Ha, I started skipping over those because they felt so annoying.
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Ha, I started skipping over those because they felt so annoying.
Opening a show with an action scene and then pulling "24 hours earlier" (or however long) just absolutely enrages me. Don't patronise me, make your story interesting enough to tell it in order. There is no counter example where this makes a better show.
@rowdy.codes collects them in cfp.watch
Got questions about building Chrome Extensions? We’re recording some new videos for the @developer.chrome.com channel in October, and I’d love suggestions for topics we should cover: www.reddit.com/r/chrome_ext...
And we totally promise our app isn't just a WebView into our site.
How did you get into my home to take this photo‽
In our fictional dystopia for NIN’s “Year Zero,” Hollywood had been destroyed and rebuilt in Florida where it was strictly regulated by the state & overseen by Evangelical groups, so news was state propaganda and entertainment was sanitized pro-Christian content approved by the US Bureau of Morality
I've hit level 17 and it's fiendish. I will accept being a robot now.
I originally heard this in an Empusae track with a creepy London-focused voice over at one point. Someone described it as "like music from the Alton Towers haunted house ride" and if that doesn't sell it, then nothing will. Not as driving as Doom, but A+ ambience. music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
So smoke coming out of the server is actually by design.
I'm fully expecting a next wave of assistants to unironically come with Genuine People Personalities™©® so we can finally have our plastic pal who's fun to be with.
Congratulations! 🍻
Oh no, I missed my BIOS stop. I hope we don't crash.
The ol' threadsploder, huh?
If you see this, repost a #vampire that is not Dracula. (I have lost track of how many times I have watched this and honestly, I think I should get this hair cut. And the outfit. Mullets and dusters never stopped being cool.)
And it was aaaaall a dream!
There are best practices for how to promote #passkeys on your app. This blog post goes through different surfaces to remind your users about passkey benefits, their approaches and case studies. The same practices apply to the web as well. android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/09/best...
Ok, Franky fans, let's put some more zaps on the map! Thousand zaps from IgorBringingHunchyBack1818. 100 million zaps and we light that creature up, boooooooy! Let's go—hashtag it's alive!
The real reason Frankenstein is a monster is because he never even once considered monetising his invention. Come on, bringing back the dead is prime subscription model territory.
Really excited to be speaking @perfnow.nl this year—my favourite conference run by some of my favourite people! If you're into web performance (or wanna be!) and like a great conference with a super friendly vibe then pop along to Amsterdam at the end of October. Tickets selling fast! perfnow.nl
Yeah, I feel like all their obstacle avoidance claims are very marketing heavy in just how true they are.
Ha, amazing. I'm getting Jurassic Park raptor vibes and will not be imagining it any other way.
Any opinions on combined mop and vacuum robot cleaners? I'm currently comparing across Roomba, Ecovacs, and Eufy but I've never seen any of these things in action before.
Saw advice around alcohol that said don't drink when you're stressed. Ok, so when can I drink it? Just never? Geez.
Did you know Cross-Document View Transitions are being used in production on Google Search? developer.chrome.com/blog/google-... is a case study I co-authored with one of our engineers from the Google Search UI team.
I'm in Chrome, but if you want to DM the details I can ask around.
Called it guard.io/labs/scamlex...
Come again?
Ah, yeah - a little break, maybe a relaxing walk, perhaps into the woods and up to the old abandoned asylum. No one's been there in years, should be nice and peaceful.
Oh man, these were both ones I watched on my own late at night in the dark. Simultaneously the best and worst decision. 😱
UK ISPs check traffic against a secret government block list which they've used to block Wikipedia in the past. Wouldn't surprise if they started putting "non-compliant" sites on there. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interne...
Spaghetti House was made of brick actually‽ 🤷
Post something from your camera roll that comes up when you search yellow car. This is a delightful little rabbit hole. For me, it's this utter beast that I saw randomly in Edinburgh.
For every muppet writing in the guardian about “tree planting is bad” we lose a few donors, but every time I explain how this works as a backstop for projects that otherwise never had a chance we gain a few more. Ask me anything. I can explain more about this whole thing than those clowns.
Every Friday I'm just waiting for my feral goblin energy to be released.
It was jsdate.wtf that cemented it as the right decision.
I just open a bag when I want some personal space. Guarantees no one will come over to interrupt.
The U.K.'s scramble to find an effective age verification method underscores that there isn't one, & politicians around the world must take that seriously– especially those pondering similar laws in the U.S., EFF’s Paige Collings writes for @TheRegister.com. www.theregister.com/2025/08/21/...
I mean, both are better with ketchup.
Ha, amazing... I've definitely seen the Forest bikes around and have never seen a rider misbehaving (yet). How does it compare to your data?
I'm not saying every Uber Lime bike rider is an awful person, but they're 100% the same people who push on trains before you get off and watch their phones at full volume in public. The BMW drivers of bicycles.
I should qualify that I've always assumed pizza in Italy is a completely separate type of cuisine from the export version that we've twisted over the years. Like when the English make carbonara with cream.
Once I've calmed down you can rest assured there will be a strongly worded letter or two.
It's only been a few times I've made this serious of a mistake, but I got a "white pizza". This only happens because I don't notice that tomato sauce is missing from the listed toppings because how can you even call that a pizza? No tomato? We already have a word for that: cheese on toast. Criminal.
Handy! web.dev/blog/baselin...
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After installing, I don't have a forward button. I can get to it from the three dot quick access menu though. Chrome 140.0.7339.15 / Android 16 / Pixel 9
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Currently obsessed (like, just stick it on repeat, I love it) with this #cover of Teenage Dirtbag by Sega Bodega and Dorian Electra. The drawn-out vocoder-coded delivery of "he drives an IROC" is too perfect. (Five year old cover of a twenty-five year old track) youtu.be/-JA36857TBs
I miss the serif era. And obviously it goes without saying that the initial WordArt era is untouchable.
This feels ideal for a Dune-like spice vision.
Email addresses are very simple, and you will score highly in this quiz. e-mail.wtf
Same as "lead".
Sunday II: Son of Sunday
Gonna push it all the way to 4 Mbps, baby!
Some legend dropped these off at the local free library box which is otherwise full of children's books. They're from 1987 and 1989 respectively, over 36 years ago! Time to break out the crimping tool.
If only they'd used `contain: strict`
Oooh, like using contactless payments for virtually everything and then one day you're in the shop with a long queue behind you and they ask you to enter your PIN... a complete, mortifying blank.
i have compiled a list of free image resources inspired by our conversation about this last week. livelaugh.blog/posts/non-ai...
A real world tor.
It's amazing how often I'm out of the country these days.
New Sunday Times profile in which I succeed, like a fencer in a 2hr marathon match, in fending off Qs abt my personal life & consistently turning focus back to my work & ideas. (Contra the interviewer's claim, many ppl do know me! They're called friends, & you know who you are ❤️) archive.is/BtZD0
The UK’s Online Safety Act is being sold as a way to protect children. But instead, UK politicians are pushing sweeping censorship and forcing platforms to implement invasive age checks. This is not safety–it's surveillance.
Baseline for CSS properties now in Chrome DevTools https://web.dev/blog/baseline-devtools-css?hl=en
Separately, I continue to believe that if someone were to get ahold of and publish all the naughty conversations, backroom deals, and private chats made by supporters of Chat Control, there'd be no Chat Control. It's a shame lawmakers never have to dogfood their own policies.
The largest number of arrests in a single day this decade! Wow, that must have really dealt a serious blow to the criminal underworld in London. Dozens of car thieves, street robbers, drug dealers and fraudsters off the streets…
Really I just want someone, AI or otherwise, to assure me there are zero bees in my blueberries.
Every screen is a touch screen if you really want it to be.
Kinda like phantom limb syndrome, but the Glitchenitchen.
I'm still all about the cookies, so the new cookie prefixes in Chrome 140 are my favourite feature. __Http and __HostHttp mean you get a double assurance that a cookie is not accessible to JavaScript. I need to update the good cookie recipes...
Liking this despite being more of a gnu wave fan.
I've signed up for the newsletter as they send through the archives and I can try to pick an appropriate difficulty for the time of day. For example, attempting a Friday puzzle right before bed is a psychologically devastating mistake.
Especially distracting is wiby.me whose "Surprise me" function provides that classic Stumbleupon rabbit hole into handcrafted homepages. I immediately got into classic unmarked black helicopter investigations from 1998. Joyous.
BBC has been doing some excellent internet history pieces recently. This one captures some of those feelings about weighty 90s hardware as well as links to vintage sites (become a gnome, etc.) www.bbc.com/future/artic...
VPN apps are dominating the top 10 of the App Store in the UK at the moment. I wonder why 😉
Hope you paid for the upgrade to sit inside the plane.
Our weekend reading: "Analyzing the Waste Generated by DOGE," a new report from the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. 👀 www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/u...
The UK’s Online Safety Act doesn’t make kids safer online—it just censors the internet and invades everyone’s privacy.
On my way to Dublin to give a talk this evening at the Google offices for GDG Dublin on all the improvements we’ve been making to Chrome DevTools. Say hi if you’re going and I might even reward you with a shiny Chrome dino sticker…
This really benefits from the new higher quality video on here!
People really don’t understand how much effort goes into making the web secure by default. Seemingly unrealistic niche edge cases are argued over endlessly on the path to standardisation. And then mobile apps just ask for everything on install and usually get granted it: idiallo.com/blog/dont-do...
Thank heavens we have the Online Safety Act in the UK to protect us all from this sick filth.
I like what I see. developer.mozilla.org/docs/Web/API...
Finally! Justice for Wile E. Coyote.
I think the only way I can test this is a trip to a vineyard in the French countryside with equally high quality bread and wine.
Yes, yes! I also got to try Nathan's and realised that warm rubber tubing is not acceptable substitute no matter how much mustard you put on it.
Wow, tried fresh in-season corn on the cob and apparently I've been eating the bootleg weird colour VHS version because there's a whole new layer of flavour! What food did you properly discover when you tried the good version, or vice versa when did you discover the disappointment of the store copy?
I go to the library where they have a multimedia set up along with access to the information super highway. Then i save the ones I like to twenty floppy disks to bring them home.
Everyone is celebrating him for his (obviously wonderful) songs but I am also celebrating him for releasing all his works into the public domain and insisting he retained no copyrights over any of it.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72... 295k signatures. Unreal. Unignorable.
You're using AI to generate images for presentations. I'm using the Witches and Wizards #clipArt CD with over 1,500 images of warlocks, warriors, wizards, and witches. We are not the same. archive.org/details/witc...
The late Harvard mathematician Tom Lehrer's songs, all public domain: tomlehrersongs.com
Two groups have VERY different views of the UK's draconian new online safety law: 1) The "think-of-the-children" brigade, without a technical bone in their bodies, love its [totally false sense of] security. This includes all the MPs who voted for it. 2) Tech savvy people are looking on APPALLED.
** This animation is 100% linear! ** Sure, there are spheres, curvy lines, and circular motion. Made with a few #CSS animations and some tricky keyframes. But the timing functions? Pure linear easing across the board. 🔗 Live demo on @codepen.io: codepen.io/amit_sheen/f...
No, not with this set up. I can access all the other features of Bluesky when I'm "out of the country".
Lovely UX touch from ChatGPT: Holding down Cmd brings up a cheatsheet of keyboard shortcuts. Help that is there when it’s needed and out of the way when it’s not. Compare that to the common (anti)pattern where users must memorize a specific keyboard shortcut to bring this up (does anyone?).
