its usefulness and the current economic bubbles and everyone seems to be having strong opinions about it all. I kind of liked the pragmatic conclusion this post leads to, which I think I’d agree with.
Hugh Howey – The AI Bubble Is Bursting
<geolocation> HTML element 📍
There’s a new <geolocation> element coming to HTML, which will let you prompt users for permission to access their location. Manuel Matuzović took a closer look at it.
Manuel Matuzović – Introduction to the new HTML element <geolocation>
How “exceptional” is America, really? 🇺🇸
Some interesting visualizations of various numbers about America, comparing them to the rest of the world.
Not Ship – America isn’t exceptional — it’s the exception
Automated Backups for WordPress sites 💾
Last year, we rebuilt our backup solution for WordPress sites. The new shell script uses wp-cli and restic under the hood, to automatically create incremental, encrypted backups and store them off-site. After using it in production for a while now, we decided to open source the whole thing and shared the thinking behind it in this blogpost.
Haptiq Studio – Haptiq Backups (German)
Cheers 🙌