Latest video: Compression Dictionaries How Google and Shopify are Bringing SPA Speed to MPA Websites

Duration: 39:32
Category: Technical
Published: Mon 9th February, 2026

Yoav Weiss (Shopify) and Pat Meenan (Google), the engineers who designed and standardised Compression Dictionary Transport share how it works, the performance benefits it can bring, and how you can implement it on your own website.

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Latest Technical Videos

Deeper, more hands-on tips.

These are not just for developers: successful technology leaders balance when to step back and when to get into the weeds.

Understanding technical details helps everyone consider wider possibilities.

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Two Decades on Rails 21 features for 21 years

Duration: 14:59
Category: Technical
Published: Mon 4th August, 2025

Rails' 21st birthday marks 20 years I've been using it. Let me walk you through my favourite 21 features used for scaled applications throughout my career.

The Cookie Store API A new JavaScript cookie API

Duration: 7:07
Category: Technical
Published: Mon 21st October, 2024

Who would have guessed that three decades after cookies were introduced, we’d be getting a new JavaScript cookie API?!

The Invoker Commands API An exciting new Web Platform API

Duration: 5:17
Category: Technical
Published: Mon 29th July, 2024

I’m so here for this because—as a Web Performance specialist—it enables my favourite activity: deleting legacy JavaScript implementation

Proxying Your Images For a Faster LCP

Duration: 1:52
Category: Technical
Published: Wed 1st February, 2023

If you want to consistently meet the ‘Good’ threshold for LCP, you’re going to need to make sure you’re serving your LCP candidate from the same domain name as your HTML

SPA vs MPA Showdown Which Makes Sense?

Duration: 1:30
Category: Technical
Published: Mon 9th January, 2023

Why it might be best to consider building a Multi Page Application (MPA) versus a Single Page Application (SPA)

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Latest Strategy and Leadership Videos

Explore the intersection of technology and business strategy, and learn how to lead teams effectively in a rapidly changing landscape.

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Tackling your ‘Black Triangle’ Insight from 1990s PlayStation Game Development

Duration: 07:49
Category: Strategic
Published: Wed 24th September, 2025

How to deliver software predictably by identifying and prioritising your “Black Triangle”, tasks that reduce risk and take a lot of effort to achieve, but upon completion you might not have much to show for it.

The Most Important Part of Scrum

Duration: 2:33
Category: Strategic
Published: Thu 23rd May, 2024

The true value of Scrum isn’t going faster per se, it’s visibility, and visibility without action is pointless.

Interaction to Next Paint is NOT an SEO Metric

Duration: 4:58
Category: Strategic
Published: Tue 12th March, 2024

Today is a monumental day for the web, today is the day Google replaces one of it’s Core Web Vitals, FID, with Interaction to Next Paint, or INP for short. But this may not be as monumental as people are making out.

Y.A.G.R.I You Ain’t Gonna Regret It

Duration: 1:30
Category: Strategic
Published: Wed 18th January, 2023

People tend to argue against YAGNI (You Ain't Gonna Regret It) when they believe things are going to be much harder to introduce further down the line – This is where I’ve found another acronym useful: YAGRI (You Ain’t Gonna Regret It)

Your Customers Don’t All Own the Latest iPhone

Duration: 1:20
Category: Strategic
Published: Sat 29th October, 2022

In episode 8, I talked about how it's our responsibility to protect things like performance, and while you can run WebPageTests and you can gather RUM metrics, there's nothing quite like experiencing it first-hand through an older or slower device, just like my iPhone 6.

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Latest Soft Skills Videos

Develop the interpersonal skills needed to communicate effectively, manage teams, and navigate the complexities of the workplace.

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Practice Precise Communication

Duration: 1:11
Category: Softskills
Published: Mon 20th February, 2023

You may have heard the phrase “under promise, over deliver”, but if you leave any ambiguity in your communication then you’re risking under delivering purely on how people interpret what you’ve said

Improving Your Typing Speed Is a Micro-optimisation

Duration: 1:28
Category: Softskills
Published: Thu 10th November, 2022

I often see tech influencers recommend tips on how to improve your typing speed as if it's some elementary attribute of becoming a great programmer, but in reality it's just a micro-optimisation.

Make More of Mundane Tasks Finding The Positive In The Boring

Duration: 1:26
Category: Softskills
Published: Thu 20th October, 2022

I hate to break this to anyone new to the industry but even as developers there are unavoidable times where you'll have to take on tasks that you feel are boring, repetitive or beneath you.

‘Years of Experience’: More Guidelines Than Actual Rules

Duration: 1:23
Category: Softskills
Published: Wed 21st September, 2022

Don't get hung up on how many years of experience a job advert states as requirements in each technology.

Don't Be a Hero Communicate Early and Often

Duration: 1:24
Category: Softskills
Published: Sun 11th September, 2022

If you're struggling with your work, there's always that temptation or even feeling of obligation to hero it out in the background, especially if there's a looming deadline and your team is already under pressure themselves, but this is usually the worst thing you can do.

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Because video is effort, sometimes

#005 From Theory to Tiny: Implementing Compression Dictionaries

Length: 3769 words
Published: Wed 31st December, 2025

#004 HTML Forms: More Powerful Than You Think

Length: 998 words
Published: Wed 17th December, 2025

#003 You Don't Become A Unicorn Simply By Acting Like One

Length: 1123 words
Published: Tue 16th December, 2025

#002 Primary Key Types for the Discerning Developer

Length: 1430 words
Published: Mon 15th December, 2025

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