Patrick Meenan
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Patrick Meenan
@patmeenan.com
Web performance geek on the Chrome team at Google.

Formerly WebPageTest, Meta, Cloudflare, AOL...
Cynic in me reads that as "your privacy is of value to us".
August 27, 2025 at 9:41 PM
My whole family got our first pairs at the shoe store in Disney Springs before a 5-day trip where our son decided only to bring cowboy boots 😂. Happiest accidental discovery ever.
June 7, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Not an option that came up in the new device setup flow. All paths ended with trying to text a code to the phone number. Only other path would have been a 3-5 day wait to link it to a different number.
May 7, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Before it comes up, sending the code to the email for the account is theoretically an option but it follows that with a need to verify by texting a code....

Feels a lot like the teams working on it live in a bubble where not having multiple iOS devices isn't conceivable.
May 7, 2025 at 12:15 AM
It looks like you have to go REALLY far back for a browser that doesn't support "preconnect".

At this point I'd probably just recommend picking whichever is more appropriate (depending on the liklihood to need to fetch a resource not in cache).

developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...
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The preconnect keyword for the rel attribute of the <link> element is a hint to browsers that the user is likely to need resources from the target resource's origin, and therefore the browser can like...
developer.mozilla.org
May 5, 2025 at 4:21 PM