Dave Smart

A black and white cat licking someone's finger

Can I offer you a cute cat face in these trying times?

Give up on your personal archives while we jam all your data into the content extrusion machine.

🆕 The 202507 Chrome User Experience (CrUX) release is now live on BigQuery!

Check out the announcement post for the full info:
groups.google.com/a/chromium.o...

Highlights below 👇

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SEO tip: Remember at all times your site has almost infinite potential 404 pages.

Hilbert's paradox of the status codes.

Lookin' slick Simon!

Look, I’m not saying Altman, Theil, and Zuckerberg are the bad guys. I just don’t know a lot of good guys who build bunkers ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

(Jk they are. Fuck the broligarchy)

Catball!

From here on, I am only judging techniques, strategies and advice on the amount of ass fuel. (Or Fanny Gas for our friends overseas)

Amen to that Luke.

Reminds me of those 'tick if you're a terrorist" boxes visa waiver forms.

Freda Warrington, Dark Cathedral.

Cracking book.

Screenshot of a preview link on bluesky, where the words are cut off meaning the last words are "fuelling the ass"

That's some unfortunate, or potentially fortunate depending on your viewpoint, text truncation

What are your top UX frustrations when you're on a web site or web app?

Oh and sites that immediately prompt you to accept notifications, or weird permissions like location for no valid reason.

Any site hijacks the back button / gesture. Particularly prevalent when clicking to a news site from your discover feed and swipe to go back.

Extra annoying when they try & style the page they show you like discover, but with weird ai clickbait like "shocking what this 80's popstar looks like now"

𝔊𝔫𝔬𝔪𝔢 𝔏𝔦𝔣𝔢 🍄

How To Improve INP: Yield Patterns Detailed insights into patterns like await-interaction-response, yieldToMain, yieldUnlessUrgent & tips for faster Interaction-to-Next-Paint (INP).

I’m currently conducting a Web Perf Review for a client, and it’s the perfect excuse to revisit @kurtextrem.de’s brilliant article “How To Improve INP: Yield Patterns.”

Hands down, one of the best reads out there if you want to truly understand and apply this pattern

#WebPerf #INP #CoreWebVitals

They touched the margins control. Never touch the margins controls!

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After seeing some of Steve Paine and SISTRIX's wonderful data and Tom Pool's fun post (https://lnkd.in/dfkhDrch) I took a look into Wickes' sudden upturn in search visibility. | Andrew C. After seeing some of Steve Paine and SISTRIX's wonderful data and Tom Pool's fun post (https://lnkd.in/dfkhDrch) I took a look into Wickes' sudden upturn in search visibility. Sistrix's VI (Visibilit...

I looked into DIY chain Wickes' recent traffic spike using @sistrix.com's data.

It's a bit wordy for BlueSky, so here's my post about it on LinkedIn (please follow me there too for more of this sort of thing!).

www.linkedin.com/posts/andrew...

"Brexit means Brexit, good old English only!"

Opens the dictionary and sees all the Lonewords, spits out his apéritif.

A funny blob hanging out of a washing machine.

This might not be the most efficient or best way to remove the background from photos, but I promise it'll be the most satisfying one.

tools.dverso.io/bgremove/

SEO has died so often, whilst still shuffling around it's now able to be the entire supporting cast for a zombie apocalypse movie.

You mean the real limiting factor all this time is computer diabetes? 🤯

A box of chunky kit kat chocolate bars

I think it needs chunks

In the form of chunky kit kats.

It will do fuck all for this too, but at least you have a nice, chocolatey treat.

We have a clear Prawn Cocktail / cheese and onion preference going on, definitely promoting snack harmony.

Similar to dark / white meat for turkey and chicken. Which is a good thing because I'd hate to ruin Xmas by berserking over a lack of turkey leg.

🥳 Happy birthday! 🎈🎈

a person is holding a black cat in their arms and petting it . Alt: a person is holding a black cat in their arms and it hisses

Data security via the indifference of the medium.

"Give me the file"