Friday Squid Blogging: Anniversary Post

The Oxide and Friends podcast has an annual tradition of asking guests to share their predictions for the next 1, 3 and 6 years. Here's 2022, 2023 and 2024. This year they invited me to participate. I've never been brave enough to share any public predictions before, so this was a great opportunity to get outside my comfort zone! We recorded the...

Double-keyed Caching: How Browser Cache Partitioning Changed the Web Addy Osmani provides a clear explanation of how browser cache partitioning has changed the landscape of web optimization tricks. Prior to 2020, linking to resources on a shared CDN could provide a performance boost as the user's browser might have already cached that asset from...

microsoft/phi-4 Here's the official release of Microsoft's Phi-4 LLM, now officially under an MIT license. A few weeks ago I covered the earlier unofficial versions, where I talked about how the model used synthetic training data in some really interesting ways. It benchmarks favorably compared to GPT-4o, suggesting this is yet another example of...

One agent is just software, two agents are an undebuggable mess. — Andriy Burkov Tags: ai-agents, ai

Why are my live regions not working? Useful article to help understand ARIA live regions. Short version: you can add a live region to your page like this: Then any time you use JavaScript to modify the text content in that element it will be announced straight away by any screen readers - that's the "assertive" part. Using "polite" instead will...