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“We’re going to animate the living shit out of this” — this phrase will now live in my head rent free forever. @cydstumpel.nl @jsheroes.io

Cyd presenting an example conference website with scroll driven animations

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Pausing, slowing down and inspecting view-transitions in the DOM within DevTools is an absolute super power 👏🏻 @cydstumpel.nl @jsheroes.io

Cyd showing Chrome DevTools with animation paused and the view-transition pseudo element in the inspector

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@cydstumpel.nl is giving me so much slide design AND website design jealousy @jsheroes.io 😍

Cyd presenting with her slides showing a stylistic browser window design

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Ryan Townsend @twnsnd.com · 27/04/2026

Romania really pulled out all the stops on the weather for @jsheroes.io 😍

View of the hills surrounding Cluj with clear blue skies and lush greenery

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Little bug with the green header on this table, looks like overlapping text:

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Ryan Townsend @twnsnd.com · 18/04/2026

I’ve said it a million times and I’ll say it a million more: Poland is so underrated. Thanks for having me @wrocloverb.com ❤️

Wroclaw city centre with churches and buildings on the river

Pierogi covered in pickles, bacon and herbs

A boat on the river with beautiful buildings behind

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Ryan Townsend @twnsnd.com · 14/04/2026

"You can connect the Magic Mouse via a USB-to-Lightning cable to a USB switch that toggles between your two Macs." Yeah... about that, Claude 🙃

A Magic Mouse connected via cable attached to its underneath

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Ryan Townsend @twnsnd.com · 02/03/2026

Super excited to announce today I joined @cloudflare.social as a Principal Product Manager to work on RUM & Web Analytics with the Speed team! 🏎️💨 Buzzing to be working with @tkadlec.bsky.social and @sergeyche.dev, among many other fantastic folk 🙌

I've joined Cloudflare to help build a better internet

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“Performance is an underrated form of accessibility” YES @mikehall314.bsky.social 👏🏻

“Performance is accessibility” on Mike’s slide

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“We’re just widening this gap” – @zachleat.com #SotB2026

Zach showing the impact of SPAs on the delay of interactivity

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@zachleat.com’s “interactivity dead zone” between rendering and interactivity is why I’ve always been so bullish on Progressive Enhancement, and more recently Invoker Commands and other declarative APIs.

Zach on stage describing the time between rendering and JavaScript arriving for interactivity

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It’s wild that (no longer necessary) JavaScript dating back to the Dreamweaver days is still being so widely-used today. @zachleat.com making me feel very old at #SotB2026

Zach on stage showing GitHub search results for ‘MM_swapImage’

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Ryan Townsend @twnsnd.com · 04/02/2026

If you’ve been confused by CSS anchor positioning, you really must watch @bram.us’s talk from #SotB2026 It’s demystified a lot for me and we’re only halfway through!

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For anyone attending #AllDayHey in May: brunch at Galleria is a must. Ditch your hotel breakfast, Chef Andy’s food is worth delaying your train home for. It’s a personal battle for me to not choose the shakshouka every time, but the whole menu is unreal.

Shakshouka with baked eggs, harissa and saffron spiced tomato, labneh, avo and flatbread. Plus an extra side of Cumberland sausage 😉

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Ryan Townsend @twnsnd.com · 14/01/2026

It also came through pretty amusingly in Feedbin 😅

Article entry entitled "Introducing the HTML element"

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Ryan Townsend @twnsnd.com · 14/01/2026

This looks great! FYI there's a broken Markdown link under the progressive enhancement section:

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Ryan Townsend @twnsnd.com · 11/01/2026

Love your new insights section! Mainly because it's glazing me more and more every week 😅

AI Insight. Executive summary for this report: Our website's Core Web Vitals show a strong positive trend, with LCP improving by 0.227 seconds to an excellent 0.981 seconds since the last report. This significant load speed enhancement directly improves user experience, bolstering engagement and conversion rates. Our CLS and TBT metrics remain perfectly optimized, maintaining an exceptional overall performance. Sustaining these top-tier speeds ensures a competitive advantage and reinforces user trust for continued business growth.

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Ryan Townsend @twnsnd.com · 08/01/2026

This is very cool: the app you use to configure the keyboard (remap keys etc) is a web app 🎉 🎉 🎉 Sadly, it's Chromium-only as it relies on the USB API which is unsupported in Safari & Firefox 😔

Google Chrome screenshot showing the Keychron keyboard configuration application

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Ryan Townsend @twnsnd.com · 08/01/2026

It came with some freebie custom keycaps... is this duck typing? 🤔

Custom keycaps including a duck, thumbs up, wave, fist bump and peace sign.

The duck key cap mounted on the edge of the keyboard

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Ryan Townsend @twnsnd.com · 08/01/2026

✅ First completely necessary purchase of the year: a ceramic keyboard

The box of the Keychron Q16 HE 8K keyboard

The keyboard itself, with it's ceramic keycaps glistening in the light

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Ryan Townsend @twnsnd.com · 18/12/2025

The only commit checks out.

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Ryan Townsend @twnsnd.com · 05/12/2025

Hello from 3200m, -15°c 📍Les Deux Alpes glacier

Ryan holding his snowboard on the Les Deux Alpes glacier with Mont Blanc in the background

View over Les Deux Alpes, with clouds covering some of the mountains

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Ryan Townsend @twnsnd.com · 20/11/2025

You’ve given me the curse too now 😭

Rise&Fall Instagram advert starting with “We’re Sorry”

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Ryan Townsend @twnsnd.com · 03/11/2025

When you have poor signal, the Bluesky app becomes more true to its name.

An iPhone screenshot showing nothing more than a blue gradient.

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Ryan Townsend @twnsnd.com · 31/10/2025

In my opinion, any SWE writing client-side JavaScript has a responsibility to understand the Event Loop. @jakearchibald.com’s ‘In The Loop’ talk is required watching: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCOL... (cited by @andydavies.me at #perfnow)

Andy on stage with a slide reading “Need a refresher on the Event Loop” and citing Jake’s 2018 talk.

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Ryan Townsend @twnsnd.com · 31/10/2025

“~200 bytes of JavaScript that can wreck your performance” – @andydavies.me explaining download size doesn’t always correlate to runtime performance at #perfnow #webperf

Andy on stage with a slide showing JavaScript code that blocks the main thread for 500ms every time the mouse moves

A slide that reads “Runtime costs are a hidden danger”

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Ryan Townsend @twnsnd.com · 30/10/2025

“What happens when you want to center a div in Chrome?” — @michael-hladky.bsky.social at #perfnow This would make a great interview question that would give a variety of different answers. #webperf

Michael on stage at Perf Now 2025. His slide shows a workflow diagram of steps in the rendering process.

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Ryan Townsend @twnsnd.com · 16/10/2025

Northern UK developers: join us tonight in Manchester for a talk on scaling to support hundreds of millions in client transaction volume. It contains a lot of framework-agnostic advice, so non-Ruby developers stand to learn a thing or two too!

A presentation slide with the title "Millions on Rails: a two-decade retrospective on scaling with Rails"

Ryan Townsend @twnsnd.com · 09/10/2025

Exactly the response I had when I went last year, “holy shit, the photos don’t lie!” Unreal.

Me looking out over a Swiss mountain range

A view looking down from Männlichen to Grindelwald

An evening photograph of low cloud sweeping the mountains above Grindelwald

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Ryan Townsend @twnsnd.com · 09/10/2025

Is this mob programming?

Two ragdolls resting on my right arm on my desk

Ryan Townsend @twnsnd.com · 17/09/2025

The #1 reason to upgrade to iOS 26… particularly in the UK, spam has been epidemic recently.

The “Screen Unknown Callers” settings in iOS 26, options being “Never”, “Ask Reason for Calling” and “Silence”

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Ryan Townsend @twnsnd.com · 12/09/2025

At Goodwood, the Red Bull team did so many doughnuts in that electric Ford that the cabin filled with smoke and they had to open the door to let it out 😅

Red Bull liveried electric Ford with a smoke-filled cabin and the door open.

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Ryan Townsend @twnsnd.com · 18/08/2025

I didn't ask, but... cool? Just generate the CLI command please.

A screenshot from VSCode showing Copilot responding to a prompt saying "My name is GitHub Copilot"

Ryan Townsend @twnsnd.com · 04/08/2025

My friends over at RUMvision.com have sent me a lovely gift. I think my boys love it as much as I do, though they are mostly interested in fighting over occupation of the box. Thank you @jordyscholing.bsky.social, @erwinhofman.bsky.social and @karlijnlowik.bsky.social ❤️

Blue point ragdoll cat (Sidney) sitting in a cardboard box

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Ryan Townsend @twnsnd.com · 28/07/2025

HMU if you want any photos from Goodwood I have… a few.

Screenshot of Apple Photos albums, with Goodwood 2025 having 406 photos

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Ryan Townsend @twnsnd.com · 25/07/2025

Don't make me point at the sign.

An edited XKCD cartoon based on https://xkcd.com/927/

The title is "How JavaScript Proliferates", with the first slide stating "Situation: there are 14 competing libraries", the middle slide saying "14?! I should definitely make a better one from scratch rather than putting in effort to patch an existing one" and the final slide stating "Soon: Situation: there are 15 competing libraries"

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Ryan Townsend @twnsnd.com · 15/07/2025

Dua Lipa took a passenger ride in her green & red liveried GT3RS. Definitely damaged my hearing spectating from the flint wall section behind the hay bales 🥲 Unfortunately I didn’t notice my shutter speed was too high so the cars in these photos look static except the Pagani.

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Ryan Townsend @twnsnd.com · 15/07/2025

Fun to see a variant of my car ripping it up and down all day as the course car. Porsche had their 1 of 1 Sonderwunsch 911 (993) Speedster at the stand.

Porsche GT4 course car on the Goodwood hill climb track

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Ryan Townsend @twnsnd.com · 15/07/2025

🏁 Any car nerds in my network? I just got back from my first Goodwood Festival of Speed. Witnessed some utterly incredible vehicles many of which worth more than my house.

Front of the Singer 911 Carrera Coupe Restomod

Interior of the Singer 911 Carrera Coupe Restomod

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Ryan Townsend @twnsnd.com · 10/07/2025

Who knew @bell.bz was such a fantastic copywriter?! 👌 #frontendnorth

Andy Bell presenting a slide for an imaginary website. The copy reads “World class accounting, our accountants will help you avoid paying fair levels of tax.” and “we are a corporation, we’re not like the others, we promise.”

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Ryan Townsend @twnsnd.com · 08/07/2025

Yes! Another believer! I used to compete with my barista over who could get the perfect separation 😅

Pouring an espresso tonic using a cocktail muddle to retain the separation

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Ryan Townsend @twnsnd.com · 25/06/2025

Can't wait to add a 5th lanyard to my @perfnow.nl collection – no conference comes close to it's #webperf line-up each year, a privilege to learn from the absolute best.

Four performance.now lanyards laid on a wood table

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Ryan Townsend @twnsnd.com · 27/05/2025

Imagine your website serving just 73mb of data across 152,000 requests... that an average of just 503 bytes! And yes, that included images! (sidenote: anyone want to buy some spacer gifs? I've got directories full of them!)

A web server report for traffic on a redacted domain name.

A pie chart illustrating request extension, buckets include '.php', '.jpg', '.gif', 'directories', '.css' and 'Other' in order of popularity.