Developer advocate working on Chrome. Once swam to the end of an infinity pool. No thought goes unpublished. 'IMO' implicit. He/him.
Jan 10, 2022 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
🧵 @rauchg's Wordle clone didn't work on Chrome for Android. It's fixed now, but there's an interesting lesson here: Avoid relying on input device events if at all possible.
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A lot of folks may consider this advice obvious when thinking about mouse events, "not all users may be using a mouse", but the same applies to other devices like the keyboard too.
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Nov 26, 2021 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Ugh, I know I'm jumping on a bandwagon here, but it's really pissed me off. The absolute worst bit is "Don't embrace being a copy-pasta programmer whose chief skill is looking up shit on the internet"
I recently wrote jakearchibald.com/2021/cors/ which folks seemed to enjoy. I think I know this stuff better than most developers… you think I wrote that stuff off the top of my head? No, I "looked it up" in the spec to make sure I was getting it right, I even discovered new details…
Jun 9, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
So yesterday was a weird day of:
a) Lamenting that web access is dependent on a few central services like Fastly.
b) Celebrating that iOS is going to pipe all web traffic through a VPN controlled by Apple.
(the VPN sounds good, and I imagine it could be disabled by the user in some way, but the juxtaposition was weird)
May 4, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
😬 localStorage is broken in Safari 14.1.
Tabs end up with seperate localStorage for reading, but the same localStorage for writing. This will likely result in data loss for users. (h/t @forresto)
bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?i…
Also, any cross-tab communication that relies on the 'storage' event (such as BroadcastChannel polyfills) simply won't work.
A few people has trouble getting the new version of squoosh.app. Here's what happened:
Part 1: I accidentally changed the URL of the service worker. That was just a dumb mistake developers.google.com/web/fundamenta…
I fixed that, but folks still weren't finding out about the update…
Aug 20, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Whenever I need to clamp a number between a `min` and a `max`, it takes me ages to convince myself this implementation is correct.
But yeah, it's easy! I just want the min of the max of the num and the min and the max.
The min of the max of the num and the min and the max. A licky boom boom down.
Apr 18, 2020 • 81 tweets • 13 min read
One of our cats is missing and it's basically fucking awful
I have a plan
Feb 15, 2020 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
@heydonworks Did I ever tell you about the time someone called the police on me because they found my email in the source of their webmail client?
@heydonworks
Jan 3, 2020 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
All code using array.reduce should be rewritten without array.reduce so it's readable by humans *mutes thread*
Ok ok, fair enough, there are cases where array.reduce is the best thing to use.
Specifically, cases where you want to look really smart and don't care about readability.
Nov 20, 2019 • 29 tweets • 16 min read
We had a lot of fun between the talks at #ChromeDevSummit. For example:
➡️ I get stuff wrong.
➡️ @DasSurma can't press buttons.
➡️ @aerotwist is a cheat.
➡️ Someone wrote a bot.
➡️ SURJIKO LIVES.
Let's dive in:
We started with the classic "we can't hearrrr you" intro. Yeah. I know. Buuuuut, check out the amazing jumpers @kosamari made.
