All the things web. Created and curated the Web Rebels conference. Might run it again.
Staff Engineer for web in Vend Market Places. We build the web platform which we build our market places (finn.no, blocket.se, dba.dk and tori.dk) on.
The EU's Digital Markets Act is delivering real wins for consumers in the EU, and in some cases globally. Apple and Google are opening up functionality that was previously reserved for their own products.
But one glaring failure stands out: browser engines on iOS.
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I have basically mildly positive feelings about Gemini Nano being available in Chrome. I don't use Chrome, but lots of stuff should be done on-device, not off. That's a win.
If "software shouldn't have features i don't like" is the argument you're actually making, that's not really a good argument. Even when the feature is an LLM model.
"Chrome is getting big and bloated and we can do better” is absolutely a good argument you can make.
And then the real kicker: Google pushing the web platform around through dominance is just the real ick here. It's the same sort of thing monopoly power enables. Companies that own verticals in the economy or a product market can dictate rather than negotiate. This is, in general, bad. Google does this, not because the ideas its employees put forward are good, but because they work out to be in Google's interests. And those interests can run counter to the rest of the world.
That's what we have to push back on.
So, Chrome's "web standard" Prompt API:
Mozilla: Opposed
WebKit: Opposed
Microsoft: Several concerns
W3C TAG: Several concerns
Developers: Mostly negative
Chrome: Ships anyway.
A sad time for web standards. But, I guess someone at Google will get promoted, so 'every cloud…'
Chrome looks set to ship an LLM Prompt API to the web platform. At Mozilla, we oppose this API.
We feel it has a large interoperability risk, and Google imposing T&Cs on a web API sets a dangerous precedent.
Full details: https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/1213#issuecomment-4347988313
🌏🗣️ Localizing PWAs is about to get a whole lot better!
With manifest localization, you can now provide translations for your app name, description, icons, and more, which wasn’t possible before.
Shipping in Chromium 148.
Amazing work from Alexander Kyereboah on the Edge team.
We’re hosting a CouchDB & PouchDB Hackday as a warm-up for the Local First Conf on July 11 🎉
Join us in our office in Neukölln, Berlin, to discover sync pioneers @couchdb and @pouchdb, help others learn, or get an intro to contributing to these projects.
It’s a cool chance to meet others before @localfirstconf kicks off on the 12th.
Details and RSVP: https://neighbourhood.ie/blog/2026/04/21/couchdb-pouchdb-hackday-2026
DDos (Distributed Denial of Service) attack against BlueSky a few days ago: The whole network goes down.
DDoS against mastodon.social today: Lots of users on that instance impacted, the rest of the Fediverse keeps on running, my instance doesn't really notice, messages will be queued up until mastodon.social is reachable again.
Both networks claim to be decentralised and federated. You decide :)
RE: https://social.vivaldi.net/@brucelawson/116416058610955950
I’d love to see the Safari team say, we could make our platform the absolute best at web apps. We could lead on that. And people would trust us more than Google. There’s an open goal right there for us; all we would need to do is be allowed to take the shot.
Open Web Advocacy
Mx. Aria Stewart
Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊
Jake Archibald
Firefox for Web Developers
Robin Whittleton
Patrick Brosset
Neighbourhoodie Software
Jan Wildeboer 😷
Stuart Langridge