Jacob 'Kurt' Groß
Mission: Making the web performant and accessible .
I deeply care about performance, user experience (UX) & security. Get to know me and my principles @ about.
My work experience includes all languages I write, plus other parts of the ecosystem such as React, Node.js, SQL, deep architectural knowledge into micro-frontends (MFEs) and CSS / WebVitals / JavaScript runtime performance optimization.
In the past, I've also created multiple browser extensions for Google Chrome.
Recent Posts
What React 18 does and how it impacts your INP (slides)
Posted on:Feb 7, 2024In-depth talk about INP & yielding in React, held at the Munich Frontend Developers Meetup.
Fastest Way of Passing State to JavaScript, Re-visited
Posted on:Dec 8, 2023Re-visitting the most performant way of passing state to JavaScript. Contains microbenchmarks and a DevTools challenge.
Breaking Up with SVG-in-JS in 2023
Posted on:Jun 30, 2023Technical deep-dive on why you shouldn't have SVGs in your JS bundle and better techniques for JSX usage.
The modern way of serving images
Posted on:Jan 25, 2023Technical in-depth guide for the <picture> & <img> srcset and sizes attributes to create responsive & performant images.