There’s a strange thing happening in web development, where the platform has been moving forward in significant ways, but a large amount of what gets built is effectively trapped in the amber of a React website from 2015.

well this made me cry over breakfast. to any democrats holding even a shred of power right now: look at what’s possible from people far more endangered and vulnerable than you and grow a spine, you fucking cowards www.erininthemorning.com/p/powerful-s...

If Republicans in Congress want to help make our country safe, I have some ideas for them.

What's Gavin Newsom doing in the face of Trump's assault on America? Falling in line, apparently: www.latimes.com/california/s...

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

For any devs wondering what 18F does (did), here’s its GitHub org page, with 1,210 repos. A few were mine! All the work they did for all their agency partners was open source. Public money should produce public software, for public inspection. Those days are over, starting today.

Mayes, the Democratic AG of Arizona, was a longtime Republican.

- racist DOGE guy (redundant) canned - federal judge upholds birthright citizenship - another judge blocks voluntary resignation - NY state going to court over treasury business - patel put on ice for at least a week

I’ve got the morning shift. This guy is dangerous and unfit to serve and I’m about to explain why. Tune in: www.senate.gov/legislative/...

I hate it when my ailing king is usurped by his scheming foreign vizier

If I was running a major news org, I’d keep the focus on the Musk story, which is a real thing. Trump talking about x,y,z isn’t—unless he backs it up with action. Cover what he says, sure, but don’t let him dictate the news agenda.

As the parent of a disabled kid it is zero fucking surprise. Folks hate disabled people and will actively work towards making their lives more difficult. The lack of empathy that even disabled kids experience is shocking and will change the way you think about people and what they're capable of

This language describes a coup. You have to be a government employee, subject to the rules & procedures that bind gov employees, to do this kind of work. This is a blatant abuse of the public trust by the Trump administration, a true 5-alarm fire. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

Hi all, We’re still here at OPM. We have a situation where we MIGHT, and I do mean, MIGHT have four of Elon’s people blocked from the building. Can we get press or a member of Congress down here? We’ve blocked them for two hours and they keep coming back and trying to go in.

Trump is attempting to unilaterally freeze trillions of dollars in federal spending that’s been duly appropriated by Congress. This is completely insane and illegal. He’s seizing unlawful control over the constitutional spending power? Five alarm fire www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

a lot of people consider working with the web platform directly (sans frameworks) quaint / old school / whatever but when it comes to CSS, working directly with the platform is *the cutting edge*

Nodding at a lot of this piece. We set out to change tech, and tech changed us instead. I can't help but wonder if things would have shook out differently if design was more codified (like trades, licensing like with architecture, unions, etc). trends.uxdesign.cc

The Godmother, Bay Cities Italian Deli, Santa Monica CA

I created a personal website starter pack! All the lovely people on this list have ✨fantastic✨ personal #websites or #blogs. 👏 I hope you like it. 🤗 (Feel free to suggest your favorite personal websites as well, of course.) go.bsky.app/QaRNu68

while we’re on the subject, can we stop with the branded names for tech employees, like “GitHubbers” “Googlers”, and whatever LinkedIn calls people (Linked Innards?) a touch too “you’re property not people” for 2024

working on a new demo script and reading out loud remains the single best way to improve your writing "this is great" -> reads out loud -> "this is terrible for these 32 specific reasons" every time

dibs on Chrome

why would my own software attack me like this

use what the platform gives you

I made a Black women in tech starter pack because I couldn’t find one and it annoyed me. go.bsky.app/5upv7SQ

Threads is a great example of a product being data-driven into a ditch.

the best thing about Bluesky's verification system is that domain names are the gateway drug to MAKING WEBSITES

I know life is unfair because my favorite song on the new Nick Cave album is also the shortest song

cooked up a new headless docs site for Steady using HelpScout + @11ty.dev and wrote up a (longish) post about the build: aaadaaam.com/notes/headle...

among the important things the DoE does is try to make sure that states are actually educating children with special needs

touched grass (and rocks, and water, and trees)

Planet Coaster 2 *could not* have dropped at a better time time to artfully place plants and rocks for 6-8 hours

Quick #designsky updates: made a new starter pack of designers to go along with the custom feed, and tweaked the feed to include extra designy keywords (so more posts will show up there.) Holler if you'd like to be added to any of this! go.bsky.app/3cUcyW1

apparently my go-to form of self care is writing CSS making a little scroll-y animation, as a treat

Alternatives: - Netlify - GitHub Pages - Cloudflare Pages - GitLab Pages - Coolify

How do we read the demographics of a survey? How do we know if it's representative of the industry? And how do those questions impact our takeaways? I don't have the answers, but after looking at State of CSS, I have a lot of questions: www.oddbird.net/2024/11/04/c...

New on the blog: aaadaaam.com/notes/house-... It’s a story about a house fan emulator I built as an offline PWA, that answers important questions like “why?” and “seriously, what even is this?”

It's great to see a lot of tech folks moving over from the bad place, but it seems like it's mostly developers? Am I missing some hidden pocket of designers? Is Bluesky unappealing to them for some reason? What's happening?

The Verge nails it. Incredible that the website I visit to read about how Apple's mouse still stinks offers a more clear-headed, well articulated summary of the stakes of this election than anything I've read from institutional news sources. www.theverge.com/24282022/kam...

Kostya Petrenko makes 80s versions of tech/media company logos as if they’ve been screencapped from CRT displays: Netflix, Spotify, Google, OpenAI, etc. Netflix should legit use Petrenko’s version. [kottke.org]

A bunch of interesting front-end techniques here, but also a tight case study on defensive design for user generated content.

This is just unbelievably badass. @davejorgenson.bsky.social the Washington Post TikTok Guy, everyone 👏

Big +1. Variations of these two questions are the core of check-ins in Steady. Super simple, incredibly effective.

does everybody know about my favorite website, the embroidery tips page that forgot to close its <h3> tags

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Loved this video from Wes Bos: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ln-... YUI! jQuery! ASP! Living proof that "modern" tools and approaches are not automatically better, performance-wise.

weekend water dog content

Another miserable day working from home. Wearing comfortable clothes. Surrounded by all the things I could possibly need. Little dog sleeping by me. Every day this nightmare. I yearn for the office