If you've ever opened Chrome DevTools or optimized a page for Core Web Vitals, you've used software built by Addy Osmani. Today we talk about the inside story of Chrome DevTools, why it became the closest thing Google has to an IDE, and the problems that are still unsolved like memory debugging.
Why listen
It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of like, know, think, including: Addy spent 14 years at Google, most of it on Chrome, going from software engineer to director of engineering.
Key takeaways
01If you've ever opened Chrome DevTools or optimized a page for Core Web Vitals, you've used software built by Addy Osmani
02Today we talk about the inside story of Chrome DevTools, why it became the closest thing Google has to an IDE, and the problems that are still unsolved like memory debugging
03What becomes different when you become a director at Google, and how Addy stayed hands-on building software while building an engineering org with more than 50 people, how AI is ch
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