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?

Finally an argument for tailwind

It just boggles my mind how a company like Google can publish code like this and just be like "yea lol it does that sometimes" 🤡 This is not a nuanced question. It's literally what you'd ask a patient to check for brain damage.

The entire modern internet has been built on platforms that don’t believe in asking for consent. What if we started demanding a culture of consent online? www.anildash.com//2025/05/27/...

websites aren't going anywhere front-end development will not be automated writing will still be a valuable skill most "pivot to AI" companies will fail Jony Ive will never be cool

This is where I explain how I built the search index using @11ty.dev for the ⌘+K search on my website: arielsalminen.com/2025/buildin...

The thing I want most for tech is for engineers to stop gushing about *what* they used, and to start asking "but is it *good*?"

When I'm fed up with the tech industries latest bullshit, I put on some nice music, scroll through my camera roll and watch photos of my kid. It's the 2025 version of this:

Don't mess with zooming on a website. Don't mess with scrolling on a website. Don't mess with default cursors on a website. Don't mess with the default Tab order. Don't mess with the back button in the browser. Thank you.

am intrigued to see what people use this capability for. as a demo we built a game — svelte-snek.vercel.app — that you can download as a single HTML file containing embedded images/fonts/audio/etc. kinda like the idea of people using modern web tech to build stuff then sharing it on USB sticks

We make websites with semantic HTML, declarative CSS, JavaScript for the things only JavaScript can do, and a bit of ARIA. That’s how this medium works. That’s the material.

Publish your sites directly from Figma! Let AI write your blog posts! Vibe code your authentication layer! Eat protein paste instead of food! Stop showering and shit your pants! 🎉 Path of least resistance 2025!