Web Dev, Web Perf, and Web Platform Articles

🕸️ Web Dev, Web Perf, and Web Platform Articles

All the samples, thoughts, podcasts, and words I’ve written about working on the web. If you’re interested testing the edges of the latest spec, developing a new web component, or the pure adrenaline of web performance, this is the place for you.

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lite-youtube Web Component v1.6 Released

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Hacking the BFT Gate Control Panel with a Nest Doorbell and a Progressive Web App

• 4 min read

Share to Mastodon Web Component v2.0 Released

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Terrible Tiktok Embed Web Performance and my Imperfect Web Component Solution

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Do Not Call It a Comeback: The Web Platform Podcast Returns

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Syndication from Mastodon to Twitter, a Holiday of Good Will

• 4 min read

ARM64 M1 Silicon Chromium Build Added to Chrome-Headless Docker Container

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Beware the Search Results Phishing for your Holiday Gift Cards

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Lighthouse Github Action Version 3 Released

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The Case of the Seemingly Innocuous Change That Wrecked My Web Performance

• 7 min read

lite-youtube Web Component Goes 1.0, Offers More Features

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Pulling Google Scholar Citation Counts with a Zotero Plugin for Sorting Papers

• 5 min read

Deep Into That Darkness (Mode) Peering

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Upgrading My Web Components to Lit 2.0

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Defining a Custom Trusted Types Policy for a Workbox Service Worker

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Passing on the Latest Wave of Wearable Technology

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Reducing Writing Friction With Archetype Defaults in Hugo and Blog-Pwa

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Mr. Varied Interest or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Ignore the SEO

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Replacing Firebase Web Performance Monitoring with Core Web Vitals and Google Analytics

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The Pains of Surfing the Web on a Four Year Old Google Pixel

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share-to-mastodon web component released

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Building module web workers for cross browser compatibility with rollup

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Handling web components and drag and drop with event.composedPath()

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lite-youtube v0.9 released

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blog-pwa gets a speed bump

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Faster YouTube embeds with lite-youtube web component

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Fail a PR based on any audit score with v1.1.0 of Web Performance Audits with Lighthouse Github Action

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Web Performance Audits with Lighthouse for Github Actions Released

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Six Months Using Firebase Web Performance Monitoring

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Generating a Simple Font Report With a Devtools Snippet

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Generating Video From a Chrome Devtools Trace With devtools-to-video

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Web Components Have Already Won Whether You Like It Or Not

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Improving RSS Reader Support and Adding New Topic Feeds

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The Four Cases of Progressive Rendering Fallbacks for Progressive Web Apps

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Adding Webmention support to a Progressive Web App

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Workaround for Karma and Chrome headless on Windows Subsystem for Linux, ala WSL

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Three Reasons You Betrayed Your Modern Web Tooling

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Ghosting the Socials and Expanding My Open Web Existence

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Setting Up Mastodon on Google Cloud Platform

• 13 min read

Visual Studio Code extension update for LitElement snippets and new Pack available

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The Difference Between Your Job and My Profession

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blog-pwa Moves to GAE Python 3.7 Runtime and Other Updates

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Fighting with Dynatrace to Send Custom User Timings with Performance Observer

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Bringing legacy web apps forward with three great web platform APIs

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Building a tiny PWA for calculating depth of field for my film cameras

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Experimental barcode-reader web component released

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stl-part-viewer web component updated to v1.0

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code-block v0.1 web component released

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Using Lighthouse, Puppeteer, and Jest for Web Performance Testing

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Updating blog-pwa from Polymer to LitElement, Workbox, and Rollup

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Working around polymer modulizer errors with object rest spread properties

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Tiny PWAs and why I keep building them

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Discovering the websites that never went away

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Running progressive web apps on your intranet with TLS from Lets Encrypt

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Added release tags for chrome-headless docker container

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Added CSS quickfix and error reporting to lit-html-plugin for VS Code

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How to debug a custom language service plugin for VS Code

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Added CSS intellisense to lit-html-plugin for VS Code

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Running lighthouse audits in VS Code via tasks

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stl-part-viewer web component released

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Added svg support to lit-html VS code extension

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Chromium: long time compiler, first time committer

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Experimental Chrome DevTools theme released, green block cursor edition

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Polymer v2/v3 Snippets 1.0 released

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Running Web Components Remote Conference

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Your framework preaching offends my developer religion

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Endangered desert tortoises and IoT Devfest Arizona

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Published ga-dnt-analytics to webcomponents.org

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Experimenting with a progressive web app blog

• 16 min read

Controlling home devices with the Physical Web and Progressive Web Apps

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Thoughts on progressive web apps on the desktop

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Progressive Web Apps and Social Networks: helping linkbot scrapers

• 8 min read

Testing WebNFC in Chromium

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New Progressive Web App: Is Justin Talking?

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Interviewing Rob Dodson about Polymer roadmap 2016

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More talking all over the place

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Getting Blesh beacons to advertise Eddystone URL and UID

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Ginger WebGL as a Progressive Web App

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A whirlwind of talks and events

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My talk at Google I/O on Polymer and Firebase

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Tracking uplink network throughput with SNMP to Firebase to Polymer

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Slidedeck and codelabs for Firebase

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Guest post on Tap into NFC developer blog

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Getting started with Service Worker

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A basic issue viewer Chrome extension codelab

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Chrome Dev Summit recap: ServiceWorker, Polymer, and TLS

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Using a Yubikey Neo as a security key in Chrome for two factor auth

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glass-timer implementation in polymer

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Slides and materials for GDG DevFest Fresno

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Checking for weak SSL SHA-1 certificates

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Attending Perf like a Pirate at SFHTML5 this month

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Thumbor and the case of the 405 method not allowed

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Google Domains: a better experience

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Attending Edgeconf in September

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Thoughts on Google I/O

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Serving Responsive Images via Google Cloud Storage and Images Python API

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New sample Glassware: Using a Task Queue to send future cards

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New sample Glassware: Daily Glass Card with App Engine Cron

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App Engine task queue and ngrok, with a splash of commenting out ModuleDoesNotExistError exception

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