Kevin Farrugia

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

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.

Elk A nimble Mastodon web client

Elk.zone is really nicely done.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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...

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...

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. 😂

Photo of a closed Framework laptop from above.

I finally joined the #framework club. 😍

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 🧵

Wow, you went for the clear keyboard. 👏

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/...

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.

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.

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

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. 😂

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)

The Interop 2025 dashboard is live!

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

wpt.fyi/interop-2025

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📣 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

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...

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!

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

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

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.

📣 I'm so excited to announce a new meetup I started!

PerformanceObserver is a virtual meetup for the frontend web performance community!

The first event will be announced shortly. You can join the newsletter to make sure you don't miss an event.

#webperf

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Window: queryLocalFonts() method - Web APIs | MDN The window.queryLocalFonts() method returns a Promise that fulfills with an array of FontData objects representing the font faces available locally.

Ah OK I thought it was specific to my user. 😅 The queryLocalFonts API is only supported on Chrome: developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...

Thanks to your article and tool I understood some concept that before I just skimmed over and used without understanding. 🙌

Similarly, when choosing some fonts from the dropdown it uses serif instead of the selected font, so I need to input the local font name manually. For example, "NotoSans-Regular" instead of "Noto Sans"

I was experimenting with your tool and noticed that the name of the font in the CSS snippet doesn't match my own tests using `queryLocalFonts()`. For example, the tool outputs `src: local("DejaVu Sans");` instead of `local(DejaVuSans)`. I'm not sure if this is browser (Chrome) /OS (Ubuntu) specific.