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I focus primarily on architecture and performance of the core MediaWiki application. Wikimedia Foundation I started working with Wikimedia in 2011. I helped build and evolve ResourceLoader (a delivery system for JavaScript, CSS, and localisation), VisualEditor (an HTML5 WYSIWYG editor), and the continuous integration infrastructure for frontend tooling (doc publishing, headless unit testing, integration testing). 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I focus primarily on architecture and performance of the core MediaWiki application. Wikimedia Foundation I started working with Wikimedia in 2011. I helped build and evolve ResourceLoader (a delivery system for JavaScript, CSS, and localisation), VisualEditor (an HTML5 WYSIWYG editor), and the continuous integration infrastructure for frontend tooling (doc publishing, headless unit testing, integration testing). 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I now follow YouTube channels in my feed reader instead (I use the NetNewsWire app). How does that work? Is it better? How to follow a channel Copy link to the YouTube channel. Paste into your feed reader. That’s it! On desktop, or on the mobile site, copy from the addres bar when on any channel page, or from the share sheet, or copy a link to any channel in the search results (via right-click or long-press). In the YouTube mobile app\",\"classification_terms\":[\"posts/2025/youtube-in-a-feed-reader-is-better\",\"about\",\"news\"],\"external_refs\":[],\"depth\":1},{\"path\":\"/posts/2024/lockfiles-for-apps-not-packages-still/\",\"status\":200,\"title\":\"Lockfiles for apps, not packages (still) – Timo Tijhof\",\"word_count\":1612,\"summary_text\":\"Lockfiles for apps, not packages (still) – Timo Tijhof Lockfiles for apps, not packages (still) – Timo Tijhof img:is([sizes=auto i],[sizes^=\\\"auto,\\\" i]){contain-intrinsic-size:3000px 1500px} /*# sourceURL=wp-img-auto-sizes-contain-inline-css */ Timo Tijhof About • Colophon Lockfiles for apps, not packages (still) 12 Sep 2024 • 7 min read • JavaScript TL;DR: My updated take is Lockfiles for Node.js apps, not for other projects. When you run npm install, after you add or change a dependency in package.json, npm finds and selects the latest compatible version, downloads it, and replaces your package-lock.json file to describe what it found. The npm install command does not consider lockfiles from upstream packages you depend on. This is not a bug. It’s by design. The npm publish command explicitly omits lockfiles from any package.\",\"classification_terms\":[\"posts/2024/lockfiles-for-apps-not-packages-still\",\"about\"],\"external_refs\":[],\"depth\":1},{\"path\":\"/posts/2023/wikimedia-balances-security-and-openness/\",\"status\":200,\"title\":\"How we balance security and openness at Wikimedia – Timo Tijhof\",\"word_count\":1465,\"summary_text\":\"How we balance security and openness at Wikimedia – Timo Tijhof How we balance security and openness at Wikimedia – Timo Tijhof img:is([sizes=auto i],[sizes^=\\\"auto,\\\" i]){contain-intrinsic-size:3000px 1500px} /*# sourceURL=wp-img-auto-sizes-contain-inline-css */ Timo Tijhof About • Colophon How we balance security and openness at Wikimedia 19 Oct 2023 • 6 min read • Wikipedia How does an open philosophy jive with best practices in performance and security? In short, we’re selective in our dependencies and audit our own upstream sources. Progressive enhancement not only makes for a fast and accessible site, I argue it’s also the cheaper choice in the long run! Background The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit that hosts Wikipedia and other free knowledge and open data projects. These projects are made possible by a global commu\",\"classification_terms\":[\"posts/2023/wikimedia-balances-security-and-openness\",\"about\"],\"external_refs\":[],\"depth\":1},{\"path\":\"/posts/2023/an-internet-of-php/\",\"status\":200,\"title\":\"An Internet of PHP – Timo Tijhof\",\"word_count\":2079,\"summary_text\":\"An Internet of PHP – Timo Tijhof An Internet of PHP – Timo Tijhof img:is([sizes=auto i],[sizes^=\\\"auto,\\\" i]){contain-intrinsic-size:3000px 1500px} /*# sourceURL=wp-img-auto-sizes-contain-inline-css */ Timo Tijhof About • Colophon An Internet of PHP 4 Sep 2023 • 9 min read • PHP PHP is big. The trolls can proclaim its all-but-certain “death” until the cows come home, but no amount of heckling changes that the Internet runs on PHP. The evidence is overwhelming. What follows is a loosely organised collection of precisely that evidence. Statistics Anecdotes At scale What about my bubble? Conclusion Statistics PHP as programming language of choice From Language analysis by W3 Techs on the top 10 million websites worldwide: PHP at 77.2%. ASP at 6.9%. Ruby at 5.4%. Content management on PHP The bulk of publ\",\"classification_terms\":[\"posts/2023/an-internet-of-php\",\"about\"],\"external_refs\":[],\"depth\":1},{\"path\":\"/posts/2023/browser-adoption/\",\"status\":200,\"title\":\"Browser adoption rates – Timo Tijhof\",\"word_count\":722,\"summary_text\":\"Browser adoption rates – Timo Tijhof Browser adoption rates – Timo Tijhof img:is([sizes=auto i],[sizes^=\\\"auto,\\\" i]){contain-intrinsic-size:3000px 1500px} /*# sourceURL=wp-img-auto-sizes-contain-inline-css */ Timo Tijhof About • Colophon Browser adoption rates 16 Feb 2023 • 3 min read • JavaScript, Testing, Wikipedia For two years in 2020 and 2021, I shared Wikipedia’s worldwide browser statistics on Mastodon under #browserstats. They looked a little something like this: Wikipedia.org and sister projects, browserstats for May 2021: 49%: Chrome + Chrome Mobile 24.7%: Safari + Mobile Safari 5.2%: Firefox + Firefox Mobile 2.8%: Edge 2.5%: Samsung Internet […] 100% = 16.4 billion page views (not including bots) As the data includes the browser’s major version, I wondered whether I could use this to follow th\",\"classification_terms\":[\"posts/2023/browser-adoption\",\"about\"],\"external_refs\":[],\"depth\":1},{\"path\":\"/posts/2022/http-2-performance-revisited/\",\"status\":200,\"title\":\"HTTP/2 performance revisited – Timo Tijhof\",\"word_count\":1043,\"summary_text\":\"HTTP/2 performance revisited – Timo Tijhof HTTP/2 performance revisited – Timo Tijhof img:is([sizes=auto i],[sizes^=\\\"auto,\\\" i]){contain-intrinsic-size:3000px 1500px} /*# sourceURL=wp-img-auto-sizes-contain-inline-css */ Timo Tijhof About • Colophon HTTP/2 performance revisited 20 Nov 2022 • 4 min read • Performance, Wikipedia Deploying HTTP/2 support to the Wikimedia CDN significantly changed how browsers negotiate and transfer data during the page load process. We found regressions in performance during the transition and are sharing the lessons we learned. Hello, HTTP/2! In 2016, the Wikimedia Foundation deployed HTTP/2 (or “H2”) support to our CDN. At the time, we used Nginx- for TLS termination and two layers of Varnish for caching. We anticipated a possible speed-up as part of the transition, and also identified opp\",\"classification_terms\":[\"posts/2022/http-2-performance-revisited\",\"about\",\"support\"],\"external_refs\":[],\"depth\":1},{\"path\":\"/posts/2022/internet-archive-crawling/\",\"status\":200,\"title\":\"How does Internet Archive know? – Timo Tijhof\",\"word_count\":1496,\"summary_text\":\"How does Internet Archive know? – Timo Tijhof How does Internet Archive know? – Timo Tijhof img:is([sizes=auto i],[sizes^=\\\"auto,\\\" i]){contain-intrinsic-size:3000px 1500px} /*# sourceURL=wp-img-auto-sizes-contain-inline-css */ Timo Tijhof About • Colophon How does Internet Archive know? 20 Jun 2022 • 6 min read • Wikipedia The Internet Archive discovers in real-time when WordPress blogs publish a new post, and when Wikipedia articles reference new sources. How does that work? Wikipedia Wikipedia, and its sister projects such as Wiktionary and Wikidata, run on the MediaWiki open-source software. One of its core features is “Recent changes”. This enables the Wikipedia community to monitor site activity in real-time. We use it to facilitate anti-spam, counter-vandalism, machine learning, and many more quality and research effor\",\"classification_terms\":[\"posts/2022/internet-archive-crawling\",\"about\",\"blog\"],\"external_refs\":[],\"depth\":1},{\"path\":\"/posts/2021/treasure-hunt/\",\"status\":200,\"title\":\"📎 Krinkle Treasure Hunt – Timo Tijhof\",\"word_count\":107,\"summary_text\":\"📎 Krinkle Treasure Hunt – Timo Tijhof 📎 Krinkle Treasure Hunt – Timo Tijhof img:is([sizes=auto i],[sizes^=\\\"auto,\\\" i]){contain-intrinsic-size:3000px 1500px} /*# sourceURL=wp-img-auto-sizes-contain-inline-css */ Timo Tijhof About • Colophon 📎 Krinkle Treasure Hunt 4 Jun 2021 • 1 min read • Linked I miss the era of very Internet-y things, geocities-style scavenger hunts, with easter eggs and all. So, I devised a treasure hunt of my own! → Enter here Reply via emailTimo Tijhof Principal Engineer, Wikimedia Foundation. if (document.body.matches) { document.body.addEventListener(\\\"ontouchstart\\\" in window ? \\\"dblclick\\\" : \\\"click\\\", e => { if (e.target.nodeName === \\\"IMG\\\" && !e.target.matches(\\\"a img\\\")) { if (e.altKey || e.metaKey) { window.open(e.target.src); } else { location.href = e.target.src; } } }); } {\\\"prefetch\\\":[{\\\"s\",\"classification_terms\":[\"posts/2021/treasure-hunt\",\"about\"],\"external_refs\":[],\"depth\":1},{\"path\":\"/posts/2020/profiling-php-at-scale/\",\"status\":200,\"title\":\"Profiling PHP in production at scale – Timo Tijhof\",\"word_count\":1953,\"summary_text\":\"Profiling PHP in production at scale – Timo Tijhof Profiling PHP in production at scale – Timo Tijhof img:is([sizes=auto i],[sizes^=\\\"auto,\\\" i]){contain-intrinsic-size:3000px 1500px} /*# sourceURL=wp-img-auto-sizes-contain-inline-css */ Timo Tijhof About • Colophon Profiling PHP in production at scale 11 Dec 2020 • 8 min read • Performance, PHP, Wikipedia At Wikipedia, we built an efficient sampling profiler for PHP, and use it to instrument live requests. The trace logs and flame graphs are powered by a simple setup that involves only free open-source software, and runs at low infrastructure cost. I’d like to demonstrate that profiling doesn’t have to be expensive, and can even be performant enough to run continually in production! The principles in this article should apply to most modern programming languages. We developed Exc\",\"classification_terms\":[\"posts/2020/profiling-php-at-scale\",\"about\"],\"external_refs\":[],\"depth\":1},{\"path\":\"/posts/2020/uses-this/\",\"status\":200,\"title\":\"📎 Interview on Uses This – Timo Tijhof\",\"word_count\":141,\"summary_text\":\"📎 Interview on Uses This – Timo Tijhof 📎 Interview on Uses This – Timo Tijhof img:is([sizes=auto i],[sizes^=\\\"auto,\\\" i]){contain-intrinsic-size:3000px 1500px} /*# sourceURL=wp-img-auto-sizes-contain-inline-css */ Timo Tijhof About • Colophon 📎 Interview on Uses This 7 Oct 2020 • 1 min read • Linked Daniel’s Uses This interview series has been a long-time resident in my feed reader. The over 1,000 interviews feature everyone from the people behind The IT Crowd, Winamp, Erlang, and Unix; to some of my personal heroes such as Vi Hart, Chris Coyier, Cassidy Williams, John Gruber, and Brendan Gregg. Today, yours truly got to add his bit. → usesthis.com Reply via emailTimo Tijhof Principal Engineer, Wikimedia Foundation. if (document.body.matches) { document.body.addEventListener(\\\"ontouchstart\\\" in window ? \\\"dblclick\\\" :\",\"classification_terms\":[\"posts/2020/uses-this\",\"about\"],\"external_refs\":[],\"depth\":1},{\"path\":\"/posts/2020/substr-substring-slice/\",\"status\":200,\"title\":\"Should I substr(), substring(), or slice()? – Timo Tijhof\",\"word_count\":1005,\"summary_text\":\"Should I substr(), substring(), or slice()? – Timo Tijhof Should I substr(), substring(), or slice()? – Timo Tijhof img:is([sizes=auto i],[sizes^=\\\"auto,\\\" i]){contain-intrinsic-size:3000px 1500px} /*# sourceURL=wp-img-auto-sizes-contain-inline-css */ Timo Tijhof About • Colophon Should I substr(), substring(), or slice()? 26 Sep 2020 • 4 min read • JavaScript What’s the deal with these string methods, and how are they different? String substr() str.substr(start[, length]) This method takes a start index, and optionally a number of characters to read from that start index with the default being to read until the end of the string. 'foobar'.substr(2, 3); // \\\"oba\\\" The start parameter may be a negative number, for starting relative from the end. Note that only the first parameter of substr() supports negative numbers. This in contrast to mo\",\"classification_terms\":[\"posts/2020/substr-substring-slice\",\"about\",\"support\"],\"external_refs\":[],\"depth\":1},{\"path\":\"/posts/2020/many-dots-do-not/\",\"status\":200,\"title\":\"Many dots, do not a query make – Timo Tijhof\",\"word_count\":538,\"summary_text\":\"Many dots, do not a query make – Timo Tijhof Many dots, do not a query make – Timo Tijhof img:is([sizes=auto i],[sizes^=\\\"auto,\\\" i]){contain-intrinsic-size:3000px 1500px} /*# sourceURL=wp-img-auto-sizes-contain-inline-css */ Timo Tijhof About • Colophon Many dots, do not a query make 9 Jan 2020 • 2 min read • Engineering stories, PHP, Wikipedia How a long sequence of dots allowed a regex to reach its internal stack limit. Premise Wikipedia’s production error logs were reporting an increase in app crashes from the search results page. The internal Logstash error report looked as follows: [RuntimeException] Cannot consume query at offset 0 (need to go to 7296) at mediawiki/…/CirrusSearch: QueryStringRegexParser->nextToken at mediawiki/…/CirrusSearch: QueryStringRegexParser->parse at mediawiki/…/CirrusSearch: SearchQueryBuilde\",\"classification_terms\":[\"posts/2020/many-dots-do-not\",\"about\"],\"external_refs\":[],\"depth\":1},{\"path\":\"/posts/2019/to-throw-or-not/\",\"status\":200,\"title\":\"To throw or not to throw, that is the question – Timo Tijhof\",\"word_count\":1227,\"summary_text\":\"To throw or not to throw, that is the question – Timo Tijhof To throw or not to throw, that is the question – Timo Tijhof img:is([sizes=auto i],[sizes^=\\\"auto,\\\" i]){contain-intrinsic-size:3000px 1500px} /*# sourceURL=wp-img-auto-sizes-contain-inline-css */ Timo Tijhof About • Colophon To throw or not to throw, that is the question 8 Dec 2019 • 5 min read • Engineering stories, PHP, Wikipedia Why does software accept invalid data? And, at what software layer should we reject it? Also, what are “namespaces” and “special pages” on Wikipedia? Premise One day, our server monitoring was reporting a high frequency of fatal errors from web servers. Over 10,000 an hour. The majority shared a single root cause – The program attempted to find the discussion space for a page that didn’t support discussions. Why was the program trying to do this? And h\",\"classification_terms\":[\"posts/2019/to-throw-or-not\",\"about\",\"support\"],\"external_refs\":[],\"depth\":1},{\"path\":\"/posts/2019/tomorrow-may-be-sooner/\",\"status\":200,\"title\":\"Tomorrow, may be sooner than you think – Timo Tijhof\",\"word_count\":351,\"summary_text\":\"Tomorrow, may be sooner than you think – Timo Tijhof Tomorrow, may be sooner than you think – Timo Tijhof img:is([sizes=auto i],[sizes^=\\\"auto,\\\" i]){contain-intrinsic-size:3000px 1500px} /*# sourceURL=wp-img-auto-sizes-contain-inline-css */ Timo Tijhof About • Colophon Tomorrow, may be sooner than you think 7 Dec 2019 • 2 min read • Engineering stories, PHP, Wikipedia These are short stories from bug hunts and incident investigations at Wikipedia. Impact After developers submit code to Gerrit, they eagerly await the result from Jenkins, an automated test runner. Every day during the 15 minute window before 5 PM in San Francisco, code changes submitted for code review would have mysteriously failing tests. Jenkins would wrongly inform developers that their proposed changes cause a problem with the MergeHistory feature of MediaWiki.\",\"classification_terms\":[\"posts/2019/tomorrow-may-be-sooner\",\"about\"],\"external_refs\":[],\"depth\":1},{\"path\":\"/posts/2019/wikipedia-stories-1/\",\"status\":200,\"title\":\"Missing partitions, disappearing audio players, and extreme packet loss – Timo Tijhof\",\"word_count\":1314,\"summary_text\":\"Missing partitions, disappearing audio players, and extreme packet loss – Timo Tijhof Missing partitions, disappearing audio players, and extreme packet loss – Timo Tijhof img:is([sizes=auto i],[sizes^=\\\"auto,\\\" i]){contain-intrinsic-size:3000px 1500px} /*# sourceURL=wp-img-auto-sizes-contain-inline-css */ Timo Tijhof About • Colophon Missing partitions, disappearing audio players, and extreme packet loss 6 Dec 2019 • 5 min read • Engineering stories, PHP, Wikipedia These are short stories from bug hunts and incident investigations at Wikipedia. New database partition Mystery of Disappearing Audio Players Losing packets on the way to Logstash New database partition A user reported a timeout error for certain queries from the Public log viewer on commons.wikimedia.org. Database administrator Manuel Aróstegui investigated the underlying query and found that it was sl\",\"classification_terms\":[\"posts/2019/wikipedia-stories-1\",\"about\"],\"external_refs\":[],\"depth\":1},{\"path\":\"/posts/2019/wikipedia-javascript-on-budget/\",\"status\":200,\"title\":\"Wikipedia’s JavaScript initialisation on a budget – Timo Tijhof\",\"word_count\":1098,\"summary_text\":\"Wikipedia’s JavaScript initialisation on a budget – Timo Tijhof Wikipedia’s JavaScript initialisation on a budget – Timo Tijhof img:is([sizes=auto i],[sizes^=\\\"auto,\\\" i]){contain-intrinsic-size:3000px 1500px} /*# sourceURL=wp-img-auto-sizes-contain-inline-css */ Timo Tijhof About • Colophon Wikipedia’s JavaScript initialisation on a budget 18 Sep 2019 • 5 min read • JavaScript, Performance, Wikipedia This week saw the conclusion of a project that I’ve been shepherding on and off since September of last year. The goal was for the initialisation of our asynchronous JavaScript pipeline (at the time, 36 kilobytes in size) to fit within a budget of 28 KB. The above graph shows the transfer size over time. Sizes are after compression (i.e. the net bandwidth cost as perceived from a browser). In total, the year-long effort is saving\",\"classification_terms\":[\"posts/2019/wikipedia-javascript-on-budget\",\"about\"],\"external_refs\":[],\"depth\":1},{\"path\":\"/posts/2019/protect-yourself-from-npm/\",\"status\":200,\"title\":\"How to protect yourself from npm – Timo Tijhof\",\"word_count\":1483,\"summary_text\":\"How to protect yourself from npm – Timo Tijhof How to protect yourself from npm – Timo Tijhof img:is([sizes=auto i],[sizes^=\\\"auto,\\\" i]){contain-intrinsic-size:3000px 1500px} /*# sourceURL=wp-img-auto-sizes-contain-inline-css */ Timo Tijhof About • Colophon How to protect yourself from npm 12 Sep 2019 • 6 min read • JavaScript, Testing, Wikipedia What’s the worst that could happen after npm install? When you open an app or execute a program from the terminal, that program can do anything that you can do. In a nutshell: Imagine if your computer were to disappear in front of your eyes and re-appear in front of mine. Still open. Still unlocked. What could I do from this moment on? That is what an unknown program could do. What is at stake? How does it compare to other package managers? What can you do about it? Ph\",\"classification_terms\":[\"posts/2019/protect-yourself-from-npm\",\"about\"],\"external_refs\":[],\"depth\":1},{\"path\":\"/posts/2018/twitter-browsehappy/\",\"status\":200,\"title\":\"Six years of BrowseHappy – Timo Tijhof\",\"word_count\":391,\"summary_text\":\"Six years of BrowseHappy – Timo Tijhof Six years of BrowseHappy – Timo Tijhof img:is([sizes=auto i],[sizes^=\\\"auto,\\\" i]){contain-intrinsic-size:3000px 1500px} /*# sourceURL=wp-img-auto-sizes-contain-inline-css */ Timo Tijhof About • Colophon Six years of BrowseHappy 16 May 2018 • 2 min read • Testing, Wikipedia Six years ago (in 2012), I was looking for a newsletter about browser releases. At the time, my motivation was to remember to regularly check and update the jQuery TestSwarm framework as needed for each new browser release. I found a simple overview at browsehappy.com, run by WordPress. Lacking RSS, I decided to simply check it on a regular basis, and created @browsehappy on Twitter for others also looking to follow browser releases. I decided to pair it with links to relevant blog posts and documentation. Then\",\"classification_terms\":[\"posts/2018/twitter-browsehappy\",\"about\",\"news\",\"blog\",\"links\"],\"external_refs\":[],\"depth\":1},{\"path\":\"/posts/2018/measuring-wikipedia-page-load-times/\",\"status\":200,\"title\":\"Measuring Wikipedia page load times – Timo Tijhof\",\"word_count\":1697,\"summary_text\":\"Measuring Wikipedia page load times – Timo Tijhof Measuring Wikipedia page load times – Timo Tijhof img:is([sizes=auto i],[sizes^=\\\"auto,\\\" i]){contain-intrinsic-size:3000px 1500px} /*# sourceURL=wp-img-auto-sizes-contain-inline-css */ Timo Tijhof About • Colophon Measuring Wikipedia page load times 9 Jan 2018 • 7 min read • JavaScript, Performance, Wikipedia This post shows how we measure and interpret load times on Wikipedia. It also explains what real-user metrics are, and how percentiles work. Navigation Timing When a browser loads a page, the page can include program code (JavaScript). This program will run inside the browser, alongside the page. This makes it possible for a page to become dynamic (more than static text and images). When you search on Wikipedia.org, the suggestions that appear are made with JavaScript. Brows\",\"classification_terms\":[\"posts/2018/measuring-wikipedia-page-load-times\",\"about\"],\"external_refs\":[],\"depth\":1},{\"path\":\"/posts/2015/qunit-anti-patterns/\",\"status\":200,\"title\":\"QUnit anti-patterns – Timo Tijhof\",\"word_count\":436,\"summary_text\":\"QUnit anti-patterns – Timo Tijhof QUnit anti-patterns – Timo Tijhof img:is([sizes=auto i],[sizes^=\\\"auto,\\\" i]){contain-intrinsic-size:3000px 1500px} /*# sourceURL=wp-img-auto-sizes-contain-inline-css */ Timo Tijhof About • Colophon QUnit anti-patterns 13 Feb 2015 • 2 min read • JavaScript, Testing Today, I’d like to challenge the assert.ok and assert.not* methods. I believe they may’ve become an anti-pattern. assert.ok Using assert.ok() indicates one of two problems: The software, or testing strategy, is unreliable. (Unsure what value to expect.) The author is using it as shortcut for a proper comparison. The former necessitates improvement to the code being tested. The latter comes with two additional caveats: Less debug information. (Inaccurate actual/expected diff). Without an expected value provided, one can’\",\"classification_terms\":[\"posts/2015/qunit-anti-patterns\",\"about\"],\"external_refs\":[],\"depth\":1},{\"path\":\"/posts/2014/phantomjs-for-ci/\",\"status\":200,\"title\":\"PhantomJS for CI (anno 2014) – Timo Tijhof\",\"word_count\":685,\"summary_text\":\"PhantomJS for CI (anno 2014) – Timo Tijhof PhantomJS for CI (anno 2014) – Timo Tijhof img:is([sizes=auto i],[sizes^=\\\"auto,\\\" i]){contain-intrinsic-size:3000px 1500px} /*# sourceURL=wp-img-auto-sizes-contain-inline-css */ Timo Tijhof About • Colophon PhantomJS for CI (anno 2014) 3 Oct 2014 • 3 min read • JavaScript, Testing How did Apple create Safari, and what is PhantomJS? Safari In January 2003 Apple announced Safari, their new web browser for Mac.[1] The Safari team had just spent 2002 building Safari atop KHTML and KJS,[2] the KDE layout and javascript engines developed for Konqueror. The Safari team kept the codebase somewhat modular. This allowed Apple-branding and other proprietary features to stay separate whilst also having a sustainable open-source project (WebKit) that is standalone and compilable into a fully\",\"classification_terms\":[\"posts/2014/phantomjs-for-ci\",\"about\"],\"external_refs\":[],\"depth\":1},{\"path\":\"/posts/2013/the-word-rebuke/\",\"status\":200,\"title\":\"The word “rebuke” – Timo Tijhof\",\"word_count\":359,\"summary_text\":\"The word “rebuke” – Timo Tijhof The word “rebuke” – Timo Tijhof img:is([sizes=auto i],[sizes^=\\\"auto,\\\" i]){contain-intrinsic-size:3000px 1500px} /*# sourceURL=wp-img-auto-sizes-contain-inline-css */ Timo Tijhof About • Colophon The word “rebuke” 18 Dec 2013 • 2 min read • English language re·buke verb express sharp disapproval or criticism of (someone) because of their behavior or actions “she had rebuked him for drinking too much“ “the judge publicly rebuked the jury“ noun an expression of sharp disapproval or criticism “he hadn’t meant it as a rebuke, but Neil flinched“ (from the Oxford English Dictionary) I ran into the word whilst watching an episode of Elementary. The scene continued to feature more rich language. Holmes: I’ve given further consideration to your rebuke regarding my capacity for n\",\"classification_terms\":[\"posts/2013/the-word-rebuke\",\"about\"],\"external_refs\":[],\"depth\":1},{\"path\":\"/tags/engineering-stories/\",\"status\":200,\"title\":\"Engineering stories – Timo Tijhof\",\"word_count\":174,\"summary_text\":\"Engineering stories – Timo Tijhof Engineering stories – Timo Tijhof img:is([sizes=auto i],[sizes^=\\\"auto,\\\" i]){contain-intrinsic-size:3000px 1500px} /*# sourceURL=wp-img-auto-sizes-contain-inline-css */ Timo Tijhof About • Colophon Tag: Engineering stories 4 posts • View all posts Many dots, do not a query make 9 Jan 2020 How a long sequence of dots allowed a regex to reach its internal stack limit. To throw or not to throw, that is the question 8 Dec 2019 Why does software accept invalid data? And, at what software layer should we reject it? Also, what are “namespaces” and “special pages” on Wikipedia? Tomorrow, may be sooner than you think 7 Dec 2019 These are short stories from bug hunts and incident investigations at Wikipedia. Missing partitions, disappearing audio players, and extreme packet loss 6 Dec 2019\",\"classification_terms\":[\"tags/engineering-stories\",\"about\"],\"external_refs\":[],\"depth\":1},{\"path\":\"/tags/english-language/\",\"status\":200,\"title\":\"English language – Timo Tijhof\",\"word_count\":127,\"summary_text\":\"English language – Timo Tijhof English language – Timo Tijhof img:is([sizes=auto i],[sizes^=\\\"auto,\\\" i]){contain-intrinsic-size:3000px 1500px} /*# sourceURL=wp-img-auto-sizes-contain-inline-css */ Timo Tijhof About • Colophon Tag: English language 1 post • View all posts The word “rebuke” 18 Dec 2013 re·buke verb express sharp disapproval or criticism of (someone) because of their behavior or actions “she had rebuked him for drinking too much“ “the judge publicly rebuked the jury“ noun an expression of sharp disapproval or criticism “he hadn’t meant it as a rebuke, but Neil flinched“ (from the Oxford English Dictionary) I ran into the… if (document.body.matches) { document.body.addEventListener(\\\"ontouchstart\\\" in window ? \\\"dblclick\\\" : \\\"click\\\", e => { if (e.target.nodeName === \\\"IMG\\\" && !e.target.matches(\\\"a\",\"classification_terms\":[\"tags/english-language\",\"about\"],\"external_refs\":[],\"depth\":1},{\"path\":\"/tags/javascript/\",\"status\":200,\"title\":\"JavaScript – Timo Tijhof\",\"word_count\":352,\"summary_text\":\"JavaScript – Timo Tijhof JavaScript – Timo Tijhof img:is([sizes=auto i],[sizes^=\\\"auto,\\\" i]){contain-intrinsic-size:3000px 1500px} /*# sourceURL=wp-img-auto-sizes-contain-inline-css */ Timo Tijhof About • Colophon Tag: JavaScript 8 posts • View all posts Lockfiles for apps, not packages (still) 12 Sep 2024 TL;DR: My updated take is Lockfiles for Node.js apps, not for other projects. When you run npm install, after you add or change a dependency in package.json, npm finds and selects the latest compatible version, downloads it, and replaces your package-lock.json file to describe what it found. The npm install command does not consider lockfiles… Browser adoption rates 16 Feb 2023 For two years in 2020 and 2021, I shared Wikipedia’s worldwide browser statistics on Mastodon under #browserstats. They\",\"classification_terms\":[\"tags/javascript\",\"about\"],\"external_refs\":[],\"depth\":1},{\"path\":\"/tags/linked/\",\"status\":200,\"title\":\"Linked – Timo Tijhof\",\"word_count\":240,\"summary_text\":\"Linked – Timo Tijhof Linked – Timo Tijhof img:is([sizes=auto i],[sizes^=\\\"auto,\\\" i]){contain-intrinsic-size:3000px 1500px} /*# sourceURL=wp-img-auto-sizes-contain-inline-css */ Timo Tijhof About • Colophon Tag: Linked 4 posts • View all posts John Cleese on Creativity (Transcript) 14 Feb 2026 The below is transcribed from a 1991 talk by John Cleese titled Creativity in Management. I encourage you to watch the 30-minute recording on YouTube. The delivery is hilarious with great comedic timing that my transcript can’t begin to do justice. I edited the transcript for brevity, and added headings and links. This speech was given by… 📎 Unifying Wikipedia mobile and desktop domains 24 Nov 2025 Until now, when you visited a wiki (like en.wikipedia.org), the server responded in one of two ways\",\"classification_terms\":[\"tags/linked\",\"about\",\"links\"],\"external_refs\":[],\"depth\":1},{\"path\":\"/tags/performance/\",\"status\":200,\"title\":\"Performance – Timo Tijhof\",\"word_count\":241,\"summary_text\":\"Performance – Timo Tijhof Performance – Timo Tijhof img:is([sizes=auto i],[sizes^=\\\"auto,\\\" i]){contain-intrinsic-size:3000px 1500px} /*# sourceURL=wp-img-auto-sizes-contain-inline-css */ Timo Tijhof About • Colophon Tag: Performance 4 posts • View all posts HTTP/2 performance revisited 20 Nov 2022 Deploying HTTP/2 support to the Wikimedia CDN significantly changed how browsers negotiate and transfer data during the page load process. We found regressions in performance during the transition and are sharing the lessons we learned. 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The trace logs and flame graphs are powered by a simple setup that involves only free open-source software, and runs at low infrastructure cost. Many dots, do not a query make 9 Jan 2020 How a long sequence of dots allowed a regex to reach its internal stack limit. To throw or not to throw, that is the question 8 Dec 2019 Why does software accep\",\"classification_terms\":[\"tags/php\",\"about\"],\"external_refs\":[],\"depth\":1},{\"path\":\"/tags/testing/\",\"status\":200,\"title\":\"Testing – Timo Tijhof\",\"word_count\":243,\"summary_text\":\"Testing – Timo Tijhof Testing – Timo Tijhof img:is([sizes=auto i],[sizes^=\\\"auto,\\\" i]){contain-intrinsic-size:3000px 1500px} /*# sourceURL=wp-img-auto-sizes-contain-inline-css */ Timo Tijhof About • Colophon Tag: Testing 5 posts • View all posts Browser adoption rates 16 Feb 2023 For two years in 2020 and 2021, I shared Wikipedia’s worldwide browser statistics on Mastodon under #browserstats. 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