I vibe coded a few workflow improvements tonight. On a lark, I asked GitHub Copilot to write a "guest post" about what we built. It's a bit self-indulgent, but a fun little tour. (I didn't write a word.)
Under the Hood: aldenblog.io/posts/2026-0...
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...
Everything is compostable *eventually*, right?
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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 differences between those "sides" aren't differences in virtue or intent; they're differences in perspective and institutional obligation.
It turns out to be a pretty tall order to remove those tensions, even when the humans are, at the end of the day, on the same side.
Some of those are quietly despairing that emerging dysfunctions threaten to keep standards from working at all; meanwhile others are loudly pleading that we recognize the things that haven't been working for a long time.
I find myself believing most participants are operating in good faith, laboring under the institutional constraints of organizations they represent, while genuinely trying to do good for developers and the Web.
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
To be continued…?
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.
(be the change you want to see in the world)
I was half hoping for an AI slop photo of a record player on the beach. Alas, but tomorrow is a new day...
If there's one thing I know about senior citizens, it's that they love to receive critical healthcare correspondence intermittently among memes and porn bots in the world's shittiest feed
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]
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...
I guess the argument for it being cheating is that they deliberately don’t let you rearrange tiles.
On the other hand the short term memory challenge doesn’t feel like a core mechanic. Would scratch paper be a cheat?
(I draw the line at external reference/googling.)
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?
Once in college as an RA I was really at a loss for coming up with a hall activity, so I just declared it “fun with microwaves” night. AOL CDs, grape plasma, Peep jousting, you name it.
But the star of the show was a cucumber. It takes a while, but eventually they explode, and it’s *spectacular*.
I did this with tablespoons of salt instead of teaspoons (also with hummus). I was able to salvage it by tripling the rest of the recipe… but then I had two full Pyrex casserole dishes full of hummus to eat by myself. 🫠
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?
"Is this" butterfly meme format. The butterfly is labeled "User research that validates my priors" and the character is asking "Is this Product Sense?"
product manager excellence
I would pay money for these limits
To my surprise, the camera, mics, and speakers all just work and it connects flawlessly to my ARM Surface Pro 9.
My Surface Laptop Studio isn't happy with the power supplied by the Thunderbolt cable and won't connect unless it's separately plugged in via its own power adapter.
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.
Rabbit from Donnie Darko saying “Why are you wearing that stupid man suit?”
Bragging about beating Apple to market is just an oblique way to predict you’ll be out-executed
Tay noo
