Happy new year folks ❤️ Hope you had a great 2025 and wishing you an even better 2026 🎉

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

This really resonated with me. I appreciate Apple trying new things, but Liquid Glass on the Mac is a disaster. Last Year on My Mac: Look back in disbelief eclecticlight.co/2025/12/28/l...

New post! ✨ Prompt caching ✨ My first big project post for @ngrok.com. 5 weeks, 12217 lines of code, 195 commits. I poured a lot into this one, and learned a lot in the process. I really hope you enjoy it ❤️

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

If you're still on the fence about Mindful Design, we got Scott to record a thorough run-through of exactly what to expect on the course and the material he covers. www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1j6...

Check this out! Strange Attractors by @shashanktomar.bsky.social I could spend hours playing around with this for sure... blog.shashanktomar.com/posts/strang...

I'm a React guy and tried Vue with Nuxt recently, and I must say a lot of the magic the Vue compiler does it super unintuitive to me. React seems a lot closer to plain JavaScript. I ran into so many issues like types not working, props not being passed through, ... Do I just not get the appeal?

Online on a weekend? You can grab access to my web components course for $25 today and tomorrow. Big ol’ discount. Use the code OCT25-26. (And as usual, if you need further accommodation, just use the email form and we’ll work it out.) scottjehl.com/learn/webcom...

Seems seasonally appropriate to reshare this @ghost.org easter egg

Had an absolutely lovely call with @samwho.dev last night and halfway through he pulls up the Google Meet controls on his iPad to find... this abomination of a menu 💀 It gets worse the longer you look at it...

Had a Philips hairdryer smell burnt today so tried to disassemble it, and what an absolute piece of crap product design. Every decision they made in designing that piece of crap was so that it couldn't possibly be opened up without damage, cleaned, or repaired. Peak asshole design.

Studying React Server Components in depth for a paper, and as with all things, there is fascinating stuff there when you dive deeper. Some great resources: Server Component RFC: github.com/reactjs/rfcs... Understanding React Server Components by @tonyalicea.dev: tonyalicea.dev/blog/underst...

Found this on HN the other day, and it's such a chill thing to have open on the side and watch passively. Also, there are way more animals there than I expected! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydYD...

This is it. 86,791 words. 836 emdashes. 625 `const`, 141 `let`, 16 `var`. One (1) reference to the pause music from Battletoads for the NES. Spread the word: JavaScript for Everyone launches tomorrow.

Running into a bunch of issues experimenting with anchor positioning, and this blog post sums it up pretty nicely! www.oddbird.net/2025/01/29/a...

The Immich stable release is out today! It's an amazing self-hosted alternative to Google Photos and iCloud Photos. github.com/immich-app/i... github.com/immich-app/i... (bonus points: it happens to be written in SvelteKit 😄)

Easily one of the most delightful people to work with. Andy is the talented designer behind the dogs on my blog posts, and if you have a design role open he is well worth talking to about it!

We’re live!! My brand-new course, “Whimsical Animations”, is now available. 🥳🎉 whimsy.joshwcomeau.com I’m so excited to share all of my animation tools and techniques with y’all. 😄

Management is common progression path in tech and often, a very tough change for developers. Liam Egan is here to help with some really sound advice to help people navigate this complete switch in their day-to-day. piccalil.li/blog/transit...

My next course, Whimsical Animations, launches in “Early Access” in 1 week from today! 🎉 The most important thing to know is that registration will only be open for 7 days. You’ll be able to register from Sept 24th to Sept 30th. Otherwise, you’ll need to wait for the full launch, sometime in 2026.

Wrote a little thing about subgrid that I hope you find helpful. Short and sweet, with nice, clean code 🥰 webkit.org/blog/17339/s...

✍️ How modern browsers work addyo.substack.com/p/how-modern... - my write-up on browser internals for web developers

Earlier this week, I learned from @patrickbrosset.com that DevTools in Chrome and Firefox are built using web technologies. That means that yes, you can inspect Chrome DevTools using Chrome DevTools 🤯

This is a great to-the-point summary of when to use "Your" vs. "My" in user interfaces. Tiny details like these add up fast!

Just stumbled over this absolute gem of a personal website by @nicmakesstuff.bsky.social. What a creative and beautiful site full of character. 10/10! www.nicchan.me

Had an absolute blast at @smashingconf.com! What a great bunch of folks all around. My favorite quote coming from @bradfrost.com: „Pixels are cheap“, explaining that failing is a necessary part of progress. Thanks for creating such an amazing atmosphere, and I hope to join again next year! 🥳

Great writeup of the math behind refraction and Liquid Glass in the browser! (Chrome only at the moment) kube.io/blog/liquid-...

If you're at @smashingconf.com Freiburg next week, come check out the pre-conference Jam Session on Monday night. There'll be a few awesome lightning talks, in one of which I'll show you everything wrong with JavaScript dates, and what's being done to fix them! 🎉 smashingconf.com/freiburg-202...

✨ Big O ✨ Let me take you on a visual introduction to what big O notation is in my new blog post: samwho.dev/big-o. With big O notation you can better understand how algorithms will perform in practice, finding orders of magnitude improvements often with very simple changes to your code.

CSS Tip of the Day: `overflow: clip;` You can use it to clip overflowing content in one axis while keeping the other axis overflow visible. This is not possible with `overflow: hidden`. Try it here: codepen.io/NikxDa/pen/...

If you're ever building something that requires users to sign or draw in the browser, you'll want to use @tldraw.com 's Perfect Freehand. Super smooth freehand lines with any input device! www.perfectfreehand.com

Email addresses are very simple, and you will score highly in this quiz. e-mail.wtf

I reimagined the hero section of Time's website with modern CSS. I hope you like it! ishadeed.com/article/time...

Lovely primer on anchor positioning by @saron.bsky.social on the WebKit blog! Check it out: webkit.org/blog/17240/a...

I saw a post on Mastodon where someone pointed out the word "passport" comes from a time where you used it to... pass a port. The revelation is real with this one. Is this as mind-blowing for native speakers as it is for me?! 🤯

Super useful tip for working with inline CSS and/or JS using //# sourceURL comments

TIL: CSS variables can contain non-ASCII characters. That means that yes, you can have emoji in a CSS variable name, and yes, zero width spaces are valid, too... in case you want to spice up your stylesheets!

@benholmen.com made it to #1 of HN with @kilopx.com – and with it, by pure chance, my little cat drawing. What are the odds! Congrats on how well the project is received over there, well deserved :)

Going to be talking about @tanstack.com Start at React Karlsruhe tomorrow night. Come check it out if you happen to be nearby! www.meetup.com/de-DE/react_...

I've encountered problems with memoization dependency chains many times, but I never found a good solution until React Compiler – or so I thought. The latest ref pattern outlined here is really smart!

Daily reminder that AI is still terrible at producing sources

TypeScript 5.9 RC is available to try! Let us know how it works before next week's stable release! devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/a...

Opinions are divided on this one for sure, but I need to rant about the new macOS design. Why would the sidebars float? Why would they be translucent if the background it now sits above is white? Everything about this looks so off, and I will hate having to look at it every day once Tahoe releases.

One of the most powerful tools in my toolbox is SVG. When combined with CSS and JavaScript, we can do some truly remarkable things. ✨ 📝 I’ve just published a brand-new blog post that covers the most critical fundamentals. It’s chock full of interactive demos. 😄 Check it out:

I just wanted to say, I’m probably more proud of this Ted talk than just about anything I’ve ever done so I’m gonna be absolutely useless for the next couple of weeks as I promote the shit out of this because I want you to watch it because it matters in the moment we are in youtu.be/dVG8W-0p6vg

Inspired by @samwho.dev 's infuriating jsdate.wtf, I decided to go and look at how Chrome actually goes about parsing JS dates. Turns out it's actually super interesting to look at this at the engine level! You can have a peek at the parser implementation here: github.com/v8/v8/blob/6...

This is fantastic! As opposed to JS Dates, which are… not so fantastic 😂

Looking forward to joining @smashingconf.com in Freiburg this year and meeting a bunch of fellow web folks! September can't come soon enough :)

Highly recommend this awesome talk from CSS day by @ntim.bsky.social‬ talking about form control styling! A new appearance mode and more standardized input pseudo-elements would be awesome to have 🤩 Very interesting proposals in there. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgS...