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Paul Irish
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web performance and DevTools, mostly.

In '97 I wrote a paper for English class on HTML Image Maps. I haven't changed much since.
Weirdly buried in the article:

The Nashville chief federal prosecutor (who'd lead this case?) decided to resign in protest over this case being pursued for political reasons.
June 6, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Sometimes I let my website draw pictures in the Profiler
June 5, 2025 at 12:52 AM
The Chrome DevTools Performance panel just leveled up! 🚀 Here's a 69-second taste of the new hotness.
May 28, 2025 at 5:38 PM
The next biggest win is getting rid of the 3 render blocking requests. That'll give the LCP a 1.3✕ speedup.

trace.cafe/t/hRHAdaY3rl

(Btw it's quite fast! Nice job)
May 21, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Is the WebDev Arena truly measuring webdev coding ability?

This ML coding benchmark *requires* React/Tailwind and completely breaks with vanilla JS/other frameworks.
The second-order implications of models competing on this narrow definition of frontend web development are rather troublesome.
May 6, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Love how we're seeing more embrace of Markdown within non-developer apps, thanks to it being the lingua franca of LLMs.

The Markdown-y copy/paste hooks of Google docs have been super handy.
March 19, 2025 at 10:30 PM
You can add this Google Password Manager UI via a homescreen icon on Android, though it's kinda hidden in Chrome settings.

On desktop, you can install as a PWA… but for me, "about:pa" in the URL bar will do the job quickly.
March 12, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Yup, I'm one of _those_ people.
I'm sorry. :)
November 15, 2024 at 6:12 PM