Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts.
Rowan Merewood
@rowan.fyi
It's rowan.fyi #DevRel with #Chrome at #Google We should improve the web somewhat. 🦣 mastodon.social/@rowan_m 🐙 github.com/rowan-m 👔 linkedin.com/in/rowanmerewood 🧵 threads.com/@rowan_m
Quite like the visualised history for this one because you can see several distinct popular branches that spawned from the original. https://rowan.fyi/made/linkage/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimpro.social%2Fprofile%2F2ndaryprotocol.bsky.social%2Fpost%2F3muofjkh7zc2m
Share a timeless movie moment! 🎥 🖤
Describe your ideal date night with a photo.
St. Thomas Satanic Exorcism plus All The Fried Chicken You Can Eat for .50c 1942
I fear I've become too unnecessarily privacy-brained to do the age and background checks in "Movie from when you were 20” or "Your US accent" quizzes. Where's "What egg are you?" or "Which wife of Henry VIII do you post like?"
Interop 2027 is looking for proposals of what YOU think is important to get working interoperable across browsers: web.dev/blog/interop...
Submit your proposals for Interop 2027 | Blog | web.dev
It's time to let us know which web platform features should be part of Interop 2027.
web.dev
Normally we verify email addresses by sending users an email, making them open their inbox, find the email, and click a link to return. Friction at every step. What if it could be this easy?
Way back in 2005, I used a Flash PageFlip component to display a book on a website. Ever since, recreating a modern version has been on my backlog to investigate. With the arrival of HTML-in-Canvas (experimental), we can finally bring it back — this time using real HTML. → brm.us/hic-pageflip
Fifteen years ago I helped popularise the meta viewport width=device-width,initial-scale=1. Today I found out the second bit is no longer necessary. A retrospective. quirksmode.org/quirksblog/2...
initial-scale no longer needed
Fifteen years ago I helped popularise the meta viewport width=device-width,initial-scale=1. Today I found out the second bit is no longer necessary. A retrospective.
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@thisismissem.social @divy.zone and I recently went through an exploration of how the browser can help you login to websites with atproto accounts. We recently presented to the FedID CG and here is a sneak peek in case you couldn't join! This is early but we'd love your input before we go too far!
Email Verification just landed in Chrome Canary on Android! If you collect email addresses on your site and you haven't signed up for the origin trial, then this gives you a few million potential testers if that helps motivate. New blog post incoming with even more goodies, existing links below...
Any time the smug little video instructions tell me this is a five minute DIY job...
Not vibing with your agent? Determined to embrace nondeterminism? Burn a candle for St Eval: patron saint of good prompts and loved language models.
Any time the smug little video instructions tell me this is a five minute DIY job...
I’ve long wondered why Bluesky hadn’t yet setup a hosted MCP for the Atmosphere to make it even more accessible to AI agents, so I decided to do it myself with @aturi.to! Give it a spin: aturi.to/mcp Covers the protocol, Bluesky, APIs, docs, and more!
Introducing… Atmosphere MCP With just one URL, you can give your AI agent or coding interface streamlined access to the AT Protocol, Bluesky, and the Atmosphere. • Ask about repos & lexicons • Learn about the protocol • Analyze an account’s post history 38 agent tools Try it: aturi.to/mcp
Fifteen minute talk at a high pace, but gives some really useful foundations on identity concepts and also a cool snapshot to see where we are 20 years later.
lol @dickhardt.bsky.social's old identity 2.0 talk just came up in discussion and it occurs to me how he was trying to pull off what atproto seems to genuinely have a clean shot at, except >20 years ago youtu.be/JzuCE7lDYrM
Literally every single distance involved here is beyond my comprehension. The Great Red Spot is bigger than our entire planet. I'm just going to ponder some vastness of the cosmos for a minute.
Take a relaxing flight with NASA's Juno Spacecraft as it passes over Jupiter and the Great Red Spot. Compiled from images taken during the mission's Perijove 27 on June 2nd, 2020. Video Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/SwRI/Kevin M. Gill Music: Chris Zabriskie
This song already made me cry. Goodbye, Tim Curry. This planet didn't deserve you. (I did though) https://youtu.be/j8bmjDoziaQ
The Rocky Horror Picture Show - I'm Going Home
YouTube video by THIRDPROJECT
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WebAuthn L3, the technical specification and API that powers #passkeys, is now a #W3C Recommendation! blog.timcappalli.me/p/webauthn-3/
Web Authentication API (WebAuthn) Level 3
Web Authentication Level 3 is now a W3C Recommendation! This post covers the new features in L3 to support passkeys, advanced deployment scenarios, improved developer ergonomics, and a peek at what's ...
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Looks so good it's like the colour palette was designed solely to create this image.
Susan Kare is one of the greatest designers ever and this new talk from her is just fantastic, it's a must watch I had never seen this wallpaper she designed using the 16 (bad) original Windows colors, it's absolutely stunning www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEvL...
A little weekend project, added another theme to my #ThreeJS #MIDI visualiser. If you're of a certain age, you probably don't need the sound on to guess the track, but... you should turn on the sound anyway. https://tone-nets.web.app
Ah, yes - the #BlueskyOutage. That explains the lack of likes on my posts since *checks notes* 2023.
A little weekend project, added another theme to my #ThreeJS #MIDI visualiser. If you're of a certain age, you probably don't need the sound on to guess the track, but... you should turn on the sound anyway. https://tone-nets.web.app
Someone in the thread pointed to https://www.bbc.co.uk/contact/complaints/make-a-complaint/ so...
Would it now?
Workday is franky incredible, because I would never have imagined injecting a 2 second loading spinner into the drop-down menu to select the type of time-off I want to book from a static list of about five options that never changes. And this was all before AI.
Private equity could purchase Workday? There really isn’t much room to make this software experience worse but I’m sure PE will find away.
Your feedback on the Email Verification origin trial has been so helpful! If you've implemented on your site, I've got some best practice you should check and there's a breaking change for email providers. Let me know if you're testing or thinking about it. 👂
Email verification updates, August 2026 | Blog | Chrome for Developers
Improvements and fixes for the Email Verification origin trial, including progress indicators, token validation best practice, and a breaking change with HTTP Message Signatures for email providers.
developer.chrome.com
Web push notifications are the topic where I see, "Push notifications are universally awful, they shouldn't be part of the web, I disable them everywhere - except DMs, socials, deliveries, blogs..." Like arguing that email is dead because of spam. So, I really like the quality push (ho ho) here.
The multi-layered defenses that harden Chrome against abusive notifications
Bad actors have increasingly abused the push notification system, bombarding people with deceptive and unwanted notifications. To combat this, Chrome Security embarked o…
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