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Brendan Kenny

@brendankenny.bsky.social

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Formerly lighthouse and web performance on Chrome. Open source, maths, Typescript nonsense, and bird stuff, apparently

Brendan Kenny @brendankenny.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Did not recognize this grumpy muppet of a bird until it engaged its afterburners. I've never seen one inside city limits before!

A grumpy looking bird with streaked brown and white feathers looks through a wire fence

A roadrunner striding across a driveway, its spiky head crest raised and its long tail feathers sticking straight up in the air

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Brendan Kenny @brendankenny.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

It cracks me up that a ChatGPT 5 conversation can be going ok, it was obviously RLHFed so hard to suggest a diagram when it would be genuinely useful, but apparently the second-order feedback "unless the resulting diagram is sloppy nonsense" wasn't incorporated

A ChatGPT conversation. ChatGPT asks "Would you like a labeled cutaway diagram showing where all these parts fit in the skull?", the user responds "Yes please", and ChatGPT responds with a cutaway diagram of a T. Rex head, with nonsense labels like two different brains, the eyeball labelled "Opit", and some part—maybe the ocular muscles, I really have no idea—labelled "Brale".

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Barry Pollard @tunetheweb.com · 27/11/2024

Yes it's time to say good by to the Performance Insights panel and get back to having one Performance panel—with the best of both worlds! Read more from @brendankenny.bsky.social here: developer.chrome.com/blog/insight...

A somber Oppenheimer on the left with the label: Chrome removing the Performance Insights panel.
A delighted Barbie on the right with the label: Chrome adding even better insights to the Performance panel!

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