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Dave Smart @tamethebots.com · 9h

Priorities check out.

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Dave Smart @tamethebots.com · 15h

This is a neat history of cwv from @addyosmani.bsky.social addyosmani.com/blog/core-we...

The History of Core Web Vitals

This write-up is a history of how Core Web Vitals came to be based on my recollections from our work on it at Google from 2014 onwards

addyosmani.com

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Dave Smart @tamethebots.com · 20h

The pull signs, and total lack of handles lead me to believe this is an area only accessible to those with sticky hands.

I think I have found the secret Spiderman society HQ

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Dave Smart @tamethebots.com · 1d

Real shame you couldn't make it Gastón! Would have been cool to catch up

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Dave Smart @tamethebots.com · 1d

It would have been rude not to, after all. What's the saying? "when in Rome, be in Dublin and have a pint of Guinness."

Something like that anyway.

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Dave Smart @tamethebots.com · 1d

Glue 6 foot skeletons together.

Dave Smart @tamethebots.com · 1d

Really looking forward to that too! Will ration the Guinness to leave a little room for some learnin'

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Dave Smart @tamethebots.com · 1d

My startup GoonPass™ which uses your device's camera to not only determine your age but how horny you are, thereby directing you to the appropriate level of smut, will be secure, because everyone will be too sweaty to recognise IRL.

Shane Jones @shane.co.uk · 1d

The first "UK Porn Block" / "Child Safety" data breach is out.

https://www.theguardian.com/games/2025/oct/07/discord-data-breach-proof-of-age-id-leaked

I knew it would be quick, but not that quick.

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Barry Pollard @tunetheweb.com · 2d

I mentioned before that we’re switching Lighthouse Performance audits to the new and improved Insights. The same Insights that you can see in DevTools Performance panel traces.

That’s happening in Lighthouse 13 due to be released very soon. Maybe even this week!

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Dave Smart @tamethebots.com · 1d

Hastily rolled out massive repositories of personal data a huge and inevitable target? Surely not.

a man is sitting on a couch with his hands on his face and the words pretends to be shocked above him

Alt: a man is sitting on a couch with his hands on his face and the words pretends to be shocked above him

media.tenor.com

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Dave Smart @tamethebots.com · 1d

Arrived in Dublin for the Google product experts summit, and what a glorious day it has laid on.

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Dave Smart @tamethebots.com · 6d

Such is the folds in warp and weft of the time space continuum of development.

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Dave Smart @tamethebots.com · 6d

Around about the 90% finished phase? Probably "B@st4rd 'effin thing"

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Jamie Indigo @not-a-robot.com · 6d

Never underestimate my ability to be snarky *and* right
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Dave Smart @tamethebots.com · 6d

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Dave Smart @tamethebots.com · 6d

this is mine

Arrow pointing at the close tab icon, on a screenshot of gmail in a browser

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Spook Davis 👻 @lukealexdavis.co.uk · 6d

i've jumped on the bandwagon and added my own animal-themed llms.txt variant

lukealexdavis.co.uk/hippos.txt

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Dave Smart @tamethebots.com · 6d

In honour of the spooky season, I'm going to extend @markwilliamscook.com's standard and feed the LLMS bats.txt tamethebots.com/bats.txt

Better than a fun-sized snickers.

tamethebots.com

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Dave Smart @tamethebots.com · 7d

See you chose violence!

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Dave Smart @tamethebots.com · 7d

Reaching the "Ibuprofen is the most important vitamin" stage of life huh?

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Barry Pollard @tunetheweb.com · 7d

React 19.2 has shipped including support for the DevTools Extensibility API so you can understand what React is doing when, and how that relates to the rest of the performance profile 🥳 🎉

react.dev/blog/2025/10...

Chrome DevTools performance trace showing some custom tracks. Scheduler Custom Track including Blocking, Transition, Suspense, and Idle sub tracks. And Components custom track.

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Chris Johnson @defaced.dev · 7d

When your colleague isn't looking, update their ChatGPT personalisation setting to only action things when they say "Simon says". 🤫

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Dave Smart @tamethebots.com · 7d

Damit bluesky, seems to have got cut off, fixed now!

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Dave Smart @tamethebots.com · 7d

MCP Server fever! Following on from the robots.txt MCP server release of yesterday, today I've launched one for you web perf fans!

Query the CrUX API in your favorite AI tool

Example: youtu.be/et7Og7_Ii6E?...

Get the details here: tamethebots.com/tools/cwv-hi...

#WebPerf #CWV #CoreWebVitals

Using the Tame The Bots CrUX API MCP Server

YouTube video by Dave Smart

youtu.be

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Barry Pollard @tunetheweb.com · 8d

Core Web Vitals mystery for ya:

Why does Google Search Console same my LCP is bad, but every example URL has good LCP?

I see developers asking: How can this happen? Is GSC wrong? (I'm willing to bet it is not!) What can you do about it?

This is admittedly confusing so let's dive in...

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Screenshot of Core Web Vitals graph in Google Search Console, with the URLs greyed out. The Group LCP is 2.6 seconds and so the group is in amber and saying there is an issue as it's longer than the 2.5 seconds "good" threshold. Yet all the examples have green LCPs of 1.7 seconds, 2.4 seconds, 1.2 seconds...etc. which is confusing.

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