For a long time, my email list stressed me out. Not because of writing emails. But because every month, the cost made me feel like I had to sell something. When the pressure disappeared, everything felt lighter. I did this by changing my email list provider.

I changed my email list provider a few months ago. Best decision I’ve made in a long time. $141/month → $8 last month. That single change removed a background anxiety I’d been carrying for years.

If you’re tired, overwhelmed, or just don’t feel like digging through CSS… Open the Computed tab and search the property directly. It’s like the Styles panel, but without the noise.

Restarting feels like picking through the ashes of your previous effort. You see everything you wish went differently. And you move anyway. That movement — that tiny, shaky step — is a major milestone towards your future success.

Love how @zellwk.bsky.social goes down a rabbit hole on CSS composition: 1. CSS is composable by nature. 2. You can do composition in HTML or in CSS. ...and ultimately: 3. Styles can be divided into four categories: layouts, typography, theming, and effects. css-tricks.com/composition-...

Kids don’t listen to you until you can open your heart to them and with them. And they still won’t listen to you. But maybe they will allow you to accompany them to do what you want them to do. (Like Homework, for example).

Be present in this moment vs planning and working out the future. What to choose? Be present now as you work out the future.

A Primer on Focus Trapping, by @zellwk.bsky.social (@[email protected]): https://css-tricks.com/a-primer-on-focus-trapping/ #introductions #focus #keyboardnavigation #javascript #accessibility

What is dead may never die What is alive may die anytime A human’s heart keeps thumping to keep him alive. What’s the thumping heart that keeps your dreams alive?

The unfortunate part about setting goals is the erosion of trust in yourself if you don’t fulfill those goals. Incredible slippery slope. Be careful what you wish for. But be bold to ask for what you truly want. Paradoxical. But not.

This was one of the things I’ve been super excited about lately 2024. Finally got to blogging and releasing the details behind building this cool stuff.

One of the hardest parts about entrepreneurship is learning to keep expenses low. It’s easy to succumb to the possibility and hype that something will work out — and overspend. But what if it doesn’t work out? True story that took a pretty difficult fall to learn.

TIL that honeypot fields still work today — no need for recaptcha or other annoying solutions that users don’t really like. Blog post about this coming soon.

I'm also quite misaligned with almost every tool out there that states yearly payment in monthly terms.

I'm actually quite sick of Adobe's pricing methods. I only needed Photoshop and Lightroom for a month. I saw they have a discounted plan and I jumped on it... only to discover later that I gotta "pay up the difference" for the "yearly plan" (that was stated in monthly payments).

I realize I soak up on people’s energy quite unconsciously as I read thru stuff. Letting myself know that it’s okay to let go of all of those energies — and that I don’t have to do anything about them — allows me to lighten and unload.

Finally just gonna be brave and release this openly: splendidlabz.com/solutions/la...

Just wanna have a place to sulk 😦 Family got caught up in a scam case, losing 80k in the process. This is related to a corporate account, so I am hoping the amount hasn't actually been cleared yet... Need some prayers. Thanks.

@cssweekly.com Zoran, here's the article where I talk about how I use CSS Cascade Layers in the real world. (One aspect of it at least). It's been many months away from your original question, so it might have been late. But hope this helps you somewhat. css-tricks.com/using-css-ca...

Finally got multi-turn chat working with Astro + Svelte + Turso (for DB). Streaming is a new challenge that I have just sorta conquered!

Personal blogs and even social media seems to gain some form of traction if the person can be known for one thing — this statement seems to be an illusion.

Creating a proper LLM Chat Interface is a pretty involved process — not easy. It's been two days and I'm still struggling to figure things out.

One thing to remember — AI information is often outdated. So take that with a pinch of salt if you're in a fast-moving industry like what we're in. For stable things, they might be accurate. But still, check to be sure. Cos you wanna ensure you don't take in hallucinations unknowingly.

Of all the possible things that I can do, it feels really difficult to box myself in publicly and say “I’m a X”. At the same time, that’s what most people are able or willing to accept, given the small amount of attention each one of us can now give to others

Hm. Am I the only person who finds LangGraph extremely extremely extremely confusing? 🤔. I'm not sure what I'm not getting here.

Playing around with Claude Code now, I can begin to see that future App Creation Scaffolds can easily be done via LLMs. That would be an interesting way to begin new projects instead of copy-pasting from old projects.

2 articles, 5600 words, in 3 days (not full days) Pretty difficult for me to look back and say I’m not productive — which has been the general statement I keep blasting myself with.

Tailwind has an opinionated approach (I know, shocker) to layering styles. @zellwk.bsky.social has a less "orthodox" way to go about it, interestingly using the !important keyword to prioritize his styles. css-tricks.com/using-css-ca...

A few clever ideas that @zellwk.bsky.social has for making the MutationObserver and IntersectionObserver easier to use with a little refactoring. css-tricks.com/a-better-api...

Nice!

A Better API for the Resize Observer from @zellwk.bsky.social css-tricks.com/a-better-api... #FrontEnd #WebDev #JavaScript

Resize Observer is a good API that is more performant than its older counterpart. But it can sort of look messy in practice, particularly without comments. @zellwk.bsky.social has a couple of thoughts for making it easier to use. css-tricks.com/a-better-api...

You can now play with CSS gap decoration in Chromium 139+! Learn more: developer.chrome.com/blog/gap-dec... Try it out (current Canary w/experimental web platform features flag): microsoftedge.github.io/Demos/css-ga...

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I'm a very different kind of user then. Astro allowed me to begin using frameworks — without having to submit to an entire ecosystem of framework-ness. Now, being better at Svelte,I've created Svelte Component that work ON TOP OF ASTRO DIRECTLY — without having to write extra Svelte files.

New on the blog: Streaming capabilities come to zlFetch zellwk.com/blog/streami...

I just created a Github Sponsor Profile. github.com/sponsors/zel... Let's see how this goes! :D

AI is REALLY AMAZING at writing API documentation — just the style I want and love to read. So damn bloody clear. Coming soon to splendidlabz.com 😉

I don't know why complaining helps me so much. I found the solution RIGHT AFTER I complained. Not the first time this sort thing happened. Maybe I should rant more? (lol).

Agentic AI broke my system. 🤔.

Thinking about AI and storage. TIL. We can safely store 100kb directly in databases most of the time. That's about 170,000 words.

I'm starting to keep a log of the things I've done. Can't say "I haven't done anything" or "haven't done much" as I face this mountain of checked tasks.

Ok cool. After months of not publishing anything. Here's something that would be useful :) zellwk.com/blog/making-...

Writing is difficult when you don’t know who you are writing to, but writing becomes much easier when you do. That “audience” is often people you have created in your head. More people means more points of view, which means they become harder to please.

I just learned that octopuses pick up shells and throw them at the targets they don’t like, including other octopuses 🐙 😭

When faced with a blank, what do I talk about? I don’t know. One of the ways out of this, is to begin talking — anything really — and allow the expression channel to open again. I’ve been keeping quiet for so long that I “forgot” how to talk.

I followed a few accounts outside of the tech field — revolving around comedies and AI. It’s incredible to see the amount stuff thrown around that would make a person feel catastrophic about the things that are going on in the world.

I totally forgot that it’s perfectly okay to have a normal conversation here on Bluesky — and honestly just about anywhere. There’s no need to play the algorithm game all the damn time. Make connections, people! Have fun! Life is too short to submit to the algo.

I’ve been quietly making updating the docs for Splendid Layouts to use Tailwind 4. splendidlabz.com/docs/layouts... Progress is coming along smoothly. Should be able to release the updated version in 2-3 weeks.

I feel like an idiot. Working with AI has been much simpler than I think it would be. I’ve complicated things way too much and stopped myself from succeeding in the process.