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New comment by paulirish in "Just Put It on a Map"

paulirish — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 18:37:46 +0000

+1. Also, I had to go look at their interactive viewer because that color scheme choice (dark purple = low, light green = high) seemed 100% bonkers. It's the legit "plasma" scheme, but based on my limited experience with colorbrewer schemes, I was confused.

New comment by paulirish in "Chrome DevTools MCP (2025)"

paulirish — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 01:41:13 +0000

"I was going to get my teeth whitened but then I said, fuck that, I'll just get a tan instead."

New comment by paulirish in "Chrome DevTools MCP (2025)"

paulirish — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 21:24:02 +0000

The DevTools MCP project just recently landed a standalone CLI: https://github.com/ChromeDevTools/chrome-devtools-mcp/blob/m...

Great news to all of us keenly aware of MCP's wild token costs. ;)

The CLI hasn't been announced yet (sorry guys!), but it is shipping in the latest v0.20.0 release. (Disclaimer: I used to work on the DevTools team. And I still do, too)

New comment by paulirish in "Let your Coding Agent debug the browser session with Chrome DevTools MCP"

paulirish — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 21:20:09 +0000

To be clear, this isn't a skill for the devtools mcp, but an independent project. It doesn't look bad, but obviously browser automation + agents is a very busy space with lots of parallel efforts.

DevTools MCP and its new CLI are maintained by the team behind Chrome DevTools & Puppeteer and it certainly has a more comprehensive feature set. I'd expect it to be more reliable, but.. hey open source competition breeds innovation and I love that. :)

(I used to work on the DevTools team. And I still do, too)

New comment by paulirish in "We mourn our craft"

paulirish — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 18:41:14 +0000

Both of you are right. They can generate the code quite well, but well-considered UX is another thing entirely.

New comment by paulirish in "Show HN: A MitM proxy to see what your LLM tools are sending"

paulirish — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 21:02:32 +0000

Yup. It does a great job in there.

New comment by paulirish in "Somebody used spoofed ADSB signals to raster the meme of JD Vance"

paulirish — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 23:34:54 +0000

This was not spoofed at the ADS-B layer. It was just spoofed to adsb exchange. (While typically a feeder contributes to multiple sites, this one didn't.) eg:

- https://globe.adsb.fi/?icao=adfdf9&lat=26.678&lon=-80.030&zo...

- https://adsb.lol/?icao=adfdf9&lat=26.678&lon=-80.030&zoom=14...

Relevant discussion on r/adsb: https://www.reddit.com/r/ADSB/comments/1qp3q9n/interesting/ where they note it's also absent on FR24, airplanes.live, and theairtraffic.com.

The adsb-x feeder map: https://map.adsbexchange.com/mlat-map/ They probably won't have a hard time identifying who contributed that data.

New comment by paulirish in "Show HN: A MitM proxy to see what your LLM tools are sending"

paulirish — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 23:18:10 +0000

Gemini CLI is open source. Don't need to intercept at the network when you can just add inspectGeminiApiRequest() in the source. (I suggest it because I've been maintaining a personal branch with exactly that :)

New comment by paulirish in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

paulirish — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 05:32:19 +0000

https://paul.irish

New comment by paulirish in "Oh My Zsh adds bloat"

paulirish — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 05:54:34 +0000

Fish gang represent.

I was a bash => zsh/omz person and had these same complaints. But that was 10 years ago. https://github.com/paulirish/dotfiles/blame/main/fish/config...

The baseline fish experience is just better.

New comment by paulirish in "Show HN: I built a clipboard tool to strip/keep specific formatting like Italics"

paulirish — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 17:50:01 +0000

I've been working on something super similar. https://github.com/paulirish/markpaste

There's now a CLI that'll read and update your (Mac) clipboard with the result. For this italic use case you'll have to edit the source but it won't be that bad.

New comment by paulirish in "Show HN: Mysti – Claude, Codex, and Gemini debate your code, then synthesize"

paulirish — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 04:46:20 +0000

The latter, if any else are curious: https://www.swebench.com/post-250820-mini-roulette.html

New comment by paulirish in "Show HN: WalletWallet – create Apple passes from anything"

paulirish — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 07:09:41 +0000

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Barcode_Det... Chromium browsers have native support for reading many barcode types!

New comment by paulirish in "Show HN: Wirebrowser – A JavaScript debugger with breakpoint-driven heap search"

paulirish — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 07:24:56 +0000

Very impressive to see the primitives of CDP be used for such a different DX than what's in existing devtools. Really well done.

New comment by paulirish in "Patterns.dev"

paulirish — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 04:10:17 +0000

Amen! The terms "accordion" and "carousel" were really codified by the pattern library. Establishing a common vernacular definitely accelerates things.

New comment by paulirish in "State of AI: An Empirical 100T Token Study with OpenRouter"

paulirish — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 01:35:18 +0000

I worry that OpenRouter's Apps leaderboard incentivizes tools (e.g. Cline/Kilo) to burn through tokens to climb the ranks, meanwhile penalizing being context-efficient.

https://openrouter.ai/rankings#apps

New comment by paulirish in "Interactive World History Atlas Since 3000 BC"

paulirish — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 12:59:44 +0000

Makes me think of the Histomap, designed in 1931. It's an attractive design for history over a timeseries: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/...

In 1942 he did one for Evolution which is closer to your pitch (log scale Y axis, etc): https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~2...

New comment by paulirish in "Mergiraf: Syntax-Aware Merging for Git"

paulirish — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 07:31:39 +0000

Have been using Mergiraf for the past 4 months. It's automatically solved about 70% of my conflicts and, luckily, I've never contested any of them. Pretty pleased.

New comment by paulirish in "XSLT RIP"

paulirish — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 13:10:01 +0000

Yeah my bad; I was on the go. I'm on the Chrome team, I work on DevTools.

New comment by paulirish in "XSLT RIP"

paulirish — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 10:55:38 +0000

A counterpoint to the idea that this is entirely Google's doing: https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2025/08/22/no-google-did-...