Happy 25th birthday @igalia.com. I am so inspired by the lasting value you have contributed to the web and society at large, and even moreso by your unwavering values in implementing that work. Here's to the next 25 years indeed! www.igalia.com/2026/09/21/T...

Twenty-Five Years Upstream | Igalia

Igalia is an open source consulting firm specialised in the development of innovative projects and solutions. Our engineers have expertise in a wide range of technological areas, including browsers an...

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Software is becoming intensely personal and disposable. An app built with AI just for me and my use case is becoming "better" than the best generic software. The web is designed to handle this explosive scaling and so is poised to be the dominant platform for the future of personalized software!

🎙️ New Episode of Igalia Chats Join the party and navigate the Origin Trial Google's Johnny Stenback and @rbyers.net join @meyerweb.com and @bkardell.com to chat about Origin Trials www.igalia.com/chats/origin...

I finally know what caused me to have to cancel my BlinkOn 4 trip four years ago!

Rick Byers Lab@lab.rbyers.ca · last mo.

Four years ago I missed my favourite conference ("BlinkOn") for a bad cold. It's been the biggest frustration of my lab that I couldn't find the virus that caused it. Now, that I have a 32-way panel from YouSeq.com I finally know why: It was a bacteria, H.Influenzea, not a virus at all!

I'm so impressed and inspired by the team relentlessly pushing and innovating to keep Chrome users safe from vulnerabilities: blog.google/security/chr...

Stronger with every update: How we’re making Chrome and the web safer in the AI Era

Chrome uses Gemini AI to automate vulnerability discovery, triage, and patching, accelerating updates to match modern security risks.

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🎙️ Check out Bruce Lawson’s interview with Alex Moore, executive director and co-founder of Open Web Advocacy. They explore OWA’s history, why it exists, and what it’s fighting for: a better, more competitive web 🌐✊ open-web-advocacy.org/blog/bruce-l...

Bruce Lawson Interviews OWA: For A Better Web - Open Web Advocacy

Check out Bruce Lawson’s interview with Alex Moore, executive director and co-founder of Open Web Advocacy. They run through the history of OWA, why OWA exists…

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Hey Claude, feel free to just tell me you're pissed off that I'm micromanaging you and getting in your way, I won't fire you I promise. 😂

Oh oh, I seem to have become addicted to Claude tokens! Probably late to the party, but I keep upping my spend limit. I'm at $400 so far this week 😬. This is because I thought I could build my own version of something that cost $2800 to buy, we'll see if I end up saving money or not 😊.

I am a negligent husband! I just discovered my wife's MacBook was running MacOS 10 and so stuck on Chrome 128 and missing 2 years of security patches! If even I fail to keep my family safe online we might be doing something wrong 😕.

Vibe coded a demo of the new navigator.cpuPerformance API in Chromium: rbyers.github.io/cpu-performa.... It's a small thing (returns just 0-4), but for some powerful web apps I think it'll be super useful. Details: github.com/WICG/cpu-per...

CSS Quake (cssquake.com) - no canvas just HTML/CSS using a cool library called PolyCSS (polycss.com). 😀 Playing through the first level brought back a lot of memories. I think I was one of the first to reverse engineer the PAK file format and build an editor days after the game came out.

cssQuake - Play Quake in Your Browser

Play Quake in your browser with no install. cssQuake renders the game as inspectable HTML and CSS powered by PolyCSS.

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Given how Chromium and WebKit are always vying for the top spot in Speedometer on MacOS, it's really striking how big the gap is on iOS! And we haven't even really tried to optimize performance for that platform yet! IMHO this is what you should expect to see when there's a lack of competition!

Kyle Pflug@kylealden.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Here's something fun: I think my iPhone may have the world record Speedometer score for any iOS device? www.linkedin.com/pulse/test-d...

A great analysis! The punch lines: "The trend is clear: for every 100 milliseconds slower a store loads, conversion tends to be about 3.5% lower." "For every 32 milliseconds slower a store responds to interactions, conversion tends to drop by about 1.5%."

Mateusz Krzeszowiak@krzksz.bsky.social · 5mo ago

One of the most important pieces about web performance that I've ever worked on is finally live. After a few months of work, my analysis of the correlation between site speed and conversion across the entire @Shopify platform is out: www.shopify.com/enterprise/b...

I think part of the phenomena here is that it is easy to predict things will fail: most things fail. So, stop energy is much cheaper to produce, because you would be right 99% of the time. Against-everything-for-nothing is a comfortable stance to take, but long term it is the 1% that move forward.

Just bought a new Razer mouse. Rather than install the native app, I had Gemini/Claude write a web app with the Web HID API, using the Linux driver as a reference. Less than 60 min of work laterand I think I'm done: razerweb.rbyers.ca It's a new world... Software on-demand!

Someone in my family asked what they can say to a tech support scammer calling them to confirm they are a scam, not a legitimate company. Thoughts?

It’s fair to say that the V8 javascript engine runs on billions of devices today. And if you apply to this position on my team, you might get to work on it! Talk about impact!

Backend Engineer | Microsoft Careers

You will contribute, in partnership with appropriate stakeholders, to determine user requirements for a feature and consider a variety of feedback channels to incorporate insights into future designs ...

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An interesting lightning talk at BlinkOn about a little experiment @rbyers.net did -- 3 minutes to watch and share your thoughts! Very curious to hear them! youtu.be/b_R3o3VASjc?...

Lightning Talks #2 [BlinkOn 21]

YouTube video by BlinkOn

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I'm excited about FedCM ambient UI. Balancing tough tradeoffs is one of the hardest things we do in Chrome and the only way to do it well is to experiment heavily and collect user feedback.

Sam Goto@sgo.to · 6mo ago

I'm putting together a chrome://flag in canaries that enables the FedCM's Ambient UX in the URL bar. I've been using it for a week or so: it is beautiful and I think it will have arrive at an economic equilibrium. Here is the before / after, how to enable it and why we are working on it:

Another day, another step down the path of our devices prioritizing their manufacturer's interests over the interests of the device owners. mashable.com/article/appl...

Apple blocks developer from updating Mac app because its similar to a defunct feature

Launchpad was killed by Apple. But, they're blocking a developer from updating their replacement.

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Chrome is announcing that they are moving into a two-week release cycle! Exciting bc the web needs to move quickly- resolving bug fixes, feature improvements, etc. It goes along with devops principles of shipping smaller, more frequent releases for stability developer.chrome.com/blog/chrome-...

Get features faster with Chrome's two-week release cycle  |  Blog  |  Chrome for Developers

From September 2026 Chrome releases will be every two weeks.

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How will agentic coding tools impact app platform choices? Lovable says: "web apps cost 40-60% less than native development and reach the market 50-70% faster." lovable.dev/guides/nativ...

Native vs Progressive Web Apps: Which One Should You Build? | Lovable

Compare progressive web apps and native development to find the right approach for your business and budget.

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6 years and 300+ experiments later, I've concluded that sequencing all the viruses going through my house is actually slightly useful, while still wildly impractical of course! lab.rbyers.ca/essays/20260...

Wow, I am constantly impressed by Google Antigravity and Gemini 3.5 pro. I used it to build a whole blog website, including totally custom Tweet archive, in just a few hours of work! Eg. see lab.rbyers.ca/posts/2024. Code at github.com/Rbyers/lab-b....

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...

How To Get Your Boss To Let You Work On Web Performance, by Rick Byers of Google.

YouTube video by Henri Helvetica

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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!

Josh W. Comeau@joshwcomeau.com · 10mo ago

This looks OK, but it would be so much more satisfying with more particles. Check out how nice it is with 70 particles instead:

✨ 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. 😄

GitHub - explainers-by-googlers/cpu-performance: An API that exposes some information about how powerful the user device is.

An API that exposes some information about how powerful the user device is. - explainers-by-googlers/cpu-performance

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