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Published a new interactive blog post on tab roving, a nice little technique for making grids and other element groups more accessible for keyboard navigation! Check it out: https://nik.digital/posts/tab-roving

What struck the Gaza Aid Flotilla? After we published the story, the Tunisian Ministry of Interior issued a statement describing the incident “that took place yesterday” as a “premeditated attack” stating that an investigation had been launched.”

I can’t say this enough — you don’t have to mutilate your language, and you do a disservice to important topics when you do so. This is going to be even more important as American authoritarianism accelerates.

Details on the supply-chain attack which has compromised 18 very widely-used NPM packages: www.aikido.dev/blog/npm-deb...

I decided to test whether EXIF data is removed from images sent over X's new encrypted chat feature like Signal and other messengers do. I can confirm it is not. I was able to extract information including GPS coordinates from a test image sent to me.

An AI browser for Jira tickets 😂 www.engadget.com/big-tech/atl...

⚓️ New Article: How to dismiss native HTML dialog elements when the backdrop is clicked

⚓️Oxlint with type-aware linting is here ⚓️ ◆ 40 type-aware rules supported, including the famous `no-floating-promises` rule ◆ Built on top of `tsgolint` and `ts-go` ◆ Brings speed improvement & correctness Read more in the latest announcement voidzero.dev/posts/announ...

I'm pretty annoyed by the new #Gmail UI on Android. They tried to center align the search term but it's not - please just leave it aligned to the left 🥺

My ahead-of-time JS engine Porffor eliminates JS cold starts on AWS Lambda. 12x faster and 2x cheaper than managed Node. Still very early but these results should speak for themselves :) goose.icu/lambda/

MDN just got a glow-up! 🌟 We’ve completely rebuilt our front end, redesigned, reengineered, and ready to help you find what you need. ✨ New search ✨ Improved typography & code rendering ✨ Sleeker nav & icons Read more 👇 developer.mozilla.org/en-US/blog/...

Just came across poster prints from Mikkeller, I always enjoyed illustrations from Mikkeller's pubs but these are excellent ✨ prints.mikkeller.com/collections/...

Chatcontrol édition 2025 en bref - Bert Hubert's writings berthub.eu/articles/pos...

The Swiss National Bank is developing new banknotes, check the 12 concepts: www.nouvelleseriedebillets.ch

In Switzerland, there’s a referendum on everything— even on how our future francs banknotes should look. Soon, the Swiss National Bank will run a nationwide survey on 12 different design proposals. And of course, one of them proudly showcasing Swiss (direct) democracy www.srf.ch/news/schweiz...

The web isn’t URL-shaped anymore. Machines rip your pages apart, extract the claims, and decide what to trust. SEO isn’t about pages now – it’s about the graph of meaning around your brand. www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/u...

Me hovering over an icon button and hoping the alt text comes up to tell me wtf it does

We’re exploring ways to improve how Markdown is rendered in our components during streaming. • Complete partial syntax when possible (bold, links, table headers, …) • Buffer incomplete elements (partial images, broken emojis, …)

This number (20 million+ users using GH Copilot) is wild because… most estimates put the number of all professional software developers in the world somewhere between 20-30 million. GitHub Copilot either is getting ~100% adoption (unlikely) or it’s expanding the dev pool (likely!)

"You can have an unreasonable amount of influence by being the person who writes stuff down." simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/16/...

It sometimes feels like browsers are all behaving similarly these days and it feels great. Today, however I had to deal with `getSelection()` and learned that the implementation is widely different across browsers, mainly when dealing with Shadow DOM.

Beautiful data visualization of passion nodaysoff.run

I gave a talk earlier this year at the internal Microsoft Performance Symposium called "Five True Things", and the goal was to convey some really basic properties about computers today. A short thread to recap them:

I made a quiz about the JS Date parser is. It's very easy and you will score very high. jsdate.wtf

Introducing tsl, an extension of tsc for type-aware linting! Want to speed up your ESLint time without losing the great type-aware rules from @typescript-eslint.io? Run `bunx tsl --migrate` to try it out! github.com/ArnaudBarre/...

Wrote some more details about this on the blog: koaning.io/posts/svg-g...

This is very amusing. Well played, Eric 👏 ericwbailey.website/published/yo...

This industry gives me a headache sometimes.

I'm not big on voice messaging but roadsaudio.com looks quite interesting and a really creative way to have conversations

The Punctuation Guide a guide to help understand how to properly use some punctuation in American English. That's super useful for content writers, but, also, anyone wanting to geek around about micro-typography. www.thepunctuationguide.com/ (via @cassidoo.co’s newsletter cassidoo.co/newsletter/)

We've been working hard at getting the new prettier cli released for some months now, and here it is! Huge speed ups and such a great collab between @e18e.dev and the prettier team 🩵 big thanks to @fabiospampinato.bsky.social leading this!

State of CSS 2025 is now open: stateofcss.com Browser vendors use the results of 'State of' surveys to help prioritize the features to work on. If you care about CSS, please take some time to answer it, and help shape the future of the language

A sad and troubling impression from #jsnation and #reactsummit was that a huge fraction of the frontend community is happy to drink at the nazi bar. They don't even seem to feel embarrassed about posting on xitter. 🤦🤦🤦

After party #JSNation #ReactSummit

Wrapping up 2 days of #JSNation and #ReactSummit, now it's time to party! 🎉🙌

Best intro slide today! #reactsummit

Full house for @tannerlinsley.com at #ReactSummit

Naman Goel introducing a new framework, #Solenoid based on custom elements, writing JSX server side #ReactSummit

Jarred Summer presenting #Bun features and I have to say the HTML import is awesome #ReactSummit

It's time for #ReactSummit 🙌

@nico.dev yay.nico.dev is good fun. Thank you for that! 🎆 #jsnation

Incredible live coding session from @cvuorinen.net "Build Your Own Reactivity: A Deep Dive Into Signals", awesome way to better understand signals #jsnation

Super relieved that eventually all of my live demos at my #JSNation talk "AI Right in the Browser With Chrome’s Built-in AI APIs" worked. Here are the slides with links to all demos: goo.gle/jsnation-bui.... (Photos courtesy of @tunetheweb.com.)

Impressive showcase on Transformers.js at #JSNation

Beautiful venue for #JSNation & #ReactSummit ✨

Testing the waters with Deno w/ @thisisjofrank.bsky.social Always great to see live coding 🙌 #JSNation

AI in Chrome, @tomayac.com did a live demo in Chrome Canary of the following APIs: - LanguageDetector - Translator - Summarizer - LanguageModel Exciting stuff, love the live coding/demo. #JSNation

#JSNation @tomayac.com starting strong stating he won't engage on X so better contact him on another platform.