Philip Jägenstedt

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Long live the web! Engineer on Google Chrome, ex-Opera.

@noupside.bsky.socialReposted by @foolip.org

Did Ukrainian drone strikes really silence Russia's social media bots? (No) A real Cloudflare chart fueled a viral story ab MAGA and AfD accounts going quiet. But the evidence doesn't support the rumor. I wrote about bots, vibes, & what we've lost as platforms have shut down tools & data access.

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I reposted a claim about bot activity on X which I wanted to believe. Now reposting the correction which is not as fun, but the required penance for being wrong.

@sgo.toReposted by @foolip.org

The "no steps back" is, in my opinion, what sets atproto apart from everything that came before it. I use it too for much of my work in browsers too, under a different name: user behavior / developer backwards compatibility. It comes at a massive cost, but I think is a powerful guiding principle.

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Importantly, it's not a blanket "don't change anything" but based on the actual measured usage. That makes all the difference and avoids being paralyzed by the mere possibility of breakage. Successfully changing parts of the platform that are already in use is incredibly satisfying 😀

@bram.usReposted by @foolip.org

Remember Internet Explorer’s “Page Transitions”?

Well, they’re back, thanks to the View Transition API!

→ Blog post: brm.us/page-transit...
→ Demo site: page-transitions.style

The project leverages IE’s meta tags so browser support is not limited to Modern Browsers™ but also includes IE 5.5–8.0 😆

@vonderleyen.ec.europa.euReposted by @foolip.org

Today marks three years since the terrorist attacks of 7 October in Israel. We honour the victims and stand with the families who still carry the heavy weight of grief. We remember the young lives cut short at a music festival. And the long ordeal of the hostages.

@infrequently.orgReposted by @foolip.org

You don't have to think JPEG XL is the best format, or plan to use it, to understand that we all benefit when browser vendors are responsive to developer feedback. I'm sorry it took this long in Chromium, and while I'm unlikely to use this format in my own work, I'm happy we're adding options.

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