EM @Yelp, founder @five32group. Worked with/for - @eBay, @NewHumanitarian, @CNN, @Songkick, @MVFGlobal. Opinions are my own.
London, England
Joined March 2009
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Our research students and staff have been enjoying working in this environment. I've enjoyed watching the labs develop and I'm looking forward to another day of experiments and training with the group tomorrow.
“This unique co-location facility means we have been able to provide a transformative, inspiring research environment for academia-industry partnerships to thrive," Prof Sienz, IMPACT Director
Winner of Education Category #SPACESAwards @spacesnetwork 🏆
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Interested in pursuing a PhD to study lung mechanics? Please apply for this scholarship in engineering, advancing techniques in imaging and modelling to study lung health.
swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate/s…
Due to funding restrictions, this scholarship is available to UK candidates only.
Congrats to everyone at @yelp who worked on this award winning data story. We’re hiring in a number of areas across data engineering. DM me if you want more info.
The winner of the #PRWeekAwardsUS Best in Data Insight award is Yelp Data Reveals COVID-19’s Economic Impact by @Yelp!
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We wrote about Yelp's failover strategy in
@IncrementMag's latest issue on Reliability. Check it out to read our approaches to, and perspectives on, cultivating reliability and resilience in our software, systems, and teams. increment.com/reliability/ye…
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👋 @btconf, I’m like still shocked I just spoke here 😱 Thank you @marcthiele for recognizing my work & making this happen 🥰
If you want tips on making your docs more human (and a11y) friendly, here are my slides! speakerdeck.com/carolstran/h…
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Hello… Apologies for the radio silence…
It took a little while longer than planned but we're back, with new(ish) organisers and some great talks lined up
@triblondon explains more in "A new chapter for London Web Performance"
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"The orgs that publish crisis journalism have struggled to make it work financially, even if they’re nonprofits. The #NewHumanitarian hopes to buck that trend." @NiemanLab on the rise of @newhumanitarian (formerly IRIN News) and its drive for greater reach
niemanlab.org/2019/03/the-ne…
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Calling all #newhumanitarians: join us to celebrate the moment when IRIN becomes The New Humanitarian! Tune into the livestream of our launch event, on Thursday 21 March, at 16.30 CET: irinnews.org/thenewhumanitar…
Only 2-3 web servers support resource prioritisation properly (Google’s own servers aren’t one of them) @patmeenan @LDNWebPerf #perfmatters
Are your images being visible more important than your time to interactive? @patmeenan @LDNWebPerf #perfmatters
Don’t try this at home - you *could* use a video tag to get AV1 compression in your browser (2x smaller than webp), but you probably shouldn’t @kornelski @LDNWebPerf #perfmatters
For almost every JPEG, the first 15% of the file is roughly where the first progressive layer is stored. Just send this much to get something visual on screen! @kornelski @LDNWebPerf #perfmatters
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IRIN Director @HebaJournalist went to this year’s UN General Assembly expecting more hand-wringing and despair in the face of growing crises and threats to multilateralism. To her surprise, she left with a good dose of hope. Here's why.
irinnews.org/opinion/2018/10…
Awesome opportunity at not for profit @irinnews for a Snr Web Developer. The role is part time, remote and offers *tons* of autonomy. You'll work with an award winning team who influence how industry, governments and charities address humanitarian issues irinnews.org/content/we-re-h…
CSS Selector performance optimisation is more fascinating than important. Rarely a problem you see in the wild @csswizardry @nywebperf #perfmatters
As a @LDNWebPerf regular I am looking forward to checking out @nywebperf. @csswizardry’s talk at @deltavconf on third party perf earlier this year was awesome #perfmatters #webperf @squarespace
Tonight at 6:30PM @ Squarespace: FaCSSt: CSS & Performance with @csswizardry. See you all there: meetup.com/Web-Performance-N… #webperf #nyc
Come on @bt_uk let’s reduce that latency! Tho if your BT broadband connection is anything like mine I understand why you couldn’t update the scoreboard quick enough. #ENGCRO @ShipFitzrovia
So much awesome swagger with @kaylyntweets shutting down @SofarNYC at @nohosoundny tonight. Unplugged in front of all that high end hifi, let the tubes and transistors rest and the lungs and strings sing! #sofarsounds
