Category: Web work

These days, most of my work is very related to the online world. Building web sites, reviewing web applications, integrating with web services, coordinating people who are far away from each other, etc. Whenever I find a new tool or service or an innovative, interesting idea about working online, I share it in this category.

How Fast Is Amp Really?

With Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) being all the rage recently, I found “How fast is AMP really?” article interesting.  It looks like it’s worth spending a tiny bit of time adding AMP to your site, especially if it was developed with one of the common and widely used tools, like WordPress.  And if mobile page performance is important for your project, than there’s even more that you can benefit from.

Color: From Hexcodes to Eyeballs

“Color: From Hexcodes to Eyeballs” is one of the best articles on color theory and the relationship between color coding, hardware, and human color perception, that I’ve seen in a long while.  Scratch that.  That I’ve seen EVER!

I was already somewhat familiar with the subject, so I scrolled through the article twice, quick read it, and will have to spend even more time with it.  But if you want to really understand how this part of technology works with humans, it’s the best resource that I can send you to.

What Is gtag.js with Google Analytics and Do I Need It?

If you are using Google Analytics, or any other Google marketing tool on your website, make sure to read through the “What is gtag.js with Google Analytics and do I need it?” article.  It explains the change in the Google Analytics tracking scripts which are slowly rolling out, and provides some insight into the future.

Why SQLite Does Not Use Git

Git is a pretty much standard de facto for version control when it comes to the modern software development.  Yet, there are still many projects, companies, and developers who don’t use it.  Some, like WordPress, for historical reasons – it’ll take a lot of work to migrate all of the infrastructure and community to git.  Others, for personal preference.  An example of the latter is SQLite.

Here’s an interesting article on why SQLite does not use git.  The core reason is simple – the main developer of the SQLite just doesn’t like git, and there is nothing wrong with it.  But in the article there are a few specific technical reasons of why not git, and why Fossil.