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Tag: web design
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The 49 MB webpage
Website bloat is a real thing. You’d think it’d be images but it’s ad tracking and all the other garbage. Stubham Bose details what comprises a modern webpage.
To truly wrap your head around the phenomenon of a 49 MB web page, let’s quickly travel back a few decades. With this page load, you would be leaping ahead of the size of Windows 95 (28 floppy disks). The OS that ran the world fits perfectly inside a single modern page load. In 2006, the iPod reigned supreme and digital music was precious. A standard high-quality MP3 song at 192 kbps bitrate took up around 4 to 5 MB. This singular page represents roughly 10 to 12 full-length songs. I essentially downloaded an entire album’s worth of data just to read a few paragraphs of text.
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A neat JavaScript calendar generator
If you have ever done any web development at all and tried to make a calendar, you’ll know that it is one of the more difficult things to get right. It’s more than just generating boxes and numbers. There’s other sorts of logic that need to be taken into account. Here is a neat JavaScript calendar generator.
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Worldwide music dashboard
If you like music and dashboards, charts, and numbers, here is a very detailed dashboard of the music throughout the world.
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Teens develop affordable housing portal
Two teens created an affordable housing portal for New York City.
First, he taught himself to code. “I basically spent the first two months of summer in my room, learning from YouTube and A.I.,” said Beckett, 17. “Those are my teachers.”
In July, after countless bleary-eyed hours on bedroom computers, he and Derrick Webster Jr., his classmate, launched Realer Estate, a website that combines public data with real estate listings, allowing users to search for below-market and rent-stabilized apartments — something the grown-ups who run New York City have never managed to do.
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Amazing color picker
If you have ever programmed anything for the web, you’ll know that trying to find the right color and then coding it can be one of those annoying, trivial tasks. Different prefer have different trade-offs. The Internet offers plenty of different color pickers, however, here’s a very cool all in one with different approaches for the different methods.
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Clever use of light and dark mode
Almost any modern web application or desktop application offers near the ability to switch between light and dark mode. In Common With applies this in a clever way when displaying a page of lamps.