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Brian Rinaldi
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I lead the Developer Relations team at LocalStack. I run the cfe.dev community hosting virtual developer events. AWS Community Builder.
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Thanks to all who joined me and @seancdavis.com for our #PixelPalooza fireside chat about how image optimization (and lack thereof) affects your users and your business! And thanks to @remotesynthesis.com for inviting me!

I put together some interesting stats here: speakerdeck.com/tammyeverts/...
The Hidden Cost of Media on the Web [PixelPalooza 2025]
Images, video, audio and other media are a big part of what brings the web to life and visitors have come to expect a multimedia experience across the w…
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November 20, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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Unoptimized images are STILL a common problem, and they hurt things like:

🙁 #A11y
🙁 #webperf and #UX metrics like LCP and CLS
🙁 Conversions
🙁 #SEO
🙁 Sustainability

I'll be talking about this (and solutions!) today (12:15pm PT / 3:15pm ET) at #PixelPalooza.

Get your FREE ticket: lnkd.in/g_N8YFrs
November 20, 2025 at 6:09 PM
We're going live with PixelPalooza in just 2 hours! Join us for 8 great talks from 8 amazing speakers all about using web media (images, video, audio, etc) & the performance implications that come with them. We'll be streaming the full conference for free on YouTube: youtube.com/live/QUWCK1G...
PixelPalooza 2025
What would the web be without media – things like images, video, audio and documents? They are what make the web interactive and exciting, but also weigh it ...
youtube.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:03 PM
This week is our second time in Portugal and it is such a beautiful country. Spent the first days in Sintra.
November 19, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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Tim Cook, of Apple, is at this dinner.

The likes of Musk and Schwarzman—sure, that's who they are.

But Cook has been groveling more than strictly necessary.
everlasting shame on all these people
November 19, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Boarding an international flight out of Boston and CBP officers literally in the gateway face scanning every passenger with their phones. I have never seen this before.
November 17, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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#PixelPalooza is coming up this Thursday!

This awesome FREE online event covers how to make sure all those helpful images and videos on your site don't hurt #webperf and #a11y.

I'm joining @seancdavis.com to talk about the hidden cost of media on the web.

Get your ticket 👉 cfe.dev/events/pixel...
PixelPalooza 2025
PixelPalooza will explore all the best practices we, as developers, can leverage media like images, video, audio and documents across our sites and applications.
cfe.dev
November 17, 2025 at 9:57 PM
CFE is hosting its final virtual conference Thursday starting at 11am ET. It's about using web media – images, video, streaming, audio & files. They make the web engaging & interactive but come at a cost of page weight & performance.

8 talks by 8 amazing speakers – all free! cfe.dev/events/pixel...
PixelPalooza 2025
PixelPalooza will explore all the best practices we, as developers, can leverage media like images, video, audio and documents across our sites and applications.
cfe.dev
November 17, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Just to be clear, the G in MAGA has always stood for "grift."
November 14, 2025 at 7:34 PM
My favorite part (not really) of the morning is 9am when all the reminders of Slack messages that I put off from the prior days all hit at once.
November 14, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Updated for 2025: "D̶o̶n̶'̶t̶ be evil."
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.

Full story by @josephcox.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/google-has-c...
November 13, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.

Full story by @josephcox.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/google-has-c...
November 13, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Folks, the reporting is that Trump is making PERSONAL CALLS to Mace, MTG and others about the discharge petition. Would you be doing this if you had nothing to hide? Let's please all be serious here.
November 12, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Conspiracies usually involve subterfuge and deception, but this one is a conspiracy of dunces who conspire in full public view — truly evil and despicable dunces but dunces nonetheless.
"This is all no big deal and the president is currently strategizing his response with his aides in the White House Situation Room. No big deal at all."
Q: "Why are White House officials…meeting with Rep. Boebert in an effort to try to get her to not sign this petition calling for the release of the [Epstein] files?"

Leavitt: "I'm not going to detail conversations that took place in the situation room."
November 12, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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every tiny crumb that leaks out is a career ending bombshell and we’re all just supposed to go on with our lives while our elected representatives shrug and tell us there’s nothing to be done about the president’s involvement in a child sex trafficking operation
A direct email exchange from 2011 between Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, just released by House Oversight Committee Democrats.
November 12, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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i mean c’mon. the president’s best friend was the most notorious pedo in the country’s history who ran a massive child trafficking ring. every bit of circumstantial evidence we have says that trump was a participant. if this were a criminal trial we’d have enough evidence to compel a plea deal.
November 12, 2025 at 2:49 PM
I started working on Certified Fresh Events (later CFE.dev) back in June 2016. The original intent was to build a series of in-person events but, to bootstrap the brand and audience, I decided to launch with online ones. The initial events were bigger than I expected, hitting my user limit caps.
Goodbye to CFE.dev
After 9+ years, it's time to say goodbye to CFE.dev. Join the core contributors to the site for a final farewell.
cfe.dev
November 12, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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What a great few weeks it’s been for people once pardoned by Trump.

@nytimes.com @nbcnews.com @npr.org @politico.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Democratic leadership:
YOU MUST VOTE HARDER.

Democratic voters:
VOTE SUPER HARD IN MASSIVE NUMBERS AND FLIP SEATS AT MULTIPLE LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT ACROSS THE COUNTRY

Democratic leadership:
WE’RE CAVING. LULZ.
November 9, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Here you are, innocently thinking to yourself, "Hey, it's the weekend. I can finally take a break from the non-stop Trump crazy train and just watch some sports." Turns out, authoritarian leaders intentionally invade every space of your life.
November 8, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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HE'S APPEALING TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES THAT HE BE ALLOWED TO STARVE AMERICANS
#BREAKING: The Trump administration is asking #SCOTUS for an immediate “administrative” stay of a Rhode Island district judge’s order that is otherwise requiring it to resume the distribution of SNAP benefits from other funding sources no later than the end of today.
November 7, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Quote with a 10/10 album
November 7, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Judge McConnell basically walked them through the math, called all their arguments bullshit, and entered the order that the gov't stop playing games with the money while kids go hungry.

Didn't even give the gov't the chance to respond.
November 6, 2025 at 9:03 PM
It's bizarre to me to see the transition of DevRel to mostly an on-site or hybrid role. It was common for DevRel teams to be remote when I started ~15 years ago — even in companies that were otherwise entirely on site. It feels unnecessary and short-sighted but what else is new in tech these days?
November 6, 2025 at 6:14 PM
In just 2 weeks, CFE is hosting its final free virtual conference, PixelPalooza 2025. It's about using any sort of media (i.e. images, video, streams, audio, fonts, etc.) on the web – including how that impacts performance. We've got amazing speakers lined up! Join us Nov 20 cfe.dev/events/pixel...
PixelPalooza 2025
PixelPalooza will explore all the best practices we, as developers, can leverage media like images, video, audio and documents across our sites and applications.
cfe.dev
November 6, 2025 at 1:57 PM