Steven Beshensky
@sbesh.bsky.social
Staff Software Engineer at Twilio , #THFC supporter, #HRV
What if I told you that this is all just Preact? I mean I just wrote normal Preact? There's no time-slicing, ... just purely optimized update paths that lead to fast updates. preact-compiler-lab.pages.dev
The impossible demo · Preact Loom
729 live DOM bindings update under sustained animation while browser tests assert the main thread keeps breathing.
preact-compiler-lab.pages.dev
A prop typed Item[] tells you what's inside the array, not whether you get a stable array next render. So I made referential stability a type. Inline array to a memoized child? Type error at the exact line. React + Preact, packaged as `stableref` 👇
Portfolio
About my career up to now and my skills.
jovidecroock.com
Huuuuuge framework site update framework.sbesh.com the new site is live along with framework v0.11 and UI v0.3. shout out to @preactjs.com for being absolutely great to build on. Special thanks go out to @infrequently.org for helping me sort out some framework loading performance issues.
hono-preacthono-preact
One framework from the edge to the browser: Hono on the server, Preact on the client, and a single typed connection for routing, data, mutations, and realtime.
framework.sbesh.com
Web dev challenge: use the 3 most recent Baseline Newly Available features to build a demo of some kind. - field-sizing - :open - container style queries Easy, they're all CSS things. field-sizing and :open both work with <select> elements. So, maybe some fun responsive drop-down.
The package you reviewed is not always the package people install. New post: how Drydock uses npm staged publishing + GitHub release gates to put release review at the useful point: after the artifact exists, before it ships. www.jovidecroock.com/blog/drydock...
Two Places to Stop a Bad Release
How Drydock uses npm staged publishing and GitHub release gates to review the package artifact before it can ship.
jovidecroock.com
Whilst I’m a bit wary of increasing the security expectations of OSS maintainers, Jovi has been doing incredible work on this front in fleshing out happy paths amongst the many footguns and workflows without miserable amounts of friction. Really brilliant stuff that can benefit the entire ecosystem
Jovi 🐨@jovidecroock.com · last mo.The package you reviewed is not always the package people install. New post: how Drydock uses npm staged publishing + GitHub release gates to put release review at the useful point: after the artifact exists, before it ships. www.jovidecroock.com/blog/drydock...
"Apple’s claims for WebKit’s superior speed, privacy and security don’t stand up to scrutiny. It’s time for the regulators to strike down Apple’s restrictive terms and conditions, and compel Cupertino to fix BrowserEngineKit, so we can have genuine competition on iOS." 🧵👇️ (1/7) 📖Read more:
Bruce Lawson's personal site
» “Safari. Blazing fast. Incredibly Private.” – O RLY!?!?
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For folks who aren't into the minutiae of browser benchmarks, Speedometer is a test suite *primarily developed by Apple*, results of which it has used in regulatory filings to claim users don't need and/or wouldn't benefit from real browser competition.
Open Web Advocacy@open-web-advocacy.org · 2mo agoNewly published tests show a Chromium/Blink engine running on iOS is 28.6% faster than Safari in Speedometer page responsiveness tests. 🏎️💨📱⚡️ This is a clear example of the costs Apple imposes on consumers and businesses, costs created by its 17-year ban on competing browser engines. 🧵👇️ (1/8)
Newly published tests show a Chromium/Blink engine running on iOS is 28.6% faster than Safari in Speedometer page responsiveness tests. 🏎️💨📱⚡️ This is a clear example of the costs Apple imposes on consumers and businesses, costs created by its 17-year ban on competing browser engines. 🧵👇️ (1/8)
28% Faster: The Blink Prototype That Shows Why Apple's iOS Browser Engine Ban Must End - Open Web Advocacy
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Safari 28.6% slower than Chromium on iOS. This is the tax every single user on iOS has to pay as a result of the #AppleBrowserBan www.theregister.com/software/202...
Apple's WebKit performance tax leaves iOS browsers stuck in the slow lane, says Microsoft
Rival rendering engines could make pages load almost 30% faster on iPhones, Redmond claims
theregister.com
Apple's WebKit performance tax leaves iOS browsers stuck in the slow lane, says Microsoft. "The performance tax comes to 28.6%, almost as much as Apple's 30% commission. Even without performance optimisation, Blink on iOS is faster than WebKit. But you can't have it, because of Apple's iOS rules.
Apple's WebKit performance tax leaves iOS browsers stuck in the slow lane, says Microsoft
Rival rendering engines could make pages load almost 30% faster on iPhones, Redmond claims
theregister.com
Proton CTO Bart Butler urges the 🇬🇧 UK to start enforcing competition laws against Big Tech before it's 'too late' 🧵👇️ (1/7) 📖Read more: www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-priv...
Proton CTO urges the UK to start enforcing competition laws against Big Tech before it's 'too late'
Proton and tech allies demand UK regulators crack down on Apple and Google's dominance
techradar.com
🚀 We just shipped v1.4! Zed now supports skills! Create one with the new `agent: open skill creator` action, then add it globally or to a specific project. Choose whether the agent discovers each skill automatically, or requires explicit invocation via `/` in the agent panel.
The Digital Markets Act was designed to move fast, but Politico’s reporting highlights how enforcement is being slowed by legal caution, limited resources, and the threat of litigation from Big Tech How well the DMA is enforced will have far-reaching consequences for the Web 🧵👇️ (1/10) 📖Read more:
The EU’s Big Tech law was meant to move fast. It hasn’t.
As the Digital Markets Act enters its third year, critics say enforcement is drifting toward the same delays that have plagued traditional antitrust probes.
politico.eu
Open Web Advocacy joins 17 businesses, industry bodies, public figures and civil society organisations calling for more ambitious and urgent enforcement of the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act (DMCCA) 🚨 🧵👇️ (1/28) 📖Read more: open-web-advocacy.org/blog/open-le...
Open Letter: Why the CMA Must Enforce the DMCCA - Open Web Advocacy
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Web MIDI, now Web Serial? Why yes, we *can* have a capable, expansive, and safe vision of the web...
Open Web Advocacy@open-web-advocacy.org · 3mo agoMozilla worked with Adafruit to test Firefox’s implementation against real hardware workflows. For many projects, users can now connect, code, configure, and control compatible hardware directly from the browser! 🧵(4/11)
Need to say this loundly and often: Apple and Google sold our privacy up the river by enabling native mobile apps to exfiltrate enormous amounts of data with near-zero oversight. On the web, we introduced capabilities in ways that kept users in control. Why? Because those are our *actual* values.
Open Web Advocacy@open-web-advocacy.org · 3mo agoThis is a positive step for the open web. More capable browsers mean more capable web apps. More capable web apps mean more competition with native apps. And more competition means more choice for users and developers. 🧵(7/11)
Firefox now supports Web Serial on desktop 🦊 This means web apps can connect to compatible hardware devices such as microcontrollers, development boards, 3D printers, power meters, and other serial-connected hardware. Allowing the Web to do even more! 📖Read more: 🧵👇️ (1/11)
Mozilla and Adafruit bring Web Serial workflows to Firefox | The Mozilla Blog
Launching Web Serial in Firefox 151 The web is built by communities, but not all communities use the web the same way. That philosophy shaped part of
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Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) has been granted leave to intervene in Apple v. European Commission (T-359/25). Apple is seeking to annul a 2025 Commission decision imposing interoperability measures it must take to comply with Article 6(7) of the Digital Markets Act. 🧵👇️ (1/9) 📖Read more:
Civil Society Role Grows in EU’s DMA Case Against Apple
The Free Software Foundation Europe's intervention in Apple's DMA challenge is a test case for civil society's role in tech regulation, writes Megan Kirkwood.
techpolicy.press
Chrome shipped an LLM Prompt API to the web platform. At Mozilla, we oppose this API. Here's why:
Terminal Threads are live in Zed v1.3.5! You can now run claude, amp, pi, or any terminal-based workflow as a managed thread in the Threads Sidebar, right next to your other agent threads.
They won't call it a "how to escape React skillset", but I will.
Patrick Brosset@patrickbrosset.com · 3mo ago✨ A challenge in today's web dev is telling AI agents to write modern code. Skills can help avoid legacy patterns and bloated JS. 🎉 We're teaming up with Chrome to bring you Modern Web Guidance: skills for web platform expertise, best practices, and modern API patterns!
"Apple’s latest iOS 26.5 update is bringing some AirPods and Apple Watch-exclusive features to third-party earbuds and wearables — but only for phones in the EU." 🧵👇️ (1/8) 📖Read more: www.techradar.com/phones/ios/i...
Apple is finally bringing Apple Watch and AirPod features to third-party wearables with iOS 26.5— the catch? This only applies to EU citizens
Apple is finally bringing Apple Watch and AirPod features to third-party wearables.
techradar.com
The 🇺🇸⚖️ US Supreme Court has declined to pause the order holding Apple in contempt in the Epic Games lawsuit. 🧵👇️ (1/7) 📖Read more: www.reuters.com/world/us-sup...
US Supreme Court declines to pause order holding Apple in contempt in Epic Games lawsuit
The U.S. Supreme Court rejected on Wednesday Apple's request to temporarily block a judicial order that found the iPhone maker in violation of sweeping court-mandated changes to its lucrative App St...
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The EU’s Digital Markets Act choice screens are working 🇪🇺 Since March 2024, more than 6 million people in the EU have selected Firefox as their default browser, roughly one every 10 seconds. 🦊 User choice and merit should drive browser competition, not control of operating systems. 📖Read more:
Brussels’ DMA regulation handed Firefox millions of new users
Thanks to the Digital Markets Act (DMA), Mozilla has gained more than 6 million new users for its web browser Firefox.
cybernews.com
Alright, it's been forever since I've shared what I'm up to with y'all. I've been spending time on and off working on a little JS framework (because there aren't enough of those yet). github.com/sbesh91/hono... It's extremely aptly named hono-preact, because it's.... built on hono and preact.
GitHub - sbesh91/hono-preact
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The EU's Digital Markets Act is delivering real wins for consumers in the EU, and in some cases globally. Apple and Google are opening up functionality that was previously reserved for their own products. But one glaring failure remains: browser engines on iOS. 🧵👇️ (1/23)
The Digital Markets Act Is Delivering Real Wins, But Not Yet for Browser Engines - Open Web Advocacy
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We launched Zed 1.0 this week! 🎉🎊🥳 As per usual with a new version, we shipped goodies: Stop using breakpoints as makeshift bookmarks... because bookmarks are here! 🔖 Right click on the gutter to add a bookmark and see them all with `editor: view bookmarks`. Thanks austincummings!
Alex Moore (Executive Director of OWA) and John Ozbay (CEO and Founder of Cryptee) were recently interviewed by Simonetta Vezzoso, a European academic specializing in digital competition law and the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA). Check it out: open-web-advocacy.org/blog/questio... 🧵👇 (1/7)
Q&A with Simonetta Vezzoso: The Open Web, Apple, and the DMA - Open Web Advocacy
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