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Polypane @polypane.app · 8h

Looking for our logo, icon or other brand assets? Right-click the logo on the site to find our brand kit!

Kilian Valkhof @kilianvalkhof.com · 8h

I don't often get nerd sniped * but I just added support for line numbers in @Polypane.app's elements panel after thinking it impossible for the past 5 years.

* okay like once a week. maybe twice.

The CSS styling for a h1 element. The pertinent detail is that each css rule now has a line number with its stylesheet file name.

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Kilian Valkhof @kilianvalkhof.com · 13h

Better.

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Kilian Valkhof @kilianvalkhof.com · 13h

This is incredibly niche. but the Chromium team just fixed an issue from 2012 that will make the devtools network tab keep resources after navigation. 🥳

This is super useful when debugging redirect chains.

issues.chromium.org/issues/40254...

Chromium

issues.chromium.org

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Andy Bell @bell.bz · 1d

Good morning, America 👋

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Kilian Valkhof @kilianvalkhof.com · 1d

Oh no, that's too fast! (I'm all too familiar).

Enjoy the day, and happy birthday!

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Piccalilli @piccalil.li · 1d

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Kilian Valkhof @kilianvalkhof.com · 1d

I have some alerts configured for Polypane mentions on the web and it's starting to appear in brain-aneurysm levels of AI slop articles like this.

I'm glad my SEO is so good that Polypane ends up in AIs as the recommended thing for but UGH

www.memesita.com/requirejs-co...

RequireJS Configuration File Breakdown: Libraries, Modules, and Shim Details

Decoding the Digital Blueprint: Why This RequireJS Config File Reveals a Seriously jQuery-Obsessed Project Okay, let's be honest, staring at a wall of JavaScript configuration files can feel like deci...

www.memesita.com

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Polypane @polypane.app · 2d

We just released 26.0.1 with a bunch of fixes and improvements, in particular for the brave souls already using macOS Tahoe: polypane.app/blog/polypan...

Polypane 26: Accurate device emulation with safe area and small viewport units | Polypane

Polypane 26 brings the most accurate device emulation available anywhere. We now emulate small viewport units (svh) and device-specific safe area insets, two…

polypane.app

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Kilian Valkhof @kilianvalkhof.com · 4d

It mostly matter when you want to place things on an arc (translate, rotate) and then do other transforms too.

polypane.app/blog/the-css...

The CSS Transform property and individual transforms are additive | Polypane

Here's something you might not know: the CSS transform and individual transform properties ( translate , rotate and scale ) are additive. If you set both…

polypane.app

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Kilian Valkhof @kilianvalkhof.com · 5d

ahem. React developer tools

Kilian Valkhof @kilianvalkhof.com · 5d

Guess who just added react-compiler in like 3 minutes.

...and then had to search for "How to tell if react-compiler works"* because everything just worked without issues and it auto-memoized a bunch of stuff without me doing anything.

* react deveveloper tools can tell you.

Kilian Valkhof @kilianvalkhof.com · 6d

I know it's not in-vogue to say, but I upgraded @react.dev in Polypane to 19.2.0 yesterday at a conference when I had a spare 15 minutes and i didn't have to do anything else. It just works.

Gonna put in some places. Should be fun!

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Kilian Valkhof @kilianvalkhof.com · 5d

This is making such a difference. Truly next-level emulation.

Polypane @polypane.app · 14d

New in Polypane 26: all our devices emulate the correct `safe-area-inset-*` CSS environment variables, as well as the correct small viewport height.

Toggle the visualization from the emulation settings to see where they're located. Like browser UI the svh overlay scrolls away when you scroll down.

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Mike Hauntington @mhartington.io · 5d

Hire Todd. He's smart and knows his shit. He'd make a great fit for any web team out there

Todd @toddl.dev · 5d

Getting the “Dear Todd” email as I call it the next days isn’t as bad as it used to be. But here I am, still looking for some income during this time, and not letting it affect me as bad as it used to.

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Kilian Valkhof @kilianvalkhof.com · 6d

Yes, the typing is the point.

Having that scoped in for example a design system can be very useful

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Brecht De Ruyte @utilitybend.com · 6d

To elaborate on that. The first question I can visualize is some technical problems or potential dangers. The second one might have some really interesting cases that could benefit design system engineers.

Kilian Valkhof @kilianvalkhof.com · 6d

After @utilitybend.com's excellent talk at Frontmania on Engineering CSS I was left with two questions:

1. Why can't @property declarations be declared in a scope, The ability to scope custom props is so powerful this feels like a miss.

2. CSS Functions are great. Can we have typed in- and output?

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Kilian Valkhof @kilianvalkhof.com · 6d

After @utilitybend.com's excellent talk at Frontmania on Engineering CSS I was left with two questions:

1. Why can't @property declarations be declared in a scope, The ability to scope custom props is so powerful this feels like a miss.

2. CSS Functions are great. Can we have typed in- and output?

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Kilian Valkhof @kilianvalkhof.com · 6d

I know it's not in-vogue to say, but I upgraded @react.dev in Polypane to 19.2.0 yesterday at a conference when I had a spare 15 minutes and i didn't have to do anything else. It just works.

Gonna put in some places. Should be fun!

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Kilian Valkhof @kilianvalkhof.com · 7d

😩

The state of the art is regexes.

😩😩😩

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Annie Sexton • Comics @anniecomics.bsky.social · 8d

I know we’re tired of AI takes but please please please read The Oatmeal’s take. It’s the best one.

theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal

This is a comic about AI art.

theoatmeal.com

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Frontend Dogma @frontenddogma.com · 8d

Polypane 26: Accurate Device Emulation With Safe Area and Small Viewport Units, by @polypane.app:

https://polypane.app/blog/polypane-26-accurate-device-emulation-with-safe-area-and-small-viewport-units/

#releasenotes #polypane #browsers

Polypane 26: Accurate device emulation with safe area and small viewport units | Polypane

Polypane 26 brings the most accurate device emulation available anywhere. We now emulate small viewport units (svh) and device-specific safe area insets, two…

polypane.app

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Todd @toddl.dev · 9d

I am immensely grateful that we almost hit the 40% raised mark I was hoping for after the first week. There is more work to get this goal reached. I won't stop now so I once again ask for any and all shares and donations, no matter how small. Every little bit helps. gofund.me/24c249d90

Donate to Fundraiser for Paula Johnson's Medical & Recovery Fund, organized by Todd Libby

My name is Todd Libby, and I am starting this on the behalf of my pa… Todd Libby needs your support for Fundraiser for Paula Johnson's Medical & Recovery Fund

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Kilian Valkhof @kilianvalkhof.com · 9d

I already 'fixed' Google login and Cloudflare captcha for Polypane, and I'll get the Google Search Captcha issue too.

Kilian Valkhof @kilianvalkhof.com · 9d

One of the least fun aspects of building a browser is dealing with all the user-agent sniffing and profiling that systems to do and finding ways to deal with them, when it's all undocumented and obscured.

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Kilian Valkhof @kilianvalkhof.com · 11d

Swanderful even.

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