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this is such a beautiful read. discovered somaFM. and am glad i'm still writing on my 12yo (and counting) blog. not for views, not for money (never earned a cent from it), but just because i feel like it.

i love the dialog element, did i ever announce my love for the dialog element? so many features out-of-the-box. even though that's not the main point of this. doing my best to write vanilla HTML, CSS and TS (just cos the job wants me to, i don't mind TS or JS tbh) chenhuijing.com/blog/buildin...

✏️ Open web vs AI: what can W3C do? hidde.blog/web-ai-break... high-level write-up of last week's W3C AC breakout, where we talked about threats to the open web and what to do next. Thanks to @mnot.net @benwerd.eurosky.social @ouvre-boite.com and others for talking/writing about this before.

this is absolutely gorgeous 😍

this is kinda unhinged but in the BEST way possible. also, checkout @jack.cab's main home page, it is a work of art.

i do agree with Adam here, i've found myself saying multiple times to some of my colleagues, who to be fair, are not career web developers themselves, that i write my HTML and CSS by hand because the AI simply cannot create what i have in my head in the concise code that i want the output to be.

“Even if something is easy to build with, it might not be as easy to keep running. We cannot "abandon" mission-critical technology.”

my favouritest CSS artist on the interwebs!

Love this deep dive explainer on how JPEG compression works www.sophielwang.com/blog/jpeg

tried @codepen.io's new 2.0 interface, works pretty well with Typescript, and that bare module specifier which pulls your project's npm packages for you is pretty neat 🤓 codepen.io/editor/huiji...

2 posts in a week, the sky might be falling. no i'm kidding, please don't fall, sky. this time we think about how to tell people to about fees when transferring funds. chenhuijing.com/blog/designi...

"Artificial intelligence is an extractive technology that relies on the brutal labor of underpaid workers around the world. For years, the work of African data labelers has been more or less “ghost work,” the unseen, hidden labor that lets American tech companies build their products."

got more acquainted with BigInt after starting this job. still don't like basis points. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Who called git, and how Claude was caught red-handed by @eclecticlight.co.web.brid.gy, quite an interesting read. eclecticlight.co/2026/03/17/w...

this is the most amazing CSS thing i've seen on the interwebs for a while. i know very little about x86 and can barely write a C program that does more than Hello World or add two single digits together. but this is absolutely blowing my mind 🤯

this is very clever imho.

I did not know Bloomberg has a JS blog, nor did I know about its JavaScript Infrastructure and Terminal Experience team. What I did know is that I had heard about Temporal for years. I understood that it was massive and it was hard to implement but it would make dates and time in JS make sense.

Back in 2015, I had a template called blank-html which was the most basic setup for me to build and experiment with HTML, CSS and JS. I had used Gulp 3 as the task runner. Over the years, minor upgrades were made, Gulp 4, remove node-sass etc. I think it's time for a major rehaul to use Vite 8 🤓

New blog post! I added Bluesky likes and liker avatars to my #Astro blog. No API keys, no server-side code, just pure delightful #webcomponents. Here's how I went from "I want that" to "it's live" in about an hour: loige.co/how-i-added-...

“…LLMs will make formal methods go mainstream, but being easily able to write specifications doesn't help with correctness if the specs don't actually verify anything.” but like @hillelwayne.com says, maybe this will all be laughably obsolete come June ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

“But simply watching work happen, without any of the creative, autonomous activity that would occur if they were doing the work themselves, gives rise to a degree of boredom and stupefaction that can be physically painful and spiritually debilitating.”

”We are witnessing a civilizational "race to the middle," where the complexity of human thought is sacrificed on the altar of algorithmic smoothness.”

i love a solid debugging the browser write-up

A bit of a vulnerable post by me but we need your help to get us through what has been a more difficult period than 2020. It would be really appreciated if you could read and share in your networks too 💛 bell.bz/its-been-a-v...

my first web conference of 2026. thank you to Aris Markogiannakis for letting me MC your fantastic conference 🫶🏻 it was so nice to catch up with folks i haven't seen in years 🤓

watching @wesbos.com speed-run CSS on @syntax.fm is the kind of compelling content i wanna watch on my off day www.youtube.com/watch?v=S98u...

oooooo i didn't know about this one 🤓

"Software development is thinking made tangible. The artifacts we create—whether COBOL programs, Delphi forms, or Python scripts—are the visible outcome of invisible reasoning about complexity." [email protected] www.caimito.net/en/blog/2025...

"It’s really tempting to say that you’re just “using the resources you have” when you use a simple query here and there, but your brain is the best resource you’ll have for the rest of your life, and you should keep it sharp." @cassidoo.co Do not give up your brain 🔗 cassidoo.co/post/good-br...

love a good non-English CSS typography post 🫶🏻

Fun isn’t a distraction from learning, it’s how we learn best. The web is still a playful playground: open a text editor, try something weird, learn something new. Let's all keep the web fun, weird, and wonderful! ➡️ patrickbrosset.com/articles/202...

“agents make code cheaper. they do not make judgment cheap.” –@threepointone.bsky.social sunilpai.dev/posts/seven-...

“The skill isn’t being right. It’s entering discussions to align on the problem, creating space for others, and remaining skeptical of your own certainty.” –@addyosmani.bsky.social These are all good lessons for us who work in tech. addyosmani.com/blog/21-less...

“This is not because producers are careless, but because once production is cheap enough, junk is what maximises volume, margin, and reach. The result is not abundance of the best things, but overproduction of the most consumable ones.”

Today the CSS Working Group resolved to rename the property that lets you adjust the tolerance of how content lays out in CSS Grid Lanes to `flow-tolerance`! Just updated the article about it with the new name. webkit.org/blog/17660/i...

what a beautiful project ❤️

✏️ Dear Mozilla, I don't want an “Al kill switch”, I want a more responsible approach for all a new blog post! (*I do want the kill switch, but responsible rollout matters even more in the grand scheme of things) hidde.blog/mozilla-ai-k...

I love that a video codec won an emmy ❤️ aomedia.org/press%20rele...

this was such a lovely piece. and i truly believe that the best test of how well you understand something is being able to explain it to anybody at their level

found out about html day from this awesomely cool project by Daniel Lazaro: github.com/dnlzro/horiz... plus it's built on Astro 🫶🏻

not sure if non-Chinese speaking folks are able to generate translated captions for this but if you know me, you know that Chinese typography is one of my favourite things. this is a fascinating look into the MingKwai typewriter. youtu.be/yNoWMaOyWHY

“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...