<link rel="icon" href="data:," /> adding this line to all my starter templates to fix those pesky 404s.

this looks wonderful! new tech tends to be pretty uninspiring, so why not look towards old tech?

the week has barely started but my open tabs are piling up fast 😬 (i like to close my browser at the end of the day)

Announcing The CSS Selection! 📰 www.projectwallace.com/the-css-sele... 📚 100,000 websites ⏱️ 100+ metrics 🔖 7 chapters The biggest deep-dive ever into real-world use of CSS across the globe. Dive in and find out some hidden gems. Also, see how much of 'the new CSS' is actually used!

"CSS is my passion"

i've been content with using zen-browser ever since the alpha days, but the recent update is really testing my patience. they replaced "new window", a core functionality, with two different slightly-broken features called "window sync" and "new blank window" docs.zen-browser.app/user-manual/...

RESOLVED: Add balance keyword to flex-wrap 🥳 github.com/w3c/csswg-dr...

forgot i left this comment here lol

i built a micro-site that shows what i've been listening to! it periodically pulls music data from my last.fm obsessions.mayank.co

scroll shadow has got to be my favorite thing to add to tables

ugh i want to work on my personal projects full time. there isn't enough time in the day

design tools and i will never be friends 💔

New year, new course! 🤓 I’m running a standards course for policy & digital rights professionals & students. We’ll explore the W3C & ways standards & policy can collaborate. This is funded by the UK Gov Department for Science, Innovation and Technology lolaslab.co/standards-co...

one of my 2026 goals is to intentionally focus more on _the work_ and less on $work.

I've had an execeptionally tough year. I have no income or health insurance, and could really use your help finding my next paid project. 💜 semanticfish.com/2025-year-in... Open to front-end, full-stack, design system, & accessibility projects. 10+ years experience. Many more details in post!

i think my copy of bluesky is bricked :(

Anyone a part of a “divitis” webring? Is the `<section>` element your best friend? Do you use semantic HTML, but have never looked up the definitions for the elements you use? I wrote this for you. htmhell.dev/adventcalend...

this doesn't use the bleeding edge stuff (like subgrid) but it's still so much more advanced than anything else you'll see out in the wild. every-layout.dev

so… who's looking for a frontend dev? i'd love to work on/with a robust design system DMs are now wide open!

i just want to do good work with other people who want to do good work

flashback to debugging broken layouts in safari

the design tokens community group spec is now "stable" 👀 www.designtokens.org/tr/2025.10/

can any Nova users vouch for it? as someone who dislikes Apple UX, i'm always skeptical of Mac-only apps. but really i just need strong support for the languages of the web: HTML, CSS, JS (including TS and JSX). these languages are usually overlooked by code editors.

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...