Replacing my aging Nokia 6.1 with …

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I had been a happy user of the Nokia 6.1 I bought 3 and a half years ago, but with battery life slowly going down and both OS major updates and security-updates having stopped it was time to find a replacement.

Although the tech reporters and vloggers were underwhelmed by the screen (no Oled or Amoled, only 60Hz refresh rate) and CPU (the SM4350 Snapdragon 480 is considered too slow), I choose the Nokia X20 because:

bare-bones Android One experience
3 years OS & security updates
3 years warranty
128GB memory & 8GB RAM
5G

And you know what? This old man has no issues whatsoever with the screen or CPU. The only downside: the eco-friendly backcover is pretty ugly. But all in all pretty good hardware for a very reasonable price (€339 incl. VAT), so if all is well I won’t bother you with boring smartphone-news until 2024? :-)

Autoptimize: adding pages to the critical CSS job queue

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The next version of Autoptimize (2.9.2) will allow you to add any post/ page to the critical CSS job queue, so no need to patiently await the job to appear any more:

Once in the queue you have the “process jobs manually” button to push to get the critical CSS juice flowing.

Autoptimize 2.9 “Fountainbel” just released

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Autoptimize 2.9 was released earlier today. It features:

New: per page/ post Autoptimize settings so one can disable specific optimizations (needs to be enabled on the main settings page under “Misc Options”).
New: “defer inline JS” as sub-option of “do not aggregate but defer” allowing to defer (almost) all JS
Improvement: Image optimization now automatically switches between AVIF & WebP & Jpeg even if lazyload is not active (AVIF has to be explicitly enabled).
Improvement: re-ordering of “JavaScript optimization” settings
Misc. other minor fixes, see the GitHub commit log

This release coincides with my father’s 76th birthday, who continues to be a big inspiration to me. He’s a mechanical engineer who after retirement focused his technical insights, experience and never-ending inquisitiveness on fountain pen design and prototyping, inventing a new bulkfiller mechanism in the process. Search the web for Fountainbel to find out more about him (or read this older blogpost I wrote in Dutch). Love you pops!

Autoptimize 2.9 release: Tuesday 27th?

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Quick public service announcement; Autoptimize 2.9 is almost ready to be released but given the planned release of WordPress 5.8 (July 20th) and the risk of support requests mixing up WordPress core update related issues with the Autoptimize update related issues, Autoptimize 2.9 will probably be released one week after WordPress 5.8, so on or around Tuesday 27th.

If you’re eager to use 2.9 (with better image optimization, improved JS optimization and per page/ post Autoptimize settings) you can off course download the beta here immediately.

Pre-orders Boekenjagers-boek bijna afgesloten

Autoptimize 2.9 final beta, testers wanted!

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I just upped Autoptimize 2.9 beta to version 4, which is likely to be the last version before the official 2.9 release (eta end June/ early July).

Main new features;

defer all JS (also inline)
nextgen images without lazyload
per page/post settings
misc. bugfixes and smaller improvements

You can download the beta from Github (do disable 2.8.x before activating 2.9-beta-4) and you can log any issues/ bugs over at https://github.com/futtta/autoptimize/issues

Looking forward to your feedback!

Gelezen: “Buzz Aldrin, waar ben je gebleven” van Johan Harstad.

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Replacing my aging Nokia 6.1 with …

Autoptimize: adding pages to the critical CSS job queue

Autoptimize 2.9 “Fountainbel” just released

Autoptimize 2.9 release: Tuesday 27th?

Pre-orders Boekenjagers-boek bijna afgesloten

Autoptimize 2.9 final beta, testers wanted!

Gelezen: “Buzz Aldrin, waar ben je gebleven” van Johan Harstad.