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Philip Tellis

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Creator: boomerang.js ∘ Founder: LogNormal ∘ Organizer: Boston Web Perf & CAJUN ∘ Web Performance ∘ Real User Measurement ∘ Data Nerd ∘ Bread Baker ∘ Akamai ∘ W3C WebPerf WG ∘ Julia dev ∘ Conference speaker ∘ Full stack pancakes ∘ Unstacked developer

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Figure I'll finish the draft and email it to him when he's older.

09.03.2026 22:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

You need Click & Clack the Tappet Brothers.

09.03.2026 19:11 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I still have draft emails my son wrote when he was 2, randomly hitting auto complete on my phone. Somehow he managed to compose half of it in Hindi.

09.03.2026 13:27 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Now I'm dreaming of Nasi Campur

05.03.2026 01:32 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Halloumi is really squeaky when eaten

03.03.2026 18:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Do you only go to ConFoo on the years I don't?

26.02.2026 18:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I'm pretty sure it's because they didn't know how to create accounts without passwords :D. I was an intern at the time and apparently the only person who found the setup worrisome.

26.02.2026 16:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

a couple of decades ago I installed a host in a data center where all the other hosts from all the other customers had the same network accessible administrator password. The password was... "password".

24.02.2026 16:58 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
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Statement on the Flock Safety ALPR Contract Termination The City is providing details on the termination of a contract with Flock Safety, which manufacturers and manages automatic license plate readers.

Meanwhile in Cambridge: Statement on the Flock Safety ALPR Contract Termination www.cambridgema.gov/news/2025/12...

20.02.2026 22:44 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Production quality just means most of the bugs are new.

20.02.2026 22:31 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Then there's the people who don't respond but show up anyway, and now there isn't enough cake.

13.02.2026 15:41 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Maybe a baby monitor?

13.02.2026 15:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

😜

12.02.2026 16:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Just out of curiosity, did your blog ever run on MovableType?

12.02.2026 15:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A switch on a stereo tape recorder showing a selection between Normal and CrO2 (Chromium Dioxide)

A switch on a stereo tape recorder showing a selection between Normal and CrO2 (Chromium Dioxide)

IYKYK.

06.02.2026 19:41 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The other side of the moon: An equation to predict a page's roundtrip time

Yes it was also possible to build YSlow plugins. I built one at an internal hack day to do this: tech.bluesmoon.info/2010/08/equa...

24.01.2026 23:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I still worked out of India then but I made it out for OSCON later that year when YSlow was announced as a Firebug plugin (plugin inception)

24.01.2026 22:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
YUI Library

Could pull it from this GitHub repo: clarle.github.io/yui3/

19.01.2026 15:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I remember doing Yahoo Hack U at CMU.

16.01.2026 14:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

For emails, you didn't just write more HTML, you also have to base64 encode everything and can't gzip in transit.

16.01.2026 14:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

tried to use it for HTML emails, but it doesn't work in Outlook. It's the only email client that insists on living in the past.

15.01.2026 19:31 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I got a keyboard for free on Buy Nothing. It has a built in metronome.

14.01.2026 16:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

We suffered so much eye strain before the introduction of the <blink> element.

14.01.2026 16:28 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Today in “Dudes Rock”:

A dude playing Dire Straits’s “Sultans of Swing” guitar solo on…a recorder.

12.12.2025 00:50 👍 3572 🔁 1031 💬 113 📌 339

Apparently Google will not let you block X from your discovery feed. You can only block individual accounts. Support forums are full of folks asking how to block all of X from showing up in Discovery. Time to turn off discovery completely.

06.01.2026 15:44 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I made black eyed peas pulao.

05.01.2026 03:36 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Photo of a barred owl in a tree at summer. The owl is perched on a bench between two major trunks.

Photo of a barred owl in a tree at summer. The owl is perched on a bench between two major trunks.

Barred owl at sunset.

02.01.2026 21:10 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Happy New Year to those who have a new year starting today. Bonne année.

01.01.2026 15:30 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A box of Douce Romance Butter Waffles with the Korean text 버터 와플 and the English text Premium Dessert written in English. A picture of 3 people having tea is on the left and a close up of 3 waffles on the right.

A box of Douce Romance Butter Waffles with the Korean text 버터 와플 and the English text Premium Dessert written in English. A picture of 3 people having tea is on the left and a close up of 3 waffles on the right.

Is this a thing now where the Korean text is just the English transliterated into Hangul?

27.12.2025 20:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Screen capture of the snowflake icon in Google weather showing a snowflake with 4 branches.

Screen capture of the snowflake icon in Google weather showing a snowflake with 4 branches.

Someone needs to tell Google Weather that snowflakes have 6 branches, not 4.

25.12.2025 15:14 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0