One more call for feedback! Yeah, I know, I often ask for feedback but, think about it, the more you share, the better the feature. 💡Support low-quality image placeholders on the web! ➡️<img previewsrc="preview.avif" src="photo.avif"> ❓Would you use this? What capabilities do you need? Read more⬇️

Patrick - Blurry before beautiful: image previews for the web

Showing blurry previews while images are loading on the web is a very common pattern which we'd love to standardize at the browser level, so that all developers can use it with very little code and co...

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You should try out microsoftedge.github.io/Demos/pwa-in...! It feels like a huge step forward for web apps. Kudos to @diekus.bsky.social, Lia Hiscock and others on the Microsoft Edge team driving this! Explainer: github.com/MicrosoftEdg...

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One reason I find the absolute dogshit quality of virtually all AI prose so existentially depressing is because at this point the bull case is AI gets better at writing and 90% of prose is undetectable shoveled slop. it being detectable and viscerally terrible doesn’t seem to be stopping anyone.

Wrote a thing on the plane last night: The Web made the distribution of ideas universally accessible and effectively free, to anyone with the patience to embody them in words. Will it be allowed to do the same for ideas that can be embodied in code? aldenblog.io/posts/2026-0...

The Web That Was Promised

The Web made the distribution of ideas universally accessible and effectively free, to anyone with the patience to embody them in words. Will it be allowed to do the same for ideas that can be embodie...

aldenblog.io

“Loitering is not permitted in this area. Please proceed to a designated location. Thank you for your cooperation,” a surveillance machine tells a small cluster of National Guard members as they patrol the fenced off Reflecting Pool in the rain.

Here's something fun: I think my iPhone may have the world record Speedometer score for any iOS device? www.linkedin.com/pulse/test-d...

Test Drive: Blink on iOS

The Edge web platform team has been contributing changes to Chromium to help build a prototype exploring what an iOS browser using Blink (via BrowserEngineKit) can achieve. Blink is the same open-sour...

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Amazing, I've been lobbying for this for years: blinkon 21 is hosted by Microsoft! Maybe igalia next? 🙂 Love it

AI-first development is making it once again joyful and eminently possible for anyone to create on the Web. It's a feeling I've missed since View Source became illegible, and a silver lining that's arriving just in time. Back in the Sandbox: aldenblog.io/posts/2026-0...

Back in the Sandbox

AI-first development is making it once again joyful and eminently possible for anyone to create on the Web. It's a feeling I've missed since View Source became illegible, and a silver lining that's ar...

aldenblog.io

I'm looking for an experienced Product Manager to help invent the future of the Web as part of the Microsoft Edge web platform team! Please reach out if you have questions, even if this particular posting may not quite be the perfect fit! You never know 🙂 apply.careers.microsoft.com/careers/job/...

Senior Product Manager, Web Platform | Microsoft Careers

You will drive business impact across the organization and track success criteria for web platform features and strategic initiatives. You'll also identify long-term investment opportunities and engag...

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Frontend is failing. 75% of devices with browsers are smartphones, but not even half of sites pass Core Web Vitals on them. Why not? Too much JavaScript, added to indulge SPA fantasies the data is falsifying in real time: infrequently.org/2025/11/perf...

The Performance Inequality Gap, 2026 - Infrequently Noted

Embedded in this year's network and device estimates is hopeful news about the trajectory of devices and networks. It has never been easier to deliver pages quickly, but we are not collectively…

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Web standards (and standards-adjacent projects like Interop) are political venues, so it shouldn't be surprising that the discussions therein turn political. That doesn't stop the politics from being frustrating, or even incomprehensible, especially from the outside.

I take a deep dive into Interop 2025; why the project is there, how it picks what browser features to focus on each year, how well it's doing and what the big areas for this year are - a mix of cleaning up existing features and making sure new features arrive already interoperable

Interop Unites Browser Makers To Smooth Web Inconsistencies

For the past four years, major browser vendors have collaborated to improve web interoperability by coordinating enhancements to inconsistent browser implementations.

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Copilot Vision is out now, free in Edge. It can literally see what you see on screen (if you opt in). Pretty amazing! It’ll think out loud with you when you're browsing online. No more over-explaining, copy-pasting, or struggling to put something into words.

Pedro Pascal responding to transphobia on social media: “I can’t think of anything more vile and small and pathetic than terrorizing the smallest, most vulnerable community of people who want nothing from you, except the right to exist.” (via @charliejane.bsky.social) [capitalfm.com]

Pedro Pascal calls out “vile and pathetic” transphobic trolls after defending trans rights

Pedro Pascal, whose sister Lux is a trans woman, is a prominent trans ally and he has no time for transphobia.

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Yo dawg, I heard you like stylesheets, so I put stylesheets in your stylesheet. This would be rad for adoptedStylesheets in shadowRoots or any framework that imports styles. It's like an SVG sprite sheet for stylesheets. github.com/MicrosoftEdg...

Connections players, help me solve a household dispute. Is it cheating to screenshot the puzzle and annotate with the highlighter tool to think through your guesses? (Yesterday’s puzzle for reference)

scully: it doesn’t make any sense mulder, out of nowhere he started showing empathy and a base level curiosity about the life experience of others mulder [tossing a manila folder on the desk]: ever hear of the woke mind virus?

Cancelling my registration for the "Joy of Saying No at Work" training because it's been obliterated by conflicting meetings. Clearly this means I never truly needed it?

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The Apple Studio Display is so close to being an incredible monitor for PC users, except that you basically need a Mac on hand to use it reliably. When it works, it's amazing. But sometimes it just won't turn on unless I plug into a MacBook first, and there's no control over brightness etc.

Bragging about beating Apple to market is just an oblique way to predict you’ll be out-executed

It may not be the one where I think I look best, but it’s one in which I was stoked as hell to be alive and about

tierney cyren@bnb.im · 3y ago

can everyone reply or quote this with your favorite selfie, I wanna see something