@ethangardner.com.bsky.social
I'm a full stack engineer with a bias toward the front-end. Web performance optimization, accessibility, and all that jazz.
Come see me in Amsterdam! This lineup is loaded with great speakers in the #webperf community, and it's going to be a good time.
25.06.2025 16:40 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The videos from our latest episode are up! Come catch a pair of great talks by @verlok.bsky.social and @ethangardner.com!
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Beautiful 😍
05.04.2025 20:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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.
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What is everyone using for revenue reporting and invoicing for consulting and freelance work these days?
17.03.2025 14:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I would check contractrates.fyi. Ultimately, I think it depends on if US rate just means currency or if it also means geolocation, how much experience the person has, and how much mentoring you will provide.
17.03.2025 14:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0I was thinking about what I would do if not for the software thing. Nothing pays as well but I would be a guitar teacher, bartender at a swanky cocktail bar, or fitness instructor.
13.03.2025 21:42 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Mountains and their reflection off of Lake Mcdonald in Glacier NP.
If this isn't a testament to nature, I don't know what is.
10.03.2025 01:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0On the bucket list for me.
10.03.2025 01:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0For the last year, I've been ramping up on AI. If I was to start my learning journey today, these are some of the resources I'd use.
www.ethangardner.com/posts/ai-onr...
Good things are happening with URLPattern. I've been waiting for it to land in places beyond Chromium- based browsers for a while now. urlpattern.spec.whatwg.org
21.02.2025 03:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Nice. I'll contribute this one that I use to find hot spots that change frequently and may need refactoring.
git log --pretty=format: --since="1 year ago" --name-only | sort | uniq -c | sort -rg | head -50
I learned a lot at the onset of my career with 2, but now that I have so many projects under my belt, I prefer 1. I usually need to fill a few gaps and don't need a from scratch tutorial.
12.02.2025 02:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I feel like a lot of people sleep on console commands beyond log.
Group, table, and trace are all things I use regularly.
Also, debugger is super 😎.
I don't usually reach for what my IDE provides, but I might start after watching this www.youtube.com/live/gFcR8J9...
CSS is render- but not parser-blocking. This means that while a browser is fetching CSS, it is permitted to continue parsing the rest of your HTML but not render it. HOWEVER! If you’re not careful, you can inadvertently end up in parser-blocking territory.
07.02.2025 11:21 — 👍 59 🔁 24 💬 1 📌 2Knowing you spend a lot of time with flame charts, I can appreciate where you're coming from.
05.02.2025 22:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I installed pyenv today and had trouble building on Ubuntu. Lo and behold there was this helpful gist that had exactly what I needed: gist.github.com/drconopoima/...
04.02.2025 02:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Happy to help! I'm glad you're enjoying it.
04.02.2025 02:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Alexander Krizhanovsky presenting a slide with the title “http streams” in front of an audience.
Alexander Krizhanovsky is now talking about scheduling HTTP streams fosdem.org/2025/schedul... fosdem.org/2025/schedul... #webperf #fosdem
01.02.2025 15:45 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0The rust version of Lightning CSS might not be too hard to build on - docs.rs/lightningcss.... You can parse CSS to find media queries and selectors.
It sounds like a lot navigating the underlying AST might be able to get you there.
I somehow missed the redesign. Looks good.
29.01.2025 23:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0It's considerably far behind in the quality of the results at the moment.
27.01.2025 13:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Meditation. I love the Waking Up app. Also, there are some books in the Cognitive Behavioral Therapy filed that are helpful.
Mindful Cognitive Behavioral Therapy by Seth Gillihan
Radical Acceptance by Tara Brach
Untethered Soul by Michael Singer
Drawing of expanded view of the GPU and CPU, with explanations for both and a brief description of how they coordinate
✍️ I did an explainer on the CPU and GPU and how they coordinate tasks between them.
Going to a series on rendering💥
I moved my personal site over to Cloudflare Pages over the weekend. It was really easy to get setup and I'm looking forward to using it more for some ideas I have.
20.01.2025 01:25 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I do (Jetbrains AI)
19.01.2025 17:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
USWDS has a monthly call and talked about the direction of USWDS on a recent episode youtu.be/kFLPOKKEKRE?...
19.01.2025 16:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This is my 2024 wrap-up post. For me, 2024 was a year of new jobs, transitions, and lots of learning.
www.ethangardner.com/posts/2024-y...
Nobody reads my posts, so the typos just stay in perpetuity. 😆
10.01.2025 00:23 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
