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Paul Kinlan

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Lead for Chrome Developer Relations at Google. Web Developer. Avid user of AI tooling. I live in the beautiful town of Rhuthun in North Wales. Learning Welsh and loving Wales. https://paul.kinlan.me/ and https://aifoc.us/

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Paul Kinlan @paul.kinlan.me · 3d

Moon through the flames

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Paul Kinlan @paul.kinlan.me · 4d

I love autumn

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Paul Kinlan @paul.kinlan.me · 9d

I got one ... Thanks for the advice. I made a mistake, I forgot I had 3 machines and only port a two port one ..

Paul Kinlan @paul.kinlan.me · 13d

Any recommendations of a KVM switch? I'd like it to be mostly usb-c (I use it for display) and for 2 monitors and a laptop

Paul Kinlan @paul.kinlan.me · 19d

It's a people (demand) thing as much as a technical one.

Paul Kinlan @paul.kinlan.me · 19d

Yep. I don't disagree. But what does it default to when you don't know what to ask for. I believe there's a bias both in the models and the tools that people use to prompt... I know several major LLMs that default to react because they need to.

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HTTP Archive 💾 @httparchive.org · 20d

We've taken the new version of the Core Web Vitals Tech Report out of Beta and now consider this the report to use:

httparchive.org/reports/tech...

Anyone still using the old Looker Studio-based report, it's time to check out the new goodness with much quicker response times and improved UX!

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Paul Kinlan @paul.kinlan.me · 21d

I had fun last night. I got a Chrome extension to talk MCP via the Omnibox. It can even render and host OpenAI's Apps SDK runtime "Skybridge" - I have a small shim that attempts to polyfill the API.

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Jens @jens.ng · 21d

Agree. I think LLM tools likely have to output React by default today. However LLMs need to work with any framework in brownfield, so enabling other outputs as an option becomes somewhat easy to implement - enterprise user might choose due to corporate policies and hobbyists for any reason.

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Paul Kinlan @paul.kinlan.me · 21d

I think one thing we need to do is to focus a lot on samples, examples and documentation as soon as anything launches to ensure they are part of the training... And then work to ensure it can also be referenced quickly by tools when not.

Paul Kinlan @paul.kinlan.me · 21d

Yep. That could be the opportunity for any new framework. Similar echos to Angular

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Jens @jens.ng · 21d

Last but not least, the incumbent always had a strong advantage (nobody gets fired for buying IBM) - which didn't in the past stop innovation from happening or players to come up. Our belief in the team is that innovation will continue until UIs are a solved problem, which we think is far from true!

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Jens @jens.ng · 21d

at least when the developers are interested in it. Also new features/API might matter if they're better performing then generated patterns, and even more ergonomic syntax might be useful to humans AND LLMs in all but greenfield use cases (if only to save tokens on maintenance).

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Paul Kinlan @paul.kinlan.me · 21d

I'm hopeful for the competition and happy to be proven wrong. A challenge that I've seen is that I've heard numerous providers say something along the lines of "to ask us not to output X is to ask us to lose to our competitors"

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Paul Kinlan @paul.kinlan.me · 21d

Dead framework theory

aifoc.us/dead-framewo...

dead framework theory

These are my opinions and are ruminations on what might be happening as more and more developers use LLMs and Frameworks to build on the web. In October last year I wrote “will developers care about f...

aifoc.us

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Paul Kinlan @paul.kinlan.me · 23d

Someone told me recently to cut a lemon and stuff in some cloves and it repels the flies.

Paul Kinlan @paul.kinlan.me · 23d

Such a stunning morning in North Wales

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Scott Tolinski @tolin.ski · 26d

I've been so annoyed by AI tools and CSS that I made a CSS MCP that:

* consults with MDN for docs
* reports browser compat
* uses project Wallace to analyze your CSS

github.com/stolinski/cs...

Also made claude code agent for css but still perfecting it.

GitHub - stolinski/css-mcp

Contribute to stolinski/css-mcp development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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Paul Kinlan @paul.kinlan.me · 28d

I tried taking your advice and I looked like a lemon on stage.

Paul Kinlan @paul.kinlan.me · Oct 2

I appreciate how much wank there is in wank. It's full of it.

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Paul Kinlan @paul.kinlan.me · Sep 30

s/we/me/

Paul Kinlan @paul.kinlan.me · Sep 30

I believe we didn't think big mega corp would get away with it

Paul Kinlan @paul.kinlan.me · Sep 30

one of the reasons for this is that it's not approved infrastructure for google projects.

Paul Kinlan @paul.kinlan.me · Sep 30

heh - I'm paying the bill directly though.... so...

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Ana Tudor @anatudor.bsky.social · Sep 30

Little @codepen.io demo: single `img` squircles + grainy inset shadow codepen.io/thebabydino/...

(for `img`, the actual image is content & gets painted on top of shadows; the earlier workaround has been a sibling/ parent's pseudo used as a "cover" that gets the shadow; none of it here 😼)

#CSS #SVG

A grid of squircle-shaped images with grainy inner shadows that also have a spread.

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