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New metal album just dropped

📝 Fetch streams are great, but contrary to popular belief, they're not good for measuring upload/downloading progress. ⬇️ Here's why, and how to avoid the gotchas ⬇️ jakearchibald.com/2025/fetch-s...

📝 Fetch streams are great, but contrary to popular belief, they're not good for measuring upload/downloading progress. ⬇️ Here's why, and how to avoid the gotchas ⬇️ jakearchibald.com/2025/fetch-s...

I'm in Liverpool this weekend. Chatted to a local old white bloke who spoke with pride about the city having the first mosque in the country, and the first chinatown. And… fuck, I needed to hear that kind of positivity.

📣 Web devs — we need your input! We're running a short survey (1–2 min) to understand interest in using ReadableStream as a request body in the Fetch API. Help us guide implementation priorities, especially around support & use cases. Fill it up! 👇 survey.alchemer.com/s3/8460326/...

I say this every year and always mean it: WOW, what a speaker (and MC!) lineup we have for @perfnow.nl conference this year! I can't wait to see all these folks on the stage! This is when #PerfNow ticket sales start to go bananas — and we always sell out — so lock in your ticket soon! perfnow.nl

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Interop 2026 is now open for proposals! This is your chance to tell browser-makers which well-defined, well-tested features you wish had better support across browsers. ⬇️ Here's how ⬇️ github.com/web-platform...

Hey folks! Are you interested in fetch upload streams? If so, what do you want to use them for?

📝 Making XML human-readable without XSLT. Turns out, JavaScript works pretty well! jakearchibald.com/2025/making-...

📝 Making XML human-readable without XSLT. Turns out, JavaScript works pretty well! jakearchibald.com/2025/making-...

Folks who use Firefox Developer Edition: What drew you to that version rather than Firefox Release/Beta/Nightly?

Here's a quick and efficient way to remove `autoplay` from videos if the user prefers reduced motion codepen.io/jaffathecake... `animationstart` is one of my favourite hacks for monitoring elements appearing in the DOM.

yeah no I'm alright thanks

Yay! It's the first Firefox release since I've joined the team, so let's take a look at some of the new developer-facing features in Firefox 142… 🧵

View Transitions are enabled by default in Firefox Nightly, so they're on their way to stable. Give it a test with your current transitions, and give me a shout if anything doesn't look right.

I'm going to be there (I'm not speaking, but come talk to me). The schedule looks great!

There's staging a house, then there's entirely faking it with AI slop, and this one is the latter www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...

Starting my new role on Monday. Could be anywhere.

Excellent time looking after my sister's cats

Wrote a post about container queries in web components, and how that led me to contributing to WebKit for the first time frehner.me/blog/fixing-...

Well, I had fun.

Thanks YouTube Music, thanks.

The best thing about quitting my job is I can refer to my last employee review as my "ex-boss 360".

I hate footnotes, especially on the web, and hopefully by the end of this, you will too. jakearchibald.com/2025/give-fo...

Given how much system prompts need to be tweaked between versions of an LLM, it's hard to see how a generic prompting API can work on the web without leading to lock-in.

#FFConf *early bird limited* tickets are available now: 2025.ffconf.org We've got 4 sessions already up and 4 more coming. It's an amazing day in November that people have always told us how much they loved it. I know it's a while out, but do join us, you'll thank yourself.

Hill I will die on: Publishing videos of UI at anything less than 60fps is a real own-goal.

Still a week left to take the State of CSS survey! The survey hasn't got as many responses as last year, so any help sharing will be much appreciated :) survey.devographics.com/en-US/survey...

📝 First blog in a long time! I always like “flow-based” programming, and it’s a very powerful paradigm. LangGraph lets you codify complex workflows as graphs, and also integrates really well with LangChain, if your workflow is LLM-driven. surma.dev/things/langg...

CSS uses a complex algorithm to decide how to animate transforms. If you get it wrong, as many folks do, you end up with an unnatural animation. Here's how it works, and how to avoid the pitfalls. jakearchibald.com/2025/animati...

In my early 20s, I pushed a thing at the BBC that resulted in a bunch of TV schedules being off by a day. On the dev servers, a timestamp would be interpreted as e.g. 2005-05-02 00:00, whereas on the live server the same timestamp was interpreted as 2005-05-01 24:00. I am still mad about this.

Last week was my last at Shopify. It was a fun couple of years, and I left a much better engineer than I arrived, thanks to some lovely people. I've already got the next thing lined up, which I'm really excited about. But first, a little time off 🏝️

I was going to the loo in an airport lounge, and as I approached the cubicle, out walked Fernando Alonso. The seat was still warm.

@nikkitaftw.wtf youtu.be/GSSXEGoO53Y?...

Talked with @jakearchibald.com about the possibility of an HTML `<include>`. Why doesn't it exist? Could it exist? *Should* it exist? I'm a little obsessed with this. shoptalkshow.com/668/

Let this be a warning to you all

668: Jake Archibald on Native HTML Includes Jake Archibald joins us to discuss HTML includes, potential solutions, and the implications of introducing such a feature. We talk about security concerns, performance implications, and community feedback regarding HTML imports.

it’s funny that they’re both on their own personal websites posting their little posts

In supermarkets in Australia, you can buy a takeaway roast chicken in a bag. Because it requires no preparation whatsoever, and the bags usually have handles, I used to occasionally hear it referred to as “a bachelor’s handbag”

On June 12th, I'm going to be attending @middlesbroughfe.co.uk for the third year in a row. There are still tickets available, and I strongly recommend grabbing one. The talks are highly technical, but the environment is friendly and grass-roots rather than corporate. This year's lineup looks great

"Everything doesn't have to be political" is the "but I don't have an accent" of political awareness.

Shopify Polaris is now built on web components. My team and I have been working on this for a while and it's been a lot of fun to "embrace the platform"! shopify.dev/beta/next-ge... Lots of things learned, lots of fun edge cases discovered (hello moving web components to iFrames in Firefox)

My family were not surprised by this.

One 'gotcha' I've experienced in Italy a few times, is systems often have an unexpected extra dimension. For example, finding platform 4 was a challenge, with signs seemingly pointing in opposite directions. I _think_ there are three platform 4s. One "east", one "west", and another which is neither

Before an F1 race, they send the drivers around on a truck, doing interviews and waving to the crowd. But just before that, they send around a load of rich/privileged people, who get due respect from the fans.

Intent to ship for sibling-index() & sibling-count()! You won't need to itemize nth-child to style things like staggered animations anymore 🥳 For example, I'd be able to clean up the angle position and animation delays in this demo: codepen.io/una/pen/Qwwz... Explainer: github.com/w3c/csswg-dr...

🥳 We added new attributes to HTML to enhance <input type=color>: webkit.org/blog/16900/p...