I do want to make sure we're being clear about this: The Bluesky team maintains the same review, red-teaming, and QA processes that we always have. AI coding tools have been proving useful, but haven't changed the fundamental practices of good engineering. Human review and direction remain key.

@danjordan.dev Hey! Was great hanging out yesterday. Did you try the album?? bsky.app/profile/oliv...

My team at Unsplash are searching for a new lead front-end engineer. I'd love to help them find the right person. If that sounds interesting to you, send me a DM!

“If AI really is replacing software development with bot-slop and existential dread, somebody forgot to tell the web folks. State of the Browser 2026 was a celebration of code, craft, open standards, collaboration and transparency – and not a ralph loop in sight.” dylanbeattie.net/2026/02/28/s...

Finally got round to publishing my article on implementing faster/better cookie consent banners: lessonsofacto.com/articles/006... It's a lot (>3700 words!) so there's a demo site here: cookie-consent-example.netlify.app and the heavily-commented code is here: github.com/ryantownsend... #webperf

I tried out the new @codepen.io 2.0 editor! It was a bit confusing at first, but once it clicked, I realized how cool it was 👀 www.youtube.com/watch?v=0R4l...

Had such a great day hanging out with web folk at State of the Browser! ❤️ @letorey.co.uk @pawelgrzybek.com @jakearchibald.com @cassiecodes.bsky.social @bram.us @keithamus.social @andydavies.me @amyhupe.bsky.social and many more

On my way to State of the Browser! Hope to see some of you folks there.

I'm often asked why you would use a JS library like React Aria for modals instead of the HTML <dialog> element, so I wrote up a detailed response. One of the main features of <dialog> (top layer) is also one of its weaknesses. github.com/adobe/react-...

Rather than using AI to *write* code, we should reframe it as using AI to *type* code. You're still designing the code in your head. The AI is just a faster way to get it out of your head and into the computer (as opposed to typing).

Reprompt is the new rebase.

Apparently it's still not possible to jump to a comment in a @github.com PR. 🙃

Copilot PR review comment: "this will cause a TypeScript compilation error" CI: ✅

@jackf.io 👋 Hey! Some feedback for Chrome dev tools. My request throttling wasn't working. After banging my head on the desk for awhile, it turned out I had this checkbox disabled, but it was far from obvious given that pane was hidden at the time.

Great article on the hidden cost of high-velocity engineering in the AI era. We talk about how AI tools make individual tasks faster, but there's constant context-switching and decision fatigue. siddhantkhare.com/writing/ai-f...

Browser developers are working on custom form controls ( `appearance:base`), the next giant task is looming: customisable input type=date/datetime/color pickers. These are huge and have wildly varied UI. Send me your examples, I'd love to see them and build up a body of these pickers.

I just tried the package comparison in @npmx.dev to decide between two packages. Where has this been all my life?! 😍

📝 A new post about AI skills daverupert.com/2026/02/magi...

Now GitButler has a CLI! Stacked and parallel branches, smartlog, simple commit editing, easy undo, json output to every command. And it just works in any Git repo. Check it out: blog.gitbutler.com/but-cli

Some news: after 9 years, the time has come for me to leave Unsplash. I’ve dedicated a lot of care, time, and effort to Unsplash, and it’s incredibly difficult for me to say goodbye to the team and what we’ve built together. But I'm very excited for what's next… 🧵

SelfCI is super interesting: app.radicle.xyz/nodes/radicl... Essentially: “works on my machine” is largely a solved problem, our machines are faster than rented dev servers, most of us work with code from people we trust, and debugging remote CI sucks.

Excitingly, Chrome Canary recently added support for <meta name="text-scaling"> behind a flag. What is it? It's something that we're all going to start using on our websites to improve accessibility. Here's a blog post with more info. www.joshtumath.uk/posts/2026-0...

✍️ I wrote a short opinion piece about a pattern I keep seeing lately: switching to the smallest responsive layout too early. I call it The Too-Early Breakpoint. 🔗 ishadeed.com/article/too-...

PSA: the React Developer Tools extension has a bug where it runs in a loop consuming lots of CPU, even when not in use. You might want to keep it disabled! github.com/facebook/rea...

If you haven’t yet, check out the new useOptimistic docs. There’s a ton of great use cases, with interactive sandboxes to try things out! react.dev/reference/re...

Rspack + RSC is now prototyped in the 2.0 alpha. We're continuing to iterate on stability and docs 🔧

🌐 next-intl 4.8 is out with ahead-of-time compilation! Flip the 𝚙𝚛𝚎𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚙𝚒𝚕𝚎 flag and drop ~9KB of compressed JS from your bundles.

Paweł is one of the best front-end engineers I know. Hire him!

The "you're falling behind on AI" crowd is weird. The whole point of this tech is that things get 10x easier, not harder. Complicated agent/prompting patterns get replaced by better models, simpler patterns, and plug-and-play tools. Catching up takes a day, not months.

Weekend thoughts on Gas Town, Beads, slop AI browsers, and AI-generated PRs flooding overwhelmed maintainers. I don't think we're ready for our new powers we're wielding. lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/1/18/ag...

wrote some things I've been thinking about ai ... and it ended up feeling very personal roe.dev/blog/the-go...

This YouTube channel brings some much needed balance to the AI hype: www.youtube.com/@VanessaWing...

Here’s one of my top rules for applications—native, web, you name it—: Do. not. intercept. normal OS-level application shortcuts. Don’t do it! Today’s example: a web app that has overridden ⌘[ to toggle the navigation sidebar. Folks, no: that is for “navigate back”! Hijacking it is terrible!

Experimenting with jj workspaces, unfortunately other Git tooling doesn't seem to work in new workspaces like it does in the default workspace because there's no `.git`.

Beat my 5K PB by exactly 1 second at this morning’s parkrun. 😀

Been working on a new microsite to teach Next.js patterns, and I just published a new one: "Sharing data with Client Components" See how to use promises to keep your page unblocked so it can be rendered (or prerendered) as early as possible. Enjoy! next-16-recipes.vercel.app/sharing-data...

iOS Safari has a bug where `window.scrollTo(0, 0)` has no effect when scroll position is within bounds of sticky element: bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi...

I know, it’s crazy, right? But it’s true: v5.chriskrycho.com/notes/some-o...

It's ironic how—before AI—companies underestimated the value of good DX, but now—after AI—DX is suddenly important, but only where it involves AI. I'd take improvements to my day-to-day tools over an AI boost any day.

made a thing rsc-playground.pages.dev

If Copilot leaves no comments on my PR, I can only assume that must mean my code is perfect, right? 😛

My most-hated modern web pattern (that isn’t handled by normal ad-blocking). v5.chriskrycho.com/notes/pop-ov... (Yes, reply-guys: I know about Stop the Madness and other such web extensions.)

💡 Life hack: I open browser tabs to get myself to do unpleasant/boring tasks. E.g. - I need to contact customer service, I’ll open a tab with the company’s website. - I need to file taxes, I’ll open the tax filing app - I need to send an invoice, I’ll open my invoicing app Who else does this?

I do firmly believe that if you're an individual or company that is NOT over-indexing on AI right now, you have the competitive advantage. Unfortunately I do not have high hopes that the industry will recognize that until significant damage has been done.

GitHub is a great example of a company focusing too much on the short term and not enough on the long term. Short term it will profit from the AI boom, meanwhile another service will gradually but steadily replace its core functionality.

I understand this is framed as developer experience (DX), but I can’t imagine better DX than trusting native web platform features won’t get me intro trouble, or sued, or otherwise result in harm. My prior caution about trusting Baseline for real baseline support: adrianroselli.com/2023/12/base...

This is hilarious. replaceyourboss.ai

x.com/panchito built a _really_ slick looking Github file viewer clone that fully uses RSCs and new React features, as well as making smart use of modern CSS. Great writeup on the implementation: wtbb.vercel.app I tried browsing the React repo example and it's _fast_! Really impressive!

🖤 I’ve been told that this was my best rendition of this talk and i’m still riding this high of how amazing btconf was as a whole. Now it’s time to write up the blog post. Okay, maybe in a few days 😁

Over the last year or so, I've become increasingly fond of Beans on Toast (the musician… not the food). His music is a refreshing collection of humble and amusing songs about current events and family life. In the messy world we live in, these songs ground me and bring me back down to earth.