I missed it, but I just realised that as of August 28th 2024 I've been blogging for over 20 year. I would have finished university and left my startups a couple of years before, gone went in to Enterprise, left behind Linux and Perl for a brief fling with c# and .net and started to make my first steps in to being a lot more public both in terms of documenting what I do and helping other folks.
I first started out on kinlan.co.uk which was powered by Blogger and the FTP deploy. I had a brief foray in to posterous (I liked the idea of email publishing), and then settled at some point on paul.kinlan.me and Hugo (I think i also used Jekyll at some point).
Looking back through my archives, I've written some really rubbish things.... I was alway terrible at spelling and grammar. But they're my things, and I like that.
I can also say that I wouldn't be doing what I do today without my little place on the Internet.
The web is my home and I hope I can help it stay everyone's home in the future. I'm thankful to Sir Tim Berners-Lee for inventing this thing and all the people that have built on top of this platform to make it what it is today (warts and all).
I lead the Chrome Developer Relations team at Google.
We want people to have the best experience possible on the web without having to install a native app or produce content in a walled garden.
Our team tries to make it easier for developers to build on the web by supporting every Chrome release, creating great content to support developers on web.dev, contributing to MDN, helping to improve browser compatibility, and some of the best developer tools like Lighthouse, Workbox, Squoosh to name just a few.
I love to learn about what you are building, and how I can help with Chrome or Web development in general, so if you want to chat with me directly, please feel free to book a consultation.
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