@paul.irish - Paul Irish

10 Jan 2026 22:09 +0000

Been loving NVIDIA's NeMo models recently to complement Whisper for transcription, but the startup felt a bit heavy. So I went on a profiling adventure! https://github.com/NVIDIA-NeMo/NeMo/issues/15240 Turned out to be fruitful… stoked to land a big optimization in NeMO. https://github.com/NVIDIA-NeMo/NeMo/pull/15245

09 Dec 2025 00:52 +0000

I always prompt with "use modern CSS" but models rarely use *proper* modern, Baseline-y CSS. I want nesting, @layers, view transitions, oklch, light-dark(), etc. Does anyone have some prompt text which does a good job with this?

03 Aug 2025 04:28 +0000

I joined the HTML Day festivities today and made a lil homage to the tag: https://paul.irish/2025-progress-energy.html 💪 @htmlenergy.bsky.social

30 May 2025 06:30 +0000

My talk from I/O: a 10min jaunt jam-packed with DevTools Performance panel goodness. youtu.be/BHqxD9qr6Gw Really proud of what we've landed in the past year, including JS bundle analysis, framework tracing APIs, auto-annotations, CrUX context, and deep insights. https://youtu.be/BHqxD9qr6Gw

28 May 2025 17:38 +0000

The Chrome DevTools Performance panel just leveled up! 🚀 Here's a 69-second taste of the new hotness.

06 May 2025 18:18 +0000

Is the WebDev Arena truly measuring webdev coding ability? This ML coding benchmark *requires* React/Tailwind and completely breaks with vanilla JS/other frameworks. The second-order implications of models competing on this narrow definition of frontend web development are rather troublesome.

19 Mar 2025 22:30 +0000

Love how we're seeing more embrace of Markdown within non-developer apps, thanks to it being the lingua franca of LLMs. The Markdown-y copy/paste hooks of Google docs have been super handy.

12 Mar 2025 17:16 +0000

🔐 If you're a Google Password Manager user, I find the UI in Chrome at `about:password-manager` is a *lot* faster and less annoying than the passwords.google.com one. (Why is the web app so frustrating? Beats me.. I've filed bugs. I hope it improves, regardless.)

07 Mar 2025 20:56 +0000

We've all seen visual regression tools that struggle with anti-aliasing, leading to repeated and noisy image diffs. Meanwhile, a layout shift at the top of a page/screenshot creates a disproportionately large diff (vs one at the bottom). Looking for quality, lightweight solutions in this realm :)

21 Nov 2024 18:58 +0000

@brianholt.me got any eng contacts at present-day Reddit? I want to fix two bugs that are in a component of mine they use. :)

15 Nov 2024 23:45 +0000

My last name being a TLD is finally paying dividends. (I just changed handle to the minimal @paul.irish) Thx ICANN! <3

15 Nov 2024 18:12 +0000

Yup, I'm one of _those_ people. I'm sorry. :)