AI was always an excuse to fire people. But even without that, people are starting to realise it’s not a magic solution to everything. It’s a tool. A useful tool for the right things. But not magic beans to solve everything when what you need is a cow or the money from the cow.

Seems about right to me... britmonkey.com/2020s-politi...

I’ll be available for freelance work from August onwards. I can help you with: - Accessibility workshops, either in person or online - CSS workshops - Consultancy on HTML, CSS and accessibility - Front-end development EN or DE. Get in touch if that sounds interesting ❤️ matuzo.at/about-me

There are literally no limits anymore. America is so screwed and I'm not sure it'll ever recover...

What have you always wanted to know about CrUX? Tee me up with questions in your replies or, better yet, tune in to ask your question live!

I finally (finally!) got round to writing blog posts about some of the events I spoke at the past few months. Find slides, videos, and personal notes on my blog: - @beyondtellerrand.com (2026.04.28): www.bram.us/2026/06/25/c... - @heypresents.com (2026.05.07): www.bram.us/2026/06/25/c...

@support.bsky.team any word on images in Chat? Pretty please? 🙏

Positioning with CSS is getting a little too easy... youtube.com/shorts/h6nOP...

Remember: ticket prices will go up by €100 + VAT next Wednesday, 1st of July. Grab your cheap tickets while you can. perfnow.nl/tickets.html

During SPDY MEETUP 005, @mmocny.com was in Toronto, and shared the work he and his team were doing around SPAs which led to the idea of a new paint metric and performance entry. INTENT TO SHIP: groups.google.com/a/chromium.o... Watch SPDY MEETUP: youtu.be/YsRVmt_Izj4

You know what's 🔥HOT🔥 today, other than the entire planet, our rooms, our entire bodies… :cough: on a brighter note - @ffconf.org early bird 🐣 tickets just went live. 👉 2026.ffconf.org

This is such a clearly structured set of #security guidance from @openwebdocs.org ! Intuitive progression through attacks, defence with specific web APIs, threat modelling, and then I'm extra fond of there being a whole section on authentication. openwebdocs.org/content/post...

It's happening... We've asked Chromium API owners for permission to ship The Soft Navigation work to allow measuring of Core Web Vitals for SPAs!!

My presentation, Making Performance Allies from @perfnow.nl just got posted to YouTube - www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygdx.... The tips I share in the presentation were designed to make #webperf stick beyond the occasional task that finds its way out of the backlog. Enjoy!

Signal boosting as this starts next week! Tell me what DevTools bugs the team should fix

Call my cynical but is this not headline news across the whole country? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Is it perhaps because this is a white man?

Vibe coded a demo of the new navigator.cpuPerformance API in Chromium: rbyers.github.io/cpu-performa.... It's a small thing (returns just 0-4), but for some powerful web apps I think it'll be super useful. Details: github.com/WICG/cpu-per...

Writes itself www.snopes.com/fact-check/t...

This is me! We're focusing on a few areas next month and I'm leading the "Paper cuts" area. So spam me with your bugs, please - and please file them yourselves first so I can triage them internally 😁

PSA: Features available behind a feature flag have not shipped. (The thread had some more examples and words)

The Chrome DevTools team are doing a "papercuts" sprint where they try to address lots of small, irritating bugs and annoyances. Reply with crbug.com links (no bug, no fix—that's the deal!) and will see what we can do. No promises though as some may be features/too big/unclear how to solve.

First up: Fronteers Dark Mode in Dordrecht 🇳🇱 on October 2nd. With @cydstumpel.nl, @heydonworks.com, @csswizardry.com, @tunetheweb.com and @anjana.dev. And @jakearchibald.com as our MC. An amazing location and tickets only cost €99, and include dinner. Don't miss this! 🎟️ fronteersconf.org

With Firefox rolling out firstInterimResponseStart and finalResponseHeadersStart that means we can finally measure the impact of 103 Early Hints in an interoperable way across all major browsers! 🎉

This right here is why I shouldn't get up early. Tickets go live 25 **JUNE** - next week 🤦 I would go back to bed, but this code won't write itself (<side-eyes-copilot>) Thanks to @letorey.co.uk for pointing out that I'm a muppet (not in those words, but really, he should have).

I love, love, LOOOOOVE, this proposal!!!

We’ve decided to take another break for the Web Almanac this year. This wasn’t an easy call to make, but we feel it’s the right one given the huge effort the project takes and not wanting to half-commit. There’s a lot going on at the moment and we’re all pretty busy and many of you are too. 1/4 🧵

Icon-only options in a customizable <select> break three things: ❌️ users who don't recognize the icon have no help ❌️screen readers have nothing to announce ❌️browsers w/o support show an empty dropdown There's just 1 fix for all three cases: keep the text Learn more:

Did you know that tickets go live for @ffconf.org next Thursday? 10am UK time. You going for the early bird tickets, or going to wait it out?

I have a vague worry that, as we put more and more computation into CSS, web devs are going to end up with performance issues that are difficult to trace to their source compared to JS solutions. The answer is to surface this in DevTools I guess.

🆕 Introducing the MDN MCP server! Bring MDN's docs and browser compat data straight into your AI agent or IDE for accurate, up-to-date answers about the web platform. No more outdated guesses from training data. Learn more 👇 developer.mozilla.org/en-US/blog/introducing-mdn-mcp-server/

After Japan battled the Netherlands to a 2-2 draw, the Japanese fans stayed behind and cleaned up every single piece of trash from their section at Dallas Stadium after the game. You LOVE to see it 🇯🇵 #WorldCup #Football #Soccer #RG3 #Love #sports #RGIII #RobertGriffinIII #Japan #Discipline

I still have my voice! I am very tired happy bunny after spending the last few days in Amsterdam and having had the honor and privilege of being one of the MCs for #CSSDay 💙 The things you saw that got your heart racing and pumped with excitement were human made and human thought. Go build things

That ending! 🤦‍♂️

#CSSDay friends: don’t forget to fill the State of CSS 2026 survey! survey.devographics.com/en-US/survey...

Just letting you know: There are less than 100 tickets left for #SotB2027 Tickets go back on sale 19 Jun 2026 09:00. In the meantime buy tickets for @pixelpioneers.co, @webdevconf.com, & @fronteers.bsky.social

@developer.chrome.com Chrome DevRel Team doing some very interesting feedback session on navigation matching at #CSSday. A lot of food for thought. A lot of folks interested 😅 place is packed

Yeeesssss!

Old man shakes his reading glasses at the sky! It appears I’m not as weird as previously thought (at least in this aspect anyway)…

The @ffconf.org CFP is open - if you're UK based (or near UK) especially, FFConf wants to hear your voice. I updated the "Most recent ideas" with more of my wishlist, and added an extra point to our speaker promise: we won't AI-ify your photos. ffconf.org/articles/cfp/

So is this @cssday.nl any good? Thought I might as well go check it up and top up on some Dutch dropjes. 🇮🇪(C)ORK 🛫 ☁️ 🛬 AMS 🇳🇱 Hope these CSS nerds are as friendly as the webperf ones...

Looking forward to kicking off The Web You Want with a little good humoured provocation in my keynote 😇 It's on Wednesday in Amsterdam and tickets are #free so come and join us? https://the-web-you-want.org/ #TheWebYouWant

I've already got a standard site: a website built with web standards.

If you're a web developer and want to come to Japan, the CFP for #JSConf Japan 2026 is now open! Your travel and lodging expenses for the conference are covered, so it's a great chance to visit Japan while you're at it. jsconf.jp/2026/en

Here's an easter egg in the new Lego Batman that I think all of you will REALLY appreciate. It's so good, I had to make a video.

Out-of-order streaming HTML is coming to a browser near you! This means you can stream HTML to the browser in any order, which enables web apps to send the most important HTML first, regardless of where it is in the document. This is huuuuuge! 🧵1/3

Top hopes for Apple’s WWDC: - Remove Liquid Glass - Stop hiding Search box (is it at the top? At the bottom? On the previous screen? 🤷‍♂️) - Fix notifications - Stop hiding phone calls/fix focus mode - Give some reason to want to upgrade - Better Siri without going AI overboard. Maybe call it iOS 19?

A few weeks ago, I talked about AI and its impact, and the uncertainty it's causing. It was a bit downbeat. I thought it would be a good idea to make something with a bit more of an uplifting message as a follow-up. Of course it hit a new audience and all the haters have shown up in the comments 😅

We still have a few tickets left. Maybe come off your fence and join us next week? cssday.nl/tickets.html

Join the HTML-in-Canvas developer newsletter mailing list so you don't miss important updates to the API: groups.google.com/g/html-in-ca...

God Agentic coding is exhausting....