In case you still follow the old QuirksBlog RSS or Atom ... Could you please let me know if the latest update came through correctly? I had to manually edit the RSS and Atom files, and I can't see my output and just have to hope it works. Thanks!

Back. https://quirksmode.org/quirksblog/archive/20260403-back.html

So when I copy a line of text from BBEdit it suddenly adds random characters to the start and end. No wonder copying a password didn't work. Googling finds zero zip zilch. Restarting doesn't help. Does anyone know how to tell BBEdit to copy only the text that is actually visible?

Anyone in Amsterdam want to buy some BOARD GAMES? https://quirksmode.org/spelverkoop/ (New! Now without SSL errors!)

Working on a new blog! In the not-too-distant future I can share my thoughts with you. Assuming you're interested, of course ...

Anyone in Amsterdam want to buy some BOARD GAMES? https://quirksmode.org/spelverkoop/

I can't get the atproto-handle for perfnow set up. I filled in the key, and the domain was verified, but the handle still didn't register. What's going on? I transferred to a new ISP, and the @cssday.nl account works fine, but perfnow.nl doesn't. What am I doing wrong?

So I'm in the market for an email application that resembles Eudora as much as possible. I was very happy with Apple Mail, until I wanted it to work with five email addresses instead of two and it started adding Reply-To headers to all mails even when I deliberately emptied out the Reply-To field.

MailMate is also a completely fucking insane app. If I double-click a mail I want to OPEN it, not set a goddamn filter throughout all my mail addresses.

Switched desktop computer from Apple Mail to Thunderbird. This solves yesterday's Reply-To problem.

Right. Archeologists in Maastricht believe they found the remains of d'Artagnan, of Three Musketeers fame.

📝 New CSS Article! If you have seen my graph theory demo and wondered how it works, then the article is finally live! frontendmasters.com/blog/two-cir... I was playing with two circles and anchor positioning, and ended up creating a shortest path algorithm. Modern CSS is fun!

The next mystery: what game do these components belong to? The red shield contains a clue, but I’m still not entirely sure.

I hear you like gamification.

Oh look what arrived today! I can now defend against monsters with too many dimensions and tentacles.

Writing a CSS Day newsletter about flamethrowers and doom lasers. We must address the legitimate concerns of our audience.

We are the only generation to truly understand when we did something wrong with computers.

Uploading about 1200Mb of QuirksMode pages to my new hosting provider. It's not all, oh no it's not, but it should be enough for a few tests.

Wow, posting on Facebook isn't easy. I want to post something in a group, I even have the moderator's permission, but I have no fucking clue how to do it. I thought there would be a nice, friendly textarea like on Masto or Bsky or the network we don't mention, but no ...

NL: Spelletjes in de verkoop! https://quirksmode.org/spelverkoop/

One of my problems is that I have too many board games. 99% of what you see is going to go, the ones I’m keeping are mostly nog on this photo.

What the FUCK is Key Systems and why do they hold quirksmode.org?

Before transferring a domain from Cloudflare you have to apparently 'ublock' it. Does anyone know how to do that? The instructions on the help pages don't work; my Manage Domains page does not show the quirksmode.org domain that's associated with my account.

I again placed and lighted some art from my mother’s collection I inherited.

🎥 Out now: video of my @cssday.nl talk on making the web greener at work with the Web Sustainability Guidelines youtu.be/u76IcrzZPwc

Interesting. They found a new 8th century chronicle, christian but not Byzantine, from Syria/Palestine, documenting among other things the rise of the Caliphate. https://www.medievalworlds.net/0xc1aa5572%200x004102d6.pdf

Getting somewhere with my house-re-decorating: I can now properly place and light these four pieces from my art collection I inherited from my mother.

The modern CSS stack demands constant care and attention social.lol/@hl/11615470...

Home. One painting fell off the wall while I was gone. Miraculously, nothing's damaged.

Ah, the memories ... ... and Bruce ...

RE: https://front-end.social/@matuzo/116144471418119254 Same. Were even mostly the same people. #sotb

And I broke my personal record: home door closed to sit down at gate 50 minutes. Was 55.

Will be heading to London for #sotb in about half an hour. ETA in hotel: 6:15-6:45pm. If anyone's available to grab dinner with, all the better.

At 100 attendees! And the best part of the conference is the people you meet, the community you're steeped in. (Or words to that effect.) cssday.nl/attendees.html

... and @ishadeed.com talks about smart layouts at #cssday. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_njU...

One more thing to discuss at #cssday!

Shall I start my procrastination procedure for the necessary but boring hosting problem I have to solve ... ? Nah, I'll wait until after the next unrelated job.

Old magic lantern slide of a decapitation in Beijing, 1919, made by my great-grandfather.

Oh look, it’s the old statue of Confucius tweeting from his Nokia.

RE: https://front-end.social/@ppk/116103280609680682 This post raises some questions about alt texts. This is a German book; should I literally repeat the full German title in the alt text, even if it's published in an English context? Including the neuarbeitete und vermehrte auflage bit?

You never know what you encounter when you go through your book collection.

Do the English still have the axe that executed Charles I?

Today's first job done. New CSS Day speakers announced. Today's second job is rehearsing and upgrading my old Browser History presentation that I'm going to run for students on Thursday.

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.