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Posts by Kevin Farrugia

Thundering herd problem - Wikipedia

"Thundering Herd" is my new favorite way to sound super smart in a presentation. 🐃 😁

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunder...

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Screenshot of a website showing block details.

"Access from your country was disabled by the administrator". Lol, wth? 🤷

4 months ago 1 0 0 0
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Back in Amsterdam for @perfnow.nl. Hope to see you there. 😊

5 months ago 1 0 0 0

While it is absolutely not a Tailwind problem I feel that Tailwind makes it easier to accidentally add `all` or transition on slower CSS properties. It might be nice to have some linter warning.

7 months ago 2 0 0 0
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new Date("wtf") How well do you know JavaScript's Date class?

I made a quiz about the JS Date parser is. It's very easy and you will score very high.

jsdate.wtf

8 months ago 479 158 63 104

I'm looking to recruit talented senior engineers that have experience related to web performance monitoring and optimization. If that sounds like you—or someone you'd highly recommend—please send me a DM and I’ll share more details!

The role is 100% remote and async-first.

8 months ago 7 13 1 1
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Elk A nimble Mastodon web client

Elk.zone is really nicely done.

8 months ago 3 0 1 0
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For some reason you need to skip the first bit (~0:05), then it starts playing as usual. 🤷

8 months ago 0 0 0 0

Cursor's `Tab` behavior is impressively good but the cognitive overhead of a different IDE (and overriding my keyboard shortcuts) is driving me crazy. 😵

8 months ago 0 0 0 0

Leave it in the hands of some kids for a while and you won't recognize that plane any longer. 😁

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@tunetheweb.com does Chrome DevTools AI allow you to change the wheels from round to square? Very irresponsible! 😂

Context: chrome.dev/cinemai/devt...

9 months ago 2 0 1 0

Thanks. In the past week or two I have started using Obsidian Web Clipper actually (I'm a long time Obsidian user) and so far it's working well. The only hiccup is that it doesn't work on Chrome mobile.

10 months ago 3 0 0 0
Screenshot of a VSCode dialog indicating that the `<dialog>` element is widely available across major browsers since 2022.

Screenshot of a VSCode dialog indicating that the `<dialog>` element is widely available across major browsers since 2022.

Baseline is now available in VSCode. This is a really neat feature with no extensions needed.

(catching up on Google I/O 😅)

Read more: web.dev/blog/baselin...

10 months ago 9 3 1 0
Pocket is Saying Goodbye: What You Need to Know | Pocket Help More information about the end of support for Pocket.

Pocket will be discontinued. 😔 What do you guys recommend for storing articles to read later (ideally works across all devices)?

support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/fut...

10 months ago 3 1 1 0
Four LEGO diagrams that illustrate the four steps to create what resembles a robot. The instructions do not make any sense.

Four LEGO diagrams that illustrate the four steps to create what resembles a robot. The instructions do not make any sense.

Do you want to keep your kids busy? Give them LEGO instructions from ChatGPT. 😂

10 months ago 2 0 0 0
Photo of a closed Framework laptop from above.

Photo of a closed Framework laptop from above.

I finally joined the #framework club. 😍

10 months ago 4 0 0 0
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GitHub - GoogleChrome/web-vitals: Essential metrics for a healthy site. Essential metrics for a healthy site. Contribute to GoogleChrome/web-vitals development by creating an account on GitHub.

We've just published v5.0.0 of the web-vitals JavaScript library for measuring Core Web Vitals.

github.com/GoogleChrome...

As a major release, this includes a number of breaking changes as detailed in the upgrading doc:

github.com/GoogleChrome...

Please read carefully before upgrading.

1/5 🧵

10 months ago 47 12 1 2
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Wow, you went for the clear keyboard. 👏

11 months ago 0 0 1 0
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Contribute to the 2025 Web Almanac · HTTPArchive almanac.httparchive.org · Discussion #4062 Dear all, We are excited to announce the Call for Contributions for the 2025 Web Almanac (6th Edition)! The Web Almanac is an annual report that provides an overview of the state of the web, based ...

The @httparchive.org 's Web Almanac is looking for contributors for this year's edition.

github.com/HTTPArchive/...

11 months ago 10 7 0 1
Photograph of a child sitting on a skateboard, holding a football, watching a train pass by.

Photograph of a child sitting on a skateboard, holding a football, watching a train pass by.

Back from a peaceful week in the Polish countryside with the family.

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There's a lot of talk about 'vibe coding' at the moment. Andrej Karpathy's tweet that introduced the term is often mentioned. I suspect, however, that many people who are promoting the idea in the context of commercial product development may not have read the whole tweet.

1 year ago 56 21 3 0
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PerformanceObserver: A virtual web perf meetup Join the PerformanceObserver virtual performance meetup to get all the latest web performance news and hang out with the community.

Hey folks, the next episode of PerformanceObserver is now scheduled for 16 April with @verlok.bsky.social and @ethangardner.com ! See all details at performanceobserver.dev including add to calendar links with the join instructions.

#webperf

1 year ago 7 6 0 0
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What is the world's highest death dive?
The current world record in height is 832.6 meters and is held by Côme Girardot (FRA). In the women's class, the record is at 359.7 meters and is held by Norwegian Asbjørg Nesje. The current world record in freestyle death diving is held by Lucien Charlon (SUI) with a height of 532.6 meters.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_diving

Screenshot of Google Search results saying: What is the world's highest death dive? The current world record in height is 832.6 meters and is held by Côme Girardot (FRA). In the women's class, the record is at 359.7 meters and is held by Norwegian Asbjørg Nesje. The current world record in freestyle death diving is held by Lucien Charlon (SUI) with a height of 532.6 meters. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_diving

Your regular reminder to not trust AI before diving off a cliff. 😂

1 year ago 1 0 0 0

After debugging this briefly and discussing it with the JIRA team, we confirmed the issue is actually caused by React DevTools not JIRA. Once React DevTools is disabled, JIRA performs well. (the JIRA website enables profiling on production)

1 year ago 1 0 0 0
web-platform-tests dashboard

The Interop 2025 dashboard is live!

(and I spy anchor positioning right at the very top!!!)

wpt.fyi/interop-2025

1 year ago 54 7 3 0
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PerformanceObserver: A virtual web perf meetup Join the PerformanceObserver virtual performance meetup to get all the latest web performance news and hang out with the community.

📣 Reminder!!

In 2 days, we have @toddhgardner.com and @inesakrap.bsky.social giving talks in our first meetup! For full details - check out our website (and add to calendar to get the join links)!

performanceobserver.dev

1 year ago 4 4 1 2
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How to Avoid News Burnout and Outrage Fatigue Outrage fatigue can wear us down—but we can take care of ourselves in an onslaught of overwhelming news.

Hadn't heard of "outrage fatigue" or "doomscrolling" until recently, but lately I found myself wasting more time than I usually would on social media.

www.scientificamerican.com/article/outr...

1 year ago 0 1 0 0

If you're using Speculation Rules there's a small bug in Chrome 133 (just rolling out now) where DevTools + Local Overrides causes prerenders to crash 😢

This only happens with DevTools open and when Local Overrides are enabled so shouldn't affect most of your users—but annoying for us developers!

1 year ago 10 4 2 0

I like his music actually and I'm guessing he has a more interesting story than most, so it might be worth a read. 😁 Thx

1 year ago 1 0 0 0

Any recommendations for non-fiction books? Probably not politics or history, but almost anything else is good. 😁

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