i like this rephrasing, but also: they often mean the same thing.

shoutout to anyone still working on design systems in 2025. it's rough out here

I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.

an industry standard pattern: when you scroll a page, a dialog pops up out of nowhere and autofocuses a text field, which then triggers the virtual keyboard. peak UX right there. possibly the most elaborate way to say "fuck you"

if you're wondering what working on a design system feels like today i've already had conversations about: - rem vs px - logical properties/units - color-mix - popover API and top layer - pointer-events/inert - transforms and blurry text - use of color and WCAG - AT support - … (char limit)

the next generation of stalebots

playing with the customizable HTML select today. i find it weird that the `::picker-icon` is a pseudo-element that requires using old-school CSS tricks for customizing the glyph developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/L...

I have been back and forth over the span of 5 years about whether to publish this article. All opinions and experiences in this post are my own, or from people I personally know, backed up with recent reports and statistics.

bluesky won't enable this switch by default, but you should.

i will not buy another domain. not until i finish the project. (this is me holding myself publicly accountable)

hire Nathan! he is one of the most talented front-of-the-frontend developers out there

maybe this will finally make us all collectively realize that these big tech companies are not very good at design. never have been. or (more likely), everyone will copy the inaccessible mess.

the "original links" part aged poorly. bluesky links go through a tracker now (though it's still possible to copy the clean URL)

all i wanted from Figma was better variable management. instead, they released a feature so fundamentally broken that it continues to get roasted by devs even on the weekend 💀

i like that Nate calls this out. i've used Astro on a wide range of projects, and hit those boundaries myself. Astro excels at the "JS sprinkles" use case, and does exceedingly little to help with rich interactivity.

free idea: design system documentation in haiku format

was trying to use `margin-trim` today. found that it also gets rid of negative margins, which is unfortunate.

PSA: `content-visibility` is not ready in Safari even though it's available. If you previously were using the feature as a progressive enhancement, you should also use a Safari-specific selector to ensure it does not apply. I keep on finding significant accessibility issues with the implementation.

it's a good day to re-share xkcd.fyi

your outie likes using tailwind

can we make this the industry standard pls

what do y'all do with your unclosed tabs? I've been running pong inside all 240 of mine blog with a bunch of details over here: eieio.games/blog/running...

We just launched a 16TB archive of every dataset that has been available on data.gov since November. This will be updated day by day as new datasets appear. It can be freely copied, and we're sharing the code behind it to help others make their own archives of data they depend on.

thinking about CSS

*yawn* HTML has always been a programming language. tell me something new.

CSS: there's a unit for every occasion. ch, vh, lh, cqi, ex, cap, and 50 others Figma: you get px, and now you also get rem. choose wisely!

oklch and color-mix make it so easy to build design systems, it almost feels like cheating

i wrote about light-dark() 12daysofweb.dev/2024/css-lig...

Another thing I made this year: Real and implied birds.

i am once again asking you to show me the cool shit you're building

what's the coolest sounding name for a web API? web socket sounds cool asf

it is almost 2025, and styling <select> (the outside portion) is still such a giant pain in the ass 😭 can't even replace it with a <button> while we're waiting for `showPicker` developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...

this might be like the most comprehensive writeup on `content-visibility`. i found the "What makes content relevant?" section particularly useful

is github being weird for anyone else today?

Capitalism is exhausting. I'm tired.

side project idea: a website that offers a better music-posting experience. i shouldn't have to link to last.fm lol. ideally every artist would have a page on their website i can link to directly. (pls do not reply with odesli, it's not good enough)

i need a thread for all music posting, feel free to mute

Edusky is absolutely flooded with edtech/ai shills right now. I've started calling them Chromebook salesmen. There are a lot of issues in public education right now, and exactly 0 of them will be solved with generative AI. bsky.app/profile/kath...

the spinners need to be spun when the javascript is happening

what would it take for browsers to make the built-in `resize` handle more accessible? it literally doesn't work on touch devices (so it doesn't work for most people). and that's before we even get to keyboard/AT users. (aside: `field-sizing` is cool, but it's not a replacement for resizers)

friends don't let friends use webpack

Happy browser choice day to those in Europe who celebrate! This is a second attempt to get it right. Brought to you by the iOS 18.2 update and the fine folks from open-web-advocacy.org

please add captions to your videos, otherwise your videos are literally useless to me.

i've used emojis in branch names and often wondered what else i could put in there. the answer:

this feels good

This has been rolling around my brain for a few months so I am happy to finally share my latest blog post ✨ You can pay for that: How web browser features get built blog.stephaniestimac.com/posts/2024/1...

that feeling when you close 50 tabs after you finish writing an article 😮‍💨

trying to find information about tsunami evacuation zones (wife is currently in the bay area) and this is the best that our risible fucking industry can muster ashamed to be a software developer. there is no end to our collective incompetence

can y'all upgrade your react apps pls, thx. react has had very few breaking changes over the years, and yet so many of you are still using react 16 and 17 💀

this looks really interesting 👀 a quick test in VoiceOver shows it's working ok. will do more testing later. custom sliders are one of the most annoying controls to implement in an accessible way (especially on touch devices), so it's nice to see someone found a way to continue using HTML