Creating my own personal take on topic-based Tweet collections/saved searches:

For example, this would make an easy quick-reply to a Facebook recruiter: zachleat.com/twitter/topic/faceb…

More: zachleat.com/twitter/#collection…

The new AirPods Pro page is a strong contender for this year’s web perf fail award:

– 1578 requests
– 65.4 MB transferred
– 67.1 MB resources
– Finish: 2.3 min
– DOMContentLoaded: 1.98 s
– Load: 2.65 s

apple.com/airpods-pro/

My favorite fact in my piece: Americans spend two times more on Halloween costumes for pets than on voting machines twitter.com/ericgeller/status/11…

First round of 16TB disks at the @internetarchive — 10.5 petabytes, before and after:

Thought Walgreens started selling babies. twitter.com/erinruberry/status/1…

Using “x” for your close buttons is like using salt in your coffee cause it looks the same as sugar.

To be clear: I’m talking about the disconnect between what I hoped we’d be creating by now (animated/dynamic transitions between screens in focused, native-like UIs) vs what I see in the SPAs I use (crappy reproductions of server rendered UI and <a/>)

I still want the first.

In 10+ years I’ve not seen 1 SPA that loads faster than server rendered UIs.

It’s because loading up a whole bunch of JavaScript to make AJAX calls—which aren’t chunked—is slower than just letting browsers do what they do best—i.e. navigating, parsing, rendering HTML. twitter.com/ryanflorence/status/…

I’m looking for a new software engineer position in downtown Salt Lake City or remote. 15+ years experience to help with your front end, backend, operations, or data needs. Send me a DM if you’ve got something, thanks!

Mistakes the CSSWG wishes they could undo

wiki.csswg.org/ideas/mistakes

I appreciate this honesty and transparency, it’s humanizing and great for me (or any dev) to learn from

believing that people will download a social app bc it is powered by blockchain is like believing people downloaded FB’s mobile app bc it is built with React Native

Pro tip: Make positive comments in code reviews as well.

Want to view a single image on @imgur (literally its only job)? Good luck! You gotta successfully download (354KB) and run (1.21MB) of client-side React in order to get your image requested as resource 110 of 553. What should have been an IMG element became… this. t.co/XkrbZcLQQg

Related: hours of my life spent trying to find the original url from an amp url is TOO MANY.

Writing on your Gatsby blog leads to JavaScript bloat
matthewphillips.info/programming…

Nothing says “having trouble with digital transformation” as when your main website is www2.domain

@tameverts Oops the JS has increased by 700% (w/@tameverts) #jamstackconf

is this a scam? It feels like a scam. accessible.org/

Morning Twitter! I am still on the look out for Shiny NEW Job as a brand designer/visual designer. If you know of anyone hiring please send them my way. t.co/u0OBNNJis8

I really enjoyed reading how Banksy verifies his work. It’s worth a 5 minute read this morning. twitter.com/abrandoncdefg/status…