Patrick McSweeny
@patrickmcsweeny.bsky.social
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November ChicagoRuby × @cisco.com — what a night 🔥
Thanks @kphurley.bsky.social & @alan.codegardener.com
for making this collab happen.
🎙️ @andycandrea.bsky.social — Reusable JSON Schemas
🎙️ @patrickmcsweeny.bsky.social — Hotwire Your UX
Practical, clean, immediately usable.
Thanks @kphurley.bsky.social & @alan.codegardener.com
for making this collab happen.
🎙️ @andycandrea.bsky.social — Reusable JSON Schemas
🎙️ @patrickmcsweeny.bsky.social — Hotwire Your UX
Practical, clean, immediately usable.
December 9, 2025 at 4:15 PM
November ChicagoRuby × @cisco.com — what a night 🔥
Thanks @kphurley.bsky.social & @alan.codegardener.com
for making this collab happen.
🎙️ @andycandrea.bsky.social — Reusable JSON Schemas
🎙️ @patrickmcsweeny.bsky.social — Hotwire Your UX
Practical, clean, immediately usable.
Thanks @kphurley.bsky.social & @alan.codegardener.com
for making this collab happen.
🎙️ @andycandrea.bsky.social — Reusable JSON Schemas
🎙️ @patrickmcsweeny.bsky.social — Hotwire Your UX
Practical, clean, immediately usable.
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Frontend is failing. 75% of devices with browsers are smartphones, but not even half of sites pass Core Web Vitals on them. Why not? Too much JavaScript, added to indulge SPA fantasies the data is falsifying in real time:
infrequently.org/2025/11/perf...
infrequently.org/2025/11/perf...
The Performance Inequality Gap, 2026 - Infrequently Noted
Embedded in this year's network and device estimates is hopeful news about the trajectory of devices and networks. It has never been easier to deliver pages quickly, but we are not collectively…
infrequently.org
November 25, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Frontend is failing. 75% of devices with browsers are smartphones, but not even half of sites pass Core Web Vitals on them. Why not? Too much JavaScript, added to indulge SPA fantasies the data is falsifying in real time:
infrequently.org/2025/11/perf...
infrequently.org/2025/11/perf...
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"don't pay attention to any of that frivolous humanities education, STEM all the way - what, do you think you can hack a computer with poetry or something?"
apparently, yes
apparently, yes
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 20, 2025 at 7:16 PM
"don't pay attention to any of that frivolous humanities education, STEM all the way - what, do you think you can hack a computer with poetry or something?"
apparently, yes
apparently, yes
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ChicagoRuby meets at one of the world’s biggest Ruby codebases — cisco.com 🔥
Nov 5, 6–8:30 PM
433 W Van Buren St, 7th Fl, Chicago
Speakers: patrickmcsweeny.bsky.social, andycandrea.bsky.social
❗️Registration & ID required
Registration: www.meetup.com/chicagoruby/...
Nov 5, 6–8:30 PM
433 W Van Buren St, 7th Fl, Chicago
Speakers: patrickmcsweeny.bsky.social, andycandrea.bsky.social
❗️Registration & ID required
Registration: www.meetup.com/chicagoruby/...
October 24, 2025 at 2:39 PM
ChicagoRuby meets at one of the world’s biggest Ruby codebases — cisco.com 🔥
Nov 5, 6–8:30 PM
433 W Van Buren St, 7th Fl, Chicago
Speakers: patrickmcsweeny.bsky.social, andycandrea.bsky.social
❗️Registration & ID required
Registration: www.meetup.com/chicagoruby/...
Nov 5, 6–8:30 PM
433 W Van Buren St, 7th Fl, Chicago
Speakers: patrickmcsweeny.bsky.social, andycandrea.bsky.social
❗️Registration & ID required
Registration: www.meetup.com/chicagoruby/...
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The tech press are Tim levels of cooked.
Absolutely nowhere will you see any mention of web apps and PWAs as an alternative to censorious native app stores (I looked), and that's a bloody scandal.
Absolutely nowhere will you see any mention of web apps and PWAs as an alternative to censorious native app stores (I looked), and that's a bloody scandal.
October 3, 2025 at 6:48 AM
The tech press are Tim levels of cooked.
Absolutely nowhere will you see any mention of web apps and PWAs as an alternative to censorious native app stores (I looked), and that's a bloody scandal.
Absolutely nowhere will you see any mention of web apps and PWAs as an alternative to censorious native app stores (I looked), and that's a bloody scandal.
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this from @jono.id is a position I've been suggesting for a while now–that modern APIs and CSS like View Transition obviated the need for the SPA architecture.
www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/i...
www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/i...
It's time for modern CSS to kill the SPA
Native CSS transitions have quietly killed the strongest argument for client-side routing. Yet people keep building terrible apps instead of performant websites.
www.jonoalderson.com
July 25, 2025 at 9:17 PM
this from @jono.id is a position I've been suggesting for a while now–that modern APIs and CSS like View Transition obviated the need for the SPA architecture.
www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/i...
www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/i...
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Using OpenAI's new, powerful "reasoning" model to calculate the amount of states that have R in them. Welcome to the future, everybody
December 5, 2024 at 9:21 PM
Using OpenAI's new, powerful "reasoning" model to calculate the amount of states that have R in them. Welcome to the future, everybody
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It's been interesting to witness in real-time how the usage of "algorithm" in many places has shifted from a neutral "sequence of instructions" to a negative "controlled ordering and boosting of information".
November 30, 2024 at 10:26 AM
It's been interesting to witness in real-time how the usage of "algorithm" in many places has shifted from a neutral "sequence of instructions" to a negative "controlled ordering and boosting of information".