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Sebastian Benz

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Kuba Suder 🇵🇱🇺🇦 @mackuba.eu · 12/08/2026
I used to watch eclipse loading before it was cool…
Loading screen "The Eclipse Project 3.1, copyright Eclipse contributors, Java and related trademarks  by Sun Microsystems"
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Michael F. DuBois @michaelfdubois.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
I wrote and posted this to Instagram a couple of days ago and it became my most-read poem ever. I’m honored I get to feel big feelings alongside you all. I’m posting it here too and want to use this space more consistently. Hello friends ❤️
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Monica Dinculescu @notwaldorf.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Hi! I made a Chrome extension that highlights creeps from the Epstein emails. Depending on how much news you read on your computer, enabling it might be really depressing. chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ep-li...
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Matthias Rohmer @matthiasrohmer.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Would multi-session support for the Chrome DevTools MCP server be useful for you? 🤖✖️🌍 Chime into the discussion on GitHub: github.com/ChromeDevToo.... Let us know what you think, and tell use about your potential use cases or how you go about them today!
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Feature request: Multi-session support for parallel browser instances · Issue #926 · ChromeDevTools/chrome-devtools-mcp
Problem The current MCP server binds to a single Chrome instance for its entire lifetime. This means any MCP client (AI agent, test runner, automation script) can only interact with one browser at ...
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André Bandarra @bandarra.me · 10/02/2026
Chrome launched an early preview of WebMCP, and we're looking for feedback on use-cases, API shape, & more! 🚀 WebMCP bridges the gap between AI agents and your website, increasing the performance and reliability of agent interactions. Join the EPP: developer.chrome.com/blog/webmcp-...
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WebMCP is available for early preview  |  Blog  |  Chrome for Developers
WebMCP aims to provide a standard way for exposing structured tools, ensuring AI agents can perform actions on your side with increased speed, reliability, and precision.
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Rachel Andrew @rachelandrew.co.uk · 05/02/2026
The Developer Knowledge API and MCP server is now in public preview. This API includes documentation from across Google—including the Chrome DevRel sites. developers.google.com/knowledge/api
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Developer Knowledge API  |  Google for Developers
The Developer Knowledge API and MCP server provide access to Google's developer knowledge.
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Matthias Rohmer @matthiasrohmer.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Token usage in LLM applications is a huge topic. It dictates response speed, cost efficiency - or the quota left on your plan 😄 🪫 Learn how the Chrome DevTools team squeezed a full Performance trace into Gemini in DevTools developer.chrome.com/blog/designi...
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Designing DevTools: Efficient token usage in AI assistance  |  Blog  |  Chrome for Developers
Learn how the Chrome Tooling team optimized token usage for AI assistance, and discover techniques for more efficient data usage with LLMs.
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Oliver Dunk @oliverdunk.com · 15/12/2025
If you’re using server-side AI models, you usually need an API key to call them. A couple of weeks back I made a video looking at how to handle that in a Chrome extension: youtu.be/pl4pz4nWa3w
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How can you keep API keys safe in a Chrome Extension?
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Sebastian Benz @sebabenz.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
We just shipped an update to the Chrome DevTools MCP server (and Chrome) that I'm really excited about: the ability to connect directly to a running Chrome instance: developer.chrome.com/blog/chrome-...
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Let your Coding Agent debug your browser session with Chrome DevTools MCP  |  Blog  |  Chrome for Developers
We shipped a new feature to the Chrome DevTools MCP server that is going to make it a lot easier for your coding agent to debug your current browser sessions.
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Polypane. Browser for web devs @polypane.app · 09/12/2025
Follow along with @nickyt.online and @kilianvalkhof.com as they set up the Chrome Dev Tools MCP to work with Polypane!
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Una Kravets @una.im · 08/12/2025
🎉 And we're live! 🎉 We just launched CSS Wrapped 2025: our annual recap of all things CSS & web UI that landed in Chrome over the course of the year. 🚀 This is a big one! We highlighted 22 new features to help you build better on the web. Check out: chrome.dev/css-wrapped-2025
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CSS Wrapped 2025
Sculpt dynamic interfaces, stretch your imagination, and play with these 22 powerful new CSS features that landed in Chrome this year.
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Chrome for Developers @developer.chrome.com · 01/12/2025
We asked for your Chrome Extension questions, and you wanted to know about SEO. From "games" being a top search query to the importance of ratings, we're diving into what drives discovery in the Chrome Web Store → goo.gle/48hjSH5
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Barry Pollard @tunetheweb.com · 10/10/2025
Lighthouse 13 has been released and includes the final move to Insights performance audits as announced previously. developer.chrome.com/blog/lightho...
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What's new in Lighthouse 13  |  Blog  |  Chrome for Developers
Lighthouse 13 is here with the move to Insights audits
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Chrome for Developers @developer.chrome.com · 09/10/2025
Stop guessing and start debugging responsive styles automatically with Chrome DevTools MCP → goo.gle/3IPT2No Learn how a coding agent can find a visual bug on a specific device size, analyze the source code, update the CSS, and verify the fix with a live browser screenshot.
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Chrome for Developers @developer.chrome.com · 30/09/2025
Your friend has a great idea for a Chrome Extension. (We know, we heard it 😉) Now it's your turn. What will you build with our multimodal AI APIs? The Google Chrome Built-in AI Challenge 2025 is on. Submit your idea → goo.gle/ChromeAIChallenge2025
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MCP Developers Summit @mcpdevsummit.ai · 29/08/2025
Google’s @jackf.io is speaking at the London MCP Dev Summit 🎤 Topic: Lessons learned building the Chrome DevTools MCP Server 👉 Don’t miss it: buff.ly/MwmiH5E (early bird pricing ends in 2 days!) #MCPservers #DevToolsAI
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Chrome for Developers @developer.chrome.com · 23/09/2025
Announcing our public preview of Chrome DevTools MCP! Experience the full power of DevTools in your AI coding agent→ goo.gle/4pDE6Tk With Chrome DevTools MCP, your AI agent can run performance traces, inspect the DOM, & perform real-time debugging of your web pages.
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Oliver Dunk @oliverdunk.com · 17/09/2025
Got questions about building Chrome Extensions? We’re recording some new videos for the @developer.chrome.com channel in October, and I’d love suggestions for topics we should cover: www.reddit.com/r/chrome_ext...
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From the chrome_extensions community on Reddit: Ask the Google Chrome team about building extensions!
Explore this post and more from the chrome_extensions community
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Thomas Steiner @tomayac.com · 16/09/2025
On the Chrome team, we've a cool new origin trial for you to try in your apps: the Proofreader API: developer.chrome.com/docs/ai/proo.... ❌ tyop → ✅ typo ```js await (await Proofreader.create({ expectedInputLanguages: ['en'], })).proofread( 'Let us knwo how it foes', ); ``` #BuiltInAI #WebAI
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The Proofreader API  |  AI on Chrome  |  Chrome for Developers
Improve your content readability and grammar with the Proofreader API.
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Chrome for Developers @developer.chrome.com · 09/09/2025
The wait is over! The Google Chrome Built-in AI Challenge 2025 is here. Today's the day to start building with our built-in AI APIs. Create a web app or Chrome Extension to compete for our $70K prize pool. Let the coding commence → goo.gle/ChromeAIChallenge2025
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Addy Osmani @addyosmani.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
New in Chrome DevTools: Instantly check CSS feature compatibility with Baseline! Chrome DevTools now displays the Baseline status for CSS properties right in the Elements panel - Baseline gives you clear info about which web features are ready to use today.
baseline status now inline on hover for css properties
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Philip Walton @philipwalton.com · 13/08/2025
I know some people in the web community are concerned that Baseline will discourage devs from using new features—or anything not "Widely Available". Personally, I'm not worried about that at all. If anything, I think Baseline will speed up new feature adoption! Here's why 🧵
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Bramus @bram.us · 22/05/2025
My #GoogleIO video “Web animations today and tomorrow” has been published. Check out this session to learn how to guide, inform, and delight users by adding subtle and supportive animations to your web UIs. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcXW...
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Web animations today and tomorrow
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Thomas Steiner @tomayac.com · 22/05/2025
My #GoogleIO talk "Practical built-in Al with Gemini Nano in Chrome" is live: youtu.be/CjpZCWYrSxM?.... Learn about the following new APIs and see partner demos: 🔮 Prompt API …with image input 🖼️ …with audio input 👂 …with textual input 🔤 🖊️ Writing Assistance APIs 🗣️ Translation API ✔️ Proofreading API
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Practical built-in AI with Gemini Nano in Chrome
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Rick Viscomi @rviscomi.dev · 15/05/2025
Hire him while you can
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Barry Pollard @tunetheweb.com · 06/05/2025
Live Metrics screen feedback request! It's been about 6 months since we launched the Live Metrics screen in Chrome DevTools so a good time to step back and ask for any feedback on it. Do you use it? What's good about it? What could be improved about it?
Live metrics screen from the Chrome DevTools Performance panel.
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Oliver Dunk @oliverdunk.com · 02/04/2025
New video! In this one I show you how to build a whack-a-mole extension, featuring a cameo from @samdutton.bsky.social among others! www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUHN...
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Ali Spivak @alispivak.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
My team is hiring! Come join us as a Developer Advocate at the intersection of Web, Chrome, ChromeOS and Android. The position is in Waterloo - Canada www.google.com/about/career...
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Senior Developer Advocate, Chrome — Google Careers
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Paul Kinlan @paul.kinlan.me · 17/03/2025
Great news. We have a new position on the team for a Developer Advocate at the intersection of Web, Chrome, ChromeOS and Android. The position is in Waterloo - Canada www.google.com/about/career...
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Senior Developer Advocate, Chrome — Google Careers
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André Bandarra @bandarra.me · 12/03/2025
Yo Dawg, I heard you like to use AI to generate Summaries, so @alexandrascript.com and I have put together a blog post on summarizing your summaries to overcome context window limitations of the Summarizer API and get awesome summaries: developer.chrome.com/docs/ai/scal... #webai #builtinai
Yo dawg, I heard you like summaries, so here's a blog post on summary of summaries
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Jecelyn Yeen @jec.fish · 04/03/2025
🎉 Chrome 134 is here! What's new in #ChromeDevTools 🔐 New: Privacy and security panel 📈 Calibrated CPU throttling for #webperf analysis 🥇 Dim 3rd-party scripts in performance traces ....and more! Update Chrome and try them out! developer.chrome.com/blog/new-in-...
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Jecelyn Yeen @jec.fish · 28/02/2025
New video! Let’s explore advanced Network panel techniques, including how to find performance bottlenecks, debug popups’ network activities, configure network conditions, and more. youtu.be/kuliHlLk9wQ #DevToolsTips #ChromeDevTools
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Advanced Network Analysis with Chrome DevTools #DevToolsTips
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Barry Pollard @tunetheweb.com · 11/02/2025
We don't have an official CrUX Bluesky account, so for the moment I'll announce the monthly releases. And we're starting with a big one! 🆕 The 202501 release is now live on BigQuery! Check out the announcement post for the full info: groups.google.com/a/chromium.o... Highlights below 👇 🧵 1/10
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The 202501 dataset is live
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Lloyd Jones @lloydjones.io · 26/11/2024
I made a Chrome Extension to bring Bluesky comments to any URL :) Get it here: github.com/joneslloyd/b... Credits to: - @emilyliu.me - @coryzue.com - @louee.bsky.social Any feedback and/or PRs are welcome. I threw this together in 1.5 errors, so expect bugs etc.
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GitHub - joneslloyd/bluesky-comments-chrome
Contribute to joneslloyd/bluesky-comments-chrome development by creating an account on GitHub.
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