Ben

I’ve never hated any video software like I hated BlueJeans.

Tomorrow a bunch of losers at conservative clickbait sites are gonna write their pieces that go like “SICK leftists CHEER Kissinger death” and I sincerely hope some of you make the cut

Henry Kissinger, War Criminal Beloved by America’s Ruling Class, Finally Dies Henry Kissinger has died at age 100, his consulting firm said in a statement on Wednesday.

Honored to write the Rolling Stone obituary for the worst American of the post-World War II era. Rot in piss

Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed. Says life seems harsh and cruel. Says he feels all alone in a threatening world where what lies ahead is vague and uncertain. Doctor says “Henry Kissinger died.” Man says “Oh holy shit this rules. This is so great thank you so much. Fuck

Photos from a short Thanksgiving trip to County Wicklow

It’s everywhere in Ireland, too. “Black Friday week” etc etc.

I’m not really sure about optimizing Flutter for web, but the biggest thing you can do to improve Time to Interactivity is to ship less code (and fonts, and optimized images, etc). Source code payload size is a big deal for websites in a way that it isn’t for apps.

To give you a relative sense of what impact sizes can have: I recently shrunk the gzipped size of the bundle Etsy uses for messaging by 50kb and it was a major win for performance.

Etsy also uses a much smaller number of fonts in order to avoid paying that much of a performance cost.

And, uh, why do you have over a megabyte of fonts loaded? What do your total network download size look like?

Ah, interesting. Is that the gzipped size or the minified size? Gzipped would be the size over the network, and minified would be a much larger number indicating size after it’s decompressed that’s more relevant to how much memory is being used and how it will perform on slower devices.

From what I’ve seen, it produces… extremely large JavaScript bundles. Like, 3MB just for hello world. I’d be curious to see what your experience has been, especially for a growing codebase.

You wouldn’t want a website built with Flutter, lol.

But at the same time, you also want to protect the things you can. Then some junior engineer on a two week deadline gets a VP to agree that the whole website can get 500ms slower on every request just for one feature that’ll fail to do anything but never be cleaned up.

It’s like the plot of Last of Us, except your doc is the child and the zombies are varying groups of people desperately trying to stop you from shipping a feature that will make them die

Clouds creeping across the Irish countryside

Just setting up my bsky