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Andy Davies @andydavies.me · 11h

Super Mario Sunshine on the GameCube

Andy Davies @andydavies.me · 14h

Looks like this bumble bee has had a successful summer

Large bumblebee on a large yellow dahlia flower

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Garrett Johnson @garjoh.bsky.social · 14h

Today, the UK Competition & Markets Authority decided to release Google from its Privacy Sandbox-related commitments.
Read more: assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/68f213...

assets.publishing.service.gov.uk

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Alistair Shepherd @alistairshepherd.uk · 17h

"ChatGPT told me we should replace our robots.txt with this when I asked it why it wasn't recommending our business"

"Our AI SEO company wants you to implement this schema for forums on our product pages"

How about you get a bucket for all the brain leaking out your ears?

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Andy Davies @andydavies.me · 18h

”Google Maps sites are on average slower than those without” but on what metric and is Maps the cause of that slowness are the first two questions I would have

Challenge with this data is there’s a danger of it being interpreted as correlation == causation

Which may only be true for frameworks

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Andy Davies @andydavies.me · 1d

Thank you!

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Dave Beesley @davidbeesley.co.uk · 1d

Even if AI does take over the industry (it won’t), learning to program property will give you an immense advantage when it comes to understanding what AI produces and how to fix bugs and maintain projects

Piccalilli @piccalil.li · 1d

We've had a couple of people ask whether JavaScript for Everyone is even worth doing, now that generative AI is available.

We've got the perfect answer to that.

piccalil.li/javascript-f...

A clip from the landing page that talks about how the knowledge of JavaScript that you learn in the course will set you up to be able to command more compensation and better terms because when the AI hype cycle bubble pops, your ability to fix the mess will be incredibly valuable.

It's a long snippet of text but you can read the whole thing on the post's link.

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Pumpkintronic @orangetronic.bsky.social · 1d

man it is such a refreshing treat to see a politician celebrating how beautifully multicultural this country is.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

British.

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Andy Davies @andydavies.me · 1d

Was even one in Haverfordwest!

Think my youngest brother might have worked there for a while

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Andy Davies @andydavies.me · 1d

Life of the chips is 3yrs but they're depreciating them over 5 🙄

Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 1d

“Lifespan of AI Chips: The $300 Billion Question - CITP Blog”

https://blog.citp.princeton.edu/2025/10/15/lifespan-of-ai-chips-the-300-billion-question/

> Per my calculations, this hole grows to over $1.5 trillion annually if the true total cost of ownership is taken into account

Andy Davies @andydavies.me · 1d

We see it in RUM data too… the impact of NextJS can often be worse than the impact of 3rd-party scripts

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Andy Davies @andydavies.me · 1d

Just got to work out what it's actually measuring i.e. is it paint or presentation time

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Web Witch 🔮 Stephanie Stimac @seaotta.dev · 1d

Bit of a random question before I start googling.

Does anyone know of any institutions that fund research grants for technology? Work that is along the lines of "I want to research what effect X thing would have on the overall web if it was implemented in the web platform."

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Andy Davies @andydavies.me · 1d

Certainly does…

Screenshot of a RUM beacon in SpeedCurve

Beacon was captured in Safari 230 TP and shows Largest Contentful Paint

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Ryan Townsend @twnsnd.com · 2d

Safari TP 230 includes support for Largest Contentful Paint 🙌 #webperf

IntentToShip @intenttoship.dev · 2d

Webkit: Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 230

webkit.org

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Andy Davies @andydavies.me · 1d

Congratulations!

This means we've now got someone to bug about the performance of Typekit fonts!

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Andy Davies @andydavies.me · 1d

Thanks – I wouldn't have seen that as I'm catching the train to Amsterdam

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Alex Russell @infrequently.org · 2d

Lest you be taken in, @kentonvarda.com confirms down thread that they had to make the vanilla JS version output 3x as much, otherwise it was "too fast to measure"

Brian LeRoux @brianleroux.bsky.social · 3d

I guess I'm happy they have engineered themselves into a place where they can now render html sub second. The levels of unserious aside.

Kenton Varda @kentonvarda.com · 3d

Those benchmarks from @t3.gg revealed some interesting issues in Workers. Happy to say it's all fixed now, save for some lingering next.js-specific stuff we're continuing to work on. Thanks for the reproducible test cases, @t3.gg.

Excessive details in blog post: blog.cloudflare.com/unpacking-cl...

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London Web Standards @londonwebstandards.org · 2d

Our friends at #perfnow are down to their last 11 tickets, don't be slow and disappointed
perfnow.nl

performance.now(); 30th and 31st of October, Amsterdam

On 30th and 31st of October, 2025, the sixth edition of performance.now() will take place in Amsterdam—a single track conference, covering today’s most important web performance insights.

perfnow.nl

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Andy Davies @andydavies.me · 2d

Also refers to revenue rather than profit which is a bit sus…

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Ugla Stefanía Kristjönudóttir Jónsdóttir @uglastefania.bsky.social · 2d

metro.co.uk/2025/10/15/a...

A human rights expert just confirmed the truth about being trans in Britain

It’s about time someone with authority and actual expertise made it clear.

metro.co.uk

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Jenn R @jnnrss.bsky.social · 2d

I'm at risk for redundancy so if anyone is hiring a Senior or Lead UX Researcher remote or in London hybrid let me know! Open to perm or contracts

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Andy Davies @andydavies.me · 2d

Me neither… I hated O level English lit with a passion so there was no way I was doing it for A level

I was a science kid as there was no option to do computing at A level back in my day

Did Pure and Applied Maths, Physics & Chemistry should have done Math / Statistics, Physics and Geography

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Andy Davies @andydavies.me · 2d

Isn’t A level English all about literature not language understanding?

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Dan Jagger @auditorynerves.bsky.social · 2d

New research suggests singing can be clinically effective at treating the symptoms of postnatal depression & be cost-effective.

"At the very first session here, I walked in and I was like, 'oh, this is my safe place'. Like, I'm safe here."

🧪👶 #medsky

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

'It gave me my voice back': How group singing is helping new mums with postnatal depression

New research suggests singing can be clinically effective at treating the symptoms and cost effective for the NHS.

www.bbc.co.uk

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