Software Engineer at Google & lapsed technology writer
San Francisco, CA
Joined April 2009
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Recently I've been working on adding automatic image placeholders to Angular, and with version 17.2, it's finally available! Really excited to see what people think. blog.angular.io/angular-v17-…
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Another delightful feature available in Angular v17 is: phases for afterRender and afterNextRender!
Now Angular can optimally schedule callbacks for an application and all of its libraries, minimizing layout thrashing!
Angular v17.
The framework you love, with a fresh new look, and:
🦥 deferrable views
⚡️ up to 90% faster, intuitive built-in control flow
🏎️ up to 87% faster build times with hybrid rendering
🏗️ Vite + esbuild builds
+ more!
goo.gle/angular-v17
Really excited about one of the features I worked on for this release--automated preconnects! Now, when you use NgOptimizedImage, Angular looks for image domains in your code and automatically adds preconnect links, which can improve your LCP score by a lot.
Angular v17.
The framework you love, with a fresh new look, and:
🦥 deferrable views
⚡️ up to 90% faster, intuitive built-in control flow
🏎️ up to 87% faster build times with hybrid rendering
🏗️ Vite + esbuild builds
+ more!
goo.gle/angular-v17
Super excited that we got to backport the new NgOptimizedImage directive to Angular 13! Now these performance optimizations are available to a bigger chunk of the Angular ecosystem:
Are you running Angular v13? Still want to take advantage of the NgOptimizedImage directive?
Chrome Aurora has partnered with Angular to backport the image directive! This gives you access to:
- srcset generation
- fill mode
- loader config options
github.com/angular/angular/p…
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I wrote an RFC for a new @nextjs package that would make it easier to load popular third-party libraries 🎉
Share your feedback!
github.com/vercel/next.js/di…
ALT Code snippet that shows a GoogleAnalytics component being fetched from a next/third-parties library
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Next.js Layouts RFC
◆ Nested routes / layouts
◆ Designed for Server Components
◆ Fetch in layouts while avoiding waterfalls
◆ React 18 features – startTransition, Suspense
◆ Client and server routing
◆ 100% incrementally adoptable
nextjs.org/blog/layouts-rfc
Excited to be part of Next.js Conf today! My talk's going to be playing on stage N at 10:50 PST
nextjs.org/conf/schedule
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Tip: @ChromeDevTools has a Shadow Editor built in!
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Really proud of the work by both my team and the Google Chrome team that's working on Next.js 🤩
next-css was one of the most used dependencies of Next.js projects, either to import a single CSS file or full design systems.
It's now a built-in feature with better constraints.
Next.js 9.2:
⬩ Built-In CSS Imports for Global Styles
⬩ Built-In CSS Modules for Component-Level Styles
⬩ Catch-All Dynamic Routes
⬩ Up to 70% Reduced Largest JavaScript Bundle
⬩ Up to 87% Less JavaScript Loaded after Multiple Navigations
nextjs.org/blog/next-9-2
ALT Next.js logo subtitled Introducing Next.js 9.2
In the 6.5 years since my last tweet, I have:
1) Moved to Hawaii
2) Career-changed from writing to programming
3) Moved back to San Francisco
4) Got a job at Google
Aaaand... now we're all caught up. I'm going to try to post a little more so we don't have to do this again 😅
Finally! bit.ly/12kCjSy No pressure sensitivity was one of the only things that really bugged me about the Surface Pro
Nothing punctuates your power going out as well as a really loud explosion from inside your building
This Project Glass thing is putting my sci-fi fantasies into direct conflict with my desire to not be hit by a bus. bit.ly/HeOKaM
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Lots of talk today about the new iPad's thermal issues. Frankly, we haven't noticed anything of the sort.
