Hey now, sometimes I throw in a ‘stuff’ or ‘updates’ just for flavor.

Things used to be much simpler when you could just assume incompetence. Now you have to check if it's incompetence or if it's AI.

Educators! Who's doing Black Friday stuff? I like to collate a list of links for @piccalil.li to make sure everyone gets a boost so if you know what your deals are, wanna let me know in advance? Hit me up: swop.link/andy (we know ours if anyone is doing the same too)

The chrome-devtools-mcp team made updates to it and to Puppeteer to better support Polypane (and other @electronjs.org apps). Despite my general qualms about Generative AI, I think that's pretty cool!

What little CS knowledge I have was hard won over a long period of time. I still don't really care for it, except where it's pragmatic enough to help me make better decisions while I work. If you have a similar background to me, this article is your shortcut to more intentional programming.

I’ve seen one-time passcode (“OTP”) interfaces cause undue stress in otherwise level-headed #WebDev teams. Thankfully, it doesn’t have to be complicated: cloudfour.com/thinks/simpl... #HTML #CSS #JavaScript

What little CS knowledge I have was hard won over a long period of time. I still don't really care for it, except where it's pragmatic enough to help me make better decisions while I work. If you have a similar background to me, this article is your shortcut to more intentional programming.

The chrome-devtools-mcp team made updates to it and to Puppeteer to better support Polypane (and other @electronjs.org apps). Despite my general qualms about Generative AI, I think that's pretty cool!

Chrome-devtools-mcp allows you to connect coding agent like GitHub Copilot and Cursor to Polypane to inspect and get feedback across all your viewports. Learn how: polypane.app/blog/using-c...

Meanwhile, Tesla stockholders voted to pay Elon Musk approximately $2 million per child he’s killed thus far.

Marketing accessibility tooling with "We found X issues in Y" is easy. Marketing accessibility tooling with "We helped you prevent X issues because we warn you as you go, not after the fact" is much harder (i even needed three times longer even here)

As a non-native speaker, this is the validation I didn't know I needed.

In the six years of running Polypane I have worked with 1 (one!) reseller that wasn't completely dogshit. Coincidentally that resellers office was literally 500m from my house.

Last year we wrote an article on all the ways position:sticky can fail and to this day it remains in the top 10 of weekly most visited pages. Getting stuck with sticky? This is the post for you. polypane.app/blog/getting...

I'm strongly considering removing Widevine/DRM support from Polypane again. The company providing that, Castlabs, has switched to a much slower release cadence, making keeping up with Electron and Chromium in Polypane much harder. Doesn't help that their latest release segfaults on all platforms.

same!

I love it when I receive the monthly web platform update from the web-features explorer in my RSS reader. Such a useful and condensed source of info. Web: web-platform-dx.github.io/web-features... RSS: web-platform-dx.github.io/web-features...

Do browser vendors still send each other cake? Asking for a friend. www.theverge.com/2012/10/27/3...

Right after (experimental) support for field-sizing landed in chromium 120 back in December 2023 we immediately made good use of it in Polypane and wrote about it and the alternatives we used before: polypane.app/blog/field-s... It's too bad that end of 2025 it's still chromium-only.

I keep track of how people end up trialing Polypane. 20% of the trials come directly from recommendations by LLMs. Here's my course on AIO: Write good articles for humans so that other humans will link to it because they think it's interesting. Do that for a couple of years, on a domain you own.

Remember, half an hour of time writing a long email about how a tool does not have the features you needed can save you several minutes looking at the docs page whose title is literally those features.

I love that this actually works. *Oh yeah, is your list actually UNordered? Prove it.*

I haven't interviewed for a job since I was 15 and I know that's a privilege. But I didn't realise *how much* of a privilege exactly. oofh.

I just love this single purpose domains/sites. This one is golden. stopcitingai.com

This man is not gonna stay on the market for long. Go go go!

It remains deeply sad that Google doesn't have the skills to launch products without violating EU law and so has to gait them. labs.google.com/u/0/pomelli

8 lessons of what I think is some of the most important content on Complete CSS: free to everyone!

ARIActually let's stick with HTML.

Be like STEEEEEEEEEVE.

Here's a cool photo that Polypane user Marcos sent us recently. He has a Logitech Creative Console all decked out to quickly switch workspaces, layouts and to reload or open the command bar for more advances tasks. Such a nice productivity boost! Should we make available a set of icons to use?

"Write accessible code or get sued!" This ain't it "Write accessible code for SEO." No "Write accessible code for AI." Nooo "Write accessible code for blind people." ...better "Write accessible code cause you're a god-damn professional that takes pride in their work." Now we're talking.

Seeing another uptick with people using disposable email domains to sign up to Polypane, so now I'm using two different APIs to check domains (along with homegrown allowlists and blocklists).

Geez, adding trees to your maps (the location of which is free public data in many countries) is such a great idea.

‘Screensavers’ is so apt because all ai art/text/music does is occupy space. And we tricked ourselves into thinking all space should be occupied. We don’t need background music in a store. Your blog post is fine without an image too. A news item of one human sentence is better than ai paragraphs.

It's beginning! www.theverge.com/news/804253/...

Market research! How often do you use one of those "what is my browser" websites (personally or sent to someone)? Would you use one that isn't littered with ads or has a design from 1995? What features should it have? What if you could also use it to collect info to emulate devices in Polypane?

Only *cool* browsers contribute back to the platform. 😎

This year, Igalia did some work to improve mobile-device emulation in @polypane.app by adding features to Chromium that could eventually improve Chrome itself, as well as API work to improve Electron. Learn more about the details here: www.igalia.com/2025/10/21/H...

got laid off due to restructuring :( i’m now available for mid+ frontend developer/software engineering positions in the meantime, we’re back to building the future and fun on the web on atproto :)

This is the most personal project I’ve made in years. I launched a new show called The Callback. It’s weekly web dev news with my dumb humor sprinkled on top. If this pilot does well I get to make more, so watching, liking, and sharing would be DEEPLY appreciated 💜 www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMOD...

LLMs are the best for getting to 80% of what you want to achieve, and the absolute worst for getting to 100% of what you want to achieve.

Map men is always fun, but seeing them spea-- butcher Dutch is even more hilarious. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eq-k...

Looking for our logo, icon or other brand assets? Right-click the logo on the site to find our brand kit!

I don't often get nerd sniped * but I just added support for line numbers in @Polypane.app's elements panel after thinking it impossible for the past 5 years. * okay like once a week. maybe twice.

This is incredibly niche. but the Chromium team just fixed an issue from 2012 that will make the devtools network tab keep resources after navigation. 🥳 This is super useful when debugging redirect chains. issues.chromium.org/issues/40254...

Good morning, America 👋 JavaScript for Everyone is now available to…everyone! The amount of effort and experience packed into this course is unbelievable and we know you're going to love it and super-charge your career. PPP discounts available (and often cheaper) too!

It's here. JavaScript for Everyone is now available to…everyone! The amount of effort and experience packed into this course is unbelievable and we know you're going to love it. Get yours for £189, down from £249, for 2 weeks and super-charge your career prospects piccalilli.link/js4e-launch-...

I have some alerts configured for Polypane mentions on the web and it's starting to appear in brain-aneurysm levels of AI slop articles like this. I'm glad my SEO is so good that Polypane ends up in AIs as the recommended thing for <inspect thing on web> but UGH www.memesita.com/requirejs-co...

We just released 26.0.1 with a bunch of fixes and improvements, in particular for the brave souls already using macOS Tahoe: polypane.app/blog/polypan...