centralised design system components that rely on a specific front-end framework has always felt like such an anti-pattern. framework lock-in from day one is wild. i'm sure i'm missing something but switching to framework-agnostic web components has been so freeing.

✍️ New post: Lazy and Prompt The story of Chrome 148 could have been about @scottjehl.com’s amazing lazy loading for video and audio 👏 – until Google decided to shove the Prompt API down our throats. matthiasott.com/notes/lazy-a...

John Oliver, my celebrity crush, on AI. youtu.be/Ykvf3MunGf8?...

Currently at 973 sites on PersonalSit.es. Come on! Submit your site! Lets get this thing to a thousand! Haven't got a personal site? No worries. Go make one (then submit it)! #IndieWeb #SmallWeb

That’s one way to get all your users over to the competition. Did I mention Zed already? 😃

Zed is 1.0 🎉 Since the beginning of this year I’ve switched from VSCode to Zed and never looked back. Such a fast and clean editor. zed.dev/blog/zed-1-0

My new CSS course is out 🥳, The Layout Maestro. It's all about teaching you how to think and decide what CSS to use. Here is a peek from inside the content.

You know what I’m talking about. bell.bz/wait-it-out/

Can someone make me some merch that says “fund your design system” so I can rest my voice?

“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them." — Frank Herbert, Dune

Been thinking about the Web platform & it's pretty incredible what #CSS can do now compared to what it did when I started in this field 14 years ago. We went from having too little to having almost too much (if you think how many of the new features you use day to day) Imagine where we'll go next!

This hits home “even if you can ignore the environmental impact, the job losses, the ethics, the theft of intellectual property... how sad that we let AI rob us of the simple human joy of learning, of creating, of growing” — @kestr.al

So, I'm attending @cssday.nl again this year! Looking forward to all that front-end goodness 🎉

CSS Day, 11th and 12th of June, just announced @brucel.bsky.social and @ohhelloana.blog as their 2026 MCs. cssday.nl Ticket sales will open later this month. We'll announce the early-bird tickets on our mailing list first. Subscribe to be notified ASAP! cssday.nl/subscribe

my best code is written in a two-step process: 1. kludge a working prototype together, don’t worry about the code AT ALL. the point is understanding how the requirements function in reality 2. destroy the prototype completely. build the app for real using my better mental model

Can we quickly appreciate how powerful CSS has become and what a beautiful snippet this is? 👏 una.im/range-style-...

use it, don’t fight it

I often see the word 'kerning' used incorrectly by CSS heads when the term they're actually looking for to describe letter spacing is 'tracking'. Let me explain using CSS terminology! Tracking is the same as gap in flex layouts; consistent spacing applied across the entire text. But what if... 🧵

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If you’re generating an image for your article with AI, you didn’t need one in the first place

AT #smashingconf, @tkadlec.bsky.social is reminding us that betting on the browser (rather than JavaScript abstractions) is our best chance of long-term success.

Even setting politics aside: I honestly can't name a single reason to use NextJS in 2025, aside from "because everyone else is." It has literally no unique benefit or unbeatable feature. Apparently our moms misjudged us; it turns out a lot of us *would* jump off a cliff if all our friends did.

❌ mobile first ✅ container first

Build for the web, Build on the web, Build with the web. An excellent take from @csswizardry.com on progressive enhancement, SPA frameworks and staying as close to the platform as possible. csswizardry.com/2025/01/buil...

I wrote a short article about the :heading pseudo-class and function. alvaromontoro.com/tutorial/hea... It includes a little interactive section where you can play with the values and see how the affect the headings on the side. #css #webdev

Ran my first half marathon today 🥵

CSS `field-sizing` on a `<textarea>` is obviously awesome. But the horizontal growth using it on an `<input>` is less clearly useful to me. But check out this design pattern I cooked up. I don't hate it. Keeps the name area compact until you need to see more. Just a bit of flexbox wrapping.

New on the blog: A Social Media Detox for the Soul blog.stephaniestimac.com/posts/2025/0...

This why I started moving all my repos to @Codeberg@social.anoxinon.de Currently I’m also pushing to GitHub as a mirror. Contemplating if I just should move off completely. Original post: front-end.social/@hdv/1150111...

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I got a 445 points knowledge score on this year's #StateOfHTML survey! I have used 28 features, and knew 33 more, placing me in the top 100% of all respondents. Can you beat my score? survey.devographics.com/survey/state...

Heydon Pickering takes a fresh look the Every Layout Sidebar layout, 6 years on, to see if modern CSS selectors can improve it. piccalil.li/blog/a-revis...

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Happy "European Accessibility Act goes into effect" week to all who celebrate

TFW you build a site with @getkirby.com and web platform standards (== semantic HTML, modern CSS, a little bit of JavaScript, and a dash of ARIA) and you look at Lighthouse for the first time … Looks like industry best practices actually work. (Sorry for using my platform to ruin anyone’s day. 🥰) 🍋

We used to build websites. Now we build pipelines, frameworks, and hydration strategies - just to publish text. This isn’t progress. It’s complexity, by design. We need to escape the JavaScript framework trap. www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/j...

Long time goal of mine to get all these arrows up at the same time 💪🏼

Nine out of ten times, ‘$browser is slow’ is code for ‘my own website is a massive memory hog and I’m not about to admit that’. Browser engines do a ton of work to mitigate that, but we keep coming out with worse performing websites.

Strong words by Alex Russell at JSNation today.

And don't forget to take the State of CSS 2025 survey when you're not watching #cssday talks. survey.devographics.com/en-US/survey...

Back home from yet another awesome #CSSDay! Now it’s time to let it all sink in and start fresh and anew coming week 🎉

@hidde.blog say it. Say it. Say that we need to remove React 🤣

These must be the real stars of @cssday.nl #cssday

»Instead of pixel perfection, focus more on the Look & Feel« — @ishadeed.com on Smart Layouts @cssday.nl

Next up: @ishadeed.com #cssday

#cssday day 2! Next up: @chriscoyier.net

Pre #cssday workout 🏃🏻

Hello Damsko! #cssday

The 2025 State of CSS survey is now open! survey.devographics.com/en-US/survey...

I’ve scored 490 points in the state of CSS 2025 survey. 🎉 survey.devographics.com/en-US/survey...