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> it is our job to give back

I've struggled with the same thoughts above, and giving back is helpful. I've tried to document it (https://www.codekindly.org/) with these principles of giving back by coding kindly:

Be Kind to the Earth: reduce code waste, utilize green infra

Be Kind to Community: donate code, give to charity

Be Kind to Users: protect privacy, provide joyful experiences

Be Kind to Yourself: physical + mental health, cultivate relationships

It's a shift in mindset to find fulfillment in your current job


This is wonderful. I've actually been wishing I could create music like this for some time. I have some guitar background, but zero DAW experience. I just downloaded FL Studio last week and have been playing around with it. What would you suggest I do in order to learn how to make music like you?


I get that you're trying to do an unselfish thing here, but I worry that it's going to harm your family more than you expect. Once your kids are 'raised' they're still going to want you to be around as a solid support, even in your 'unproductive' years. I'm 35 right now, and if my parents (~65) ever did this to me 'for my benefit' I'd be so mad at them.

You are important your entire life.


Good on you. It's tough to find companies with strong morals, you did the right thing.


>I might postpone switching to the tab with the single purpose, so it loads all the content in the background and the page is completely ready for me to scroll.

You've been trained to expect pages to load slowly. If pages weren't slow to begin with then this behavior would not be necessary.


Obviously. But pages won't load much faster any time soon and lazy-loading prevents me from using this workaround.


> under UK consumer rights laws, faulty goods must be repaired or replaced up to 6 years after purchase

Dang that's awesome, I need to move to the UK! No guarantee like that in the US


Thanks again for the great script - I particularly love how it's not dependent on any framework so can work everywhere. And the perf improvement numbers don't lie. Awesome.


>Errors are opportunities

I love this. I've found that my most engaged users are the ones that report errors, churn less, etc.


How come no one monitors their speed as much as they should?

SpeedCurve and Calibre are great options listed in that article. Also suggest MachMetrics https://www.machmetrics.com/


MachMetrics - it's basically a private WebPageTest instance on better hardware, which runs your tests recurring, with nice graphs to show trends. https://www.machmetrics.com


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