I've found a Chrome-only bug in anchor-positioning (it works as expected in Firefox and Safari), who do I talk to? is it @una.im ?

The limitations of anchor postioning likely make a lot of sense in terms of not making it possible to crash browsers, but are frustrating because I can’t find a way to do the cool stuff I want to do — like having a line connecting an span in the main content area to an area in a sticky sidebar.

Annoyingly you can't use anchor positioning in scroll-margin or scroll-padding, so if you want to account for a sticky header with internal links on a page you still seem to be stuck with magic numbers.

Has anyone ever gone with a convention of defining their CSS animation duration in terms of frames rather than absolute duration? e.g calc(16ms * 8) cc @jhey.dev maybe?

A missed opportunity that's potentially loosely related to the design of CSS anchor positioning is the ability to do "position: sticky" but without the annoying constraints about parent elements If you don't have full control over document structure it's super restrictive

Is there a way to batch React state updates across multiple event handlers that happen in the same tick? Use case: I have a side panel that uses an “on outside click” hook to close it, but it’s possible the thing you’ve clicked would actually reopen it.

I wish CSS layers defining stacking layers rather than cascade layers.

I got free coffee this morning thanks to the Cloudflare outage so I don't know what everyone is complaining about.

It should be possible to define svg path points using child elements rather than the `d` attribute, then they could be individually positioned with CSS, eg anchor positioning @jakearchibald.com make happen plzkthx

Is it me or are the latest versions of the Apple TV YouTube app kinda trash? Scrolling feels terrible.

I have a mild distaste for state management libraries that default to assuming any given bundle of state only exists once (i.e is effectively global), such that making it work in a scoped fashion is often quick finicky.

It’s somewhat annoying how much easier it is to take good aurora photos with an iPhone than with a chonky camera. This was a few minutes ago by the side of a road in Iceland.

Is there a way to do this glowy gradient button without the extra element? codepen.io/andy-ingram/... cc @jhey.dev @nerdy.dev @kevinpowell.co

2020-2023 was probably the worst time to start any large TypeScript codebase

One thing I’d add is that if your reaction to a pattern is “urgh that seems like extra work” rather than “this is the right way, it’s a shame about the verbosity”, you’re probably not focusing on the right thing. 1. Do it right 2. Then make it nice

Really speedrunning things now

Shit like this is why I keep bouncing off vibe-coding

Why is there not a single good multipart response handling library for node? All the ones I've found suck in one way or another. Every GraphQL client that has native support for defer (e.g. Apollo and urql) implements their own handling of the multipart spec.

graphql-eslint seems to be the latest thing to make it hard to have urql and relay coexist in the same codebase. We have lint rules as guardrails from query mistakes with urql that aren’t needed for Relay (like always having to select an id field).

Triangle man is certainly making some choices.

I’m fairly sure I’ve now done all the hardest platforming sections in Silksong and tbh I’m a little disappointed, hopefully there’s some crazy path of pain equivalents in future dlc.

People on the left can’t agree on *anything* (it’s the main reason left-leaning parties don’t sweep every election in the UK), so it’s *very* bizarre to see the right treat them as a homogenous hivemind.

In my first job we had two servers in the basement that our website was hosted on, and to deploy we just ssh’d in, did an svn update and a soft restart of the apache processes. Getting code changes live was so fast. Modern approaches are safer, but we’ve lost so much.

Onto Silksong Act 3

A web framework being used for corrupt autocracy probably isn’t the _best_ selling point tbh

Deeply relieved that the Silksong courier rasher task is nowhere near as hard as it looks.

The most important setting on the new Apple TV OS is to disable choosing profile on wake.

Y’know I was kinda expecting to see that Jimmy Kimmel actually was “spreading misinformation” in some sense, since it’s not exactly uncommon to get facts wrong during a developing story. But if you listen to what he actually said, he didn’t make any kind of claim about the politics of the shooter.

Cursor's bugbot (PR commenter) is... really bad. I don't think I've seen it do a PR comment which wasn't actively wrong.

Hm, do typesafe updaters work at all with Relay w/TypeScript? cc @en-js.bsky.social I can't even assign value to itself because the get() and set() types are different

Starting a large full-stack TypeScript codebase in ~2021 was probably the worst time in history to do it. Every single thing in the ecosystem was apparently in an awkward transition moment.

I feel like everyday Cursor gives me a new reason to want to switch back to VSCode

Phew, made it to Silksong Act 2

The best advert for Cloudflare is the behaviour of Guillermo Rauch on Twitter

zorbs + pinball, let’s make it happen

@steveruizok.bsky.social's perfect freehand really helps with the fake paint effect

This was a bug, but it looks fun

A bit more progress in making things seem hand-painted

Derivative as hell, but I've spent the weekend learning about generative art and this is the first thing I've made that looks like a picture.

If i'm using tiptap and partykit, what's the best way to store which users made changes when I save a snapshot (e.g. to db)? Is this something that can be worked out by interrogating the ydoc in the server, or do I need to do it from client (e.g tiptap)? cc @threepointone.bsky.social

Did biome just ship explicit support for some user’s in-house file extension? Last I heard (I could be wrong) .graphqls files aren’t a thing github.com/biomejs/biom... @jeff.auriemma.xyz you spend more time in SDL-land, any takes?

I feel like Temporal's big mistake was not making a good case for why their emphasis on reliability and rigour necessitates the more complex setup relative to other durable execution solutions. They weren't first to market, but they were first to mindshare. Yet aren't the obvious default today.

The hardest problem in computer science is resisting the temptation to coin a new acronym (CANA)

Upgrading to Vercel AI SDK v5 is certainly a task. All the changes I’ve come across so far seem like improvements, but damn it’s been a while since I’ve seen this level of API change in a version bump.

The biome unsafe fix for noUnusedImports is *really* unsafe. If the unused import that gets removed is the first one in the file, it'll remove *all* comment lines preceding it, i.e anything that makes up your file header.

Even with the near-operation-file preset, if you have a large GraphQL schema, want codegen, and want TypeScript performance to be in the realms of acceptability; I think Relay is still your only real option today. The main issue with `near-operation-file` is that it brings the whole schema along.

With the entire web industry now being employed by Shopify, I can’t help but I think I did the e-commerce part of my career too early (first 10 years).

I wrote a blog post sophiebits.com/2025/07/21/t...

When I found a pub with an inverted normal map. (If you understand what this means, you have to repost.)