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paul.kinlan.me
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
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Super Apps - aifoc.us/super-apps/ With instant recall and inference, modern chat apps could become all-in-one solutions for user needs. We should explore what this means for browsers and the web.

Transition - aifoc.us/transition/ - Why I started the blog and topics I plan to explore. I've changed how I build software and find the intersection of AI tooling and the web fascinating. I want to explore how the web might evolve.

Small thread with links and examples from the talk today nerdy.dev/cssday-2025

I've been working on a new blog in my spare time where I try and think about the intersection of the Web and current AI trends. 👉 aifoc.us I've started with a couple of essays and I'm keen for more feedback and recommendations for areas to write about.

I've been working on a new blog in my spare time where I try and think about the intersection of the Web and current AI trends. 👉 aifoc.us I've started with a couple of essays and I'm keen for more feedback and recommendations for areas to write about.

Claude can't view full bluesky pages because they rely on javascript to render. So I built a little proxy to prerender pages so claude can see them! Just replace "bsky" with "hbsky" in the URL (The h is for html). Before vs after:

First in a series of posts on the intersection of AI and the Web goes live Monday at agenticweb.substack.com Thank you for encouraging me to share these thoughts 🙏

I've started a blog about the intersection between the Web and AI. I'm not sharing it broadly, but I'd love some private feedback on the articles I've already published. If you have some time I'd love to share it with you and get some thoughts on the content and also future topics to address.

On June 12th, I'm going to be attending @middlesbroughfe.co.uk for the third year in a row. There are still tickets available, and I strongly recommend grabbing one. The talks are highly technical, but the environment is friendly and grass-roots rather than corporate. This year's lineup looks great

Now that Skype is dead, can we rename Skeets to Skypes?

NLWeb is just the polymath project. github.com/polymath-ai/... ... Timing is everything I suppose. My biggest takeaway is the prediction that the web is dead just based on an announcement of an experimental project in an MS keynote.

Would web devs use this? - subscribe to highly anticipated features (like Temporal) - get notified when they land in a new browser / become Baseline - via email, bsky, GitHub, Slack, whatever

Hey friends, did you know you can make a modal <dialog> element dismissible by clicking outside (aka light dismiss) by adding `closedby=any` to it. That's it. That's all there is to it. <dialog closedby=any> developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W... Chrome 134+, Firefox 140+, coming soon to Safari.

It's fun looking back... In "The Headless web" I proposed 'What if everything was powered by "The Web", but you never saw a browser?' Touching on Google Assistant; Notifications, Embedding in Apps; components... never saw Agents as we now know it. paul.kinlan.me/the-headless...

I remember when IE6 was the new IE6

💫 Reminder to file bugs For a long time, View Transitions in Chrome had bug crbug.com/387030974. It’s pretty niche, but if you hit it, you noticed. There was a workaround by inspecting the generated keyframe values (brm.us/snapshot-con...) but recently that detection mechanism too started to fail.

CSS if() function landed today(!!!) in Chrome 137 🥳 along with another rad feature: reading-flow 🥳 So I put together a quick video showcasing both: youtu.be/Apn8ucs7AL0

ITS HAPPENING Firefox 127 shipped today making it the first browser to support Temporal - the new API for working with Dates, times, timezones + durations

New CSS features, AI in Chrome DevTools, and multimodal AI can help you to build a more powerful and modern web. Senior Tech Writer @alexandrascript.com recaps the top web announcements from #GoogleIO. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSVe...

Visual Studio Code Now Supports Baseline: https://web.dev/blog/baseline-vscode

The one where I muse about how this simple bit of code radically changes how the web itself seems to behave… webkit.org/blog/16967/t...

The changes to social media and the increased fragmentation have taken another blow to blogs. I'm trying out a second way to share my own things, I'm starting a newsletter. You can subscribe here: outbox.matthewphillips.info/subscription... First post will go out later this week.

The whole composable, connectable, collaborative aspect of the web is the bit that makes me excited about it as a platform. Reading this made me feel optimistic about the web in the age of agents... I hope we can push in this direction.

So proud of our @chromium.social team for IO. So many new tools and features to help web developers announced today. So much hard work over the last year, the team has rocked it. developer.chrome.com/blog/web-at-...

What's New in Chrome live stream: www.youtube.com/live/4pB2IhK... About to head on.... Wish me leg breaking

Excited and incredibly nervous to be doing What's New in Chrome. Tune in (or come if you are here in person). io.google/2025/explore...

I used used float:right in a modern web site. AMA.