Oh, and get a personal website.

75% of consumers said "coshing people over the head and running off with their money should be illegal". The European Society of Coshers, the International Mugging Association, large Cosh manufacturers and the Federation of Utter Bastards showed low support.

What do you mean there is a footer on the page with infinite scroll? What do you mean it is important the additional content pushes the footer down before it enters the view because of performance metrics? What do you mean the SSR is slow on the server because of css-in-js? What the f is going on?

I love invoker commands, but my biggest gripe with them is that they're not easy to use as a progressive enhancement and you need JavaScript to detect support for them. Longterm, when there is wider support, this will be less of an issue, but it makes them harder to adopt today.

One of many things I enjoy about baking my site using @11ty.dev is that I can generate the site, move the directory, update some part of the stack, such as the JS runtime, generate it again, and then diff the two outputs, which guarantees nothing else unintentionally changed.

Am I missing something, or is using JavaScript the only way to feature detect the Invoker Command API? Asking for Progressive Enhancement and Graceful Degradation.

🤯 CSS Typed Arithmetic tfedder.de/blog/css-typ...

🤯 CSS Typed Arithmetic tfedder.de/blog/css-typ...

Just to be clear, no government bailout this time. Can we agree on that one in advance? Food stamps? Eviction protection? Fine. But no bailout.

AI itself isn’t the problem. The problem is the stuffing of AI into every facet of our lives, the indiscriminate wielding of it against messy human problems, the band-aiding over inherent and sometimes unsolvable complexity - and all of this with a distinct lack of interrogation into consequences.

Working in tech can be so fucking suffocating. I’ve been MIA here bc I had no space to breathe with my last role and how toxic things were there. All that just to be let go lol it’s so not worth selling your soul for a check whew

I was about to write something witty about the police helicopter that has been hovering above my home for 15 minutes — felt like an hour. But I couldnʼt overcome my lack of confidence in my ability to express myself in English. Silver lining: I did not resort to AI for that.

Glad to report that the update to Android 15 has resolved my issue with TalkBack in Chrome and Firefox.

If you actually care about the web platform, the open web, and the way AI is degrading the whole experience...I don't think releasing a glorified ChatGPT wrapper is the way to show that care.

Any recommendations for affordable storage VPS (2 to 4 terrabytes) providers outside of Europe? I am looking for a second remote backup location.

Okay, let's see how well this comment does without context: Imagine being an Apple customer complaining about others supposedly putting brakes on the baseline of the web.

Nothing motivates like a good, in-person, frontend meetup. Cherry on top: I take a day off, so I have all that motivation to myself.

Just read a few articles about the surge of the gold price, saying that buyers choose it because of its value preservation. 🤷‍♂️

⚓️ New Article: DIY Netlify

Drew this today to explain where we are on the AI hype cycle at the moment. Feel free to use…

I know German is hard or whatever. One of the reasons is the closed compound words. I also know hyphenation on the web isn’t solved yet. But this is the third word failing within 30 minutes of using the web. All could’ve been avoided with a soft hyphen. At least this one wasn’t cut off.

Definitely looking for someone to break down how to do some real nice stuff with view transitions on piccalil.li Stuff people can use in their day-to -day. Hit me up if that’s you!

if you're starting a sentence with "ethics aside" then: 1. don't type the rest 2. turn off your device 3. never Log On again

TIL git-annex exists. Now I am glad that I hesitated for so long to install a questionable git LFS server.

Hey fellow frontendlers - I spend a lot of time on my phone. Too much tbh - but I can't always grab my laptop. I want to be able to mess with HTML and CSS comfortably while on my phone, and see quick results. Codepen app doesn't do that. The web version is hard to control on a phone. Any ideas?

AI isn't "increasing efficiency" if other people end up having to parse, fact check and correct your work.

The thing most people look for in leadership are absolute rules that they can apply “do this, not that” style. The truth is, leadership is thinking in systems. Org health and productivity are related. Org change isn’t just moving TO something, it’s FROM-TO, and so on. Consider the whole system.

Sitting in a food court in Berlin — yes, I’m on vacation. Now I know where all the vibe coders are.

If you could dynamically mirror HTML content in multiple places (e.g. like a <use> for HTML), what would you use it for?

Insufficient leadership begets insufficient leadership.

The only way to get an approximation of a correct bit of code from an AI is to ask the right questions (i.e., create the correct prompt). It seems to me that, as a profession, we have been struggling to ask the right questions for 80 years now. It's a hard problem.

Naming is hard. Assumptions are wrong. But the prototype seems to be working.

TIL text-wrap: balance; isn’t balancing lines around <br> in Firefox and Chrome.

I got an idea for a custom element, but I’ve no time to try making it at the moment: <soft-br> Adds a line break in it’s place, given that the line break does not increase the parent element’s number of lines. Maybe also doing that only when off-screen, because of defer and flashing text bla bla

I can’t wait to slap calc-size(auto, round(up, size, 1rlh)) on every <blockquote> in every .card there is.

My 2yo didn’t sleep well last night. So I didn’t sleep well last night. So I had a rough morning (excuses, excuses, excuses). So I lost my phone this morning. So I couldn't like your posts.

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a GIF. No Star Wars, Star Trek, Lord of the Rings, or Marvel stuff.

“I’m talking about professional shame: the shame accompanying doing a bad job. Developers, more than anyone else I know, identify with being capable. Pushing poor development work is not just embarrassing, it threatens their very sense of self.”

I decided to add a web font to my site. Quick win, right? lol tfedder.de/blog/adding-...

I decided to add a web font to my site. Quick win, right? lol tfedder.de/blog/adding-...

It's fun that protesters burning surveillance-camera cars are retroactively responsible for ICE kidnappings, & trans people being rude on socials about threats to health care are retroactively the reason we're losing that care. Suffer nicer next time. The discourse never fails (to blame the victim).

Me, who has used a LLM only once, at the Dev & Design meetup, minutes before a group discussion about strategies regarding using AI in design, front-end and more: 🫨

What I’m looking for is already in the CSS Conditional Rules Module Level 5 Working Draft. 🙂

Container style queries can read custom properties. So, container size queries using custom properties, when? _It’s the same query as @media, so custom properties won’t work._ Okay then, @container inline-size(size <= --size-2){} when?

The issue is what do we use instead? Chrome? Hope you don't care about your privacy. Edge/Opera/Vivaldi? Chrome with extra steps. Safari? Only on Apple products. Arc? Murdered because of AI. Brave? Shitty CEO and crypto. Zen? Firefox with extra steps. 🤷

Reading blog posts this month I wonder: What is going on with "oft" and what happened to "often"?

If you have enjoyed any of my briefs.video videos, would you mind subscribing on YouTube? You won’t get many notifications; I release infrequently. My latest video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wqn...

The last two "big" announcements from Silicon Valley: 1) Figma sites: inaccessible mess 2) Apple Liquid Glass: inaccessible mess I can't actually remember the last time Silicon Valley came up with something that was actually good.

People print websites, so I wrote an article over on @piccalil.li about how to make sure they don't feel the need to pull out all their hair while printing yours. Decimate a rainforest, spend a fortune on some new ink cartridges, unjam the mechanism, print off the article, and give it a read.

Hey CSS experts, is there a way to only mess with the font-weight if the web font has loaded — leaving the fallback font alone? #webdev #css #fonts