The other day I was talking to Jules about the 99% Invisible episode she’d written about. In that post, Jules excitedly quotes the episode with Hank Green where he says: [...] there are all these phenomena in human life that are really resistant to language. I think physical pain is the one that’s perhaps most...

This week saw the conclusion of a project that I’ve been shepherding on and off since September of last year. The goal was for the initialisation of our asynchronous JavaScript pipeline (at the time, 36 kilobytes in size) to fit within a budget of 28 KB. The above graph shows the transfer size over time.…