After the first year of blogging - what happened on my blog in 2014?
1st January 2015 | by Adam Beres-Deak | blog, new year, summary
I wish you all a happy new year and much fun and success for 2015! Let's have a quick review of the past 365 days.
In 2014 amongst other things I ...
- published 34 articles
- researched better webfont loading 1, 2
- learned static site generation with node.js tools 1, 2, 3, 4
- began using Instantclick.io for providing better percieved performance 1
- pimped up the good old textarea 1, 2
- wrote about some JavaScript thingies 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
- discovered a simple usability improvement for Google Maps 1
Top 10 most popular posts
- Loading webfonts with high performance on responsive websites
- Better webfont loading with using localStorage and providing WOFF2 support
- A simple usability trick for Google Maps
- Demystifying AngularJS' dependency injection
- Panning and scrolling background images using the canvas element
- Worth watching: Douglas Crockford speaking about the new good parts of JavaScript in 2014
- Building desktop apps with node.js and web technologies
- Finding a random document in MongoDB (with benchmarks)
- Loading web pages really fast - optimistic page loading with Instantclick.io
- Automatically loading Grunt tasks with matchdep
What I learned from blogging in 2014?
- Blogging is fun
- No matter how much I understand the topic I'm writing about, it still takes a lot of time and effort to publish a post
- A few times I really used my blog to gather information about things I would have forgotten otherwise
- I want to go on and publish betters posts and more often
Resources:
Happy new year photo: Wikimedia Commons
Latest blog posts
Displaying icons with custom elements 14th October 2015
Plain JavaScript event delegation 26th January 2015
Better webfont loading with using localStorage and providing WOFF2 support 18th December 2014