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Dan Gayle

@dangayle.bsky.social
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Web perf at Shopify, musician, lifelong antagonist of puppers

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henry ✷ @strange.website · 20/01/2026
my precious boy. my moonbeam child, my wave upon the sand. if the only thing keeping people from thinking your writing is LLM-generated is that it has em dashes in it. the problem is not the em dashes
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Dan Gayle @dangayle.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Wrote a new blog post detailing some of the tools we use at Shopify to help in our performance work. performance.shopify.com/blogs/blog/w...
performance.shopify.com
Web Performance Tools for 2026
The essential web performance toolkit for 2026. Real user data, AI-powered analysis, Chrome DevTools, and programmatic access via GraphQL.
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Andrew Lisowski 💻 @hipstersmoothie.com · 05/01/2026
It's pretty funny that the Hollywood representation of coding (lines of code flying past on a screen) has retroactively become a real thing
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Dan Gayle @dangayle.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
I think the issue a lot of devs have with AI is that they haven’t realized that they’re project managers now. PMs don’t write the code for their projects, they herd developers who are probabilistic, idiosyncratic, who interpret requirements differently, etc. It’s all been shifted one layer deeper.
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Dan Gayle @dangayle.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
So… my cat Phyllis peed on some clothes on the floor in my bedroom. I trusted you Phyllis, I fed you and protected you from the dog, and this is how you repay me?
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Joan León @nucliweb.net · 20/11/2025
I've updated the WebPerf Snippet "Find non Lazy Loaded Images outside of the viewport" to list images without loading="lazy". Now it shows: - Total number of images - Total file size - Individual details: URL, resolution & file size #WebPerf #WebPerfSnippets #PerfTools
Chrome DevTools Console showing lazy loading audit results: 46 images without lazy loading detected, totaling 4.34 MB, with a list displaying the first 5 images showing their resolution (900x600) and individual file sizes ranging from 14.63 KB to 104.76 KB.
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Dan Gayle @dangayle.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
pseudonymized sounds like a dirty word www.theverge.com/news/823750/...
theverge.com
Europe is scaling back its landmark privacy and AI laws
The EU folds under Big Tech’s pressure.
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Dan Gayle @dangayle.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
I’m at 98/100 in my remote Physical Geography course at Minnesota North college, I could quit now and get a 70% or C grade. The temptation is real.
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Dan Gayle @dangayle.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
I was playing Nick Harrison’s “Art Official Soul” on Spotify and my wife said “how dare you bring that into my house.” For those who don’t know, it’s 100% AI-generated covers of songs done in an old-school soul style. I said “but does it sound good?” And her response? “I don’t care.” Fatality.
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Wes Bos @wesbos.com · 23/10/2025
Don't [...spread] or .split() your strings! Use Intl.Segmenter API. Available in every JS runtime
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Dan Gayle @dangayle.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
See, I knew there must have been a greater purpose in making ChatGPT widely available to the unwashed masses like me. How else would I have learned this nugget of traditional Chinese medicine?
between diarrhea and constipation, which would most correspond to yin and yang?

In traditional Chinese medicine terms (very roughly mapped):

Diarrhea aligns with excess yin or deficient yang. Reason: loose stools, cold symptoms, lack of digestive “fire,” fluids moving too quickly.

Constipation aligns with excess yang or deficient yin. Reason: dryness, heat, slowed movement, too little moisture to lubricate the bowels.

It’s not a perfect one-to-one, but that’s the standard correspondence.
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Dan Gayle @dangayle.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Just fired up the Zed editor for the first time. I like it so far. Ported over my MCP settings and configured it to use Shopify’s internal AI proxies, and it’s cooking.
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Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
It's an artistic representation of a circulatory system walking through a kitchen, as drawn by Dave Gibbons and written about by Alan Moore.
It happens a lot 'round here.
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Dan Gayle @dangayle.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Do I feel bad that I’m spending valuable energy resources arguing in bad faith with ChatGPT about aliens? A little.
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Dan Gayle @dangayle.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
I am really loving the Rust language. I like how it forces me to be technically correct, which is the best kind of correct. And it’s not so hard, really. I thought so back before I learned Typescript and a little C#, but now I realize the difficulty for me was always types, coming from Python and JS
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Dan Gayle @dangayle.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
My one college class that I’m enrolled in hangs over me every week. Just like in days of yore, I put it off until the last minute and cram it through at the last second. Never change, Dan. Never change.
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DebugBear @debugbear.com · 05/11/2025
Chrome Canary now supports network throttling for individual request URLs! Learn how to try out this new feature: www.debugbear.com/blog/chrome-...
debugbear.com
How To Throttle Specific Requests In Chrome DevTools | DebugBear
Learn how to delay individual requests in Chrome DevTools. Debug performance issues or bugs that happen when specific resources are delayed.
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Dan Gayle @dangayle.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Getting an incredible email from a client praising my work on their behalf exactly a day AFTER my half-yearly review is exactly how life works.
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Dan Gayle @dangayle.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
My wife got us the greatest (to me) AirBNB while we were in Amsterdam. #amsterdam #perfnow
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Dan Gayle @dangayle.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Late stage capitalism at its finest
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Dan Gayle @dangayle.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Yeah, shutting that off. #linkedin
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Dan Gayle @dangayle.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
I’m hopeful about this!
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Dan Gayle @dangayle.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
After my trip to Amsterdam, I think I’m ok on Heineken beer for… basically ever. But, as my boss said, there’s a difference between Heineken and free Heineken.
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Dan Gayle @dangayle.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
So many things to catch up on while I was out at @perfnow.nl: - @cursor.com.web.brid.gy Cursor 2.0 dropped, I'm excited to work with their new agent flow - @cloudflare.social dropped Telescope, a fledgeling replacement for WPT (RIP). github.com/cloudflare/t... - I've decided to learn @rust-lang.org
github.com
GitHub - cloudflare/telescope: Cross-browser web performance testing agent
Cross-browser web performance testing agent. Contribute to cloudflare/telescope development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Dan Gayle @dangayle.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
New to Bluesky. We'll see. Most social media is a cesspool these days.
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