Ben Schwarz

Twang

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Yep agreed. Minifying is a good step to remove vendor comments etc, but obfuscation isn’t really worth it when you’ve got compression (which you always should).

AWS email about duplicating services running in Bahrain, cool cool cool 😓

🫨

YouTube video by Jesse Jenkins - Another Day In Paradise Smokey Breaded Aubergine with Tomato and Burrata

I recently saw this breaded eggplant, kind of on my want to make list youtube.com/shorts/HDIyE...

Comic Tintin and Captain Haddock, the captain looks bamboozled: Captain: What a week huh? Tintin: Captain, it’s still the fucking weekend

Looking at the haas site, it’s improved LCP by 400ms and CLS by 0.4 this past 3 months. INP is stable and shows little delays. Alpine was top last season.

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In the case of Calibre leaderboards, it’s based on the “origin” (all pages on the domain, combined.

Whereas the synthetic lighthouse tests are (afaik) homepage only, and a single visit which may vary.

Formula 1 Teams Website Speed Leaderboard World’s top websites ranked by Core Web Vitals performance.

I built a website performance leaderboard site powered by Google’s Chrome user experience report (CrUX), and there happens to be a pack for Formula 1 already!

Data from real user chrome sessions 🏆

calibreapp.com/tools/websit...

Why not go the whole hog and delete Facebook altogether? It isn’t 2007 anymore!

🎉 Looking for new work.

15 years front-end dev + Design Systems specialist.

I help folks build, maintain & transform design systems.

I'm also available for focused projects, front-end builds, codebase modernisation.

Short to long term.

Let's chat - stu@alwaystwisted.com

reposts appreciated <3

Dream collab we’ll never get to see: Bear Grylls hosting Steve Irwin

Good question! Not sure how I missed it.

I was debating (with myself) about how to handle regional markets (e.g. co.uk, co.jp, .com, .com.au) and ended up deferring and forgetting about it.

Also, it maybe felt good to snub Jeff Bozo and it happened unwittingly 😏

List updated!

Good to hear. There are some common patterns out there that require large effort to produce quality controls, and even then they’re often lacking for users on mobile or from
accessibility standpoints.

Slight aside from base styling, but: is there much of an appetite for date range controls? It’s a common pattern and afaik you’re on your own for implementing

Global Retailers Website Speed Leaderboard World’s top websites ranked by Core Web Vitals performance.

🆕 I ranked the world’s top retailers / e-commerce for web site speed using Google’s CrUX dataset

calibreapp.com/tools/websit...

Now we have ranking sets for e-commerce, car manufacturers, airlines, banks, world news and more

Good on you for giving everything a go and continually investing in yourself

My normal cycling routine is 30–80km, also known as 1500-3500 calories.

I find it quite difficult to appropriately fuel before a ride (because I squeeze it in when I can), and then eating like a normal desk-sitting dormant worm. Both extremes are hard to get right.

Hi! I made a Chrome extension that highlights creeps from the Epstein emails. Depending on how much news you read on your computer, enabling it might be really depressing.

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Hillsborough Law will 'criminalise lying' by senior ministers, say campaigners It's via a new standalone offence - which will apply to the prime minister - of "misleading the public", punishable by up to two years in jail.

We’ve all had enough of politicians lying to us, right?

Reckon on that we can all agree

Which is why I’m absolutely buzzing for this legislation that would criminalise lying in politics

…”punishable by up to two years in jail!”

GAME-CHANGER

news.sky.com/story/hillsb...

Cookin up some sweet stuff @calibreapp.com at the moment, can’t wait to share it 🔜

A sad day for rectangles

Screenshot from npmx.com's package page for "calibre", https://npmx.dev/package/calibre

I'm quite impressed by the sheer quality of npmx.dev, an alternative to npmjs.com

Package view includes details like package security, statistics, dependency age, known vulnerabilities

Screenshot: @calibreapp.com CLI package - npmx.dev/package/cali...

Insta-added NPMX to my "use this" tool set 😍

Baseline numbers are still helpful, and can definitely be indicative of performance/helpful for debug. Nice work putting this together

I’m not certain it’s safe to assume that each GH Actions runner is the same spec CPU, Memory, and has no noisy neighbours, but multiple runs at different times will help to ensure the env is at least consistent

Same with any war-speak terms.

No, Brian. Your comfortable $1200 chair, quiet office, and generous pay may be challenging, but it’s hardly comparable to a trench with bullets whizzing past your ears.

music services I've used (often at the same time):

slsk ⇢ rdio ⇢ pandora ⇢ soundcloud ⇢ spotify ⇢ mixcloud ⇢ deezer ⇢ apple music ⇢ tidal ⇢ spotify ⇢ youtube music ⇢ apple music

few were enjoyable 🥲

2026 World Cup is untenable:

- Trump wanted to ban Brazil(!) due to a petty beef/rent man bullshit
- Many participating countries are on the USAs list of no-visa/visitation
- Seats are outrageously priced, higher than ever
- FIFA trying to appease fascist dictator with fake awards

Typographic Scales in CSS with :heading(), sibling-index(), and pow() Learn how to build flexible, mathematical typographic scales using :heading(), sibling-index(), and pow() for cleaner CSS design systems.

🎉 New Blogpost 🎉

Building Typographic Scales in CSS with :heading(), sibling-index(), and pow()

www.alwaystwisted.com/articles/bui...

What if we could create a typographic scale for headings with one line of CSS?

One rule to scale them all.

#CSS #FrontEnd #WebDev

Shades of Halftone - The Blog of Maxime Heckel An interactive deep dive into building halftone shaders in GLSL, covering everything from classic dot patterns and CMYK color separation to Moiré interference, gooey effects, and animated displacement...

Shades of halftone, an interactive article by @maxime.bsky.social, demonstrates how to write web shaders for halftone effects. Stunning stuff!

blog.maximeheckel.com/posts/shades...