web02.fireside.fm Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:32:10 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) PodRocket - Episodes Tagged with “Chrome” https://podrocket.logrocket.com/tags/chrome Thu, 06 Nov 2025 08:00:00 -0500 PodRocket covers everything you need to know about frontend web development on a weekly basis. Join our hosts as they interview experienced developers about all the libraries, frameworks, and tech industry issues they deal with every day. en-us episodic A web development podcast from LogRocket LogRocket PodRocket covers everything you need to know about frontend web development on a weekly basis. Join our hosts as they interview experienced developers about all the libraries, frameworks, and tech industry issues they deal with every day. no front-end, web development, front-end development, frontend development, tech, LogRocket elizabeth.becz@logrocket.com Speeding up the web with the speculation rules API | Barry Pollard http://podrocket.logrocket.com/barry-pollard 243e07b1-a1b9-4f6d-b2d4-3c46fcda1b27 Thu, 06 Nov 2025 08:00:00 -0500 LogRocket full LogRocket Barry Pollard from the Chrome devrel team joins PodRocket to discuss the speculation rules API, a new browser feature designed to improve web performance through prefetch and pre-render techniques. Barry breaks down the history of speculative loading, contrasts SPA vs MPA behavior, and explains the nuances of hover prefetching, conservative prefetch, and the powerful new pre-render until script mode. Learn how Shopify and WordPress are adopting the API, what telemetry from Chrome Status reveals, and what developers need to know about potential pitfalls, caching behavior, and how the API is becoming a standard for static sites and e-commerce performance. 44:33 no Barry Pollard from the Chrome devrel team joins PodRocket to discuss the speculation rules API, a new browser feature designed to improve web performance through prefetch and pre-render techniques. Barry breaks down the history of speculative loading, contrasts SPA vs MPA behavior, and explains the nuances of hover prefetching, conservative prefetch, and the powerful new pre-render until script mode. Learn how Shopify and WordPress are adopting the API, what telemetry from Chrome Status reveals, and what developers need to know about potential pitfalls, caching behavior, and how the API is becoming a standard for static sites and e-commerce performance. Links Website: https://www.tunetheweb.com X: https://x.com/tunetheweb LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tunetheweb Github: https://github.com/tunetheweb Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/tunetheweb.com Resources Perfnow: https://perfnow.nl/speakers.html#barry We want to hear from you! How did you find us? Did you see us on Twitter? In a newsletter? Or maybe we were recommended by a friend? Fill out our listener survey (https://t.co/oKVAEXipxu)! https://t.co/oKVAEXipxu Let us know by sending an email to our producer, Elizabeth, at elizabeth.becz@logrocket.com (mailto:elizabeth.becz@logrocket.com), or tweet at us at PodRocketPod (https://twitter.com/PodRocketpod). Check out our newsletter (https://blog.logrocket.com/the-replay-newsletter/)! https://blog.logrocket.com/the-replay-newsletter/ Follow us. Get free stickers. Follow us on Apple Podcasts, fill out this form (https://podrocket.logrocket.com/get-podrocket-stickers), and we’ll send you free PodRocket stickers! What does LogRocket do? LogRocket provides AI-first session replay and analytics that surfaces the UX and technical issues impacting user experiences. Start understanding where your users are struggling by trying it for free at LogRocket.com. Try LogRocket for free today. (https://logrocket.com/signup/?pdr) Chapters speculation rules API, speculation rules Chrome, web performance optimization, prefetch vs pre-render, pre-render until script, Shopify web performance, WordPress prefetch API, SPA vs MPA, hover prefetching, conservative prefetch, eager prefetch, Chrome deferral team, Barry Pollard Chrome, speculative loading API, improving LCP with pre-render, fetch heuristics Chrome, Chrome speculation rules telemetry, Shopify speculation rules case study, WordPress core speculation rules, prefetch JavaScript frameworks, API browser adoption Chrome, API developer pitfalls, static site pre-rendering Barry Pollard from the Chrome devrel team joins PodRocket to discuss the speculation rules API, a new browser feature designed to improve web performance through prefetch and pre-render techniques. Barry breaks down the history of speculative loading, contrasts SPA vs MPA behavior, and explains the nuances of hover prefetching, conservative prefetch, and the powerful new pre-render until script mode. Learn how Shopify and WordPress are adopting the API, what telemetry from Chrome Status reveals, and what developers need to know about potential pitfalls, caching behavior, and how the API is becoming a standard for static sites and e-commerce performance.

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]]> Barry Pollard from the Chrome devrel team joins PodRocket to discuss the speculation rules API, a new browser feature designed to improve web performance through prefetch and pre-render techniques. Barry breaks down the history of speculative loading, contrasts SPA vs MPA behavior, and explains the nuances of hover prefetching, conservative prefetch, and the powerful new pre-render until script mode. Learn how Shopify and WordPress are adopting the API, what telemetry from Chrome Status reveals, and what developers need to know about potential pitfalls, caching behavior, and how the API is becoming a standard for static sites and e-commerce performance.

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]]> Plasmo with Stefan Aleksic and Louis Vilgo http://podrocket.logrocket.com/plasmo e753879e-b7c4-4ce9-a6cb-5182409a3541 Wed, 17 Aug 2022 08:00:00 -0400 LogRocket full 2 LogRocket We sit down with Stefan Aleksic and Louis Vilgo to talk about their platform, Plasmo, and how they’re trying to revolutionize how Chrome extensions are developed, tested, and deployed. 28:45 no We sit down with Stefan Aleksic and Louis Vilgo to talk about their platform, Plasmo, and how they’re trying to revolutionize how Chrome extensions are developed, tested, and deployed. Links https://docs.plasmo.com https://github.com/plasmohq https://twitter.com/plasmohq https://discord.com/invite/8rrxVYYtfd https://twitter.com/stayfun_ https://twitter.com/litbid Tell us what you think of PodRocket We want to hear from you! We want to know what you love and hate about the podcast. What do you want to hear more about? Who do you want to see on the show? Our producers want to know, and if you talk with us, we'll send you a $25 gift card! If you're interested, you can email producer Kate Trahan at kate@logrocket.com (mailto:kate@logrocket.com). Follow us. Get free stickers. Follow us on Apple Podcasts, fill out this form (https://podrocket.logrocket.com/get-podrocket-stickers), and we'll send you free PodRocket stickers! What does LogRocket do? LogRocket combines frontend monitoring, product analytics, and session replay to help software teams deliver the ideal product experience. Try LogRocket for free today. (https://logrocket.com/signup/?pdr) Special Guests: Louis Vilgo and Stefan Aleksic. Plasmo, Chrome extensions We sit down with Stefan Aleksic and Louis Vilgo to talk about their platform, Plasmo, and how they’re trying to revolutionize how Chrome extensions are developed, tested, and deployed.

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]]> We sit down with Stefan Aleksic and Louis Vilgo to talk about their platform, Plasmo, and how they’re trying to revolutionize how Chrome extensions are developed, tested, and deployed.

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Special Guests: Louis Vilgo and Stefan Aleksic.

]]> Bringing page transitions to the web with Jake Archibald http://podrocket.logrocket.com/web-page-transitions 09efb2b3-5353-4b9e-8557-c2f2afd51171 Tue, 26 Jul 2022 08:00:00 -0400 LogRocket full 2 LogRocket In this episode, we talk to Jake Archibald, programs engineer and developer advocate working on Chrome, about web page transitions introduced at this year’s Google I/O conference. We talk about the issues with creating web page transitions and what Chrome is doing to bring easy-to-use transitions to the web. 35:00 no In this episode, we talk to Jake Archibald, programs engineer and developer advocate working on Chrome, about web page transitions introduced at this year’s Google I/O conference. We talk about the issues with creating web page transitions and what Chrome is doing to bring easy-to-use transitions to the web. Links https://twitter.com/jaffathecake Bringing page transitions to the web. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCJUPJ_zDQ4) https://github.com/jakearchibald/navigation-transitions Follow us. Get free stickers. Follow us on Apple Podcasts, fill out this form (https://podrocket.logrocket.com/get-podrocket-stickers), and we'll send you free PodRocket stickers! What does LogRocket do? LogRocket combines frontend monitoring, product analytics, and session replay to help software teams deliver the ideal product experience. Try LogRocket for free today. (https://logrocket.com/signup/?pdr) Special Guest: Jake Archibald. GoogleIO, web page transitions, Chrome In this episode, we talk to Jake Archibald, programs engineer and developer advocate working on Chrome, about web page transitions introduced at this year’s Google I/O conference. We talk about the issues with creating web page transitions and what Chrome is doing to bring easy-to-use transitions to the web.

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]]> In this episode, we talk to Jake Archibald, programs engineer and developer advocate working on Chrome, about web page transitions introduced at this year’s Google I/O conference. We talk about the issues with creating web page transitions and what Chrome is doing to bring easy-to-use transitions to the web.

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Special Guest: Jake Archibald.

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