Belgian Waffle House, Seattle World's Fair, Seattle, 1962

#OnThisDay in 1962, Belgian waffles made their American debut at the Seattle World's Fair. historylink.org/File/10092

Museum of Museums

Sadly the Museum of Museums shut down due to "plumbing issues beyond repair", otherwise I'd point at that: www.museumofmuseums.com

Doubly a shame, any decent tiki bar should've been well-equipped for a NA cocktail & if anything ready to go "Hey, we have this neat house thing!"

(your order was simple, but that just makes it worse for them)

Conference organising in 2026

quirksmode.org/quirksblog/a...

Bao is growing up fast! At four months old, our Asian small-clawed otter pup is getting more confident every day. He's splashing, exploring, and discovering new habitats alongside his loving parents.

Would recommend, this was a gripping read

p75 and p90 JavaScript bytes on the web have exploded since May, 2025—easily the largest 10 month period based on HTTP Archive data since 2023.

The long-tail is getting worse, very quickly.

Gemini, what happened in May 2025?

🚀 Real User Monitoring from @calibreapp.com has arrived

Session-based Core Web Vitals monitoring. See actual DOM elements dragging your site down. No cookies, no bloat, predictable pricing. Let's go!

calibreapp.com/blog/real-user-monitoring

SAMPURNA Indonesian Restaurant – Amsterdam SAMPURNA, Indonesian restaurant where small and large groups of friends & families meet to enjoy traditional Indonesian food for over 25 years

I really enjoyed Sampurna for their rijsttafel, I don't remember specifically testing for heat but tasty Indonesian with many small plates - www.sampurna.com

SPDY stream Presents: core-web-vital Summit, the videos.

✨ Core Web Vitals Summit: The Videos ✨
I'll be sharing the recorded sessions from the Summit stream, and some brief commentary on some takeaways and significance. All are welcome to join the conversation!
📆 Monday March 23rd
⏰ 1pm EST, 10am PST
🔗 www.youtube.com/live/LXYcknO...

Large tabby cat dives for the plate, held off only by my daughter's arm.

Daughter gently lifts the cat off the table, the cat still very much in "let me at that food" mode.

Eid Mubarak. Here is my daughter fending off a Beirut cat who belongs to the cafe but wanders in and out depending on the menu. If you celebrate, may your meal be as tempting as the makdous bi labneh was to this kitty.

Introduction to the HTTP Archive, Thu, Apr 16, 2026, 6:00 PM | Meetup The HTTP Archive is an open source project that tracks how the web is built and how it's evolved. The archive contains information on \~15 million websites, with monthly da

Coming up:

April 16th — Paul Calvano presents "Introduction to the HTTP Archive": www.meetup.com/web-performa...

April 30th — Meet4SPEED hands-on session: www.meetup.com/web-performa...

Agreed. I haven't tested this yet, but Steam's clipping overlay might work? It'd be weird, but plausible

@newyorker.com hit the nail on the head with this one 😂

#Seaotters are highly intelligent marine mammals that use tools, like a rock 🪨, to crack open the hard-shelled invertebrates they love to eat, such as crabs 🦀.

#otters #cartoon #newyorkermagazine #seaotter #newyorker

Viable System Model of beer: water + grain + hops + yeast ??

Untappd ratings + in-brewery dials as algedonic feedback

Tulip glasses + tulip chairs

Both showers and public transit rides have 3x multipliers to Thinking Time. You'd think stationary bikes would be too because they're both moving and mindless but actually they're 0.5x at best. Long flights have 10x to Thinking Time but only if you're in the sweet spot of tired but not TOO tired

Performance Engineer, Backend Automattic’s products—WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Beeper, Tumblr, Jetpack, and more—serve tens of billions of page views every month from data centers around the world. The PerfOps team exists to make...

The performance team I lead at Automattic is hiring - automattic.com/work-with-us... #webperf #php #jobs #wordpress #woocommerce

Breaking News: Baby Bao found another stick!

The 3-month-old otter pup was really proud to show it off and even share it with his mom, Pintar. 💙

My condolences, that was a rough announcement to read

Interested in the @httparchive.org and not sure where to start? During the @performanceobserver.dev meetup tomorrow (12:30pm ET), I'm going to be providing an overview of the HTTP Archive and demonstrate how to start querying it! performanceobserver.dev/events/episo...

Bao, meaning “treasure” in Vietnamese, represents more than a milestone for our zoo. His birth was recommended by the Association of Zoos & Aquariums Species Survival Plan® (SSP), a science-based program supporting the long-term survival of this highly vulnerable species. 2/2

Two things growing otter pup, Bao, loves: eating seafood and playing with sticks! 💙

As first-time parents, Pintar and Sebastian have done an exceptional job raising Bao behind the scenes. Now three months old, he’s ready to make his public debut this weekend. 1/2

A construction worker in high-visibility clothing is adjusting equipment on a concrete surface. The scene is outdoors, featuring a series of rectangular metal components aligned in rows. A concrete barrier runs alongside, and there are trees and houses visible in the distant background under a cloudy sky.

A construction site at Judkins Park Station with scaffolding and equipment, featuring a partially built structure in the center. A crane is visible on the left, and trees are in the background.

Aerial view of the Mercer Island light rail station surrounded by trees and greenery. The station features modern glass structures and a large concrete platform. In the background, there are roads and parking areas, with hills visible in the distance under a partly cloudy sky.

Aerial view of a light rail train traveling across the I-90 floating bridge. Multiple cars are visible on an adjacent road. The background shows a city skyline with buildings surrounded by trees. The sky is overcast.

How it started: early construction taking shape. How it’s going: a fully connected 2 Line.

Years of planning, precision, and teamwork are leading to one historic connection, opening March 28. See more photos: www.soundtransit.org/blog/platform/then-now-c...

SpeedCurve | How fast is fast enough? Rethinking web performance in pragmagical terms Always remember: We're in the business of creating experiences for other humans.

In our rush to align page speed with SEO and business metrics, have we in the #webperf community lost our way? In this post, based on the keynote I gave at #PerfNow a few months ago, I explore how it's not too late to bridge the gap between pragmatism and user delight.

www.speedcurve.com/blog/fast/

Seattle gonna Seattle 😅

How do you measure when a component is “ready”? ⏱️

LCP is too global; Element Timing is too specific.

🛠️ I’ve been working with Bloomberg on a new #webperf API: Container Timing. Think of it as “LCP for a web component”, providing aggregated paint timing for a subtree.

A shocking 8.5% of sites that use CDNs deliver some static content directly to end users via cloud storage! Many are not compressing or caching this content either. This comes at a significant performance cost. Details, examples and @httparchive.org stats here - paulcalvano.com/2026-02-09-s...

Our sea otters are celebrating the Seattle Seahawks heading to the Super Bowl with fishy football treats and plenty of otter enthusiasm. 💙🦦💚

Notable Sandwiches #137: Po' Boy Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where my editor David Swanson and I trip merrily through Wikipedia’s List of Notable Sandwiches. This week, a...

Bennie & Clovis Martin, inventors of the po' boy sandwich, to striking workers:
"We are with you till h--l freezes, and when it does, we will furnish blankets to keep you warm."

Let's bring this energy to 2026:
buttondown.com/theswordandt...

@nywebperf.com is looking for speakers for April! Have you made a website faster? Can you get yourself to NYC? Let me know!