I was about to do a recap post for the London leg of the book tour, then realised I hadn't yet posted the Düsseldorf one! I'm so grateful to @marcthiele.com for letting me tag the tour onto @beyondtellerrand.com, Amy for handling payments, and @charismagic.bsky.social, who took most of the photos.

Excellent week to read a book! Currently reading this, can recommend if you like gaming. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/753986...

The #GAAD promotion is still on and ends at the end of the month. Treat yourself to 25% off ($299 instead of $399) and level up your accessibility skills with me ✨ practical-accessibility.today #a11y

If you’re going to @cssday.nl (or @jsnation.gitnation.org) don’t miss out on our free pre-css day event at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences; the web you want! the-web-you-want.org Writing my talk as we speak! ✨

moving away from tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS jvns.ca/blog/2026/05...

heard a guy say "you have to access it through the portal" and i was momentarily struck by how sad it is that what he said is so boring :( "accessing it via the portal" should be wonderful. we deserve that at least. it should be cool to access it via the portal and instead it sucks shit

You _wish_ people would use AI to fluff up their emails, so my brain doesn’t break when I read them.

lovely time yesterday on the water, thanks @charismagic.bsky.social for mobilizing us into skipping chores and enjoying the sun instead group selfie:

One or more person or persons may or may not have spoken, and in a voice funneled through a person whose professional success explicitly hinges on demand for this feature, cried out: “eight.” That’s web standards, baby! wil.to/posts/google...

So, Chrome's "web standard" Prompt API: Mozilla: Opposed WebKit: Opposed Microsoft: Several concerns W3C TAG: Several concerns Developers: Mostly negative Chrome: Ships anyway. A sad time for web standards. But, I guess someone at Google will get promoted, so 'every cloud…'

I did up a new talk! I'm calling it In-N-Out Animations, and covers animating elements in and out of view/existence. It's FREE to see tomorrow at @smashingconf.com's Meet Style Sheets event. smashingconf.com/meets-style-... See ya there or, be `display: none;` or... uh, a funny version of that.

Choices!!! (I have been on LinkedIn for too long, my soul is gone and my brain is broken)

Having a blast with Claude.

I’ve spoken to a few course creators now, and we’re all seeing the same trend. Revenue down 50%+. Fewer people engaging with our content. People switching to LLMs, which slurp up all of our work and regurgitate it, without consent or compensation. It feels pretty bleak. 😅

For the past 6 years, I’ve been working on developer education full time, on my online courses + blog. It’s been an incredible privilege to be able to focus on this stuff. ✨ I’m starting to wonder, though, whether the business model I’ve chosen is sustainable. Let me explain… 🧵

What has Slack done with their activity sidebar? It’s so messy! And then this weird bar with bar too many options: a checkbox, unreads, filters, reser, an hourglass and a filter, I guess?

Getting older is not know what type of jeans to buy anymore. I guess baggy curved it is now? Grandma wants to stay cool yo.

🎨 Level up your CSS game! Smashing meets Style Sheets is a FREE online event on May 6th. Featuring: ⚓️ Anchor Positioning 🎮 CSS Gaming 🛠️ Practical tips from @chriscoyier.net, Juan Diego Rodriguez and @rebane2001.bsky.social Grab your free spot here: smashingconf.com/meets-style-...

The past month: - Packing up Bangkok and flying back via Dubai. - Running Smashing Amsterdam. - Settling into our Amsterdam house. - First full month on new hormones, whaaa. - Mini break to island Texel with my dear friend Jane. - beyond tellerrand! And now, back at the desk with a cold!

It’s the end of April, and we all know what that means! It’s gonnnaaaaa…

I'm pretty, pretty, pretty stoked to hang out with my buddies @monknow.bsky.social and @chriscoyier.net at Smashing Meets next week. Just plain mensches who have taught me so dang much. smashingconf.com/meets-style-...

A tooltip that follows the anchor when you drag it ... I said: follow the anchor! Come on, lazy tooltip! ... Yes, in that direction, move move ... More energy, please! You are a tooltip, that's your job. 😡 css-tip.com/lazy-tooltip/

Just put out the first two free learning paths on The Cascade, looking at Flexbox & Grid. They're a curated list of videos from YouTube, but ad free, with editors in the lesson for you to follow along with, recaps of the content with each video, and extra challenges. thecascade.dev/learning-pat...

Introducing Cursor Camp, a website to hang out with other cursors. Out now :) > neal.fun/cursor-camp/

If you'd like a little peek behind the curtain, I made a video of my experience attending, and speaking at @smashingconf.com Amsterdam. youtu.be/k0N2ekH4ZE0

it’s cute people think “please allow ads on our site” will mean I turn off the ad blocker instead of closing the tab

Incredible day-2 opener by André Michelle at #btconf, who condensed >25 years of building music software into his in-browser openDAW – a case for openness … and persistence. Including a 🤘 live performance by @bastianallgeier.com 🎸👏

Beautiful type talk by Kimya Gandhi (@motaitalic.com) full of amazing Devanagari letterforms shaped by history, culture, and context. 🤩 #btconf

4 more days and another 4 reasons to come to #btconf next week 🧵 1. Creativity 2. Surprise 3. New friends 4. Perspective 27–28 April → beyondtellerrand.com/events/dusse...

I came up with a somewhat foolish new benchmark for testing image generation models, to exercise the new ChatGPT Images 2.0: "Do a where's Waldo style image but it's where is the raccoon holding a ham radio" simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/21/...

Vibe coding. Very March 2026.

Building a community isn’t about you. It’s about the people in it; connecting people and creating a space where everyone feels heard and welcomed. Yes, you’ll likely make friends and build valuable connections. But it's not a place to sell and yell. It will work because it’s shared, not broadcast.

Once a recruiter asked me how many websites I made. A very easy way to find out the project was not for me.

SmashingConf Amsterdam was so amazing. It was my dream to organise a conference in Amsterdam when I joined the team. In my home country, in the amazing venue Tuschinski, with so many people I know. It’s been stressful, tiring, emotional, but mostly magical. What a week! 🥳

8 days to go. 8 reasons to join #btconf Düsseldorf 2026 🧵 1. Annie Atkins 2. Single-track 3. Chip Kidd 4. 15 years 5. Lauren Celenza 6. Düsseldorf 7. Positivity 8. Spring 27–28 April → beyondtellerrand.com/events/dusse...

Why do the Japanese like their buns askew (2026)

10 days. #btconf Düsseldorf. 15 years. beyondtellerrand.com/events/dusse...

12 days. Join #btconf Düsseldorf 2026. Design. Code. Creativity. And an event packed with lovely people. Tickets still available: beyondtellerrand.com/events/dusse...

Aaaaand my workshop and talk for Smashing Conf next week are ready! 😅 I'm looking forward to the event and visiting Amsterdam again!

And if you are in or close-ish to Amsterdam and can't afford it (I know it's expensive!), there is the completely free The Web You Want being put on by CMD Amsterdam: the-web-you-want.org And if you're going to Smashing, you should go to that too, since you're already there!

We got @philhawksworth.dev a job!!! Ok, maybe it’s just for two days. He will be your MC next week at SmashingConf Amsterdam, and we can’t be more excited. smashingconf.com/amsterdam-2026

Conference organising in 2026 quirksmode.org/quirksblog/a...

Today is the last day of the launch sale, with 20% off for the next 15 hours or so.

I am not a fool, and you can become not one too! ;) Happy Easter peoples!

me: *visits website for the first time ever* website: You’ve read your last free article.

The fun thing about doing a podcast with a pro like Lenny is that his team can slice the thing up into TikTok-style shorts after the fact, here's 48 seconds of me talking about the cognitive cost of agentic engineering

staring into the void. the void has a newsletter. the void wants me to subscribe for $8/month to access the full void. the first three paragraphs of the void are free. i have read the free void. i need more void

So now I make sure to get into the coding quickly 😆 Anyway, I'm really looking forward to this one, I think it's going to be really good, and the rest of the lineup is great too: smashingconf.com/amsterdam-20... And you can get a bit of a discount while tickets last: ti.to/smashingmaga...

So my talk is coming together for Smashing Amsterdam. Turns out, updating a talk can be harder than making a new one from scratch 😅.

I'm speaking at Smashing Conf Amsterdam in about two weeks. In my talk I'm sharing accessibility tips, but not the typical "use alt" or "use a button" stuff. I'm trying to share useful but uncommon advice. What's something you would share, that I can steal and use in my talk? 😁