Kristján Oddsson

A software engineer with a penchant for working with Web Platform features and hacking on small projects has created posts and notes on this website.

Posts

Web Performance — From the Lab to the Field In this post, I delve into the world of web performance and its profound influence on user experience. I share my experiences of optimizing my website, koddsson.com, by using real user monitoring and tools like Lighthouse CI.
Implementing View Transitions on koddsson.com How I implemented MPA View Transitions on koddsson.com
Stop trying to make things perfect A blog post with some thoughts on perfectionism
Emojis as favicons A blog post describing how to use JavaScript to quickly set a websites favicon to a emoji

Images

A path in a forest or a wooden area. There’s a black and white medium sized dog sitting on the path. The dog is wearing a harness and a leash as well as a gray dog-hoodie.

A black and white dog sleeping on a couch with a head covering.

A picture of a floor. On the floor is a carpet and a table. On the table is an open laptop and some headphones and sunglasses. On the carpet is a black and white dog laying by my feet sleeping. The dog is wearing a gray shirt.

A black and white dog sitting on the floor. The dog is mid yawn.

A black and white dog asleep on a sofa. He’s resting his head on a pillow. The dog is wearing a camouflage shirt with orange accents. There’s a Nintendo Switch controller below his head on the pillow.

A black and white dog laying in their side on a gray mattress. The dogs body extends past the edge of the bed in a way where one would think he would have fallen off the edge by now.

A rocky beach with some bits of trash lying around. There’s some greenery. In the background across the water are some buildings. In the foreground is some concrete pavement and a black and white dog is standing on it.

A close up of my dogs face on a operating table. He appears to be knocked out with his eyes slightly opens and his tongue slightly sticking out of his mouth.

A picture of my dog Tofu. He’s just standing there.

Notes

Since bookmarks can be JavaScript we can dynamically create a URL based on some data. In this case the data is the current date. We'll use that to create a GitHub search filter for pull requests created in the last 7 days.
```
const today = new Date();
const lastWeek = new Date(new Date().setDate(new Date().getDate() - 7));
const created = [
[lastWeek.getFullYear(), lastWeek.getUTCMonth() + 1, lastWeek.getDate()].join("-"),
[today.getFullYear(), today.getUTCMonth() + 1, today.getDate()].join("-"),
].join("..");
const url = new URL("https://github.com/pulls");
const params = new URLSearchParams();
params.set(
"q",
'is:pr author:@me is:closed created:' + created
);
url.search = params.toString();
window.location.href = url.toString();
```
Then we just need to compress the JavaScript, URL encode it, stick the javascript: protocol in front of the script and stick it in a URL. You can drag that into your bookmarks bar and now you have a easy shortcut to the work you did last week, ready for your next Monday standup!

Last 7 days of PRs.

Note that you'll need to update user name (author:koddsson) in the original script and then recreate the bookmarklet again to get your pull requests. I used https://caiorss.github.io/bookmarklet-maker/ to create my bookmarklet.

Edits:

2024/10/21: @carlocab_ pointed out that I can use author:@me instead of hard-coding a username in the script.

7 days ago
I'm excited about working on some Web Performance "lab monitoring" at work but the initial runs are not great. Hoping that there are easy fixes that get us to be a lot more performant.

2 years ago
I got a dog about a week ago. His name is Tofu.

2 years ago