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Yoav Weiss @yoav.ws · 8d

Compression dictionaries is now an official RFC! www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9842....

RFC 9842: Compression Dictionary Transport

This document specifies a mechanism for dictionary-based compression in the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). By utilizing this technique, clients and servers can reduce the size of transmitted data...

www.rfc-editor.org

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Bret Little @bretlittle.com · 8d

I'm proposing a change to iframes that will allow child frames synchronous access to data attributes on the parent frame. Let me know your thoughts: github.com/blittle/ifra...

GitHub - blittle/iframe-data-attributes: Iframe Data Initialization Attributes

Iframe Data Initialization Attributes. Contribute to blittle/iframe-data-attributes development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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Henri Helvetica 🧑🏾‍🚀🇭🇹 @henrihelvetica.bsky.social · 16d

✨ SPDY STREAM 011 ✨ w/ @krzksz.bsky.social & @yoav.ws
After deploying the SPECULATION RULES API to their merchants, they join me this week to discuss the experience and their findings. Join us! (updated day and time)
📆 Thursday Sept 25
⏰ 11am EST, 5pm CEST
🔗 bit.ly/spdy-stream-011

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Yoav Weiss @yoav.ws · 23d

Any chance you'd be interested to hop over to a WG call at some point to discuss this? (or maybe TPAC)

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Yoav Weiss @yoav.ws · 23d

@lukewarlow.dev I just discovered github.com/whatwg/fetch... thanks to @jakearchibald.com
Something like this has been a recurring request at the WebPerfWG, beyond `fetch()` github.com/w3c/resource...

It'd be great if this could cover both!

WIP: Add a mechanism to fetch to track progress by lukewarlow · Pull Request #1843 · whatwg/fetch

This is not ready for review this is WIP. At least two implementers are interested (and none opposed): … … Tests are written and can be reviewed and commented upon at: … Implementation b...

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Jake Archibald @jakearchibald.com · 23d

📝 Fetch streams are great, but contrary to popular belief, they're not good for measuring upload/downloading progress.

⬇️ Here's why, and how to avoid the gotchas ⬇️

jakearchibald.com/2025/fetch-s...

Fetch streams are great, but not for measuring upload/downloading progress

They're inaccurate, and there are better ways.

jakearchibald.com

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Yoav Weiss @yoav.ws · 26d

Yaaaaaaaaaaay!!

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Yoav Weiss @yoav.ws · Sep 8

Hey! I think Ben Sehl or Max Stoiber may be a better fit for a Liquid chat

x.com/mxstbr x.com/benjaminsehl

x.com

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Barry Pollard @tunetheweb.com · Aug 29

Great post and it's been a pleasure helping @krzksz.bsky.social and @yoav.ws get this working on Shopify.

performance.shopify.com/blogs/blog/s...

Speculation Rules at Shopify

We all love quick and snappy online shopping experiences. Fast navigations from one product page to the next reduce friction and allow people to find all the products they want in that store. To achie...

performance.shopify.com

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Yoav Weiss @yoav.ws · Aug 21

I also agree this makes sense..

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Yoav Weiss @yoav.ws · Aug 8

Dude, just climb all the hills instead of looking at them and you'll be good

Yoav Weiss @yoav.ws · Jul 31

Congrats!!

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Jake Archibald @jakearchibald.com · Jul 31

Starting my new role on Monday. Could be anywhere.

Me, sitting behind a cuddly toy of a fox. Ok it's obviously Firefox.

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Jason Lengstorf @jason.energy · Jun 27

today is my 40th birthday. to toot my own horn a bit, I'm the happiest, healthiest, and most successful I've ever been, so I'm going to indulge myself and do one of those "40 things that made me who I am" threads

so buckle up (or mute me for the next little bit 😆)

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IntentToShip @intenttoship.dev · Jun 19

Blink: Intent to Implement and Ship: Http cookie prefix

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Jake Archibald @jakearchibald.com · Jun 17

CSS uses a complex algorithm to decide how to animate transforms. If you get it wrong, as many folks do, you end up with an unnatural animation.

Here's how it works, and how to avoid the pitfalls.

jakearchibald.com/2025/animati...

Animating zooming using CSS: transform order is important… sometimes

How to get the right transform animation.

jakearchibald.com

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Yoav Weiss @yoav.ws · Jun 12

In case anyone out there is looking for a good-first Chromium bug, issues.chromium.org/issues/42421... is one I'd be happy to mentor someone through..

Chromium

issues.chromium.org

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Yoav Weiss @yoav.ws · Jun 9

For lazy-loaded images, sure. I'd like to avoid delaying the real image loading tho

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Yoav Weiss @yoav.ws · Jun 9

What do y'all think of reviving <img lowsrc>? (as a data URI, used until the real image loads)

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Anthony Frehner @frehner.me · Jun 4

Great video!

Hoping my “Bug Fixes” PR mentioned at 24:20 can make it into WebKit soon 😊

Henri Helvetica 🧑🏾‍🚀🇭🇹 @henrihelvetica.bsky.social · Jun 4

✨ How We Contribute To Browser Standards ✨ by @yoav.ws
The 3rd of the presentations from the #SPDYmeetup 003.
🔸 Yoav shares how his career working on browsers and for browser vendors has now brought him to Shopify, enabling him to address possible shortcomings in standards

🎥 youtu.be/VEYxyNxfqG8

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Henri Helvetica 🧑🏾‍🚀🇭🇹 @henrihelvetica.bsky.social · Jun 4

✨ How We Contribute To Browser Standards ✨ by @yoav.ws
The 3rd of the presentations from the #SPDYmeetup 003.
🔸 Yoav shares how his career working on browsers and for browser vendors has now brought him to Shopify, enabling him to address possible shortcomings in standards

🎥 youtu.be/VEYxyNxfqG8

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Yoav Weiss @yoav.ws · Jun 4

My take on coding LLMs: they have no understanding of concepts and just do pattern matching. But pattern matching goes a looooong way

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Yoav Weiss @yoav.ws · Jun 4

ABB - Always Be Bracing

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Henri Helvetica 🧑🏾‍🚀🇭🇹 @henrihelvetica.bsky.social · Jun 3

✨ Speculation Rules, and Their Effect on Shopify Stores ✨ by @krzksz.bsky.social

🔸 As part of the Growth Services team, Mateusz talks about the team's long journey to implement Speculation Rules at Shopify and, the lessons learned along the way. #SPDYMeetup
🎥 youtu.be/8k2cGNjwJ3c

SPECULATION RULES AND THEIR EFFECT ON SHOPIFY STORES by MATEUSZ KRZESZOWIAK

YouTube video by Henri Helvetica

youtu.be

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Yoav Weiss @yoav.ws · May 31

And I just got back to 30C

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