Knut Haugen

Font with Built-In Syntax Highlighting An experiment in javascript-free syntax highlighting, made possible by opentype contextual alternates and COLR table

If blog.glyphdrawing.club/font-with-bu... isn't some serious crazy scientist stuff in a font packaging, I don't know what is.

Mind. Thoroughly. Blown.

You're old enough to remember the time when all movies where 90 minutes long, right?

Same people.

When was Safari not late to the party in these matters?

Outlook claimed my boss was in UTC-7 and I mentioned in an email to him, where he responded with "yeah, that's wild. It's UTC-1 isn't it?"

UTC -1 in Scandinavia? Surely, Sir, you jest?

If only regular people really _cared_ about time zones, we would have a lot less trouble

Man burde jo benytte sjansen til å oppgradere til noe bedre enn next.js, spesielt ytelsesmessig.

Fordi brukerne fortjener bedre.

I built the same app 10 times: evaluating frameworks for mobile performance

New post!

www.lorenstew.art/blog/10-kanb...

Såklart! Men det må være et av riktige banda da, selvfølgelig. Doh.

The missus makes a variant which is a cinnamon (roll) cake which is also fantastic. Never lasts long in the house or when we bring it to a party or some such.

Come to think of it. Can some yeasty bake thingy with cinnamon, sugar, butter and some frosting really taste bad?

Even funnier in Norwegian. Hehe *promp* hehe

GitHub - ChromeDevTools/chrome-devtools-mcp: Chrome DevTools for coding agents Chrome DevTools for coding agents. Contribute to ChromeDevTools/chrome-devtools-mcp development by creating an account on GitHub.

I've been an AI curmudgeon for a long time, I am getting old after all, but the chrome devtools mcp server (github.com/ChromeDevToo...) is very promising for analysing and working with performance related stuff. And probably more.

The aesthetics and the information is so on point.

You, Madam, are very good at this 👏

“A better future for JavaScript that won't happen”

https://drewdevault.com/2025/09/17/2025-09-17-An-impossible-future-for-JS.html

> people have been sounding the alarm for years that this approach to dependency management is reckless and dangerous and broken by design.

The Norwegian one in the list is normally just used for actual fishing (skitt fiske) when whishing someone good fishing, not in a general "good luck" kind of way.

You have clearly never set foot in a sauna in Finland.

Looks like a drive-in boat house. A mooring spot with a roof. Not to uncommon in places with rough weather.

There will LoAF, Web Vitals, RUM measurements and maybe some tight mode thrown in too. And lots of experiences from working on an app for chrome-based smart tvs with lowest bid hardware.

I'm gonna give a talk at @javazone.bsky.social on web and browser performance this year. Happy, exceited and scared shitless at the same time.

Oh, and I'm gonna throw some shade on React and friends, I have learnt from the master @infrequently.org

Never too late. It's practically screaming midlife crisis hobby.

This blog post remains super important because it's one of the few comparisons I've seen that talks about the main JS framework scaling limit: framework size + code per component

webcomponents.dev/blog/all-the...

Firefox shipping scheduler.postTask() and scheduler.yield() for all your long task-avoiding scheduling needs!!

I, too, struggle with saying "probabilistically" many times in a row, fast.

But that just means I'm human. I think.

Nope, new world/universe completely. It's Europe/North Africa in the middle ages, but different religions/citys have the power and a lot else is different too. (I mean, vampires and a female 12 year old pope, right?)

If you're an Abercrombie fan I'd be surprised if you didn't dig it. I loved it!

What does your technology onion look like? Big, with lots of brown rotten parts in it? Does it make you cry?

Yeah, that can happen I think

Maybe it could be useful to model this as an onion or something (not radar, everybody has those) with the day-to-day stuff in the center and the more peripheral stuff further out. To get an overview of how many topics and their size you have to care about

...because she can't remember how to navigate to another channel.

I can't really see an AI LLM do this for the foreseable future, but maybe I'm just being an old man yelling at clouds. Who knows.

And we border on user experience with the questions of will the user really understand this feature? Do they understand what happens when they push this button? Do they really need to?

Even if they are my 80 year old neighbour, who spend most of their time on the one channel

When we get into media CDNs, video streaming protocols, encoding/compression, subtitles (my god subtitles can be complicated at least in our context!), factors affecting playback on a users shitty tv with lowest bid hardware from 2017 things really get deep.

The frontend parts with its myriad of dependency trees, build tools, browser inconsistencies, safari-16-for-mobile-does-weird-shit, typescript, linting, pipelines, deployment and all that jazz is just the icing on the cake.

I had a passing idea that it would be cool to do a talk about everything in our tech stack/domain (i.e the things I have to be aware/handle/interact with from time to time) and it struck me: how many _days_ would I need to talk about it all. There just so much

The biggest lie the devil ever told was the one in Outlook where it claims "What a productive day! You've accomplished a lot" when your inbox is empty.

W.T.F?

I've accomplished moving the emails somewhere else.