I've been pretty lax about keeping up with the webperf slack, but this was in the scrollback from March, and I love that it shows so directly how understanding the rendering engine unlocks better experiences for everyone, not just folks on low-spec machines and networks:

Granola

Don't animate height!

Every engineer worthy of the title adopts one unshakeable article of faith: POPULARITY IS NOT A QUALITY METRIC

Things I would like every young web engineer to learn: - anything you can do in CSS + HTML, you *should* do in CSS - *framework du jour* is not a platform, it's a high-interest loan against your future capacity. The platform is the platform - understanding the memory hierarchy *always* matters - client-side isn't easier than the server, and "generalists" usually suck at client-side. Mind the (packet) gap - managers who are not technical are not useful - put users first, always

Safari at WWDC '25: The Ghost of Christmas Past

Infrequently Noted

Safari at WWDC '25: The Ghost of Christmas Past - Infrequently Noted

Alex Russell on browsers, standards, and the process of progress.

React: cheap, fast, good; choose none.

Lots of folks fell for the "DOM is slow" marketing of certain frameworks, but DOM isn't slow. *Uncontrolled style read-back* is. But what if that wasn't a thing? Looking for feedback on a new proposal to control layout thrashing here: 📃.md

Jeffery Goldberg had the most secure device in the chat...do I have that right?

Some good signs from the No Kings protest in SF.

Hey Econ profession, is fiddling with the econometric data a *good* sign for a nation's future prosperity?

AP News

The Trump administration may exclude government spending from GDP, obscuring the impact of DOGE cuts

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says he could take government spending out of his agency's reports on gross domestic product.

Go get 'em, @npub1wpvz...rz2s