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Ben Schwarz @benschwarz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

How far ahead browsers fetch lazy images: • Chrome: 1,250px on 4G, 2,500px on 3G, 6,000px (!!) on 2G • Firefox: 600px, on any connection • Safari: one viewport. Lazy iframes: 0px, they wait until on screen

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Lazy Loading Images and Media: How Far Ahead Browsers Fetch

How far ahead Chrome, Firefox and Safari fetch lazy media, why a lazy hero image slows your page, and where to use lazy, eager and fetchpriority.

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John Allsopp @johnfallsopp.com · 26/09/2026

Keep running up that hill… Claude is now inspired by Kate bush

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Kris Howard @web-goddess.org · 26/09/2026

Any Fedi friends participating in tonight’s Sydney Bike Rave? @shermozle @stufromoz ?

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Glenn Fleishman @glennf.com · 22/09/2026

Rotator cuff surgery on Friday! I shall have some days of low function. In unrelated news, did you know I write and sell books? As a self-employed person, this is the means by which I derive my living.

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Store - Aperiodical Publishing Co.

Browse books, ebooks, audiobooks, letterpress prints, and creative projects from Aperiodical Publishing Co.

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John Allsopp @johnfallsopp.com · 15/09/2026

Given my publisher wants 90% of the compensation from the Anthropic settlement, the idea that its creatives who are being short changed is really not accurate.

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Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 10/09/2026

if you wanna be a good trans ally, hire us to good jobs we are way more likely to face financial insecurity, make 60 cents on the dollar compared to our cis counterparts, and a lot of us are *insanely* talented

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Urgent to figure out something better than the subscription model for long form writing. You can’t read anything online anymore

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John Allsopp @johnfallsopp.com · 09/09/2026

One is also self propelling while the other degrades over time.

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John Allsopp @johnfallsopp.com · 09/09/2026

Termination shock by Neal Stephenson is that but for atmospheric sulphide dioxide share.google/384PEwyo9TZX...

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John Allsopp @johnfallsopp.com · 08/09/2026

What does the tokenisation of that look like?

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John Allsopp @johnfallsopp.com · 04/09/2026

Decades ago watching doctor who at a cliff hanger moment the broadcast stopped. I still don’t know how the doctor avoided being ejected into space!

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John Allsopp @johnfallsopp.com · 03/09/2026

The flight paths this morning looked really unusual. Like I never see planes looping over arncliffe

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John Allsopp @johnfallsopp.com · 01/09/2026

Despite being lapsed for decades this still look like an entirely reasonable question to me 🤣

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John Allsopp @johnfallsopp.com · 31/08/2026

This is quite long but addresses a lot of the cost part as well as anyone outside the labs Dylan Patel – Anthropic & OpenAI will have most of the world’s compute by 2028 — Dwarkesh Podcast hopper.webdirections.org/share/aaf663...

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Dylan Patel – Anthropic & OpenAI will have most of the world’s compute by 2028

Dwarkesh interviews Dylan Patel, founder of Semi Analysis, about the rapid growth and centralization of AI compute, projecting that Anthropic and OpenAI will control most of the world's usable compute...

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Steve Baty (He/him) @docbaty.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Conferences done for another year. Next one: June 2027. For now, a bit of a break from organising and hosting and back to focusing on design research and writing.

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John Allsopp @johnfallsopp.com · 28/08/2026

Run a meetup or a community for people building with AI? December 6–13 is the best week you'll ever have to run it — NeurIPS is in Sydney, AI Engineer Sydney is on. We'll list it, promote it, send people your way. Costs nothing, stays yours. aiweek.com.au/host

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John Allsopp @johnfallsopp.com · 27/08/2026

Why are anthropic models in particular obsessed with rooms?

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John Allsopp @johnfallsopp.com · 26/08/2026

AI Week Melbourne had two hackathons, one from Google DeepMind. Vercel brought their Sydney AI Meetup down with Maincode. Microsoft, Atlassian and Zendesk all hosted events. Sydney is Dec 6–13, with NeurIPS in town. Want your company in it? Now's the time to talk. aiweek.com.au/partners

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John Allsopp @johnfallsopp.com · 24/08/2026

Most of AI Week Sydney hasn't been announced yet. The conference and the Hack Day are locked in. The meetups, workshops and evening events land between now and December. Sign up and we'll email you as each is confirmed: aiweek.com.au

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John Allsopp @johnfallsopp.com · 23/08/2026

Curiously cmd-0 will often fix it!

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Charity Majors @charity.wtf · 20/08/2026

the first in a 3-part series on @honeycomb.io's AI norms and values is up. this one is called "How We Do Business at Honeycomb." www.honeycomb.io/blog/ai-norm... values are not supposed to be aspirational slogans. values should codify how things actually work. this is how it works at ours.

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AI Norms & Values, Part 1 of 3: How We Do Business

AI amplifies what's already there, it doesn't fix or ruin you. Charity Majors on a year of Honeycomb's AI mandate and the values behind how we do business.

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John Allsopp @johnfallsopp.com · 20/08/2026

AI Week Melbourne brought two dozen AI events to the city in a week. So we're bringing it to Sydney: December 6–13. Conferences, hack days, meetups, workshops — from AI Engineer, our partners, and maybe even you. NeurIPS is in town the same week. aiweek.com.au

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Igalia @igalia.com · 14/08/2026

🎙️ New Episode of Igalia Chats State of CSS 2026: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly @bkardell.com and @meyerweb.com discuss the results of State of CSS 2026 www.igalia.com/chats/state-...

A sandy colored title card that says the same. There is a photo of the a cowboy in the sunset in the lower left and "sound-waves" are visualized emanating from it

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John Allsopp @johnfallsopp.com · 12/08/2026

Part of me thinks it’s going to be Rick Astley since that’s about a serious as the US Middle East policy has been for a long time

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Annie Sexton @anniesexton.com · 11/08/2026

This is the coolest article I've ever written. Genuinely. All of you should read it.

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John Allsopp @johnfallsopp.com · 11/08/2026

Since then we’ve seen attempts to reboot political correctness. Before ‘woke’ we had cultural Marxism, social justice warriors, cancel culture. All the same. Confected terms. Wokeness has stuck a bit harder than anything since PC. But like all the others a whole lotta nothing

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John Allsopp @johnfallsopp.com · 11/08/2026

Papers likes the NYT, Washington Post, the times, the guardian. In terms of actual substantive issues the same handful of minor squabbles at minor American colleges kept coming up. In short this scourge of civilization amounted to close to nothing of substance.

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John Allsopp @johnfallsopp.com · 11/08/2026

In the early 90s I did a project to document the horrors of political correctness. It was pre web. I went through major global newspapers looking for stories about political correctness (on microfiche at the state library of NSW)

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John Allsopp @johnfallsopp.com · 10/08/2026

Bending spoons also own Vimeo and just got an email to say my cost to use that is about to go up 7x or so. I knew this day was coming the money bending spoons bought them and have prepared accordingly

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John Allsopp @johnfallsopp.com · 10/08/2026

And on cue, I've just been told in one month I'll be paying six times as much for Vimeo as I have been. Well, in fact, I'll be playing zero times as much ;-) I knew this was coming the moment they were bought by Bending Spoons and have been planning accordingly.

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Steve Baty (He/him) @docbaty.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Here's a podcast we recorded with @democrats.org.au back in 2023 about it: podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/k...

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John Allsopp @johnfallsopp.com · 10/08/2026

Every year someone asks why we don't run multiple tracks. Honest answer: multi-track quietly hands you a worse day. Single track means the whole room shares the same three days. Sydney, 26–28 Aug: webdirections.org/uxaustralia/...

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John Allsopp @johnfallsopp.com · 09/08/2026

Honestly a couple of hours and a decent LLM and you’ll have your own version for next to nothing a month.

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