🎉 Looking for new work. 15 years front-end dev + Design Systems specialist. I help folks build, maintain & transform design systems. I'm also available for focused projects, front-end builds, codebase modernisation. Short to long term. Let's chat - [email protected] reposts appreciated <3

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.

MooTools www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

On day 3 @tunetheweb.com introduces us to Speculation Rules and recent improvements to the API that help us speed up our websites. #HTMHellAdventCalendar htmhell.dev/adventcalend...

I' m fairly sceptical about most courses. But this @piccalil.li stuff - especially "JavaScript for Everyone" by @wil.to - is the real deal. It will improve your entire understanding of JS, not just framework-specifics. That kind of stuff pays off for years! Get. It. Now. piccalil.li/courses/

Short Answer: Fuck no. Long Answer: If a company tries AI phrenology in their hiring process, they're guaranteed to do worse things once you work there. Don't.

Inside you there are two woffs. Ignore the first woff. You just need the woff2.

A11y experts should start selling "Agentic AI Optimization" packages and just bring as many sites up to WCAG standards before the hype dies down 🚀

I wonder if that will make devs care more about a11y - to make it accessible for AI

Is that what they mean by "Disrupting the Industry"

Container queries and CSS make it simple to smoothly transition an element to the other side of its parent container without knowing exact dimensions or distance. Read more in my latest post: ryanmulligan.dev/blog/transit...

This is it. 86,791 words. 836 emdashes. 625 `const`, 141 `let`, 16 `var`. One (1) reference to the pause music from Battletoads for the NES. Spread the word: JavaScript for Everyone launches tomorrow.

You'd think that opting out once is all you need, surely no reasonable person would assume that Microsoft would randomly enable this feature again without consent, right? ... Riiiight?

"built our own auth"

OK @kevinpowell.co has written what has to be one of the best (if not THE best) practical article to #CSS colors I have read in a while. piccalil.li/blog/a-pragm... Easy to read, practical examples, and *perfect* for someone like me who's fallen behind and hasn't kept up with all the new stuff.

"The girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

Last week I wrote my first post for @piccalil.li 💛 In this article I explain how you can use container style queries to work around the limitation in media queries that hinders you to use custom properties. piccalil.li/blog/a-worka...

Watching this is like eating styrofoam. It's just a big bowl of nothing (and will slowly kill you)

I guess I'm team antichrist now?

Dev trick: imagine page weight as *actual weight* on a plane. "Sir your luggage comes in at 684 lbs, that'll be $7.000 extra. What the hell did you pack?" "Well you know how eagles are really cool?"

The fax machine is a bit too much, other than that I pretty much grew up here

I'm also "sabotaging" my toddler's "strategy" of eating dirt, AMA

Did he read the em dashes out loud though

This mufugga still haunts my dreams

Now if only there was a gov agency of IT professionals actually capable of building stable software for people, let alone the website for it. Something like 17E or

Hearing more and more stories about companies reprimanding employees for *not* using AI. Don't think I've ever seen new tech forced so much down people's throats.

This, actually works. For me at least.

What GIF pops up when you type your name?

Ever cry while cutting an onion? Well, now you don’t have to! Building off of chef J. Kenji López-Alt, we found the mathematically optimal way to dice an onion. *Cutting uniform pieces has not been proven to reduce crying, but you do get bragging rights. pudding.cool/2025/08/onio...

The order of science: 1.) Discover there’s a deadly problem 2.) Work for years to solve it 3.) The problem may not be gone forever, but we’ve won 4.) People forget the deadly problem actually existed 5.) People decide this must mean the science to solve it was a hoax 6.) The deadly problem returns

the ending of this explainer might surprise you

Haven't checked these in a while but I think #32 is great considering the competition. Really anything thats > 100 places above @matuzo.at is fine with me 😜

Practical Accessibility Test: holding my 8-month-old son with one hand and trying to fill out a web form on my phone with the other.

I'm fixing up an old mountain bike that's been in the shed for 15 years. Some parts need replacing, but all in all pretty straightforward. I wish software worked like that. If I try to fix a 15yo website, I'd spend days fighting deprecated dependencies.

Why I 🧡 the web. drawafish.com Just draw the fish. Trust me. 🐟

Working on a Shopify/Sanity/Eleventy project (a headless e-commerce thing) and boy that's a nice stack. Feels very close to the metal, 100% control of the data structures and markup. 🚀

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/

*pressing a big red button on fisher price toy, the cow says: Moo* "yeah I'm operating on the edge of what's known here"

I want to hear one (1) product update announcement that's like "we thought about adding AI, but found that it did not fit our usecase, so we focused on [any other feature] instead."

Back in the day, Twitter used to be really good if I set up a thread to connect freelancers with clients. Let's see if Bluesky can do it. Clients: if you're looking for freelancers/contractors, get in the comments Freelancers/contractors: get in comments Everyone else: boosts appreciated

Fascinating read (in German) by one of Austria's top journalists who tried the legal way to fight hatespeech on X. TL;DR: it doesn't work. www.arminwolf.at/2025/06/28/x...

I've lived in a city with a socialist mayor (Vienna) most of my life, and basic ideas like "rent should be lower" and "public transport should work better" are exactly what made it the most livable city in the world for like 10 years in a row.

Missed opportunity not calling this a Snacktarine 🍑

it’s funny that they’re both on their own personal websites posting their little posts

If anyone is hiring, I'm still looking for my next thing. Senior Frontend Developer. Skilled at HTML/CSS/JavaScript, React, UI/UX, A11Y, web performance, design systems, Web Components, and more. I'd love to work with you! gomakethings.com/resume

alistapart.com on February 08, 1999 https://web.archive.org/web/19990208011245if_/http://www.alistapart.com:80

Back when I was finding my feet in tech everybody was buzzing about building positive change. Somewhere along the way, something changed. Fortunately for us though, tech is not the first industry forced to defend itself against dubious practices. What might we learn if we were to look elsewhere?