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Jake Archibald @jakearchibald.com · 14/09/2026

This is a great article. I've always been sus about the hype around JPEG XL, as it never stacked up when I actually tested it with web use-cases. giannirosato.com/blog/post/ca...

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The case against JPEG XL | Gianni Rosato

Investigating JPEG XL's place as a Web image codec.

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b

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WIRED @wired.com · 17/07/2026

Yesterday, WIRED learned that Madison Square Garden was suing us for our accurate reporting. We stand by our work. That’s why we’re removing the paywall from two of the MSG stories they don’t want you to read, making them free for everyone.

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Firefox for Web Developers @webdevs.firefox.com · 17/06/2026

CSS field-sizing is newly baseline, meaning you can make various form fields size to their contents, without needing JavaScript.

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William O'Connell @william-oconnell.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Been seeing a lot of this phenomenon lately where a pretty normal software behavior is described in alarmist terms. I agree there should probably be a consent prompt given the unusually large download size, but all auto-updating software "writes files to disk without asking".

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William O'Connell @william-oconnell.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Odd to see stuff like this being rushed to market vs when web devs normally have to ship their own solutions for many years before browsers implement natively (html2canvas, MathML, etc.)

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William O'Connell @william-oconnell.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

New blog: My IDE said 98% of my code was AI-generated. Turns out it might be taking credit for my work. williamoconnell.me/blog/post/ai...

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Your AI Might be Lying to Your Boss

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William O'Connell @william-oconnell.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Next year: "Our analytics show that few few people use this feature that we made intentionally difficult to activate, so we'll be removing it in the next version of Android" android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/03/andr...

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Android developer verification: Balancing openness and choice with safety

News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

This is not what is happening at all. The amount of misinformation on BlueSky about AI is insane, and it keeps promising that AI is all hype that is going away soon. A really dangerous position that cedes all AI policy and decisions about how it will be used to others. Also Futurism is clickbait

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Brandon Downey @bdowney.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

I'm old enough to remember when using an Android had as a selling point that it was *your device*, and there was no central authority who I had to beg for to sideload my apps. Google is still not listening to us and maybe you know, look at the world for why centralization of power is bad.

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Android developer verification: Early access starts now as we continue to build with your feedback

News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.

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William O'Connell @william-oconnell.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Seems like I read this story every week. If tech companies can't fix their processes for this sort of thing regulators may eventually have to do it for them.

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Ben Holmen @benholmen.com · 01/12/2025

In case you need it: I made a calculator that tells you how long until the daylight increases again. Hang in there! benholmen.com/sunlight

We need sunlight! Screenshot of sunlight calculator showing that there are 21 days until the sunlight increases, among other statistics.

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Riff Conner @rifflesby.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

the fewer people are likely to get the joke, the more the people that do get it will love it

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William O'Connell @william-oconnell.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

New blog post about document formats (exciting, I know): williamoconnell.me/blog/post/re...

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Kate @katef.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

*opens side of coat revealing an assortment of dubious looking unicode codepoints* hey kid, wanna buy a non-breaking vertical space

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William O'Connell @william-oconnell.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Google going the Apple route of requiring their blessing for every app you run. We should not accept this new vision of computing where computers only do the things a handful of tech companies permit them to. Your phone should be yours. 9to5google.com/2025/08/25/a...

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Google will require developer verification to install Android apps, including sideloading

Google has announced that only apps from developers that have undergone verification can be installed on certified Android devices in 2026...

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William O'Connell @william-oconnell.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Mastodon is a distributed system, which makes it annoying to use. Bluesky is nicer to use, in part because it isn't meaningfully distributed (although the underlying tech would support that). My guess is that will never change, because distributed systems are annoying to use.

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William O'Connell @william-oconnell.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Matter is a technology that doesn't get as much coverage at the moment, but I remain very excited about it. Previously every smart home hardware company had to be a cloud services company too (and many were bad at it). Now every lightbulb doesn't need it's own app. www.theverge.com/matter/75717...

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Surprise Matter update focuses on reliability and stability

Does it Matter?

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William O'Connell @william-oconnell.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

New blog post about making things spin on the web: williamoconnell.me/blog/post/wh...

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Spinning Wheels: Three Ways

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William O'Connell @william-oconnell.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

If you publish a mobile app you'll get emails every month about some new app store policy or tax rule and about once a year you'll have to make some change to avoid being delisted. If you publish a web app it'll probably work forever even if you never touch it again. So I recommend that one.

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Konnor Rogers @konnorrogers.com · 26/05/2025

MinIO with the ole bait and switch. www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted... Removed their entire web UI from their docker images and now you have to pay *checks notes* $96,000/yr to get the functionality back...

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Barry Pollard @tunetheweb.com · 14/05/2025

Compression Dictionaries are my new favourite thing in #webperf! Check out this new Case Study about how Google Search uses this new technology, which also explains exactly what this is and how it works using them as an example: developer.chrome.com/blog/search-...

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Improving Google Search with Compression Dictionaries | Blog | Chrome for Developers

Learn about how Google Search used Compression Dictionary Transport to boost compression efficiency and improve performance.

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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Holy shit and also: I told you this was going to come down to buttons ans links www.theverge.com/news/659246/...

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A judge just blew up Apple’s control of the App Store

The judge called Apple’s insubordination a “gross miscalculation.“

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