Paul Kinlan

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Happy 20th birthday MDN!

https://web.dev/blog/mdn-birthday?hl=en

We're kicking this Bluesky party up a notch 🎉 and here to give developers what they want (what they really, really want)!

What Chrome features and topics would you like to learn more about?

I don't think they're intending to be for folks to get started with, but instead established developers with existing business logic.

Swift.org Swift is a general-purpose programming language built using a modern approach to safety, performance, and software design patterns.

Oooh, I missed this. It looks like Swift is getting better (and official) support for WASM.

www.swift.org/documentatio...

HTML Energy HTMl Day is on August 2nd, 2025!

This Saturday is HTML Day html.energy/html-day/202...
Lots of events, but there isn't one in #Sheffield
Anyone want to hang out and write HTML on Saturday?
Venue suggestions welcome too
#FrontEndNorth @sheffield.digital @helpsheffield.co.uk

⚓️ New Article: How to configure ESBuild

Walking the dog is my version of that. Been a game changer.

Read what you write OUT LOUD. If you don’t, you may think you’re reading text, but your brain is actually just skimming it.

This helps you find a ton of weird phrases, missing words, and other errors that spellcheckers won’t catch on their own.

I've got a chrome extension in development on the user-linking side of things to experiment with the idea.

It would be neat to be able to have my own links added to pages, either directly or inferred.

Backlinks would be useful for sure, but as useful as webmention is, it's not in every site and won't be unless there is a browser mediated way to do it.

Agree... It could... I think what we know as the web needs a lot more and i'd certainly love to see more discussion, research and also development about trails.

My hunch is that there can be a lot more done with linking, right now it's all author generated or pushed on to an aggregation platform.

How so?

The Satya of Satya’s Layoff Memo “The tournament of today – a set-to between labor and monopoly. To paraphrase Sigmund Freud, sometimes a memo is not just a memo. That’s why we have to read between …

I know it has been a while. I have not been writing as much. And staying off the locals, enjoying books and analog life. However, this “memo” from @microsoft.com CEO prompted me to cut through the corporate speak. I read between the lines and this is my analysis! om.co/2025/07/26/t...

TIL sashiko

"Everywhere I travel, tiny life. Single-serving sugar, single-serving cream, single pat of butter. The microwave Cordon Bleu hobby kit. Shampoo-conditioner combos, sample-packaged mouthwash, tiny bars of soap. The people I meet on each flight? They're single-serving friends" also single serving apps

📝 New blog post: Holiday musing: fixing stuff on prod

I love Val.town for building little experiments and getting them hosted quicky. The fact that you can instantly have a URL to run code is incredible. I use...

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📝 New blog post: The Memex is solved.

I went down a rabbit hole researching the origins of hypertext and one of the articles I liked the most was "The Memex Revisited" - https://worrydream.com/refs/Bush_1967_-_Memex_Revisited...

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I like the idea of Street chance. Very Dickensian

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📝 New blog post: The web app for Pablo Picasso



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📝 New blog post: A rare sight

We went to the Pablo Picasso museum in Málaga. It was rather spectacular, they also didn't force a use-once app down your throat and instead had a good, high-quality we experience. Best of all, I saw a...

Read more: https://posthero.us/post/a-rare-sight

Yeah. It annoyed me too when they got sold, but I get it. It's hard to build a business on content hosting.

Let me know if there's things that don't work.

Celebrating 20 years of MDN | MDN Blog MDN turns 20! Let's look at how we started, how MDN became the most trusted resource for web developers, the impact it's had on the open web, and yes, there's cake, too.

For 20 years Mozilla has developed one of the most useful tools for web devs.

developer.mozilla.org/en-US/blog/m...

Congrats to the MDN team on an awesome milestone. I'm happy that we've played a small part in its history and I'm excited to see it continue to be at the core of every web dev's job.

📝 New blog post: The web killed hypertext

"Tinderbox has its legacy in the hypertext world, a once rich community of researchers who were exploring how computing could free us from the limits of linear narrative. Unfortu...

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Celebrating 20 years of MDN | MDN Blog MDN turns 20! Let's look at how we started, how MDN became the most trusted resource for web developers, the impact it's had on the open web, and yes, there's cake, too.

For 20 years Mozilla has developed one of the most useful tools for web devs.

developer.mozilla.org/en-US/blog/m...

Congrats to the MDN team on an awesome milestone. I'm happy that we've played a small part in its history and I'm excited to see it continue to be at the core of every web dev's job.

But also, yay. Blue sky listing works.

Some formatting issues to fix....

📝 New blog post: Hypertext - we've missed a lot.

I'm writing this on my phone as I dab on Aloe Vera to appease the sunburn. I've spent some time reading about the nature of hyperlinking and how people thought...

Read more: https://posthero.us/post/hypertext-weve-missed-a-lot

Google in 1999: Search Engines Escape the Portal Matrix Like Morpheus in The Matrix, Google gave web users a stark choice in 1999: take the red pill and experience a new world of search quality, or choose the blue pill and stick with the bloated world of p...

Continuing my look back at the rise of Google, we're now in 1999. It's still a web world dominated by portals, but Google's search ("pure search" with "no portal litter," as one tech magazine put it) is starting to get noticed. cybercultural.com/p/google-1999/ #InternetHistory #Google1990s

Super useful. Thank you.