On a quiet Friday evening in late March 2024, a Microsoft engineer named Andres Freund was running some routine benchmarks on his Debian development box when he noticed something strange.…
Read more →Stop Waiting for Fonts Quick Guide to font-display: swap on macOS Your website might be secretly blocking page renders while it waits for fancy custom fonts to load. This invisible delay tanks your Core Web Vitals and frustrates users. The fix is simple: font-display: swap. Here’s how to audit your sites and fix it in […]
Read more →Gartner says 40% of agentic AI projects will fail by 2027. I think they’re being optimistic. Walk into almost any large enterprise right now and you’ll find the same scene:…
Read more →If you run a WordPress site for any length of time, the database quietly fills with junk. Post revisions stack up every time you hit Save. Drafts you abandoned years…
Read more →1. What is Minification Minification is the process of removing everything from source code that a browser does not need to execute it. This includes whitespace, line breaks, comments, and long variable names. The resulting file is functionally identical to the original but significantly smaller. A CSS file written for human readability might look like […]
Read more →By Andrew Baker, CIO at Capitec Bank There is a category of enterprise technology vendor whose approach to pricing is so fundamentally at odds with how purchasing decisions actually get…
Read more →I’ve been running this blog on WordPress for years, and the backup situation has always quietly bothered me. The popular backup plugins either charge a monthly fee, cap you on…
Read more →If you’ve run your site through Google PageSpeed Insights and seen the “Eliminate render-blocking resources” warning, you’ve probably wondered why something that sounds so simple is so hard to actually fix. The answer is that WordPress makes it surprisingly easy to load JavaScript the wrong way — and surprisingly difficult to fix it without either […]
Read more →Published on andrewbaker.ninja | Enterprise Architecture & Banking Technology There is a quiet revolution happening in physics laboratories around the world, and most of the people who should be worried…
Read more →The COBOL apocalypse conversation this week has been useful, because it has forced the industry to confront something it has been avoiding for decades. But most of the coverage is…
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