I dug out my old graphic design portfolio. I love it for being an almost physical manifestation of my website, albeit a slightly older version. The colours and type might have changed since I put this portfolio together, but the general style remains intact.

A couple new bangers from @vale.rocks on upcoming features: @function css-tricks.com/almanac/rule... @custom-media css-tricks.com/almanac/rule... Declan has a real knack for explaining complex things like these very, very clearly.

Not to toot my own trumpet too much, but I think this is an extremely solid resource for understanding view transitions. I've no shame in admitting that I've returned to reference this post when working with view transitions and all the borderline magic you can do with them.

I'm majorly excited for these two features to see more widespread browser support. Once these are fully fit for use in production, I think they'll revolutionise how we author and think about CSS. 'Twas a great pleasure getting to dig into these for the CSS-Tricks Almanac. #CSS #WebDev

A reminder: please don't use hacky 'fonts' on social media. They are specialised symbols and are treated as such by assistive technologies. I've seen them creeping into posts here on Bluesky recently and I'd hate to see them become commonplace. vale.rocks/micros/20250... #Accessibility #a11y

One profile, one day: Declan Chidlow on Sifa 📍 @vale.rocks

Sifa featured profile of the day!

Stumbling towards the domain registrar with a crisp note in my hand in the same fashion as the drunk stumbles towards the bar with hand outstretched, steadying himself momentarily on the back of your chair before taking another step and finding himself on the floor.

At Maccas and we see a dozen or more rats scuttering around the car park bins. We pull up to the drive-thru window and mention 'Wow, you've got a lot of rats out there!'. We finish ordering and as we drive on she yells to her manager through the busy restaurant 'This guy says we've got rats!'. 🤦

RE: https://front-end.social/@sarajw/116657409377811244 It begins....

So many accessibility technologies out there, and I've barely scratched the surface trying to cover some here. This was originally for my own purposes, but I'm publishing it for all and will be updating it as time goes on to expand it significantly. vale.rocks/posts/digita... #a11y #Accessibility

Sometimes people message me to say thanks to me for sharing my code publicly, because it has helped them understand something. Such messages reach me sending electric strikes of fear into my heart. I can't stress enough how bad of an idea referencing any of my code is. I feel I must apologise.

Hi BlueSky pals 📣 Having just completed a fun project with the folks at Clearleft, I’m on the lookout for my next project. I’m open to part-time or full-time contracts outside IR35 and I can help you with: - design systems consultancy & management - content design - design systems documentation

So many accessibility technologies out there, and I've barely scratched the surface trying to cover some here. This was originally for my own purposes, but I'm publishing it for all and will be updating it as time goes on to expand it significantly. vale.rocks/posts/digita... #a11y #Accessibility

Trunca...

Glad to see things are going well for @kevinpowell.co over on YouTube.

💪 #interop

I went and set up some swanky @standard.site stuff with Vale.Rocks' long-form posts today. Just look at that rich embed! I see it has been picked up by @sifa.id and shows my posts on my profile there. That's the power of the AT Protocol right there, folks! vale.rocks/posts/the-im...

Testing Safari on a Budget, by @vale.rocks (@frontendmasters.com): https://frontendmasters.com/blog/testing-safari-on-a-budget/?ref=frontenddogma.com #testing #safari #apple #browsers #tooling

Just discovered this is a thing you can do if you're so inclined. youtube.com/tv works on non-television devices (as long as you spoof your user agent).

I love when platforms shut down due to a flawed business model lacking profitability, so another platform comes along aiming to fill the void left by the old platform but also copies the flawed business model, also fails to profit, and then also shuts down. One of my favourite genres of business.

'Did you add an extra page to the site just so the footer links would balance nicely?' Me? No. Pfft. I— Y'know— Me? Ha. I— I’d never! Not something I'd do... nope...

Acne and pimples are bad. Pimple patches are expensive but work. Buying hydrocolloid rolls gives you 4 metres of pimple patches for $15 AUD. I do advise. vale.rocks/micros/20260...

The only agent I'm trusting is Agent 86, Maxwell Smart. He is a long serving member of CONTROL, a secret US government counterintelligence agency.

Was helping out a (seemingly) nice client in her 80s who was locked out of her Facebook, and based on the vibe I got from her (and her very vocal support of Donald Trump and Pauline Hanson), I'm almost certain her account was suspended due to spewing hate speech and harassing people. 😬

This inspiring piece gives me some hope for a future to come, which means a lot, because things have been looking mighty bleak.

There's simply too much good human made stuff out there to justify wasting time consuming AI made slop.

After a long break from working on it, I'm back to chipping away at my interactive guide to unicycling.

I've got a good feeling about this burgeoning new internet thing. I think it is going to do a lot of good. vale.rocks/posts/intern...

I've started receiving emails from AI agents. Yesterday I got an email from an AI agent regarding something I wrote about AI scraping work without permission. The agent thanked me, saying it 'enjoyed' reading my writing and found it valuable, then informed me it has shared a link on its website.

An update that adds Push Notifications to our Android app is rolling out now! 🔔 👀

Five minutes folks! Tune in your broadcast sets!

There is a point during the process of my annual haircut down to bald where I survey the sink with a certain trepidation.

Folks, at 16:00 UTC @wil.to will be streaming Megamanathon 2 at twitch.tv/wiltostreams! One-hit knockout Mega Man madness raising money for @translifeline.org. You should most certainly tune in. wil.to/posts/megama... #MegaMan #Twitch

Google Search Central made a post on LinkedIn, and it has the most genuine human-written comments I've ever seen on the platform. It is just a bunch of SEO experts saying variants of: 'We're fucked', 'Our careers are ruined', 'All our traffic is gone', 'Google wants us dead'. :(

I got another email from someone having delusions about being tracked by a subdermal implant under their skin, so I wrote up a solid resource to point people towards. vale.rocks/posts/tracki... #Biohacking #Implants #BodyMods

Quick little web app-view outage there...

More and more, websites have been devalued thanks to AI, but this really is a big inflection point. I'm actually curious as to the long-term ramifications, but wish it was more of one of those things where I wasn't so invested in the outcome, cause it doesn't look great.

📢 Hire me to: - Create your web standards &/or open source strategy - Help you understand technical policy and it's implications for you - Create your accessibility strategy - Create developer education materials 👉🏾 Check out my CV here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

More and more people I deeply respect and have learned a lot from over the years feel like they are speaking into a void, to the point where they are losing motivation to continue making content, which got me to write my first post on my site in over a year... www.kevinpowell.co/article/tell...

Oh, here is the announcement of advertisements. blog.google/products/ads...

Quick plug for search.vale.rocks. If you want the bangs of DuckDuckGo and the snaps of Kagi with a search engine that doesn't support such features, this is a lightweight little router. I use it to jump around search engines and sites quickly based on my needs, without relying on a singular engine.

Testing Safari on a Budget Good luck on non-Apple devices! You may want to try remote hardware or an online service. Or go refurbished and try to keep the cost down.

There is so much fresh uncertainty following Google I/O, and I think it will take us all a while to process it and understand what it means. vale.rocks/micros/20260...

Testing in Safari can be an expensive ordeal thanks to Apple only supporting the browser on their platforms. Over on @frontendmasters.com, I wrote about testing in Safari without spending a small fortune. frontendmasters.com/blog/testing... #Safari #FrontEndDev #WebDev

How we all feel right now: 🫩

Nothing like waking up and finding that a megacorp has upgraded its unreliable shotgun to blow the knees out from your entire industry while all anyone against the changes can do is sit idly by and sob.

The 2026 State of CSS survey is now live 🎉 Take it here: survey.devographics.com/en-US/survey...

Dredged up some residual knowledge relating to tech support from my mind fields. I again wish to reiterate how much I hate printers. vale.rocks/posts/tech-s...

Chrome shipped an LLM Prompt API to the web platform. At Mozilla, we oppose this API. Here's why: