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by JamesMade some optimizations to my site today.Β
- Enabled the django gzip middleware so html is compressed over the wire. Practically speaking, responses loads should be about 5kb now, or a quarter of the previous size.
- Optimized the queries for public facing pages. All pages now require less than 10 queries.
- All optimized images will now be automatically resized by 50% and converted to webp (where supported). This helps reduce images sizes from drastically, usually to around 100k or less, each.
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Checkin to γγ³γγ«γΌγΊζ¨ͺζ΅ ζ³γΏγͺγΏεΊ
1 year tune up for the car. Time flies. -
by JamesSeeing that Basecamp is shutting down their famous Signal vs Noise blog, I canβt help but wonder how much was the faff of dealing with Wordpress.
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Checkin to Ootoya (倧ζΈε±)
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First Days with Tanzawa
by JamesThis was my first week using Tanzawa to power my actual blog and not just the dev blog. So far it's been great. I love how easy it is to post. I love that my site is IndieWeb native. I love that my site's stability has improved because I no longer require a database server. And I love that it's using fewer resources. It's great.
This said, there's been a few rough edges that need polishing. Approving 50 some-odd webmentions after OwnYourSwarm started importing un-sent checkins required 50 some-odd page loads. Ouch.ΒI'd also like to improve site performance more in respect to images. Currently Tanzawa automatically requests the most efficient image format that your browser supports. Image format selection is all handled by the browser automatically (no Javascript). This alone usually cuts transfer size in half.
While cutting the transfer size in half with a format change is a good start, I still don't need to be serving (at times) 4000px wide images. This is noticeable in streams where posts usually have images ( Checkins etc..) where the text loads instantly, but the progress bar lingers while images load.
Rather, I'm going to change it to serve a resized (max 800px wide? ) image unless the original is specifically requested.
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by JamesFixed the rest of the site on mobile. Which really means content is now full-width and stacked, rather than in columns. It's amazing what you can do these days with just flex, flex columns and media queries (made super easy with Tailwind).
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by JamesI've fixed navigation on mobile, first time doing responsive design with tailwind. The hamburger menu is just a button with 3Β 8px by 1px brown divs inside.
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by JamesAdded a small feature β clicking on the interaction count from the post list will open the detail page with the interactions open.
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by JamesTook my bike to the cafe to work a bit this afternoon. Itβs so much fun. I canβt but feel like my parents and peers were sold a lie that driving brings freedom.Β
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by JamesMigrated my graden (MediaWiki) from MySQL to SQLite like Tanzawa so I could shutdown and disable it on my server.Β I'm also able to start importing checkins from swarm again β love how they look.
