Web

Front-end and web engineering notes: lead forms that tell the truth, image diets, sitemaps and shipping static sites safely.

Posts about Web

A path-traced showroom in a TV browser

22 renders, path-traced offline in about 2 hours

A blog hub that builds its own topic pages

11 → 48 posts in the Journal

A sales pitch that plays itself

15 → 5½ min walkthrough, with a presenter clicking

A thank-you page that lied

7 / 7 forms verify the save

Product films recorded from the app, with no ffmpeg

87 s lock film, no feature left out

The first-week SEO audit that read the site like a crawler

21 → 0 pages sharing a duplicate title

The BACK button that kept walking out of the app

1 per press history steps banked

Giving a TV remote a mouse pointer

3× drag threshold for the air mouse

The slow part was the server, not the page

96% of the LCP wait came before first paint

From sleep loop to portable screensaver

22 slides a pass on the TV, about 4½ minutes

A phone as the TV remote, with voice search

4 speech guesses scored per search

Where did this lead come from?

7 / 7 forms record the lead’s page

The sitemap that quietly hid the whole blog

38 → 108 URLs in the sitemap

The hero image that waited in line

−80% LCP on /solutions

Product pages led by specifications

2,037 px of bullets, and no spec table

Writing about Apple without breaking Apple’s rules

6 of 6 Apple pages indexed within days

Lead capture without handing the browser your CRM keys

0 secrets in the page

From 3.3 MB to 180 KB, the image diet behind a fast landing page

−94% image weight