A big advantage of using LLM chatbots I have not seen mentioned anywhere else: you develop an “AI-dar”: you can detect when someone is using LLMs to talk to you.

Vibe cooking! Happens to me all the time. nondeterministic, nonreproducible, but oh so enjoyable, and sometimes the end result is better than expected 🤗

A tragedy in two acts: I just cooked the best broccoli 🥦 of my life. It had all the good stuff: guanciale, 🧄, eggs, parmesan, anchovy sauce, MSG… It was SO GOOD even my 6 year old loved it! That’s HUGE. But it was all by eye — I have NO idea what proportions I used so I can never recreate it 😭😭😭

This is overt racism. Full stop. There’s no ‘misinterpretation’ and no excuse. This is who he is, who he’s always been, and why he should never be anywhere near power again. And there’s a reason the tapes from The Apprentice have never been released.

Good news everyone: Style queries are coming to Firefox, making them finally Baseline!

This is very popular, yet WILDLY poor advice: “Be constructive, don’t complain about problems if you don’t have a solution” If you hear someone say this, please consider slapping them with a large trout. Being aware of problems is *incredibly valuable*, whether you have solutions or not! [1/n]

I’m an optimist. Every major tech innovation in history has been a net positive to humanity, despite contemporary skeptics cautioning for the opposite. [1/2]

And while it’s capitalists *currently* running AI, AI can democratize so many creative fields, bringing resources to individuals that were previously reserved to capitalists with the budget to hire entire teams. E.g. what will minority entrepreneurs create if VC gatekeeping is no longer a factor?

I haven’t read the paper, but I have no doubt AI assistance worsens coding skills — just like 3GL languages worsened assembly skills. But software engineering is not about coding, it’s about solving problems with software. Code has just been the means to this for so long we cannot disentangle them.

It is clear to me that LLMs are the new generation of programming language, the biggest paradigm shift in SWE since assembly → 3GLs. The parallels and differences are fascinating. Take interpreted vs compiled. Previously a property of the *language*, now a property of the *program*. [1/5]

Trying to find KTV karaoke near Cupertino and I’m appalled at the options. Apparently it's either traditional software with terrible UX or selecting songs from YouTube?! WTF? This is a solved problem, there are services for this (e.g. Karafun), you’d expect Silicon Valley to be doing better.

We'll be getting multiple outlines in #CSS!! Multiple outlines means no more hacking our way around accessible and creative outline styles with box-shadows that aren't rendered in forced-colors mode! 🙌 Finally!! This is such great news!! 🎉🥳

🎉 Live from the CSS WG F2F: We just agreed to support multiple borders and outlines per element, comma-separated! But we can’t decide on the order: inside out or outside in? What feels more natural to you, A or B? (it needs to be the same across borders and outlines or different box-sizing values)

I dunno man, maybe the government shouldn't be killing people, it's just a thought.

BTW when I say abolish ICE, I mean abolish it entirely and replace it with exactly nothing. Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. That's it.

This is a MUST-READ affidavit. This eyewitness to Alex Pretti’s murder — who is too scared to even go home because she doesn’t trust federal agents — directly refutes what the feds are saying happened today:

Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."

🎉 Very happy I got two of my proposals to Stage 1 at the @tc39.es plenary this week! Both are around improving the DX of common accessor use cases: 1. Composable accessors via built-in decorators github.com/tc39/proposa... 2. Alias accessors: github.com/tc39/proposa...

Why is the media not blasting this on every channel

Whatever you thought you would've done in 30s Germany is exaclty what you're doing now.

The 5-year-old arrested by ICE In Minnesota is detained at Dilley. We reported on conditions there in the below article. Parents said the food was contaminated with mold and worms & that children were so under so much stress that they were hitting their own faces & wetting themselves.

National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation. Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.

I guess I do think if you participated in the arrest of a five-year-old you are probably just fundamentally incompatible with society. That you are not a safe person for humanity to be around, generally

path-to-shape.netlify.app Doubtful this was what youre looking for but I made a converter. Pairs well with the best path editor I've seen: yqnn.github.io/svg-path-edi...

I would swear I had seen a nice CSS shape() generator floating around, but I can't find it now, did I hallucinate it?

This essay even made it to the cover of JavaScript Weekly (issue 768)! Since writing it, I discovered there *is* a way to inject import maps w/ DOM methods! JSPM v4 does it too. This is a GAMECHANGER. It meant my vision of dependency mgmt in the browser w/ Node-like DX is possible, today! [1/2]

What is the line that, once ICE crosses it, even its current supporters will say “ok, enough is enough”? If you answered “attempted murder of babies” you’d be wrong. Does such line even exist? Or are these people willing to sacrifice anything and risk everything“bEcAUsE iLLeGaLs”?

🔥 New blog post: Web dependencies are broken. Can we fix them? “Dear #JS ecosystem, I love you, but you have a dependency management problem when it comes to the Web, and the time has come for an intervention.” Read more: lea.verou.me/blog/2026/we...

OMG I cannot believe how TERRIBLE California is for small business. If you have an LLC doing business in CA you must pay an $800 tax per year--even if you have no income yet. Completely ridiculous!

@bsky.app are there any plans to support polls? That and edit are the No 1 features I’m missing from Twitter and Mastodon.

🎄 Holiday gift from the #ColorJS team: v0.6.0 is out with a host of fixes and improvements! We’ve also crossed 100 million installs on npm a few weeks ago! Release notes: github.com/color-js/col...

Lea: Oooooh, import.meta.resolve() is writable! I wonder if… 💡 #JS engine: Nope! Just stop Lea 😒 😅

Jaaaaaaaaaa 💪🎉

This was a huge amount of work for everybody involved, with @lea.verou.me staying up so late to work on this that she more or less ended up matching my own work hours despite living on the opposite side of the globe… So I hope you enjoy the results! 2025.stateofhtml.com/en-US/

It took a while (mainly due to the huge quantity of data collected on some questions!), but the #StateOfHTML 2025 survey results are now live! 2025.stateofhtml.com/en-US/ Big thanks to @lea.verou.me who not only designed the original survey back in 2023, but then came back this year to update it.

Preach! 🎤 I love karaoke and hear this a lot, often as a self-deprecating joke. I get not joining if you don’t like singing. But it’s so sad to like singing and not join because of this. Karaoke is about having fun, not skill! Anyone who criticizes a karaoke performance simply doesn’t get karaoke.

🔥 Hot take: dashed borders should never be used as a design system default. Dashed lines tend to indicate that something is removable or not quite there. Using them as decoration is as confusing as making text blue and underlined as a stylistic choice. Pictures: dashed borders used correctly

Just saw a Parkland survivor post about being on lock down at Brown University. We've failed generations of kids with our gun fetish

💡 Life hack: I open browser tabs to get myself to do unpleasant/boring tasks. E.g. - I need to contact customer service, I’ll open a tab with the company’s website. - I need to file taxes, I’ll open the tax filing app - I need to send an invoice, I’ll open my invoicing app Who else does this?

Happy Baseline newly available day for CSS @scope now that it's in Firefox 146!

Trump’s Deportations Are Ripping Mothers from Their Babies open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

”What’s wrong with build tools? Other languages are compiled!” Yes, but their compiler is official and always there. The #JS ecosystem has devolved into a state where abstraction, the most fundamental software engineering concept, has been outsourced to third party tooling. *That’s* the problem.

You need to install the `es6-string-html` extension in VS Code for the `/* html */` syntax highlighting to work. marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemNa...

💡 TIL: You can highlight a JS template tag as another language by prepending it with a comment like /* html */ in at least VS Code and editors wrapping it like Cursor. How did I find out? Cursor suggested it when I tried to do a more convoluted const html = String.raw; const template = html`…

Appception: British Airways’s app using a WebView to embed their website, which recommends installing the app I’m already on 😅

I’m often asked for freelance UI/UX designer recommendations, but my list is out of date — most folks I used to refer are now full-time or doing other work. Time to fix that. If you’re an independent UI/UX designer doing hands-on client work, drop your website/portfolio! DM/email fine too. [1/2]

November 30 is #BlueBeanieDay, supporting web standards and accessibility, the building blocks empowering a people-first web. Remember how good that web felt? It still does. Join us! Pop on a blue beanie and smile.

Just a reminder that what seems obvious now may not seem obvious in two weeks. Be better than past Lea. 🫠

When looking at results from web development surveys (e.g. #StateofHTML), what are you looking for when looking at the data? What conclusions are you trying to draw?

That it should be a fundamental human right to live in whatever country you want, no questions asked. The existence of borders causes far more suffering than any benefit they provide.