David Ross

I was lucky enough to be interviewed by #webperf community icon @henrihelvetica.bsky.social at #PerfNow 2024. What a whirlwind conference, it's always energizing to be around this many people interested in beating back the tide of webpage bloat & inaccessible sites

Every single hobby I love has has been infected by slopped up and unserious software. It's exhausting. aftermath.site/ai-slop-hobbie...

Claudio Velez, aka the Tamale Guy, as seen by the musicians, club owners, bar staff, and regulars sustained by the contents of his magical red cooler https://bit.ly/4yXnSbR

On Thursday at 6pm the @nywebperf.com meetup is running another in person "Meet for Speed" session. We'll be taking requests from attendees for sites to do a web performance analysis on. Etsy is hosting us at their office in Brooklyn. www.meetup.com/web-performa...

america.gov vs gov.uk on my iPhone 8 (Safari 15). Watch this talk www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdBx... by @therealnooshu.bsky.social Hobbs about what happened during the pandemic, people desperately looking for gov't info and browsing with horrible connections on devices such as ...

The call for Interop 2027 proposals is closing today. More than 100 proposals got created! Here are my favs 🤩 patrickbrosset.com/lab/interop-... Check them out!

The most otterly pawsome week of the year is here… #SeaOtterAwarenessWeek! 🦦 📷: Animal care staff Kacie

Big news! 📣 We're partnering on new research. The goal? Eventually bringing sea otters back to Oregon. 🦦 Learn more: https://bit.ly/4h6sTZj @orcoastaquarium.bsky.social @elakhaalliance.bsky.social @wildnetorg.bsky.social

The international chess Federation banned trans women from playing women's chess. CHESS. It's not about fairness. The fairness argument is intended to radicalize people into more violent forms of transphobia.

Nancy 9/7/26 … Happy Labor Day 🛠️

The idea that immediately came to me on reading today's strip (apologies to Disco Elysium) Fantastic story arc, definitely read Swan Boy if you aren't already.

Neat webperf investigation thread, & one that has me eager to look at if this is happening within my purview as well

How cool! I've paddled the Bronx River in NYC. A river otter was spotted in the Bronx River for the first time in over 100 years! Because otters need clean water and abundant fish to thrive, this sighting hints at the waterway’s ecological recovery from being treated as a dumping ground.

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...

The UK countryside is full of interdimensional portals. You just have to know where to look. I've decided to make a thread here of some of the best ones I've found on walks. 1. JRR Tolkien's Psychedelic Lime Kiln.

My talk from last year's @perfnow.nl is now out. Come for the dad jokes & advice on how to troll your kids, stay for my thoughts on stubborn empathy for our users as the foundation for web perf & two threats to the web: the monoculture and the machine. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dvpi...

"Believe in the me that believes in you" was bars in 08. Its a fucking holy anthemic prayer right now because it acknowledges that belief in yourself is hard if not impossible "Oh you don't believe in yourself, that's fine, believe in me and that'll carry us both" BARRSSSSS

We have a new #1 Link 🚊 ridership day! On Friday, June 19, Link light rail saw about 280,000 riders, amid the USA 🇺🇸 v Australia 🇦🇺 World Cup ⚽️ match and Mariners ⚾️ home game day. 2️⃣8️⃣0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣

My presentation, Making Performance Allies from @perfnow.nl just got posted to YouTube - www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygdx.... The tips I share in the presentation were designed to make #webperf stick beyond the occasional task that finds its way out of the backlog. Enjoy!

Video from @paulcalvano.bsky.social's "Introduction to the HTTP Archive" from April is up on our YouTube channel! www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCy6... Subscribe for more! #webperformance #nyc

WELCOME TO WASHINGTON, SOCCER FANS. Get acquainted with our state via this highly accurate and mostly-to-scale map.

My talk from @perfnow.nl is out! It was a super special time compiling years of information on Accessibility and Performance into one talk. Even cooler that my little family could be there in Amsterdam to see it. 💗 youtu.be/Fdvk_qOKjVM?... #a11y

贈貓詩 For My Cat 執鼠無功元不劾，一簞魚飯以時來。 看君終日常安臥，何事紛紛去又回？ You haven’t caught any mice. I let it go. The fish and rice were set out at the appointed hour. I watched you drowse the day away — so now What’s got you galloping madly everywhere? --Lu You 陸游 (1125-1210)

Otter #222 🦦

Mobile teams deserve their Core Web Vitals moment. That’s why Embrace is building Core Mobile Vitals: a rigorous, user-focused framework for understanding mobile app performance through the experiences users actually notice. Read more from @tammyeverts.com: shorturl.at/5A8Ye

Decided to wander out for a Wing Wednesday deal, & I succeeded in convincing someone to try Fernet & Malort on their own tab. This feels like some sort of bar persuasion accomplishment.

Ticket sales are open! perfnow.nl/tickets.html

ME, IN A MYTH: sorry about injuring you. in repayment for the damages, here's some grain CAT: thanks. this is either adequate or insufficient in a way that will work out poorly for you ME: that's what makes this a myth CAT: it's what makes this a myth

The best stock photo sources these days are very specific people who take photos of very specific things. This guy takes pictures of trains. All trains all the time. Only trains. Do I have to worry that one of these photos is AI? Nope. He would never disrespect a real train in that way.

It's our favourite thing when people tell us that they had to sit with a choice in Fallen London for five full minutes. That's how we know you're suffering the correct amount.

Speed still matters. "for every 100 milliseconds slower a store loads, conversion tends to be about 3.5% lower. (...) For every 32 milliseconds slower a store responds to interactions, conversion tends to drop by about 1.5%." www.shopify.com/enterprise/b...

This's a ride of a thread

I *do* love fruit news & listening in on trends for industries I'm not directly in

What an excellent article from our otter friend, Dr. Heidi Island - a professor of biological psychology and behavioral ecology at Pacific University and a member of the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Otter Specialist Group. www.popsci.com/environment/... #seaotters #riverotters

Chuck's Hop Shop in #seattle, 16th anniversary. Cheers to making it this far. Thai Lay's Max, extra ridged ghost pepper extra chili. Mild enough on chip 1 you wonder what the fuss is 1, hot enough halfway through the bag you understand.

I am thrilled to announce that Dreams on a Pillow has wrapped up pre-production and we are about to start full production. We can’t do it without your support. We are starting our second round of crowdfunding, to support us you can find out more here www.launchgood.com/1948

I say it every year - if you're even the least bit interested or involved in web performance, this is THE place to be every year. It's the one trip I prioritize my travel budget for. The talks are awesome, but the hallway track is unbeatable. The concentration of experts in one place is insane.

#OnThisDay in 1962, Belgian waffles made their American debut at the Seattle World's Fair. historylink.org/File/10092

Conference organising in 2026 quirksmode.org/quirksblog/a...