me, buying a book written by someone who I've never met but we sometimes like each other's posts on Bluesky: my friend wrote this

First week back in a job complete. I am so very very lucky to have joined this team 🥰

Happy 23rd Birthday CSS Zen Garden! In May 2003 the Canadian web designer Dave Shea launched a community gallery of websites called CSS Zen Garden. #WebDesignHistory

It comes with free frogurt. (This is beautiful).

Anyway look at this face!

Twas the night before I have to go to an OFFICE and do a JOB for the first time in THIRTEEN YEARS and I am making a roast and my stomach is sick and it’s all in my head and (I’m excited and happy really, just BIG CHANGE)

youtu.be/-JJAXwAaA2w happy Placebo day to all who celebrate.

Last week of freelance was overshadowed by the stress of having to move house at the same time as starting a new job. Always everything at once 🫠 went and got a Covid jab. As a treat.

God I hate tailwind

Feels absolutely wild to say this, but after thirteen years… this is my last week of freelance. I’m very excited about new job with a team I love, and so so so very grateful to all my clients. Had a little cry this evening sorting more handovers. It’s an ✨emotional✨ big feelings kind of time.

New friend.

The past few weeks I've been using #SHAPR3D + 3D Printing to make my own ergonomic 'camera case' for my #GoPro, using it as a stills fisheye camera rather than an action sports cam! I just uploaded it to Makerworld for you to download & print yourself! 👉https://makerworld.com/en/models/2700328

I still maintain he had some spots removed for health reasons, and the extra-pinkness is alcoholism.

americans trying to explain mobile web navigation: imagine a hamburger

bless the CSS people. my tech news feed is all AI but the CSS people are still styling and just doing their thing because its fun and they love it and they make neat things. my heroes.

100%. Thinking on paper remains the only method that truly works for me.

Oh cool, my landlord is one of the ones evicting people before the new renters rights legislation comes in next month. How lovely. Not stressful or upsetting at all. Timing nicely with potential surgery. What fun. 🫠

I’m officially declaring kidney stones as hell. Never experienced anything like this. Three kinds of painkillers and it’s still horrendous when it gets bad. What everyone says is true. 🫠

My left kidney has a 1.6cm angiomyolipoma which I call Joe for short (which makes sense, angio-joe). It seems this kidney loves to grow things because who was crying in A&E early this morning due to a 6mm kidney stone? Never had pain like it. Fucking Joe.

It's been offline for a couple of months due to hosting issues, but the Video Game Soda Machine Project archive is back online again. If you've ever wanted to browse through more than 3,000 screenshots of soda machines from video games dating back as far as 1983, this is the site for you.

Two months. Five devs (including me). One infuriating problem we couldn’t solve. Me today, mid-sentence about something unrelated: *brain does an unscheduled reboot followed by a loading spinner* holy shit it’s THIS. It was in fact that.

sometimes i’ll leave the prefix to the query params in the domain, like the URL is a question 😌

BREAKING: I'm tired

hi pls read this thread i am 40 and going through much of the same and yet we must power through in spite of it all

Someone just pronounced it gif and I can’t

Eating cold roast potatoes in the glow of the fridge. Sunday.

Did she bite my toe? Yes. Do I love her? Also yes.

Out with :nth-child(), in with :sibling-index()! Just so satisfying to use. * no Firefox yet

Amazing

Nothing like a site going down at 5pm on a Friday…

"When it comes to front-end development, that line is for me to stay as close as I can to raw HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. After all, that’s what users are going to get in their browsers." Another control freak here, checking in.

it’s important to keep caring about how things work and how they’re built

New gif or gif anyone?

perhaps the best part of this is that ‘continvoucly morging on the tim axis’ is something you could actually get me to believe is possible somewhere in git due to it’s basically psychopathic DX

love a bit of continvouclous morging

🎉 Last week I celebrated 25 years since first registering my domain jam-factory.com, which means it's been a quarter of a century making work under the name Jamfactory! 🎉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-Vf...

We all know that person, who does the invisible work, who quietly coordinates and holds projects together. They sadly rarely get credit for it though. It’s hard to measure, and often overlooked. We need to find leaders who can see and reward this invisible work.

Finally catching up on all the new CSS magic and have watched so many @kevinpowell.co videos my thoughts are now in his voice. What an incredible trove of knowledge, go have a watch! And please Firefox, you used to be the cool one, let us have nice things.

The best game

My friend and I are testing pasta brands at the moment, based on a slightly obsessive Reddit thread. Friend has just found this new pasta obsessive Reddit thread and I am so here for it, although I do like farfalle 😂 www.reddit.com/r/Cooking/co...

Announcing The CSS Selection! 📰 www.projectwallace.com/the-css-sele... 📚 100,000 websites ⏱️ 100+ metrics 🔖 7 chapters The biggest deep-dive ever into real-world use of CSS across the globe. Dive in and find out some hidden gems. Also, see how much of 'the new CSS' is actually used!

My plans for today

Judging these also made me happy 🐓

I promised myself I’d take regular time off this year, today is one of the days. All I’ve done is read about CSS and eat crisps.

Dreamweaver, is that you?

The Index is 11 away from 4k subscribers. I'm not much of a metrics enjoyer, but it would be nice to hit that milestone for sure. piccalil.li/the-index/

Hi

That thing where you go to redesign your blog and realise you never finished your branding... sidequest?

!IMPORTANANANT?!

The journey continues: a website that has 75 rules NESTED 37 LEVELS DEEP It seems caused by a `<style id="wp-custom-css">` block (oh, the horror!). All media queries are missing a closing `}` making each one level deeper than the previous.