Interesting stuff from @josephpolitano.bsky.social on Taiwan's ongoing economic miracle:
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Interesting stuff from @josephpolitano.bsky.social on Taiwan's ongoing economic miracle:
Chrome is announcing that they are moving into a two-week release cycle! Exciting bc the web needs to move quickly- resolving bug fixes, feature improvements, etc. It goes along with devops principles of shipping smaller, more frequent releases for stability
developer.chrome.com/blog/chrome-...
After implementing web streams in multiple runtimes, supporting them for years, talking with other implementers, dealing with issues... I think it's well past time we talked about something better blog.cloudflare.com/a-better-web...
"Olo is an imaginary color that can be seen by shooting lasers into the retina to isolate the response of M cone cells."
Sign me up, I'd love to shoot my M cone cells with lasers!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olo_(co...
Where are your "CSS is not a programming language" gods now?!?!? muwahaha. muwahaha.
lyra.horse/x86css/
🦥 A fun update over on the blog: 🦥
Standard HTML Video & Audio Lazy-loading is Coming!
scottjehl.com/posts/lazy-m...
If you'd told me that one day I'd be excited about a property called `border-shape`, I wouldn't have believed you.
And yet, here we are. @una.im shared the new CSS property coming to Chrome, which allows you to actually "shape" elements. 👏
una.im/border-shape/
Goodbye innerHTML, hello setHTML:
document.body.setHTML(`<h1>Hello my name is <img src="x" onclick="alert('XSS')">`);
translates to ->
<h1>Hello my name is</h1>
HTML might be getting a new type of tag, which… hasn't happened this millennium. Here's the new syntax, and how it works:
Chúc mừng năm mới! 🇻🇳
Looking to have an SI unit named after yourself, huh? If that fails, maybe <jake> as a plan B?
If you work on the web, you should read @mnot.net's latest:
mnot.net/blog/2026/02/13/…
It much more elegantly gets to the core of the pro/anti-progress asymmetry I tried to explore last year:
infrequently.org/2025/08/how-do-c…
How will agentic coding tools impact app platform choices? Lovable says: "web apps cost 40-60% less than native development and reach the market 50-70% faster." lovable.dev/guides/nativ...
#Interop2026 is here!
Lots of new CSS coming your way:
- style queries
- anchor positioning improvements (already crossbrowser)
- advanced attr()
- popover & dialog improvements like lightdismiss
- scroll-driven animations
- better scroll-snap capabilities
wpt.fyi/interop-2026
Once again, Interop '26 is simultaneously hopeful and not nearly enough (thanks for nothing, secret vetoes).
Stay tuned for Edge to once again update our dashboard for more comprehensively tracking top requests:
microsoftedge.github.io/TopDeveloperNeed…
Invoker Commands feel like something the platform should have had decades ago. Comparing its functionality to how we traditionally have to toggle a dialog makes current practice seem straight-up absurd. dbushell.com/2026/02/12/d...
The Device Bound Session Credentials flow.
New in Chrome 145: 📊 Column wrapping for multicol 🌐 The Origin API 🛡️ Device Bound Session Credentials
This stable release brings more flexible vertical layouts, streamlined origin handling, and enhanced security for user sessions→ goo.gle/3OyvI9n
WebMCP seems to be a very much needed tool for the web to stop agents scraping and guessing content and allowing maintainers to point them to where they need to go instead. developer.chrome.com/blog/webmcp-...
Tomorrow I am hosting two of the team on Coffee With Developers to learn more.
“Someday years from now we will look back on the era when we were the last generation to code by hand. We’ll laugh and explain to our grandkids how silly it was that we typed out JavaScript syntax with our fingers. But secretly we’ll miss it.” — @nolanlawson.com
nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/w...
Browser window showing the browser-compat-data github repo homepage, which shows that the project now contains 20,000 commits.
The browser-compat-data project (used by MDN, caniuse, and tools) now has:
20,000 commits
1,123 contributors
465 releases
19,148 data entries
That's what comprehensive web compat data looks like.
And it takes well funded teams at @openwebdocs.org and @mozilla.org plus amazing contributors.
did you know you can write your HTML like this?
```html
<button
type
=
button
class
=
cursed
>
Hello
</button>
```
I think I'll subscribe to Dr. Rhonda Patrick for a similar kind of content instead.
www.foundmyfitness.com
How to unsubscribe from Peter Attia:
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The comment less-than sign bang dash dash state is a crowd favorite, I hear.
html.spec.whatwg.org#comment-less...
Really enjoying working on XML-style processing instructions in HTML, wondering if I should spice it up with a section named "processing instruction questionable state" for a ? that may or may not be followed by a > 🤔
github.com/whatwg/html/...
NEW: Elon Musk has insisted that Jeffrey Epstein invited him to the notorious island and he declined. But new emails show the opposite -- Musk was practically begging to party with Epstein in the Caribbean, years after Epstein's sex convictions were public knowledge
futurism.com/future-socie...
Vote for the web features you want to see
Help prioritize the web features you need most → goo.gle/4iVDhCk
The WebDX Community Group is launching a direct way for you to upvote features on sites like Can I Use and web.dev to signal demand to browser vendors.
My friend and @igalia.com colleague Alice Boxhall wrote a great piece "Reference Target: having your encapsulation and eating it too" about some important work we've been helping to drive with some funding from NLNet ..
blogs.igalia.com/alice/refere...
🏎️ Volvo creates "instantly readable" typeface to improve driver safety
by #TomRavenscroft at #Dezeen
Swedish car brand #Volvo + type studio @daltonmaag.com
#typography #Volvo #VolvoCentum
www.dezeen.com/2025/12/19/v...
Excitingly, Chrome Canary recently added support for <meta name="text-scaling"> behind a flag.
What is it? It's something that we're all going to start using on our websites to improve accessibility. Here's a blog post with more info. www.joshtumath.uk/posts/2026-0...
