iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Patrick Brosset @patrickbrosset.com · 22/09/2026

One more call for feedback! Yeah, I know, I often ask for feedback but, think about it, the more you share, the better the feature. 💡Support low-quality image placeholders on the web! ➡️<img previewsrc="preview.avif" src="photo.avif"> ❓Would you use this? What capabilities do you need? Read more⬇️

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Patrick - Blurry before beautiful: image previews for the web

Showing blurry previews while images are loading on the web is a very common pattern which we'd love to standardize at the browser level, so that all developers can use it with very little code and co...

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Philip Jägenstedt @foolip.org · 09/09/2026

You should try out microsoftedge.github.io/Demos/pwa-in...! It feels like a huge step forward for web apps. Kudos to @diekus.bsky.social, Lia Hiscock and others on the Microsoft Edge team driving this! Explainer: github.com/MicrosoftEdg...

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Microsoft Edge Demos

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 02/09/2026

Trade xkcd.com/3290/

Comic. [Person standing holding hammer above raised knee.] PERSON: Listen up, leg. I’ve been sending you rich, oxygenated blood for years, while you send me worthless used-up blood with no oxygen. Time to teach you a lesson about not ripping me off! [caption] Tariffs

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Kyle Pflug @kylealden.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I’m not reflexively anti-AI, but a world where we’re all just low baud meat modems for LLMs is not my idea of a good time.

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Kyle Pflug @kylealden.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

One reason I find the absolute dogshit quality of virtually all AI prose so existentially depressing is because at this point the bull case is AI gets better at writing and 90% of prose is undetectable shoveled slop. it being detectable and viscerally terrible doesn’t seem to be stopping anyone.

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Kyle Pflug @kylealden.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Wrote a thing on the plane last night: The Web made the distribution of ideas universally accessible and effectively free, to anyone with the patience to embody them in words. Will it be allowed to do the same for ideas that can be embodied in code? aldenblog.io/posts/2026-0...

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The Web That Was Promised

The Web made the distribution of ideas universally accessible and effectively free, to anyone with the patience to embody them in words. Will it be allowed to do the same for ideas that can be embodie...

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

“Loitering is not permitted in this area. Please proceed to a designated location. Thank you for your cooperation,” a surveillance machine tells a small cluster of National Guard members as they patrol the fenced off Reflecting Pool in the rain.

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Kyle Pflug @kylealden.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I finally have a subbed out bad idea for each of my impulse domain purchases

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Kyle Pflug @kylealden.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Meant to edit that link into Bluesky too but I guessed I missed the window 🙂 Thanks!

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Brian Kardell @bkardell.com · 20/04/2026

Amazing, I've been lobbying for this for years: blinkon 21 is hosted by Microsoft! Maybe igalia next? 🙂 Love it

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Kyle Pflug @kylealden.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

I vibe coded a few workflow improvements tonight. On a lark, I asked GitHub Copilot to write a "guest post" about what we built. It's a bit self-indulgent, but a fun little tour. (I didn't write a word.) Under the Hood: aldenblog.io/posts/2026-0...

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Under the Hood

A tour of the bespoke tooling behind this blog—from responsive image pipelines to AI-generated hero art—and why rolling your own workflow can still be the right move.

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Kyle Pflug @kylealden.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

AI-first development is making it once again joyful and eminently possible for anyone to create on the Web. It's a feeling I've missed since View Source became illegible, and a silver lining that's arriving just in time. Back in the Sandbox: aldenblog.io/posts/2026-0...

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Back in the Sandbox

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Kyle Pflug @kylealden.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Everything is compostable *eventually*, right?

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Kyle Pflug @kylealden.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

I'm looking for an experienced Product Manager to help invent the future of the Web as part of the Microsoft Edge web platform team! Please reach out if you have questions, even if this particular posting may not quite be the perfect fit! You never know 🙂 apply.careers.microsoft.com/careers/job/...

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Senior Product Manager, Web Platform | Microsoft Careers

You will drive business impact across the organization and track success criteria for web platform features and strategic initiatives. You'll also identify long-term investment opportunities and engag...

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Alex Russell @infrequently.org · 25/11/2025

Frontend is failing. 75% of devices with browsers are smartphones, but not even half of sites pass Core Web Vitals on them. Why not? Too much JavaScript, added to indulge SPA fantasies the data is falsifying in real time: infrequently.org/2025/11/perf...

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The Performance Inequality Gap, 2026 - Infrequently Noted

Embedded in this year's network and device estimates is hopeful news about the trajectory of devices and networks. It has never been easier to deliver pages quickly, but we are not collectively…

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Kyle Pflug @kylealden.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

The differences between those "sides" aren't differences in virtue or intent; they're differences in perspective and institutional obligation. It turns out to be a pretty tall order to remove those tensions, even when the humans are, at the end of the day, on the same side.

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Kyle Pflug @kylealden.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Some of those are quietly despairing that emerging dysfunctions threaten to keep standards from working at all; meanwhile others are loudly pleading that we recognize the things that haven't been working for a long time.

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Kyle Pflug @kylealden.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

I find myself believing most participants are operating in good faith, laboring under the institutional constraints of organizations they represent, while genuinely trying to do good for developers and the Web.

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Kyle Pflug @kylealden.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Web standards (and standards-adjacent projects like Interop) are political venues, so it shouldn't be surprising that the discussions therein turn political. That doesn't stop the politics from being frustrating, or even incomprehensible, especially from the outside.

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Mary Branscombe @marypcbuk.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

I take a deep dive into Interop 2025; why the project is there, how it picks what browser features to focus on each year, how well it's doing and what the big areas for this year are - a mix of cleaning up existing features and making sure new features arrive already interoperable

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Interop Unites Browser Makers To Smooth Web Inconsistencies

For the past four years, major browser vendors have collaborated to improve web interoperability by coordinating enhancements to inconsistent browser implementations.

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Mustafa Suleyman @mustafasuleymanai.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Copilot Vision is out now, free in Edge. It can literally see what you see on screen (if you opt in). Pretty amazing! It’ll think out loud with you when you're browsing online. No more over-explaining, copy-pasting, or struggling to put something into words.

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Kyle Pflug @kylealden.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

(be the change you want to see in the world)

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Kyle Pflug @kylealden.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

I was half hoping for an AI slop photo of a record player on the beach. Alas, but tomorrow is a new day...

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Kyle Pflug @kylealden.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

If there's one thing I know about senior citizens, it's that they love to receive critical healthcare correspondence intermittently among memes and porn bots in the world's shittiest feed

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kottke.org @kottke.org · 27/02/2025

Pedro Pascal responding to transphobia on social media: “I can’t think of anything more vile and small and pathetic than terrorizing the smallest, most vulnerable community of people who want nothing from you, except the right to exist.” (via @charliejane.bsky.social) [capitalfm.com]

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Pedro Pascal calls out “vile and pathetic” transphobic trolls after defending trans rights

Pedro Pascal, whose sister Lux is a trans woman, is a prominent trans ally and he has no time for transphobia.

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Dave Rupert @davatron5000.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Yo dawg, I heard you like stylesheets, so I put stylesheets in your stylesheet. This would be rad for adoptedStylesheets in shadowRoots or any framework that imports styles. It's like an SVG sprite sheet for stylesheets. github.com/MicrosoftEdg...

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Kyle Pflug @kylealden.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

I guess the argument for it being cheating is that they deliberately don’t let you rearrange tiles. On the other hand the short term memory challenge doesn’t feel like a core mechanic. Would scratch paper be a cheat? (I draw the line at external reference/googling.)

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Kyle Pflug @kylealden.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Connections players, help me solve a household dispute. Is it cheating to screenshot the puzzle and annotate with the highlighter tool to think through your guesses? (Yesterday’s puzzle for reference)

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

scully: it doesn’t make any sense mulder, out of nowhere he started showing empathy and a base level curiosity about the life experience of others mulder [tossing a manila folder on the desk]: ever hear of the woke mind virus?

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Kyle Pflug @kylealden.bsky.social · 21/07/2023

Once in college as an RA I was really at a loss for coming up with a hall activity, so I just declared it “fun with microwaves” night. AOL CDs, grape plasma, Peep jousting, you name it. But the star of the show was a cucumber. It takes a while, but eventually they explode, and it’s *spectacular*.

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Kyle Pflug @kylealden.bsky.social · 21/07/2023

I did this with tablespoons of salt instead of teaspoons (also with hummus). I was able to salvage it by tripling the rest of the recipe… but then I had two full Pyrex casserole dishes full of hummus to eat by myself. 🫠

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Kyle Pflug @kylealden.bsky.social · 20/07/2023

Cancelling my registration for the "Joy of Saying No at Work" training because it's been obliterated by conflicting meetings. Clearly this means I never truly needed it?

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Kyle Pflug @kylealden.bsky.social · 03/07/2023

I would pay money for these limits

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Kyle Pflug @kylealden.bsky.social · 03/07/2023

To my surprise, the camera, mics, and speakers all just work and it connects flawlessly to my ARM Surface Pro 9. My Surface Laptop Studio isn't happy with the power supplied by the Thunderbolt cable and won't connect unless it's separately plugged in via its own power adapter.

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Kyle Pflug @kylealden.bsky.social · 03/07/2023

The Apple Studio Display is so close to being an incredible monitor for PC users, except that you basically need a Mac on hand to use it reliably. When it works, it's amazing. But sometimes it just won't turn on unless I plug into a MacBook first, and there's no control over brightness etc.

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Kyle Pflug @kylealden.bsky.social · 05/06/2023

Bragging about beating Apple to market is just an oblique way to predict you’ll be out-executed

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Kyle Pflug @kylealden.bsky.social · 20/05/2023

Are you ready to crush^H^H^H^H^H survive next week?!?

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Kyle Pflug @kylealden.bsky.social · 20/05/2023

It may not be the one where I think I look best, but it’s one in which I was stoked as hell to be alive and about

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Kyle Pflug @kylealden.bsky.social · 18/05/2023

Somehow that does sound impossibly more extravagant than “thousands,” I’m back in.

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Kyle Pflug @kylealden.bsky.social · 16/05/2023

It’s actually shocking how *vividly* I remember this.

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Kyle Pflug @kylealden.bsky.social · 16/05/2023

easy mistake but that mandolin is visibly not a deadly mandolin, that is an aesthetic mandolin

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