8 months later, finally migrated to the .com 🎉 (we're still working on the new version)

I'm considering this for all my open-source projects. I prefer a detailed issue/discussion. I don't mind if it's AI-generated as long as it's valid and heads in the right direction. High-quality PRs from external contributors are much rarer, whether they're from humans or AI.

Happy and sad in one image.

Tailwind autocomplete would be more useful if multiple related tokens were grouped under their parent token. It would make it much easier to discover and navigate between them.

GitHub needs private folders in public repos. Workarounds like submodules and git-crypt exist, but they’re painful and limited. Nothing would change for maintainers. External contributors just wouldn’t see those files’ source or diffs in PRs.

I've come to the sad conclusion that @apply in Tailwind is a big anti-pattern. With enough complex utilities, your CSS can balloon to hundreds of kB, bloating the CSSOM and hurting runtime rendering performance, not just network.

The fact that Vitest can run 1k tests in just 164 ms is mind-blowing.

🤔 I can't stop thinking about this. Do we really want another CSS framework?

My dream CSS framework: ⋅ CSS-in-TS ⋅ Composable utilities as fns `md(size(2))` ⋅ Plugins are just fns `custom(flex())` ⋅ Compiled to static CSS by default ⋅ Dynamic when needed `hover(prop)` ⋅ Class order matters Maybe not possible?

Modern CSS capabilities.

Some checkbox cards I’ve been working on.

This border-radius transition 🤌🏽 Believe it or not, it's just CSS.

Concentric border radius

A drop shadow can make a big difference.

CSS Anchors are truly amazing! I built this without any animation library. This is part of an upcoming component library I’ve been working on.

The new corner-shape CSS property unlocks exciting new UI patterns. corner-shape: bevel round; border-radius: 1em 0 / 3em 0;

Tried Firefox’s experimental support for CSS container queries with custom properties. I’m often critical of Firefox for missing features and slow adoption, but credit where it’s due, its style and layout engine has been the fastest so far. (Safari is the worst)

I’ve wanted to write this for a long time. It’s both a piece of advice and a love letter to Design. 5 min read.

A very simple button. Coming soon.

Lost 14 kg (31 lb) over the past few months: 95 kg (209 lb) → 81 kg (179 lb) Body fat 28% → 21% Still working on reducing visceral/subcutaneous fat. I won’t say it was easy, but it wasn’t as hard as I thought it would be. Sticking to a consistent sleep schedule has been my biggest challenge.

Whenever a new technology comes along promising to be the next groundbreaking, disruptive thing that will debunk old, established, battle-tested standards, I think of GraphQL.

I’m experimenting with a high-level, styled Button component API. Yes or no?

TIL you can show different images for light and dark modes in GitHub README files using HTML or Markdown:

Delete buttons 🗑️ Do you prefer red for the background color or the text color?

Funny enough, this BagsApp idea seems like a good way to fund open-source, if it weren’t for the crypto community. I’d love to invest in open-source projects I believe in and get some shares in return.

UI buttons

CSS 🤝🏽 Math How to get even margins without ignoring line-height.

Spy × Family is so good. Easily one of the best anime I’ve watched.

Checkbox cards ✅

Design better badges 🎨

Design better buttons

Just learned about vizzly.dev Unlimited screenshots and the OSS plan look perfect for what we need for Ariakit. Great job @robdel12.bsky.social

I see lots of people use AI to generate tests while they do most of the coding. I prefer the reverse: I write the tests, then ask AI to implement. The catch: I don’t want blind compliance. If it spots inconsistencies, we talk before changing tests or code. It’s working well.

Except for tweets that go viral, I still get more engagement here than on Twitter, even though I have 3.7x more followers there.

Code agents should display a small banner with a link to support the project whenever they use an open-source library as part of the current task.

Almost there

I understand this point, but I also believe there’s real value, as an engineer, in deeply understanding someone else’s abstractions, especially in successful software. At the very least, it will help you build your own abstractions in the future.

I haven’t used tabs in my code editor for almost a year now, and I feel so much better. The distraction of having a bunch of tabs open is insane. It’s tough to get used to at first, but once you do, you won’t go back.

Got a new domain: clava⁠.⁠style Guess what it’s going to be about?

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Native CSS only needs two things to beat Tailwind: @mixin and the ability to apply it inline in the style attribute. With those, I don’t see any reason to use Tailwind anymore.

I would be so much happier if this Tailwind syntax highlighting worked 😭

Ariakit has hit 500k weekly downloads! Still a long way to go.

Coding has a significant impact on my sleep schedule. It’s hard to stay asleep for long hours, and when I wake up after 5–6 hours, there’s a good chance I won’t be able to fall back asleep. On days when I don’t code, I can sleep continuously for 8–9 hours without much effort.

Logged into Guild Wars 2 again after 12 years. I just wanted to show my son a specific quest I never forgot. He's a newborn last time I played. I had no idea where to find it, and that’s when that MMORPG spirit kicked in. So many people tried to help me in-game it made my day.

Use the standard Node.js "imports" field instead of TypeScript aliases:

I usually think the internet is one of the worst things to ever happen to us, but this Frieren trend gives me hope.

There’s something magical about art that AI will never be able to replicate. It’s that feeling of admiration we have when we know another human being put a lot of time and effort into something.

Cloudflare is down

Thank you thanks.dev for sponsoring Ariakit 😊