@sturobson That's OK isn't it - downtime is good!

@sturobson Enjoy!

I think most software developers would agree when building out a new thing to start with the simplest thing that could possibly work. The smallest iteration to prove the idea.

If it's a web app surely the simplest thing would be basic #HTML and #CSS. Agree?

@zachleat From memory HTML Imports got scrapped because no other browser would support it

There were also some performance concerns but not sure they were any worse than render blocking JS or CSS @import

the fact that climate science is so uniform, reliable, prescient, and robust despite being in direct conflict with the elite interests of states, industry, finance, media, the right, and the patrons of science itself is prima facie evidence for its soundness and legitimacy

@andy Had to renew mine before Christmas

Every time I travel it just reminds me necer to forgive the people who fucked us over

Hey you.

Like meeting cool people at awesome conferences?

Like documentation lessons with a side of heavy sarcasm?

Like seeing people spilling beverages on themselves with alarming frequency?

Grab a ticket to All Day Hey & come hang with me in Leeds https://heypresents.com/conference

Maps on planes are hilarious…

Of course you want a huge plane obscuring the map…

and then when you zoom in to get a better you want an even bigger plane obscuring even more of the map!

AirTags are magic… knowing your bag is on the plane is quite reassuring

Especially after yesterday

(discovered American had cancelled my tickets and BA hadn’t told me)

@Di4na @slightlyoff @seldo Afraid it’s not documented publicly, the anecdote I had came directly from someone senior in the company when they were talking to me about their challenges

Starting the long trek home after a fab week with my SpeedCurve buddies

Already looking forward to the next time I get to see them

@slightlyoff @seldo It’s a old data point but I know of a UK hotel chain who rewrote their site as an SPA (somewhere around 2015?) and it was costing them 1mn GBP / month in lost bookings

Looking for US WEB CONFERENCES.

It seems US conferences had a harder time recovering from Covid than the European ones, and the demise of #anEventApart was definitely a big bummer, but I'd like to know which ones are left.

So please let me know about good conferences about web development, in general or with a more specific topic, in the US - preferably ones with a national rather than local reach.

(Though I guess I'm not terribly interested in React or other frameworks - sorry.)

@TheRealNooshu \o/

Hey #webperf folks! I finally had a chance to query the @rumarchive

It was fun and easy. I wanted to share the colab I wrote in case anyone's looking for examples.

I've been looking into rage clicks, which can indicate user frustration. But I wondered if the definition (three or more clicks) might be mouse-centric. So I wanted to compare the frequency of rage clicks across platforms:

https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1FtOrwJzOkd-qXM5fuTsTj0MZpFckC5iq

Answer: mPulse sees a similar rate on Android and Desktop.

@estelle Not so sure about that… the American spellings are way easier and more obvious

@kbx @PatMeenan There’s quite a lot that can be done to Britain’s housing stock to improve it’s energy efficiency

There’s plenty that’s straight forward if we can find people to do it e.g. loft insulation but also lots that’s harder e.g. external insulation on old cottages like mine

@PatMeenan Yeh, I understand the orthodox for raising interest rates

In this case where disposable income is already being reduced by higher energy prices, and higher general everyday costs I don't see interest rates as going to really affect them

GBP might rise against USD which makes oil / gas imports cheaper but surely the answer is to promote energy efficiency and energy prices in GBP

“The distinctive context that prevails in the UK – of higher natural gas prices with a tight labour market, adverse labour supply developments and goods market bottlenecks – creates the potential for inflation to prove more persistent.” Chief Economist of the Bank of England

And how does raising interest rates fix any of those underlying causes?

@tdp_org Funnily enough I have an issue where someone invites me to a Teams call and I donkt get reminders from Google Workspace

Guess Google and Microsft can’t agree to use the same standards