This is tomorrow! @inclusivedesign24.bsky.social is a 24 hour online conference with loads of amazing speakers across timezones. You're bound to find an interesting talk or 2 in your TZ but checkout the schedule here: inclusivedesign24.org/2025/schedule/ I'm up at 4pm BST 😆

day 2 is maps everyone! you've got homework! 🗺️

Thinking of folks in the Philippines right now as HKers prepare for a direct hit late tonight. I've only been scared of one typhoon in my life (Mangkhut in 2018) and this one's supposed to be worse 🥹 Mainly worried about what to do with the cats if a window breaks edition.cnn.com/2025/09/22/a...

For anyone who pays attention to high contrast / forced colors mode styles: I wrote up an explanation of why forced-color-adjust: none is nearly unavoidable and how it sets up your codebase for downstream bugs: sarahmhigley.com/writing/forc...

Me when other people share what they are doing: HELL YEAH 🥳 Me when I share what I am doing: oh no 🤢

me: I do not need another graphic t-shirt, I do not need another graphic t-shirt @piccalil.li + @nicksimson.com: haha, fuck you! (seriously, these designs are so good. especially love that nick has one with the best color, purple, obv) piccalilli.teemill.com www.nicksimson.com/posts/2025-i...

I'm so allergic to self promotion, I do a single thread about what I'm up to and now I feel like I have to take a shower. 😰

I am re-entering the world of speaking after a 3(!) year long break! If you're interested You can catch me at: - "Audiom: Building inclusive maps as the token sighted developer" - Inclusive Design 24 at 4:00am UTC, 25 Sep(inclusivedesign24.org/2025/schedule/) apologies to the euro buddies! (cont.)

This whole piece is worth reading: It is alright to be speechless when things are overwhelming. It is alright to sit in uncertainty, to contemplate. It is alright. It is expected. 2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/voices-carry/

I wrote about newsletters I like and how I receive them in a privacy-friendly way that helps me stay sane and organized. h/t to @ericwbailey.website for the tag. Sorry to @annaecook.bsky.social @spavel.bsky.social @eva.town @nicmakesstuff.bsky.social–I tagged y'all 😘 janmaarten.com/newsletters-...

Mark my words, @nik.digital is going to be THE next great teacher of the web, you're going to want to follow him now so you can feel like a hipster when he's famous

It's exactly one week until pre-orders for Mindful Design open! Save £100 by pre-ordering for a late November launch. piccalil.li/mindful-design

There is a tiny part of me that is extremely competitive - I'll see someone doing something that I could do, but worse, and there is a part of my rat brain that wants to drop everything and do it better, without interrogating if I -should-. This, as it turns out, is a fast-track to burnout city

I respect Anil so I want to talk seriously about harm reduction and public health messaging. First let me acknowledge that yes, many regular, not-super-online people are trying out AI tools. Of course they are! It's been aggressively pushed into everything and given heavy institutional support.

This is the 'it depends' article for web performance + sustainability that front-end folks need to read 👀

This is not CSS grid-aware, but energy grid-aware websites. Websites that respond to the “cleanliness” of the user’s local electricity grid. A very interesting read and concept. www.nicchan.me/blog/explori...

I'm going to Europe for the first time in over 15 years and going to France and Germany for the first time ever in less than a week!! I'm so excited to meet a bunch of you all at Smashing Conf Freiberg 🎉

Went to dig up some old slides so I could reuse the layout for a new talk and found the saddest commit message ever "Fix a typo i sadly only noticed during the talk"

I'm deeply grateful to the Green Web Foundation for giving me this opportunity to think more about what a sustainable internet could look like. 💚 www.nicchan.me/blog/explori...

A non-trivial part of my job is recommending to use the platform, except when I caution against using the platform, then trying to navigate giving this contradictory advice without being perceived as an untrustworthy hypocrite.

"Ask an LLM to style a button, and there’s a good chance it’ll still suggest outline: 0 or outline: none from the 15 years of training data." medienbaecker.com/articles/tru...

I didn't have $520,000 for a #Gamescom Trailer so I'm posting my Desktop Roguelike game here instead for free! #gamedev 🎮 #pixelart #indiegame

you ought to make a website. you ought to make it a canvas, a great irrigated field, a confessional booth. make it an amphitheatre, a private tea service with friends, a graveyard, a bedroom, the sunset light through shutters. you ought to make a personal website, make it carefully, make it home

I'm hoping this latest terribleness from Github will be the push the ecosystem needs in order for alternatives to spring up! When I was looking for alternatives a few months ago because accidentally banned Hong Kong, there weren't any alternatives that fit our needs, but maybe soon there will be 🤞

I love a good technical breakdown, anyone interested in building greener websites should give this a read!

a web that isn't human-first is a web I want nothing to do with. I'm not going to "optimize the graph" of assertions, or whatever. I'm not a content farm for your algorithm. i'm here to build real relationships with real people - and if that's not what the web is for anymore, I'll be somewhere else.

Counterpoint: my entire audience is human, and every layer of bots trying to intercept our communication is a failure of the network. It's not enough that the billionaires want to DDOS the web and strip mine our work for their profit, we're supposed to make it easier? I'm so tired.

Life is messy, doing something is nearly always better than doing nothing - but we have to let ourselves off the hook when we (inevitably) can’t do everything. Streaks make that harder. Duolingo I am looking HARD at you. I wrote a bit about streaks here 👇🏻 amyhupe.co.uk/articles/you... 2/2

I had a dream where I was invited to meet with a potential client, so I prepared for the standard conversation, but it turns out it was actually a group interview of 30 teams trying to answer questions that were taped onto a moving train, and that's kind of what tech hiring feels like right now 😂

Eric has managed to put my vague feeling of discomfort around inclusive personas into actual words. A must-read!

I may be biased, but the new marketing pages are looking incredible.

I was laid-off and am looking for a new role. Working were design meets code is my jam. I am skilled at building accessible design system components, working with Web Components APIs, and creating scalable CSS architecture. I work remotely from my home in Manitoba, Canada. 🇨🇦 Shares appreciated!

Issue 9 of Branch magazine (which I worked on as copy editor) is out now! branch.climateaction.tech/issues/issue... Published by the Green Web Foundation, Branch is an online mag written by and for people who dream of a sustainable and just internet for all. Highly recommended reading!

📝 Read the latest issue of Branch Magazine It's so great to hear from people who actually want to address impending climate disaster! www.nicchan.me/blog/read-th...

I forget standards wonks aren’t the only ones paying attention to proposals. “Please, can we have ARIA Notify” www.nicchan.me/blog/please-... I was meh initially, and gave a pile of feedback in ARIA WG and at TPAC. It has matured since. It does not replace live regions. #accessibility #a11y

📝 Building my new website: A modern approach to font fallbacks with font property adjustments I finally took the three screenshots I needed to publish this post. I also got round to adding drag and drop for all the windows 🎉 www.nicchan.me/blog/buildin...

I have the opportunity to help someone with a text-based game in Twine, which lets you build games with web technologies! My initial thoughts are: 1. Wow, this is super cool 2. Holy shit, it's still using jQuery

It’s always inspiring to find a website like @nicmakesstuff.bsky.social’s that was obviously designed with a lot of care, intention, and personality. #webdesign

As more journalists are driven out of their jobs, I keep hearing this drumbeat of "it's ok -- they can start their own newsletter or publication." Some can. But becoming your own business is a huge job, and will eliminate many talented reporters from the public sphere. Here's why. (1/5)

I tried to make a website that was a color not purple and failed instantly, let's just call it a strong brand

subgrid in CSS is really handy for getting a nice level of design detail in place, especially in terms of maintaining a nice reading line, as Andy shows in this article. piccalil.li/blog/a-handy...

Saw a totally cool font that I would have happily shelled out for but it turns out the creator decided to release it as a limited nft in 2025!!! I'm clearly not mad about this at all!!! Totally unrelated, anyone have some cool variable fonts they love?

I love the thoughtful research into something I think we all feel but find it difficult to quantify. Fuck AI overviews. housefresh.com/beware-of-th...

I have been back and forth over the span of 5 years about whether to publish this article. All opinions and experiences in this post are my own, or from people I personally know, backed up with recent reports and statistics.

I spent hours and hours trawling through the sites of some of the world's best web developers, and despite the horrors I regularly experience in my daily work in Big JavaScript Territory, what I saw left me hopeful: infrequently.org/2025/07/links/

I've criticized the IAAP a lot and again they are in the spotlight for their policies regarding continuing accessibility education credit. They strictly control what's allowed as one and you need various amounts of them to continue holding a certification.

📝 Please, can we have ARIA Notify Live regions suck and I hope we get a better solution soon! www.nicchan.me/blog/please-...

This is great: “Was my IAAP Certification worth it?” www.nicchan.me/blog/was-my-... Grounded in experience, framed as practicality, and contextualized with the inaccessibility of the IAAP process. Well done, @nicmakesstuff.bsky.social. #accessibility #a11y

📝 Was my IAAP certification worth it? Probably not, for many reasons. www.nicchan.me/blog/was-my-...

As a web developer I have a sixth love language, which is people sending me bad websites to make fun of.