God Jul, Frohe Weihnachten, and Merry Christmas for a bunch more of you tomorrow. Sleepytime ❤️🎄

I've had an execeptionally tough year. I have no income or health insurance, and could really use your help finding my next paid project. 💜 semanticfish.com/2025-year-in... Open to front-end, full-stack, design system, & accessibility projects. 10+ years experience. Many more details in post!

Oh! This is fun. New to me, clearly been going for a while...

My personal website is now part of the lovely CSS JOY Webring (cs.sjoy.lol), thanks for adding me @sjoy.lol!

Welcome to the Marvellous Museum of Moribund Markup. You're in for a treat today, for I'll be guiding you through a brief history of an assortment of the more arcane esoteric elements of HTML past. Take a look at what they were and what still remains of them. www.htmhell.dev/adventcalend... #HTML

Friends, I have £1,000 that I want to donate to a UK trans support charity. I've donated in the past, but I was hoping someone (with experience) could recommend a charity that they think would benefit from the donation (and helped you in some way). It's a single donation to make a greater impact.

Thinking a little more about this - what I noticed most in the last 5 years about bikes, is the boom in cargo bikes. I'm seeing them most densely in one place - at the Kindergarten. Not everyone is in walking distance, not every kid can already ride, the cargo bikes are ideal small-child transport.

Kids (5 and 7) and I are watching this: https://youtu.be/-kCePEEBjvc It's pretty clever! It means a lot more to me than it does to them, having myself played most of the games the stickmen are playing their way through - but it's still very entertaining for them too. #retrogaming

Holiday Lights 2.0 (1995)

Since yesterday, many people have DM’d to say that they were strongly affected by my essay & wished they could share it. So I've revised, expanded, & posted it for free on both Substack & Patreon. Please feel free to share. www.patreon.com/posts/this-i... catvalente.substack.com/p/this-is-wh...

Love bookmarks. Save post links. Watch later. I can pretend I'll look another time and forget about it without guilt, byeeee

Got a 5 year old who is beginning to love card games but haaaaates losing. Whoop. #parenting

Jaaaaaaaaaa 💪🎉

"Frankly, the appeal to the bottom line shouldn’t be necessary. The ‘business case’ ought to be irrelevant in the face of the human cost." Yes yes yes

An addendum to this thread - it's not like life in the US incentivises childbirth at all - quite the opposite: youtube.com/shorts/hy2WQ...

So, since people are on the lookout for future browser alternatives and some are finding a project called “Ladybird”, it should be noted that the maintainer is doing a good job of acting like a supporter of racist ideas on social media https://nitter.net/awesomekling/status/1874518295350837401

I had apparently not realised that emoji don't announce themselves as images at all, and just get read out as their Unicode name. Thanks @gerireid.com! So much good advice in this article from today's HTMHell advent calendar (@matuzo.at): htmhell.dev/adventcalend...

Hello new followers! Where did you follow me from? A starter pack? Please tell me, I find this constant trickle of new followers somewhat unsettling 😅

What are your biggest complaints about using the web right now?

Spotted in the @smashingmagazine.com newsletter ... congrats @kilianvalkhof.com; Well deserved! 👏

We're kicking off a new ongoing series for all those "Ain't got time for all that" stories that pop up. Check out the first installment of "What's !important" by @dxnny.fun! css-tricks.com/whats-import...

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

This whole thread, exactly. We can solve the bad situation with pensions etc. in a declining population by allowing immigrants in, and to work. Trying to encourage people to have more babies won't work, will take too long to shake out, and it's kinda racist. Brown people are ready and wanting.

Hi @gohibniu.bsky.social can you please remove @renderg.host from the MAGA list? He's very not likely to be MAGA, being a non-American, bisexual agnostic communist! I vouch for him.

Well we finished it and it continued extremely silly! I know it's supposed to be a slapstick parody thing but somehow it comes across somewhere just next to that. It was apparently Bruce Willis' only screenplay 😅

Glad Lucia till alla som firar 👑🕯️🌟

Take 10 minutes out of the doom and watch any video here: youtube.com/@achickcalle...

There's a thing I think is going on that we don't have a word for yet, at least I don't. I think it's one of the less noticed themes of 2025, actually.

Underline, overline, wombling free

The people who were up in arms about "cancel culture" when the people being de-platformed were bigots, are the same as those celebrating the cancellation of folks who believe in equality and rights for all. So much hypocrisy. The tolerance paradox got us. We were too tolerant of the intolerant.

Can someone help? This is madness.

That coffee got cold in the process, of course. Happy just-over-halfway-through-Advent!

Shut up brain, chill out body, you're on a sofa under a blanket, just bloody relax please

Why? Because developers keep being asked by designers to make select inputs look different than the browser default, which leads to all kinds of awful, inaccessible hacks. See for instance, this W3CSchools article, the second result search result for "css select input". Try using your keyboard!

OK so if you're new to working with AG Grid (like me) and being driven crazy (like me) by the docs not lining up with the reality in your IDE - they released v35.0 two days ago. I was going nuts trying to understand why things weren't working at all like the sample code 🫠

Oh gosh. I came for the 8 ball but this shop is amazing: www.spellingmistakescostlives.com/shop

Wizard makes a sandwich 🥪✨

OK really? I've been trying to figure out what the eff I could be allergic to for over a year, and apparently perimenopause can mess with histamines in the body? Am I just allergic to the oncoming change?! Feels daft to be in DECEMBER, weaning myself off antihistamines and having sneeze-attacks!

On day 10 @stevefaulkner.bsky.social revisits the 1st rule of ARIA, which he originally formulated, and there's also something about beavers…I think. #HTMHellAdventcalendar htmhell.dev/adventcalend...

Festive childhood memories (Swedish comedy orchestra doing Christmas songs): https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lz-7ElbyaPZb4PoWXO8IsKW4OLuE3hyJQ

On day 9 you discover dialog with @sjoy.lol #htmhellAdventCalendar htmhell.dev/adventcalend...

It's not Christmas until @lynnandtonic.com has posted a flaming hot website refresh

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.

Excellent deep-dive on understanding the dialog element from @sjoy.lol in today's #htmhellAdventCalendar: htmhell.dev/adventcalend...

You will be visited by three spirits.

On day 8 @patrickbrosset.com illustrates how the fact that HTML is so forgiving can be a blessing and a curse. #htmhellAdventCalendar htmhell.dev/adventcalend...

Open the article on desktop/laptop. Now resize the window. This is 2010 technology. In 2025, instead, we get a popup that takes up 1/3 of the screen and says "this website looks better on the app."

Hudson Hawk is a very very very silly film. No spoilers please! We stopped at 1hr in for tonight (running time says 30 mins left).

OK so - I went down the rabbit hole and decided to spend some more (...more than double. Oops.) to be sure the brightness wouldn't be disappointing and remained usable when the room isn't completely darkened, or when I want the projector further away from a surface in order to get a bigger image.

If there's a better way to let people know you're available for work than writing a curse word laden blog post, I simply do not want to hear it! Jokes aside, what do YOU call this kind of contact page? www.nicchan.me/blog/the-f-o...