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A recent upgrade to my hosting enabled HTTP2 so I took the opportunity to see how this change affected performance of my site.

Some technology related items I've read and favourited in Pocket recently.

The new - and long overdue - Google Webmaster Tools console features the one report we really wanted but didn't have: the index status of pages on a site. Previously it's been possible to piece together a reasonable assessment of this data by a process that essentially amounted to divination but now we have access to data.

I've been taking Dotcom-Monitor's BrowserView for a spin recently, it's the front end performance component of a wider suite of monitoring tools.

If you had to choose one metric to focus on when improving the performance of your web pages then it would be speed index. However, it's important to understand that it is fundamentally a subjective measurement so in order to use it effectively you need to understand the consequences of this for alerting.

Some items I've found interesting related to the Facebook news feed changes last week.

As the technology of media delivery has changed so have my consumption habits. Often this is a natural evolution over time but sometimes I need to make planned changes - as with long form reading.

Some items I've found interesting this week.

Responsive design has always been about adapting to the media that renders it and keeping that in mind at every stage is the key to any successful responsive website.

Mastodon has problems, Twitter has problems, Email has problems, Slack has problems Facebook has problems, Microsoft has problems, Amazon has problems, Apple has problems, Open source has problems, I have problems. Fortunately none of these are compulsory (yet) and it's large monocultures that are the danger (and not just in tech ) Unfortunately tech does love itself a monoculture ("Why can't everyone just use Chrome?") - and especially a monoculture where a small number of white males are the main beneficiaries.