Grid: for creating containers for fluid content to fill Flexbox: for stacking rigid blocks of content in the most efficient way possible Does this even make sense? Intuitively, grid is rigid and flexbox is fluid. But it's the other way around for their contents? ??? #vagueCSS

silicon valley wants you to think the future is a forced reallocation of wealth via the rental of planet-killing xerox machines well i have SEEN the future and it is someone charmingly loredumping Big Opinions about dessert i do not remotely care about

Looking for examples of things you can do with grid that you cannot do with flexbox. Has anyone found any? Bonus points for nice, well-written articles.

Been saying this for a while but the really exciting stuff on the web right now is all about how things we used to need JS for can now be done with pure CSS. There are a lot of opportunities to cut out client side bloat.

Please name your favourite I-used-to-do-this-with-JavaScript-but-now-I-don't-need-to CSS properties/functionalities.

Are you using CSS Grid? If you write CSS & code layouts on the web, and not using Grid — why not?!? I see so many sites that still use only Flexbox for 100% of their layout. 0% Grid. Why? What would help? I hear people say it’s hard. Is it? What’s hard? What do you want to learn about CSS Grid?

Last week's food poisoning is well and truly gone, and even my elbow is behaving decently. Now let's see ... work, how did one do that again?

Maybe AI is really a virus that spreads by making its host talk about how inevitable AI adoption is.

What were @adactio.com and @stephenhay.bsky.social up to here? They look like a mad scientist and his sidekick. cssday.nl/2024/pix/pho...

So Apple and Google are removing anti-ICE apps to get in good with Trumpistan. "Big Tech is in the pockets of Trumpistan!" OK, I get that. It's true. But the obvious solution is to create a website and host it outside the US. That never appears to occur to anyone.

Suddenly, out of the blue, missing the @cityjsconf.bsky.social crew. Looked at the London dates, can't make it this year. 😔

Well, CSS Day is live now ( https://cssday.nl ) and I've got a bunch of related things to do but unfortunately I'm ill and can hardly concentrate. So the going will be very slow this time.

Let's not go to the World Cup. NL only. https://actie.degoedezaak.org/petitions/boycot-het-trump-wk-in-de-vs-1

Is there a way to detect if the scrollbar gutter is present or absent? There is no media/container query, I believe, and I thought those newfangled svw units would help, but they don''t.

There's no media/container query to detect whether a scrollbar gutter is present, is there? I could really use one now.

We started publishing the #cssday 2025 talks, one each Wednesday for the next 12 weeks. Today: Cyd Stumpel www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPXS...

Say what you will about Hitler, at least he knew which countries he was invading.

"Can chatbots help [you make exams]? Yes, if you know how to use them. But if you do, chances are you don’t need chatbots." https://ploum.net/2026-01-19-exam-with-chatbots.html

Oh nice! Geert Wilders loses 7 of his 25 henchmen in parliament, who split off and created their own fraction.

So instead of Americans firing weapons at Europeans ... ... we get some same-old-same-old tariff shit ... ... and now the EU erects some tariffs of its own that hurt the white trash in the fly-over states, and then the tariffs disappear ... ... which tells me we won this round ... ... so far.

neolithic guys get pissed if you tell them their cultures are organized by the type of pots and jewelry they made. "we called ourselves the blood hunters" "we conquered villages far beyond this horizon" sorry bud you're the western linear pottery culture now

1.5 hour massive blackout in half of Amsterdam, but they fixed it really quickly. Everything appears to be going back to normal.

Thank goodness for the <nobr> tag. Was exactly what I needed.

CSS Day is returning! cssday.nl We will open #cssday ticket sales this month. Early-bird tickets will be announced first via our newsletter cssday.nl/subscribe; subscribe for the most affordable prices.

Hey, my old "Pay the Web Forward" talk about Web Monetization is live. Still love the concept. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoBwmMoowcE

What's good English for "paying on invoice"? In other words receiving an invoice and going through your company's regular administration in order to get it paid with a bank transfer - instead of paying immediately via Stripe or something.

The winning suggestion: rename Greenland to Epstein Island and all problems are solved.

CSS Day, 11th and 12th of June, just announced @brucel.bsky.social and @ohhelloana.blog as their 2026 MCs. cssday.nl Ticket sales will open later this month. We'll announce the early-bird tickets on our mailing list first. Subscribe to be notified ASAP! cssday.nl/subscribe

Het is 'belasting' Niet 'betasting' Beeldvorming! #nlTypo

The Great Script Writer in the sky is clearly having fun with my professional life. The latest development would have been rejected by any human editor as too coincidental/not believable.

"Welcome to ... what was the name again?" ... "But it's two days, right?" ... "Right. Ahem. Welcome to CSS Day-for-historical-reasons." ... "Not?" ... "Fine, fine. That's why we practice. Behind the scenes they're comically unready anyway. We have plenty of time."

// clears throat // taps mic "One two three. Test. One two three" "Welcome to CSS D ... no, I need more gravitas. Could you turn up the bass just a little bit?"

Happy New Year! May 2026 be better than 2025

Today I found my grandfather’s passport from 1943, containing evidence he traveled to Germany four times in 1944, and he seems to have visited Potsdam Babelsberg, the centre of German movie production.

Interesting linguistic experience: I called a help desk, and was helped very professionally, but the person spoke a weirdly accented Dutch that I couldn't pin down, and I had trouble understanding her.

The last few days I spent in historical studies, for the first time in many many years. And to my utter surprise I am now ready to argue that chapter 438 of the Thidrekssaga was composed in Aachen in the first quarter of the 9th century. https://quirksmode.org/ths/saga.php#ch438

A friend writes exam questions for students consisting of one correct and three plausible-but-incorrect answers ... ... and uses AI to generate the WRONG answers ... ... and thus has to REJECT inadvertently-correct answers ... ... and teaches AI the wrong things.

- All bills for performance.now() 2025 paid - 11 speakers for CSS Day 2026 more or less confirmed Time to start my annual no-conference-organising month.

Cleaning out my old clothes and found my old conference jacket with buttons. What’s Huffduffer again? Sounds familiar.

Home. No more conferences until late February.

#ffconf is starting, right on time.

Finally found #ffconf . Now sitting in the front row. Front. You get it?

Very sorry to all at #ffconf , but I'm heading to bed early. I had a root canal yesterday, and although it does not hurt for some reason it makes me extremely tired.

Did #ffconf change hotels or something? Still only four of us in the lobby

In hotel. Nobody was in the lobby. Disappointed. Still searching for #ffconf .

Considerably later than projected our hero has arrived at Gatwick train station in his quest for #ffconf

At Schiphol waiting for my flight to Gatwick an d then on to #ffconf . ETA hotel about 2.5 hours.

Breaking news: I do not have a hangover. No sir, I don't. At all.

This post would resonate more with me if it weren't exactly the teens and young adults of the 1990s that form the backbone of the current fascist movements. Witnessing the link to the past doesn't necessarily mean anything.

What do I recommend to a friend who's looking for an absolute-beginners CSS intro? "How do I make margins", that sort of thing?