The #DesignToken Interfaces talk I gave at last week's #DesignSystems London meet-up is now online. Enjoy! (and be sure to also check out the other 2 talks from that night as they were excellent!) youtu.be/lcjc0oQZBIk?...

color: hotpink; was simply not hot enough

Big JavaScript doesn't want you to know this One Weird Trick™

This thing’s way less accurate than Google, uses 1000X the resources, has a monetization plan that will never work, and destroys the ability of the websites it uses as source material to cover their expenses. But hear me out.

Busy fleshing out the slides for my #DesignToken Interfaces talk at next week's #DesignSystems London meet-up. See you there? www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/design-sys...

What if LinkedIn had a warning when users are instant experts on areas where they have no way of having expertise (or serial hype boomers)? Another feature we need but will never get 😅 #FakeProductFeatures

Now that the @designtokens.org format specification has reached its first, *stable* version, I decided to have a look back at my own journey of getting involved in the DTCG and contributing to that spec... cirrus.twiddles.com/blog/2025/10... #DesignTokens #DesignSystems #standards

If you actually care about the web platform, the open web, and the way AI is degrading the whole experience...I don't think releasing a glorified ChatGPT wrapper is the way to show that care.

It's not every day you see someone else get THIS excited about the Design Tokens Specification. To celebrate, here's a screenshot of some WIP landing page copy I'm working on for sugarcube - a toolkit for building DTCG-token-powered websites. Actual nice-looking website coming soon 😅

HEY HEY, the Design Tokens Specification is stable! This is absolutely phenomenal news for the design system community and the technology industry in general. www.w3.org/community/de...

Happy Schema by Figma day. A recap of our announcements (roll out dates may vary) → Extended Collections → Slots → Check Designs → And a ton more

Python Software Foundation withdraws bid for $1.5m grant from US gov, because the terms require they do not "operate any programs that advance or promote DEI", and "it would be a betrayal of our mission and our community." Applause. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...

Josh @farrant.me's site has a lovely theme-switcher... that plays music! farrant.me

There is literally not one person who can exist in modern society without using the big tech platforms daily, at least indirectly. That doesn’t mean it’s futile to try to reduce dependency or investment, but I also am not judging anyone harshly for that, least of all those who are most vulnerable.

If AI makes you 10x more productive, how many software companies are celebrating reaching their 2030 goals this month?

Here’s where it gets personal for me. When I was 9, I started experiencing suicidal ideation … disinterested in living, and at least some of the time contemplating death and how it might happen … It’s easy to imagine how I would have used programs like these chatbots.

They say AI will replace the web as we know it, and this time they mean it. Here follows a short list of previous times they also meant it, starting way back in 1997.

Vitest 4 is out! - Browser Mode is Stable - Visual Regression Testing - Improved Debugging - Pool Stabilization - New APIs - Bug Fixes Stay updated with our blog post: vitest.dev/blog/vitest-4

"truncation is not a content strategy" - @karenmcgrane.bsky.social

Don't [...spread] or .split() your strings! Use Intl.Segmenter API. Available in every JS runtime

Imagine a browser where you type in “Taylor Swift” and it doesn’t even admit that her website exists. I write about Atlas, ChatGPT’s new anti-web browser that should come with a warning label. www.anildash.com/2025/10/22/a...

OK, so it is <p> for Paragraph, <ul> for Unordered List and <a> for Link? Well, links are also anchors, but we forgot about those, although document.anchors and String.anchor() still exist… Links and anchors: ancient HTML and JS magic in your browser. www.wearedevelopers.com/en/magazine/...

New blog post: Let users decide! - Why web developers should stop making assumptions about user behavior scriptraccoon.dev/blog/let-use...

@asgersvenning.com wanted a hand drawn feel on some SVG avatars he was creating. But using Figmas dynamic stroke feature produced 2MB SVG files. Time for FETURBULENCE! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dzpm...

Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!

Hey peeps. I'll be one of the speakers at the next #DesignSystems London meetup on 11. November, sharing my thoughts on something I call #DesignToken Interfaces. It's free, but you need to register to get a ticket as spaces are limited. See you there? www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/design-sys...

Oh shit, I needed this just recently but didn’t know it existed, so used aria-live. denodell.com/blog/html-be...

1/ 🚨 NEW NPM MALWARE CAMPAIGN. Yes, another. North Korea’s “Contagious Interview” campaign is escalating: 338 malicious npm packages, 50,000+ downloads -- 25 still live. Aimed at Web3/crypto devs & job seekers via slick recruiter DMs → git clone → npm install → compromise.

“I feel like web developers are constantly being gaslit into thinking that complex over-engineered solutions are the only option. […] That’s not good for users, and I don’t think it’s good for us either.” Mic drop by @adactio.com 👏 adactio.com/journal/22178

If you work in web standards, you RFC 2119 MUST read this article. alice.boxhall.au/articles/a-t...

Fuck apps - build websites.

Yes yes YES THIS. The best thing a web dev can do is put the frameworks down sometime and learn how it really works. @una.im @ @nordicjs.com

Developers! If you want to distribute software "applications" that don't depend on the whims of multi-billion dollar organisations romantically linked to illiberal regimes across the globe, there's a brand new vague-but-exciting technology you can use, called "the Web"! pwa.dev

If you're into new browser engines free from corporate control – maybe skip the latest 'benevolent dictator', and check out @servo.org They have nightly snapshots you can install, and they're rolling out new features regularly: servo.org

What's next? Playing badminton with Skelator?

It's hard to overstate how exciting it is to be able to emulate safe-area-insets and svh in an actual browser.

🦊 I’ve decided it’s past time I start describing “artificial intelligence” as a failed technology, and I’d like you to join me. ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/agains...

🎂 Happy 23rd birthday, Firefox (Firefox 1.0 was released on November 9, 2004 but the first version of the thing that lead up to it – Phoenix 0.1 – was released on September 23, 2002)

“The biggest US-listed companies keep talking about artificial intelligence. But other than the ‘fear of missing out,’ few appear to be able to describe how the technology is changing their businesses for the better.”

has anyone stopped to consider that the rapture is just another supply chain attack

So far I've received 11 submissions for this year's #HTMHellAdventCalendar. They look fantastic, but, you know, I need at least 24. You can write about anything you want related to HTML. There's no “too basic”; we need more fundamental HTML knowledge out there because we suck at the basics. 1/2

it's 2026. social media is dead. I'm booting into dos on a beige box surrounded by crying children with broken phones. I light a cigarette and pull a small grey ball from behind my eyepatch before carefully inserting it into the belly of a 1990s mouse. kids. today you're gonna learn about webrings

CSS guide: parents should tell children where to sit from @thudfactor.com www.thudfactor.com/posts/2025/0... #CSS #FrontEnd #WebDev

📰 Firefox just landed support for native CSS Modules! 🥳 Here's Firefox Nightly with layout.css.module-scripts.enabled running a Codepen that uses standard CSS modules. codepen.io/justinfagnan... * *updated from @chriscoyier.net's original That makes Chrome & Firefox w/ support. Next up Safari 🙏

I’m Not a Robot, a game about solving CAPTCHAs, is out now! good luck :) > neal.fun/not-a-robot/

💬 Request For Comments New Resolver specification, groups & Aliases updates 👇 www.w3.org/community/de...

👀 Browserslist 4.26 - Now supports Baseline Queries Thanks @en.sitnik.ru @tonypconway.com , this will be way more convenient in many cases!

The @designtokens.org needs your feedback on some significant updates being proposed to the DTCG format spec: www.w3.org/community/de... #DesignTokens #DesignSystems

“The dream has died. It almost came true, and then it was immediately co-opted by a bunch of get-rich-quick grifters and…turbo-libertarians whose entire identities are defined by the Things that they Own and who [are] mad that World of Warcraft nerfed warlock or something.” @eev.ee