Principal Engineer. Google, Lyft, Yahoo, Robinhood. Uses Digital Jedi skills to push the web forward. Go Blue!
Los Angeles, CA
Joined April 2008
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Eric Bidelman retweeted
🚨Please RT 🗣️We're providing access to free rides to help people impacted by #HurricaneIda. If you're in the area, use code IDARELIEF21 in the Lyft app. Check our blog for location details: lft.to/3DvImMx #Louisiana or #Mississippi
Eric Bidelman retweeted
🗞🚨 Chromium now supports hardware-accelerated SVG and percentage-based transform animations!
😁 And will support background-color and clip-path next
developer.chrome.com/blog/ha…
More performant UIs are coming your way, and the best part is: you don't even have to do anything!
Eric Bidelman retweeted
New blog post today from former superstar #intern Antonio Clarke! Learn about his experience building more accessible user flows. 🎉
eng.lyft.com/building-access…
Eric Bidelman retweeted
Got to contribute to this blog post that's out today: blog.chromium.org/2020/05/th…
Interesting finding: "We found that when a site meets the above thresholds, users are 24% less likely to abandon page loads."
Eric Bidelman retweeted
I just created a short demo for a Pure CSS Sticky Header on @CodePen
It sticks and it floats 🍯🎈
codepen.io/finnhvman/pen/rNB…
Eric Bidelman retweeted
Product Design Systems Manager @taptodismiss shares a behind the scenes look at the core principles that drive the #DesignSystem work at @lyft bit.ly/2YMV4FO
Eric Bidelman retweeted
💸 Cost of updating text in the DOM: 2019 Edition
⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️ .innerHTML
⬛️⬛️➖➖➖➖ .textContent
⬛️⬛️➖➖➖➖ .innerText
⬛️➖➖➖➖➖ .firstChild.data
- Use .textContent if you can't assume structure
- Use Text#data to update existing text
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Eric Bidelman retweeted
There aren't many resources that show you how to improve performance from a framework perspective, but now that's changing.
web.dev now includes an entire collection of guides for building fast and accessible @reactjs applications 🚀
web.dev/react
ALT web.dev and React
Eric Bidelman retweeted
Very excited to be shipping a trial version of KV storage, the web's first built-in module, plus import maps, for controlling the behavior of JavaScript imports!
- developers.google.com/web/up…
- wicg.github.io/kv-storage/
- github.com/WICG/import-maps
Eric Bidelman retweeted
In Chrome 72, exceptions in Workers
will fire `onerror` in the parent document.
It's a handy way to capture errors for logging,
and something Firefox & Safari already do!
ALT Code sample for listening to Worker errors using window.onerror
Eric Bidelman retweeted
🆕We just announced web.dev⚡️
It is a brand new site form the team behind this account✨Learn how to build for the web and measure if your site is meeting good practice goal❤️
It is open beta Today, so please give it a try & tell us what you think :)
Eric Bidelman retweeted
The @googlechrome and @polymer teams very kindly sent the @Firefox team a bottle of "Shadow Dom Perignon" for shipping Shadow DOM and Custom Elements in Firefox 63. Thanks!
Eric Bidelman retweeted
❓How does browser turn code we write into a functional site?
🕵️♀️@kosamari is on her mission to find out what happens inside of a web browser
📚Part 1: CPU, GPU, Memory, and multi-process architecture
developers.google.com/web/up…
ALT Hand drawn cover image with title "Inside look at modern web browser"
Eric Bidelman retweeted
A+ articles in The Heap!
🚫 - The new Reporting Observer API in Chrome 69 @ebidel
💵 - The cost of JavaScript in 2018 @addyosmani
🌿 - Inside Ivy: Deep dive into Angular's new compiler @UriShaked
🖼 - FramerX! Design + Code in harmony @framer
frontendnews.io/editions/201…
Eric Bidelman retweeted
🎥 @JaffaTheCake and @DasSurma talk about the developer tools Lighthouse and Puppeteer with @ebidel and @vinamratas
Watch here → bit.ly/2LLg8ly
Eric Bidelman retweeted
Blink: Intent to Experiment: Feature Policy JavaScript API groups.google.com/a/chromium…
Eric Bidelman retweeted
We're in a very lucky position to have an open position for a WASM Developer Advocate in the Bay Area.
careers.google.com/jobs?jid=…
Any questions, ping me :)
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🔥🔥🔥 Lighthouse 3.0 (with a blazing fast new performance engine along with new UI improvements) is now available on DevTools in the current Chrome Canary build. Get it while it's hot.
Eric Bidelman retweeted
Shadow DOM was activated in Nightly today bugzilla.mozilla.org/1460069 if you want to know more about Shadow DOM look at developer.mozilla.org/en-US/…