@jakearchibald.com is nailing the devrel game. All these videos are excellent and informative, and I’m always excited when a new one appears in my feed! Excited to try out style() queries too!

This contains a very accurate description of a lot of what my work consists of: friction in a slop factory. That friction is super important (more than ever), but it’s also why so many are left feeling frustrated. Our expertise is wasted on the apathy of others.

My apathy for leadership decisions is at an all time low. However my empathy for people is at an all time high. And the two feelings clash all the time, often times leaving me frustrated and fatigued.

The section on html web components was a real unlock for me. They really shine not as “components” but rather tiny progressive enhancement merchants. So yeah, check out the course because it will get you up to speed on a web standard and $10 is highway robbery.

I’m from South Jersey and my wife is from North Jersey. We’ve come to the conclusion that there is a small sliver where SJ thinks it part of North and North Jersey think it’s part of South. I guess that area could be considered Central Jersey but nobody will acknowledge it.

I’m often surprised by how often this needs to be stated

Beautiful and fun day at Aronimink for the PGA Championship!

I still think ATProto is in its infancy and has a long way to go before it’s a no brainer to adapt in any app. But I’m still very bullish because of the lovely people involved and their goals. Absolutely rooting for it to succeed!

I never used Arc but this last week I’ve been experimenting with Zen. Today I finally ditched Chrome and set Zen as my default browser since I’ve enjoyed the experience so much!

Learning is so much fun and there is nothing like the dopamine rush from overcoming the friction of a hard problem and deriving a solution!

I really, really like the way @jim-nielsen.com thinks about building for the web. Also view transitions are super cool too!

Callie is super relaxed perching on top of the couch

announcing Marc Andreessen Egg Game - a game where you draw on eggs to make them look like Marc marc-egg.eieio.games

It’s been a while since I was regularly blogging, little secret: I'm enjoying it. Upcoming soon, a new blog series: You don’t need JS. Each post will highlight an interactive pattern you no longer need JS for. Follow along calibreapp.com/blog, or get up on the RSS.

I launched an indie webcomic hosting platform several months ago that offered a free and a $4/mo paid plan. This was purely to cover the cost of the infrastructure. But in seeing it grow, I'm no longer worried about the cost. So yeah Webcomic Studio is now free. webcomic.studio

📝 Post-mortem on my "lots of little HTML pages" approach — still like it. The browser's most basic feature is following a link. Can I build a site’s interactions around just that? e.g. a "menu" is <a href="/menu/"> + CSS view transitions blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/small-h...

The intrusive thoughts overwhelmed my last two brain cells

So, if you have an education stipend, please do use it to support your favourite dev educators! If you’d like to support my work, you can pick up a copy of my latest course. The full price will be US$649, but it’s on sale until Tuesday for US$389.

This was a good one tonight! Used this as the base but improvised (because I was unknowingly out of oyster sauce I made my own marinade using hoisin and added sriracha to the sauce for a little heat) feedthepudge.com/crispy-honey...

Happy first birthday to my favorite daily puzzle game: cluesbysam.com Btw crushed it today:

I'm not a CSS expert, but expert CSS educators are my favorite. Their design skills, ability to take full advantage of the web platform, AND general enthusiasm for building for the web is unmatched by other types of developers!

CI/CD is fundamentally process automation. Most CI/CD pipelines are bad because the underlying process being automated is bad.

You know I’m humming the music out loud before even clicking the play button. Some things stick with you

my favorite part about this "how the heck" series I've been working on is that people clearly have an appetite for the web being a clean and beautiful place where you can just learn things

I somehow missed it earlier but what Sabastian Sawe accomplished at the London Marathon today - holy moly!

I made some turkey deli meat for the week. So I assembled it tonight with coleslaw, a Russian dressing, bacon, and Swiss for an awesome sandwich!

i regret to inform you that in the year 2026, the solution to your problem is *still* speaking to other humans, listening to their problems, and building processes that address them through painful iteration.

Excited to add more whimsy to my life!

I wrote about why I quit my job, and how weird and tiring tech feels these days.

Ahh yes, another day getting tripped up by this gotcha. If I spend enough time thinking about it and can kinda see how this makes sense, but I can never intuitively remember it.

I’ve never witnessed a dog do a little stretch. Always the BIGGEST stretches!

I feel like I have to split the line. Sometimes I’m explaining to outside teams how much involved front end development is than they might think. But at the same time I try to show developers it doesn’t need to be over complicated and may be more straightforward than they think.

I’m definitely not Ai-pilled, but seeing people blame every outage, defect, and bit of poor ux on vibe coding is shortsighted and exhausting. Sometimes there are outside forces. Sometimes humans make mistakes.

responding ”vibe code?” to every outage like women named carol respond “vaxx?” to every celebrity death

Grilling season is in full swing. And this chicken with an Alabama white sauce might be the best chicken I’ve ever made! 😋

Sometimes the universe works in mysterious ways. I feel like whenever I start reading a book, I end up seeing more and more people starting to talk about it. I just picked this one up yesterday! (Not the best written but concept is enjoyable enough thus far)

pssst — if you like the idea of tv for developers, today is a great day to become a supporter (you get early access to new content + benefits/discounts on some big stuff we haven't announced yet 👀)

I’ve posted it before, but it feels evergreen The two hardest problems in Computer Science are 1. Human communication 2. Getting people in tech to believe that human communication is important

After a 1.5 weeks of a gf diet and overcoming a nasty cold, he just has his best three consecutive days since his sister was born. Still will take some time to get his weight back up, but he’s like a different person.

After my kids went to bed tonight, I went to a late night movie showing to see Project Hail Mary. It’s way past my bedtime but was a fun experience to step away and get back to the theater since it’s been years!

Upping this hot take: just because the majority of your employees are software engineers also does not make you a tech company

who are the best builders you know? I'm casting for a show and I need teams of 3 who can build an entire product end-to-end in 6 hours if you've got a crew or know someone who does, please send them my way! (US only, filming in Portland. travel expenses covered)

Things only work when you are intentional and specific. And failure to be intentional and specific leaves gaps. Gaps that are often filled with bad code and/or slop outputs. And this is true with or without using an LLM.

I single-handedly run all the same technology that Bluesky, the ~40 person, $136M company does. My @blackskyweb.xyz team does full-stack content-moderation, ships products core to our mission + partners with orgs so we can be a long-term sustainable business If you rely on us pls pay a subscription

This is one of the most annoying parts of LLM development hype. There’s a weird push that LOC is a good signal but the underlying code doesn’t matter coming from people who should be smartest to know better (or are pushing the narrative for selfish reasons). The opposite is and always has been true

Doom CSS has a far smaller CSS and JavaScript footprint than every single client website's homepage I work on. A good reminder of how unnecessarily weighty modern websites are.

I dislike April Fool’s day and find it annoying at best. CRAB DAY, however, rules!!!

AtmosphereConf 2026 is a wrap! We hope all the remote attendees had a great Streamplace experience. When VODs, you ask? They're actually up right now! They're `place.stream.video` records in this repo. One catch: no frontend yet. That's where you come in. Welcome to the Streamplace VOD JAM.

Hard truth for developers: LLMs will not help you if you don’t understand the context of the problem you are solving. This is why they are great on side projects when solving a problem for yourself. But as soon as you start solving other people’s problems, you need to start talking to other people.

I’ve been doing design+webdev for over 10 years and I have deep expertise building and implementing design systems. if you’re looking for a design/dev hybrid to take polish and product thinking to the next level, let’s chat: ky.fyi