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Doug Parker @develwithoutacause.dwac.dev · 10/08/2026

I'm just trying to pay for a burrito dude, STFU.

A screenshot of the Google Wallet app with a full screen modal dialog asking "Remove Gmail passes from Wallet?" including a paragraph of explanatory text and the option to either "Remove passes" or "Save passes".

Doug Parker @develwithoutacause.dwac.dev · 29/06/2026

@dulanyw.bsky.social, just tried the Codex VSCode extension, but it seems to require an OpenAI sign it (which I don't have) and configuring `~/.codex/config.toml` manually (and reloading the window) doesn't bypass it.

Screenshot of VSCode, showing a side-by-side view of the `~/.codex/config.toml` file which an Ollama configuration alongside the Codex chat, showing an onboarding screen with only three options: "Sign in with ChatGPT", "Use API Key", or "Use device code".

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Doug Parker @develwithoutacause.dwac.dev · 29/06/2026

This is what I'm talking about. I can't get any UI to show at all. It's not available in the side panels ("Chat" is Copilot AFAICT) and none of the commands seems to work or show the chat interface. "Cline: Open In New Tab" doesn't exist as described here: docs.cline.bot/getting-star...

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Doug Parker @develwithoutacause.dwac.dev · 29/06/2026

This is what I'm actually seeing. I'm not sure how exactly to share a reproduction of this. I just did `curl -fsSL ollama.com/install.sh | sh` and `ollama run qwen2.5-coder:7b` to download Ollama and the model. In VSCode I went into the models dialog and did "Add Models" > "Ollama" > default port.

$Screenshot of the VSCode Copilot chat window. The user says "Hello" and the agent responds with JSON in the form of '{"name": "send_to_terminal", "arguments": {"id": "", "command": ""}}'. The user then says "test" and the agents with '{"name": "testFailure", "arguments": {}}'. Finally, the user instructs 'Say "Hello"' and then agent responds with '{"name": "say", "arguments": {"text": "Hello"}}'. At the bottom of the view, the selected model is `qwen2.5-coder:7b`.$

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Doug Parker @develwithoutacause.dwac.dev · 20/06/2026

And wrapped today! Got the rest of the DLC remembrances (plus Bayle ofc) at WL0. Actually most were easier than expected with so many Scadu fragments, only Consort and Bayle really gave me much trouble. Since I've shared a couple challenge run Consort kills before, so I'll share Bayle instead.

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Doug Parker @develwithoutacause.dwac.dev · 28/05/2026

Experimenting with #Angular v22 and #ChromeDevToolsForAgents new third party tool calling feature.

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Doug Parker @develwithoutacause.dwac.dev · 08/03/2026

Who names a port flag `--bind`, honestly?!

Mike Myers as Austin Powers in a robe looking just pas the camera with a confused, disappointed expression.

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Doug Parker @develwithoutacause.dwac.dev · 02/03/2026

I was just asking #Gemini about #BlueSky video hosting limitations and if I could work around them by self-hosting a #PDS, and it pointed me at "Bluesky's video.bsky.app transcoding sidecar" which is apparently... a Rick Roll? Did I just get Rick Rolled by my #AI?

Screenshot of an AI chat which reads:

Summary: The 100MB / 3-minute claim is the current standard for the official Bluesky PDS as of their 2025 expansion of video features. If you are on a self-hosted PDS, these numbers only apply if you are using Bluesky's video.bsky.app transcoding sidecar; if you host your own transcoder, these limits no longer apply.

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Doug Parker @develwithoutacause.dwac.dev · 01/03/2026

Whoo! Took down Consort (actually hitless!) and wrapped my RL1 All Remembrances run. Had a lot of fun with this and I'm glad I did it, but I think now it's time to play something I haven't beaten multiple times already. #EldenRing #RL1 #Consort #Hitless

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Doug Parker @develwithoutacause.dwac.dev · 30/01/2026

To some extent, I understand why it can't solve these complex issues (and I guess it's good for my job that it can't). But that means it's doing all the fun stuff and I'm left with all the hard problems I didn't want to deal with in the first place. It's the developer version of:

A tweet by Joanna Maciejewska which reads: "You know what the biggest problem with pushing all-things-AI is? Wrong direction. I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes."

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Doug Parker @develwithoutacause.dwac.dev · 30/01/2026

Couple nasty mixups I've been playing with for #Vi and #Caitlyn. #2XKO Having a lot of fun with Caitlyn's combos in particular. Juggling the opponent with her rifle is so satisfying (if a bit janky from the physics).

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Doug Parker @develwithoutacause.dwac.dev · 16/01/2026

My latest #MacOS issue is that every time I try to grab the scrollbar in VSCode to scroll down, I end up somehow grabbing the whole window and dragging it. I get that there's a space there to shrink the window width, but the designer clearly coded it so a drag down gets turned into a window drag.

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Doug Parker @develwithoutacause.dwac.dev · 29/12/2025

Just wanted to share some #Christmas joy I got from this #Lego #Nintendo #GameBoy and the incredible attention-to-detail in it.

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Doug Parker @develwithoutacause.dwac.dev · 21/11/2025

Now that we have an official look for #Angie, I'd love to hear some ideas from the community about where and how we can incorporate them into #Angular! I have some initial ideas bouncing around but want to know what you all think.

Reference picture of Angie, the Angular mascot. It's a cute lil guy with white gnubby limbs with red gloves and shoes. It's body is just a big head, with a red helmet in the rough shape of a hexagonal shield. It's smile and eyebrows present and calm and friendly demeanor.

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Doug Parker @develwithoutacause.dwac.dev · 20/11/2025

If you missed the premiere, you're gonna wanna catch the replay! #Angular #AngularV21

An 8-bit interpretation of Mark Techson with buggy eyes and wide open mouth shouting in shock at his new appearance.

An 16-bit interpretation of Jessica Janiuk popping out of a chest and shrugging with a dastardly smirk on her face.

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Doug Parker @develwithoutacause.dwac.dev · 09/11/2025

Also if I try to use the `undefined` email, the page just breaks. Also I'm 99% sure I already configured autopay, but somehow that just didn't take and I needed it to it again today. Seeing errors like this just lowers my overall confidence in the entire site. Shame #PGE, shame.

Screenshot of a web page displaying a generic error.

It reads, "Something went wrong" and lists some generic advice such as refreshing the browser, visiting their help center, or calling their phone number.

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Doug Parker @develwithoutacause.dwac.dev · 09/11/2025

Also, of *all* the communication settings they have, guess which one can't be configured in the web UI. Like, I get why this kind of thing gets deprioritized, but it's *so* shady for this to be the one which requires an actual phone call.

Screenshot of a web page titled "This feature is coming soon", with the subheading "Marketing communications". It only reads "Update your marketing preferences today" and lists a phone number.

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Doug Parker @develwithoutacause.dwac.dev · 09/11/2025

#TIL `undefined` is a valid email address. #PGE

Screenshot of a web page titled "Additional communications" and allow configuration notification preferences.

It allows users to select which pre-configured email to receive notifications with. Only one is listed and labeled "undefined (Primary)"

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Doug Parker @develwithoutacause.dwac.dev · 01/11/2025

Hmm, I wonder what operating system developers at #OpenAI use?

Screenshot of the ChatGPT Atlas download button which reads "Download for macOS" and includes an asterisk. Directly underneath the button reads "Currently only available on macOS".

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Doug Parker @develwithoutacause.dwac.dev · 03/10/2025

God save us if someone were to use a period in a free text field. My endless thanks to the #SAP #Concur developers for locking this down keeping us safe from any malicious periods out there. 🙏

Screenshot of a text input asking for a "Business purpose for expenses in this report" which the user filled out as "Attending team summit." notably including a period at the end of the statement.

This causes an error which reads "You cannot use the following characters:" and goes on to list basically every special character on a standard keyboard, including periods, commas, question marks, and more.

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Doug Parker @develwithoutacause.dwac.dev · 22/09/2025

Jesus christ #Chase, I do not need a biweekly reminder of *the same* shitty credit card offer. Please stop sending me trash.

Three different letters are laid out on a table, each with the same style and showing the same text: "100,000 bonus points - You're preselected!"

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Doug Parker @develwithoutacause.dwac.dev · 19/09/2025

One less visible aspect of #Angular #convergence is bringing the best of Angular to the internal #Wiz framework. Wiz itself has never had a DevTools extension, but always wanted one. Since Angular signals are shared with Wiz, we are able to support #YouTube Mobile, a pure Wiz app!

Screenshot of Angular DevTools running on YouTube Mobile. The components panel is open showing a hierarchy of application components as well as a signal graph showing the names and relationships of several signals.

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Doug Parker @develwithoutacause.dwac.dev · 19/09/2025

Gotta love uploading an image and it automatically generates `alt="Image"`. #GitHub Look, I understand not wanting to deal with #a11y stuff like this, but going out of your way to intentionally add noise is just a slap in the face to your users.

Screenshot of the GitHub new issue form. An image has been uploaded and generated an `<img>` tag which is highlighted and includes the text `alt="Image"`.

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Doug Parker @develwithoutacause.dwac.dev · 13/09/2025

Heading out to #AngularConnect, with an incredible keynote locked and loaded. Don't be shy, always love to talk with the community!

An AngularConnect badge for speaker Douglas Parker.

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Doug Parker @develwithoutacause.dwac.dev · 10/09/2025

What is up with this font? I feel like I'm being Spongebob'd.

Screenshot of some text for "Document verification" which reads "We're required to verify your travel document details for all international travel. Select the travel documents and complete information for each traveler."

However the font is wacky and goofy with an inconsistent baseline which looks childish and hand-written. It is utterly inconsistent with the serious tone of the text.

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Doug Parker @develwithoutacause.dwac.dev · 07/09/2025

Curious if any #webdev #font folks might have insight into why my font has misaligned backticks. It's the #Lora font and looks fine with backticks on #GoogleFonts where I downloaded it, but on my web page it just looks bad. I have no idea where to start with debugging this particular issue. 🤨

Screenshot of a short text snippet, including the phrases "I'm `inline`!" and "I'm `block`!" including backticks. However the backticks are misaligned, with the leading tick overlapping with the "i" and "b" letters while the ending tick overlaps with the "e" and "k" characters.

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Doug Parker @develwithoutacause.dwac.dev · 31/07/2025

Writing a doc discussing UA stylesheets today and now I can't help but realize:

A meme of UA High School for My Hero Academia, labeled "User-Agent High School".

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Doug Parker @develwithoutacause.dwac.dev · 12/06/2025

Playing around with #Cursor today and found this really messed up setup dialog. It explicitly states that you *can* turn off training and presents this as an either/or choice, but then *forces* you to agree to it and buries the opt-out in settings. Shame. 🔔

Screenshot of a setup dialog in Cursor titled "Data Sharing". It describes how "Cursor learns from code to help you get the experience possible" and highlights how "You're in control" with an ability to turn this off at any time.

It then presents a check box labeled "I am fine with Cursor learning from my code (or, I will go Settings -> Privacy to turn it off)". However, the only option is to check the box. The "Continue" button beneath it is disabled and the user is blocked from progressing until they agree.

There is no button or check box to state "Do not learn from my code".

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Doug Parker @develwithoutacause.dwac.dev · 19/05/2025

Got an initial (very rough) demo of some of the UX I'm exploring. Imagine this as a diff of two files (I know, there's no colors highlighting the diff). Once synchronized, you can edit the first file and your changes are automatically applied to the second file, while retaining the original diff.

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Doug Parker @develwithoutacause.dwac.dev · 25/03/2025

This is a great idea. Happy Blorthog, friend Jessica!

An animated gif of Starfire from Teen Titans giggling with excitement.

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Doug Parker @develwithoutacause.dwac.dev · 13/02/2025

Bookmark or install the page (it's a #PWA!) for easy access the next time you're hacking on Angular.

A meme featuring Lisa Simpson considering entering a restricted area. The meme is titled "Angular private APIs" as Lisa hesitates, looking at a sign which reads "Keep out. Or enter. I'm a latin bar O, not a cop."

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Doug Parker @develwithoutacause.dwac.dev · 09/02/2025

Here's another great example: A fire escape which just ends. That's definitely a safety hazard. Not quite as bad as the missing window I found at launch, but stuff like this is just sloppy. tweets.dwac.dev/134083758031...

Screenshot from Cyberpunk 2077, standing on the top level of a fire escape. A staircase leads upwards towards the roof of the building, it just ends abruptly. It does not connect to the roof, nor is there another platform. If a person attempted to walk up the stairs, they would walk right off the edge and splat on the ground.

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Doug Parker @develwithoutacause.dwac.dev · 10/01/2025

TBH, we're all basically copying the Elements panel of standard browser DevTools. Maybe this is really an indication that browsers should have APIs to integrate with that view to display framework-specific information directly.

Screenshot of a DevTools extension featuring a tree of elements on the left with one selected, showing a details panel on the right with CSS details.

Upon closer inspection, this isn't a DevTools extension at all, it's just the Elements panel in Chrome DevTools.

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Doug Parker @develwithoutacause.dwac.dev · 10/01/2025

I've been investigating framework convergence from a #DevTools perspective and it strikes me that basically all the frameworks built the same extension which does the same thing. Seriously, look at these screenshots, blur your eyes a bit, and tell me which is which.

Screenshot of a DevTools extension featuring a tree of components on the left with one selected, showing a details panel on the right with component properties.

Upon closer inspection, the "Angular version" text in the top right reveals this to be Angular DevTools.

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Doug Parker @develwithoutacause.dwac.dev · 05/11/2024

I was told day-drinking is considered socially acceptable today?

A plastic cup filled with Taro milk tea containing boba pearls at the bottom.

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