The Tech Compass: Navigating AI's Waves, Securing Our Foundations, and Optimizing Every Byte Welcome to your latest dose of cutting-edge insights! As we hurtle further into 2026, the technology landscape continues its breathtaking transformation. This week's trending talks offer a fascinating snapshot of where we are and where we're headed. From the pervasive, sometimes perilous, influence of Ar
Testing Firefox Extensions with Playwright: End-to-End Testing Guide Extension testing is one of those things everyone knows they should do but few actually do. I've been using Playwright for end-to-end tests on the Weather & Clock Dashboard extension and it's changed how I think about extension quality. Unit tests don't cover the biggest failure modes: Does the extension actually load in Firefo
Meta humanoid robots 🤖, SpaceX costs leak 💰, open design 🧑🎨
We debate endlessly about whether AI will ever achieve consciousness, but we forget how consciousness actually compiled in the first place. It wasn’t spawned in a vacuum; it was forged by the brutal necessity of survival. For millions of iterations over millions of years, early cognition was nothing but pure instinct and bloodlust—refined only by the fight for the right to exist. Humanity is not
Why I built another Ruby test runner inspired by Playwright Test Ruby already has great testing tools. If you are building Rails applications today, you probably use one of these combinations: RSpec + Capybara Minitest + Capybara Rails system tests Maybe Selenium, Cuprite, Ferrum, or Playwright through Ruby bindings These tools are mature, battle-tested, and widely used. So the natural question
I wanted to test my web app. That's it. A Next.js portfolio and a SaaS chat — run some accessibility checks, catch console errors, verify nothing's broken on mobile. The kind of thing you do before pushing to production. I opened Claude Code, connected Playwright MCP, typed "test the app" and watched it burn through tokens like there was no tomorrow. Then /compact fired at 18% text context. Then I
Zuckerberg's leaked Q&A 💬, Netflix's vertical feed 📱, Mozilla vs Prompt API 👨💻
Apple AI photos 📱, Elon's Mars bonus 💰, Cursor SDK 🧑💻