The Core

I'm looking for a website that offers automated PageSpeed Insights and speed reporting. I'd like to be able to:

• generate reports showing performance over time
• compare a handful of key pages on a few different sites
• show the impact of bandwidth throttling
• be able to run the reports from different locations (UK, US, mainland Europe etc.)
• (ideally) be able to access the testing location IPs, so I can whitelist them for testing local/dev sites and blacklist them for analytics

There's an awful lot of choice - https://www.uptrends.com/ , https://www.webpagetest.org/ , https://gtmetrix.com/ etc. Has anyone done the legwork already? Any recommendations?

Excellent UK single-season series from the last few months:

I May Destroy You (Michaela Coel)
It's A Sin (Russell T Davies)
Time (Jimmy McGovern with Sean Bean, Stephen Graham)

Favourite films from this year:

Pieces Of A Woman
Nomadland
The Father
Nobody
I Care A Lot
Supernova
Moxie!
Palm Springs
A Quiet Place Part II
Archive
Creation Stories
Synchronic
Another Round
Apples [subtitled]

We've only just discovered drug drama Snowfall, so are catching up on that, along with revisiting St Elsewhere.

@Drastic: We loved the first season on For All Mankind. Less thrilled with the second.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/5/22368488/yahoo-answers-shutdown-may-4-internet-era-over-rip

It's the same thing as the App+Web property that they've been touting for a while. I'd written it off because I don't have native apps. My mistake. It's Google adjusting to a world of browsers and European law making cookies unreliable for analytics. They're also throwing in unsampled reports and export to BigQuery for free. You used to have to have GA 360 for those. The real killer is the new server-side Google Tag Manager functionality, which has also just come out of beta: One snippet of GA or GTM code on your website which fires events to a cloud-based GTM container. That in turn passes the events on to GA, Facebook, Bing etc., without need any more client-side code. The whole lot's hidden behind your own subdomain so the cookies are first-party, the client-side snippet can be served first-party and nothing gets blocked by browsers. None of this is feature complete yet, but it's already very impressive.

Cool  Mulan would be on the list now. I didn't get on with Tenet or The New Mutants.

Favourite movies of the year so far, with the caveat that it's been far from a vintage one:

1917
Hamilton
Come As You Are
Richard Jewell
Dark Waters
The Gentlemen
Just Mercy
The Platform [subtitled]
The Rhythm Section
Les Miserables [subtitled]
7500
Bombshell
Stage Mother
Why Don't You Just Die! [subtitled]
The Vigil
Beastie Boys Story [documentary]
JoJo Rabbit
Days Of The Bagnold Summer
Proxima
Alice [subtitled]

It's so easy to become that person as you get older, and lose stuff that used to make you happy. I'd agree that the charts are mostly sh## though, but that's more the change in the way music's consumed than any drop in quality. There's still great stuff out there. My evidence, all released in the last 14 months:

Big Thief - Cattails
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUR-Ad8QcmA

The Black Keys - Shine A Little Light
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jknn7MMszNo

Blake Shelton - God's Country
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEWGyyLiqY4

Bodega - Bookmarks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ah4jZjy9c8

Bruce Springsteen - Hitch Hikin'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCs8U5wwPJ8

Cage The Elephant - House Of Glass
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1ZYRfK2v3E

Eminem feat. Royce Da 5'9", Black Thought, Q-Tip & Denaun - Yah Yah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZ09A39xECk

Eyesore & The Jinx - On An Island
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=um1GpW1SllE

Judah & The Lion - Quarter-Life Crisis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWdni-JLR8k

Mark Lanegan Band - Radio Silence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bTsIbzFbLs

Ride - Repetition
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTDRL2OCqHQ

Taylor Swift - You Need To Calm Down
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dkk9gvTmCXY

Vampire Weekend - Harmony Hall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlkTVMMkCP4

Yungblud feat. Dan Reynolds - Original Me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tP-zl8ruUKE

I first got into web design/development in the late 90s, and only as I type this sentence do I realize how long ago that was.

And boy, it was horrendous. I mean, being able to make stuff and put it online where other people could see it was pretty slick, but we did not have very much to work with.

https://eev.ee/blog/2020/02/01/old-css-new-css/