Leon Brocard / is on Nostr

Orange HTTP Hacker. Principal Solutions Architect at Fastly.

Interests: [#web](https://fosstodon.org/tags/web ) [#webPerf](https://fosstodon.org/tags/webPerf )
Website: https://www.astray.com/
GitHub: https://github.com/acme

Last Notes

2024-09-11 09:35:36

Why oh why would you need 3.7 MB of JavaScript for a static web site. Sigh. #webperf

2024-09-09 14:04:56

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Would you like to know more? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datasaurus_dozen

2024-09-09 14:03:44

You can tell I'm working on a very important presentation, because I have a slide about a dinosaur.
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/113/107/955/299/878/754/original/fe24221e46988180.png

2024-09-08 17:25:11

Today I’m wearing a “my software runs your company” T-shirt. Thanks again @npub1v5e…6tfm

2024-09-06 13:26:17

The new Astro Bot game is so fun
♫ I'm your GPU ♫

2024-09-05 14:55:59

"This might lead to unexpected behavior in some cases."

2024-09-05 09:02:33

HTTP/2 Server Push was an interesting experiment... but Chrome removed support for it in 2022:
https://developer.chrome.com/blog/removing-push
and Firefox will finally drop support for it: https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/g/dev-platform/c/vU9hJg343U8
#webperf

2024-08-28 17:16:13

Mmm, forbidden lactose

2024-08-26 17:08:51

I was going to show my kids something using the Gyroscope Sensor web API, but it’s not supported on Safari (or iOS), sigh.

2024-08-26 16:59:38

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Indeed! Especially as web resources are generally “small”. I haven’t seen much demand for it yet, though.

2024-08-26 14:25:51

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Have you found it useful for web-like-things?

2024-08-24 08:29:21

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Also anything that requires passwords. And anything that requires you to rotate passwords.

2024-08-24 08:27:04

Parental tech support: hating all tech monopolies

2024-07-31 10:32:37

Yesterday in a meeting I got to wave around the classic Computer Science book, “Compilers: Principles, Techniques and Tools”, commonly referred to “as the dragon book”
#compiler
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2024-07-04 10:27:51

Remember when we thought that XML was a fine syntax to write programs in?