4 days until the 2025-2026 NHL season starts

Love the intermission discussion between @pipershaw.bsky.social and @alisonl.bsky.social. Great insights as always. Can’t wait #theexperience to hit the regular season! #SeaKraken

Feeling pretty good on the @mlb.com front today as both my hometown #BlueJays and adopted town #Mariners have clinched their divisions and byes to the ALDS.

With the #hockey season approaching, it upsets me that I don’t have much to show for my hockey #website project. I’ve struggled a lot this summer to get any traction on it. :(

Catching up with the #SeaKraken game and it amazes me how people on the team handle the grind. I watched @seattlekraken.com coaches run a spirited practice this morning in #Seattle and they’re now behind the bench in #Vancouver. Incredible!

That’s Kraken hockey, baby!

It’s @pipershaw.bsky.social and @alisonl.bsky.social! Welcome back! #SeaKraken

Finally watching @seattlekraken.com #hockey again! Great to see and hear the crew. John Forslund’s play by play is music to my ears.

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H1B visa holders: read the news before you travel. There may be a $100k reentry fee. TBD if it is all visas or just new ones. Either way this is a monstrous policy that will separate families You may want to return before Sunday at midnight. m.economictimes.com/nri/work/mic...

Hey everyone!! Emily's fundraiser is almost over, and she hasn't raised enough to get to Universal to sing with the her choir! Every donation of $20 or more will be entered into a drawing to win this magnificent painting she made! Support kids in arts 🙂 onlinedonations.us/home/view_fu...

“In a professional setting, ‘be the dumbest in the room’ is more than useless—it’s toxic.” – Andrei Drăgănescu #CareerAdvice

★ I haven’t met or worked with Eva Decker (that I know of), but I sure do admire her supafresh, clever, creative personal site. Visit, bookmark, enjoy. #DesignerWebsites #PersonalWebsites #indieweb #webrings @eva.town

“I wasn’t sure what number you wanted me to go with.” — Zuck, 100% pathetically bitch-made by a man who said he should be thrown in jail for life, appeasing an administration who says his wife’s family isn’t American, loving how RFK is dismantling every public health advancement that CZI ever made.

Please stop inheriting the box-model. The supposed use-case for that is extremely out-dated, inheritance doesn't really help, and it actively makes real box-sizing use-cases more difficult! This #CSS best practice was never the best to begin with: www.oddbird.net/2025/09/04/b...

Like seriously, what even are web developers anymore. So much of the development process for web devs is spent on complicated DX methodologies. God forbid we spend the same amount of sprint cycles ensuring people can actually use the UI they "engineered"

📙 📗 📘 📕 The History of Themeable User Interfaces: bradfrost.com/blog/post/th... It was an incredible experience to write this piece. It blurs together the history of computers, video games, the web, design systems, and my own existence on this planet.

The precise moment when and where in recent weeks America crossed that invisible line from democracy into authoritarianism can and will be debated by future historians, but it’s clear that the line itself has been crossed. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...

“@bradfrost.com sits down with the legendary Jeffrey Zeldman, a pioneer in web design and an influential figure in Brad’s life. Jeffrey shares his journey, from writing ‘Designing with Web Standards’ to founding ‘A List Apart,’ and how these accomplishments impacted the web design community.”

Steve Shirley escaped the Holocaust as a child & went on to found one of the earliest software startups. The really impressive part? She employed women programmers who had been pushed out of the workforce after having kids, & allowed them flexible, family friendly, work from home jobs—in the 1960s!

Finally got around to reading this week’s “After Burnout” email from @kvlly.com. Fantastic look at how AI reliance is leading us down the path of “learned helplessness”.

A fucking DYSON SPHERE??? A DYSON SPHERE. Around the entire solar SYSTEM? What absolutely kills me about these dudes is that so many people genuinely think these guys are smart!!!!!!!!! A fucking Dyson sphere. Around the solar system. I have no words

So yes, you can pass WCAG AA and still fail to comply with the EAA’s digital product obligations... The EAA goes beyond the technical compliance: it requires products to work seamlessly with assistive technologies and be usable across the full customer lifecycle. Not just pass UI-level checks.

ICYMI: I relaunched Modern Leader to have its own website and searchable article archive. All the good stuff over 3 years is now available on there. modernleader.is

Things always get better when I remember that, however daunting the problem, I’ll figure it out.

Hi all! 👋 I was laid off and am looking for my next senior front end developer role. I have 19+ years of experience working with small agencies and Fortune 500 companies and focus on writing clean, accessible HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Resume: aubreysambor.com/resume/ Leads/reposts appreciated!

forgot to post about this when it went up this morning, but I wrote about the Hockey Canada verdict. www.silversevensens.com/understandin...

How do you heal when the world won’t stop reopening your wounds? How do you reclaim your voice when the powerful keep shouting over you? How do you move forward when the people who harmed you are never held back, never punished, never even named? open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...

fun news! I was laid off from Twilio. going to take this weekend to chill out, and will start looking for roles next week. if you or someone you know is looking for staff/principal level Developer Advocacy, OSPO, dev infra, or similar roles pass them along! reposts from tech folks appreciated <3

"Why Black people don't call the police." And "Why cops make the murder rate go up." Part 1000. Award winning musician GloRilla's house was burglarized by home invaders who knew she would be performing at a concert. Police showed up and... searched her house for drugs...🤔 And charged her.🤡

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

"Imagine being an employee at a company that has NEVER turned a profit and showing up to work in these shirts." This caption, shared to 122K followers, is intended to mock the WNBA players wearing “PAY US WHAT YOU OWE US” tees.

📢 The State of HTML Survey is live survey.devographics.com/en-US/survey... The #HTML and #CSS surveys are the only web surveys I don't want to miss. Thank you @sachagreif.com for making them, and @lea.verou.me for curating. Please take a few minutes to fill the survey if/when you can. ✨

soft launching my new course (hard launch to come) 🧠 course.modernleader.is/courses/toug...

#Abusive pro #baseball player on the verge of yet another chance at cashing in $$$. FFS #MLB, do better. www.cleveland.com/sports/2025/...

"They should have ceased providing any and all services to AI nudifiers when it was clear that their only use case was sexual harassment” says Mantzarlis, an online safety researcher www.wired.com/story/ai-nud...

“But good DX doesn’t guarantee good UX. In fact, it’s often the opposite. Because the more comfortable we make things for developers, the more abstraction we add. And every abstraction creates distance between the thing being built and the people it’s for.” h/t @piermario.bsky.social 3/3

“The combination of DEI and immigration is politically lethal,” Andreessen wrote. “When these two forms of discrimination combine, as they have for the last 60 years and on hyperdrive for the last decade…” 60 years ago was the civil rights movement, in case anyone was confused about his message.

Hello #web / #a11y friends. I was wondering if anyone had advice on how to mark up a playoff bracket that is accessible? For example, should the #HTML source order be left to right like the bracket is visually displayed or should it go by rounds?

🔥 I have news! After a 1y hiatus, I’m once again leading this year’s #StateOfHTML survey, thanks to generous funding by Google. ❤️ 🙋🏽‍♀️ Is there is an HTML feature or Web API you're dying to see progress on? Suggest it and it could be included! [1/2] lea.verou.me/blog/2025/de...

Back in the day, Twitter used to be really good if I set up a thread to connect freelancers with clients. Let's see if Bluesky can do it. Clients: if you're looking for freelancers/contractors, get in the comments Freelancers/contractors: get in comments Everyone else: boosts appreciated

Elon saying he’s going to reprogram his chatbot’s view of history is a perfect example of why these kinds of AI products aren’t the neutral “tools” people always defend them as. They’re little political projects reflecting the ideologies of their creators

A major danger of LLMs is that humans are SO predisposed to attribute knowledge to any entity that uses natural language fluently. We cannot imagine that a machine that outputs natural-seeming speech/text doesn't have cognition. Brilliantly articulated by @emilymbender.bsky.social et al. (2021).

Periodic reminder: #CSS carousels are not "accessible by default" www.sarasoueidan.com/blog/css-car... They are still highly experimental and there are still many open #accessibility questions & issues being discussed. +The browser will not do everything for you—you'll still have work to do, too.

All we want is healthcare.

But this would require recipients working full time for an employer who actually offers healthcare benefits. So the plan will kick millions off of ALL healthcare.

Elon threatening to just leave people on the ISS is making a pretty good case for why you nationalize your space program!

Fantastic article by Vanessa Kezwer detailing the Florida Panthers’ style of play: www.sportsnet.ca/nhl/article/... #hockey #NHL #StanleyCupPlayoffs #TimeToHunt

The public meltdown happening between the world’s richest man 🙄 and the President of the United States 🙄🙄 once again begs the age-old question: are men simply too emotional to be in positions of power?

I’m closing in on 1,000 subscribers for After Burnout! ❤️ This newsletter is much more personal than The Modern Leader, and I’m really enjoying sharing my journey of finding myself again as I recover from burnout. Follow along: afterburnout.co