Improving the URL bar

iOS has hidden the pathname of URLs for some time now, but recently Chrome Canary introduced something similar behind a flag.

I'm not involved in the development of Chrome experiment at all, but I've got more than 140 characters worth of opinion on it…

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visibility: visible undoes visibility: hidden

If you set an element to display: none the browser ignores all of its children, if a child sets itself to display: block it will remain hidden. This isn't true of visibility.

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ES7 async functions

They're brilliant. They're brilliant and I want laws changed so I can marry them.

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Promises: resolve is not the opposite of reject

When I first started working with promises I had the overly simplistic view that passing a value into reject would mark the promise as "failed", and passing a value into resolve would mark it as "successful". However, the latter isn't always true.

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Don't use flexbox for overall page layout

When I was building this blog I tried to use flexbox for the overall page layout because I wanted to look cool and modern in front of my peers. However, like all of my other attempts to look cool and modern, it didn't really work.

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Solving rendering performance puzzles

The Chrome team are often asked to show the process of debugging a performance issue, including how to select tools and interpret results. Well, I was recently hit by an issue that required a bit of digging, here's what I did:

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Jake Archibald in a garden with a black cat

Hello, I'm Jake and that's me there. The one that isn't a cat. I'm a developer of sorts.

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