The 2025 Web Almanac by HTTP Archive has been officially released! 🚀 We would like to thank all of our contributors from around the globe who made this extensive report possible! Check out the full report here: almanac.httparchive.org

thanks to a tidy little PR by our old friend @bell.bz, personalsit.es now has /random, in case you just want to let the Old Gods of Digital Fate take the reins of thy chariot have a look 👁️ ↪ personalsit.es/random

Chrome 145 (current beta) includes the column-height and column-wrap properties for multicol. These let you wrap columns onto a new row, rather than overflowing inline. This is something I've wanted to do in multicol for years! developer.chrome.com/blog/multico...

So good ish news www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Wow—just watched #MartySupreme at the cinema. Went in knowing nothing beyond Timothy does take tennis and it was incredible. Obviously had to slap the soundtrack on as soon as I got home.

Two true things: 1. The UK government has a secret block list that can and does block sites for the entire country—this is bad. 2. Blocking Twitter would be objectively hilarious.

The fault in our SPAs

Used the egg slicer to chop an egg like that guy in Resident Evil when he goes down the laser corridor.

After @rreverser.com made some suggestions I decided to go on an all-day vibe coding bender to get a Wasm / WebGPU combo Mandelbrot fractal generator. This is super early so it's a bit stuttery, but this is rendering on the fly as I scroll and my little Chromebook isn't even overly beefy.

We have created a #SotB26 starter-pack of Speakers and Organisers. go.bsky.app/Di7jHyZ We'll others involved soon.

APIs like PaymentRequest, FedCM, Secure Payment Confirmation et al help move the web platform to a more secure and private place. If that interests you then this is an opportunity to join a talented team ⤵️

Wow, this feels clean and light. Lit-based web components and Eleventy to build. Immediately added to home screen.

I'm glad to see this pressure on Google and Apple. If any other company was running an active CSAM generator in public you better believe it would have been removed from their app stores by now www.wired.com/story/x-grok...

We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.

Doing a little cozy coding, so updated a few issues on my #fractious WebGL Mandelbrot fractal explorer. It does have WASD keyboard controls, but I should really add an overlay to explain them. Other feature requests? rowan.fyi/made/fractio...

About how projects like Tailwind use their docs traffic to funnel users to pay to sustain themselves On the left sidebar: Components, Templates, UI Kit, Course On the nav bar: Showcase, Sponsor, Plus On the right sidebar: Free course in exchange of your mail

pierre.co is a website that has redefined my definition of a website

Solid list of interesting web people that actually pushed me to sort out a feed reader. I'm trying out Feedly, but welcome suggestions! I want something web-hosted I can access from desktop and mobile along with some easy follow mechanism.

Japan’s new Smartphone act requires that Apple allow browser vendors to use their own engines in Japan. However, Apple looks set to use the same tactic it has used in the EU to avoid complying with the same provision of the Digital Markets Act for the last twenty-one months.

What were books like in ancient Greece and Rome? If you were to visit a bookshop in the ancient world, what would it be like? by Konstantine Panegyres theconversation.com/what-were-bo... Ancient world at PG: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc... #books #literature

2026: scrolling past the AI generated CSAM on the nazi pedophile app to see my favorite politicians' public anti-war statements

Spray paint a plane and they'll detain you without trial and call you a terrorist. Kidnap a foreign head of state - and Keir Starmer will make it clear we've played no part in it but will wait for the scheduled press conference in a few hours before potentially condemning it

A real news outlet publishing the phrase "Grok apologized" should result in like a week-long timeout. Think about what you've done.

you’re right! it feels mostly awful to Go Online™, these days. the internet in a sad state, for reason after reason after reason. but there is a way to fix it; to trade the voidful howling for a quiet & joyful song. here’s how to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want.

Happy New Year, folks! @strange.website kicked over the ol' personalsit.es build a brief while ago, so it is the place to go if you need some inspiration for your new year website redesign. nudge nudge I lent a hand reviewing and have manually checked every site listed. There are some proper gems!

Amazing, I may actually need to keep a stash of bottled water in because apparently "running water" isn't in Thames Water's core competencies. Should I look up their bonuses or will that just make me need a drink?

Back with family for Christmas and reintroduced to an ornament I made as a child. What a warm and welcoming smile.

This one got released rather quietly and I think could do with a bit more attention! Read about how to avoid caching performance penalties due to tracking query params and the like!

Italy has fined Apple $116 million over its App Tracking Transparency feature. The App Tracking Transparency rules are "disproportionate," and "harmful" to app developers and advertisers. Ultimately, it found that Apple abused its dominant position in the EU market. I’ve said this for years.

took a peek at the groupings of posts on bluesky over the past 48 hours

By the way, if TikTok/Instagram/YouTube are your thing, the videos are being published there too. www.tiktok.com/@firefoxwebd... www.instagram.com/firefoxwebde... www.youtube.com/@FirefoxWebD...

I love Numberphile for the sheer infectious enthusiasm of the presenters and the Möbius strip visualisation here really did upgrade my understanding. youtu.be/izIKV98Awnw

The Discover feed has decided I want to see photos of fungus and slime molds. Honestly, I think this is pretty healthy for me.

The Nu HTML Checker has gotten a bunch of updates to validate ARIA. Try it: validator.w3.org/nu/ Or run it locally: validator.github.io/validator/ If you find issues with ARIA validation, _report them_: github.com/validator/va... #HTML #ARIA #accessibility #a11y

It's on Tubu. It's literally on Heebee. It's on Poodee with ads. It's literally on Dippy. You can probably find it on Weeno. Dude it's on Gumpy. It's a Pheebo original. Log onto Poob right now. Go to Poob. Dive into Poob. You can Poob it. It's on Poob. Poob has it for you. Poob has it for you.

Tragic to hear of Rob Reiner's death. I cannot overstate how formative The Princess Bride and This Is Spinal Tap were on my character and, primarily, my vocabulary. "I'm sure I'd feel much worse if I weren't under such heavy sedation." A memorial watch is necessary today.

LCP and INP are now Baseline newly available /since they are now available in all major browsers! 🎉🥳🍾 Really, really, really curious to see what sort of new performance insights we’ll see as sites start to collect and look at the data! #CoreWebVitals

Incoming! The dog is now picking up some Festive Frequencies! 🐕🌪️🎄 The FESTIVE UPDATE for Dogspinner, an important tool by me and @todepond.com, is here for December only! Play it here: Pigenpalace.com

❌ checking bluesky on his phone ✅ the elder scrolls

Scroll-Triggered Animations … with nothing but CSS … oh yeah 🤩 codepen.io/bramus/pen/Z... (Coming to Chrome 145. Blogpost in the works.)

"The map says our destination is dead ahead."

Made a bolognese with meat from the butcher, vegetables from the farm shop, and good wine... and 🤤🤌 the difference is shocking. I'm floored, like this is already the best meal and I didn't think there was room to go higher.

6 years of thinking I can make a better portfolio. 1 year of actually building it. My new portfolio is LIVE 🚀 Please, don't break anything! 👉 bruno-simon.com

Doom turns 0b100000! Fond, formative memories of a *lot*of time spent on shareware discs from the front of a magazine.

New updates to my fractal generator: • Brotli 11 asset compression • Cleaner full-screen view with fading controls • Added maths info and links for each fractal • Auto cycling colour themes in full screen fractals.world Do you have ideas? Please let me know!

I find it terrifying that there are maybe ten people who understand *what is actually going on right now*, and @robin.berjon.com is one of them. berjon.com/fascintern-m...

I'm reading #Frankenstein and I'm at the point where the ship captain is writing to his sister to recount the story of Frankenstein recounting the story of the creature recounting the story of the lady recounting the story of her father.