# A New Resource and Blogroll Page for Performance-Oriented Web Development

DevFeed: [A New Resource and Blogroll Page for Performance-Oriented Web Development](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/links-links-26552.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://infrequently.org/2025/07/links/>)

Author: Alex Russell

Published: 2025-07-16T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Alex Russell](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/alex-russell.md>)

Topics: [Web Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/web-development.md>), [Front end](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/frontend.md>), [CSS](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/css.md>), [HTML](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/html.md>), [SVG](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/svg.md>), [Astro](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/astro.md>), [RSS](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/rss.md>)

Tags: [astro](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/astro.md>), [css](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/css.md>), [frontend](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/frontend.md>), [html](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/html.md>), [links](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/links.md>), [performance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/performance.md>), [resources](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/resources.md>), [rss](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/rss.md>), [svg](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/svg.md>), [web-development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/web-development.md>), [webdev](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/webdev.md>)

## AI overview

The author announces a new links and resources page for people interested in performance- and platform-oriented web development. It combines recommended resources, background reading, and a blogroll, with an OPML export and more than 250 pointers. The author also comments on creative CSS, HTML, and SVG work, and on the use of 11ty, Astro, and RSS/Atom styling.

## Source excerpt

Frances has urged me for years to collect resources for folks getting into performance and platform-oriented web development. The effort has always seemed daunting, but the lack of such a list came up again at work, prompting me to take on the side-quest amidst a different performance yak-shave. If that sounds like procrastination, well, you might very well think that. I couldn't possibly comment. The result is a new links and resources page page which you can find over in the navigation rail. It's part list-of-things-I-keep-sending-people, part background reading, and part blogroll. The blogroll section also prompted me to create an OPML export , which you can download or send directly to your feed reader of choice. The page now contains more than 250 pointers to people and work that I view as important to a culture that is intentional about building a web worth wanting. Hopefully maintenance won't be onerous from here on in. The process of tracking down links to blogs and feeds is a slog, no matter how good the tooling. Very often, this involved heading to people's sites and reading the view-source:// FOMO Having done this dozens of times on the sites of brilliant and talented web developers in a short period of time, a few things stood out. First -- and I cannot emphasise this enough -- holy cow. The things creative folks can do today with CSS, HTML, and SVG in good browsers is astonishing. If you want to be inspired about what's possible without dragging bloated legacy frameworks along, the work of Ana Tudor, Jhey, Julia Miocene, Bramus, Adam, and so many others can't help but raise your spirits. The CodePen community, in particular, is incredible, and I could (and have) spend hours just clicking through and dissecting clever uses of the platform from the site's "best of" links. Second, 11ty and Astro have won the hearts of frontend's best minds. It's not universal, but the overwhelming bulk of personal pages by the most talented frontenders are now built with SS