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I’m writing up a blog post about the early Mobile Web API’s and Alex Russell reminded me of Google Gears Gears modules include: LocalServer Cache and serve application resources (HTML, JavaScript, images, etc.) locally Database Store data locally in a fully-searchable relational database WorkerPool Make your web applications more responsive by performing resource-intensive operations asynchronously Read full post. I think it is interesting to see that AppCache and WebSQL, Geolocation and WebWorkers came out of the ideas in Google Gears and it’s only the latter two that really survived.

A quick dive in to how to use Lighthouse,HTTPArchive and Chrome UX report to try and understand how users in a country might experience the web.

A quick dive in to how to use Lighthouse to try and understand how users in a country might experience the web.

Ruth John moved to Chrome OS (temporarily): The first thing, and possibly the thing with the least amount of up to date information out there, was enabling Crostini. This runs Linux in a container on the Chromebook, something you pretty much want straight away after spending 15 minutes on it. I have the most recent Pixel, the 256GB version. Here’s what you do. Go to settings. Click on the hamburger menu (top left) - right at the bottom it says ‘About Chrome OS’ Open this and there’s an option to put your machine into dev mode It’ll restart and you’ll be in dev mode - this is much like running Canary over Chrome and possibly turning on a couple of flags.