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Polypane with Kilian Valkhof

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4.2653 Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Polypane is a specialized web development browser that simplifies creating and testing modern websites. A key feature is that it provides multiple screen sizes at once, with synchronized scrolling and interactions, so developers can test different layouts and breakpoints simultaneously. Polypane also focuses on accessibility tools, real-time previews, and debugging features. Kilian Valkhof is the

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Polypane is a specialized web development browser that simplifies creating and testing modern websites.

0:06.0

A key feature is that it provides multiple screen sizes at once, with synchronized scrolling and interactions,

0:12.0

so developers can test different layouts and breakpoints simultaneously.

0:16.0

Polypane also focuses on accessibility tools, real-time previews, and debugging features.

0:21.7

Kailien Balcoff is the founder of PolyPain, which develops the PolyPain browser.

0:26.4

In this episode, he speaks with Josh Goldberg about his career and the creation of his browser.

0:32.0

This episode is hosted by Josh Goldberg, an independent full-time open-source developer.

0:39.0

Josh works on projects in the TypeScript ecosystem, most notably TypeScript ES Slint, the tooling that enables ES Slint and

0:45.3

prettier to run on TypeScript code. Josh is also the author of the O'Reilly Learning TypeScript

0:50.6

book, a Microsoft MVP for developer technologies, and a live code streamer on Twitch.

0:57.2

Find Josh on Blue Sky, Mastodon, Twitter, Twitch, YouTube, and dot com as Joshua K. Goldberg. Hello, everyone.

1:17.6

With me today, it's Killion Valcov, creator of Polypane, a browser for developers.

1:22.6

Killion, welcome to Software Engineering Daily.

1:24.6

Hi, everyone.

1:25.6

Thanks for having me.

1:26.6

Yeah, I'm really excited about this. I've been hearing about Polypane for a while.

1:30.3

Before we dive into it though, I'd like to talk about you a little bit.

1:32.3

Killing, can you tell us who are you?

1:34.3

Yeah, sure.

1:35.3

I'm Killion.

1:36.3

I am in my mid-30s, so for people that do math, which I don't.

1:41.3

I'm from the year in 1988. I am a developer, a web developer,

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