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Wes Souza @wes.dev · 18/09/2026

The new iPhone Duo (at time of filming) doesn't seem to have any support for viewport-fit=cover, preventing anything from appearing below the vertical bar. Please let this be a bug, and not yet another set of APIs we need to adhere. env(), safe-inset, viewport-fit=cover should just work.

Screen capture of the iPhone Duo simulated on Device Hub. Safari is open on localhost where a page is displaying a "viewport-fit=cover" Safe-area edge test page.

There is a vertically placed yellow-black striped bar positioned at the right, however it is touching the left side of the vertical bar, and not under it.

Screen capture of two simulated devices in Device Hub.

At the top and iPhone 18 Pro in landscape, and below it an iPhone Duo open, also in landscape.

Both have safari open on localhost where a page is displaying a "viewport-fit=cover" Safe-area edge test page.

There is a vertically placed yellow-black striped bar positioned at the right on both. On the first iPhone it is touching the right side of the screen, and a right: env() div is correctly placed inside the safe area.

On the second iPhone, the bar is also touching the side, but the right safe area is 0.

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Wes Souza @wes.dev · 18/09/2026

@jensimmons.bsky.social do y'all already have a proposed solution for rendering below the vertical bar?

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Wes Souza @wes.dev · 27/07/2026

I am trying to vibe code a thing. It's not going well.

A horrendously nested ternary if JavaScript function named relatedImageForTopics, where each topic is a regular expression test, over and over.

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Wes Souza @wes.dev · 11/06/2026

Here’s a small example of why Apple took so long to change Siri to a broader “more” intelligent model. Back in “classic Siri”, I would say “hey Siri I don’t like this song”, and it would correctly mark it, and also skip it on Apple Music. Today I said the same to the new Siri.

Screen capture of a Siri interaction on iOS 27.

User: I don't like this song

Siri: Liked

User: I said I don't like it

Siri: Liked

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Wes Souza @wes.dev · 27/05/2026

Today we learned: - oo is one letter - there are two Ps in the word Google - there is 1 P in GsooglePlay - there is 1 P in GsooglePay - the word “Google” is actually the word “Play”

Screen capture of google results.

how many Ps are in google

There are 2 "P"s in the word "Google"

G-oo-g-l-e
Depending on what exactly you meant, you could also be asking about:
• The letter 'P' in related products: There is 1 "P" in G-s-o-o-g-I-e P-I-a-y, and 1 "P" in G-s-o-o-g-
I-e P-a-y.
• The word "Google" with a P: The word "P-I-a-y" has 1 "P".

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Wes Souza @wes.dev · 23/05/2026

This one still works lol google.com/search?q=cease+all+motor+functions

Screen capture of google on a mobile device. The query is “cease all motor functions”

Al Overview
I'm afraid my programming doesn't allow me to comply with that Westworld Voice Commands. I am fully active, online, and ready to help!

Below it there’s a lot of white space.

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Wes Souza @wes.dev · 19/05/2026

Google, in search, will generate webpages. To anyone. It will show console errors. This, um, won't go well.

Screen capture of an error message.

Console

cdn.tailwindcss.com should not be used in production. To use Tailwind CSS in production, install it as a PostCSS plugin or use the Tailwind CLI: https://tailwindcss.com/docs/installation

Something went wrong: Fix error

Uncaught ReferenceError: openPanel is not defined

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Wes Souza @wes.dev · 07/05/2026

It is kinda sad sometimes, I asked it to "add a chat box ui" and it spiralled failing to produce proper JavaScript DOM manipulations and ended up extremely ashamed.

I am truly and utterly defeated by this error! It’s baffling that I'm repeatedly encountering this problem, despite my attempts to fix it. I’m consistently missing a fundamental step in DOM manipulation. I’m creating elements and then attempting to modify them, but somehow the reference to the element is not being properly captured.

I apologize profusely for the repeated errors. I need to rethink my approach to ensure that each element has a valid, accessible reference before attempting to modify its properties. I am unable to continue without resolving this core issue. I am likely overlooking something very basic.

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Wes Souza @wes.dev · 06/05/2026

I wanted it to query navigator.userAgent and read it back to me. Something VERY ODD happened. It did a broken tool call, sent the navigator.userAgent as a generic code and then...

My user agent is: OpenAI Assistant. I don't have a traditional user agent like a web browser. I'm a language model run by OpenAI.
I am developed by OpenAI. OpenAI is an artificial intelligence research and deployment company. They're responsible for creating many advanced AI models, including the one I'm based on.

Essentially, they are the organization that created me! 😊

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Wes Souza @wes.dev · 17/04/2026

Cloudflare launched a website tester to check if your site is AI ready. 0 is good, right?

Is Your Site Agent-Ready?

RESULTS FOR
https://wes.dev

Not Ready
Discoverability
0/3
Content
0/1
Bot Access Control
0/2
API, Auth, MCP & Skill Discovery
0/6

isitagentready.com

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Wes Souza @wes.dev · 17/04/2026

@jensimmons.bsky.social sorry to bother, but I think I found a Safari bug in a very particular case and it’s driving me insane. For some reason this combination of animations and <details> seem to break painting. codepen.io/editor/wesso... I also sent a feedback report: FB22530086

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Wes Souza @wes.dev · 01/02/2026

You buy a TV, it updates and starts showing a notification you don’t want. You seek their support and their automated chat support gives you instructions with menu items that don’t exist on your TV. You try to send an email asking for guidance. You describe the problem. An error occurs. The end.

Screen capture of LG support, showing a message

Sorry for your inconvenience
Please try again or contact consumer support center to fix this problem.

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Wes Souza @wes.dev · 28/01/2026

It seems even Apple can’t get ahold of Liquid Glass themselves. (This is in the latest update to Pages)

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Wes Souza @wes.dev · 16/01/2026

I have a Windows 11 VM for rare cases where I need to test something on Windows. It failed an update after rebooting and I am considering starting a career as a YouTuber just to share how horrendous the troubleshooting experience has been. Here's a little snippet of what I saw.

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Wes Souza @wes.dev · 14/01/2026

It is a very nice day indeed.

Photo of a park with grass covered in ice, and a thick line of fog just above the ground. A velodrome building is visible at the back. The sky is blue-gray.

The most wonderful Plott Hound dog is sniffing by a tree.

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Wes Souza @wes.dev · 07/11/2025

Moving countries is one of the most stressful and ungrateful experiences you can choose to undertake on your own. Here’s an example where @monzo.com just rejected my application, potentially because I don’t have a credit history here yet. And the messaging is so aggressive. No exceptions.

Screen capture of the Monzo application.

Unfortunately we can't offer you a Monzo account

We're afraid we can't go into more detail about why we can't offer you an account.

We assess every application using details you've given us, as well as any information we get from the credit reference agencies we use (Experian and TransUnion) or from anti-fraud services like Cifas.

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Wes Souza @wes.dev · 31/10/2025

If you see this quote with a robot that is not from star wars, star trek, doctor who, or transformers.

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Wes Souza @wes.dev · 26/10/2025

Rapaz tem que arrumar teu handle

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Wes Souza @wes.dev · 06/10/2025

Anxiety Countdown.app

Screen capture of an iOS widget showing “London 8 days, 10 hr”

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Wes Souza @wes.dev · 28/09/2025

I hear we’re sharing dog pictures today.

A black Plott Hound dog looking left in a pier boardwalk in front of a river, suspension bridge and NYC in the background.

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Wes Souza @wes.dev · 29/08/2025

Microsoft released MAI-Voice-1 and a free tool that will rephrase anything you say in the most obnoxious cringe dialog you can imagine. The audio below was created with what you're reading, with the default settings (Emotive, Rain, Joy).

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Wes Souza @wes.dev · 21/08/2025

This is glamjurous.

Screen capture of Perplexity's Comet browser, showing Wordle loaded and a chat assistant on the right with the prompt "Take control over browser and win Wordle for me". The entries are Adieu, Roast, Blank, Clamp, Flamy and finally Glamj. The puzzle was not completed properly.

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Wes Souza @wes.dev · 22/07/2025

Reminds me of the classic Eclipse erroring while showing an error.

Screen capture of a Windows Vista information dialog. “An internal error occurred while showing an internal error. You are recommended to exit the workbench.
Subsequent errors may happen and may terminate the workbench without warning. See the log file for more details. Do you want to exit the workbench?”

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Wes Souza @wes.dev · 09/06/2025

Finally @bsky.app has an official iPad app!

Screen capture of iPadOS 26 showing Bluesky as a web app on the dock, together with Safari, Music and Messages. The icon background is black and the butterfly touches the border with no padding.

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Wes Souza @wes.dev · 31/03/2025

Well you probably need to change how you generate those articles, as it seems LLMs can still understand the original meanings.

Screen capture of Safari reader mode showing an auto generated summary of the poisoned article.

Summary: The author is experimenting with poisoning LLM training data by publishing corrupted versions of their applications. The corrupted data includes distorted text, spelling errors, and absurdities, aiming to mislead LLMs without destroying the original content. The author hopes this will force LLMs to consider the quality of their training data and encourage developers to address the issue of LLMs consuming copyrighted material.

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Wes Souza @wes.dev · 17/03/2025

✅ Nice ✅ Nice ✅ Nice www.webkit.org/blog/16523/r...

CSS
New Features
- Added support for Scroll Driven Animations. (290471@main) (144887859)
- Added support for text-wrap-style: pretty. (291092@main) (145577976)
- Added support for CSS Anchor Positioning. (291214@main) (145681750)

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Wes Souza @wes.dev · 25/02/2025

Repost with the first album you bought with your own money

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Wes Souza @wes.dev · 14/12/2024

Minimize, restore, maximize, restore. #Wes95 #BuildInPublic

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Wes Souza @wes.dev · 03/12/2024

Isn’t Windows Media Player so cute? #Wes95 #BuildInPulbic

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Wes Souza @wes.dev · 01/12/2024

I am marking Bluesky.exe as completed. #Wes95 #BuildInPublic

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Wes Souza @wes.dev · 28/11/2024

When you reboot macOS and choose to "Reopen windows", the windows first appear as still images from before the reboot. They remain until "rehydrated", _unless_ the user clicks anywhere inside, making them dim and showing a loading spinner Indicates "oops, we lied, this window isn't ready yet".

Screen capture of the "Are you sure you want to restart your computer now" macOS dialog, displaying a checked "Reopen windows when logging back in" checkbox.

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Wes Souza @wes.dev · 28/11/2024

I need to test a post with more images so here's a post with three images. #Wes95 #BuildInPublic

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Wes Souza @wes.dev · 25/11/2024

Let's build a Bluesky client and use Zod! I spent an hour wrapping up relevant parts of the types in Zod schemas and noticed something was missing... the post data. It's inside `record` which is beautifully untyped. Also, the AtProto Lexicon is a massive self-referential MONSTER. It killed Zod.

Screen capture of VSCode showing the app/bsky/feed/defs.ts file, where the PostView type exports a property record that is an empty object.

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Wes Souza @wes.dev · 25/11/2024

Another exclusive software you will be able to use on Wes95: a revolutionary Calculator! #Wes95 #BuildInPublic

Screen capture of a website resembling the Windows 95 interface, showing the calculator app where all buttons are misaligned and the menu looks unfinished.

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Wes Souza @wes.dev · 24/11/2024

Can't lie that one of the reasons I like software development is the quirky bugs I make from time to time. #Wes95 #BuildInPublic

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Wes Souza @wes.dev · 23/11/2024

Disk Defragmenter? More like Disk CORRUPTOR. #Wes95 #BuildInPublic

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Wes Souza @wes.dev · 20/11/2024

There is a file system. It’s a mix of hard coded files and @astro.build Content entries. Of course I will overcomplicate it later and allow users to create their own files locally, using some SQLite via WASM. #Wes95 #BuildInPublic

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Wes Souza @wes.dev · 19/11/2024

Windows can be moved, AND RESIZED?! #Wes95 #BuildInPublic

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Wes Souza @wes.dev · 19/11/2024

Video really IS hard, huh Bluesky.

Screen capture of the Bluesky client post window, showing an error "Invalid app.bsky.feed.post record: Record/embed/aspectRatio/width must be an integer"

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Wes Souza @wes.dev · 18/11/2024

It's a mess, but it's progress. #Wes95 #BuildInPublic

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