Andy Davies
@andydavies.me
Web Performance Consultant @speedcurve.com
Vegetable grower… Eurorack synth dabbler… Bristol Bears Women’s fan
https://andydavies.me
Vegetable grower… Eurorack synth dabbler… Bristol Bears Women’s fan
https://andydavies.me
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Yo, I don't have a course to put on sale for Black Friday, but you can help support my community organizing efforts in other ways!🧵
📚 First, you can buy a book from my bookshop (or just start on this page)... no price difference to you and bonus no $$ to billionaires
bookshop.org/shop/siasbooks
📚 First, you can buy a book from my bookshop (or just start on this page)... no price difference to you and bonus no $$ to billionaires
bookshop.org/shop/siasbooks
Sia's Books Bookshop
Hi, I'm a web developer and web performance engineer who's also an aspiring creative and native plant gardener. Find more about me, follow my blog, and join my newsletter at sia.codes. My blog, newsle...
bookshop.org
November 25, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Yo, I don't have a course to put on sale for Black Friday, but you can help support my community organizing efforts in other ways!🧵
📚 First, you can buy a book from my bookshop (or just start on this page)... no price difference to you and bonus no $$ to billionaires
bookshop.org/shop/siasbooks
📚 First, you can buy a book from my bookshop (or just start on this page)... no price difference to you and bonus no $$ to billionaires
bookshop.org/shop/siasbooks
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Did you know website features like accordions and modals can be implemented without JavaScript?
@aarontgrogg.com talked about reducing JS usage with modern browser features at last week's PerformanceObserver meetup.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6AE...
@aarontgrogg.com talked about reducing JS usage with modern browser features at last week's PerformanceObserver meetup.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6AE...
NoLoJS: Reduce the JS Workload with no- or lo-JS with Aaron T. Grogg | PerformanceObserver
YouTube video by PerformanceObserver
www.youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Did you know website features like accordions and modals can be implemented without JavaScript?
@aarontgrogg.com talked about reducing JS usage with modern browser features at last week's PerformanceObserver meetup.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6AE...
@aarontgrogg.com talked about reducing JS usage with modern browser features at last week's PerformanceObserver meetup.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6AE...
Does it count as Whamaggedon if you have Last Christmas as an earworm?
Asking for a friend…
Asking for a friend…
November 24, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Does it count as Whamaggedon if you have Last Christmas as an earworm?
Asking for a friend…
Asking for a friend…
Doctor stops to help injured passenger… missed flight… Ryanair refuse to wave rebooking fee…
Why would anyone choose to fly with an airline that openly treats it’s passengers with contempt
www.theguardian.com/money/2025/n...
Why would anyone choose to fly with an airline that openly treats it’s passengers with contempt
www.theguardian.com/money/2025/n...
Ryanair expects me to take the financial hit for helping others
As a doctor I stepped in to tend to an elderly passenger … but it won’t waive £100 transfer fee to rebook
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Doctor stops to help injured passenger… missed flight… Ryanair refuse to wave rebooking fee…
Why would anyone choose to fly with an airline that openly treats it’s passengers with contempt
www.theguardian.com/money/2025/n...
Why would anyone choose to fly with an airline that openly treats it’s passengers with contempt
www.theguardian.com/money/2025/n...
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“When the bridge closed, about 25,000 vehicles crossed it daily… Six years later, 9,000 of those journeys have vanished - not diverted to other crossings, but simply evaporated. Yet the local economy has adapted, air quality has improved, and overall traffic congestion has lessened.”
I really cannot recommend this excellent piece on Hammersmith Bridge highly enough
Hammersmith Bridge
Where did 25,000 vehicles go?
nickmaini.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:21 PM
“When the bridge closed, about 25,000 vehicles crossed it daily… Six years later, 9,000 of those journeys have vanished - not diverted to other crossings, but simply evaporated. Yet the local economy has adapted, air quality has improved, and overall traffic congestion has lessened.”
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Listen to this talk and then go make a weird lil website
i'm calling this version the Director's Cut because it is TWICE as long as the original version from Sunrise earlier this year. check it out.
Right in time for you to enjoy it at the weekend: next video of #btconf Berlin. @sachajudd.com and “The Good Internet: How Fandom Can Reclaim the Web”. A brilliant and motivating talk.Enjoy! youtu.be/F6b9kjlpIZE
November 22, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Listen to this talk and then go make a weird lil website
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The overwhelmingly positive experiences of trans youth on puberty blockers
The overwhelmingly positive experiences of trans youth on puberty blockers
A survey of trans youth highlights the enormous value of puberty blockers – and the strong need for continued access to them....
thespinoff.co.nz
November 21, 2025 at 7:49 PM
The overwhelmingly positive experiences of trans youth on puberty blockers
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new tshirt, fuck yea
@sarahmackattack.bsky.social
@sarahmackattack.bsky.social
November 22, 2025 at 7:24 PM
new tshirt, fuck yea
@sarahmackattack.bsky.social
@sarahmackattack.bsky.social
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Finally gotten around to writing up my thoughts on #FFConf 2025.
remysharp.com/2025/11/22/f...
Videos and photos are still being processed, so those are coming too.
remysharp.com/2025/11/22/f...
Videos and photos are still being processed, so those are coming too.
FFConf 2025
Reflections on FFConf 2025, covering talks on diversity, data privacy, web components, AI, and the future of the web.
remysharp.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Finally gotten around to writing up my thoughts on #FFConf 2025.
remysharp.com/2025/11/22/f...
Videos and photos are still being processed, so those are coming too.
remysharp.com/2025/11/22/f...
Videos and photos are still being processed, so those are coming too.
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How's the mobile CPU landscape evolving? Thanks to process node improvements, a mid-range Android from 2025 is (finally!) as fast as 2017's iPhone 8, but a low-end (~$100) smartphone isn't yet as speedy as a decade-old iPhone 6s.
November 21, 2025 at 10:51 PM
How's the mobile CPU landscape evolving? Thanks to process node improvements, a mid-range Android from 2025 is (finally!) as fast as 2017's iPhone 8, but a low-end (~$100) smartphone isn't yet as speedy as a decade-old iPhone 6s.
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Right in time for you to enjoy it at the weekend: next video of #btconf Berlin. @sachajudd.com and “The Good Internet: How Fandom Can Reclaim the Web”. A brilliant and motivating talk.Enjoy! youtu.be/F6b9kjlpIZE
Sacha Judd – The Good Internet: How Fandom Can Reclaim the Web – beyond tellerrand Berlin 2025
YouTube video by beyond tellerrand
youtu.be
November 21, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Right in time for you to enjoy it at the weekend: next video of #btconf Berlin. @sachajudd.com and “The Good Internet: How Fandom Can Reclaim the Web”. A brilliant and motivating talk.Enjoy! youtu.be/F6b9kjlpIZE
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👀 I am looking for work 👀
Need help implementing, creating, or sustaining your design tokens workflow? Let's talk.
I can help you build a robust design tokens system that bridges design and development.
DM me or email [email protected]
🙏🖤
Need help implementing, creating, or sustaining your design tokens workflow? Let's talk.
I can help you build a robust design tokens system that bridges design and development.
DM me or email [email protected]
🙏🖤
November 21, 2025 at 1:06 PM
👀 I am looking for work 👀
Need help implementing, creating, or sustaining your design tokens workflow? Let's talk.
I can help you build a robust design tokens system that bridges design and development.
DM me or email [email protected]
🙏🖤
Need help implementing, creating, or sustaining your design tokens workflow? Let's talk.
I can help you build a robust design tokens system that bridges design and development.
DM me or email [email protected]
🙏🖤
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Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand
In a normal world, this should be an immense scandal in Europe.
Le Monde has a long article describing the hellish life of Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the ICC in The Hague, due to U.S. sanctions punishing him for authorizing arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes in Gaza.
Guillou's daily existence has been transformed into a Kafkaesque nightmare. He cannot: open or maintain accounts with Google, Amazon, Apple, or any US company; make hotel reservations (Expedia canceled his booking in France hours after he made it); conduct online commerce, since he can't know if the packaging is American; use any major credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Amex are all American); access normal banking services, even with non-American banks, as banks worldwide close sanctioned accounts; conduct virtually any financial transaction.
He describes it as being "economically banned across most of the planet," including in his own country, France, and where he works, the Netherlands.
That's the real shocking aspect of this: the Americans are:
- punishing a European citizen
- for doing his job in Europe
- applying laws Europe officially supports
- at an institution based in Europe
- that Europe helped create and fund
and Europe is not only doing essentially nothing to protect him, they're actively enforcing America's sanctions against their own citizen - European banks closing his accounts, European companies refusing him service, European institutions standing by while Washington destroys a European judge's life on European soil.
Again, in a normal world, European leaders and citizens should be absolutely outraged about this. But we've so normalized the hollowing out of European sovereignty that the sight of a European citizen being economically executed on European soil for upholding European law is treated, at best, as an unfortunate technical complication in transatlantic
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SS7 is gonna remain a dumpster fire security threat and China will continue to exploit it if we can’t even have simple cybersecurity requirements for the telecom industry.
Breaking: The FCC has voted 2-1 along party lines to eliminate cybersecurity requirements for telecom companies that the commission adopted at the end of the Biden administration.
Telecoms had lobbied for the change. Democrats said it would invite another Salt Typhoon.
Story coming shortly.
Telecoms had lobbied for the change. Democrats said it would invite another Salt Typhoon.
Story coming shortly.
November 20, 2025 at 4:42 PM
SS7 is gonna remain a dumpster fire security threat and China will continue to exploit it if we can’t even have simple cybersecurity requirements for the telecom industry.
Was sorting through some boxes and found old media…
Following what was happening with Thrust SSC is one of the first things I remember using the internet for
Following what was happening with Thrust SSC is one of the first things I remember using the internet for
November 20, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Was sorting through some boxes and found old media…
Following what was happening with Thrust SSC is one of the first things I remember using the internet for
Following what was happening with Thrust SSC is one of the first things I remember using the internet for
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hi internet! do i know anyone looking for some freelance work through the end of the year?
the project is a tiny bit of web dev but mostly design, animation, and graphic design in a webflow site!
the project is a tiny bit of web dev but mostly design, animation, and graphic design in a webflow site!
November 19, 2025 at 1:37 PM
hi internet! do i know anyone looking for some freelance work through the end of the year?
the project is a tiny bit of web dev but mostly design, animation, and graphic design in a webflow site!
the project is a tiny bit of web dev but mostly design, animation, and graphic design in a webflow site!
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I'm speaking at the PerformanceObserver online meetup tonight!
Learn about performance testing, netlog data, credentialed requests, tight mode, HTTP priorities, and more!
performanceobserver.dev/events/episo...
Learn about performance testing, netlog data, credentialed requests, tight mode, HTTP priorities, and more!
performanceobserver.dev/events/episo...
Ep. 8: Reduce the JS Workload with NoLoJS and Synthetic WebPerf testing with Debugbear | PerformanceObserver
In this episode, Aaron T. Grogg will explain how to reduce JS Workload with No or Lo JS,. Then, Matt Zeunert walks us through Synthetic Web Performance testing with Debugbear.
performanceobserver.dev
November 19, 2025 at 12:21 PM
I'm speaking at the PerformanceObserver online meetup tonight!
Learn about performance testing, netlog data, credentialed requests, tight mode, HTTP priorities, and more!
performanceobserver.dev/events/episo...
Learn about performance testing, netlog data, credentialed requests, tight mode, HTTP priorities, and more!
performanceobserver.dev/events/episo...
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Both are great threads on Google sacrificing its ad business (and the commercial underpinnings of online media) to push AI
This is, of course, a fascinating thread from Kate asking why Google is effectively cannibalizing its own market for both digital ads on third party properties and search ads, by effectively taking away the incentive to click through to third party sites. I have a theory as to why they're doing it.
So this ad revenue metric is indicative of such a fascinating and weird set of business decisions by Google to inexplicably kill of SEO-- and I honestly don't get how they think this is going to pay off for them in the long run.
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November 18, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Both are great threads on Google sacrificing its ad business (and the commercial underpinnings of online media) to push AI
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I've always admired @albertocairo.com's work and I'm delighted to see this project to track and visualize news coverage that impacts trans communities.
It's important to see the big picture! And I hope it leads to much more support for trans journalists and fair coverage.
It's important to see the big picture! And I hope it leads to much more support for trans journalists and fair coverage.
My new big visualization project is out: The Trans News Initiative, a collaboration between UM's School of Communication, the Trans Journalists Association, and Polygraph (The Pudding): transnewsinitiative.org Here's a piece about it in the Columbia Journalism Review: www.cjr.org/news/visuali...
Trans News Initiative
A database and analysis of news coverage affecting trans communities.
transnewsinitiative.org
November 18, 2025 at 7:51 PM
I've always admired @albertocairo.com's work and I'm delighted to see this project to track and visualize news coverage that impacts trans communities.
It's important to see the big picture! And I hope it leads to much more support for trans journalists and fair coverage.
It's important to see the big picture! And I hope it leads to much more support for trans journalists and fair coverage.
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November 18, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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I've got capacity for contracting till the end of the year (and am starting to book out some of my 2026 calendar).
Shout if you need help with open source community work, developer education, developer outreach, multilingual community work or other Jess-shaped things.
hello(a)jessica*tech or DM👋
Shout if you need help with open source community work, developer education, developer outreach, multilingual community work or other Jess-shaped things.
hello(a)jessica*tech or DM👋
November 18, 2025 at 10:48 AM
I've got capacity for contracting till the end of the year (and am starting to book out some of my 2026 calendar).
Shout if you need help with open source community work, developer education, developer outreach, multilingual community work or other Jess-shaped things.
hello(a)jessica*tech or DM👋
Shout if you need help with open source community work, developer education, developer outreach, multilingual community work or other Jess-shaped things.
hello(a)jessica*tech or DM👋
I'm not a visual designer but there's somethings that even I can't un-see
November 18, 2025 at 10:41 AM
I'm not a visual designer but there's somethings that even I can't un-see
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#PixelPalooza is coming up this Thursday!
This awesome FREE online event covers how to make sure all those helpful images and videos on your site don't hurt #webperf and #a11y.
I'm joining @seancdavis.com to talk about the hidden cost of media on the web.
Get your ticket 👉 cfe.dev/events/pixel...
This awesome FREE online event covers how to make sure all those helpful images and videos on your site don't hurt #webperf and #a11y.
I'm joining @seancdavis.com to talk about the hidden cost of media on the web.
Get your ticket 👉 cfe.dev/events/pixel...
PixelPalooza 2025
PixelPalooza will explore all the best practices we, as developers, can leverage media like images, video, audio and documents across our sites and applications.
cfe.dev
November 17, 2025 at 9:57 PM
#PixelPalooza is coming up this Thursday!
This awesome FREE online event covers how to make sure all those helpful images and videos on your site don't hurt #webperf and #a11y.
I'm joining @seancdavis.com to talk about the hidden cost of media on the web.
Get your ticket 👉 cfe.dev/events/pixel...
This awesome FREE online event covers how to make sure all those helpful images and videos on your site don't hurt #webperf and #a11y.
I'm joining @seancdavis.com to talk about the hidden cost of media on the web.
Get your ticket 👉 cfe.dev/events/pixel...
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A small website project, using Ghost, has landed on my desk. I'd like to pass it onto someone local to the Bristol area. Anyone interested?
November 17, 2025 at 8:21 AM
A small website project, using Ghost, has landed on my desk. I'd like to pass it onto someone local to the Bristol area. Anyone interested?