blogged: Big Design, Bold Ideas dbushell.com/2026/02/09/b... I polished my website; fresh design and a no holds barred content strategy! thanks to @vale.rocks for the indispensable help

I've just added social media interaction displays to my micro posts. Likes and comments from Bluesky and the Fediverse will now appear directly on my site. If the same comment appears on multiple platforms, it will be merged using Levenshtein distance.

I very much enjoy that you can identify if a writer has read the works of Hunter S Thompson simply by reading their prose.

The titular quote that inspired this article came to me via 'The Machine' from the album View-Monster by Lemon Demon, which sampled it. lemondemon.bandcamp.com/track/the-ma...

I had the privilege of penning an article for the latest issue of @goodinternetmagazine.com! It is all about the process of making and experiencing art and how friction and inefficiency needn't be dirty procurances to avoid and evade. goodinternetmagazine.com/rebelling-ag... #IndieWeb #SmallWeb

I had the pleasure of reading and reviewing this post before publication, and I must say that there is some properly interesting content within. The intriguing sort of data and CSS trivia you don't see captured and analysed anywhere else. Well worth taking the time to give it a read in full.

I find it hilarious how many websites continue to publish documentation for BritCSS. Nice AI slop factory you've got there.

Hire me for small projects ko-fi.com/anatudor/com...

It took a while, but the State of JS 2025 survey results are now live! 2025.stateofjs.com/en-US Thanks to @danielroe.dev for contributing the conclusion.

Just added support for quickly searching @npmx.dev (which is absolutely terrific) to my search router! search.vale.rocks

A website, but someone is following you around, bopping you periodically on the head with a long hollow cardboard tube.

According to my site's analytics, someone navigated to my portfolio after reading my analysis of the year 2000 musical epic 'That’s How I Beat Shaq'.

Solemnly staring at my computer screen in silence, trying to regain my composure after realising I've just been editing the SASS output, not the source files.

My contract is ending at the end of February and so I’d like to find a new role ASAP. I am a senior-level design systems developer / design technologist / front-of-the-frontend developer that specializes in web accessibility. I work remotely from my home in Winnipeg, Canada. 🇨🇦 Shares appreciated!

I don't know why, but z-index always has to be the last declaration in a CSS rule. Anywhere else just feels wrong.

Accessibility is not optional, it is foundational. Declan Chidlow explains why you cannot opt out without excluding people and adding risk. Read and share. buff.ly/iFGxopj #DigitalAccessibility #InclusiveDesign #UX #ProductLeadership #AccessibilityMatters #ThoughtLeadership #A11y

The Index is 11 away from 4k subscribers. I'm not much of a metrics enjoyer, but it would be nice to hit that milestone for sure. piccalil.li/the-index/

How do we get so many clicks in them? We put links in the buttons. That's 100% more click, per click. youtu.be/6i-nMWgBUp0?...

Plenty glad to see that there are a steady trickle of submissions into PersonalSit.es. Better get back on top of them!

I wield the English language with the accuracy and precision of a sawn-off shotgun at 30 paces.

Still rocking my magnet implant, and I remain very happy with it. The emails I receive from people who have seen my videos or articles about my magnet continue to be suitably unhinged.

Carefully cutting down my JavaScript, optimising my CSS, minimising my HTML, configuring preloads, tweaking caching, and manually shrinking images to hit a good balance of size and compression, then opening a new tab to be hit by a megacorp's 40MB hero video.

More than ever, we need tools for building diverse and resilient communities, away from Big Tech controlling our feeds, and investment companies hoping to get a big payout. stefanbohacek.com/blog/fediver... #fediverse #SocialMedia #community

To all fleeing from Firefox due to their tone-deaf AI fumblings, please don't move to a Chromium-based browser. Diversity in browser engines is critical for an open web. We must avoid a monopoly at all costs. #Browsers #Firefox #Mozilla

Opinionated CSS reset for modern browsers. @vale.rocks shares a rule-by-rule overview of his reset, from an anonymous @​layer and border-box defaults to disabling text-size-adjust and normalizing media, forms, typography, and :focus-visible outlines. #css #reset vale.rocks/posts/css-re...

Nobody ask Ford, Coke, or IBM what they were doing in the 1940s, and nobody ask Apple, Google, or Microsoft what they are doing in the 2020s.

Wading into my GitHub notifications with a loaded gun, a half dozen grenades, and a Molotov.

Whenever I'm in a bit of a design slump, I always find myself returning to admire this video. Really pumps me up and gets me inspired. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcoP...

My driver evidently isn't a logical properties guy as he gave me a weird look when I told him to turn inline-start at the lights.

Paweł has a serious sort of burning passion that you can feel from a distance. Beyond his professional work, he writes all flavours of informative on his blog and organises the renowned @nn1.dev meetup. Probably worth hiring just so your competitors don't.

People watch me start designing APIs with the same abject look of horror one might exhibit when they see their uncle meandering his way across the room to the karaoke mic after several beers.

I hadn't updated my personal site in 8 years. Felt a little embarrassed by that, tbh, so spent some time on it this weekend. www.kevinpowell.co

I said to my boss last week that I can’t commit to going to the company’s next offsite for these reasons, and I’m a white cis male British citizen. The USA scares me, and it doesn’t feel like the UK is that far behind its descent into absurd far-right authoritarianism built on a foundation of lies.

A dystopian new addition I unfortunately felt it prudent to implement on TechConf.Directory.

there's a couple of delicious tidbits in @vale.rocks' CSS Reset (I might have missed in others) that are getting added to my own straight away. vale.rocks/posts/css-re... 🙏🖤 #CSS #FrontEnd #WebDev #WebDesign

I love when websites with completely static content crash. Congrats! Instead of making a static site, you made a static dynamic site. None of the benefits of a static site but all of the downsides of a dynamic site. What's the point? I really just can't understand the mindset.

So much new CSS stuff has hit the web in the past few years, and the CSS reset I was using has aged, so it was time for a refresh. This new reset isn't too extensively battle-tested just yet, but it has proven a success where I have used it. vale.rocks/posts/css-re... #CSS #FrontEndDev #WebDev

No mortal should be permitted, as I have, to own a jar of fruit mince and to have baked a selection of shortbread. They call to me like a siren's song, and though I may feign will, I do not have the strength to resist their allure. I fear the situation has grown dire, and I may not last the day.

I spent a significant amount of time today surfing the web to collect more conferences. There are so many conferences around, and I don't think I've even scratched the surface. Anyhow, many more conferences are now listed, and several more little tweaks have been made. Thanks for all the support!

Proud to announce TechConf.Directory, a directory of tech conferences around the globe. I've found it quite difficult to find conferences. That is true no more! I've made all the data fully open and available via a fully queryable API as well. techconf.directory #Conferences #Tech #Programming

I remain unable to find a good list. Would you be interested in a front-end/web development conference listing site if I were to build one? #WebDev #FrontEndDevelopment

I've been putting together a collection of web badges/buttons after being nerd sniped by @strange.website. I plan to make a great deal more, but these are what I've got so far. vale.rocks/portfolio/88... #88x31 #WebBadges #IndieWeb #SmallWeb

I could appreciate some nuance to the situation when Bluesky initially verified some US government accounts. However, deciding to verify ICE as they murder, abuse, and kidnap people is either direct endorsement or a blatant lack of spine. I'm questioning remaining on the platform. #Bluesky #ICE

I've decided that, henceforth, I shall no longer go by the title of 'front-end developer', but instead by the traditional title, 'webmaster'. Please update all bylines and attributions appropriately.

we’re over 800 personal sites strong over on personalsit.es 🫠 who will be the 900th? the 1000th? add your site today! >:)

My @stoat.chat bot AutoMod had a major outage that I've spent several hours working to fix. It has eaten half my weekend and been quite the ordeal. Just now it has started working perfectly again. It is fixed, but I have no idea what broke in the first place nor what fixed it.

So cool to see that SVG filters seem to be catching on. So many cool effects are possible on the web with them and it is high time people start embracing them.

Living in the world's most isolated city, looking at front-end conference prices, plus the price for several connecting flights spanning multiple days of travel, plus accommodation and expenses… Yikes. I think the only way it'd be viable is if I can string a few together and attend a few at once.

Growing increasingly frustrated as I attempt in vain to explain how one can modify the browser chrome of a browser that isn't Chrome to look like chrome. That is, to change the chrome of a non-Chrome browser to look like chrome, without making it look like Chrome.

Taking my ‘Adobe’s Creative Cloud has broken itself again, and I’ve got to wait for it to sort itself out’ mandated break.