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My Agentic Coding Setup, July 2026(domenic.me)
5 points by domenicd 2mo ago|0 comments
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by domenicd 3mo ago
I'm not sure this is a winnable game for programming languages. - Keep a small stdlib, like JavaScript (especially earlier JavaScript): everyone complains about missing features, warring communities form around jQuery promises vs. Prom
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by domenicd 3mo ago
What type of project actually uses C++ 23 modules in real life? What kind of toolchain enables that? When I worked on Chromium, they were indefinitely in the "maybe in 5-10 years the tooling will be ready" camp.
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by domenicd 3mo ago
Fascinating to see that Chromium/Gecko/WebKit are now more "open" browser engines than Ladybird, at least in one important respect. (Servo is arguably in the middle, accepting outside contributions as long as you don&#x2
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by domenicd 5mo ago
Fingerprinting concerns here are really overblown. At least in Chrome's implementation, the model version / responses will give you ~2 bits over the browser major version: whether the machine can support the model, and whether the
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by domenicd 5mo ago
I was formerly the design lead / spec editor for this API while I worked at Google. I retired in 2025-09, before it got shipped. The following contains no inside knowledge. I am sympathetic to all of Mozilla's concerns here, even
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by domenicd 5mo ago
(Former Chrome team member who worked on this API, now retired.) There was such a process! They shipped as first Dev Trial around 2025-04, then Origin Trial in 2025-05. Since then a number of people tried it and gave lots of feedback, leadi
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by domenicd 5mo ago
(I wrote those words originally.) Wow. I had no idea that people would misinterpret what I was saying in this way. I was not meaning to imply it was an expectation of users or developers. I was meaning it as a statement of what was currentl
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by domenicd 5mo ago
Something similar happened with another API recently. https://github.com/w3ctag/design-reviews/issues/1198#issueco...
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by domenicd 5mo ago
(Former Chrome built-in AI team member here.) This is part of it, and also we just didn't want to use up the last of the user's disk space! It's disrespectful to use up 3 GB if the user only has 4 GB left; it's sketchy i
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by domenicd 5mo ago
I no longer have any inside knowledge, but from my time on this team they were very quick about getting the latest small (Google) models into Chrome. I expect that if Gemma 4 (or its equivalent Gemini Nano) isn't already in Chrome, the
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by domenicd 5mo ago
I can't speak for "you guys" anymore, as I'm retired, but from my personal perspective/recollection: The target usage for the prompt API is anything that would benefit from the general capabilities of a language mod
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by domenicd 5mo ago
I led the design effort on this API, before retiring. Here's my writeup on some of the considerations that went into it: https://domenic.me/builtin-ai-api-design/
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by domenicd 5mo ago
As some others have indirectly pointed out, this article conflates two things: - URL parsing/normalization; and - Mapping URLs to resources (e.g. file paths or database entries) to be served from the server, and whether you ever map tw
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by domenicd 5mo ago
We tried a few times. We got as far as gating the ability to push into the "real history stack" [1] behind a user activation (e.g. click). But, it's easy to get the user to click somewhere: just throw up a cookie banner or an
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by domenicd 6mo ago
Nice. I hope it eventually hits Japan.
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by domenicd 6mo ago
This is covered in the article: > Turning them off will cause Windows to spasm for several seconds and throw all your current window positioning out of whack.
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by domenicd 6mo ago
This is discussed in the article, including why I tried it and ended up reverting to normal P/Invoke.
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by domenicd 6mo ago
They are both mentioned in the article. But I appreciate the extra experience and details, beyond what I got from browsing their landing pages and GitHub repos.
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by domenicd 6mo ago
A lot of people complain about this, but there seemed to be a reasonable XAML designer when I was making my WinUI 3 app. I didn't really use it (my app was simple enough that hand-crafting the XAML felt worthwhile to ensure everything
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by domenicd 6mo ago
US and Canada residents only, sadly.
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by domenicd 6mo ago
From what I understand, Win32/MFC/WinForms inherently are stuck around Vista visuals, with no dark mode support. Win32/MFC also have no high-DPI support, so you get gross upscaling. (WinForms supposedly has some support for h
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by domenicd 6mo ago
Id be interested in a source for both this and the parent's comment. How do we know which settings pages use which tech? Have people been decompiling them?
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by domenicd 6mo ago
I was actually part of a team at Barnes & Noble.com which tried to use WinJS for a serious application. (We were previously using Chromium Embedded Framework, or our own hand-rolled WebKit integration, for the desktop e-reader.) It didn
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by domenicd 6mo ago
Judging from the screenshots, that doesn't produce Windows 11 style UIs, right? I.e. it contributes to the problem exploree at https://ntdotdev.wordpress.com/2023/01/01/state-of-the-windo...
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by domenicd 6mo ago
Side by side is what I'm asking for. Just like there's WebView (IE-based) and WebView2 (Chromium-based, evergreen, updated every 4 weeks). I don't think the rapid development cycle argument holds water, when they're ship
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by domenicd 6mo ago
Ahah, I knew I missed one! I originally had ATL in there, but my proofreading squad (Claude and ChatGPT) told me that ATL was a more niche thing for COM, and looking at the Wikipedia article I was convinced they were right. But WTL was what
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by domenicd 6mo ago
Yes, there's definitely a financial gain aspect here. Tidelift provides $50/month for each of these packages. https://tidelift.com/lifter/search/npm/has-symbols The incentives are pretty clear: more
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Windows native app development is a mess(domenic.me)
469 points by domenicd 6mo ago|469 comments
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The Wrong Work, Done Beautifully(domenic.me)
2 points by domenicd 7mo ago|0 comments

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