See you in Hell, `innerHTML` (eventually). developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...

Sticker check.

With the new Piccalil.li homepage comes a new opportunity to hone your craft, take the next steps in building your career, and support independent publishing. For the next few weeks, use the code `NEXTLEVEL` at checkout and you’ll get 20% off JavaScript for Everyone. piccalil.li/javascript-f...

I remain inordinately proud of the “but that’s none of my business” throwaway joke in piccalil.li/the-index/165/

Sticker check, nerds.

i built an entire x86 CPU emulator in CSS (no javascript) you can write programs in C, compile them to x86 machine code with GCC, and run them inside CSS lyra.horse/x86css/

We've got a brand new homepage that communicates exactly what we're about at Piccalilli: providing really high quality educational material for humans, written by humans to boost their career. piccalil.li/blog/a-2026-...

We have a new @piccalil.li homepage! After lots of research, we determined we were doing a bad job of talking about what we actually do, so this refresh aims to make that *very* clear. piccalil.li

Out with :nth-child(), in with :sibling-index()! Just so satisfying to use. * no Firefox yet

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we are on Boston Yeti watch

🦥 A fun update over on the blog: 🦥 Standard HTML Video & Audio Lazy-loading is Coming! scottjehl.com/posts/lazy-m...

I can only dream of one day announcing something that someone, somewhere reacts to with the exact same perfectly balanced level of dread and enthusiasm as when I just learned that that there is STILL MORE Neon Genesis Evangelion coming, and it will be written by Yoko-goddamned-Taro.

In this free lesson from JavaScript for Everyone, @wil.to throws himself upon the sword of "well *technically*..." to explore the relationship between expressions and the values that result from them. https://piccalilli.link/js4e-free-lesson-quote-1

A multi-gloved hand bursts out of a roadside drift. A snow-muffled voice, barely audible over the roar of the wind, rasps: “I wish `import … with { type: 'css' }` worked.” It is as unsettling as it is unclear how the speaker used codeface out-loud. Then, there is silence.

Hey, do me a favor: reply to this post in ways that you think could break an embedded Bluesky thread. Do your worst.

I love that the meeting agenda docs for TC39 have a code block at the top using Temporal that's like: "need to know when this meeting is in your time zone? Just paste this code block in a JS console". github.com/tc39/agendas...

I wrote for @zeroheight.com about the types of things automated accessibility checks can't detect when auditing and evaluating your design systems for accessibility. #a11y zeroheight.com/blog/design-...

What I said in the full answer to this question is true, y’know: you really can unlock an “airhorns” button. bsky.app/profile/picc...

Thanks for choosing to publish this top class course with us, @wil.to 🙏 💛 piccalilli.link/js4e-q-and-a-2

Mat Marquis has broken into Piccalilli towers and found The Index posting machine while everyone is distracted. Join him as he shares some very good links with you in The Index #165. piccalil.li/the-index/165/

it’s important to keep caring about how things work and how they’re built

There may come a day where I do not do the entirety of the Antonio Banderas reaction GIF every time I use an invoker command, but that day is not today.

Over the last week, I’ve seen several posts from prominent devs wrestling with what “AI” has done to their craft. I wrote this book because wherever you work in tech, I wanted you to know that there’s an alternative—a better future, even. And you and your coworkers can build it together.

Hey, sorry, I just got in. Yeah, traffic was wild, exactly. Now, catch me up: you say the Trillion Dollar Embarrassingly Error-Riddled Rip-Off Machine whose sole output is embarrassingly error-riddled rip-offs produced a _what_ now?

be kind. the dorks pushing AI at microsoft won't see your mean tweets but your friends who are continvouclous will

LESS THAN 2 WEEKS UNTIL THE START OF METEOROLOGICAL SPRING

I've yet to hear anyone brag about some LLM-generated project that didn’t land in the ear like a younger sibling bragging about how good they are at Sonic 2 while playing as second-controller Tails.

It's nearly time for Node.js github.com/nodejs/node/...

Every day is made better by a @wil.to Weirding Module

Invoker Commands feel like something the platform should have had decades ago. Comparing its functionality to how we traditionally have to toggle a dialog makes current practice seem straight-up absurd. dbushell.com/2026/02/12/d...

With this much snow on the ground, I find myself faced with exactly two (2) options: fully destroy my home, or start writing up primers on stage three TC39 proposals. wil.to/newsletters/... Or rewatch M*A*S*H again; that's always on the table. Three (3) options.

We asked @wil.to what it is he likes about JavaScript. Knowing Mat, it's no surprise to hear him talk with affection for all its rough edges. "A little dust on the lens is all part of the charm" as he puts it. We've got a lot of time for this perspective. piccalilli.link/js4e-q-and-a-1

you know what would solve all of my problems, i bet a couple new domain names

I sort of breezed on through WeakSet and WeakMap in this article, but if you're looking to learn more about the implicit resource management you could be doing right now, well, do I ever have a course for you: piccalil.li/javascript-f...

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.

It's time to try out `using`. It's time to clean up right. It's time to use disposers on your resources tonight. piccalil.li/blog/its-abo...

There’s some very useful capabilities coming to JavaScript: “[Symbol.dispose]()” and “using”. Mat Marquis is here to explain why they’re coming and how to use them effectively. piccalil.li/blog/its-abo...

so what if i maybe started using vim a little sometimes; mind your business

Absolutely paralyzed by the staggering number of corny bits available to me when writing about the ShadowRealms proposal.

border-shape can handle both insets and outsets, so you can do effects like this chevron nav (corner-shape can't do both). This means you get a perfectly-wrapping focus ring without needing to manage z-index or having it partially covered due to overlap. Demo: codepen.io/una/pen/ByzY...

it is _incredible_ that i am allowed to put words on the internet who is this for

Celastrus orbiculatus was a real dream for gardeners. It grows fast and trains easily, with deep green leaves that turn a bright yellow in the fall, and red berries in the winter. It requires almost no light or water, and roots readily from cuttings and seeds that are highly attractive to wildlife.

Scott Riley tested free and open source design tools out when researching his course, Mindful Design. They actually worked out better than Figma ever could, as he explains in this article with loads of options for you. piccalil.li/blog/the-ope...

Ok... the time is near... let's all visualize github.com/web-platform... being closed accepted... envision it... imagine it... together, we can *do* it... we can manifest it! I believe in us!!!

Neocities.org is such a goddamned treasure.

Hey, anybody that's been following TC39’s Explicit Resource Management proposal up for giving a post about it a quick skim? I wanna make sure I’m doing it technically-correct justice before I start trumpeting anything from any rooftops. If so, send me a DM, yeah?

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You shed the accent, you stop calling anyone under the age of forty “kehd,” you break the two-a-day Dunks “medium regular” habit, and yet, still: one day you wake up to see a pair of traffic cones hoseying a space the cone-placer did not shovel and you are INCANDESCENT with righteous townie fury.

Sometimes “writing” looks like standing hip-deep in a snowbank for two uninterrupted hours, glassy-eyed, stage whispering phrases like ”`using`… Garbage collection… what is the… relationship…” in the timeless style of Kyle MacLachlan’s voiceovers in Dune (1984) — and I’m brave enough to say it.