Modern Web Development with Chrome

I have written a run of posts over on aifoc.us that I did not plan as a series, but they kinda just plopped out.

The work that led to this is a research project that I will soon publish on aifoc.us, where I am analysing if the presence of a URL in a prompt influences the output based on the latent "knowledge" about that URL in the model.

I have been writing a lot over at aifoc.us for the past year (actually, my last post on this site was a year and a day ago), and I've spent a lot of time exploring the risks and opportunities for the web, and the challenges that I think we need to adapt to

I've been exploring how to integrate advanced AI agents into my daily workflow, and email remains the most universal interface for asynchronous tasks.

The <generate-html> Web Component is a LLM-powered custom element that generates and renders interactive HTML or SVG images on the fly using Google Gemini or Chrome's built-in AI.

What if every website you visited didn't actually exist until the moment you asked for it?

Link: AI Focus I've launched a new blog.

Link: Diving into the Data on Feature Availability and Adoption [BlinkOn 20] - YouTube This is a great talk from Annie Sullivan at BlinkOn 20 about the availability and adoption of web features.

Link: From PyTorch to Browser: Creating a Web-Friendly AI Model I loved this post from Andre about running sentiment analysis in the browser using a model that he'd trained on embeddings generated from a YouTube comments data was great and shows that you…

Link: How to Write Blog Posts that Developers Read · Refactoring English I think this post would be good for every developer to read.

Link: Rainbow Shadow Button · 19 March 2025 background: linear-gradient(to right in oklch longer hue, oklch(95% var(--vibrance) 0) 0 100%); I know CSS pretty well, but I'm mind blown by what Adam produces.

Link: Real-world uses of TypeScript’s utility types - Piccalilli I have a bit of love-hate relationship with TypeScript, but there are parts of the typescript Type system that I really like.

Link: Adactio: Journal—Command and control I’ve been banging on for a while now about how much I’d like a declarative option for the Web Share API.

Link: Browser adaptation Something that I've been thinking about a lot recently is that the medium that is the web.

Link: Planet Igalia When I was preparing the Interop post yesterday, I found one of the agalia links didn't work and while I was hunting for the new link, I found Planet Igalia.

Link: ESLint now officially supports linting of CSS - ESLint - Pluggable JavaScript Linter We feel that validation and enforcing baseline features are the minimum that a linter needs to support in 2025, and so we spent a lot of time making the no-invalid-…

Link: How Google Chrome’s autofill feature helps both shoppers and merchants One of Shopify’s key metrics is Checkout Conversion Rate (CCR), which measures the rate of successful checkouts completed over a period of time.

Link: Interop 2025: another year of web platform improvements It's exciting to see the web platform continue to evolve and improve.

Link: WikiTok This is such an amazing site and has become a bit of a daily habit for me.

It may come as no surprise to the people who get emails from me, but I failed GCSE English.

Link: Why I use Cline for AI Engineering - by Addy Osmani In this post Addy describes his use of Cline (Jan 30).

I've been noodling on how we might lower the cost to create prototypes of sites for people who aren't technical.

This great post by Dion "English will become the most popular development language in 6 years" is worth a mull imho.

I fondly remember the early days of the web.

Link: https://webkit.org/blog/16413/the-success-of-interop-2024 I saw The success of Interop 2024!

Link: My approach to running a link blog I really like Simon's approach to running a link blog and his principles really resonate with me I always include the names of the people who created the content I am linking to, if I can figure that out.

My buddy Dion made a great post "English will become the most popular development language in 6 years".

I get a lot of newsletters, and I love them.

I love RSS feeds (and ATOM too (and JSONFeed)) but one thing that frustrates me is when a feed doesn't include all of the content. https://full-rss.paulkinlan-ea.deno.net was created to partially solve this.

I've been generating a lot of web apps recently.

I've always wanted to know which user agents are currently hitting my site...

I've a little thing where I like to know roughly how many days it until something.

I've been building lots of apps by using LLMs and Agents.

I missed it, but I just realised that as of August 28th 2024 I've been blogging for over 20 year.

Following on from my post about the "disposable web" and building things just for me, I thought it might be useful to collate an evergreen list of all the things that I'm building (and their code) so that you can see some of the things they do and inspect…

I have vivid memories as a child of my dad buying an Amiga 500 and letting me have exclusive access to the C64.

I saw https://websim.ai a couple of weeks ago but didn't quite get it, and then during some research on the creator and web developer ecosystems I came back to it and my mind was blown.

I sometimes go for a spelunk in to HTTP Archive looking at values here and there.

I've been pretty enamoured by Preact's Signals API and how it makes it easy to build applications that respond to state and environment changes, so following on from the reactive-prompt API that I built the other month, I've been exploring a higher-level…

I've been doing a lot of work on Breadboard.

A lot of the tools that I build that interact with LLMs are built with Breadboard.

I'm broadly interested in Large Language Models and how they can help Developer Relations (my role).

As part of my role in Developer Relations for Chrome I need to get a quick understanding of what's happening around web development broadly, and also for specific areas of interest for the team.

There's not that many people who read this blog - but for those of you who do, I'm making some minor changes.

The Claude Breadboard Kit is a simple plugin that enables you to build Breadboards that interface directly with Claude.

tldr.rocks [code] is a simple service that I created to summarize the Hacker News posts and the sentiment of the comments.

One of the problems that I have with LLMs is knowing when they will be useful and how to apply them to any given problem.