Baldur Bjarnason
“Adactio: Links—In a Land Before Dev Tools - Amber’s Website” adactio.com/links/17252
Related links
Should DevTools teach the CSS cascade?
In a break with Betteridge’s law, I think the answer here is “yes.”
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!
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?
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.
WebKit Features for Safari 26.5 | WebKit
Fixed an issue on iOS and iPadOS where
datalistsuggestions were presented directly over the associated input, obscuring it.
Related posts
Mistrust
How Apple’s penchant for breaking the web has given me more empathy towards developers who are suspicious of the web platform.
That was Web Day Out
An excellent day of talks in Brighton exactly 37 years after the birth of the World Wide Web.
A web font strategy
How I’m prioritising performance when it comes to typography on The Session.
Installing web apps
BeforeInstallPromptEvent vs. navigator.install
The datalist element on iOS 26
Once again, Safari has fucked up its implementation.