Turning my Cursor Performance Work into a Repeatable Skill

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Yesterday, I wrote about using Cursor to review my blog for performance. Cursor (and again, for full disclosure I work here now 😉 did a dang good job of finding performance issues with my site, handling the huge size and various languages, platforms, and so forth. As I said, it worked well, but I wanted to look into making this more of a repeatable process. I’m saying "repeatable", not "automated", on purpose here. I can automate the process, but a full performance review feels much more like something I should run when I think it makes sense, for example, when I know I’ve tweaked my blog at the ‘code’ level versus writing cat-related blogs. I do... more →
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Asking Cursor to Review My Blog for Performance

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Last week I decided to try something interesting. I opened my blog up in Cursor and asked for a basic performance review. That seems like a no-brainer, but keep in mind, my blog’s source code clocks in at near seven thousand files (ignoring node_modules of course), so this wasn’t some small request. My blog is built with the Eleventy static site generator. It’s a mix of JavaScript and Markdown primarily, with a huge portion of the codebase being Markdown and not ‘code’ per se, but me rambling on about cats and Star Wars. There’s also Liquid templates which are parsed into HTML by a JavaScript library. But that doesn’t quite tell the whole story. In Eleventy,... more →
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Using Parallel Requests to Improve Web Performance

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Yesterday I blogged about a change I made to my bots page and in it, I mentioned how the performance wasn’t necessarily as good as it could be. I had made the decision to go from server-side and build-time for the page to a purely client-side solution. At the end of the post, I asked folks to let me know if anyone would like to have me work on that performance issue, and, honestly, it kept popping up in my head so I figured I should tackle it. Before I begin talking about what I changed, let me review what I had done, and what the issues are. The Current Solution You can go to the bots page yourself, but in general, this is the process: Given a list of bots… For each one, get the... more →
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7 Ways to Optimize Performance for Your WordPress Site (Sponsored)

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The vast majority of blogs, news websites, and information websites run on WordPress. While the WordPress developer team and community do their best to ensure wordPress is performant, there are a number of practices you can implement to keep your site blazing fast. Let’s look at some of them! Use Cloudinary WordPress Plugin for Media Cloudinary is the most dynamic media transformation, delivery, and optimization service on the internet. With Cloudinary you can: Deliver optimized images, audio, and video per device, platform, and browser Use the Cloudinary API or querystring parameters to customize media on the fly Take advantage of client side JavaScript libraries to create image viewers,... more →
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