With Twitter's change in ownership last week, I'm probably in the clear to talk about the most unethical thing I was asked to build while working at Twitter.
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We added priority hints <img fetchpriority="high"> to the main image of the @eBay item page and immediately saw an LCP improvement of ~150ms (Chrome). This is easily one of the most effortless speed wins for us. Truly a 1-line change @ebaytech. #velocity
I've found a lot of the existing fediverse guides to be pretty long. So here's a 5-minute guide to understanding how to use Mastodon and the fediverse, that covers the most important points: https://t.co/PS3OZGdsTi
✔️ Elon Musk paid $54.20/share for Twitter because he thought it was a funny pot joke
✔️ If he'd paid $54.00/share, he'd have saved ~$160 million
✔️ $160 million = revenue from a year of 1.7 million people paying $8/month
Ie, 1.7 million people will be paying for Musk's joke
i spent so much time working on a syntect adapter for comrak that lets me use my own CSS classes that i forgot to write the CSS classes and got confused when nothing was showing up
fearless ~~concurrency~~ matching over a variable count of values in a &[T] in a way that would be made optimal with `Iterator::next_chunk::<T: const usize>` but isn't yet stable
hi #rust#rustlang folks how can I improve this so I can't accidentally forget to move `input` forward and end up in an infinite loop? https://t.co/1zllhWB7DX