Just had a strange little thought. The way I bought my newest phone, a pair of Bluetooth earbuds came bundled free. I was considering selling them, but eh, they were free and let's try. Welp, I've been avoiding these things because I've purposefully until now picked phones with headphone jacks […]

Anyone know where best to get hold of this legally in epub format? https://w3c.social/@timbl/115243018205563211

I made up a little short story - inspired by having just seen Wall-E on the big screen (which was great, BTW. Love seeing films from a while ago in the cinema): https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jrzyao2holfkgrsfbq2tue27/post/3lzbuf6jtzc2z

[USpol] Find myself agreeing with Ted Cruz about the dangers of censorship for the first time in my life: "Going down this road, there will come a time when a Democrat wins again – wins the White House … they will silence us. They will use this power, and they will use it ruthlessly. And that […]

Yeah. Well... I think there will be a bunch of us relearning how to "surf" the web again. Web rings are on the rise, and blog rolls, and 88*31 link buttons. The search engines suck, so we'll be curating and collecting and sharing with each other over here now, thanks for nothing, Google […]

The latest Meta AI steak sauce debacle should be a nice case of schadenfreude, but my schadenfreude circuits are fried. So very much painfully embarrassing and shameful and even comical stuff is being said and done by arseholes who remain rich and powerful. There's no glee for me in their shame.

Hello accessibility friends, I'm working on gathering information for accessibility bug tickets - our customer supporters would like to know what to ask the people chatting in. My first concern is how to respectfully find out as much as we can about the customer's setup without outright asking […]

This might seem like an odd request @Vivaldi but in case you see it - I would love an easier way to get to the Vivaldi password manager on mobile. I would be very happy if I could add it into the little icon bar at the top of the main menu, or have it included elsewhere directly in the main […]

If you can't tell which are the new and which are the old specs, I did a really good job picking the frames from an online store! I wanted to test an extra +0.25 in the varifocal add, and that's sooo much cheaper at an online vendor than local opticians […] [Original post on front-end.social]

Does anyone have recommendations for a good course on UX design and/or research? Ideally something practical, not where I'm just watching videos, because then I tune out. Thank you!

https://neal.fun/not-a-robot/ I am very confused by level 21, the diamond pickaxe thing

To any other people blessed with a big bum and comparatively small waist (in the opinion of the clothing industry, anyway), I've found a way to help stop your trousers from falling down. Yes, one can wear a belt, but there are never quite enough belt loops […] [Original post on front-end.social]

How many of me hearties in yonder New World (America, USA) want to be receivin' of a year o' free shippin'? https://www.pirateship.com/speakingbee (I've not been asked to do this - I just want one of my friends or potential friends to possibly win it, lol) (Yes I work for Pirate Ship! It's a […]

I'm going to @webdevconf ! 🎉

Remade my #website: https://austinhuang.me I guess it's a more modern take of the neocities stuff: plain and a bit professional (I don't like noisy visuals), but still tries to be playful in some places. Suggestions welcome! I also have a 88x31 now (on the "links" page). Links welcome!

I would like a web company called Strikingly to stop emailing me about earning money giving out affiliate links. It feels super duper fishy, they're emailing an old Gmail address even while otherwise seeming like they know my stuff - where did they get that address, and how did they know to […]

To anyone that was sad that they missed out on the hard copy of the Internet Phone Book (https://internetphonebook.net) - be ready! You can have another chance today! At: 10am ET (US) 4pm/16:00 CET (Europe) I am informed that this page will stop frowning at that time, and allow you to place […]

To me if the awe is dropping, it's not a good thing...

I like to think I might be getting my crochet mojo back... My eldest wants a new scarf and wanted it to have a brickwork pattern - let's see how long this ends up! One day I'll get back to the fancy big triangle scarf that's been a WIP for several years […] [Original post on front-end.social]

Some good reasons for starting a website, from @davatron5000. https://daverupert.com/2025/09/why-would-anybody-start-a-website/ #indieweb #personalwebsite

Just went on a wild goose chase seeing whether I can install old games from old Humble Bundles for Android. I cannot. The .zip/apks try to install but fail. Some have keys I can use on steam, but then they are also not something you can use on Android. Was specifically trying to get Osmos and […]

So very tired, fedifam. Most likely because I had to get up earlier this morning than I have done since last July. Back to school time, got to get the eldest into school earlier than I'd even like to be waking up, ideally! Also, state of the world. The usual.

Finally put up my pictures by ​ https://www.salventius.com that I got at @btconf - I chose the colours and squidged them around, he turned them into Art! They deserve frames, but until I get around to sorting that out, I figured sticking them up is better than leaving them in the envelope!

Hey @mods something feels clunky, but I don't know if it's my home internet connection, my chosen Mastodon client, or our instance being very slow. Any ideas?

Holy shit, we've always been terrified of war. Apart from a lull while I was young, apparently... https://youtu.be/ih3LDRuup2s

Ok but these muffins are very moist and fluffy and tasty AAAA++++ would eat again I'm not a huge crumble fan but apparently I do very well with more cakey uses of apple. https://social.lol/@hl/115129283828535209

Gosh how I loved Tomorrow's World, especially in the first half of the 90s: https://youtu.be/XpZ5STahhPE It had a rebrand at some point after the mid-90s, it got new presenters and set and to me, it lost its futuristic sheen.

The 15 year old me in 1999 would struggle to believe how mundane it's become, having the internet in our pockets. The first semi-smart phones where I was able to visit websites (very slowly, mind) and converse on IRC and a few other things were pretty […] [Original post on front-end.social]

I just found that I can force a web version of Facebook (I know, strong network effect, sadly) on my phone to display well on a mobile screen AND let me open and respond to messages. I opened facebook.com in @Vivaldi (hopefully this also works with other browsers) and switched to desktop mode […]

New phone and... underwhelmed honestly. I was also underwhelmed last time when going from a Pixel 4a to an Xperia 10 V - but I knew that would be underwhelming. I chose it for battery life, not features. Welp it turns out the jankiness of the Xperia finally got me, and I've gone back to the […]

The making of a #css5 HDR enabled gradient tool a fun peek into the sketching that led to the gradient line UI, the color picker, the overall layout, some math and more! https://nerdy.dev/the-making-of-gradient.style

Does anyone have a handy article that says with some authority why you can't and shouldn't expect your disabled users to do your testing and accessibility educating for you or your developers? Something along the lines of people who are discriminated against not having to be polite and teach […]

Please someone buy and enjoy something from here - that shipping to Germany is a killer, or I was totally about to buy that hoodie 💚 https://mastodon.social/@eff/115084559733222928

We wrote about Pico CSS this week and Mike responded with their own classless CSS framework. It’s very nice! https://mikemai.net/mcss/

Is Android janky for everyone or just me? I find getting the drawer down from the top, or sometimes sending it away again - is just half broken. I often have to go back to the homescreen to bring it down. It might just be weirdness with the Sony Xperia 10 V I've got. But otherwise most things […]

I joined goodreads only to review my friend Ben's book. Despite being a comic book about historical events, it still feels dangerously relevant to world events right now: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7848453180 https://bendickson.co.uk

Someone has started posted Antifa and Feminist Stickers in my childhood hood (and now again) of Schmargendorf. Like, the fucking rich kod, often old money, villa and Bentley infested district of Berlin. I always wanted to connect but how? But now they've also added a Fediversum Sticker so […]

I'm updating our device lab computer and I see JAWS has a new major 2025 version! I may be very behind. Is this all fine? Or are people sticking largely with the 2024 one for good reasons? Thanks for any insight! #accessibility #screenreaders

Ugh. Say I have a time zone name like 'Europe/London' and want to convert that to BST or GMT or GMT+1 or some other nice shorter code - is there a standard way? This is what I've got and honestly, I don't like it: ``` export const getTimezoneCode = (tz: string) => { if (!tz || tz === '') { […]

August 1st - Googler asks the community if XSLT should be removed from the HTML living standard. https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11523 Respondents overwhelmingly reject the suggestion. August 6th - Google starts work on removing XSLT from Chrome […]

A new #madcapsicum not from me! https://crikey.social/@ross/115050755243306732

Oh gosh I'm so behind on CSS Joy webring admissions, I'm so sorry! Hopefully I'll get through them this week 🙏

History repeating... (@benjamindickson.bsky.social - bendickson.co.uk)

I've just finished reading @benjamindickson.bsky.social's Chamberlain, seeing parallels between Chamberlain's then-unusual jetting off to meet Hitler personally, the current leaders jetting around between Putin and Trump, Czechoslovakia then having its land bartered for peace, and now Ukraine. 1/3

Recently followed @outofprintarchive, and now my favorite thing is to look at some of those wacky print layouts of old game magazines and think through how you could replicate them with #css. I wish designers took more inspiration from print today — this is one of the things we lost as more and […]

Ugghhh. Think I must have both tree and wind pollen allergies. Things were calmer for a few months but now my eyes are so angry again! Up until now (age 41) I'd not been allergic to anything as far as I knew, but this year it's hitting me hard.

Hey fellow frontendlers - I spend a lot of time on my phone. Too much tbh - but I can't always grab my laptop. I want to be able to mess with HTML and CSS comfortably while on my phone, and see quick results. Codepen app doesn't do that. The web version is hard to control on a phone. Any ideas?

Very useful for interview prep and for brushing up your CSS knowledge in general. https://css-questions.com/

This is why I'm also on bluesky - I wish all the lovely things were also posted here, but sadly they're not: https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:52isu377grrhxp2lwoqsrhjy/post/3lwfmkqp7ss2i

You know that probably somewhat manky plastic seal thing at the bottom of your shower door? It's probably replaceable. Ours was. Much better now.