Watching a talk about economics and UX, and though I've learnt a little, the thing that's constantly niggling at the back of my head is the exploitation of people. Supply and demand, surge pricing, deliveroo-like services. All these benefit someone at the expense of fucking someone else.

This is a new thing from me: pondering how we think about discovery in a post-search era, I believe we have to share our journeys, exploration and works in progress. Here’s a field guide to a rabbit hole. www.sachajudd.com/resources/

What is going on with American('s posting on) Bluesky at the moment? So far I've seen a wall of subway sandwiches, a guy walking weird, sexism in newspaper headinlines and some weird ass shit with Trump and a wrestling match in…I assume his bedroom?

Anyone else tuning into the live finale to the Celeb Traitors?

Good on the person who bought an #FFConf ticket at 2 minutes to midnight beating the late bird tickets awaking up 😂

10:30pm, but sure, let's do a major upgrade from 11ty@2 to 11ty@3 on ffconf - I mean, it's REALLY important to do now, right? …I'm my own worst enemy.

Wondering how using AI coding tools impacts how we learn technical skills? Good news: @rivea0.bsky.social and I are giving a talk about this at @ffconf.org in Brighton on the Nov 14th! There's still a few tickets left if you've been meaning to come along and say hello!

7 years ago today. Not a disimilar situation going on right now. These were the t-shirts from 2018 (which really doesn't feel that long ago) and the lanyards packed ready for registration.

Added more photos from our "wall of vibes" ffconf.org/photos/ Lots of lovely memories and probably gives you a sense of what the event is too. Today is the last day before late-bird pricing kicks in, and then we're IRL next Friday.

Question for my Australian friends regarding the under 16s social media bam (putting aside the tricky question of enforcement). YouTube specifically - is the whole site banned or is it the social parts (comments/shorts). I get twitter, FB, tiktok banning, just wondering about YT.

I've been trying to answer the question: why attend #FFConf (as a team). This is where I landed. Please have a read, I'm hoping it can share some of the feelings that people have coming away from the event: ffconf.org/why-attend/

I hate that the place I return to for company logo SVGs is "svg porn" because the search results a literally: real svg image site, real porn, real svg image site, real porn, real svg image site. It's weird how it's interleaved like that.

Waiting for an MRI at Brighton hospital, and they're playing the Jurassic Park theme tune. That's new. Also, got a hacky cough, so pretty sure I'm going to fail the MRI (Nothing special, yearly MRI for my MS)

Deleted my post (Wow. It's been a while since I came across a website that didn't work on Firefox (mobile), utterly breaking the navigation). I have a _very_ aggressive overlay removal CSS thing, and it turned out their cookie overlay was hidden - at which point the site was broken/I broke it.

Has anyone attended #FFConf in the past as part of a team (or with others from your company)? I'm working on a (short) article, and I'd love to quote some folks for it - i.e. why you came as a team, what you took away, or anything else. Please @-me or email me - I'd appreciate it.

I have a new article out! Super Simple Full-Bleed & Breakout Styles frontendmasters.com/blog/super-s... - my take on an old problem using modern CSS solutions. Using a spooky made up Halloween recipe to illustrate concepts. PS @chriscoyier.net told me to be proud of it 😛 #CSS

Pinch and a punch for the first of the month and oh shit it's November already.

Is the beetlejuice sequel worth watching?

Developers who wrote "smooth scroll" libraries - there's a special hell for you…

Taken my first look at grokpedia and… although it reads at the bottom "The content is adapted from Wikipedia" - for this entry, it's nearly a 1:1 copy of Wikipedia's content: grokipedia.com/page/Polyfil... vs en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyfil... By "nearly", I'm talking one word or two. Literally.

@adactio.com are you speaking at Web Day Out, or are you listed under speakers because you're emcee'ing? Just curious. Affects whether I wear my Captain Keith Beer Hat.

New funsies in the land of MacOS Tahoe. I can't say exactly why, but the responsiveness of the UI seems to slow down after time (ie. no reboot in 7 days). Example, the hover effects on bluesky sidebar is slow to respond - tested across Firefox & Chrome. 😡

Our latest weekly #FFConf newsletter is out, our archive section celebrates (and recommends) @joehart.bsky.social's talk where he ends with the utterly timeless and Extremely Important line of "To our villain, the giant dickbutt!" ffconf.org/articles/202...

Solidarity with my colleague Mothin, who experiences frequent and appalling racist abuse. Out and out racism is alive and well in this country. And its perpetrators are emboldened every day that politicians and journalists describe immigrants as an invasion, a swarm, or a flood.

1 week left of standard pricing before late-bird, and only a little over 2 weeks left until #FFConf goes live. Find out more, get your ticket: 2025.ffconf.org

@ffconf.org This is just a text #hashtag

I wonder if there's some original discussion, or technical reason why web components can't be self closing, like `p` or `li` or `body`, etc. <post your links here 👇>

Lucky Americans who spent $2000+ on a Samsung 'Smart" fridge will start being fed adverts in their kitchens next month. Oh, brave new world. www.androidpolice.com/ads-are-comi...

We tried to place this story - very expensive polling, the first of its kind, strong quantitative data about what trans people feel about Britain: bluntly there is no better way to tell the story - with the BBC but it said it was "too weak". But it will pick up any old piece of transhating garbage.

I might have utterly borked my YouTube algo having watched through 240 UK commercials this morning by way of research (if you can guess what it's for you can guess the outcome), but I wanted to see if I could provide some data that shows it's just straight racism not poorly selected words.

Pochin's comments were just "poorly phrased"? To be upset at the sight of black and brown people on TV in 2025 is - obviously - racist. It's the same reaction as Jenrick in Handsworth, or the constant attack on immigrants across the political spectrum. www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...

"How has FFConf changed since 2009 and it was known as Full Frontal?" This question came up recently by someone who had either attended back in the early days or that knew of our event, but they (understandably) saw us as it was in 2009. So I tried to answer it. remysharp.com/2025/10/27/h...

This year's #FFConf t-shirts have finally arrived. They all come with a free ugly selfie.

JavaScript top-level await is no longer considered 'baseline' due to a pretty big Safari bug caniuse.com/mdn-javascri... The module graph fails in cases where two modules import a third at the same time. Demo: random-stuff.jakearchibald.com/bug-repros/t... It's best to avoid the feature for now 😔

This is the same “legitimate concerns” phrase that was used as a get-out-of-jail-free card for broadcasting transphobia on TV and in the newspapers for ten years.

@robinince.bsky.social your morning poem at QED was beautiful and made me cry. Thank you ❣️ (maybe I'm just really tired too!)

@mikehall314.bsky.social excellent skeptics show (so far).

I am _not only_ going to @ffconf.org this year but also spending a full calendar week in Brighton for the ViBeS and I hope they are good? Like the poorly victorian women that got sent to the seaside to recover, I just need more salt air.

I really want to write on my blog. I've got half a dozen to write about, but I can't get past the first few paragraphs because firstly, I've gotten myself in such a mess to cover all eventualities it makes it an impossible task. Secondly, every little break I take, I glimse the news. I'm so tired.

I'm working on some writing where it ends on "People make the web". Then I recall reading (without any qualification) more than 1/2 the web is AI generated slop… So… FML ̄\_(ツ)_/ ̄

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My So Called Life, Rem Edition: eating a bowl of 2-day-out-of-date chicken. Expecting to see it again in around 60 to 90 minutes.

Three tickets left. Buy now.

Two weeks until my last talk of the year! And what a year it has been 🖤

An AI agent that I would definitely try: one that sits in VS Code (or your fav editor) and quietly watches me code, checking my code in the background, prompting me (not visa versa) whether something has been fully thought through. Sure it can code up the mundane, but what if it actually helped?

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I get the ease of `import with json`, but I think @jakearchibald.com's counter (in favour for `fetch`) makes a lot more sense. jakearchibald.com/2025/importi... I'm going to take credit for the idea though, because I mentioned it the other day, and because I don't have any fresh ideas of my own 🤷

45% of all AI answers had at least one significant issue. 31% of responses showed serious sourcing problems – missing, misleading, or incorrect attributions. 20% contained major accuracy issues, including hallucinated details and outdated information. www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

I know I've complained about this already, but seriously, it's breaking my heart (or rather - it's SO distracting). #TahoeIsAMess