Utah Jazz ice cream
I noticed this #utah #jazz ice cream at the store the other day www.facebook.com/FarrsIceCrea... - given how bad the Jazz were this year I half expect this to have a very bitter taste #nba
That project AI was helping me with that I was so excited about a while back? It's finally ready enough for some public exposure:
I bring you "Waterfall Tools": blog.patrickmeenan.com/2026/04/12/i...
I really enjoyed watching Project Hail Mary - overall positive message about our ability to do incredibly hard things when we work together and sacrifice for one another.
My 16 year old after seeing the 1971 Willy Wonka movie for the first time - "why did they ever remake this, Gene Wilder was perfect" - no argument from me :)
I get a surprising amount of satisfaction from deleting dead code
🚫 When All You Can Do Is All or Nothing, Do Nothing
For all you weekend warriors, advice for times of uncertainty.
csswizardry.com/2026/03/when...
XKCD programmer excuse cartoon, where the #1 programmer excuse for legitimately slacking off was changed from "compiling" to "token budget exhausted".
Running any sort of anti-virus software?
Week 1 observations: toni.org/2026/03/13/i...
I'm thrilled to announce that I'll be joining Bluesky as interim CEO. I deeply believe in what this team has built and the open social web they're fighting for. More here: toni.org/2026/03/09/c...
SQLite PSA
sqlite.org/releaselog/3...
sqlite.org/wal.html#wal...
No one cares how fast it is if it is broken. That is why I still include fixing things in performance work. #webperf
The performance team I lead at Automattic is hiring - automattic.com/work-with-us... #webperf #php #jobs #wordpress #woocommerce
"Add a minimal privacy-preserving secure DNS telemetry to check current version" salsa.debian.org/php-team/php... - surprised and disappointed to see this #php #security #debian
Definitely feeling "the last 20% takes 80% of the work" right now.
Many developers misinterpret what the DevTools performance test results tell them. My video below explains how Chrome implements network throttling and how it impacts your data.
Neither the bandwidth nor the latency implementation match what you'd see on a real slow network.
youtu.be/93HI4dnGjMk
Safari 26.3 is here with Zstandard file compression, Navigation API’s AbortSignal for better control in single-page apps, and fixes for anchor positioning, multi-column layouts, & more. Plus fullscreen video now dims surroundings in visionOS.
webkit.org/blog/17798/webkit-features-for-safari-26-3/
It's been a while since my last blog post, so I made up for it with a wall of text 😅
This article looks at why JS-heavy web apps tend to miss their performance goals over time, what you can do to somewhat mitigate that, and ends with a plea for us to move back to the server, as an industry.
Container Timing is now officially Ready for Developer Testing in Chromium 145! 🚀
We want your feedback on the design and usage. Check out the details and how to try it:
blogs.igalia.com/dape/2026/02...
cc @igalia.com @developer.chrome.com
Both of these websites have a 2-second LCP score – but the user experience is very different!
Learn about how to relate metrics to visitor experience on your website: www.debugbear.com/blog/web-per...
Why do sites keep offering to save or remember this computer, if they never, ever, ever actually remember this computer? So frustrating.
Days where it feels like LLMs might be the best rubber ducking experience so far - one that can talk back and often provide something useful.
That warm feeling of looking at a function and thinking to yourself - there is a very good chance I can make that faster.
Anyone has tried out Mago - mago.carthage.software - a linter/formatter/analyzer for PHP code? I gave it a very brief run against a single PHP file and was surprised at how aggressive the defaults are. It might be a very useful tool, but I'd need to config it to be more reasonable first. #php
The annual tradition of going back over my last 12 days of date references to fix the year in dates that I wrote down.
Compression Dictionaries with Zstandard in PHP josephscott.org/blog/2026/co... #webperf
I am starting to think that the iOS 26 OS/UI experience equivalent of the Apple butterfly keyboard and touch bar. iOS 27 could do a full UI revert to the iOS 18 UI and be heralded as tremendous improvement. #apple
With the #LogicMonitor ( couldn't find a Bluesky account ) acquisition of Catchpoint I have a request. Please revert the UI changes that were done to webpagetest.org recently. I just want my long trusted go to web perf tool back.
I'm playing around with JPEG XL's "JPEG repackaging" feature. It repackaged a 147kb JPEG down to 126kb, but on my Pixel 10, the new file takes 78ms to decode, vs 10ms for the JPEG.
At 3g+ speeds… that feels like a performance loss.
random-stuff.jakearchibald.com/apps/img-dec...
