Matt Jacobs

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I’m a ¾-stack engineer. I think everyone should see the movie Crank, eat a sour cream donut at Peter Pan, and ride their bikes to work. EVERYONE.
We’ve finished the harvest, but our Croptober celebration continues! This week we’re making our secret recipe for a great night’s sleep, Sweet Sleep with Chamomile, available for 25% off, the lowest price ever.
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Limited Edition Tincture: Sweet Sleep with Chamomile

I’d love to connect with someone who has integrated Contentful with Astro in a type-safe way. Know anyone?

I feel like I’m jumping through too many Zod and TypeScript hoops and someone must know better.

I’m looking for a ~10-13" B&W eInk display. I’ve used Waveshare before and it’s totally fine, but curious if there are better panels out there.

I’m going to go out on a limb and say everyone who intentionally commits murder struggles with mental health.

We can stop asking family members why the shooting happened. The answer is guns.

It's September 5th!

Hey US people, please remember to check your voter registration every *5th* between now and November!

✅ July 5th
✅ August 5th
✅ September 5th
⬜ October 5th
⬜ November 5th

Check your voter registration for free online here:

https://voteamerica.org

You can also request your mail in ballot, so that you don't have to stand in line for hours or miss work on voting day.

Why check every month? Because some of y'all have been de-registered.😮

Re-register!

VoteAmerica: Everything You Need To Vote

Nonpartisan tools and resources for voters in all 50 states and DC. Everything you need to register to vote, cast your ballot, and make sure it's counted. Trusted by Democrats, Republicans, and independent voters.

I wrote a new tool to help analyze potential third party performance risks on your site. It uses data from WebPageTest to group results in a sortable/filterable table with lots of metrics that might be helpful for estimating whether a third party is a performance/failure risk.

Give it a try and see if you learn anything new about your third party content! More details on how to use it here - https://paulcalvano.com/2024-09-03-discovering-third-party-performance-risks/

Discovering Third Party Performance Risks

It likely comes as no surprise that third party content can be a significant contributor to slow loading websites and poor user experience. As performance engineers, we often need to find ways to balance requirements for their features with the strain that they can put on user experience. Unfortunately, for many sites this becomes a reaction to slowdowns and failures detected in production.

Paul Calvano
one of the sole benefits of working in an office was how much easier it was to say goodbye to people who got let go. If you see a Fastly employee looking for work this month, snap them up ASAP. You’ll be glad you did
Ah yes, the capitalist hellscape. STOP NOT THINKING ABOUT BUYING THINGS, PEOPLE. https://www.axios.com/2024/08/01/amazon-stock-earnings-consumer-spending
Amazon sees disruption in consumer spending from chaotic news cycle

This is a trend Amazon has observed historically.

Axios
Are the chicken fingers at Raising Cane’s actually good?!
Just starting the Presumed Innocent finale!!!