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Trying to make a web that works for everyone. Also at https://toot.cafe/@slightlyoff For more: https://infrequently.org/about-me/ https://infrequently.org/

crappy JS toolchain build output
LOL, dialog's website gives up the ghost(s)
WPT waterfall for the WPT UI. A sea of sadness and JavaScript.
Trying to use WPT from a phone. LOL.
the "sickos yes" meme
Latest Android version data from Google, tucked away inside the "help me choose" UI in the Andoid SDK picker, buried in Android Studio. More than 50% of devices are 2+ major Android versions out of date, and fully 15% are on an OS released 5+ years ago.
FiftyPlusOne's snapshot of polls has Trump's approval at 36.5%, with a net disapproval of 24%. Americans (derogatory).
The NYT website placing a full page banner over top to advertise their web development skills are now so shitty that they cant even figure our CSS dark mode or PWA installation.
A rainbow over San Francisco Airport as clouds and rain are blown away by clearer skies.
An "is this AI?" vetting tool marking a recent article as "suspicious" despite no AI involvement in the text's drafting.
Bell curve meme with both 0.1's agreeing that browsers are magic and you should use the magic, with the middle saying "Browsers will hurt you if you try to understand them; that's why we do everything in React"
"get in loser, we're making the web more powerful"
NYT promo suggesting dark mode isn't available on the web for reasons our of their control, which is either hilariously incompetent, shockingly disrespectful, or both.
Is waiting 30+ seconds for 0-byte render-blocking script bad? Asking for a government agency.
image of the sign over the Kalia Beach bar reading "The Lowest Bar in the World"
CWV pass rates at a few select data points over the past several years. We see a clear plateau below 50% in mobile pass rates over the past year.
the performance inequality gap is growing, not shrinking
Geekbench 6 single-core scores over time at 4 price points: - fastest iOS - fastest Android - mid-tier Android - low-end Android
total SoC cache sizings for high/mid/low end parts in both the Android and iOS ecosystems. iPhones are fast in large part because Apple blesses them with ungodly amounts of L1+L2+L3+LLC cache.
Performance points per dollar for each cohort.
Worldwide smartphone shipments by year in millions; sources: IDC, Statista, and Counterpoint Research. At no point in the past decade have iPhones broken the 20% annual sales barrier. iOS is overrepresented in traffic statistics owing to wealth-correlated effects; e.g., faster networks and devices inducing heavier internet use. This does not imply that users on slower devices do not have money to spend, only that they are poorly served by the contemporary web.
Polymarket showing a 5% decline today in the odds that Schumer remains leader until the end of the year.
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse trying to talk down to Democrats and getting totally rekt in the comments.
A link to join the web perf slack at performance.now()
"Professor Sweeting’s analysis failed to identify any causal connection between the restrictions and the value users might place on safety, security and privacy. He did not attempt to compare the effects of the restrictions on safety, security and privacy in the real world with a counterfactual world absent the restrictions264. The study he relied on was not specific to the UK and the questions it asked participants did not establish any causal link with the restrictions. Under cross examination, his analysis was exposed as superficial and not reflective of a realistic counterfactual world. Apple produced no other evidence to show what link there might be between user value and the restrictions. In our view Professor Sweeting’s analysis goes nowhere near the causal and quantitative specificity that is required in order to establish an efficiencies defence." p286
"779. We find that Apple’s restrictions do eliminate effective competition in those markets by removing all sources of competition. Accordingly, the efficiencies defence fails." p285
Inflatable shark with a sign reading "I know a predator when I see one, release the Epstein files!"
"The website for Eyes Up which functions essentially the same way is still available. The site includes a map with dots that visitors can click on, which then plays a video from that location. Users are able to submit their own videos for inclusion. Mark said he manually reviews every video before it is uploaded to the service, to check its content and its location. "
boat cat thinking "I should make a Plex PWA"
1MB of JS, even on the sceptred isles
the usual Next.js diarrhea of inline JSON that repeats what's already in the HTML for no useful purpose on a static page.
the BBC News send 3MB of JS (nearly 12MB uncompressed) to render several kilobytes of text. The overall payload is monstrous.
Fresh off trying to kill web apps, Apple argued to the CMA that the App Store doesn't need to be regulated, because web apps: "the App Store competes strongly with the numerous alternative channels and transaction platforms through which iOS and iPadOS users can and do transact for digital goods and services. These include transactions on alternative devices (such as other mobile devices, PCs, game consoles, media player devices and smart TVs), web apps,"
Features missing from the web due to a single engine, lower is better. Despite making 40x more from the web than Mozilla, Apple has consistently trailed in basic web standards compatibility.
BA's first loading screen, which is now the primary experience of ba.com
An up-to-the-moment project structure that brings hundreds of MB of deps in tow.
Highland cows grazing over Derwentwater.
Etch.co went from more than 2MB of JS on their homepage with Next to less than 12KB. Yes, that's right, *two orders of magnitude less JS* for *equivalent functionality*.
"The Piccalilli Blog is what would happen if troupe of badass webdev and content superstars formed a supergroup and instead of putting out one sad single, churned out bangers, week after week."
More than 50% of Android devices run versions of the OS more than 3 major versions old, and many run versions that have no security patch support.
Android's traditional "optimising your device" ruse. Good OSes (e.g. CrOS) do not do this shit.
A webpagetest.org error: "You have been blocked due to abusive use. If you feel this is a mistake please contact Customer Support at support@catchpoint.com with your information."
A sad day.
a boat in Amsterdam named the "comic sans"
3.4MB of JS on the wire, 15MB uncompressed. Phew.
Count of features missing in one engine for the past decade. Apple consistently demonstrates the largest gap, showing that Safari is the least complete and competent implementation of the web. Any feature missing from Safari has been effectively denied to *all* developers and users because of Apple's ongoing anti-competitive policies regarding browser engines on iOS. That's a whole lotta features.
Not for nothing, but this also requires a transpiled version of Node's Buffer class, rather than using the browser-native ArrayBuffer + TextEncoder. A twofer if ever there was one.
3MB of JS, plus another 400K of assets to display a logo, an image, and 1.4KB of text is definitional web development malpractice, but none of the many (many!) tools involved in sharting out this site kept the experience from falling into the gutter. This isn't "an SPA", it's barely an effing webpage. But it has React, Tailwind, and a hundred horrors embedded in a 3MB JS payload that *must* load, else none of the static text displays.
When is your main thread not YOUR main thread? When Figma sets React lose on it and suddenly the charcuterie plate and the punch bowl are on the floor with React lapping up the last of the battery power.
TSLA has fallen 30+% from the start of the year.
The Atlanta Fed's GDP Now chart showing that even the metals-exchange adjusted forecast has sunk below a -1% contraction expectation, down from a 2% *expansion* prediction before inauguration.
"How many teslas should we throw in Boston Harbor?"
2023 EU imports by sector; 57% are services; e.g. media, software, business consulting, and banking
fonttools-based subsetting of fontawesome glyphs to pluck out 7 specific icons