Sounds like an interesting approach. I'm sure a gradual approach like the one you mention would be super-helpful for anyone trying to migrate a complicated CRA app. I'm hoping you're able to find time to share in the near future.

would be helpful if you can send me one : punitsethi AT gmail DOT com

Done

Minisaga looks interesting. I have a similar goal - to write more concise stuff (on tech topics) without losing the gist.

For writing about technology one tip I got from someone: set your goal to 10 topics a week, you won't write 10 but it becomes easy evaluation tool for how productive your week was. If you have bigger topics, chunk them up.

Thanks. Oku looks interesting. I've been keeping my reading lists on Goodreads but I just don't like Goodreads. I just need some place that has a database of books where I can maintain various lists.

+1 to this. Moved from Windows ~5 years ago and Notepad++ is one program I still dearly miss.

Emacs is a thing. =3

So is Sublime Text

Talk as much as you can to your potential customers about their problems in your area of expertise & try to best align. Try to identify, understand and solve points-of-friction from these conversations.

Where to find potential customers? I'd try in following order: - Talk to existing customers / contacts for referrals - Talk to your past colleagues / friends for referrals - Quality cold emails with decent research & pre-work - Hang out on social wherever your potential customers hang-out and engage in meaningful conversations.

You may not strike success right away but do persist & keep identify what's working / not working. Follow-up regularly. If above gets tiring once-in-a-while - write content that can market your expertise.

Background : Been offering website speed / scalability services expertise for 3+ years.

Am from India & agree on this. Lockdowns helped slow the spread but aren't the perpetual answer. And the side-effects of lock-down (like essential services being pushed back) are taking lives. When evaluating lock-down's pros & cons, it always isn't life vs economy. It often also is Covid fatalities vs other fatalities. Atleast in India, that's happening.

Agreed.

People on the prudent/cautious camp are missing that lockdowns are really last-resort, expensive controls at the bottom of the pyramid, used when better controls fail.

We can't just netflix and chill for the next two years. But we can't just pretend nothing is wrong either!

I'm a Web Performance guy so moves such as these benefit my business. Despite that - I dislike this heavy handedness by Google.

- What speed metrics? - How would they be gathered?

If Web Performance was so single dimensional to classify it in this way, it would have been solved a lot better by now.

Well, UC Browser for Android has ~17% market share in India.

It isn't providing another third-party service - just wrapping some JS around Google fonts d/l. If this is something you don't prefer, self-hosting font files with font-display property is the only way out.

Also, this isn't as performant as correctly self-hosting font files (because of separate DNS lookup to google font domain involved).