I got myself an iPad Pro for work last year (lots of diagram drawing) and my wife’s been looking covetously at it for the Pencil. But one thing I haven’t worked out with iOS on Giant iPad yet is being able to look at two tabs in a safari at once.
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Replying to @hondanhon
(sorry, to clarify, I think the ipad pro is great - it's the web thread I'm all


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I have empirical data that the web is getting faster. Well,
@slightlylate has better data but he's working really hard to make things not suck (and my evidence suggests he & friends are succeeding).2 replies 0 retweets 6 likes -
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it's not outside the scope of my position that: * the web in general has gotten faster * web applications may have individually gotten slower and other web apps may have gotten faster * net new workflows enabled by the web (ie hard/impossible w/o web) can "feel" slow
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I mean, I'm assuming that it's not outside scope that alex has empirical data that the web as a whole is getting faster* but presumably there's individual sites that are still just doggone slow * I dunno, I'm imagining page load times for everyone using GA?
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The web is getting slower because no matter how much faster we make Chrome, developers abuse users with ever-larger piles of JS: https://httparchive.org/reports/state-of-javascript … ...and JS is the most expensive thing:https://infrequently.org/2017/10/can-you-afford-it-real-world-web-performance-budgets/ …
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Replying to @slightlylate @gloddy and
It's just like adding lanes to freeways. In the long run it makes traffic worse.
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That’s actually what I am wondering about, too. The tweet immediately reminded me of induced demand in traffic planning (and Moore’s Law).
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