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Rick Byers

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9 yrs

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The Chromium commit tracker can now count unique contributors. It's neat to see how this has changed over time, and great to see Microsoft nearly back up to their peak! Thanks to
@arthursonzogni for adding!
[Note: Google omitted as it dominates at 84%]. https://chrome-commit-tracker.arthursonzogni.com/organizations/commits/?repositories=chromium&organizations=ARM,Igalia,Individuals,Intel,LGE,Micr

5 views The Chromium commit tracker can now count unique contributors. It's neat to see how this has changed over time, and great to see Microsoft nearly back up to their peak! Thanks to @arthursonzogni for adding! [Note: Google omitted as it dominates at 84%]. https://chrome-commit-tracker.arthursonzogni.com/organizations/commits/?repositories=chromium&organizations=ARM,Igalia,Individuals,Intel,LGE,Micr

It's been a DECADE since I filed this WebKit bug for touch co-ordinates being integers, preventing smooth sliding and drawing.
It's the collection of all such neglect that make the WebKit restriction on iOS so harmful.
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133180

5 views It's been a DECADE since I filed this WebKit bug for touch co-ordinates being integers, preventing smooth sliding and drawing. It's the collection of all such neglect that make the WebKit restriction on iOS so harmful. https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133180

3 views Who is free in the bay area this afternoon and wants to be inspired by computing's past while chatting about the future of the web? Join me at the Computer History Museum around 3-5pm today! Details at https://bsky.app/profile/rbyers.net/post/3lwjivvgwes2g

Blink is more diverse than Chromium as a whole (which includes blink), with 78% of contributors being from Google (87% of commits) vs. 84% for Chromium (95% of commits). https://chrome-commit-tracker.arthursonzogni.com/organizations/commits/?repositories=blink&organizations=ARM,Google,Igalia,Individuals,Intel,LGE,Microsoft,Opera,Samsung,Unknown,Yandex&grouping=quarterly&colors=organizations&kind=a

2 views Blink is more diverse than Chromium as a whole (which includes blink), with 78% of contributors being from Google (87% of commits) vs. 84% for Chromium (95% of commits). https://chrome-commit-tracker.arthursonzogni.com/organizations/commits/?repositories=blink&organizations=ARM,Google,Igalia,Individuals,Intel,LGE,Microsoft,Opera,Samsung,Unknown,Yandex&grouping=quarterly&colors=organizations&kind=a

📊 Post engagement

Avg engagement / post

1.4%

Engagement vs followers

Apr 2017

On Mastodon since

🔥 Top post: A big day for the open web in Europe... https://developer.apple. · 48 likes + reposts

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence

0.13 / week

A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.

Content mix

Mostly images

Recent: 6 text · 6 image · 0 video.

Follower / following

3.2×

Follows 183 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.

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🔥 Top post A big day for the open web in Europe... https://developer.apple.com/support/alternative-browser-engines/ ★ 48

Who is free in the bay area this afternoon and wants to be inspired by computing's past while chatting about the future of the web? Join me at the Computer History Museum around 3-5pm today! Details at https://bsky.app/profile/rbyers.net/… ★ 3

Blink is more diverse than Chromium as a whole (which includes blink), with 78% of contributors being from Google (87% of commits) vs. 84% for Chromium (95% of commits). https://chrome-commit-tracker.arthursonzogni.com/organizations/commit… ★ 2

As is the total number of reviews and commits by organization. https://chrome-commit-tracker.arthursonzogni.com/organizations/commits/?repositories=chromium&organizations=ARM,Igalia,Individuals,Intel,LGE,Microsoft,Opera,Samsung,Unknown,Yan… ★ 1

The number of distinct quarterly reviewers is also interesting to watch: https://chrome-commit-tracker.arthursonzogni.com/organizations/commits/?repositories=chromium&organizations=ARM,Igalia,Individuals,Intel,LGE,Microsoft,Opera,Samsung,U… ★ 1

The Chromium commit tracker can now count unique contributors. It's neat to see how this has changed over time, and great to see Microsoft nearly back up to their peak! Thanks to @arthursonzogni for adding! [Note: Google omitted as it dom… ★ 5

It's been a DECADE since I filed this WebKit bug for touch co-ordinates being integers, preventing smooth sliding and drawing. It's the collection of all such neglect that make the WebKit restriction on iOS so harmful. https://bugs.webkit… ★ 5 There's no public data on volume of push notifications, but I imagine sites like http://outlook.live.com (email) and https://twitter.com/ (social) have a lot of users who find push pretty useful (even though their permission accept rate is… For example, 8% of the top 1000 sites in Greece have a push permission acceptance rate >50%. This includes: https://aade.gr - public revenue authority https://bet365.gr - sports gambling https://lifo.gr - news https://newmoney.gr - finance I've been looking through Chrome public data on push notification usage in Europe. Did you know that there are 219 unique sites in the top 1000 per country with a greater than 50% push permission acceptance rate? https://docs.google.com/sp… ★ 5 FWIW I'm not angry at anyone here, businesses must act in their economic interest. I'm just mad at myself for being naive, thinking chromium could become more of a shared commons between browsers purely out browser business self-interest.… ★ 10 So should we just give up on any real platform investment diversity and just accept that Chromium will be >95% directed by Google? Or perhaps we're just re-learning the lesson from history of capitalist vs. communist markets? That if we wa… ★ 3

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toot.cafe

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On Mastodon since

Apr 2017

An OG fediverse account from Mastodon's early years — a long, established presence.

💡 Facts

🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2017 — 9 years ago.

👁️Averages 8 views per post.

📤Posts about 0.1× per week.

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Estimated

80/100

Excellent Credibility score

97%

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Est. 97% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
Strong engagement (~1.4% of followers engage each post) — an active, real audience.
Established account (9+ years old).

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Web Platform engineer at Google on the Chrome team, helping the open web to thrive. Opinions are my own, not my employer's.

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