Some links on tech

Filed under: tech

I keep accumulating links to send to work so I thought I’d put them here instead of clogging up online chats.

  1. Every Metric Is A Vanity Metric

”Marketers can get caught up in specific metrics, focusing on those data points that make you look good in reporting, but don’t help you understand your performance. In this week’s episode of Whiteboard Friday, Dr. Pete discusses the vanity we bring to the metrics we track, and how to take a better, more realistic view of your results.”

  1. Cookie Consent Speed.Run

”Since GDPR came into our lives, we’ve all had to struggle with obtaining our basic privacy rights. With each cookie banner we have all been honing our skills, learning to navigate ambiguous options and distrust obvious buttons. Now is your chance to show what you have learnt.”

  1. Emoji Passwords and BitWarden

An experiment in creating emoji passwords and how it works with BitWarden.

  1. The Mobile Performance Inequality Gap, 2021

”An update on phones, networks, browsers, and the new baseline scenario for web performance.”

  1. Time for Next-Gen Codecs to Dethrone JPEG

”Learn how several next-gen image codecs (JPEG 2000, WebP, AVIF, and JPEG XL) compare to JPEG in compression density, features, etc. as its potential replacement.”

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