Enjoyment. I get excited and intrigued from reading website performance tests of various kinds. Civic duty. The performance of the web is generally a public interest issue. Someday… work will call for it. The skills involved in understanding web performance issues are transferrable and important skills WebPageTest offers a premium web service on top of OSS. It is possible to setup a private instance and I am working towards that goal.

Sometimes you need more than just a ‘rubber duck’ method to debug. Sometimes you need a whole new way of thinking! This article has: An Ode to Software Bugs, a description of software bugs and me Commentary on the Pocket Guide to Debugging by Julia Evans This article is intended to be a story about my own experiences with software bugs and reading this zine. More than just fixing a particular bug, or knowing technical skills, Debugging is a virtue and evergreen skill for any developer so maybe this helps someone.

Web Performance is good (and can be fun) An example Lighthouse score: I have a growing interest in web performance. I get joy out of using web performance tools and hopefully getting a good score on the pages I work on. It is a little like working to get a gold star and then see your website perform out in the big world! Performance matters on a big scale and small scale - Core Web Vitals is a ranking factor for Google SEO.