AI Focus

Lighthouse is one of the most successful developer tools we’ve ever shipped, and I say that as someone who is genuinely proud of the work the team has done on it.

At first, this was a really easy post to write, but then I discovered some things.

I’m building software every day at a pace I’ve never managed before, even when I wasn’t a manager.

Just over a month ago I wrote that WebMCP is the new web intents … maybe, but now I really do think that WebMCP is the new web intents (in a good way, not the “the entire project crashed and burned” way).

What is described here in this project is dangerous, it can get pretty much full access to everything inside your browser and could enable control of your browser from outside it I really do believe we are witnessing a transition in how we build and run s…

If the majority of my app is just a prompt, then I have a very transportable program.

I keep hearing people say that there is a model “half-life” which keeps dropping from years between model releases down to a few months, with the implied assumptions that model releasing will drop to even further.

I’m 45 years old and using cooked to mean something that it never meant.

Before Google, I worked at a small telecoms company in Liverpool called Qire.

There’s a confluence of things that have happened recently that have made me question how browsers might be developed: On January 8th 2026, Simon Willison predicted that someone will build a browser using mainly AI-assisted tools within 3 years On January…

Knowing what is happening in the web development ecosystem is a critical part of my job in Chrome DevRel, so every Monday morning I get emails telling me what happened last week in Chinese web development; the state of Passkeys; WASM; HTML-in-Canvas; the…

One day the web will have a federated way to link to functionality.

In early January 2026 I was listening to Transistor Radio, the Semi-Analysis podcast, where Doug O’Laughlin was talking about how good Claude Code had become.

Two conversations have been rattling around in my head this month, and they frame the same question from completely opposite directions.

When I was at Liverpool John Moores University studying software engineering, my best friend Jon pulled me aside and told me I had a verbal tick.

I built an application recently.

NotebookLM is one of my favorite applications in decades.

I got hooked on Claude Code over the holiday break and used it to create a number of small projects in record time.

It’s been nearly 9 months since I started this blog and I feel that while I kept up a good pace of articles and I’ve dived deeper in to my thoughts on the intersection of web and AI (specifically LLMs), however a lot of what I’ve done is hidden away becau…

I fondly remember sitting with my friend Chris learning how to make HTTP requests so that we more quickly check if our web pages were rendering as we expected without the need to load the browser.

I remember my early days building for the web.

These are my opinions and are ruminations on what might be happening as more and more developers use LLMs and Frameworks to build on the web.

This is a very quick post.

The thing about the web is that you don’t know what is on the other end of a link.

I was introduced to the concept of the Memex after my post about super-apps.

As much as I struggle with on-device processing and the quality of its output compared to server models, I am excited by some of the APIs that are being built into browsers that are backed by LLMs and other AI inference models.

When I moved to North Wales I noticed how many of the local businesses were solely on Facebook and Instagram.

17 years ago I discovered Google App Engine.

The web browser is such an amazing concept.

AI assisted programming is becoming more and more frequent amongst developers.

No, not that one.

Paul Kinlan recently wrote about how latency of AI models to generate UIs with HTML, CSS and JavaScript is decreasing significantly, and how that can lead to user UIs that are ephemeral, dynamically generated, and specialized to the user need at hand.

I spent an evening in a fictitious web.

I’ll keep playing here while the rest of you flirt with apps.

I’ve spent two weeks in April wandering around Japan with my wife, daughter and parents - it was incredible.

I remember the exact moments when major transitions in my life happened.