Engineer on @googlechrome. Involved in CSS and W3C standards. Previously @mozilla, @w3ctag. Mastodon: @dbaron@w3c.social
Rockville, Maryland, USA
Joined March 2008
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
They went from a load time of more than 45 seconds to 3 seconds, from 124 (!) JavaScript files to 0, and from a total of more than 500 requests to 34.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Because of #GDPR, USA Today decided to run a separate version of their website for EU users, which has all the tracking scripts and ads removed. The site seemed very fast, so I did a performance audit. How fast the internet could be without all the junk! 🙄
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Is anyone owed a transit line? humantransit.org/2018/05/is-…
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Well, happy GDPR to Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, and Cyprus.
And happy end of the slew of privacy policy updates to everyone else, I hope!
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
#BART is considering a very expensive, low-ridership extension to Livermore. BART should reject this extension & instead implement a much less expensive rapid bus line. We have huge transit needs in Bay Area & this extension will divert limited resources. sfchronicle.com/opinion/open…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
A good day for the open web, standards and #WebRTC: #Firefox is now supported on Google #Hangouts and on YouTube WebCam blog.mozilla.org/webrtc/fire…
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It seems like moving the T station to the other side of King, directly opposite Caltrain, would be an obvious improvement (once the @Central_Subway opens and the T runs straight through that intersection).
Any idea why the @Central_Subway plan doesn't seem to be doing this?
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4th and King is a horrible intersection in San Francisco given the volume of tram/rail transfers happening there and the busy traffic, especially transfers between the T and Caltrain which have to cross both ways. The @Central_Subway will make those transfers more common.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Here's Harvey Milk (w/Dianne Feinstein & his killer Dan White) as supe voting for 1970s downzoning. And Sup. Robert Gonzales voting against it: "This legislation cuts out, literally, low and moderate income folks. What we're doing here is pricing people out of San Francisco."
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
I strongly support Regional Measure 3 - a bridge toll increase to generate nearly $5 billion to fund mass transit & freeway projects over the next 25 years. This measure will dramatically improve BART, get rail extended to downtown SF, etc. Let’s pass it! sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti…
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When placing a phone order at Papalote, I knew to order "(veggie/chicken mole/chile verde) burrito, (black/pinto) beans, regular, for David" because that's the order they wanted the information. Otherwise they'd ask for parts again.
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My description of tradeoffs between live and static, in the TAG's design principles document, might be of interest: w3ctag.github.io/design-prin…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
“Sometimes it wakes me up at night, thinking that they’re going to tell me, ‘Here are the keys to your apartment.’”
What it’s like to enter a housing lottery in one of America’s most expensive cities nytimes.com/2018/05/12/upsho…
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It's hard to see in the photos, but it looks like each curtain color was customized. Adjacent conference rooms have very subtly different colors. The colors chosen are mostly red-pink-purple-white range.
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I appreciate Mozilla Berlin's commitment to naming it's conference rooms after CSS named colors.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
SF ordinance idea:
The Planning Commission should have the same proportion of renters/owners as the city of San Francisco!
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