Note Did Google sneak a local LLM model into Chrome?
A response to FUD around Chrome's new Local AI models, plus a demo using PixieBrix + Local AI to filter my LinkedIn feed.
Category: Browser Extensions
8 posts in the Browser Extensions category.
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Making AI coding work for enterprise-grade browser extensions
Lessons learned using AI coding tools to build PixieBrix, an enterprise-grade browser extension with a complex architecture spanning content scripts, background workers, and React UI.
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Note Speaking at AI Coding Summit 2026: making AI coding work for enterprise-grade browser extensions
I'll be speaking at the AI Coding Summit on February 26, 2026. My talk, Making AI Coding Work for Enterprise-Grade Browser Extensions, covers the unique challenges of applying AI coding workflows...
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Compliance, low-code, and the user as hero: highlights from Drata's podcast
Highlights from my conversation with Drata's Helina Medhin and Arlo Guthrie on Compliance Uncomplicated about low-code, AI, user experience, and SOC 2.
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Everything is UI/UX: highlights from Masters of Automation
A few moments from my August 2022 conversation with Alp Uguray on Masters of Automation about PixieBrix, low-code, and putting humans at the center of the future of work.
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A brief history of browser extensibility
Web browsers are the modern operating system. Google's Chrome OS, an operating system that runs the Chrome Browser exclusively, is now the second most popular desktop operating system....
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7 bite-sized tips for reliable web automation and scraping selectors
If you're like most developers, you've probably encountered Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) selectors for styling webpages. For example, the following CSS rule combines a paragraph element selector p...
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The PixieBrix manifesto: web customization for the masses
My freshman year of college, I interned as an "equities analyst". What this meant in practice was that I was supposed to look up numbers in a terminal, and then type them into an Excel...