Paul Williams

As many of you know, I have set myself a mission in 2025 to try and raise £50,000 for education-related charities that are equipping young people as they navigate those tricky years into adult life and work. Thank you for all the support so far! - all details at www.givewheel.com/fundraising/...

We launched the Spark Awards for Big Changemakers at Big Change HQ yesterday! ✨ A big thank you to everyone who joined us and sparked powerful conversations about co-creating a future in which all young people can thrive.

#SparkAwards #BigChangemakers

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Hi @henrihelvetica.bsky.social !

The Bloomberg Terminal, believe it or not, is based on web technology 🌐

This deep-dive talk by @jason-williams.co.uk & @pcwilliams.net reveals what that looks like in terms of Chromium embedding.

It explains how we keep it blazing fast, including by adding a new Web Perf API: Container Timing 🔥

Thanks Jon!

Bloomberg Becomes Browser | Jason Williams & Paul Williams | performance.now() 2024 YouTube video by Web Conferences Amsterdam

Myself and @pcwilliams.net continue to be humbled by the response we had at @perfnow.bsky.social. Our talk “Bloomberg Becomes Browser” has been published! You can watch it here: youtu.be/y1MCLZm8yAY?...

After almost six years (eight if you include my stint at GT) 162 race weekends and over 240 events, tomorrow marks my final day with McLaren.

After seeing @was.tl's great talk at @cppnorth.bsky.social, I was inspired to try Advent of Code for the first time.

Puzzles can be fun when you're not in a job interview!

I just completed "Historian Hysteria" - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/1

I ❤️ @bigchangecharity.bsky.social - the impact accelerator I have been supporting for nearly 10 years, working to see education prepare young people for life, not just exams.

One of my business and life heroes - now here on Bluesky. Richard (@richardbranson.bsky.social) was the catalyst in connecting me with the right people so I could start my #STEM scholarship with @virgingalactic.bsky.social and I am very grateful. www.virgin.com/virgin-unite...

This is a great interview with her in Sound on Sound magazine. Also, congratulations Katie on your Grammy nomination for engineering Peter Gabriel’s album, i/o!
www.soundonsound.com/people/talkb...

Her quiet brilliance, patience, humility and dry sense of humour meant we weren’t intimidated going into one of the most prestigious studios in the UK, and really enjoyed the experience. Her skilful engineering and production allowed us to make something we are really proud of.

One of the best things about going to Producer Camp and then making an album with some young people was getting to know Katie May, head engineer at Real World Studios.

Photo for the weekend. @virgin-atlantic.bsky.social #InFlightEntertainment

If interested, more here pcwilliams.design/ife/index.html

If you're new to Bluesky and/or web performance, the wonderful @sia.codes has created an excellent starter pack of front-end #webperf folks to follow.

bsky.app/starter-pack...

How cool is this: this is from the Bluesky firehose!

What's so cool about this is:

1. The throwback style

2. That *any* dev can do this! Thanks to there being an API for this (no other social network allows this AFAIK)

This API is a big reason to be bullish on Bluesky

firehose3d.theo.io

For many years, I have been working within Bloomberg and with non-profit organizations such as #Stemettes to help women find pathways and leadership in #STEM careers.

So when I attend a conference where every talk is keynote-quality, to see this speaker line-up is so encouraging. #PerfNow

Just discovering User Lists in @bsky.app … hoping to keep my feed here less frantic than the other place - seems you don’t have to follow people in your Lists, so you can easily separate tech, cat pictures and politics for when the mood takes you.

Having seen Harry (@csswizardry.com) speak so well at #PerfNow last week, I imagine this will be great!

bsky.social/about/blog/4... is how you do it - you just need access to the DNS settings for your domain.

Thank you for this! Enjoying finding people I want to hear from at this gentler place :)

Runner here too. But getting slower :) #devswhorun

Great talk, Tim. Loved #PerfNow - thanks for making us so welcome.

100 still photos merged together to show 5 minutes of Arctic sky movement over Lapporten and the frozen lake at Abisko, northern Sweden. Beautiful pastel shades of blue and yellow over the vast expanse of frozen lake.

Oh that was easy. Thank you @bsky.app for guiding me through a simple DNS record change and now I am @pcwilliams.net on here 🙂

Thank you so much for a PERFect conference, Tammy! It was great to meet you and the #PerfNow team. Your talk was awesome!

Thank you very much Paul!

Thank you so much, Stoyan!

Thanks for writing up your debrief of #PerfNow at stuart-mcmillan.com/blog/webperf.... And it’s really helpful to read an independent review of our talk - thank you!

Thank you Jodie - hope to see you in HK.

Thank you for a great talk, @anniesullie.bsky.social. It was so good to meet you at #PerfNow and we really really appreciate the shout-out for our work at Bloomberg :)