100 days to go in 2025 🥴

Under 16s social media ban is going to: - Push kids into worse, more dangerous content - Risk the privacy of every adult Australian via botched age verification - Limit Australian technology sector development Why are we doing this again?

iOS 26 seems to have issues with dark mode where some elements (buttons, search inputs, etc) switch to LIGHT MODE regularly. It's quite distracting and not great in low light. "Liquid glass" is fine, as long as you turn transparency off in accessibility settings 😅

Companies build web products where the designers don’t understand CSS and either do the developers. I just can’t put my finger on why the web sucks so much.

in case you're not sure who dhh is, he's a danish counterstrike player and race car owner who writes essays like "i am smarter than you" and "foreigners bad" rich enough not to worry about consequences but at the very same time, still desperate for status, a man two friends short of a podcast

📸 I wired up Playwright test to take retina screenshots of every page of Calibre app with curated seed data Covering many scenarios: - Light/dark mode - Admin functions - Nav visible/collapsed - Scrolled-to/focused sections for settings & reports 200+ screenshots to reference, super helpful 🤠

I might have a little cry when Firefox finally supports text-wrap: pretty

Shoutout to everyone who rode thier bike today 🤗

This is one impressive visual guide to implementing the Liquid Glass effect kube.io/blog/liquid-...

You can get around the Bluesky age verification block using PiHole on a Raspberry Pi, by adding `ip.bsky.app` to your blocked domains ✅

GitHub are gonna start blocking Actions releases from Marketplace. That is, unless I agree to new, onerous terms. I can't possibly find the time or resources to review this agreement (OR take on its new risk), just to be part of the "marketplace". My action is OSS & Free. Absolute bullshit.

If you need to get something done today, here's 2 hours of Japanese Ambient/Electronica. Nice braining music. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPnd...

Fun quiz for CSS fanatics out there 🤓 Give Sunkanmi a follow too 👍

GitHub Image Actions Compresses images in your PRs Costs nothing Runs in seconds github.com/calibreapp/i...

🚨 GitHub image-actions 1.3.0, out now: Before: Compress all repository images until there isn't anything left to compress = Runs slow, kind of helpful After: Runs strictly within your PR - new and updated images get compressed = Lightning fast & awesome github.com/calibreapp/i...

Fun quiz for CSS fanatics out there 🤓 Give Sunkanmi a follow too 👍

image-actions docker image has been pulled 677,000+ times and likely compressed tens of millions of images. Feels good man 🙇‍♂️

⭐ After 5 long years, I've released 1.2.0 of image-actions github.com/calibreapp/i... To recap: - You add image-actions to GitHub Actions - image-actions runs on each Pull Request - JPG, PNG & WebP images are automatically compressed & committed - Your PR includes optimised images ✨

Coffee drawer looking stacked

Starting the long trip home to Australia with a quick night in Warsaw, then back to Australia and the last 7 days of winter

Early on in my career, I was so excited about all the colour, motion, shape, depth, and creativity I’d get to add to the web. But really, the majority of what I got to do was concatenate strings into different boxes.

Want to build faster websites? Here's how: - Learn how browsers parse, layout & paint - Treat JS as a tool, not the foundation(!) - Favor static HTML or server side rendering at all times - Use Core Web Vitals alongside other metrics to learn shortfalls, improve and iterate Then keep doing that.

Forget your memories; We can create new, shittier ones using AI that consumes more energy and water. Don’t worry, we’ll all be dead soon.

Can’t wait to use this 🙇‍♂️

I saw a post on hacker news today that was some young hacker saying they changed their sleep schedule around Claude usage limit resets I logged off after that

I’ve cycled around Poland a bit this past week and am shocked by how much more relaxed drivers are here. They wait, leave gaps, and generally behave well. In Australia, almost every ride involves someone in a car being aggressive, shouting, or making dangerous close passes.

This is nice

Anyone got the DL on email #accessibility? Do folks just use the text-only versions or does proper HTML markup matter?

Unsurprisingly, Perplexity does not understand consent. Perplexity intentionally ignores robots.txt, and mutating user-agents when blocked by detection systems and (of course) did not reflect that they are not gaining CONSENT from site owners. www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/age...

I’m not saying Europe has more culture or that this is my normal taste, but this hotel has been operating since 1887 — this is the epic breakfast hall at Grand hotel Łódź

Caught a ride through forest along the beach on the R10 “velo baltic” trail from Łeba today

Cops tried to stop this #acab

Packed a gravel bike for a few weeks in Poland for vacation with my partners family It’s winter in Aus, and summer in Europe 😍 Time to catch some sun 🌞

I’m on a long haul flight to Europe-it has free starlink internet access

With AI you can appease your parents with a thin veil of care. Don't worry, we'll all be dead soon 💀

“I don’t like CSS” is coded speech for “I never learned CSS”

If Aussies needed another reason to not be a patron of Coles supermarkets… then consider that Coles have a contract with Palantir. Y'know, the same Palantir that are aiding the US government creeping fascism and surveillance state. www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02...

Want to build faster websites? Here's how: - Learn how browsers parse, layout & paint - Treat JS as a tool, not the foundation(!) - Favor static HTML or server side rendering at all times - Use Core Web Vitals alongside other metrics to learn shortfalls, improve and iterate Then keep doing that.

💡 CSS Tip! Do you know that you can use offset() to place images around a circle? And if you combine it with the new sibling-*() functions, you can have a perfect placement that works for any number of elements! css-tip.com/images-circle/

Skyscanner’s design systems team tediously audited all their colours. They reduced, fixed and renamed, simple stuff but a good outcome. medium.com/skyscanner-p... #designsystems #css

If you're on a software team, stop mimicking how large companies do things as inspiration or blueprint. All you're doing is importing practices that won't work for you, your team and organisation. Observe, but always be centered in reality.

Update: We removed all gas appliances from our house. Electricity usage went from ~9kWh to ~27kWh per day — and it still costs ~$100/month less to run our house than combined Electric & Gas previously We run heating a lot more (no fear of $$$$ gas bills) so it's much cozier too 🤗

You are wrong, and this is a bad take. E-bikes reduce effort by only around 30% and open up the world of cycling to a whole new cohort of people. I cycle 3-5000 kilometers per year on an acoustic bike, and on the odd occasion use an e-bike. They're great.