Behind the Scenes of Issue 26 Issue 26 and personal favorites. Moving to KBD.news, more performance tweaks, CDN setup, redirecting madness. Issue 25 follow-up.
KBD.news Published May 3, 2021
For me, this week wasn't really about keyboards but about web development and changes in the hosting. Moving to the new KBD.news domain (thanks, Chad!) required some major changes in the background. I had to quickly learn a lot about CDNs and other performance tweaks. Hopefully, the work I've done is visible on the page loading times.
Personal favorites
As you might have realized, I love monoblock split designs, but other than that, quite every well documented project. However, sometimes a single link or a piece of new information can start you on a fresh learning journey.
This week I would highlight the…
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Published on Mon 3rd May 2021. Featured in KBD #26 .
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