What are some things you could have a pwa or even just a shortcut to a good site for but you choose to install and use a native app instead, and why? For me, i have a lot of apps i was begrudgingly forced into downloading for some benefit they wouldn't provide on the web.

Chairface Chippendale was an ultra rich villain in The Tick who attempted to carve his name into the moon. He was thwarted obvs, but the damage remained in every following episode. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/aug/05/spacex-rocket-moon-crash-impact-falcon-9

QQ about Dark Mode Toggles on websites How many options do you show to users? - Three values: System, Light, or Dark - Two values: Light, Dark (with one of them mapping to “System” behind the scenes). Why the one or the other? (I have an opinion about it, but I’m looking for external input)

Visualising all your #atproto activity is super cool, but you can also filter out the common likes, posts, follows, etc. to just see where I've played around with a few different apps and record types. Neat!

Tynan Purdy ⁂@tynanpurdy.com · 2d ago

Friends, @pixeline.be has created the latest best way to show off how versatile Atmosphere accounts are. See your whole repo in a grand perspective view. ITS AWESOME. pixeline.be/pds-grandper...

I've never learned about a podcast I *wanted* to listen to from any algorithm, only from personal recommendations. Honestly find this weird, because it feels like it should be an easy one. Is it unsolved, are my tastes too niche, or am I just using an awful #podcast app?

Larry laid his mouse in front of the press to be photographed. Lest you ask, this is a real photograph via the Press Association.

What do you get when you combine an API, SameSite=None, and a Session cookie? securinglaravel.com/in-depth-thr... #Laravel

In Depth: Three Reasonable Decisions, One Critical Vulnerability

[In Depth #41] What do you get when you combine an API, SameSite=None, and a Session cookie?

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We enabled automatic addition of loading="lazy" for shopify.dev/docs/api/liq... 🚀 On pages using videos, we're seeing 75% reduction in downloaded files and 1.23MB/78% less data transferred! For now only in Chrome, but support in other browsers is coming.

"The newly appointed Minister for AI is expected to meet with the Minister for NFTs, Lord Blockchain and the Secretary of State for Pogs this afternoon."

Irritating part of the AI ecosystem* is this reflex to create coded vocabulary that builds an unnecessary barrier to entry. MCP? Oh, you mean an API. Skills? Oh, you mean docs. Evals? Oh, you mean tests. * to be fair, this is actually any group of humans who want to differentiate Their Shiny Thing™

apenwarr@apenwarr.ca · 3w ago

Alarmed at this trend of people finally realizing MCP is a pointless abstraction, then skipping right over publishing a regular boring API, and instead launching new CLIs for agents to use for some reason. It’s baffling.

Went to post some fractals and turns out I've somehow broken fractious-deep.web.app on mobile, I think? If you're on Android, does it work for you? On iOS... well, there's all kinds of weirdness going on there. Anyway, I get a bonus day off debugging and tinkering! I see this as a win.

Fractious

Explore infinite fractals in the Mandelbrot set. Discover beautiful downloadable images and share locations with friends—all with simple, fun controls.

fractious-deep.web.app

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?

How NHS England improved sign-in times and saved over £1m with passkeys  |  Blog  |  Chrome for Developers

Learn how NHS England, working with Hippo, implemented passkeys to improve sign-in times, reduce transaction costs, and enhance security.

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Ever been annoyed by a "confirm your email" message with a flaky magic link or OTP with clunky copy+paste, if the email even arrives‽ Optimistically, 20-30% of those emails* are never seen. We can fix that! If you have *any* email collection on your site, I'd love to see you try it & give feedback.

Test the Email Verification Protocol with an origin trial  |  Blog  |  Chrome for Developers

Test the Email Verification Protocol with the origin trial available from Chrome 150.

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Ever been annoyed by a "confirm your email" message with a flaky magic link or OTP with clunky copy+paste, if the email even arrives‽ Optimistically, 20-30% of those emails* are never seen. We can fix that! If you have *any* email collection on your site, I'd love to see you try it & give feedback.

Test the Email Verification Protocol with an origin trial  |  Blog  |  Chrome for Developers

Test the Email Verification Protocol with the origin trial available from Chrome 150.

developer.chrome.com

Watched The Invite and was hilarious. Excellent fast-paced overlapping dialogue and every character was so well cast. I'd pick favourite moments, but you should go in knowing nothing. Helped by the contrast of watching The Roses last night which was just so tedious and flat with weird tone changes.

This Labour government revoked our human rights with no democratic process, and no vote in Parliament. Labour is a danger to human rights and democracy.

Nadia Whittome MP@nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social · 4w ago

Despite more than 1 in 4 MPs signing my motion against the Code, it is due to come into force without any debate or vote in Parliament. I have written to the Minister for Women and Equalities urging her to withdraw it now. 2/2

Love this video because it's your traditional How It's Made factory porn, but they absolutely hate Crayola and spend every other minute ragging on them. youtu.be/FTnX0hFew6Q

Why Professional Colored Pencils Cost 14 Times More Than Crayola | So Expensive | Business Insider

YouTube video by Business Insider

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Seeing all of these together gave me an "aha!*" moment about where the #bluesky #atproto #atmosphere etc. ecosystem can go. Same excitement I had about #OpenID 20 (😱) years back for ownership and decentralisation, but feels more accessible. I should build something this weekend...

Storm ⛈️@stormofearth.bsky.social · last mo.

Bluesky isn’t just one app. It’s part of a much larger ecosystem, and your account is the key. Here are 7 useful apps you can log into with your @bsky.app account that you should know about.

I spent some time this morning playing with their endpoints ... I genuinely believe this is the first time that a google account and facebook account interoperate in an unified account chooser that websites can use to login to their websites.

Sam Goto@sgo.to · last mo.

Facebook just recently exposed themselves as a FedCM IdP!! developers.facebook.com/documentatio... I think this is pretty awesome, including to the atproto ecosystem, because it one more step towards making IdPs interoperate with one another!

The first part of Declarative Partial Updates (`<template for>` out-of-order HTML) is now available, unflagged, in Chrome 150!! developer.chrome.com/release-note... The second part (the new JS setting APIs, include the streaming ones) we're still working on the spec side, but maybe for Chrome 152?

Chrome 150  |  Release notes  |  Chrome for Developers

CSS text-fit property, background-clip border-area, Focusgroup, and more.

developer.chrome.com

Does your site handle varying types of #autofill data? Transform address forms for different countries? The "autofill" event lets you hook in *before* the browser fills the form to update your form to fit the data.

The autofill event is in origin trial  |  Blog  |  Chrome for Developers

The autofill event, a better way to programmatically handle form autofills, is available for origin trial in Chrome.

developer.chrome.com

I see The Guardian already anticipated exactly where this could go. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I could hear the #England #WorldCup match playing at the pub from my flat. Evidently there was some excitement, but can we quantify that purely from the noise alone? I'm glad you asked.

If you're not kitted out like this, what are you even doing?

I could hear the #England #WorldCup match playing at the pub from my flat. Evidently there was some excitement, but can we quantify that purely from the noise alone? I'm glad you asked.

SCOOP: #WSocial: a Broken Ghost Town? W Social has been experiencing major technical issues for over a week: it is effectively a ghost town, filled with thousands of new accounts that cannot use the platform. I discuss the problem and a possible solution here: blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-a-b...

W Social: a Broken Ghost Town?

W Social has been experiencing major technical problems for over a week: it is effectively a ghost town, filled with thousands of new accounts that cannot use the platform.

blog.elenarossini.com

Trying to apply some changes upstream but they're really complicated and I need somewhere to think. I need some time in the...

#Labyrinth came out exactly 40 years ago today! I saw it in the cinema with countless repeat viewings since then and it's permanently shaped my vocabulary. Not least, "come inside, have a cuppa tea!"