I realize I’m not a Real Engineer in the structural engineering manner. But if a structural engineer started vibing the earthquake safety stuff I would worry. - how much weight can this bridge take? - ChatGPT says 50 tons, that should be enough - how did it come to that number? 🤷🏻‍♀️

Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️‍🌈@patigallardo.bsky.social · 2d ago

If folks would be more concerned about the possible risks, I’d honestly be less concerned. People are a bit too cavalier about all of this. Basically everything I was ever taught about my profession seems to not matter anymore.

mediasoup-client 3.23.0 has been released and it comes with a new API to control RTP extensions: mediasoup.discourse.group/t/mediasoup-...

mediasoup-client 3.23.0 released with RTP extension control API

mediasoup-client 3.23.0 comes with a new feature and a breaking change: [BREAKING CHANGE] transport.produce(): Remove headerExtensionOptions. DeviceOptions: Add forcedRtpExtensions option, which is ...

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Yup, you can still improve #webrtc encoder performance by 1% easily and wait, why is H264 good at talking heads with background blur? webrtchacks.com/comparing-we... (disclaimer: rooting for AV1)

Comparing WebRTC video codecs with a proper dataset - webrtcHacks

Stumbling over Microsoft’s Video Conferencing Dataset (VCD) I asked Claude to take on a video codec engineer’s favorite hot take: compare video codecs. It did a fairly good writeup using the tooling p...

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Privacy: That's (something other vendors bring to the) iPhone: mysk.blog/2026/08/25/r...

Thoughts on Responsible Disclosure

We recently disclosed three WebKit issues that can leak a user’s DNS traffic or reveal their real IP address, even when the browser is configured to route traffic through a proxy. The issues affected ...

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Great read! These resonate a lot with me: > A Web platform without polyfills would be a stagnant platform > Without polyfills, [...], a single browser has undue power to hold back the Web > Developers being able to use web features before wide availability is a win for the Web as a whole

Lea Verou, PhD@lea.verou.me · 2mo ago

🔥 New blog post: In defense of polyfills A highly influential spec editor expressed the opinion that polyfilling is harmful. I beg to differ. lea.verou.me/blog/2026/po...

Apple keeps Safari on a starvation budget and blocks potential competitors while skimming *tens of billions* in profit per year from developer pain and user inconvenience. The result is a buggier, slower web. You do not have to hand it to them: infrequently.org/2026/07/abject-p…

Abject Praise - Infrequently Noted

Until Apple's boot is removed from the web's face, you never have to hand it to them.

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Blink: Intent to Experiment: WebRTC Data Channel: SCTP Negotiation Acceleration Protocol

Cope in the comments about Safari getting trounced *in Apple's own benchmarks* by an early iOS/Blink bring-up is reaching heretofore unseen levels. Incredible scenes.

New post: Vibe-coding #WebRTC by Philipp Hancke - using AI to tackle long-standing WebRTC issues and ship fixes across libWebRTC, ChromiumDev , pion, and firefox without handing taste over to the minions

Vibe-coding WebRTC - webrtcHacks

Well, that title is clickbait for Hacker News. The honest title would have been “using AI to tackle long-standing WebRTC issues.” Posts on webrtcHacks are rare these days, and in German we would say…

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TFW a western youtuber discovers the kinds of devices that have been selling by the billions for a decade: youtu.be/5sC5ys31AEg

Apropos of nothing at all: Quality is the integral of process + culture over time. Destroying, or carelessly disrupting, either one is an existential brand risk, and thermostatic responses which do not rebuild process and culture are doomed to fail.

Warmest march month @bolincentre.bsky.social @stockholm-uni.bsky.social #SMHI: www.svt.se/nyheter/loka... We read out data from #TarfalaResearchStation s Automated Weather Station and confirm: It was the warmest march month here since 1965, with a monthly average of only -3.6 C this year

Depending on your background, you may have seen the significand referred to as the "mantissa" (e.g., in IEEE 754); that's literally the only thing I can add to this beautiful, masterful explanation.

Sam Rose@samwho.dev · 6mo ago

I spent 2 months learning about quantization and am extremely proud of the post I've written about it. I think these are some of the nicest visuals I've ever made, and I love how this compression technique invented in 1898 is being used on the bleeding edge in 2026. ngrok.com/blog/quantiz...

Jürgen Habermas ist gestorben. Er war ein großer Philosoph und Denker unserer Zeit. Sein konsequenter Standpunkt für Freiheit, Demokratie und Grundwerte, seine Leidenschaft zum Diskurs und Anstöße für gesellschaftliche Auseinandersetzungen hat viele Menschen beschäftigt. Auch mich. Sie bleiben.

Published the "how to fix it" guides for TURN server security. Copy-paste coturn configs included. Also talking about this on WebRTC Live today: webrtc.ventures/webrtc-live/ enablesecurity.com/blog/turn-security-best-practices/

WebRTC Live

Decision-makers and developers from around the world tune into WebRTC.ventures' monthly WebRTC Live broadcasts to learn about the latest use cases and technical updates for WebRTC and real-time commun...

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@enablesecurity.bsky.social · 7mo ago

New: TURN server security best practices + coturn configuration guide with copy-paste templates and three hardening levels. Best practices: enablesecurity.com/blog/turn-security-best-practices/ coturn: enablesecurity.com/blog/coturn-security-configuration-guide/

Only one thing I'd add is that these models put a premium on knowing what quality output is. That skill is not evenly distributed, and these tools are going to speed-run the consequences of (low) quality in many orgs. Will create demand for thing-knowers.

Baldur Bjarnason@baldurbjarnason.com · 7mo ago

Getting a bit depressed as, no matter how I slice it, basic economics would seem to indicate that the software developer job market is largely fucked no matter what happens now. No matter whether the LLM tools work or not and no matter what happens to the bubble (short thread)

If you work on the web, you should read @mnot.net's latest: mnot.net/blog/2026/02/13/… It much more elegantly gets to the core of the pro/anti-progress asymmetry I tried to explore last year: infrequently.org/2025/08/how-do-c…

The Power of 'No' in Internet Standards

The voluntary nature of Internet standards means that the biggest power move may be to avoid playing the game. Let's take a look.

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I recently spent some time tinkering with #rtcStats to see if/how easy it would be to use with the #Janus demos, or to monitor/analyze Janus #webrtc sessions in general. If you're curious about how that went, read the post and let me know what you think about it! www.meetecho.com/blog/rtcstat...

Debugging Janus sessions with rtcStats | Meetecho Blog

We all know how important it is to monitor your WebRTC infrastructure, especially in terms of checking what happens with PeerConnections as they come and go. Everything always works great in a lab, bu...

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If you haven’t had the distinct pleasure of hearing @infrequently.org, do yourself a favor and check out the latest episode of @redmonk.com's MonkCast. We discuss web standards, JavaScript performance, PWAs, and Apple (iOS) & Google (Android). redmonk.com/blog/2025/11... youtube.com/shorts/5N_fm...

Alex Russell on web standards #developer #webdevelopment

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I think I am going to use this meme quite a few times in the future 🤣

The #MoQ vs. #WebRTC debate has been missing use case details. See our new post for an analysis of: * 1:1 calls * #VoiceAI * Meetings * Streaming * Live streaming * Webinars / Townhalls

WebRTC vs. MoQ by Use Case - webrtcHacks

WebRTC vs. MoQ by use case—1:1 calls, Voice AI, meetings, and live 1→many. See where MoQ, WebRTC, and HLS each win with details.

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IM works with 500ms latency. Relaying audio or video in a call does not which is why one wants to run relay servers (TURN) really close to the user which means AWS, Azure or GCP.

Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Instant messaging demands near-zero latency. Voice and video in particular require complex global signaling & regional relays to manage jitter and packet loss. These are things that AWS, Azure, and GCP provide at global scale that, practically speaking, others (in the western context) don’t. 5/

The (super)bad news is that they rejected the #RTC devroom, though... 😢 I can't remember the last time that happened, I think it's always been there? No room for #webrtc #sip and other stuff this time around... or #moq, since I'm pretty sure we would have seen submissions on that too 2/2

New post: Is everyone switching to #MoQ? Fippo responds to some FUD about #WebRTC in a recent MoQ launch post with some historical perspective & Chrome Status data

Is everyone switching to MoQ from WebRTC? - webrtcHacks

Media over QUIC (MoQ) hype check: WebTransport usage data with a rebuttal to Cloudflare’s post—why no one has switched to MoQ from WebRTC.

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They tried...

Gergely Orosz@gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · last yr.

How is it that despite Slack being (probably?) the most loved chat tool, it has no usable video calling product? All companies I know using Slack use Meet / Zoom / or even MS Teams for video calling. Why did Slack never build anything? (no, Slack Huddles does not count as one)

Really missing Bernard Aboba today. Tell the co-workers you appreciate how great they are while you can, because life is short.

mediasoup-client 3.15.0 has been released and you should update to it ASAP, otherwise your app will stop working due to changes in the way Chrome M140 assigns IDs to RTP extensions. All the info here: mediasoup.discourse.group/t/urgent-upg...

URGENT: Upgrade to mediasoup-client 3.15.0 ASAP

mediasoup-client 3.15.0 has been released and everyone should upgrade to it ASAP. In Chrome M140, the way codec payload types and RTP extension IDs are assigned in the local SDP will dramatically cha...

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Perplexity just offered $34.5B to buy Chrome! 🚨The big question: without a legal obligation, will they fund the web platform that the world relies on at anywhere near Google’s ~$1B/year level? Our answer: probably not. New OWA Article: open-web-advocacy.org/blog/can-per... 🧵 Let's break it down

Voluntary web SDOs like W3C, IETF, and ECMA are premised on the idea that vendors who step into their ring can step out and ship what they like in their own products. So why do they allow Apple to remain in good standing when Cupertino dynamited the foundations? /cc @open-web-advocacy.org

Ok, fine. Computers were a mistake.

Reproductive Rights Alert 🚨: Walmart is collecting your BC, period product data and selling it.

YouTube video by Parkrose Permaculture

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