My talk at @henrihelvetica.bsky.social's SPDY meetup in Toronto is live: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xq2c.... It's pretty rough and unpolished, but I included some fun stories of the history of performance work in Chrome which you likely can't find anywhere else. Slides: docs.google.com/presentation...

That feeling when a family member shares photos like this 🤬😭. I spent much of Sunday formatting and reinstalling Windows, and formulating a credit card transaction dispute.

I hosted a number of visiting global Chrome leads in Waterloo this week. Several had never seen snow quite like we had today, so of course we had to take them tobogganing. Looks like we'll be doing Chrome leads summits in Canada every winter now 😂.

The Chrome Identity and Payments team in Waterloo Canada is hiring several early/mid-career developers. I'm on the lookout for exceptional candidates with a passion for browsers and/or the identity/payments space! www.linkedin.com/posts/rick-b...

Progressive enhancement is really important for enabling the best possible user experiences for everyone!

✨ Exciting proposal alert: the CPU Performance API. This proposal will add `navigator.cpuPerformance`, a value that measures the broad performance capability of the CPU. That way, we can scale up/down our animations to make sure everyone has the best experience possible for their device. 😄

I just almost made a dumb mistake. I've been enjoying Kurzgesagt videos for years (on various devices). After watching their video on AI slop I figured it was time to support them on a recurring basis, so I hit the join button... youtu.be/_zfN9wnPvU0?...

It was fun to be part of this, thanks Henri! I wasn't able to join the livestream for the rest today but really looking forward to listening to it over the next couple days!

Lots of people incorrectly claiming Chrome/Google "tried to kill JPEG XL". Just because an engine chooses not to be the FIRST to ship a new technology does NOT mean they are trying to kill it!

How does one correct Wikipedia when the primary source is wrong and there is no correct primary source? Make one? When I joined Chrome in Waterloo in 2010, we were a relatively new and small team focused on ChromeOS.

One of my jobs on Chrome is quantifying overall product quality signals. This quarter we're taking a hit on crashes entirely due to iOS, which looks to be primarily due to WebKit and iOS bugs. When I try to check on the status of the current major one (bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi...), I get this:

The Web is the platform you are looking for. Pass it on.

Computing some preliminary analysis over the #StateOfHTML pain points data and some …interesting patterns are emerging 🙃

A few years ago I started writing about evolving web standards and @rbyers.net suggested I should cover WPT: the web platform tests project that most people working with the web have a vague idea about that has evolved into an engine of interoperability. since then, I've been tracking people down

Why I 🧡 the web. This #WebGL game where you deliver messages on a tiny planet is amazing. Smooth animation. Peaceful vibes (and i didn't even play, I wondered around). messenger.abeto.co #JavaScript #chillvibe #game

The question isn't "is Tylenol use in pregnancy associated with autism?", its "does treating fever with Tylenol during pregnancy increase or decrease the risk of autism?". europepmc.org/article/MED/...

When I was on an H1-B working in Redmond 20 years ago my immigration lawyers asked me last minute to cancel a trip for legal reasons. My response: "attending family events is more important to me than living in your country".

Yup. We're ready at Google Waterloo, we've got a beautiful new building open! Common north!

You still have time, The State of HTML 2025 survey is live. Browser vendors use this data to prioritize features, fix incompatibilities. Standards bodies use it too. It’s not just a survey, it’s influence. Take 10 minutes. Share what you care about. 👇 stateofhtml.com/en-US

Who is free in the bay area this afternoon and wants to be inspired by computing's past while chatting about the future of the web? Join me at the Computer History Museum around 3-5pm today! [1/7]

How did I go 46 years without experiencing the joy of enterprise-grade network gear at home? Worth every penny...

I think this will be wonderful for the future of the open web: blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-.... As Matthew Prince says, imagine if we could create a system whereby creators and content aggregators could efficiently negotiate a fair price for use of their content.

In tech we are so good at blaming the user for our design flaws! Me: "All 4 of my hotel keys stopped working." Hotel: "Did you keep them near phones? That can demagnetize them, happens all the time." Me: "No it can't! These are NFC cards, not magstripe cards." 😂

🎙️ New Episode of Igalia Chats Unshipping: How (and when) to break web features @bkardell.com and @meyerweb.com chat with Google's @rbyers.net about willingness to change and even unship features www.igalia.com/chats/unship...

DBSC is exciting! I hope it will lead to both meaningful better security and less hassle getting logged out all the time from websites. The convention of mobile apps staying logged in but websites logging out by default makes the web more frustrating!

I'm particularly excited about the emerging support for zero-knowledge proof age attestations. We must move past sharing sensitive PII online just for the purposes of verifying adulthood!

Origin trial: Cross-device Digital Credentials API now in Chrome desktop developer.chrome.com/blog/digital...

Great article! The collaboration in Interop and WPT is really critical for a decent developer experience of the web!

I'm excited about this program! Chromium isn't necessarily easy, but I know there are great engineers out there who would love to get paid for improving it!

Having an AI coding assistant decide to launch a browser and test the bugfix it made is pretty incredible! This is cline.bot

Fascinating study on the lack of effect of news content on Google search usage and ad revenue in Europe. storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog...

Ben Thompson: "Platforms are the most valuable entities that there are because they don't just make money for themselves, they unleash and create the conditions for innovation." sharptech.fm/member/episo...

If we're going to solve the content trustworthiness problem (and IMHO we MUST in the age of AI), then I'm confident it'll be primarily through ideas like this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTaA...

The Radiacode gamma spectrometer is a fun toy! My daughter discovered that this Mosasaur jaw we have is radioactive! It contains Bismuth-214, likely from uranium ore decay. Radiation is about 10x the background level, a bit more than the Am-241 smoke detectors in my house.

Great stuff for web devs in Interop 2025! View transitions, navigation API, core web vitals, anchor positioning, etc! We started the year with a low score (27%) so have a lot of work to do as a browser engine community to get broad interoperability on these important features! wpt.fyi/interop-2025

With a rigorous A/B test, Rayban was able to prove that pre-rendering could reduce their LCP by over 40%, leading to a DOUBLING of their conversion rates! If you are not measuring the impact of web performance on your business, you are probably leaving money on the table! web.dev/case-studies...

I've always hated how hard it is to track spending trends through e-commerce sites like Amazon. Thanks to Gemini Nano and the experimental Chrome Prompt API (and an Amazon data access request) I'm finally able to easily analyze my Amazon purchase trends!

If anyone here is looking for an easy first Chromium bug to fix, here's a trivial one: issues.chromium.org/385925149

I consider myself left of center, but I didn't come here to escape the right. I came for thoughtful, respectful and open discourse, and I know that exists across the political spectrum. If we choose to fragment our social media by political beliefs, we will be worse off for it.

Very cool of you to ask! 🤩 While the Safari team has been pushing a ton of perf-related features and fixes the past few major versions, a common language such as the CWV is useful for bringing devs, designers, SEO, managers, etc. unified around common goals. More here: screenspan.net/blog/why-saf...

Canadian bilingualism in a nutshell?

Bluesky is built to make social more like the Web again, so we will never suppress links. Link to your writing, your art, your personal site — this is the social internet, designed from the ground up to be open and interoperable.

CrUXVis includes Navigation Types Breakdown that can help you understand how much traffic you could move from "back_forwad" to "back_forward_cache" on your site! Test out here: cruxvis.withgoogle.com Read more about Navigation Types here: developer.chrome.com/blog/crux-na...

It's amazing to see how LCP and INP have improved over the past two years by country.

My carrier has a feature to connect only human callers (announces "press # to connect"). I've had it enabled for a month and it's glorious! 😁 All automated communication should be limited to text (SMS / email) so it can be easily filtered and prioritized.

Just watched these great talks from Kimberly Ruth at Stanford on analyzing web usage. CrUX sure is a powerful dataset for understanding the web! I'm excited for academic researchers use it more. https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3517745.3561418

Heathrow airport seems to be one of the best run airports in the world. It's crazy busy here but everything has been fast. That Air Canada says I should arrive *4* hours in advance just destroys all their credibility. I arrived 2.5 hours in advance and ate breakfast, now I have an hour to kill!

"Whoops, sorry. We accidentally left a database of 2M customers VIN numbers, camera videos and GPS tracks open to the Internet without a password for a decade." 😳 https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/toyota-car-location-data-of-2-million-customers-exposed-for-ten-years/

I'm really excited about INP replacing FID in the Core Web Vitals. INP does a much better job capturing and quantifying the pain of slow response to user actions. We've already seen several major site and Chrome improvements happen thanks to INP! See this great I/O talk for details.

The more I learn about generative AI and LLMs, the more self-conscious I'm becoming of my inner-monologue. Am I just picking random concepts from my memory and predicting the next most likely word sequence? 🤨