Kilian Valkhof

Announcing Polypane, a browser for a responsive web development workflow

I’m working on a new browser for web developers and designers, called Polypane. It’s cross-platform (Windows, macOS and Linux) and really really cool.

Your chatbot should have a game loop

This article was originally published on Botpublication.com.

Many of the “smart” chatbots with Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence still have a hard time keeping a conversation going. They keep forgetting whatever it was you were talking about even if you can see it plainly in the message right above!

Messenger Demo Viewer: demo (bot) interactions without showing personal chats

After you have made your awesome new Messenger bot, it’s time to demo it. If you made a bot for a professional client you don’t really want to give a demo with the always-present Messenger sidebar with your other personal chats visible for everyone.

Hocus Pocus: PostCSS to finish the trilogy

Back in 2014, nearly three years ago, I wrote about being tired of always writing a:hover, a:focus and wanting an a:hocus to do both for me. It got a lot of proposed solutions, including a Sass and a future-css one using CSS Aliases. In 2016, a year ago, I revisited the idea with CSS Custom Selectors and CSSNext. For this year, I’m rounding up the trilogy with a PostCSS plugin of my own.