Polypane-demonium

JS Party: JavaScript, CSS, Web Development

Polypane purveyor Kilian Valkhof joins Nick & Jerod to tell us all about his efforts building a web browser just for web development. We cover it all: from the business concerns, to the technical details, to his excellent choice not to use TypeScript! We even sneak in a feature request that already made its way into this excellent dev tool for ambitious web developers.

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Sponsors:

• Socket – Secure your supply chain and ship with confidence. Install the GitHub app, book a demo or learn more
• Neon – Fleets of Postgres! Enterprises use Neon to operate hundreds of thousands of Postgres databases: Automated, instant provisioning of the world’s most popular database.

Featuring:

• Kilian Valkhof – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Nick Nisi – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

• What do we want from a web browser?(Friends #14)
• You have how many open tabs?! (Friends #29)
• Core web vitals
• Polypane

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Chapters

1. It's party time, y'all (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Socket (00:00:39)

https://socket.dev/?utm_source=changelog&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=changelog-interviews

3. A hoy hoy, Kilian (00:04:19)

4. Intro to Polypane (00:06:25)

5. Jerod's hot take (00:10:20)

6. Break point panes (00:11:35)

7. What Nick likes (00:16:54)

8. Why build a browser? (00:23:45)

9. Going full-time (00:27:22)

10. Why it worked (00:28:33)

11. Electron (00:29:29)

12. One man show (00:31:04)

13. TypeScript? (00:32:07)

14. Sponsor: Neon (00:38:51)

https://neon.tech/enterprise

15. Feature request! (00:44:41)

16. The little features (00:48:29)

17. Forced dark mode (00:56:40)

18. What's coming up (01:01:02)

19. The obligatory AI chapter (01:06:36)

20. Polypanes all the way down? (01:10:32)

21. Competing with free (01:13:41)

22. Raycast vs Polyplane (01:19:52)

23. Polypane Portal (01:22:55)

24. Closing time (01:27:00)

25. Next up on the pod (01:27:54)