Winging It

Tools for Developers

With special guest Kilian Valkhof

on Winging It episode 20 with Miriam & James on July 17, 2025 | 65 mins

Kilian Valkhof, Miriam Suzanne, and James Stuckey Weber talk about developer tools including the Polypane browser and other accessibility tools.

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What we cover:

Why work on tools for developers?
How to balance work on tooling and working with tooling
How to keep in touch with developers’ pain points
The ways developers’ needs have changed
The major unmet needs for developers now
Polypane
- Key features
- Easy access to emulating media queries
- Form inspector
- Upcoming features
Additional accessibility tools from Kilian

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Recent Episodes

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on Winging It episode 24 with Miriam & Stacy on Aug 27 | 59 min

The CSS Working Group got together in August to discuss a range of old and new issues. The following week, Miriam Suzanne and Stacy Kvernmo chatted with CSS expert Roma Komarov about how to create reusable and more flexible CSS using mixins and functions, what happened in the CSSWG meetings…

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Container queries are widely available!

on Winging It episode 23 with Miriam on Aug 13 | 3.5 min

Happy 30-month anniversary to Container Queries – shipping in every browser since February of 2023. It was supposed to be impossible, but here we are!

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Avoid this mistake when anchor positioning a popover!

on Winging It episode 22 with James on Aug 12 | 1 min

Are you positioning a popover with CSS anchor positioning and position-area? Make sure to override the default margins on the popover.

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