In a Land Before Dev Tools | Amber’s Website

A great little history lesson from Amber—ah, Firebug!

In a Land Before Dev Tools | Amber’s Website

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Should DevTools teach the CSS cascade?

In a break with Betteridge’s law, I think the answer here is “yes.”

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Make Your Own Dev Tool | Amber’s Website

I love bookmarklets! I use them every day (I’m using one right now to post this link). Amber does a great job explaining what they are and how you can make one. I really like the way she frames them as your own personal dev tools!

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Custom Property Coverup | Amber’s Website

This is a great bit of detective work by Amber! It’s the puzzling case of The Browser Dev Tools and the Missing Computed Values from Custom Properties.

Who do I know working on dev tools for Chrome, Firefox, or Safari that can help Amber find an answer to this mystery?

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How to prototype in the browser | GDS design notes

This is a clever quick’n’dirty way of prototyping iterations on an existing site using dev tools and screenshots.

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WebKit Features for Safari 26.5 | WebKit

Fixed an issue on iOS and iPadOS where datalist suggestions were presented directly over the associated input, obscuring it.

Phew!

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