Wine is open and @evadage.co.uk and I are about to sit down to celebrate Latvian Ziemassvētki with roast venison. Tomorrow we roll further into the hills for a proper turkey roast with the Welsh contingent. Happy Christmas to all who celebrate tonight! 🎄

new on Strangers, By Spring 🤍 “I remember feeling like demigods as we paraded up Dean St ... and I remember envy deep in my muscles at the infinite life that flowed out of you and your glamorous lover. I remember your laughter and ours echoing like gunfire percussion through the city.”

I just heard one of those royalty-free Christmas songs that they only ever play in shops and the main refrain was just "Christmas will find you" over and over again. Now all I can think of is a festive Taken spin-off

With work wrapped for the year, it's time to continue a pre-christmas tradition running since '98

Less of a wrap up and more of a call to action this year. TL;DR we need to take these motherfuckers down bell.bz/wrapping-up-...

the thing that drives me insane about genAI/chatgpt bullshit is that brother, the process IS the work IS the entire thing. no artist comes to art for the final result. the final result is inextricable from the fucking labor that came into making it

Alright, first wrap up of the year. It's been a stellar year at @piccalil.li. We've published *so much* and introduced so many great things. I wanted to reflect on that and let you know what's coming up in 2026. A massive thank you to everyone who has supported us this year 💛

Delighted to contribute to the HTMLHell advent calendar. I explained how screen readers don’t always announce what’s visually on screen - through the medium of burritos: www.htmhell.dev/adventcalend... Thanks to experts @matuzo.at and @hidde.blog for making sure the burrito was structurally sound.

Friends fear he has once again made The Computer do his bidding. I built a little site for all my photos away from any social media. Had a little fun with it, yanno? konnai.re/leisuredome

Next week my wife and I doing a sort of pre-xmas supper club thing with our neighbours so I'm doing a test flight of the main – smoked gnocchi with beef shin ragù. I have our little smoker going and the beef has been cooking in wine & tomatoes for about 2 hours. Pretty sure these smells are illegal

The handmade, human qualities of your work are more valuable than they've ever been. Don't doubt that for a second.

I love overflow clip, but I never knew these specifics! Its also very helpful when working with position sticky or scroll driven animations. The hidden value breaks position sticky and scroll driven animations that are set on children but the clip value does not Mini demo: codepen.io/Sidstumple/p...

You can fundamentally rewire your brain to properly understand CSS layout... for $34.50. Can’t say fairer than that! One day left.

So happy to have this out there. I've dreamt of a new home for the GSAP demos for so long. I can't wait to get cracking with some more uploads, framework collections and integrated tutorials for more complex techniques. 🤘

new from our friend @likethecolour.red on Strangers, By Spring: "Bar Italia is both a cafe and a portal. What I mean by that is that it is open for 21 hours a day and anywhere that is open for 21 hours a day eventually, but inevitably, becomes a portal." strangersbyspring.com/2025-12-12

The lead was a dead end. A dream led out to die, another ghost in the fog. But he lived for moments like these: when the sky is thick, the wolves are at the door and there ain't nothin' left but to chase deadlines with dialtones (friends, he has been listening to Bohren & Der club of Gore again)

Lately I've been taking my web design inspiration from other disciplines and book covers have become one of my favourite sources. This is a great collection

Fellow people in marketing: see this as yet another warning. People do not want to see AI and it’ll do damage to yours/your client’s brand www.bbc.co.uk/news/arti…

there are things we must end sometimes to make way for bright beginnings to blossom and new discoveries about ourselves to be made in earnest with a full heart and a free mind endings

just gonna share this a couple more times cause i really like the thing we’re making, and think it deserves reach

🌧️ hey yeah it’s launch day. had a blast making this website with the inimitable @likethecolour.red, a Bluesky Account & in many ways a dear friend whose outlook on life inspires me deeply :) this is a project made with love for the web, friends, and reiselust. i'm excited to share it with you.

[me, retouching a single pixel highlight on a bg character's eyeball for the twelfth time in one hour] "Gotta get this right. The entire campaign depends upon it..." [client, staring at the ball of melting, screaming meat that ChatGPT made, instead of a person] "😍 OMG! 😍 ship it!!!!"

Every facet of generative AI has made my professional life worse, without question, but THIS specific aspect has been driving me NUTS. Clients, who have made me toil for weeks over indescribably small details, are now approving & producing in-house commercial artwork that looks like a fever dream.

FRIENDS it is now the LAST DAY that you can SAVE SOME DOSH when you buy MINDFUL DESIGN. it is a VERY MASSIVE video course that covers the FULL DESIGN STACK and you get to STARE AT MY FACE for TWENTY SEVEN HOURS or sth. now i will SHUT THE HECK UP and NAP FOR A WEEK. piccalil.li/mindful-design

Please take the time to check out this achingly beautiful website, made by two of the greatest to ever do it

Stoked to share that True Terrors (@strange.website) and I have turned this riff of a post into "Strangers By Spring", a creative project about escapism, romance, and rebirth: strangersbyspring.com Sometimes it's really good to just sit down and make the things you wish existed in the world.

🎉 And we're live! 🎉 We just launched CSS Wrapped 2025: our annual recap of all things CSS & web UI that landed in Chrome over the course of the year. 🚀 This is a big one! We highlighted 22 new features to help you build better on the web. Check out: chrome.dev/css-wrapped-2025

Lynn is back with another banger, as always

With talks from an international line-up: • Bramus Van Damme (Google) • Léonie Watson (Tetra Logical) • Fiona Safari (Tesco) • Jake Archibald (Firefox) • Alistair Shepherd (Series Eight) • Cassie Evans (GSAP/Webflow) • Phil Hawksworth (Deno) ti.to/hey-presents...

HO HO HO! GO FESTIVE and WIN A VERY COOL THING!!

I grew up in skate-adjacent circles but could never skate for shit, so this joyful look back at Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, 2000s alt culture and countless attempts to do a kickflip hit the nostalgia pretty hard

Awesome to see @lynnandtonic.com's Nestflix getting a mention here

I've never seen the industry so reluctant to spend. I had a company with 9 figures (yes, in USD) in revenue turn down a low five figure quote for a custom solution that would be revenue generating. As a side note, if you're looking for a web swiss army knife, your gal is free in Q1~

Two weeks until the price goes up, grab a ticket now to save a few pennies.

A Cloudflare outage this close to the end of the year has a real snow day vibe to it

Got stuck into Metroid Prime 4 this evening and so far it's doing everything I wanted from it. I've been playing for a few hours and all the pre-release stuff about quippy sidekick characters feels like it might have been a bit ragebaity. Interactions are sparse and haven't bothered me all that much

day four of #MindfulDesignAdvent: a lil tour of the course and some of the exercises over on the @piccalil.li yt: youtu.be/s1j6zF5KiZ4?...

Seasonal reminder that The Green Knight is absolutely a Christmas movie

i’m setting you free. i’m releasing you from the discourse

Seasonal reminder that The Green Knight is absolutely a Christmas movie

The ever-thoughtful @frankchimero.com captures a lot of the subtlies of the current moment. Embodies a lot of what is swirling around in my own brain, but in a much clearer and better designed way. frankchimero.com/blog/2025/be...

Our indy web agencies are struggling. I know first hand the incredible quality of Set Studio’s work and I’d urge anyone who needs a bit of website love (or indeed a new one) to hit them up. Likewise, if you’ve got a bit of learning budget kicking about, get yourself a piccalilli course.

Colors put out some consistently great sessions. This one, by Yussef Dayes, is excellent

With web dev becoming so focused on painless developer experience, sooner or later we're due our Dark Souls moment. I'm talking about a DX so diabolical, so heinous that it becomes compelling Oh, got a linting error when you save a file? YOU DIED. All progress lost. Start over from your last commit

My friend Viktor is offering 20% off all his font making courses and type-related templates today and tomorrow using the code BLACKFRIDAY. In this thread, I’ve got links to each. Full transparency: they’re affiliate links. BUT! I took (and paid for) the Font Making Course and thoroughly recommend.

If you have a web project on the horizon and you're looking for a team, you need to talk to Set Studio. I've had the chance to work alongside the Set team on a few of their projects and it's always such a pleasure because they all care so deeply about their clients, the work and the web itself

A bit of a vulnerable post by me but we need your help to get us through what has been a more difficult period than 2020. It would be really appreciated if you could read and share in your networks too 💛 bell.bz/its-been-a-v...

Where do folks turn to for blank canvas design inspiration these days? I’m looking for: — General *visual* design inspiration resources (not blogs) — Design as a whole, not a specific area like web design

i am very proud of the course but i am too tired to self-promote to any degree today so here's my favourite 5 seconds and a link to where you can buy it xxx piccalilli.link/md-launch-so...

this is like when you google an italian restaurant and its not some 30 page immersive video experience it’s like, sporadic 500 errors and one html file with the opening hours you know that the ragu is nonna’s old country low and slow 12-hour simmer and they do not not give a fuck about web sites