@alistairshepherd.uk joins us in May for All Day Hey! 2026. He'll be speaking about "Bill and Ted’s accessibility adventure: Accessibility testing for developers".

I've been on a bit of a social media hiatus, but I've written a new post about something that's been on my mind a lot lately localghost.dev/blog/stop-ge...

✍️ New article: Webspace Invaders 👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾 matthiasott.com/articles/web...

Small self-promo — I'm not big on the web awards industry but a site I built has been nominated for the Awwwards January e-commerce honors! Please vote for Lab46 if you want! www.awwwards.com/honors/ecomm... Lab46 is a wellness brand for gay men, and was a *really* fun Shopify build. lab46.de/en

Small self-promo — I'm not big on the web awards industry but a site I built has been nominated for the Awwwards January e-commerce honors! Please vote for Lab46 if you want! www.awwwards.com/honors/ecomm... Lab46 is a wellness brand for gay men, and was a *really* fun Shopify build. lab46.de/en

In this week's episode of The Callback, I talk about: - Why OpenClaw/ClawdBot/MoltBot has ruined hacking - Cursor's science fair project of a browser - @astro.build stops playing the field and settles down Check it out and share it with your AI friends. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWWK...

updated this post about how AI is firstly an anti-labor technology with the recent news that Pinterest is announcing layoffs under the hand-wavey justification that they'll be "focusing on AI". henry.codes/writing/ai-a...

My book, Accessibility For Everyone, is now free and online as a website. accessibilityforeveryone.site The book was first published by A Book Apart in 2017 but it holds up! It covers web accessibility for designers, developers, content folks, and really everyone who works in tech.

Thanks to everyone who put my name forward when @ppkoch.bsky.social was scouting for new speakers! 🙏

Last week I lost my job. It took me a while to process... If you or your company needs an experienced full stack developer who understands how the web works, knows modern tech, communicates well, please reach out. My CV: pawelgrzybek.com/cv/ I'd appreciate if you could share. Thank you.

@edzitron.com IMO is one of few *honest* people talking about AI and LLMs. He actually crunches the numbers and deals in facts. The numbers are *really bad* and they’re not going to get better. This is a very long read, but let it snap you back into reality. www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshitti...

Don't be disappointed only 20 In-Person tickets left for #SotB26 2026.stateofthebrowser.com/tickets/

Anyone have any particular insights on headless CMS' for enterprises? Either specific ones or general thoughts. I'm considering suggesting a switch from Craft to a headless setup for one client, it would be good to know a bit more about how others have fared with them.

I've taken a break from moving house to enjoy the Scottish ski season whilst I can! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 ⛷️ Typically for Cairngorm, it was crap weather but the snow conditions were very good! Had an absolute ball and just about remembered how to do it 😅

Oh, so after companies like OpenAI hoovered up all sorts of media as if they had a right to it, now their best idea is to own IP of works derived from “their” dataset. Curious 🧐

I've been busy packing to move house the past week for move day today... only for the folk helping me move to get too ill :((( Just my luck, this might be a messy weekend...!

This is literally a middle finger to musicians, which were already terribly underpaid by Spotify. Today it costs nothing to move to *any* other service in protest.

I wrote something because I an angry. #imagine letorey.co.uk/leets/imagine/

Hello internet friends, it's rough out there so I found y'all some tech jobs that have positive (or at least, less evil) impacts on the world. Here's a thread of what I've found for you this week ⬇️

Still not sure if you should get a ticket? Check out the amazing speakers and their talks and you'll see you don't want to miss out. 2026.stateofthebrowser.com/tickets/

Speaker reveal time! The speaker, who was obsessed with fonts and is not a fan of Meatloaf is Zach Leatherman! Zach will talk about best practices for using JavaScript. @zachleat.com 2026.stateofthebrowser.com/speaker/zach... Our speaker line up is complete! Are you excited for #SotB26?

Scroll through from the tiniest organism right up to the largest. All beautifully hand-illustrated by an actual human. neal.fun/size-of-life/

I think @alistairshepherd.uk did an _amazing_ job keeping is cool as I informed him of the biscuit pairing decision for his talk at @heypresents.com. I'm sure he'll be celebrating with the family.

This is very good. rubber-ai.davidfitz.dev

how can we keep calm and carry on now

All Day Hey speaker announcement the same day as new Jet Lag the Game trailer! The universe really is treating me today! Maybe this is my little treato for all the legacy JS nonsense at work

I am SO excited to be speaking at All Day Hey next year! And the final edition too, omg I'm honoured! Be prepared for the most bizarre accessibility talk you've ever seen, described to me in feedback as: "Incredibly weird and ridiculous, but very funny and I learned a lot!" 🎸

Celebrating ten years of All Day Hey! with our final conference. Help us go out with a bang and join on a journey through new techniques, accessibility, web animation, and human connection in a world of increasingly weird and wonderful AI.

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...

Everything Everything live 🔥 Yet again life feels sucky then I see some banging live music and I realise life is fucking amazing. I've had such a shit year but omg the music has been siiiiick

Interesting, second time I’ve seen someone get hit with a fine because their website made a cached copy of an open graph image from another site. In this case its Ghost scraping the site (cc @alistairshepherd.uk)

Another absolute stunner from Alex! 🔥 Even during my post-React rehab I'm happily learning about JS news thanks to hiding it in banging jokes

there are basically only two positions in the debate about AI. 1. i do not use it to generate things that strip the humanity out of anything that could bring joy 2. i use it. i am a big fuckin baby living in fear of epiphany and I suck at everything i am a huge baby and i am a sad little baby man

This is the most personal project I’ve made in years. I launched a new show called The Callback. It’s weekly web dev news with my dumb humor sprinkled on top. If this pilot does well I get to make more, so watching, liking, and sharing would be DEEPLY appreciated 💜 www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMOD...

It's been a great — and by great I mean fucking appalling — day for clients taking SEO advice from AI and trying to implement all sorts of crap with no critical thinking 🥴 (examples in reply)

It's here. JavaScript for Everyone is now available to…everyone! The amount of effort and experience packed into this course is unbelievable and we know you're going to love it. Get yours for £189, down from £249, for 2 weeks and super-charge your career prospects piccalilli.link/js4e-launch-...

Great words by @matthiasott.com, someone I'm delighted to call a friend > the Web isn’t just a bunch of servers and websites. The Web is the people building it. The Web is community. matthiasott.com/notes/the-li...

Hey #WDC2025, if you want a talk to watch on the way home, my talk from @heypresents.com was published today! I make some Daft Punk with a MIDI controller and a web browser.

I'm down in Bristol over the next couple of days for Web Dev Conf! Super excited for it and looking forward to seeing all my web pals! ❤️ I'm there from 7–8pm this evening if anyone is also around and wants to grab food/a drink together? webdevconf.com @webdevconf.com #webdevconf

I too wish ill on JK Rowling, I hope she keeps accidentally stepping on upturned plugs. And that Bluesky mods pull their heads out their arse. (would encourage others to do the same)

The first reported effects of the bill was the de-listing of LGBTQ+ resources from the Reddit search. Not only are they trying to stop queer kids from growing up, they’re doing it in the name of our “safety”. The subtext is that trans kids don’t get murdered for being trans if they’re cis.

For anyone in the Edinburgh area next Tuesday I'll be at the Edinburgh IndieWeb meetup: events.indieweb.org/2025/07/home... We meet the last Tuesday each month, and discuss the web, personal sites, blogging and tech in general. It may just be me as we've got a few absences this month, come chat!

New blog post! 🚀 A few months ago a media org demanded a license fee for an open graph image I linked. I paid the fee because I was worried, but it raises serious questions about open graph usage on the web! This goes through how it went and my thoughts. alistairshepherd.uk/writing/open...

I've just seen a couple mentions of my most recent blog post about ntfy! The list of "Blog and Forum posts" on the ntfy documentation: docs.ntfy.sh/integrations... Some kind words and great additional thoughts: hamatti.org/posts/notifi...

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.

The latest 'official' Shopify theme (Horizon) is such a mess. I've found loads of obvious bugs I've had to patch, and jesus christ the accessibility... yeah just an intentionally empty link here positioned absolutely on top of content. Awful in the year of our lord EAA, Shopify publishes this shit.

Summer time means homemade strawberry daiquiri time!

New entry on my top games list — Lake, going in at #24! Lake is a delightful game about delivering the post in a gorgeous lakeside town, exploring, meeting people and shaping relationships. This is my kind of game, chill, pretty and deep! infinitebacklog.net/games/lake

A female Western Gull was recorded riding 150km in a garbage truck from San Francisco to a compost facility in Central CA, probably to forage. TWICE. An innovator, an icon, a genius. This is one of my favorite @waterbirdsociety.bsky.social papers I've ever handled as managing editor #ornithology

Pet peeve — people who explicitly ask for help or advice online and don't at all recognise anyone who responds. Even a 👍 ❤️ ⭐ is better than nothing but so many people just don't. (obviously unsolicited/reply-guy behaviour is different, I'm talking "Hey, any suggestions for x?" here)