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Every Phosphor Icon You Import Ships Six Times
I was hunting for the last few kilobytes on my landing page and found 51KB of SVG paths. For 26 icons. That's about 2KB per icon, and most of them are a circle with two lines in it. The reason is the API. Phosphor icons take a weight prop: That's decided at runtime. So the component has to carry…
Your GIF Is the Lossy One
One of my project pages was loading 18MB of images. Not a slow page. A page that eats a fifth of someone's daily mobile data to show them five looping demos. The demos were GIFs. One of them, a sunrise animation, was 6.85MB by itself. I converted it expecting to trade quality for size: 6.85MB…
I Deleted the Carousel Library
Two carousels on this site, one carousel library. Embla, with the wheel-gestures plugin, about 64KB raw and 20KB gzipped. Both carousels scroll sideways and snap. The browser does that: Touch drag, momentum, trackpad, keyboard, snapping. All of it free, from the platform. What a library adds on top…
I Rebuilt This Site for Three Years
I rebuilt this site for three years. It was supposed to be a weekend job. The old version ran on Gatsby — fine, fast enough, but I'd been hitting walls. The routing and GraphQL pipeline were rigid in a way that fought me every time I wanted to add anything new. There was no built-in image…
Spotify and Me
Spotify is turning 20 this year. I've been around for 7 of those — even though they only officially launched in Bangladesh 5 years ago. So yeah, I was that guy, jumping through VPN hoops just to keep the green app on my phone. What started as a music app quietly became the thing that gets me to my…
StarWalls: A Minimal Space Photo Wallpaper PWA
I wanted a better way to browse NASA photos on my phone and save them as wallpapers. NASA has the APOD API, the Image of the Day RSS feed, and the full Images API — tons of great content — but no mobile interface that makes it easy to frame and download a shot for your lock screen. So I built one.…
2020 Wrapped
Welcome to my first blog. A brief of what I did in 2020. It was a horrifying year for all the people all over the world for sure. But it shouldn't hold you back. This year I indeed taste a lot of new things, thanks to the pandemic effect. Mostly React, NodeJS & JamStack related. I started learning…
Hello World
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