I spent an evening on a fictitious web

By Chris Coyier on

I spent the evening exploring a web that is full of applications and sites and only limited by URLs that I could think of (heh – this web never has a 404 or an unregistered domain). WebSim provides a simulation of the web via a faux Web Browser. It’s a web that doesn’t actually exist, […]

AI in Chrome

By Chris Coyier on

Chrome is experimentally shipping with Gemini Nano, their smallest Large Language Model (LLM) baked right in, then offer APIs to use it. In Chrome, these APIs are built to run inference against Gemini Nano with fine-tuning or an expert model. Designed to run locally on most modern devices, Gemini Nano is best for language-related use […]

Blocking AI Bots

By Chris Coyier on

I heard from a guy once who was incredulous I’d want to block the bots that scrape websites to train AI models. Why wouldn’t I want to help train the intelligence of the future? I get that perspective, I do, but shouldn’t it be up to me? The companies that are scraping my sites are […]

Playing with Raster to SVG to 3D Tools

By Chris Coyier on

I happen to have bookmarked a few new-to-me SVG tools that all seemed to fit together in interesting ways, so I thought I would have a play and share. Raster to SVG One type of these tools is Raster-to-SVG. That is, taking something like a photo and “vectorizing” it. I happen to have my multivitamin […]

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