New day, fresh cup of coffee, and… I’m not sure why I didn’t just `position-area: end span-start;`, but never mind. At least I got to learn about safe/unsafe positioning along the way—thanks Bramus!

CSS friends! I’ve been messing around with anchor positioning and either I’m being a doofus or I’ve found a bug, and I need someone who actually knows what they’re doing to confirm which it is! Reduced test case: codepen.io/editor/jonpear… #help

At Schiphol, headed home from two excellent days at #cssday. I’m tired, my feet ache, and my throat is a little more scratchy than I’d like; but I’m leaving with a full heart and head full of odd ideas for things i want to try out. [1/2]

OK, so masonry-type designs may be a little bit old-fashioned these days, but CSS grid lanes looks like it could be an awesome tool for making digital art #cssday

From the news this morning, it seems an apt time to note—once again—that a million seconds is 11½ days, a billion seconds is 31.7 years, and a trillion seconds is 31.7 _millennia_. Just in case certain news stories need putting into perspective right now…

Back at #cssday again. Excited to learn some cool new stuff in a totally safe space without any danger of flamethrowers at all. Apparently… (standard disclaimer applies: not unfriendly, just shy)

“…be […] the person in the room who isn’t tired yet. Because the one thing the business model of apathy cannot survive is a roomful of people who refuse to be tired on cue.” (not sure why I didn’t share this when it was released, but now is also good #prideMonth )

So apparently England has looked at what’s going on in the US and decided “yes, we want our country to be more like that”, and I can’t help suspecting Wales won’t be too far behind. Wonderful.

#voted (I’ll admit that I’m worried about the outcomes + effects of this election cycle, but… gotta do my bit, and so should you. However intolerable you may find the various parties, I guarantee apathy will be even worse. Go vote!)

If you’re going out to vote today… Make your choice based on what would benefit the most vulnerable person you know. You might be fine, but not everyone is

Hello world 👋 I’m looking for the Next Thing: scale doesn’t matter, as long as it’s trying to make the world a better place, cuz goodness knows we need it right now! If you or anyone you know are looking for a UK-based front-end web/Elm/full-stack Ruby developer, let me know! […]

Let's do this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9...

CSS Day, 11th and 12th of June, just announced @brucel.bsky.social and @ohhelloana.blog as their 2026 MCs. cssday.nl Ticket sales will open later this month. We'll announce the early-bird tickets on our mailing list first. Subscribe to be notified ASAP! cssday.nl/subscribe

Well, this is just adorable: I wonder if my client will let me sneak it into the current project… www.pigenpalace.com/dogspinner/

I have made it to Dec 6th before being Wham-ed. How’s everyone else doing?

Anyone in the UK getting extremely slow resolution from @quad9dns.bsky.social at the moment? Currently seeing queries taking up to 3.5s, with more than a few timeouts for good measure :/

I’ve just realised that my 15 year self-employment anniversary managed to sneak by uncommented yesterday. I keep thinking that I should write about the whole thing at some point, but there’re so many folk who’ve written about it, I’m not sure what more I can add. [1/2]

Been using Apple Music a lot more after watching @jjbbllkk.bsky.social’s recent video about Spotify. Anyone know who I can harass at Apple so they actually fix the prev/next track functionality when using shuffle. Such a basic bit of UX that has been unusably broken for too long…

Creative folk who’ve ditched the Adobe stack: what’re your favourite Photoshop replacements? I’ve been trying to love the Affinity suite for about a year; Designer and Publisher are fine, but while Photo has some nice touches, I just… don’t love it. I’m curious as to what other folk are using.

Heading back home after three days cosplaying an extrovert at a trade show with/for a client. It’s been incredibly tiring but a lot of fun. Got a laundry list of things I/we want to do as a result, but first I need to lay down and not move for at least 12 hours.

Oh great: my train has been ‘upgraded’ to a Voyager. I wonder how well this one has been maintained…

had to try CSS filter + SVG glass displacement on webcam input – crank saturation for cheap gold ✨

havin' a play with: backdrop-filter: url(#glass); Gecko/Webkit 🙏

… I’m going to have to add this to my next project as an Easter egg, aren’t I?

Study on London 20 mph limits shows: - collisions ⬇️ 35% - casualties ⬇️ 36% - fatal/serious injuries ⬇️ 34% - child casualties ⬇️ 46% - child deaths ⬇️ 75% - walkers, cyclists, motorcyclists killed/seriously injured ⬇️ 28% etsc.eu/20mph-limits...

For the record:

Any #cssday folk still in Amsterdam up for food/drinks/discussing the shape of the web this evening?

… dear gods of bsky: can we have post editing, please? I might possibly have gotten a little too used to it on masto, and it would save the amount of post-delete-repost cycles I go through 😆

To summarise the past couple days at #cssday for the bsky folks: wow! I expected it to be good, and I was very much not disappointed. Also very glad that I’m also taking next week off so I can mess around with all this cool new stuff! :D Will definitely be back next year, see y’all then!

I forget who I was talking to at #cssday yesterday about poisoning AI via YouTube subtitles, but here’s a video explaining how it works in any case :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEDF... (I wonder if there’s a way of doing something similar on the web, but without completely screwing over AT users)

Small thread with links and examples from the talk today nerdy.dev/cssday-2025

Back at my hotel after #cssday day 1: lots of notes of things I need to read up on/play with, and feeling pretty darn good about the web (again). Plus connecting with folk is always good. Now sleep, then back for day two! #devLife #zzzzzz

Having a lovely time at #CSSDay - thank you all for following me into the weeds of value resolution! My slides & demos are online: slides.oddbird.net/mixins/cssday/

#CSSDay learning of the day: "Hotpink goes harder!". @miriam.codes

Also, those wanting to maximise their #FOMO and follow along through the medium of short-form posting, @joshtumath.uk will almost certainly be posting like a madman! (also, there’re livestreams, but… y’know)

Back again! #cssday (will be occasionally posting to Mastodon; if you see me come say hi! #notUnfriendlyJustShy)

Back when I was finding my feet in tech everybody was buzzing about building positive change. Somewhere along the way, something changed. Fortunately for us though, tech is not the first industry forced to defend itself against dubious practices. What might we learn if we were to look elsewhere?

Hello. Your Jewish pal here. Antisemitism is becoming more difficult to define. This is deliberate and intended to alienate us from the oppressed people with whom we should be making common cause. This - from the former Prime Minister of the UK, no less - is *dripping* with coded antisemitism.

So apparently when the good folk at BBC Good Food rebuilt their website, they seem to have forgotten that people might want to print recipes out. What used to be a single A4 page (with 2x ads) is now 3 sheets; complete with 2 sets of tags, star ratings, alternative recipes (!) and whitespace.

The bear inside the box is Paddington, the bear outside the box is Marginton

Today is definitely a `git reset —hard HEAD~3` kinda day… #leSigh

Once again, I find myself thinking about the camera

Has anyone else had #Figma randomly ‘spotlight’ another user every so often? Past couple days I’ve been working on building a design out, and suddenly figma decides to zoom off to show me what someone else is doing. Is this a new Thing, or something my team has set up?

Just a reminder that you’re amazing and you’ve got this ❤️❤️❤️ It’s hard right now, but keep fighting ❤️

In light of yesterday’s UK supreme court ruling, and because silence is acquiescence (+ plus it bears repeating anyways): trans rights are human rights 🏳️‍⚧️💜

On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked, "If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?" Allow our scaled diagram to explain...

Ticket booked. See you there? #cssday

Earlier today #cssday 2025 ticket sales opened. The going is brisk; early birds will likely sell out today. cssday.nl/tickets.html

@raydreamdesigner.bsky.social 👋 (long time! Hope you’re keeping well)

I know this sounds weak, I know it. But kindness is one of the few things we carry that can make a difference for each other. We can’t undo all this hate, but we can still make life a little easier for others.