UK Folks with chronic pain I’m looking for advice for my sister who has ME/CFS and fibromyalgia. The pain clinic just dismissed her with “you’re too unhappy, you need to be more motivated” and won’t do anything else for her. What routes are there, if any, to get her some decent help?

Starmer's current vibe. Blimey though, he's a real klingon isn't he?

@cferdinandi.bsky.social randomly skimming through my RSS and I think there's a typo in your content warning on this post: gomakethings.com/trickle-down... (unless I missed the maths part of content) "Content warning: this article includes mentions of *addition*"

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I’ll just leave this here for now. viewportconf.org #web #conference

#MakeFuckKeirStarmerNumberOneSingle song.link/i/1862223590 @kneecapceol.bsky.social

Prompted by @bram.us' encouragement, I've written about popovers and the backdrop psuedo selector and how I think…it can lead to anti-patterns, it certainly did for me. remysharp.com/2026/05/08/p...

I'll just write a short blog post about the thing. 1,100 words later. 🤦 It's done though, link coming.

www.w3.org/TR/selectors... pseudo-elements are not valid selectors within :has()

I think the answer is no (because I keep testing different variations of it), but(!), is it possible to write a CSS selector based on a pseudo element's position. ie. `dialog::backdrop + div { color: red }` (bad example, but should give you an idea). Equally is `:has(::backdrop)` a thing?

Happy 100th birthday to Sir David Attenborough. One of the most important natural history broadcasters, environmental educators and climate voices of our time. 💚

The last minutes of the last #AllDayHey. Been an honour to speak (in 2019), but moreso, attend. Huge thanks to @joshnesbitt.dev and so many others for running it over the last decade. <tips-hat-then-hugs>

Enjoying the **last** #AllDayHey. The biggest thing I get from events, that I can't get from anywhere else: people who care about the things I care about. I'm always nervous attending, worrying I'll be alone, and it never goes that way. But it's always okay. See you at the next event, right?

Really didn't think it would work, but my hotel offers free wifi for 30 minutes. So I'm now running this command every 30 minutes then reconnecting: ``` sudo ifconfig en0 ether $(openssl rand -hex 6 | sed 's/\(..\)/\1:/g; s/.$//') ``` I'm just rotating my mac address.

Sat on the train watching spinners-a-plenty, and reminded of that old adage: PROGRESSIVE FUCKING ENHANCEMENT. A-thank-kew.

The stage is set for the last All Day Hey! and I'm getting ready to give the closing remarks, signalling ten years of the conference. All a bit emotional, to be honest with you. Incredibly excited to get everyone together and feel the buzz in the room. If you've bagged a ticket, I'll see you there 🫡

I did fix my cross posting thingy, so now I can successfully @-the crap out of @janl.bsky.narrativ.es and they'll get double pinged from all the socials (i.e. my masto and bsky accounts).

I don't quite understand why installing an extension on Netlify means it's then installed on ALL projects. I've got a few projects that are achingly old, and as such, the extension actually prevents the build from finishing (and I really don't want to update it because it's in full autonomous mode)

I might have just managed to spin up a new AWS server, and have a full deploy chain running in 30 minutes. I've never had an AWS server live deployed from `main` branch from github actions. It's always been an extra I've had to pay for/non-AWS services.

Yep, I'm just a software dev, working on my website…

If anyone saw my talk at @ffconf.org and is interested about Gleam, go find @hayleigh.dev on Thursday! She's a member of the core team and maintains lustre, the main Gleam library for frontend web dev.

They’re SMEARING Zack Polanski. Here’s Why. youtu.be/UyNxLSlVr3k?... via @YouTube

It's interesting that Mastodon has strong support for accessibility (i.e. blocking posts without alt text - yes, I know bsky can be turned on too, slightly harder UX I think), yet on Masto, you can't add subtitles to video, whereas you can add a vtt file on bsky.

For sure going! (Wonder how this turns up on my masto cross post 🤔 should just be a link)

Happy new Murderbot book day. Long one this time too.

I wish I could make the Firefox View the thing that loads up when I load a new blank tab. So much better than the history (which I'm sure just misses stuff).

Testing my new cross post process. I finally managed to fix a LOT of problems in the last one, @janl.bsky.narrativ.es kindly prompted me the last time. Now I've got a UI that helps me debug too. (this tests if a) cross posts works, b) find's Jan's masto account on the masto side)

Thanks for the clothes recommendations yesterday. This is most of them in a list: gist.github.com/remy/9229c42... I made myself a quick tool for extract these from future social posts where I ask "recommendation for X" here tools.remysharp.com/social-repli...

The sticker @matthiasott.com grabbed for me at @beyondtellerrand.com now appropriately sits on my broken basket. But (hopefully) it's not quite game over!

Thank you for all the recommendations for clothes stores folks, lots of places for me to check out. I can also confirm that all of the male models for Uniqlo have absolutely skipped leg day. No meat on those chicken legs!

English folks, men mostly, but not exclusively (but definitely geo-specific): where do you buy your clothes from? I want to buy some shorts, but I know I'll just go to Next, wander around, then leave because either shit is too tight (yeah…or too maybe it's me 🤷) then I leave empty handed.

This blog post is so short it (is) a social post. remysharp.com/2026/05/01/d... But if I don't blog it, I'll forget it. Huge thanks to @keithamus.social for sharing it.

Accessibility question: if I have a list of items (not a select) that can be navigated using the cursors (up and down), am I right in thinking that TAB key shouldn't tab through each option (now I'm writing that I'm thinking more and more it shouldn't, but I'm not 100%).

Does anyone know if there's a way **in devtools** (preferably Firefox, but I'll take Chrome in a pinch), to write a selector that can punch through *multiple* shadow DOMs? It's a home assistant thing, and there's no tooling for it, wondering if I can solve it in devtools.

50 days to go! @pixelpioneers.co is back in Bristol on 19 June, this time covering: 🚀 Browser support 🧑‍💻 UI layouts 🌱 Web sustainability 🤝 Accessibility 𖨆𖨆𖨆 Better collaboration ✍ Content design 🎵 Music with HTML 📈 Web performance 🧩 Design systems Tix: pixelpioneers.co/events/brist...

#tinyCSStip I like shorthands, I find them immensely useful. But it doesn't always make sense to drop it all in the shorthand and having repetitions. Yeah, you can store that `.2s` in a #CSS variable. But is it really worth it if you're not even using it elsewhere in addition to not being dynamic?

Here's a fun new thing that macOS Tahoe is doing for me: When I reboot my machine, for the immediate 3-5 minutes, the available disk space will become less and less, until it hits around 800mb left, then quickly bounce back to over 30gb free. I absolutely hate "magic" in software.

The Hampster Dance website in 1999 This website was one of the earliest examples of an Internet meme and it was created by Deidre LaCarte in 1998. #InternetHistory

This post would have been better with screenshots, but I wrote it on the plane, so…I'm excused! remysharp.com/2026/04/27/a...

⏰ We need to act fast! ⏰ We have less than a month to flood MP's inboxes and get them to rip up the EHRC's transphobic guidance 👇 https://goodlaw.social/lezs

Came out as a "short": www.youtube.com/shorts/_FmKv... Here's Coco doing her thing. She's a good girl.

Should I upload and share a short video of Coco doing the tricks she knows?

It's hard to make them out, but Kipo, our cat is so desperate for love from Coco, our dog.

Trying to transform a 2,500 word aural word dump into a "proper" blog post. And it's 10pm and I can't see straight. The risk is that it turns into another massive blog post with no ending and dies in my drafts.

Wondering if anyone that follows me has a work Palm Pilot (not emulator, I have those!). I'm after a (nice) photo of it running an old game I wrote. Appreciate the hardware is from a good few decades ago! (I'm sure I saw mine in the 2010s, just don't think I can sync it).

Friends in Europe, Like many around the globe, one of my course students recently has lost his job and is now looking for a new opportunity. ✨ Do you know any good companies in Belgium that are looking for a Frontend developer with a passion for UI/UI and Accessibility to connect him with?

I feel like every little (me) project I build I come up with a new paradigm for storing data. My latest (dumb) idea is to use a github hosted JSONL file as my database, with github actions to transform to get a highscore leaderboard, then trigger a rebuild on Netlify. It's OTT. It's neat. But OTT.

The nice thing about this (sort of) spring weather is being able to dry the clothes outside and save on the electricity. The obvious down side is the bird shit that's now on the (previously) clean (but now dry) school shorts for the kids 🕊️🫟 🤦

Sod it, last time–because, yep, missing tokens. ::cough:: I'm going to @beyondtellerrand.com. I've totally failed to see who's speaking thus far, and bought my ticket before they'd announced. Yes, this is a test post, but it's also promotiong for lovely @marcthiele.com (so that's 2 handles to text)

So of course, I forgot to add the mastodon token to make the cross post actually work (yes, I'm talking to myself, this isn't very "social"), so I have to at-ping @beyondtellerrand.com again to see if it works this time (🤞)