I was already careful when driving near Teslas (I've heard plenty "oh I can drink because the car will drive me home"-stories). I guess this means I have to be even more careful... (I live in the NL) www.theverge.com/transportati...

🔥 "Capable browsers, and the PWAs they support, hold the power to grow an ecosystem of applications that no gatekeeper can own or tax, based on standardised APIs that resist enclosure. But few outlets are connecting these dots for readers." 📖 Read: infrequently.org/2026/04/the-...

Almost as if "delay" is the entire goal... (For a monopolist, "delay" is "winning")

"What the heck is wrong with our AI overlords?" arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

> "The browser, once the great universal platform, is increasingly being reduced to a top-of-funnel marketing channel for the App Store." www.0xsid.com/blog/wont-do...

Rather than the same old boring internet pranks, I thought I'd build something more fun this April Fools. CSS or BS. Can you tell your CSS properties names from BS? www.keithcirkel.co.uk/css-or-bs

I wonder what the browser perf folks think of that hot new pretext library that was released last week. It sure sounds cool, but throwing JS at a CSS/layout problem, coming from someone who worked on React, sounds... suspicious 😅 github.com/chenglou/pre...

Apple turned 50 years old yesterday. The web is full of reminiscences about Apple products and Saint Steve. I haven’t been an Apple user for as long as many have, so here are my five top Apple memories. brucelawson.co.uk/2026/apple-a...

We already have a platform that anyone can access from anywhere, is open and interoperable, and has proven it can give native (desktop) platforms a run for their money. But somehow everyone thinks "we need alternative app stores" instead of "we need to unlock the web" when it comes to mobile.

> Instead of prioritising the one, narrow intervention that can unlock the most impactful competition, regulators are gripped in alt store fever dreams; infrequently.org/2026/04/the-...

Boerderijen bezweken, muren spleten en schadevergoeding bleef te lang uit, zo is het verhaal in kranten en Kamerdebatten. Maar onder wetenschappers klinkt een ander geluid: voor een miljardencompensatie op deze schaal bestaat geen enkele basis.

OWA NEW REPORT 🚨 Apple’s interoperability “commitments” in the UK 🇬🇧 are a smokescreen: 👉 No obligation to share anything 👉 Broad excuses to say no 👉 Fees for APIs 👉 No public transparency They can comply… and change nothing 😬 Bad for devs. Bad for users. OWA gives you the deep dive: 🧵👇️ (1/13)

@davidpierce.xyz "in a one-to-one comparison, no Android app is better than the iOS app" Have you used Chrome? Like, at all? (Or any browser that is allowed to bring its own engine?) Maybe even a web app? 🤔😅

Imagine a world where you could just switch browsers instead of having to enable lockdown mode (and block web content) support.apple.com/en-us/126776 (To be fair, they have emergency patches going as far back as iOS 15, so most users should be covered)

[NL] "De manosphere doet grote beloften, maar houdt jongens klein. Wie verkoopt hun een andere definitie van succes?" decorrespondent.nl/16824/de-man...

Update required for anyone who is still on iOS 18 (and no, you're not safe because you use another browser, because all browsers on iOS are required by Apple to use the OS-provided WebKit engine) www.theverge.com/tech/896841/...

Apple and Google promoted insecure native apps as "safe" thanks to "beware of dog" signs posted in front of their poorly-tended walled gardens. It was enough to get everyone locked in, but never delivered security. Browsers, on the other hand, don't allow this sort of predation in the first place.

"The Power of 'No' in Internet Standards" www.mnot.net/blog/2026/02...

A wonderful overview of some of the pain folks are wading through to make good mobile UIs on the web today. We need to fix the Chromium/Android issues. Thanks to @zouhir.bsky.social for filing bugs. What's really shocking is the iOS situation; disgraceful. zouhir.org/blog/virtual-key…

Status: FIXED 👀 ```css @supports(at-rule(@foo)) { /* @foo is supported */ } ``` issues.chromium.org/issues/40211...

Microsoft Copilot to hijack your browser... for your own convenience www.theregister.com/2026/03/05/m... Includes grumpy quote from your totes megafave browserhunk. (ie., me.)

In a significant win for smaller browsers, the open web, and the 🇪🇺EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), Google has agreed to place the browser selected through the EU browser choice screen directly in the Pixel homescreen hotseat (replacing Chrome). open-web-advocacy.org/blog/google-... 🧵👇 (1/7)

Ons jubileumboek 'Waanzinnige tijden' is binnengekomen op nummer 1 in de Bestseller 60! 🎉 In deze selectie van onze beste verhalen laten 22 correspondenten zien hoe onafhankelijke journalistiek de nieuwe machten kan controleren en een betere toekomst kan verbeelden. Bestel hier: corr.es/5b78a5

Whoop! Got my #cssday ticket today! Hyped! (image via www.factorial.io/en/blog/my-f...)

If you live and/or do business in the UK, please take a minute and check this out - and if you agree that Apple's and Google's proposals are too weak (understatement), *please* write to the CMA and tell them.

Great video, must watch imho www.youtube.com/watch?v=GV8K...

If you're in the UK or do business in the UK, this is important 👇

On Tuesday, the CMA announced that Apple and Google have proposed app certainty and interoperable access commitments. Of particular interest to OWA was the interoperability requirements, as we have argued that the CMA should impose an equivalent to Article 6(7) of the DMA.

On Apple’s pinky promises to CMA brucelawson.co.uk/2026/on-appl... (I've calmed down - a bit - after yesterdays grumpiness at Apple taking the absolute piss.)

> So if Apple denies your request to access AirDrop (or whatever) because allowing you to compete isn’t “in line with its commercial strategy and priorities”, that’s OK, according to commitments which the CMA thinks “could address our concerns”? 🤔 brucelawson.co.uk/2026/on-appl...

[NL] "Het TOOI: een geheime politiedienst in Nederland waar je waarschijnlijk nog nooit van hebt gehoord. Maar als je weleens meedoet aan demonstraties of een XR-sticker op je koelkast hebt, dan bestaat de kans dat zij jou wél kennen." youtu.be/tz4cd4QN6Z8?...

Here's a quick HTML party trick. Do you know that you can overwrite a form's behavior with a button? You're welcome. 😅 www.stefanjudis.com/today-i-lear...

"The Room Next Door - Donald Trump and the New Guy" I was waiting for this one. Michael Spicer is 👌 www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDH0...

"The web is an abstraction that holds the power to liberate our computing in-situ, removing superfluous gatekeepers from the loop an increasing fraction of the time [...] They know this, and that's why they're trying to keep the web from winning." infrequently.org/2026/01/nake...

"No AI Slop. Just Powerful Features." No AI, no crypto, no big tech. vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi...

Adam F's music is pretty much unavailable via streaming services (god knows why). It took me 20 yrs to find the albums Colours and KAOS, but now I have them. On CD. (And also safely backed up and available as lossless flac via my Plex server). 🤗

[NL]

LinkedIn removed De Correspondent's video about Donald Trump and blocked users from posting it ☹️

The Grok/Musk AI undressing scandal teaches us that Apple and Google's shameful app stores stand for nothing but profit, invalidating one of the 5 arguments they make to retain monopoly power to tax all software. But the other four arguments are bullshit, too: infrequently.org/2026/01/nake...

✅ Go to famously neutral Switzerland ✅ Give speech in German-speaking part of Switzerland ✅ Tell them they'd all be speaking German if it wasn't for the US 🎯 nailed it

Oh it's us, not you? www.irishtimes.com/business/202...

I wouldn't call this a showstopper, but boy does Safari find novel ways to break features they supposedly "support"...

Breaking: Google Appeals Final Judgment in DOJ Case Google is requesting a stay on certain provisions of the Final Judgment pending Google’s appeal of the Court’s liability and remedies rulings.

Yes! 🍾

Trump regeert als een corrupte tiran met een fascistisch draaiboek in de hand, zegt hoofdredacteur @robwijnberg.bsky.social. Wie dat overdreven vindt, is óf gevaarlijk ongeïnformeerd, óf gevaarlijk naïef. Meer video's mogelijk maken? Steun ons en word nu lid van De Correspondent: corr.es/1a11ae

"What was once our greatest and most important ally is now the most powerful and dangerous criminal organization in the world. Donald Trump rules as a corrupt tyrant with a fascist playbook in his hand. What is to be done?" decorrespondent.nl/16667/donald...

Liz Lopatto, firing on all cylinders. www.theverge.com/policy/85990...

De Correspondent is looking for a senior back-end developer! PHP / MySQL/ NoSQL / Amsterdam decorrespondent.homerun.co/senior-back-...

[NL] "Donald Trump regeert als een corrupte tiran met een fascistisch draaiboek in de hand. Wat te doen? In ieder geval: nú de Europese onafhankelijkheid vergroten alsof ons leven ervan afhangt. Dat doet het namelijk." decorrespondent.nl/16657/donald...

Some established browsers are betting their future on incorporating A.I., while A.I. companies are releasing browsers to slurp up your data even more. Here's Vivaldi's CEO @jon at Vivaldi's Reykjavík HQ announcing our 2026 roadmap.