Andy Davies
@andydavies
Web Performance Consultant @speedcurve.com (acquired by @embrace.io) Vegetable grower… Eurorack synth dabbler… Bristol Bears Women’s fan
Somewhat unexpectedly my @countbinface.bsky.social tee arrived before #emfcamp
TIL that Vercel games TTFB by sending a useless Early Hint Early Hints are designed to send hints that allow the browser to preconnect to domains or preload other resources while it's waiting for the HTML payload to be delivered
Wish I didn’t have an eye for noticing things like this Now I’ve seen the misaligned panel I can’t unsee it
Unexpected things you find hiding behind your front door… No idea where it came from (live 1/2 mile from the canal) and no sign of any parents
Know we’re running short on clean mugs when the Underscore Christmas Party mug comes out Underscore was (still is?) an email list for webby people around Bristol… many years ago some folks (can’t remember who) decided to organise a Christmas Party so we could get together IRL
@johnwards.bsky.social Saw this in Fuerteventura earlier in the week… and thought you’d like it
Noodling away by the pool… making plenty of nice tunes but buggered if I can get the arpeggiator to work on this thing though
How it started… how it finished… Spent the morning ironing the contents of our laundry basket… Needed some short sleeve shirts to go on holiday and they’ve been in there since we went on holiday last Sept!
Helped @ninjanails.bsky.social acquire her next door neighbour’s greenhouse It wouldn’t go down the side of the house without coming apart and we didn’t fancy taking it apart so over the fence it went
Definitely not running on gas… Right now 21% of the UK’s electricity is coming solar, 60% from wind, 11% from nuclear and 3% from gas
When life gives you carrots make carrotaide! Making carrot and corriander soup as @ninjanails.bsky.social came to visit and gave me some carrots from her allotment
Noticed this ages ago but now can’t unsee it… Numerals on the Technogym machines at my local gym have inconsistent heights
Gotta love OpenReach… of all the days they choose to close our lane for work they chose bin day
Didn’t realise you can just peel the back off a modern debit card Mag strips, signature strip and numbers are all on a thin film that comes off in one piece
Thursday lunchtime experiment… will lactase allow me to eat cheese on toast again? @ninjanails.bsky.social bought me some lactase and cheese for Christmas (unfortunately I left the cheese in her fridge so had to buy more)
AI summaries… so confident and yet so wrong… Bristol Bears beat the Bulls 61-49!
I’ll have a deeper look later but rendering seems quite broken on my iPad Mini (iOS 18.6.2) Rendering gets delayed when scrolling… if I enable my content blocker then often those chunks never get rendered at all
O… Y… O… Y… O… Y… DevTools… (Notice there's no option to say go away and don't darken my door again)
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.
Was sorting through some boxes and found old media… Following what was happening with Thrust SSC is one of the first things I remember using the internet for
I'm not a visual designer but there's somethings that even I can't un-see
It's funny to see @dalevince.com wingeing about the cost of the dual carriageway that's needed for Forest Green Rovers new ground as if it's something new stroudtimes.com/road-woes-st... The proposal he originally submitted in 2016 clearly showed they were proposing to dual the A419
We need more trains like this… Currently on the way back from Amsterdam but why can’t I do Gloucester to Glasgow at this speed?
On my way to Amsterdam for #PerfNow First train of the day is the somewhat delayed 07.19 under a very clear Stonehouse sky