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Alex Russell @slightlylate
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I don't post traces that would embarass the developer (with a public sector exception).

This is not one of those: webpagetest.org/result/180820_…

Aspire to this ^^^
Interactive on a slow link and slow device in ~3.5s first load, *sub second* repeat view!
When TTFB is slowing you down, you're killing it. Incredible.
@Rich_Harris's @sveltejs is genius and TIL there's even a PWA starter kit called Sapper: sapper.svelte.technology/guide

This is the real deal, yo. Polymer PWA Starter Kit, Preact CLI, Svelte Sapper, Next.js, or the Ionic PWA Toolkit should be where your next project starts.
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Every time I see this wikipedia page it once-again blows my mind that Apple is shipping chips in *phones* with 8MB of *L2* cache:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple-des…
To put that in perspective, here's the fastest shipping chip in the Android ecosystem that I'm aware of today: en.wikichip.org/wiki/samsung/e…
It has 2MB of L2 cache and 4MB of L3.

Here's a quick refresher on what that means:

stackoverflow.com/questions/4087…
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A few months ago I wrote up some of the lessons we've learned the hard way in standards-based feature development. One area I glossed over was the role of "Explainers" (thread!): docs.google.com/document/d/1cJ…
ICYMI, the blog series is here:

"Part 1: The Lay of the Land": infrequently.org/2018/06/effect…
"Part 2: Threading the Needle": infrequently.org/2018/06/effect…
Unlike most product features, standards-track features require (at least) two design documents: one for the public surface area of the feature and another for the implementation of that surface area within a given codebase.

*NEITHER OF THESE DOCUMENTS IS A FORMAL SPECIFICATION*
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The thing to understand about buybacks is that they serve no legitimate economic purpose. They're pure transfer; no surplus.
We use public policy to, in general, encourage firms to do things that create Economic Surplus: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_…
Not all surplus-creating transactions are socially valuable, of course, and we do lots with the public purse to pursue transfers to create equality of opportunity and the environment necessary for trade.
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Instead of Black Friday shopping, how about helping this teacher in a low-income SF school that just got its budget cut by $170K and lost its learning specialist get some basic classroom supplies? She asking for pencils and gluesticks ffs: donorschoose.org/project/our-sc…
You can also pick another school to give to, sort by region, grade, type of request...lot of low-income schools in cold areas just trying to get their kids coats. @DonorsChoose donorschoose.org
You guys, we're about half way there. If you can spare even $10, that buys a lot of pencils. donorschoose.org/project/our-sc…
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'The chair of the Democratic Caucus is one of those influential positions that nobody thinks twice about.'

@Sultanknish (full text, link below) Enjoy this? RT it!
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'In 2016, Rep. Linda Sanchez got to be the vice-chair of the Democratic Caucus and her appointment was touted as an identity politics first.

To get the job, Rep. Sanchez had to beat out Rep. Barbara Lee, an admirer of murderous Communist dictator Fidel Castro.'
'And Sanchez only beat out Lee by two votes.'
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A widespread perception around #MTBPS2018 today is that there are too many public servants, who're paid too much, & that we can only afford to expand services/investment if these costs are cut back. But check this 👇 thread, & see whether this is in fact correct @Zwelinzima1
Despite having to extend services to a large population historically excluded from many services, the numbers employed by government (local provincial & national) compared to the numbers employed under apartheid has not significantly increased as a share of total employment.
There was a reduction of 203 000 public service jobs between 1995-99. While those cutbacks were subsequently reversed, this was not done on a scale which kept pace with the growth in the economy, the population, or service delivery requirements.
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Let’s talk about framing, and what this administration means when they say “bloat” and “waste.”

First a primer courtesy George Lakoff, Prof. of Cognitive Science + Linguistics at UC Berkeley (this particular page has a ton of resources):
georgelakoff.com/framingforacti…
In a nutshell: when you let them control the language and terms used (framing), you let them control everything.
Anyone who writes copy for a living knows on a molecular level this is true.
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Ummm, so yeah, this is *bad*. I just had @phat_hobbit point out that @ICOnews has a cryptominer installed on their site... 😮
It's on all of the pages I've checked so far too:
Confirmed it's not just me seeing this: webpagetest.org/result/180211_…
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Oh the geezers are hard at it grafting media, it's always great to have easy scapegoats "North Korean cyber gangs.." a.msn.com/01/en-ie/AAt9g…
2/"Mr Murphy’s firm was the first in the world to liaise with computer giant IBM over the use of the super-computer ‘Watson’ for real-time--
3/artificial intelligence-based defence against cyber criminals." Bear with me, I'm about to post a few more links in #THREAD #CyberSecurity
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