This case study was interesting as a writer because you get to see the impact of the technology you are documenting.

Rowan Merewood@rowan.fyi · 3w ago

Detailed NHS x #Passkeys case study exploring the mechanisms and UX of upgrading & managing Passkeys with quantified business metrics. And the NHS gets to save money! Really illustrates a mature point in both the API capabilities plus user acceptance. Can we start that dead pool for passwords yet?

Chrome DevRel Engineer @matthiasrohmer.bsky.social is at #GoogleIOConnect India showing us how to empower your coding agents to verify their own creations. Learn how enabling Chrome DevTools for agents lets them reproduce issues with the trusted tools you use every day. #BuildWithGemini

"Lo-fi beats to study/relax to"? Please. I mean, I do it too. But sometimes I need more. Try knocking out an entire morning of work powered purely by psychedelic cumbias. 10/10, no notes. 🎶🛸

I miss microblogging. Not only Xwitter. I think I miss the connection and the feeling of community it used to have. It was my own curated social network where I followed exactly the people I wanted to read. No algorithms, just a timeline, wits, and fun.

It's been an interesting couple of weeks. today is supposed to be a holiday in Bavaria, so I'm breaking my new running shoes with a mid-length run. I need time to decompress. Love the new model:

What if Truman was a technical writer?

I don't hate AI tools. Still, I find that when someone uses AI-generated images in their enterprise or personal projects, I just feel those are lower quality. Is it just me? Am I in the wrong? Is it just that in the time of ready available AI pics and graphics, something human-made feels premium?

If you listen to podcast, you want to read this. Every year, I showcase and thank my favorite podcasts for all the hours of entertainment the've given me. And today is the day. In no particular order, these are the podcast you should listen to in 2026:

Am I the only one that feels a bit overwhelmed when discussing AI and AI-assisted development? Any of you have a good example of a well-documented MCP server. I think people just tell you to install it and figure it out yourself, but tech writers should do better. Right? #technicalwriting

Yesterday I took one of my cats (Kimchi) to the vet. She was developing a small cyst on her left side and it was slowly growing. The vet was so nice. It turns out it was just seroma after a deep scratch from a fight with my other cat. He punctured it and removed. I like happy endings.

With the current AI-ification of the web I'm afraid we are past the point of no return. Two problems that we need to figure out.

Last week was my fourth anniversary at Google. From joining as a Stadia tech writer to finding my home in Chrome DevRel, it’s been a bumpy ride in the best way.

All this during our annual trip to Mexico, amid chaos and unexpected craziness (some craziness is always expected in Mexico).

After a talk with my brother in law about his delving with genealogy and trying to map his family origins, I remember my grandma saying she was related to a Mexican president and (through that line) to Moctezuma (one of the last Aztec emperors).

There is a specific kind of heart-stretch that happens when I return to Mexico. I’m reminded of how much I ache for my country, my food, and my people. But I’m also faced with how much 4 years in Germany has changed me. 🇲🇽🥨 Home is no longer a place, but a messy collision of two worlds.

This is so cool.

Henry Lim@henrylim96.bsky.social · 6mo ago

WOHOOOO DEUTSCHEBAHN IS USING PASSKEY TOO 🎉😍 This wasn't on my bingo card 😅 @zapata131.bsky.social

I opened the windows to air the apartment (German tradition/necessity during winter) and, I kid you not, could hear some Americans having a conversation from three blocks away. Coming from a really loud culture: How? Also, have I become Germanized?

Which are your favorite accounts to follow here? Let me know your suggestions for web, comics, board games, and everything "geeky."

Also, this week my wife and I visited the Nuremberg Toy Fair. It is a trade fair, but it's so cool to see new toys going into the market, the resurgence of open play, and how the board game industry works from the inside.

This week I was having problems with DaVinci Resolve 20 crashing every 4 to 5 minutes. After checking the debug logs, it turns out it was calling a hardware acceleration API that is not available on "older" versions of MacOS.

"You cannot unit test a paragraph"

I hate those "order of operations" posts where people post an equation and try to feel smart "because PEDMAS." In most cases, you can write these equations in a way that has zero ambiguity. That would be the smart thing to do, in the first place.

@lostwaysclub.itch.io Hi Ella, I was wondering if you have any interviews you've done? I've been searching online and haven't found any.

When I started working fully in English, I felt intimidated. It takes a specific kind of energy to work in a second language. I know I have an accent, but I've learned to appreciate it. It's a reminder that I am stepping out of my comfort zone. It shows effort and commitment, and I am proud of that.

Sometimes I feel like after 2019 we slipped into an alternate reality where nothing makes sense. Everything is falling apart and everything (the economy, society, technology... you name it) seems to be speedrunning enshittification.

People are usually weirded out about my home network setup. A network-level VPN + PiHole with encrypted upstream DNS + firewall to prevent hidden telemetry. It's not perfect, but it's ok-ish for most cases. Plus, I use ProtonMail and DuckDuckGo. And some browser tweaks to prevent fingerprinting.

I miss the truly social internet. The web 2.0. Those days, 20 years ago, where social platforms started booming. It was truly interesting to see these places take form in front of our eyes. It seemed like an easy way to find like-minded people, or stuff that interested you in particular.

Somehow I sometimes still feel the urge to throw digital messages in a bottle. And microblogging seems to be a nice way to do it.

I miss the social part of social networks. I used to share thoughts, ideas, feelings on Twitter. Nowadays, it seems that we live and die by the algorithm.