Andy Davies

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Web Performance Consultant at SpeedCurve
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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?

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

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

All Day Hey! 2023

A single-track conference for digital creators

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)

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

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.)

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.

Google Colaboratory

ā€œThe 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.ā€ Chief Economist of the Bank of England

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

In this #perfnow session, Dora Militaru covered sustainable web performance optimization, with topics like speed ā‰ˆ money, fostering (and scaling) a strong performance culture and embracing apoptosis.

Slides: https://www.slideshare.net/DoraKalneusMilitaru/performance-culture-through-the-lookingglass-performancenow-2022-253904970
Full talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3smBkiGUWw

Performance culture through the looking-glass - performance.now() 2022

It’s 2022 and highly skilled engineering teams are yet to be immune against seasonal web performance regressions. Is performance a particularly tricky discipli…