We had a local showing of Wall-E on a big screen today - it's really a good film, still. Some bits hit harder than I remembered. Other bits put me into a musing sort of mood, and this short story fell out of it:

When the copiers became ubiquitous, and we got over the confusion of no longer "needing" capitalism, or to work to live, it felt like the dawn of a new age. Copying fruit and veg or entire meals - whole pizzas! - amazing. No starvation ever again.

Population cartograms show us where the world’s people are.

Yeah. Well... I think there will be a bunch of us relearning how to "surf" the web again. Web rings are on the rise, and blog rolls, and 88*31 link buttons. The search engines suck, so we'll be curating and collecting and sharing with each other over here now, thanks for nothing, Google […]

Very honoured to have been invited to chat with @kevinpowell.co 💜

The latest Meta AI steak sauce debacle should be a nice case of schadenfreude, but my schadenfreude circuits are fried. So very much painfully embarrassing and shameful and even comical stuff is being said and done by arseholes who remain rich and powerful. There's no glee for me in their shame.

I do indeed! 😄 And yeah, the main concept of my blog is to teach stuff with interactive demos. I have a bunch of posts about CSS, and they all follow the same general structure. www.joshwcomeau.com/css/interact...

😮 I just realized that my most popular blog post (An Interactive Guide to Flexbox) recently surpassed 1 million lifetime views! Totally mindblowing to me. I remember when my blog posts would get a few dozen views. 😅

If you can't tell which are the new and which are the old specs, I did a really good job picking the frames from an online store! I wanted to test an extra +0.25 in the varifocal add, and that's sooo much cheaper at an online vendor than local opticians […] [Original post on front-end.social]

Does anyone have recommendations for a good course on UX design and/or research? Ideally something practical, not where I'm just watching videos, because then I tune out. Thank you!

OK, I'm stuck again on 44. I'm really not a chess player. But at least I proved myself to be human in level 42 already so... I don't think I'm a bot.

Fought my way through to level 35 and for now I'm like, nope! Fun though: neal.fun/not-a-robot/ Thanks @neal.fun 😄

Do I want to let my work machine upgrade to Tahoe 26? Also why the huge version jump?

How many of me hearties in yonder New World (America, USA) want to be receivin' of a year o' free shippin'? www.pirateship.com/speakingbee

This is a wonderful post explaining how to make animations feel "right" (or why sometimes you don't need to animate at all). 👇 emilkowal.ski/ui/you-dont-...

I'm going to @webdevconf.com ! 🎉

I'm "only" 41 but this culture still was clear to me in my youth. With frequent talk of jailbait, of it being obvious that to the male gaze, younger is better, countdown timers on the internet until whenever a female teen celebrity "turns legal"...

Go awaaaayyyyy Strikingly

laptop recommendations?? i need something that can use for code and design. i really dont care about mac or windows (tho i aint "upgrading" to 11) ideally under $500

the internet phonebook has been restocked

Oooo it opened early! Gogogo!

To anyone that was sad that they missed out on the hard copy of the Internet Phone Book (internetphonebook.net) - be ready, you can have another chance! At: 10am ET (US) 4pm/16:00 CET (Europe) ..this page is to stop frowning, and allow you to place an order: livingweb.metalabel.com/internetphon...

#Zine folks, I'd like to include a minizine (not folded? folded?) inside a standard (halfsheet) zine I'm writing (as a tear/fold/takeout?). But I need to do so in way that's quick/few additional steps (as I'll be doing them repeatedly for every copy I print 😅). Ideas/examples?

Accessibility Nutrition Labels are coming to the App Store. I ran through an app audit and wrote up the process: gerireid.com/blog/how-to-...

I think that must’ve subconsciously influenced this vole.wtf/calm-down-br...

Forever feeling the need for this video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=T72T...

Hello @webdevconf.com will you be having a warm up thinger the night before? Trying to get the stars to align re: travel, and want to know if there's a reason to turn up earlier... Thank yooouuuu

Anyone else been contacted by Strikingly to become an affiliate? Never heard of it before. I don't want to make money that way. Found it a little bit fishy.

icymi i’ve the honor of speaking about personal websites at this year’s @webdevconf.com. the lineup is full of utter heavyweights, titans of the industry, and i hope you’ll join us. get tickets at webdevconf.com :)

I love this @scott.is 💜

I like to think I might be getting my crochet mojo back... My eldest wants a new scarf and wanted it to have a brickwork pattern - let's see how long this ends up! One day I'll get back to the fancy big triangle scarf that's been a WIP for several years […] [Original post on front-end.social]

Generally we think of alt-text as the domain of those with accessibility needs. However alt-text is useful for many reasons, which benefit your viewers, as well as you, the creator!

Has anyone done a skit about "remote meetings if real life"? Like, everyone standing just outside the door until exactly the right time and then all entering at once? Someone taking notes on the hands-up queue and policing it? Occasionally covering their faces with an avatar, to pick their noses?

I've just read this article. It's a relatively short opinion piece about the "left behind" Europeans, behind because big tech behemoths who can afford to throw tons of money at projects like this don't exist within our EU regulations. I mean.. fine with me. An Economist sub is $$$$$! I didn't pay.

Hey @ustwogames.co.uk I'm very confused - I've been unable to play Monument 3 on my android for a while, I try to login with Netflix credentials but it always tells me I have a network issue. Anyway I thought maybe it's time to reinstall - but I can't now find it on Netflix or Google Play store!

Drop an old person you're going to turn into in the future

Finally put up my pictures by @salventius.bsky.social I got at @beyondtellerrand.com - I chose the colours and squidged them around, he turned them into Art! They deserve frames, but until I get around to sorting that out, I figured sticking them up is better than leaving them in the envelope!

This is honestly fascinating - dissecting vibes into the incredibly concrete - and people should be using it as a discussion starter in writing classes

Gosh how I loved Tomorrow's World, especially in the first half of the 90s: https://youtu.be/XpZ5STahhPE It had a rebrand at some point after the mid-90s, it got new presenters and set and to me, it lost its futuristic sheen.

Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑

If he's dead what happens to the (admittedly bungled) negotiations with Putin? If he's dead will there be any change of tack on Israel/Gaza? I don't believe that anything would get better. He's a symptom, not a real leader. There'll be another in due course.

Little peek at a watercolour illustration for our seventh #Adventuremice book - ‘Adventuremice: Mousehole to the Centre of the Earth’ - launching this October! ✍️

In case it's useful to anyone, I just found that I can force a web version of Facebook (I know, strong network effect sadly) on my phone to display well on a mobile screen AND let me open and respond to messages. I opened facebook.com in @vivaldi.com (hopefully this also works with other browsers),

🛠️ New Article: The Basics of Anchor Positioning I wrote an article covering some basics of CSS anchor positioning. Really excited to share this one! 🤩 🔗 ishadeed.com/article/anch...

The last post of a fantastic series by Mia here. There’s some great visualisations that’ll help you really understand fluid/responsive typography. www.oddbird.net/2025/08/26/t...

Do newest smartphones need screen protectors? Can I do away with having one? Do they affect in-display fingerprint sensors? Yeah, I may just have got hold of a Pixel 9a...

Screen-reader users: If a website had a lot of graphical elements, e.g. torn paper scraps etc, to give a collagey-feel to it, would you prefer those graphical elements had alt text so you got the feel of the design, or hidden entirely from screen-readers so they didn't clutter up the content?

Wow, it worked - thanks to whoever used this :)

A list of #accessibility features and assistive tech I use daily: • Page/browser Zoom & OS-level Zoom. • High Contrast Themes (in VSCode) • Reduce transparency (macOS) • Dark theme (macOS) • Larger cursor size (if you try this it becomes hard to go back to the OS's default size) • Eyeglasses 👓

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com