don't ever say "spicy autocomplete" in my presence the debate of whether or not this technology works detracts from the implications of its widespread corporate deployment, regardless of efficacy.

component.gallery is now off netlify and on cloudflare pages/workers (idk the difference, not sue if cloudflare do tbh). let me know if you notice any weirdness.

TIL you can grab the subtitles on a youtube video and drag them to a different part of the screen. Don't you just love it when there's an incredibly useful feature that's existed for years and you only discover it by accident?

I got an email from Netlify this morning saying I've used 50% of my current bandwidth allowance. It seems like the "vibe coders" have discovered component.gallery.

Do people take motion sickness into account when building websites, beyond prefers-reduced-motion? I like when animations are done well and don't want to switch _all_ of them off, because then I feel like I'm missing out on a whole facet of web design but I feel like things are getting out of hand.

I've spent six years trying to cultivate the impression that component.gallery is some unbiased reference site, all so I can drop the 1600 word “carousels are awful and if you use them you should feel bad” rant. component.gallery/components/c...

A House of Dynamite (2025)

The :old-man-yells-at-cloudflare: emoji is seeing a lot of use on slack today

10 years ago I wrote (and presented on) Design Machines. This year felt like the right time to revisit those themes and present them at Dot All 2025. It's about labour, AI, Luddites, big tech, and collective power. We got this. craftcms.com/events/dot-o...

well this was unexpected

put some thoughts together on the LLM trend and its implications for labor rights. there's a lot to be said about the lofty claims of pro-LLM technologists, but this presumes their promises of efficiency, etc. are true. henry.codes/writing/econ...

I have no idea why people continue to share their writing on a site which is so actively hostile to readers.

component.gallery 2.0 is now live 🎉 🚀 Built with Astro 🖼️ 2,400+ component images 📊 Charts! 🔎 Improved search 🌒 Better dark mode …and much more

promised myself I won't download oblivion remastered until I've finished the new component.gallery coincidentally, this morning has been very productive

🦊 I am downright delighted to announce that my latest book, YOU DESERVE A TECH UNION, has a brand new look. I really love it, and I hope you do too. Here’s a look at what’s changed and—maybe more importantly—what’s stayed the same: ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/refres... #YDATUbook #books #unions #1u

Thinking of adding an 'Evil bastards' tag to component.gallery for cases where the design system is good but the company behind it is terrible.

Every time someone proudly posts "so I asked chatgpt" they're saying something *incredibly* fucking embarrassing without realizing it. It's like walking into a party absolutely covered in dogshit and not understanding why all these people are being so mean and rude

Apparently today is the 25th (!!) anniversary of the release of the first The Sims game, which has reminded me that a few years ago I built this “Design System” based on its UI. thesimscss.inbn.dev

adding view transitions to an astro site with two lines of code feels like magic* *until you realise it's broken all your client-side JavaScript

<sponge-case>I started making this as a web component</sponge-case> github.com/mwdelaney/sp...

An update on component.gallery v2 (aka the Astro rebuild): it's _almost_ at feature parity with the current version. I'm aiming for a beta version by end of January.

Total occurrences of the word 'Christmas' in the song 'Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)' by Darlene Love: 28

did an AI write this? I'm struggling to fathom how a respectable publication could post something as uncritical of AI as this in 2024. www.smashingmagazine.com/2024/11/ai-t...

I've added (and will be adding more as they're written) all of Heydon's posts about HTML elements as resources to component pages. e.g. component.gallery/components/s...

Come along to this to see lots of interesting talks, including me trying, but probably failing, to explain the astro content layer in 5 minutes. www.meetup.com/async-web-te...

🦊 A few quick thoughts on the New York Times Tech Guild strike, why it matters, and what it means for the rest of us: ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/times-... #unions #TechUnions #1u #blogging

😮 Bluesky pro-tip: in the accessibility settings, you can enforce that the images you post must have alt text. This is important for folks who use screen readers. Instead of seeing the image, the supplied text will be read to them instead.