#btconf Berlin 2025 is back on Nov. 6 and 7! 2 days of design, web, and tech on one friendly, single-track stage. Designers & devs, spark ideas, and leave buzzing with inspiration. Seats are limited. Grab your ticket. If you have already, spread the word, please! beyondtellerrand.com/events/berli...

@philhawksworth.dev Looks like we're going to be hanging out again at Nordic JS!

Hear that? It's the sound of a thousand "Reduce Transparency" toggles being tapped on

The grim salivating of our press at the prospect of spreading more hate about trans people. Has there been an uglier moment in Britain's modern history?

It’s still a bit buggy and some things aren’t working properly, I suppose. And I also can’t wait to improve it and add more stuff to it now… But hey: it’s alive! 🥳👀 matthiasott.com

They don't need to bother with Apple's Spotify wrapped this year because it's just going to be "Golden" from kpop demon hunters 9000 times

sam altman is trying to find the guy who did this

I only just learned that Roger from Bad Sisters is Tyres O'Flaherty, and I don't know who in my life will have seen both of these things, so I am posting here to express my incredulity

🛠️ New Article: The Basics of Anchor Positioning I wrote an article covering some basics of CSS anchor positioning. Really excited to share this one! 🤩 🔗 ishadeed.com/article/anch...

I went down a rabbit hole trying to understand and visualize how fluid typography calculations work in #CSS. Here's a video and interactive codepen with the results: www.oddbird.net/2025/08/26/t... Adjust the values to see how they impact the rate of change, the viewport-size range, and page zoom!

Excellent piece by @anandmenon.bsky.social:

We made a bug hotel

Come write for us!

A concrete thing every UK person who cares about trans rights can do right now: 1. Email a link of this report to your MP, with highlights from the executive summary in your email. Ask them what it means for your constituency and their party - highlight trans people's legally mandated human rights

If you appreciate the features I've helped develop - container queries, cascade layers, mixins & functions, scope, progress, logical shorthands - consider supporting that work though open collective: opencollective.com/oddbird-open... or hire me to teach a workshop: www.oddbird.net/talks/

Is "read receipts" pronounced as "read receipts" or "read receipts"?

Email addresses are very simple, and you will score highly in this quiz. e-mail.wtf

Gardening is 1% inspiration, 89% perspiration, and 10% picking up someone else's cat's shit

I only go on LinkedIn occasionally but I just looked and it just seems to be full of people posting pictures of their children for business clout?? It's worse than Facebook

The only difference between our reality and a Philip K Dick novel is the characters in a Philip K Dick novel don't choose to live like this

No YOU'RE watching kpop demon hunters again

Never, ever, ever in my life did I think I'd hear the Spongmonkeys being played on a podcast in the year of our lord 2025

My post got picked up on kottke.org, how exciting! Come and join me in my technopessimism

This is @nerdy.dev and I am looking forward to welcome him as a speaker at #btconf Berlin 2025. beyondtellerrand.com/blog/speaker...

Compulsory age verification for UK adults has come to the Bluesky app, and I'm not giving my ID to any websites, which appears to mean I'm stuck with this badge 🫠

I have absolutely no idea how feasible, sensible, or desirable this plan is. But I instinctively support 100% any headline that ends with "I have a solution: wolves". www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

No you read this and then spent the next 5 mins mucking around with a shit bit of Javascript to test the idea out

Just discovered that the Slack "start date" feature does very little validation

Show me your getaway vehicle

My website is for humans, and I don't want Google's AI ramen localghost.dev/blog/this-we...

ur LLM when you ask it to write CSS

a web that isn't human-first is a web I want nothing to do with. I'm not going to "optimize the graph" of assertions, or whatever. I'm not a content farm for your algorithm. i'm here to build real relationships with real people - and if that's not what the web is for anymore, I'll be somewhere else.

Sophie Koonin uses a handy context — a bird watching site — to explain some complex, but handy features of TypeScript that will definitely improve your API-based functionality. piccalil.li/blog/buildin...

This is incredible

Tailwind appears to have had a rewrite and now integrates much better with actual CSS. I'm honestly quite impressed. thathtml.blog/2025/08/tail...

Please don't plug keyboards or other devices into random USB ports, ok?

Really sad about the end of ReactJS Girls. It was the meet-up that launched my speaking career and was reliably full of lovely people.

After-event interview with devslove.it and @marcthiele.com, drawing a resumé as well as having a look into the possible future of #btconf and community events in general. beyondtellerrand.com/blog/link---...

Been seeing an uptick in what are clearly vibe-coded PRs. On the surface this seems great -- more contributors! But in the reality it's often AI slop that the person hasn't reviewed and instead the burden of review is on us, the maintainers -- which is a horrible trade.

I love everything about this website! I keep meaning to go to WDC but every year it doesn't work out 😭

If you haven't already, do fill in the State of HTML survey, especially if you are a member of an underrepresented group so they get a diverse range of responses. Apparently browser vendors use this to inform what they do next 👀 survey.devographics.com/survey/state...

Fastest purchase I've ever made

For those that are trying to learn more advanced JavaScript, currying is when you take a function and then serve it with a creamy sauce and some spices typically with meat, fish or vegetables. Hope this helps!

Yes yes yes I say this as someone who has been active in many women's and underrepresented genders spaces within tech: they absolutely have a place but they are not the solution to the entrenched problems in the industry.

CSS people: are you polyfilling native nesting? It's been around for a little while now, but apparently I have visitors on iOS Safari version 11.0 🥲

The joy of writing an article for someone about a Typescript thing, doing a bit of research, and realising you've actually been doing it a bit wrong

If you haven't seen @amyhupe.bsky.social's incredible talk on Systems of Harm, you're missing out (tell your friends) #FrontEndNorth