“When you use a JavaScript framework, that isn’t the end of your work, it’s just the beginning. You still have to write your own code that makes use of that framework. Except now your code is restricted to only what the framework can do.” I’d even drop “JavaScript” from that sentence 😉

“It just shows that all this framework "magic" that's supposed to help us can also create some really weird problems.”

I was building the exact conversational UI that is described here last Friday and also came across field-sizing but was a bit bummed about support.

a very long overdue "housekeeping" chore for my self-hosted analytics solution. 1,000,000 rows on t3.micro makes for fun migrations. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ chenhuijing.com/blog/databas...

i love the spreadsheet analogy here

“If you’re going to really exploit the capabilities of these new tools, you need to be operating at the top of your game”

Some musings about building sample applications. You know, for sharing knowledge and all that... chenhuijing.com/blog/lets-ta...

I've had the same blog for more than a decade. This is the second time I'm migrating to another tech stack. I'm surprised how easy it was to deploy with Netlify simply by switching repos. I guess I'll find out if I broke anything in the coming days...haha chenhuijing.com/blog/migrati...

“No, the rest of the world is already anticipating futures built on sacred memory and a sacred present. It is reciting the Qur’an five times a day, chanting mantras before meals, offering incense to ancestors, and balancing ritual and reason”– @didou.bsky.social publicseminar.org/2025/09/pete...

i would guess that most developers don't think of CSS more than a tool to change colours and spacing but like @amitsheen.bsky.social shows, browsers have shipped CSS functionality that allows a great deal of creativity, especially for animations in the browser. math is cool, kids 😎 #css #webdev

“Our job is not just to write code, but to use our critical thinking and analysis skills to make decisions outside of the scope of writing characters in a text editor.” piccalil.li/blog/while-y...

“It’s time to choose frameworks based on constraints and merit rather than momentum.” www.lorenstew.art/blog/react-w...

spent quite some time chuckling at the responses to this thread: www.reddit.com/r/Programmer...

“When I have had engineers who were 10x as valuable as others it was primarily due to their ability to prevent unnecessary work.” colton.dev/blog/curing-...

as someone who's first OS was MS-DOS, this gave me a warm nostalgic feeling inside aresluna.org/frame-of-pre...

“This gap between perception and reality is striking: developers expected AI to speed them up by 24%, and even after experiencing the slowdown, they still believed AI had sped them up by 20%.” metr.org/blog/2025-07...

I wrote something about #AI on @frontendmasters.com... something with a long title! #ChatGPT and the proliferation of obsolete and broken solutions to problems we hadn’t had for over half a decade before its launch frontendmasters.com/blog/chatgpt...

Came across this in Children of Dune: "Good government never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern. The machinery of government is always subordinate to the will of those who administer that machinery. ..." (1/2)

🥳 We added new attributes to HTML to enhance <input type=color>: webkit.org/blog/16900/p...

definitely worth a listen art19.com/shows/philos...

I find myself nodding in agreement with Josh and the points he so eloquently puts forward

“But fundamentally, all Transformer-based AI models are pattern-matching machines. [...] These models excel at standard problems where step-by-step procedures align with patterns in their training data but collapse when facing novel proof challenges requiring much deeper mathematical insight.”

haven't done a chain thing in forever. chenhuijing.com/blog/tag-you... tagging @csswizardry.com and @zellwk.bsky.social if you feel like joining the chain too

Could There Be an Impossible Color You’ve Never Seen? Prepare to Have Your Mind Blown! weandthecolor.com/impossible-c... #colors

What Happens If They Sell Chrome? | @igalia.com - Open Source Consultancy and Development @chriscoyier.net - Very interesting and relevant conversation www.igalia.com/chats/chris-...

"Our default tech business model has become extractive, like part of a strip-mining operation. Consumers—and now creative works (used for training AI)—are treated as a natural resource to be milked and exploited." - @benjedwards.com www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/ar...

i would love for this to be a thing sooner than later

now that i think about it, the people who i know who have their own websites are all folks who work on the web, and not the average person on the interwebs 😐 thehistoryoftheweb.com/our-online-h...

does anyone either write CSS in CSS files or does Drupal today? 🤔 chenhuijing.com/blog/the-cas...

this is one of the best things i've seen on the interwebs in a while 😍 blog.glyphdrawing.club/font-with-bu...

this is gorgeous

There it is! Finally, a real solution for how to style all of the HTML form controls using your own custom CSS to change anything — building on an interoperable UA set of defaults. First, styling the in-page part of controls + the popover for <select>. (Later we’ll do popovers for more things.)

you can feel how much Marcin Wichary loves and appreciates fonts and typography in general. also, Shift Happens is one of the best purchases i've ever made in my life. 🥰

how to gain code execution on millions of people and hundreds of popular apps and of course, firebase was (partially) the cause kibty.town/blog/todeskt...

this is a really interesting proposal, lots of think about

“The problem is that "simple" is used to mean both "not complicated" and "not complex". And everybody agrees that "complicated" and "complex" are different, even if they can't agree what the difference is.”

a detailed walkthrough of the process of fixing a browser bug 🐞 www.otsukare.info/2025/02/21/r...

Journal: The web on mobile Technically, websites can do just about anything that native apps can do. And yet the actual experience of using the web on mobile is worse than ever. 🔗https://adactio.com/journal/21728

"These are not tools designed for us to benefit from, but tools designed to exploit us. To poison our access to jobs, and our access to information at the same time."

First blog post of 2025, with content I came up with in 2024 乁⁠(⁠ ⁠•⁠_⁠•⁠ ⁠)⁠ㄏ (actually it's content from the iJSCon talk) chenhuijing.com/blog/learnin...

“All of industrial/technological civilization is really on the wrong track, because its drive and energy are purely mechanical and self-serving — real values are someplace else. The real values are within nature, family, mind, and into liberation…”

👉 Yours truly over at CSS Tricks: Revisiting CSS Multi-Column Layout https://css-tricks.com/revisiting-css-multi-column-layout/ It's crazy to think that this is my first time writing for CSS Tricks.

If you want to get into web platform development and push features into browsers, I wrote a few words that I hope can be useful: blog.yoav.ws/posts/so_you...

🧠 Some brief thoughts on front-end frameworks and upgrade hell: csswizardry.com/2025/01/buil...

i wholeheartedly agree with this concept. www.benkuhn.net/blub/

“Having a good mix of native and web developers is the key to building great mobile apps using React Native in our experience. 100% React Native should be an anti-goal. It is great for building features just once, but is not the right technology for everything.” shopify.engineering/five-years-o...

There's work happening to let you add lines between CSS grid cells, in the column or row gaps. Can you help name the keywords for behavior of lines at intersections? Or do you have thoughts on the default behavior? If so comment on the issue github.com/w3c/csswg-dr...

I'm those old-style scroll people. so ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

“You won’t be a master at frontend development if you don’t understand underlying mechanisms of a language.” helloanselm.com/writings/kno...

“LLMs absolutely warrant criticism. We need to be talking through these problems, finding ways to mitigate them and helping people learn how to use these tools responsibly in ways where the positive applications outweigh the negative.”