Hello.

I was very happy to do a keynote session for the Tokyo and New York Google Developer Groups. I love doing talks that are centred around "The web in 202x" and these where no different. The New York keynote was a little different to the event in Tokyo because I had an extra 15 minutes to talk, and I like talking. One area that I got to spend more time on was using talking about areas that I am personally excited in 2023 and beyond.

If you are impacted by any of the layoffs at Google or across the industry, please reach out and I will try and help in any way that I can. I am happy to make connections and intros, LinkedIn recommendations, resume review, interview prep, a listening ear. For over a year now I've been running calls and I want to try and help you all as much as I can. My calendar is open, please use me in anyway that you think I might be able to help.

This post wraps up the series of posts I created about applying ML to some developer tasks that are hard to do programatically. Specifically, I wanted to create a tool that would let me detect if an anchor on a page <a> was styled to look like a button or not (woot, it worked!) You can check out the previous posts here: Scraping images of links and buttons to train an ML model

I created a custom Lighthouse Gatherer that captures high-resolution screenshots of web pages, using the Puppeteer API. Despite the complexity of the task, the process was surprisingly easy and efficient.

After I trained a simple machine learning model that can detect if an image looks like a link or a button. I created a web app to help me test it using Deno, Fresh and TensorflowJS. My demo allows for dragging and dropping many images on a page and automatically classifying them.

A guide on how I trained an ML model that detects Buttons and Links in a web page.

After over 20 years I'm getting back in to ML. I looking at a simple (but practical) example that I can get back up to speed on

This is a short post about I how I added ActivityPub to my Hugo static blog

This custom integration was created because Vercel does not currently offer the ability to configure webhooks for project-related events such as Deploy Successful.

Thinking about the follow action on the web.

My world has been shook. I started writing this post in March 2021 and am revisiting it today. I discussed how watching Corridor Crew inspired me to look for ways ML can improve developer experience. After researching, I identified four challenges: inferring what developers meant for the DOM, aiding with accessibility, helping with performance, and creating layouts and images. Finally, I questioned how GPT-Chat has changed my job as a DevRel lead.

Can we detect if a url with a custom URL scheme can be handled? Why yes. Yes we can.

Sigh...

Some thoughts about why Mastodon

When does an API become available to use on the web?

Some musing on the model of API permissions on the web.

Some additional thoughts on the end of HTML5 Rocks

We're hiring in 2022. Come and join us.

An affirmation of the power of the web

It turns out that I miss a lot of signals.