Kyle Pflug

@kylealden.bsky.social

Hoopy frood who really knows where his towel is. Working on the web at Microsoft AI. https://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.

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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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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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)

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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?

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.