Katie Sylor-Miller

TGIF: I'm having some guests join me on Wednesday Dec 3rd to talk about Core Web Vitals. I revealed the 1st set of presenters today, and will reveal the others on Cyber Monday. Nonetheless, join us, @stoyan.me @cdaveross.bsky.social + a few more...
📆 Wed Dec 3rd
⏰ 11a EST 5p CET
🔗 bit.ly/cwv-summit

The job market is pretty bad right now but I think we'll see a bounce back within the next few years. With seniors retiring and no trained juniors / mids available to be promoted, there will be a massive skill gap that needs to be filled.

I’m so sorry for your loss, Natalie. it sounds like your brother was so loved by everyone who met him.

THIS IS A GOOD HEADLINE.

Yep. I don’t promote mine and I even don’t like to bring it up when men explain databases to me (yes that still happens)

High Performance MySQL 4th edition

learning.oreilly.com/library/view...

next: Oh Shit, Git!

This was a collab with the amazing Katie Sylor-Miller (@ksylor.bsky.social), the author of ohshitgit.com

It's a reference for what to do to git out of a git mess

wizardzines.com/zines/oh-shi...

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No matter what you eat for the holidays, please never:

- comment on how much someone is eating
- comment on how little someone is eating
- comment on someone eating

This can be a major trigger for people with eating disorders. Plus it’s none of your business. Thanks!

Just because LLMs are pretty good at writing javascript doesn’t mean that building complex web UIs is “easy” - it means that there‘s a metric shit ton of training data for it to use.

A screenshot of a Facebook post where a person named Andy ask the Well now “What the hell is transgender?” The Royal Canadian Air Force account response with “That’s a pretty big question asked in a pretty small way, Andy. ‘Transgender’ putting describes someone whose gender – who they know themselves to be – doesn’t match the sex they were assigned at birth. It’s not new, and it’s certainly not a fad. People have lived this experience for as long as people have existed; we’re just finally talking about it openly. You don’t have to fully understand it right away, most learning takes time, but we can always start from a place of respect. That’s how decent folks handle things they’re still getting used to.”

Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…

It's almost Thanksgiving! Got an ICE member coming for dinner at your house? No you don't! Can't stop them because you're not the one hosting? No problem. You can shun them, mock them, shame them, cough in their food. They get the weird chair. No weird chair? Make a weird chair.

“Trump whore” isn’t how we (the left, generally) would insult one of them. “Whore” is pure conservative. It’s how they imagine cruelty, but that kind of gendered slur is how they hate each other, not how we hate them.

But I suppose “fascist bootlicker” is harder to write oh your own torso.

A friend of mine has early access to cutting edge corporate jargon, I heard the phrase "let's double-click on that" from him long before anywhere else. I asked him what's new these days and he says it's "the shark closest to your body" for the most urgent issue.

Every day I work at Big Tech I understand this guy more and more

I am 11 years older than that guy and I look 20 years younger, fucking love it

How Fast Is Fast Enough? <p>It sounds like a simple question, but if you’ve been working in performance long enough, you know the answer is far from straightforward. In this Day 1 keynote, Tammy asks questions—from neuroscien...

Video of my @perfnow.nl keynote is up! In this talk, I challenged the false choice between magic and pragmatism.

Don't settle for "fast enough". Instead, aim to create a user experience that's #pragmagical — blending user delight with measurable business impact.

conffab.com/presentation...

What shouldn't be a hot take:

All stepped forms should be state machines.

QANON CULTIST IN 2017: "In this 1,879 page thread I will unravel the byzantine system of codewords and phrases the global elite use to mask their pedophile cabal."

JEFFREY EPSTEIN WRITING AN EMAIL AT THE SAME TIME: "helo its me jeff had fun cmmitting sex crimes wit u lst weeknd"

Congratulations!!

Oh hell yeah

This is now live! modernleader.is/posts/invisi...

Came here to say this.

Signs That You Are a Gen-Xer Going Through Menopause 1. You sweat those newly-applied purple streaks right out of your hair. 2. You use the word “fuck” more now, even more than you used it in ...

"You privately think 'the kids' are alarmingly intolerant of free speech these days, but you’d never say this aloud or online because 'the kids' are your bosses."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/sig...

Tonight, we Yub Nub

[Exit Clown.]

Yeah our town treats Halloween like one big old block party and I love it!

Ahhh staaaaappppp you’re making me jealous! Have a stroopwafel for me, Dave!

SpeedCurve | Why you need to know your site's performance plateau (and how to find it) Have you ever wondered why your site got faster, but your business and user engagement metrics didn't change? Here's why.

Another source from my #PerfNow talk…

Here’s why you need to know the performance plateau for your site.

www.speedcurve.com/blog/web-per...

It’s the best!! Such a wealth of information, the hallway track is the best in the industry. I’m super bummed to not be there this year, but next year!

Harry on the stage. Behind him, a slide that reads as follows: "While a good TTFB doesn't necessarily mean you will have a fast website, a bad TTFB almost certainly guarantees a slow one." — csswz.it/ttfb

Friendly reminder! #perfnow

It’s so freaking hard 🖤