Ben Schwarz
@benschwarz
Founder & Product developer @calibreapp.com. Into sustainability, online privacy, cycling, photography, music, hiking, native country and creative pursuits 🌞
@puppeteer/browsers is almost at 100M downloads per month. All able to run on cheaper, cooler silicon 😇
Booked a 10 day cycling trip in Japan, plan is to ride the Shimanami Kaido, ride an event, hop islands, go to Dogo onsen, eat a lot and ride ride ride
Follow up: Here’s a website that visualises where age verification rollouts have occurred social-media-age-tracker.onrender.com
AWS has a new sustainability view for water allocation based on usage in your account. Using this, you can gain another insight into your organisations environmental impact See more: aws.amazon.com/blogs/infras...
I like @feross.bsky.social, great guy and also socket is great for monitoring and auditing dependencies, but also: ahhhhhhhhh frontend JS ecosystem is stacks on stacks of compromises.
Rolled up on this mob yesterday. Rare white kangaroo, and the buff stuff big boi too
Can't even see some arty films without your PII getting leaked. Australia desperately needs better privacy and security laws.
🦋 Is this, the best near-zero effort, near-free image compression control for your PRs? Probably yes. github.com/calibreapp/i...
Couple of all veg meals I made this last week and really enjoyed: Shallot tarte tatin /w orange, radicchio walnut salad Braised leeks with lentil ragu
For visitors to ryanair.com, LCP will be worse based on how far away you are from home base ✈︎ LCP ranges from 2 seconds in the UK to 5.3 seconds in New Zealand. calibreapp.com/tools/core-w...
🗺️ 👀 Updated: @calibreapp.com’s free Core Web Vitals report, now with GLOBAL performance data to help see the full picture Check those maps 🤤 Get yours here: calibreapp.com/tools/core-w... Video of IKEA’s very impressive report, calibreapp.com/tools/core-w...
The dynamic share cards are a particular highlight. - Fetches Core Web Vitals - Ranks sites - Uses Calibre’s favicon CDN ⇢ Nice looking share image. Cached at the edge, and re-generated periodically.
Shipped a new tool I'm really pleased with: Compare Website Speed. Drop in up to 5 sites, get a ranked leaderboard on real Chrome user data. Auto-generates a share card, gives you a permalink for any matchup. Free, no signup. calibreapp.com/tools/compar...
Korg brought some phase 8s to my local synth meetup 😍 It’s an “acoustic synthesiser”, uses magnets to vibrate the metal plates. Beautiful object.
🆕 On the blog: How I built @calibreapp.com's new dynamic hexagonal world map, in just 10kb. calibreapp.com/blog/buildin...
A team ships a "small" cache header tweak on a Tuesday. All good, right? Oh my sweet summer child. A week later, the UX Rating chart tells a different story 🫠 The worst perf regressions quietly lose you users. UX Rating, available in Calibre RUM 👇 calibreapp.com/product/rum
You are *not* imagining it — Airline websites really are the slowest and most frustrating to use. Only 3.7% pass Google's Core Web Vitals. For comparison, 56.5% of news sites clear the same bar. See how your favourite airline ranks: calibreapp.com/tools/websit...
New: Website Speed Leaderboards now shows which web framework each site is built with — powered by @httparchive.org technology data calibreapp.com/tools/website-speed-leaderboard
This beautiful looking synth has sides and knobs made of Icelandic lava rock genki.is/katla