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Patrick Meenan

@patmeenan.com

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Web performance geek on the Chrome team at Google. Formerly WebPageTest, Meta, Cloudflare, AOL...

Patrick Meenan @patmeenan.com · 19/08/2026

Anecdotally it feels similar from the parts of Chrome I'm in the triage loop on but still not calm by any means. I'm not sure that trend holds across the wider ecosystem though. Here's the recent CVE trending for Chrome:

CVE rates for Chrome showing a sharp ramp up from March through June and a drop in July. From https://cve.meenan.dev/

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Patrick Meenan @patmeenan.com · 30/03/2026

XKCD programmer excuse cartoon, where the #1 programmer excuse for legitimately slacking off was changed from "compiling" to "token budget exhausted".

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Patrick Meenan @patmeenan.com · 29/03/2026

Still a ways to go but not bad for 2 days "work". 100% client processed and rendered (to canvas with dynamic sizing) waterfalls, taking WPT json, HAR, netlog, chrome trace or raw tcpdump. And the tcpdump will decrypt TLS and decode HTTP 1, 3 and QUIC (including out of order reassembly).

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Patrick Meenan @patmeenan.com · 03/12/2024

Spotted in the wild - Dictionary content-encoding for display ads. Pretty sure the feature usage chart for dictionary encoding is about to take a pretty big jump.

Dev tools network log showing dcb content-encoding for doubleclick requests.

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