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kevinfarrugia

@kevinfarrugia@webperf.social

Front-end Engineer and web performance consultant. Be kind. He/him. 🇲🇹

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kevinfarrugia, to random
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I haven't travelled outside the EU in years and forgot that downloading a restaurant menu filled with unoptimized images (while roaming) will cost more than the actual meal. 😭

kevinfarrugia, to random
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TIL that markdown (including GitHub) supports diff syntax highlighting using ```diff. No more Before:/*After: code chunks. *😁

kevinfarrugia, to random
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Nice piece on Tailwind by Tero Piirainen.

https://nuejs.org/blog/tailwind-misinformation-engine/

kevinfarrugia, to random
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A great video about how the flexbox algorithm works from @kevinpowell. Learned a bunch of things I never paid much attention to. 🙌

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FD3aC_Ke8uk

kevinfarrugia, to random
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My sister prepared a Zelda birthday cake for my son's 7th birthday.😍

kevinfarrugia, to random
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TIL that there is an immutable version of Array.prototype.sort() called Array.prototype.toSorted(). 😯

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Array/toSorted

kevinfarrugia, to random
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Next week I will be speaking at Devfest 2023 (Malta) about Interaction to Next Paint and how we can schedule work on the main thread to improve your page's responsiveness.

The event is open to the public from 16:00-19:00 and I will be joined by other great speakers covering a range of incredible topics. Hope to see you there. 😁

More details: https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-malta-presents-devfest-2023/

kevinfarrugia, to random
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Great talk on web sustainability by Brian Louis Ramirez from pre-event.👏

https://youtu.be/DXX4hkV7XOI?feature=shared

kevinfarrugia, to random
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Early morning. On the way to @perfnowconf .✈️ see you there.

kevinfarrugia, to random
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I'll continue to pronounce it as lowf, like a loaf of bread. 🍞 😋

kevinfarrugia, to stackoverflow
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Is down?

https://www.isitdownrightnow.com/stackoverflow.com.html reports that it is UP but it hasn't been working all day for me. 😱

kevinfarrugia, to random
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Wouldn't have expected that we'll be watching documentaries about programming languages. Worth a watch though. TypeScript Origins: The Documentary

https://youtu.be/U6s2pdxebSo

ryantownsend, (edited ) to webdev
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📊 Does the Lighthouse Performance Score out of 100 matter to you?

Would love to see replies with why you chose your answer.

And please boost for reach – would be great to get consensus from the community! 🙏

kevinfarrugia,
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@ryantownsend It definitely provides some value as an indicator of performance best practices, but when they are available I tend to prioritize measures coming from real users.

kevinfarrugia, to random
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Spotify using AI for a personalized DJ. I really like Discover Weekly (which created a weekly playlist based on your listening history), so I'm optimistic.

https://newsroom.spotify.com/2023-08-08/ai-dj-expanded-new-markets-how-to-use-feature/

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Pretty sure this is evidence of someone using a LLM to write bugzilla comments with links that seem plausible to improve their seo. We are on the darkest timeline…

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1348706#c5

kevinfarrugia,
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@mnot I have seen something similar on the HTTP Archive forums too. The comments are long, well-written and overall on-point to the topic being discussed, making them really difficult to catch.

kevinfarrugia, (edited ) to random
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Enjoying the new YouTube home page. Keeps me away from mindless distractions. 😁

kevinfarrugia, to mastodon
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Is it just me or could use more notifications? I don't spend much time browsing social media so receiving a (opt-in) prompt about an interesting toot from people you follow could help engagement. 🤷 or maybe I can't find that setting.

kevinfarrugia,
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@wombatDaiquiri I guess it would be a combination of someone I follow + engagement. If everyone is interacting with a toot, then it is more likely to be interesting to me. I have notifications enabled on desktop and mobile, but more likely to use it on mobile.

nhoizey, to random French
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I wish WebPageTest showed some info about emulated devices, at least viewport dimensions and screen density… 😕

kevinfarrugia,
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@nhoizey Agree it would be nice to have it on the UI.

In the meantime you can get them from GitHub though: https://github.com/WPO-Foundation/webpagetest/blob/master/www/settings/mobile_devices.ini

And connectivity: https://github.com/WPO-Foundation/webpagetest/blob/master/www/settings/connectivity.ini.sample

kevinfarrugia, to random
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What front-end architecture would you look into for a client-facing product with 100+ developers (mixed bag of full stack, BE, FE)?

We are currently using a monorepo and a "micro-frontend" architecture. Over the years, the code base grew into a giant monolith and different features/verticals are tightly coupled with one another. As a result, if a team wishes to use a different tech stack they cannot. Maintenance and testing are becoming costly and releases are not as frequent as we would like.

kevinfarrugia, to random
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With AVIF widely supported on browsers but not on most apps (WhatsApp, Slack...etc), it would be nice if it was possible to right-click and save the JPG/PNG image instead of the AVIF.

kevinfarrugia, (edited ) to random
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Super presentation from @programmingart for @WeLoveSpeed on Web Protocols for Frontend Developers (and LOTR). 👏

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kKdMqIhvZs (4 weeks ago)

kevinfarrugia, to random
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When reducing the color palette—using Squoosh—for WebP lossy from 256 colors to 2 colors, the image size grows from significantly. Who can help me understand what's going on?

kevinfarrugia,
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@grin @kornel Wow, thank you. 🙏

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