✍️ New post: The Shape of Friction I wrote a short blog post reply to @davatron5000.bsky.social’s recent post (👏) about generative AI, friction, and people. matthiasott.com/notes/the-sh...

Hero of the first movie coming back in the third for one last job.

> In the end [JPEG XL] is just a codec and the the main purpose of it is to allow you to forget that there *is* a codec – and to just use images. For me [codecs are] very interesting at the technical level, but the goal is to just make images work seamlessly. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t2w...

Temporal is now Stage 4 at TC39 🎂🎂🎂 Thanks to all the other champions of JavaScript's new date-time API. It has been a wild ride over many years! I wrote a blog post explaining how we got here 📜 bloomberg.github.io/js-blog/post...

'Twas a time when there was nothing about the lower-levels of the web stack that Google couldn't re-think and push to the whole industry. This is the Apple-iest possible version of that. Hope it's more QUIC than AMP. Or maybe it's just tiny tweaks? I'm so curious! www.apple.com/studio-displ...

Implementing some old math... you know the math’s good when the paper describing it opens like the Declaration of Independence *and* they didn't know how to spell.

The ’possum is running wild: Eleventy is becoming Build Awesome. Same open source core, a much bigger future. Watch our video and support us on Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/fon...

A fun thing about the OKLCH color space is that it's easy to specify colors that are impossible to see or create. “Imaginary” colors; purely mathematical constructs that don't represent anything about the human experience of vision. Fun! observablehq.com/d/af510b6715...

In all of my (dashed) excitement about getting sizes=auto into Interop I'd missed that Vincent Hilla over at Mozilla submitted a Gecko patch! phabricator.services.mozilla.com/D281911 Needs significant revision; might have revealed the need for some spec clarifications; GREAT NEWS

My (cracked-screen, 12-year-old) Wacom Cintiq received its last driver update in June, and Wacom won't make it work with Tahoe or any future macOS. Boo! But! Today! I Found! opentabletdriver.net Here's to another 12

🦥 A fun update over on the blog: 🦥 Standard HTML Video & Audio Lazy-loading is Coming! scottjehl.com/posts/lazy-m...

*web frameworks klaxon* If you work on a web framework then there is a w3c proposed community group: the Web Frameworks Community Group, a place for framework folk to feedback to browser vendors about what they want to see! If you want this it needs your support! www.w3.org/community/gr...

This week, we have the absolute pleasure of having @sneyers.info , the creator of the JPEG-XL for the next episode of the SPDY STREAM. Discussions? All things JPEG-XL, the modern 📸 format . Join us. ✨ SPDY STREAM 24 ✨ 📆 Thursday Feb 19th ⏰ 1pm EST, 7pm CET 🔗 www.youtube.com/live/eGPo8rN...

go hawks (they knew what twd!)

I had a lot of fun winning this eBay auction for my wife (all proceeds went to @abortionfunds.bsky.social). Go Hawks

www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/hea... is a hard listen and worth your time

@yoav.ws In github.com/Shopify/auto..., you use Largest Contentful Paint as a proxy for "images have been laid out". I've been setting a ResizeObservers on each image and responding after the first non-zero layout size. This also prevents gBRC from triggering a layout I think? Thoughts?

Blink: Intent to Prototype: Lazy loading for video and audio elements

It looks like style() container queries are enabled in @firefoxnightly.bsky.social - this is one of the features I'm looking forward to most. Especially with range queries starting to roll out. @ container style(--progress > 80%) { background: green; } bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi...

Ok... the time is near... let's all visualize github.com/web-platform... being closed accepted... envision it... imagine it... together, we can *do* it... we can manifest it! I believe in us!!!

Oooo it's been a while since we had a new tag type for HTML! I'm hoping this can unlock things like declarative CSS highlights groups.google.com/a/chromium.o...

My contract is ending at the end of February and so I’d like to find a new role ASAP. I am a senior-level design systems developer / design technologist / front-of-the-frontend developer that specializes in web accessibility. I work remotely from my home in Winnipeg, Canada. 🇨🇦 Shares appreciated!

Trying to figure out how to publish some HDR photos... AVIFs and JXLs don't paint consistently enough across browsers/OSes yet, but: JPEGs with gain maps are freaking enormous. ericportis.com/etc/hdr-test...

@tunetheweb.com Are Chrome's specific candidate requirements for LCP elements documented anywhere? Asking for a friend (really!) front-end.social/@eeeps/11598...

🎉 Live from the CSS WG F2F: We just agreed to support multiple borders and outlines per element, comma-separated! But we can’t decide on the order: inside out or outside in? What feels more natural to you, A or B? (it needs to be the same across borders and outlines or different box-sizing values)

He ain’t lyin’ about that table.

My book, Accessibility For Everyone, is now free and online as a website. accessibilityforeveryone.site The book was first published by A Book Apart in 2017 but it holds up! It covers web accessibility for designers, developers, content folks, and really everyone who works in tech.

Incandescent lighting: it's what <del>plants</del><ins>retinal mitochondria</ins> crave! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

One little thing you can do if you’re feeling helpless tonight: throw a few bucks to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota. They’re reportedly stretched thin for obvious reasons and could use some help if you can offer it. www.ilcm.org?ref=badfaith...

Giving Canary's (Rust!) JXL decoder a whirl with @jakearchibald.com’s image decoder benchmark. On my machine it's "only" twice as slow as Safari, which is using the highly-optimized C++ library.

This is a great read so far. Enjoying the blend of history and simple examples browser.engineering

And: a loathed fork

You've heard of OkLCH? Get ready for: OkLrCH. codepen.io/eeeps/pen/bN... (The little 'r' improves lightness gradients across the SDR range.)

I have become emotionally attached to the three remaining cookies.

Merry Christmas! This is your yearly reminder that mistletoes, uniquely among ALL known multicellular life, do not have working mitochondria. What the fuck? Biology is fake.

Have you been wishing masonry layouts would just hurry up and arrive in CSS?? Well, happy holidays! webkit.org/blog/17660/i...

You know it's been a minute since I blogged on the ol' company blog. What better time to pick that habit back up than uh the Friday uhhh before Christmas??? cloudinary.com/blog/hacktob...

Read Erika's beautiful description. Think about how you would describe this amazing photograph to a friend. The alt text is: "Image may contain Gail Graham Blazer Clothing Coat Jacket Formal Wear Suit Face Head Person and Photography"

Oh just validating my priors and thinking about essential vs inessential complexity whilst reading through the State of HTML `srcset` + `sizes` survey comments

It’s so cool that every website is just Like This now. We used to send guys to the chair for putting pop-up ads on their sites. Now if I want to read something I have to read single lines between autoplaying video ads that use so much RAM they force the browser to reload every 5 seconds.

U+2E1A HYPHEN WITH DIAERESIS is just a lil' guy ⸚

6 years of thinking I can make a better portfolio. 1 year of actually building it. My new portfolio is LIVE 🚀 Please, don't break anything! 👉 bruno-simon.com

This is horrific for all of the obvious structurally-racist bias perpetuation reasons and also: way too detailed/specific? Haven't these people read Understanding Comics??

Lazy passkey question: is there a way to log into things in non-Safari browsers using passkeys stored in Apple's Passwords.app, without having to get my phone out and scan a QR code? The iCloud Passwords Chrome extension isn't doin' it for me.

You too can make a tiny, fixed-width website in the year of our lord 2025 ⚡️ lynnandtonic.com

Speculation Rules on touch devices (where there's no hover) is a hard problem but it sounds like Chrome's making some good progress? htmhell.dev/adventcalend...

I think it's fair to criticize the Chromium project for apparently getting the initial cost/benefit prediction wrong on JPEG XL. But the fact that JPEG XL is moving forward anyway is a success to be celebrated in the consensus-forming process of the web platform! groups.google.com/a/chromium.o...

As a pescatarian who lives all the way up and all the way to the left: - Blackened cod at Ursa Minor - Filled sourdough donut at Seabird Bakeshop - Butterscotch pudding at Acorn (in Denver) - Breakfeast at Hell's Backbone Grill (in Utah) - A single freaking hay-smoked carrot at Ælder (now Houlme)