With the release of Safari 26.2 on December 12th, web performance got a fantastic end of year gift with Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) and Interaction to Next Paint (INP) becoming Baseline Newly available as the latest version of all major browsers now include the Largest Contentful Paint API and Event Timing API needed to measure these metrics. This was part of the Interop 2025 project, and it's great to see these delivered this year!

Bakery owner Ed Halmagyi has decided to permanently close his Jewish bakery in Surry Hills, as a result of the terror attack at Bondi Beach this Sunday, which targeted the Jewish community exclusively.

And I find it surprising that JSON is so omnipresent when there are far more efficient alternatives, sometimes better suited to a truly modern development experience. Among them: Protocol Buffers, or Protobuf.