Jank Busting With Daft Punk

Yesterday, I looked at the new Daft Punk web experience on Pitchfork. It was visually stunning, featuring rich-animations throughout. I noticed however that scrolling on the page felt quite janky. It was sluggish and stuttered regularly. You could reproduce this … Continue reading →

Taming The Unicorn: Easing JavaScript Memory Profiling In Chrome DevTools

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“The Unicorn has a special ability to help it's master when in trouble. When tamed, they will not attack humans or tamed creatures, but will attack anything else with negative karma" The DevTools Heap Profiler and Timeline Memory view can … Continue reading →

DevTools Extensions For Web App Developers

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The past year has seen many leaps made to improve developer productivity through better tooling. We're paying increasing attention to our workflow and many of us have spent time optimising our usage of tools like Grunt, Bower, Yeoman and the … Continue reading →

DevTools: Visually Re-engineering CSS For Faster Paint Times

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Increasingly, whether it’s on desktop or mobile, users want their web experience to be snappy and delightful. This means that even if the browser is busy rendering the page or loading in content, the user should still be able to … Continue reading →

Tooling For The Modern WebApp Developer – Video From DotJS

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The video from my DotJS talk in Paris is now up. I hope it's useful. In it I walk through how to performance profile your apps using DevTools Timeline and the Heap profiler, debugging your mobile apps using Overrides, sexy SASS Source Maps, snippets, a live reload editing workflow with the tools and a few other juicy tips. Slides are also available.

About

I'm on the Chrome team at Google, working on tools to help improve developer productivity and satisfaction.

My personal projects include TodoMVC, which helps developers compare JavaScript MVC frameworks and AuraJS. I've also written 'Developing Backbone.js Applications' and 'Learning JavaScript Design Patterns'.

Fundamentals

First do it, then do it right, then do it better. This is one fundamental I always keep in mind when developing anything.

If you're a developer wishing to learn something new, regardless of skill-level, remember that as important as it is to read, it's equally as important to get out there and *do*.

Create a new gist or fiddle, pop open the console and experiment. It's effing fun.

Friends

I feel honored to have quite a few friends involved in OSS, many of who are spread across the world but remain active and passionate at what they do. Thanks to my wife, family and the OT-crew for being ah-mazing.