Louis Chenais

@lucho.cool

Front-end developer | co-founded https://specifyapp.com | designtokens.org editor. I also like ambient/electronic music and a nice côte de boeuf bien persillée.

La puissance des effets spéciaux d’ILM peut absolument tout créer, des paysages incroyables aux confins de la galaxie aux personnages les plus surréalistes jamais imaginés… ou alors juste faire de la cosmétique

I work at Google DeepMind. This won't make me popular. But it's all public reporting: 2014: DeepMind reportedly sold to Google on conditions: no military use, independent oversight 2026: a Pentagon contract for "any lawful government purpose" Not one safeguard survived intact

Collage titled "Trust is not Governance — an essay from inside Google DeepMind, written in personal capacity." 

A 2014 memorandum, "Conditions of the Acquisition," lists: military applications of DeepMind technology banned; deployment decisions before an independent ethics board (as reported in Mallaby's The Infinity Machine). 

Red threads lead to a 2026 U.S. Department of Defense agreement for classified networks reading "any lawful government purpose," with safety settings and filters adjusted at the government's request and no contractor veto (reported terms, The Information, Apr. 2026). 

Below: a 2018 AI Principles strip ("no weapons, no surveillance") stamped DROPPED 2025, and a Project Mario 2016–2021 tag stamped ABANDONED.

Just published a blog post about the new CSS Anchor Positioning API! ⚓ I’ve been learning about it over the past few weeks, and it’s friggin’ great, but it also took me a minute to really get the hang of it. My goal in this post is to share the most useful bits, so you can start using it today. 🔥

Getting Started with Anchor Positioning • Josh W. Comeau

For decades, one of the most notoriously-challenging problems on the web has been sticking one element to another element, for things like tooltips and nested menus. The CSSWG has decided to provide a...

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Vous avez sûrement déjà lu que la climatisation aggrave les canicules car l’air chaud rejeté à l’extérieur augmenterait la température des villes de 2 à 3°C. Vérifions ce que disent vraiment les études scientifiques à ce sujet 🧑‍🔬 (lisez jusqu’au bout, car vous allez être 🤯🤯 à la fin) #Thread ⬇️⬇️

Carte de Paris simulation îlot de chaleur

With style queries now in all browsers, here's my take on the best way to do dynamic color theming with modern CSS: - Custom properties - light-dark() - contrast-color() - Style queries - Relative color syntax (^Features available in all modern browsers) Read about it ⬇️⬇️ una.im/modern-css-t...

una.im | Modern CSS theming with light-dark(), contrast-color(), and style queries

Combine three new CSS features to build fully adaptive themed components.

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🎉 new post 🎉 A Design Tokens Workflow (17): How Colour Works with the DTCG Color Module See how the design tokens color module enables automation, ramps, and much more. Building robust, future-proof design tokens! https://www.alwaystwisted.com/articles/a-design-tokens-workflow-part-17 🙏🖤

A Design Tokens Workflow - Part 18

Learn how the DTCG W3C colour specification structures tokens for automation. Generate colour ramps, validate accessibility, and build robust design systems.

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