There’s a element in HTML now. Looks like Chrome led it up and got it into Chrome first. Now we’re in the ol’ 🤷♀️ state on when we’ll get it elsewhere. But the process certainly involved other browser makers, so that’s good. Manuel Matuzović has a good intro blog post. The element doesn’t behave right within an so embedding a demo here doesn’t make sense. You can see a small demo here, and the code is here. Here’s what I think you should know: It’s a with an enforced design. It’s got a map icon and text that says “Use…
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Microsoft released Visual Studio Code 1.123 on June 3, expanding its AI-assisted development capabilities with features that reflect the editor’s direction: toward a more agentic, context-aware workflow.The update is relatively focused, but several additions stand out to developers who rely on Copilot and other AI models day to day.A Million-Token Context WindowOne of the headline changes is support for 1-million-token context windows for compatible models from Anthropic and OpenAI, including Claude Opus 4.7 and GPT-5.5. That’s a meaningful jump. Larger context lets you work with larger codebases and longer conversations without the model losing track of what came before.There’s a…
Josh Tumath: Have you ever noticed that when you increase the system text size in your iOS or Android phone’s accessibility settings, the text gets bigger everywhere except on the web? On Safari and Chrome, it makes absolutely no difference. New thing: This isn’t page zoom, which scales everything, it’s just respects the text-only scale settings from the system itself. Great idea. I’ll definitely be playing with this.
Aaron T. Grogg has a nice page chock full of examples of UI, which used to be the sort of thing that we’d use JavaScript for, but can now be done in HTML & CSS. No hate: I have nothing against JS, but it has better things to do The examples are very modern, like Tabs, where the actual tabs are created with a ::scroll-marker and positioned as a ::scroll-marker-group with anchor positioning. Fancy.
Why micro teams and rotation reshape culture, not just throughput, in modern SRE.Most SRE leaders design teams around the systems they own. We designed ours around movement.We introduced micro teams expecting a throughput story: smaller groups, tighter scope, faster work. Some of that arrived. What we had not budgeted for was how much it changed the way people worked with each other.We are a 34-person group running four enterprise platforms across two continents, and at that size the thing you fight is fragmentation. People settle into corners: a database specialist who has only ever touched one product, a platform engineer…
Every once in a while, the platform drops something that makes you want to build strange demos again, or at least weirder ones. The new HTML in Canvas API is a perfect example of one of those moments. The promise is simple and exciting: take native HTML, render it into canvas workflows, and then apply visual effects with 2D Canvas, WebGL, or WebGPU. In other words, you can keep real semantic elements in your markup while treating their rendered output as pixels. Support Status (Important) To enable it, go to chrome://flags/#canvas-draw-element and turn on the “Canvas Draw Element” flag. After…
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A survey of 831 software engineers and DevOps professionals published today identifies manual reviews (52%), security testing (51%), code rework (48%) and prompt iteration (41%) as the major bottlenecks that software engineering teams are encountering in the age of artificial intelligence (AI) coding.Conducted by the market research firm User Evidence on behalf of Black Duck Software, the survey finds 41% of respondents have incorporated AI coding assistants into more than half of new application development projects, with GitHub Copilot (83%), Claude Code (63%) and Amazon Q (49%) being the most widely used.Well over half (58%) said adding AI coding tools…
It’s the second tuesday of the month, which means T-SQL Tuesday time! This month’s topic is chosen by myself, and it’s inspired by a blog post of Alexander Arvidsson. In a nutshell, I’m asking what we would do if we need to move our data platforms back to on-prem, after a good decade of cloud computing. What would we – for example – teach our junior colleagues, since they “grew up” with cloud, serverless, SaaS and other shenanigans.I’d tell my junior peers that if something breaks, or if performance is slow, it might not just be your code. There are…
The software supply chain took another hit last week. On June 5, GitHub disabled 73 Microsoft-owned repositories after the Miasma worm infiltrated projects across four organizations: Azure, Azure-Samples, Microsoft and MicrosoftDocs.GitHub’s automated systems triggered the takedown within 105 seconds of detecting the infection — a fast response, but the damage was already done. The attack began when a malicious commit was pushed to the Azure/durabletask repository using a previously compromised contributor account. The commit planted configuration files that execute a credential-harvesting payload when a developer opens the repository in an IDE or AI coding tool.That last detail is worth paying…