performance
If it could save a person's life, would you find a way to make it faster?
Why aim small?
The Website Obesity Crisis
A Management Maturity Model for Performance
Reflections on Software Performance
Add Less
Site performance is potentially the most important metric
Website Response Times
Fast Software, the Best Software
Finda
A Plea for Lean Software
Speed is a feature
Performance and people
Why Software is Slow and Shitty
The Taft Test
Page weight matters
An Article by Chris ZachariasMany of us are fortunate to live in high bandwidth regions, but there are still large portions of the world that do not. By keeping your client side code small and lightweight, you can literally open your product up to new markets.
The Pleasure of Observing
Abbreviation
I generally do not like to abbreviate behavioral notes. An important detail may be ignored or considered irrelevant and discarded because it lacks a discrete category on the list. It is often an anecdotal event that offers special insight.
Beyond dry facts
If one has a personal knowledge of the individual animals being studied, observations in field notes cease to be impersonal, and an observer’s empathy can lead beyond dry facts to better intuition and insight.
A study should persist
Since we cannot interview the subject, we can only infer the past from the present. Ideally, a study should persist for at least the life span of an animal.
Precious intangible values
The “precious intangible values” of this wilderness.
Independent fragments of existence
You cannot divide me into independent fragments of existence.
— The Last Panda, 1993
Panda routes
A detailed route of a panda foraging on bamboo shoots, showing the number of shoots eaten and droppings deposited (black spots) on May 31, 1982.