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Ilya Grigorik
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@igrigorik
Distinguished Engineer, @Shopify. On a mission to make commerce better for everyone.
Portland, OR
ilya.grigorik.com
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    Ilya Grigorik
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    May 19
    @tobi and I sat down to talk UCP and the art of protocol design. A couple of themes worth expanding on... The hard part of good protocol design isn't the spec. It's the deep understanding of the problem you're solving and the humility to approach it at the right level. Commerce
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    Jun 28, 2016
    High Performance Browser Networking @ hpbn.co: {on,off}line perf best practices at your fingertips!
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    Jul 18, 2018
    Building the Google Photos Web UI: bit.ly/2NmP9xg — turns out, a "simple" photo grid ain't so simple and a performant grid is no small feat! An awesome under the hood look at the magic behind Google Photos layout.
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    Jan 17, 2018
    Google Search will be using page speed as ranking factor for mobile searches: bit.ly/2DqLe1a — now's the time to audit your site with Lighthouse, PageSpeed Insights, and check your stats in Chrome User Experience Report! #perfmatters
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    Apr 13, 2015
    hard won programming wisdom, courtesy of @rob_pike...
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    Jan 27, 2021
    Started new adventure at @Shopify this week—pumped! Excited to dive into the world of commerce and enabling entrepreneurs around the world… and, of course, help improve the commerce user & developer experience 😎
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    Dec 10, 2018
    Ever needed to explain HTTP/2 to your non-technical friends? This is the best (and well illustrated too) explainer I've seen to date: bit.ly/2L4jqAV — awesome work by @TomAnthonySEO.
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    Ilya Grigorik
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    May 1, 2017
    Chrome headless is shipping in M59 and it's full of awesome: bit.ly/2pBRLyJ - great hands-on tour by @ebidel.
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    Ilya Grigorik
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    Jul 1, 2019
    robots.txt was penned 25 years ago, is now used by 500M+ sites, and — finally — has an IETF spec: bit.ly/2LwetDc 🎉 Google Webmaster blog post @ bit.ly/2LwvU6G Bonus: Google's robots.txt parser is now open source! github.com/google/robotst… 🎉
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    Sep 5, 2018
    "Google Search is now using Service Worker to cache repeated searches, loading results twice as fast": bit.ly/2PClCRi — an appetizer taste of things to come. Exciting times.
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    Jun 13, 2018
    if you write JS, you owe it to yourself to watch @jaffathecake's "In The (event) Loop" talk: bit.ly/2sOqBp5 - no, really.. get a coffee and go watch it now!
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    Jan 31, 2021
    Developer delight: GitHub provides inline CRON parser & hover annotation in their online editor... 😍👍
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    Aug 12, 2020
    TIL, httpstat: visualizes curl(1) statistics in a way of beauty and clarity -- nifty and instant replacement for my own curl timing script... GitHub: github.com/reorx/httpstat
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    Dec 16, 2016
    jid: drill down JSON interactively by using filtering queries @ bit.ly/2hjCIDG - awesome!
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