Lessons of a CTO

Lessons of a CTO

Weekly actionable tips for developers, managers and leaders by Ryan Townsend.

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1:20 Practice Precise Communication

1:11 Proxy Your Images For a Better Largest Contentful Paint

1:52 YAGRI: You Ain’t Gonna Regret It

1:30 SPA vs MPA Showdown: Which Makes Sense?

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Episode Collections

Technical 11 videos

Proxy Your Images For a Better Largest Contentful Paint

1:52 SPA vs MPA Showdown: Which Makes Sense?

1:30 Stop Littering the Web with Social Media Icons

1:30 React & Next.js Are Not the Answer to Life, the Universe & Everything

1:30 Scoring A+ on SecurityHeaders.com

1:27 Passing Core Web Vitals on 3G

1:29 Stop Using Your Registrar for DNS

1:30 3 Ways to Keep Your CDN Fast, Even When Content Changes

1:30 Offload over 95% of Your Origin Traffic to Your CDN

1:27 You Can’t Outsource Responsibility for Performance, Security and Accessibility

1:30 Optimise Your Tests For Readability Over Conciseness

Strategic 7 videos

YAGRI: You Ain’t Gonna Regret It

1:30 Your Customers Don’t All Own the Latest iPhone

1:20 You Probably Don’t Need Native Mobile Apps

1:27 You Might Do Agile, But Do You Have Agility?

1:22 Sweat Your Tech Stack

1:21 Pair Programming Doesn't Half The Output

1:21 Your Infrastructure Isn’t Your Differentiator

Soft Skills 6 videos

Practice Precise Communication

1:11 Improving Your Typing Speed Is a Micro-optimisation

1:28 Make More of Mundane Tasks

1:26 'Years of Experience' Are More Guidelines Than Actual Rules

1:23 Don't Be a Hero

1:24 Keep a 'Brag Book' of Your Achievements

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