Andy Davies
@andydavies.me
Web Performance Consultant @speedcurve.com
Vegetable grower… Eurorack synth dabbler… Bristol Bears Women’s fan
https://andydavies.me
Vegetable grower… Eurorack synth dabbler… Bristol Bears Women’s fan
https://andydavies.me
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Finally gotten around to writing up my thoughts on #FFConf 2025.
remysharp.com/2025/11/22/f...
Videos and photos are still being processed, so those are coming too.
remysharp.com/2025/11/22/f...
Videos and photos are still being processed, so those are coming too.
FFConf 2025
Reflections on FFConf 2025, covering talks on diversity, data privacy, web components, AI, and the future of the web.
remysharp.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Finally gotten around to writing up my thoughts on #FFConf 2025.
remysharp.com/2025/11/22/f...
Videos and photos are still being processed, so those are coming too.
remysharp.com/2025/11/22/f...
Videos and photos are still being processed, so those are coming too.
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How's the mobile CPU landscape evolving? Thanks to process node improvements, a mid-range Android from 2025 is (finally!) as fast as 2017's iPhone 8, but a low-end (~$100) smartphone isn't yet as speedy as a decade-old iPhone 6s.
November 21, 2025 at 10:51 PM
How's the mobile CPU landscape evolving? Thanks to process node improvements, a mid-range Android from 2025 is (finally!) as fast as 2017's iPhone 8, but a low-end (~$100) smartphone isn't yet as speedy as a decade-old iPhone 6s.
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Right in time for you to enjoy it at the weekend: next video of #btconf Berlin. @sachajudd.com and “The Good Internet: How Fandom Can Reclaim the Web”. A brilliant and motivating talk.Enjoy! youtu.be/F6b9kjlpIZE
Sacha Judd – The Good Internet: How Fandom Can Reclaim the Web – beyond tellerrand Berlin 2025
YouTube video by beyond tellerrand
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November 21, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Right in time for you to enjoy it at the weekend: next video of #btconf Berlin. @sachajudd.com and “The Good Internet: How Fandom Can Reclaim the Web”. A brilliant and motivating talk.Enjoy! youtu.be/F6b9kjlpIZE
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👀 I am looking for work 👀
Need help implementing, creating, or sustaining your design tokens workflow? Let's talk.
I can help you build a robust design tokens system that bridges design and development.
DM me or email [email protected]
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Need help implementing, creating, or sustaining your design tokens workflow? Let's talk.
I can help you build a robust design tokens system that bridges design and development.
DM me or email [email protected]
🙏🖤
November 21, 2025 at 1:06 PM
👀 I am looking for work 👀
Need help implementing, creating, or sustaining your design tokens workflow? Let's talk.
I can help you build a robust design tokens system that bridges design and development.
DM me or email [email protected]
🙏🖤
Need help implementing, creating, or sustaining your design tokens workflow? Let's talk.
I can help you build a robust design tokens system that bridges design and development.
DM me or email [email protected]
🙏🖤
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Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand
In a normal world, this should be an immense scandal in Europe.
Le Monde has a long article describing the hellish life of Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the ICC in The Hague, due to U.S. sanctions punishing him for authorizing arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes in Gaza.
Guillou's daily existence has been transformed into a Kafkaesque nightmare. He cannot: open or maintain accounts with Google, Amazon, Apple, or any US company; make hotel reservations (Expedia canceled his booking in France hours after he made it); conduct online commerce, since he can't know if the packaging is American; use any major credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Amex are all American); access normal banking services, even with non-American banks, as banks worldwide close sanctioned accounts; conduct virtually any financial transaction.
He describes it as being "economically banned across most of the planet," including in his own country, France, and where he works, the Netherlands.
That's the real shocking aspect of this: the Americans are:
- punishing a European citizen
- for doing his job in Europe
- applying laws Europe officially supports
- at an institution based in Europe
- that Europe helped create and fund
and Europe is not only doing essentially nothing to protect him, they're actively enforcing America's sanctions against their own citizen - European banks closing his accounts, European companies refusing him service, European institutions standing by while Washington destroys a European judge's life on European soil.
Again, in a normal world, European leaders and citizens should be absolutely outraged about this. But we've so normalized the hollowing out of European sovereignty that the sight of a European citizen being economically executed on European soil for upholding European law is treated, at best, as an unfortunate technical complication in transatlantic
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SS7 is gonna remain a dumpster fire security threat and China will continue to exploit it if we can’t even have simple cybersecurity requirements for the telecom industry.
Breaking: The FCC has voted 2-1 along party lines to eliminate cybersecurity requirements for telecom companies that the commission adopted at the end of the Biden administration.
Telecoms had lobbied for the change. Democrats said it would invite another Salt Typhoon.
Story coming shortly.
Telecoms had lobbied for the change. Democrats said it would invite another Salt Typhoon.
Story coming shortly.
November 20, 2025 at 4:42 PM
SS7 is gonna remain a dumpster fire security threat and China will continue to exploit it if we can’t even have simple cybersecurity requirements for the telecom industry.
Was sorting through some boxes and found old media…
Following what was happening with Thrust SSC is one of the first things I remember using the internet for
Following what was happening with Thrust SSC is one of the first things I remember using the internet for
November 20, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Was sorting through some boxes and found old media…
Following what was happening with Thrust SSC is one of the first things I remember using the internet for
Following what was happening with Thrust SSC is one of the first things I remember using the internet for
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hi internet! do i know anyone looking for some freelance work through the end of the year?
the project is a tiny bit of web dev but mostly design, animation, and graphic design in a webflow site!
the project is a tiny bit of web dev but mostly design, animation, and graphic design in a webflow site!
November 19, 2025 at 1:37 PM
hi internet! do i know anyone looking for some freelance work through the end of the year?
the project is a tiny bit of web dev but mostly design, animation, and graphic design in a webflow site!
the project is a tiny bit of web dev but mostly design, animation, and graphic design in a webflow site!
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I'm speaking at the PerformanceObserver online meetup tonight!
Learn about performance testing, netlog data, credentialed requests, tight mode, HTTP priorities, and more!
performanceobserver.dev/events/episo...
Learn about performance testing, netlog data, credentialed requests, tight mode, HTTP priorities, and more!
performanceobserver.dev/events/episo...
Ep. 8: Reduce the JS Workload with NoLoJS and Synthetic WebPerf testing with Debugbear | PerformanceObserver
In this episode, Aaron T. Grogg will explain how to reduce JS Workload with No or Lo JS,. Then, Matt Zeunert walks us through Synthetic Web Performance testing with Debugbear.
performanceobserver.dev
November 19, 2025 at 12:21 PM
I'm speaking at the PerformanceObserver online meetup tonight!
Learn about performance testing, netlog data, credentialed requests, tight mode, HTTP priorities, and more!
performanceobserver.dev/events/episo...
Learn about performance testing, netlog data, credentialed requests, tight mode, HTTP priorities, and more!
performanceobserver.dev/events/episo...
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Both are great threads on Google sacrificing its ad business (and the commercial underpinnings of online media) to push AI
This is, of course, a fascinating thread from Kate asking why Google is effectively cannibalizing its own market for both digital ads on third party properties and search ads, by effectively taking away the incentive to click through to third party sites. I have a theory as to why they're doing it.
So this ad revenue metric is indicative of such a fascinating and weird set of business decisions by Google to inexplicably kill of SEO-- and I honestly don't get how they think this is going to pay off for them in the long run.
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November 18, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Both are great threads on Google sacrificing its ad business (and the commercial underpinnings of online media) to push AI
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I've always admired @albertocairo.com's work and I'm delighted to see this project to track and visualize news coverage that impacts trans communities.
It's important to see the big picture! And I hope it leads to much more support for trans journalists and fair coverage.
It's important to see the big picture! And I hope it leads to much more support for trans journalists and fair coverage.
My new big visualization project is out: The Trans News Initiative, a collaboration between UM's School of Communication, the Trans Journalists Association, and Polygraph (The Pudding): transnewsinitiative.org Here's a piece about it in the Columbia Journalism Review: www.cjr.org/news/visuali...
Trans News Initiative
A database and analysis of news coverage affecting trans communities.
transnewsinitiative.org
November 18, 2025 at 7:51 PM
I've always admired @albertocairo.com's work and I'm delighted to see this project to track and visualize news coverage that impacts trans communities.
It's important to see the big picture! And I hope it leads to much more support for trans journalists and fair coverage.
It's important to see the big picture! And I hope it leads to much more support for trans journalists and fair coverage.
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November 18, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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I've got capacity for contracting till the end of the year (and am starting to book out some of my 2026 calendar).
Shout if you need help with open source community work, developer education, developer outreach, multilingual community work or other Jess-shaped things.
hello(a)jessica*tech or DM👋
Shout if you need help with open source community work, developer education, developer outreach, multilingual community work or other Jess-shaped things.
hello(a)jessica*tech or DM👋
November 18, 2025 at 10:48 AM
I've got capacity for contracting till the end of the year (and am starting to book out some of my 2026 calendar).
Shout if you need help with open source community work, developer education, developer outreach, multilingual community work or other Jess-shaped things.
hello(a)jessica*tech or DM👋
Shout if you need help with open source community work, developer education, developer outreach, multilingual community work or other Jess-shaped things.
hello(a)jessica*tech or DM👋
I'm not a visual designer but there's somethings that even I can't un-see
November 18, 2025 at 10:41 AM
I'm not a visual designer but there's somethings that even I can't un-see
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#PixelPalooza is coming up this Thursday!
This awesome FREE online event covers how to make sure all those helpful images and videos on your site don't hurt #webperf and #a11y.
I'm joining @seancdavis.com to talk about the hidden cost of media on the web.
Get your ticket 👉 cfe.dev/events/pixel...
This awesome FREE online event covers how to make sure all those helpful images and videos on your site don't hurt #webperf and #a11y.
I'm joining @seancdavis.com to talk about the hidden cost of media on the web.
Get your ticket 👉 cfe.dev/events/pixel...
PixelPalooza 2025
PixelPalooza will explore all the best practices we, as developers, can leverage media like images, video, audio and documents across our sites and applications.
cfe.dev
November 17, 2025 at 9:57 PM
#PixelPalooza is coming up this Thursday!
This awesome FREE online event covers how to make sure all those helpful images and videos on your site don't hurt #webperf and #a11y.
I'm joining @seancdavis.com to talk about the hidden cost of media on the web.
Get your ticket 👉 cfe.dev/events/pixel...
This awesome FREE online event covers how to make sure all those helpful images and videos on your site don't hurt #webperf and #a11y.
I'm joining @seancdavis.com to talk about the hidden cost of media on the web.
Get your ticket 👉 cfe.dev/events/pixel...
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A small website project, using Ghost, has landed on my desk. I'd like to pass it onto someone local to the Bristol area. Anyone interested?
November 17, 2025 at 8:21 AM
A small website project, using Ghost, has landed on my desk. I'd like to pass it onto someone local to the Bristol area. Anyone interested?
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I'm on the lookout for sponsors for the Design Systems Newsletter.
If you've got a Design Systems product or something related and want to reach around 3,750 readers, hit me up!
Get in touch at [email protected]. Let's chat!
If you've got a Design Systems product or something related and want to reach around 3,750 readers, hit me up!
Get in touch at [email protected]. Let's chat!
November 16, 2025 at 3:15 PM
I'm on the lookout for sponsors for the Design Systems Newsletter.
If you've got a Design Systems product or something related and want to reach around 3,750 readers, hit me up!
Get in touch at [email protected]. Let's chat!
If you've got a Design Systems product or something related and want to reach around 3,750 readers, hit me up!
Get in touch at [email protected]. Let's chat!
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Deep breath, once more for those at the back, seeking asylum is not illegal. No matter route used, which considering Labour has closed pretty much all the last remaining alternatives means irregular ones.
Anti-immigration sentiments are stoked by politicians like Mahmood, not people seeking safety.
Anti-immigration sentiments are stoked by politicians like Mahmood, not people seeking safety.
November 16, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Deep breath, once more for those at the back, seeking asylum is not illegal. No matter route used, which considering Labour has closed pretty much all the last remaining alternatives means irregular ones.
Anti-immigration sentiments are stoked by politicians like Mahmood, not people seeking safety.
Anti-immigration sentiments are stoked by politicians like Mahmood, not people seeking safety.
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The Labour Government reeling off the same far-right talking points on immigration. And look who is celebrating. The far-right.
There is a political alternative that won’t ever scapegoat those fleeing war, persecution and torture
join.greenparty.org.uk
There is a political alternative that won’t ever scapegoat those fleeing war, persecution and torture
join.greenparty.org.uk
November 16, 2025 at 10:28 AM
The Labour Government reeling off the same far-right talking points on immigration. And look who is celebrating. The far-right.
There is a political alternative that won’t ever scapegoat those fleeing war, persecution and torture
join.greenparty.org.uk
There is a political alternative that won’t ever scapegoat those fleeing war, persecution and torture
join.greenparty.org.uk
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What if cities redirected rainwater into long pits of native plants that could use the water to improve growth, sequestering carbon from the atmosphere; increasing biodiversity, and creating habitats for wildlife, instead of flooding people’s homes down river and creating more pollution.
Finally got the chance to see this sustainable drainage channel in Bristol doing its thing during some heavy rain
November 16, 2025 at 9:17 AM
What if cities redirected rainwater into long pits of native plants that could use the water to improve growth, sequestering carbon from the atmosphere; increasing biodiversity, and creating habitats for wildlife, instead of flooding people’s homes down river and creating more pollution.
On the train home from #ffconf with a heart full of love and a head full of ideas
Julie and @remysharp.com sure know how to pick a lineup and and put on a great day
Julie and @remysharp.com sure know how to pick a lineup and and put on a great day
November 15, 2025 at 9:23 AM
On the train home from #ffconf with a heart full of love and a head full of ideas
Julie and @remysharp.com sure know how to pick a lineup and and put on a great day
Julie and @remysharp.com sure know how to pick a lineup and and put on a great day
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Sergés Goma gave a funny and engaging talk about how You're in a Code Cult (and that's OK). We heard how cults function and how all of us are part of one! She pitted us against each other since she wants us angry 😡 not collaborating. 😁
What a fab talk. #ffconf @ffconf.org
What a fab talk. #ffconf @ffconf.org
November 14, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Sergés Goma gave a funny and engaging talk about how You're in a Code Cult (and that's OK). We heard how cults function and how all of us are part of one! She pitted us against each other since she wants us angry 😡 not collaborating. 😁
What a fab talk. #ffconf @ffconf.org
What a fab talk. #ffconf @ffconf.org
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#ffconf “React devs are loyal to their framework”. This is a big problem in my experience too. It takes a lot to shift people from a React-centric view of FE
November 14, 2025 at 12:02 PM
#ffconf “React devs are loyal to their framework”. This is a big problem in my experience too. It takes a lot to shift people from a React-centric view of FE
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The first talk of the day at #ffconf highlighted the still-abysmal gender and ethnicity disparity in the tech industry. As long as data is compiled and processed by a non-diverse group, we can't train models and build products that could ever be anything but biased.
November 14, 2025 at 10:26 AM
The first talk of the day at #ffconf highlighted the still-abysmal gender and ethnicity disparity in the tech industry. As long as data is compiled and processed by a non-diverse group, we can't train models and build products that could ever be anything but biased.
#ffconf We’re in the Queens Head maps.app.goo.gl/zFMeKY5uosUQ...
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November 13, 2025 at 10:18 PM
#ffconf We’re in the Queens Head maps.app.goo.gl/zFMeKY5uosUQ...