The performance team I lead at Automattic is hiring - automattic.com/work-with-us... #webperf #php #jobs #wordpress #woocommerce

It's been a while since my last blog post, so I made up for it with a wall of text 😅 This article looks at why JS-heavy web apps tend to miss their performance goals over time, what you can do to somewhat mitigate that, and ends with a plea for us to move back to the server, as an industry.

The semver library used in npm, yarn and pnpm could be made 33x faster. Ran into that while wondering why running `npm install` takes so long on the Preact repo. marvinh.dev/blog/speedin...

it feels important to keep saying: SPA as an app framework default (and not an opt-in feature) was a mistake