David ‮ yensiR

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I'm a software developer on the Microsoft Edge team living in Redmond, WA. he/him
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Modern web guidance. A set of evergreen, expert-vetted skills for AI coding agents from the Chrome team, covering UI components, legacy code modernization, security, and performance. Install via npx modern-web-guidance@latest install, or as plugins for Claude Code, Copilot CLI, Vercel Agent Skills, and Antigravity. The skills can help with modern features like <dialog> modals, popover tooltips, container queries, passkeys, CSP, and improving Web Vitals. #tools #ai

https://developer.chrome.com/docs/modern-web-guidance

skating thru the aisles of an ai datacenter on my heelys, blasting rhythm nation by janet jackson from a boombox and leaving a trail of failing 5400rpm drives in my wake
Comparisons as Predictable as the Sunrise. The Pudding analyzed 200,000 similes from popular fiction. “The clichés are obvious, marked by a single tall spike that overshadows the others.” https://pudding.cool/2026/05/similes/
Comparisons as Predictable as the Sunrise

An analysis of 200,000 similes from popular fiction.

The Pudding
The Boring Internet

The internet you grew up on isn't dying. A commercial veneer glued on top of it is. A visual essay about what actually persists.

Terry Godier
the really REALLY cool thing is… it’s mocapped!!
“Mum can we get test environment?”
“We have test environment at home”
The test environment at home: production

Was ready to be discouraged that I would have to install a random app to configure my new keyboard, but its not the case - they have a web app that uses web-usb!

https://cfg.qwertykeys.com/

#pwa #webusb

VIA

Your keyboard's best friend

What do you think would be different if we'd landed E4X? Would it have changed anything about where we are? Would it be better or worse because of it?

If you're unfamilliar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMAScript_for_XML - you can see 2004 > JSX relationships etc

ECMAScript for XML - Wikipedia

While most puns make me feel numb.

Math puns make me feel number