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Chrome Project 🐡 & Web Standards TL; Blink API OWNER Named PWAs w/ @phae; probably making her ☕ DMs open. Tweets my own; press@google.com for official comms.

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    1. Mikeal Rogers‏ @mikeal 7 Aug 2019
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      Modern startups have a very odd relationship with open source. Their businesses depend on it more than software they purchase and they expect a service guarantee (which doesn’t exist) that matches their need rather than their investment (which is $0)

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    2. Marco Rogers‏ @polotek 7 Aug 2019
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      Even worse. Startups are allowing themselves to be constrained by the open source dependencies they are beholden too. It is costing us a lot, but we've collectively decided to chalk it up and expend energy elsewhere.

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    3. Marco Rogers‏ @polotek 7 Aug 2019
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      I was talking to some friends about this recently. Instead of fixing problems with current projects, engineers are incentivized to find a whole other solution and just take the pain of swapping it out. Essentially it's searching for an acceptable set of externalities.

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    4. Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate 7 Aug 2019
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      Rewrite is the path to blog-post/promo/RSUs, and doing it in a way that aligns you with "industry practice" sure helps your terrified and afraid managers/recruiters "compete for the best talent" The echo chamber runs on sovereign wealth fund cash.

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    5. Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate 7 Aug 2019
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      (which is not to take anything away from the value of standards, but choices about compiled-down interfaces w/ one impl aren't standards)

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    6. Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate 7 Aug 2019
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      I'd love it if this pathway also had a factor for user benefit weighting...some sort of peer review to do more than tribally self-congratulate.

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    7. Mikeal Rogers‏ @mikeal 7 Aug 2019
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      User benefit is harder to measure than developer preference so it’s always going to be second class :( The only silver lining is that developers really do like to obsess about performance, it’s just usually the wrong performance they obsess about.

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    8. Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate 7 Aug 2019
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      They don't obsess, they cargo-cult. If they obsessed, @tkadlec, @tameverts, @HenrikJoreteg, and @triblondon would have private islands and I'd be able to focus on giving them features (safely) instead of planning mitigation strategies and jawboning VPs to fix their disasters.

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    9. Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate 7 Aug 2019
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      If they obsessed about perf, @_developit and @cramforce and @AndyDavies and @kristoferbaxter would be deities and patron saints. I'd be able to buy a @jaffathecake or @DasSurma or @aerotwist bobblehead doll. They objectively *do not* obsess.

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    10. Andrew Betts‏ @triblondon 7 Aug 2019
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      I’m pretty sure the Jake doll exists. You can pick one up at any Familymart. The answer to getting devs to obsess about perf is pretty simple, and we all know what it is.

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      Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate 7 Aug 2019
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      In fairness, the teams I have seen *actually* obsess are disproportionately Japan-based ;-)

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          Sorry, we only unroll consecutive tweets from the same author, please reply to one of the main tweets from the thread; not a comment. If you think I'm buggy please DM or email 😊 Need help? check this link: https://threadreaderapp.com/help  🤖

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