This week on Overcommitted, we got to sit down with Bluesky's favorite tech blogger @samwho.dev and it did not disappoint! Sam makes some of the coolest tech content on the internet, and if you haven't heard from him yet, you should! Full episode out now: overcommitted.dev/interactive-...

📝 Wishcessibility What do recycling and accessibility have in common? www.nicchan.me/blog/wishces...

State of the Browser is an annual community event, and we are grateful to everyone who supports us by becoming an official supporter or a volunteer at our event! Today, we spotlight @vivaldi.com! They are one of our small supporters and have been supporting us for 3 years now. Thank you! 💜

All the solidarity to anyone protesting! If you want to make signs like this, check out Chris Camper's tutorial here: www.allthingsletters.com/how-to-paint...

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I've been informally asking devs "How do you use AI on production code?" Most common answer: to ask questions in a chat window - "How do I...?" stuff. Next is "rubber-ducking" when they need to bounce an idea around. Some *occasionally* accept inline completion suggestions, rarely unedited.

A bit of love for ASCII art in the newest Good Internet magazine: https://goodinternetmagazine.com/ascii-art-is-an-art-born-from-limitations/ My own can be seen here if you click on the ASCII art tile with Muttley on it: https://sarajoy.dev/#stuff

A visual affordance to tell Sara how not to burn her fucking fingers again;

Feeling like 4 of the 7 dwarfs all at once.

Wanna come work with me? ngrok are shortly going to be posting a position for someone to take ownership of our video content, focusing on well-researched, well-presented AI educational stuff (a la ngrok.com/blog/prompt-...). If that sounds like your cup of tea, my DMs are open 🙏

First and foremost, alt text must always be informative and descriptive of the content in the image. It can have character and humor, but it still needs to be informative and descriptive. Alt text is not a place to add easter eggs or jokes for sighted users.

Thank you Alex. I too am cursed with the joy of knowing CSS. I'd much prefer to just prompt AI to do it, and let it pepper markup with tailwind classes. Clearly.

Last 4 tickets. Don’t say I didn’t warn you. 2026.stateofthebrowser.com #SotB2026

And people thought only the British had so many nonces in the upper echelons of society (look up Operation Yewtree). Like almost everything (i.e. scenery, companies, food portions), turns out it's bigger in America. Take them all down.

Like the OP of this thread, I hate conspiracy theories. I hate that what's really been happening appears to be very conspiracy-like, perpetrated by the very people who were making up the conspiracy theories that took the US in such a terrible direction. It was projection! It was them all along!

It was that moment where he criticised the heroic diver, that I realised the guy was a Bad Man.

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LOL love how a little 'ist' snuck in there. I used to have English, Swedish and German all live as spell check and autocomplete on my smartphone keyboard at once, but it got confused as heck. I now have both English and German on at once, and switch into Swedish only when needed.

And the answer remains to be: They're all great when they're small but become awful as they get big. I like that the fediverse is both small and big, but I understand the admin/mod experience there is kind of stressful. But that was also true even within busy forums or newsgroups back in the day!

Someone, some time ago, made a web "app" to play music or maybe video, I think, with iframes, and web standards - no funky Frameworks or YouTube embeds. Does that sound familiar? I'm sure there was either a good string of posts or an article about it.

Another "I don't like what he says, but I sadly agree" article this week: CTAs hierarchy. It changed from "what's best for the user" primary action, alternative as secondary, to "what's best for the company" (primary) what's acceptable for users (secondary). Yup, yup, raging yup By @jim-nielsen.com

Watch me and a few other members of the @a11ytalks (https://mstdn.social/@a11ytalks) team delve into the history of A11yTalks and discuss updates from the last couple years in tomorrow's event! Preview it here: https://mstdn.social/@a11ytalks/115969143962314730

Thanks to everyone who put my name forward when @ppkoch.bsky.social was scouting for new speakers! 🙏

My book, Accessibility For Everyone, is now free and online as a website. accessibilityforeveryone.site The book was first published by A Book Apart in 2017 but it holds up! It covers web accessibility for designers, developers, content folks, and really everyone who works in tech.

Less than 15 (in person) tickets left, they are flying. Plus you get a huge discount off webdayout.com?utm_source=W... By our friends @clearleft.com

Fuck you, Merz. If people choose to work 4 of 5 days a week, or shorter days, and the company hiring them accepts that - let it be. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

I don’t like his predictions. But I can’t disagree with @ericwbailey.website. I’m already seeing the grifters circling, selling fake fixes and performative compliance. Just like with cookies. Accessibility deserves better than checkbox contracts and automated snake oil.

Just a polite reminder that there's only one week left of the @piccalil.li 15% winter discount event! - @wil.to's JavaScript for Everyone course - @scott.is’ Mindful Design course - My Complete CSS course piccalil.li/courses/

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Reposting again as a quote as I think this is important - I was active on Tumblr for a while around 2013-15 or so, I was already older than most people there. What I saw in the largely teen population was that they were very political, very inclusive. The kids are alright. They're alert and ready.

People say that young people only want Tik Tok, and are turned off by politics and the news. But Elaine Welteroth grew Teen Vogue online viewers from 2.7 million to 9.2 million, by ignoring those sexist and ageist assumptions, and giving young readers what they want and need. She's not a "scold."

copy and paste the bunny and then put something else in his hand (\_/) (°-°) />⏱️> "I'm late, I'm late!"

Understanding the fundamentals of CSS layout When devs say that CSS is hard, they're usually talking about CSS layout. What often gets omitted is that developers are assumed to understand and effectively use CSS without being taught how it works in the first place. polypane.app/blog/underst...

This is excellent. If something has confused you when working with CSS, it's probably one of the things mentioned in this article:

So much new CSS stuff has hit the web in the past few years, and the CSS reset I was using has aged, so it was time for a refresh. This new reset isn't too extensively battle-tested just yet, but it has proven a success where I have used it. vale.rocks/posts/css-re... #CSS #FrontEndDev #WebDev

This. I am both very British and European but instead of trying to brush off the people of the US, I am unable to do anything but empathise. A lot of countries have done much Bad Shit in the past and present. The real enemies are the weird old men with far too much power, who rain death everywhere.

Do not disturb mode on my Fitbit is a bloody lie. I just want to collect data, I never want to be buzzed because I've hit some arbitrary number! Maybe I should just set all goals and targets unreasonably high.

I feel seen

Proud to announce TechConf.Directory, a directory of tech conferences around the globe. I've found it quite difficult to find conferences. That is true no more! I've made all the data fully open and available via a fully queryable API as well. techconf.directory #Conferences #Tech #Programming

I've been putting together a collection of web badges/buttons after being nerd sniped by @strange.website. I plan to make a great deal more, but these are what I've got so far. vale.rocks/portfolio/88... #88x31 #WebBadges #IndieWeb #SmallWeb

I remain unable to find a good list. Would you be interested in a front-end/web development conference listing site if I were to build one? #WebDev #FrontEndDevelopment

I don't suppose anyone has collated a list of good front-end or web conferences worth attending somewhere? Ideally with information such as dates and ticket prices.

FINALLY I GOT TO SEE THE AURORA!!! It wasn't *quite* as bright as the phone camera suggests - but it was all visible to the naked eye. Hamburg, Germany.

The first one not on a weekend! I hope lots of people turn out elsewhere too, and it gives some kind of measurable kick to the economy. Money is the only language some of these goons in charge understand. Sending courage, solidarity and love.

Blasted thing is even a standard Material Design 3 pattern: m3.material.io/components/t...

I do not like this time input UI. I NEVER manage to hit an afternoon time on the first try.

Random tip for Brits and other English speakers in Germany - when you want generic aspirin, but don't want to pay through the nose for a brand name painkiller, you need to ask for ASS. (It stands for AcetylSalicylSäure) Yeah. You're welcome! Enjoy taking ASS, it helps with headaches!

What's Adam Curtis up to lately? Wonder what it's like having been right about everything.