Walter Ebert @walterebert@mastodon.social

Selling Free Software https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html

Expected that the "Progressive WordPress Themes" talk was about PWA, but was basically all about AMP #WCEU

Listing to @davidneedham@twitter.com doing a Drupal talk at a WordPress event #WCEU

Tried to delete a Slack account, but only deactivation is available. That tells enough about what kind of company it is.

Nice touch on the @benotist@twitter.com site to credit the packages they are using https://noti.st/about/credits

The State of Performance in the WordPress Ecosystem by @rick_viscomi@twitter.com https://www.slideshare.net/jrvis/the-state-of-performance-in-the-wordpress-ecosystem

Because sometimes you really do not want HTTPS. Like trying to connect to some silly wifi network. http://neverssl.com/

Heading home after #DeltaVConf. Great to see shifting focus from tech to people. And meeting WordPress Core Committer @rmccue@twitter.com

I signed up for "No Time To Wait", the digital audiovisual preservation conference. Loved the previous edition.
#NTTW3 https://mediaarea.net/NoTimeToWait3

I really like the idea of colloq_io@twitter.com, but I'm definitely not the only one at #deltavconf
https://colloq.io/events/deltav-conference/2018/london/1

Bought an early-bird ticket to the performance.now(); conference in Amsterdam before they're gone https://perfnow.nl/

Slides for my talk "Making WordPress fast(er)" at WP Meetup Sliema (Malta) https://www.slideshare.net/walterebert/presentations

If you're on Malta and into WordPress, visit the local meetup. I'll talk about performance. https://www.meetup.com/Sliema-WordPress-Meetup/events/248062064/

So far the recycled food was good and I'm not experiencing any side effects! #WCRTM

PIA VPN is open sourcing all their client software https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2018/03/private-internet-access-goes-open-source/

If I'm going to use ReactJS, I'll start here https://reactjs.org/docs/accessibility.html

Discovered that the img sizes attribute uses the first value that matches and apparently doesn't evaluate all values

Creating a smoother CSS zoom effect https://walterebert.com/blog/creating-a-smoother-css-zoom-effect/

OK, I admit that i have been using CSS position without knowing about the containing block https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/All_About_The_Containing_Block

Setting width/height in CSS, not just in the image, makes a big difference in Google Pagespeed https://mastodon.social/media/hWONJ_HxPmr7tpK_6XY