After talking about Bazel in one of our previous episodes, we are now looking at Nix, a build system that has been getting increasing attention lately.

Resources:

• OTMT Bazel episode
• Surma's video on Nix
• Eelco Dolstra's PhD Thesis
• Nix & NixOS
• A branch of Squoosh using Nix
• Nixpkgs manual
• Comparison of size and freshness of different package managers
• Home Manager
• Nix pills

We're finally getting a element we can fully control with CSS! A bunch of other stuff needed to be added to the platform to make it work, and the good news is we can use it a lot of them independently of .

Resources:

• Chrome's article on the new , and how you can provide feedback.
• The CSS appearance property. Nope, I still don't know what it does.
• The Popover API.
• "On popover accessibility: what the browser does and doesn’t do" by Hidde de Vries and Scott O'Hara.
• The CSS anchor positioning API.
• The previous spatnav spec effort.
• The hidden attribute until-found value (sorry, I said if-found in the episode).
• The CSS element function.
• Timing of cloning for the element.
• Animating to height auto.
• The new entry-exit animation feautres.
• The proposed command and commandfor attributes which give buttons declaritive activation behavior.

Chrome is experimenting with exposing an LLM to the web platform. Jake and Surma dig into how the API works, and whether something like this could work on the open web.

Resources:

• The explainer
• ChatGPT functions
• Chrome's initial vague docs about the feature
• Gemini terms of use
• The EURion constellation
• WebNN