Monday after work ride with 🧡. (featuring a tiny friend who liked my bike 🐤)

Did a bike ride around the archipelago near Turku, Finland. Such beautiful views. I honestly assumed riding across a bunch of islands would be mostly flat, but the elevation profile (and my legs) seem to disagree. 🚴🏻‍♀️😅

Rarely active here anymore, but dropping by to say that I will have availability for freelance web/dataviz accessibility work again soon: - Reviews, audits - Consulting, advice - Training, talks, workshops - Front-end dev 🫶🏻 Interested? DM or [email protected] #accessibility #datavizA11Y

It's often uneasy for me to share my experiences as a woman in tech, but this job market has me worried for everyone stuck somewhere harmful. I admire everyone who takes on "women in tech" speaking gigs but I am also angry for them and us. ohhelloana.blog/woman-in-tec...

ã = a with a toupee á = it’s windy, toupee flyin up à = ope wind changed direction ă = where is this wind coming from ą = ah shit it fell on the ground â = well now it looks ridiculous

I’ve been working with a client who runs a lot of social media and ad campaigns, so we’ve been deploying the experimental `No-Vary-Search HTTP` header. It’s amazing to see it actually working! Read all about it here: csswizardry.com/2026/05/bett...

Think I’m gonna call it a week and go back cycling. 🚵🏻‍♀️

Pretty test runner output from the Kesko Design System. Colors inherited from my terminal theme. 👩🏻‍💻 *Alt:* Terminal screenshot of the Kesko Design System test runner, with a coral pink ASCII-art “K” logo. All 87 test files and 2,831 tests across 13 test suites passed in 42.66 seconds.

“So, in short: you now have an LLM running on your machine, and any website you visit can make use of it, and whatever processing resources it requires.” The definitive piece on Google participating in the web standards process “the way a bear participates in the ‘camping’ process.”, by @wil.to 👏

Happy 23rd Birthday CSS Zen Garden! In May 2003 the Canadian web designer Dave Shea launched a community gallery of websites called CSS Zen Garden. #WebDesignHistory

Had to take a slightly longer lunch break today to get this thing unboxed 😍

*don’t mind me I am just here collecting old Shimano parts from all over to fix my bike* (dura ace bits are for the new bike though)

Just seen <div role="button" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="0"/>

Github downtime since the Microsoft acquisition

Saw this headline: “Ads are coming to Apple Maps this summer” …and momentarily my brain parsed it as: “Legs are coming to Apple Maps this summer” I’ve been ruined by tech

I wrote about why I quit my job, and how weird and tiring tech feels these days.

I'm really tired of seeing "women in tech" panels that talk about all the things women can do to help not be pushed out of tech. I reckon I could fill an entire hour's talk with the things men have said and done to me to make me unsafe working in this industry.

Mat Marquis has waited 14 years to write this article. The sizes attribute has been a necessary evil but now, with an auto value capability, it’s completely transformed authoring responsive images on the web. piccalil.li/blog/the-end...

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i’ve worked in tech more than 20 years. it has never been more ridiculous.

Working with these internet speeds over the past weeks have made me focus on improving the performance of everything I’ve touched at work. Also, reminded me of something that I wrote in April 11 years ago which somehow feels even more relevant in 2026: arielsalminen.com/2015/the-man...

@studioromeo.co.uk Managed to semi destroy my existing road bike yesterday in a crash and now pondering whether to start fixing it with new parts (would be thousands of €) or replace it with a new road bike. 🙃

Evenings like this 🧡

blogged: Warning: containment breach in cascade layer! dbushell.com/2026/04/15/c...

Created this small tool to explore the current system’s token tree to better understand how the relationships work between token groups → primitives tokens → semantic tokens → themes → UI modes. Has already helped us so much to improve the overall architecture and naming+grouping conventions.

spent the weekend trying this out properly and convinced it's the best way to be building design system components right now. just enough abstraction. pairing elena with @sugarcube.sh for token-first workflows and i don't think i've enjoyed building ds foundations more than this.

🇭🇺✊ Good luck to these people tomorrow, in their hands is not only the fate of Hungary, but also a big opportunity for Europe and Ukraine

Things you find from your parent’s archives. This one’s coming with us home 😅

*opens linkedin* “I asked ChatGPT […]” *closes linkedin*

I was suspicious of the new Macbook Neo, but now that I’ve used my mom’s for a while I regret to inform that I’ll probably replace my old MBA with a pink Neo.

SET I don’t think anyone at LinkedIn tested their app with the a11y features I am using 🙃

Too zorb

@donnie.damato.design I would love to buy your new book, but is it only possible in UK or US? …or am I doing something wrong? 🥲

I also improved the Elena Playground and made it support external stylesheets and CSS Module Scripts which deserved a live example as well: elenajs.com/playground/#... (and yeah, as the example suggests, design-system.club is built with Elena now 🧡)

Did some major performance improvements and bug fixes for Elena last week. Technically we’re now at v1.0.0-rc.12 already, but this was the most significant set of changes: github.com/getelena/ele... We’re getting close to stable v1.0.0 soon. ☺️

“I will NOT sacrifice the Oxford comma. We've made too many compromises already; too many retreats. They assimilate the em dash and we fall back. They capture ‘not just X but y’ and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no further!”

Reminder: including alt-text on your images is helpful in many ways! It increases accessibility, can add context/detail, makes search more effective, & can improve your reach (a lot of us won’t re-share images without alt-text). If you set it as required in accessibility settings, you can’t forget!

The last time human eyes were far enough from Earth to see the whole globe was December 1972. www.nasa.gov/image-detail...

This week is turning better when I least expect it. 🧡

This is super fun 🤩 lol at “your browser's DevTools probably send you birthday cards.”

It’s going well when you haven’t slept in two nights and have been crying your eyes out during the following days. I’m such an emotional wreck this week 😭

It needs to be known that @cloudfour.com are some of the best folks in the business and now is your chance to learn first-hand: cloudfour.com/thinks/more-...

reading: What Is CSS Containment and How Can I Use It? csswizardry.com/2026/04/what... — my prayers were answered! Harry explains all 🙏 for my next wish...

There's something quite exciting happening with AVIF and progressive rendering. Some recent patches let you provide custom 'frames' as progressive passes, so you can provide e.g. smaller blurry versions of the full image to use as a progressive pass.

Just received two of these t-shirts in mail. 😍 shop.joinmastodon.org/products/mas...

When your experience of the web has only been visual, it's really easy to say that the underlying code doesn't matter.

CSS nesting is now Baseline 🎉 Write nested selectors directly in CSS — just like Sass, but natively. .card { color: black; &:hover { color: blue; } .title { font-weight: bold; } } No preprocessor needed. Learn more 👇 developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/...

It seems like all the random projects I ever build are born out of frustration. Elena started ~5 months ago because I wasn’t being taken seriously (probably since I am not a white male in this industry 🤷🏻‍♀️)

CSS is DOOMed! I've build DOOM in CSS and every wall, floor, barrel, and imp is a div, positioned in 3D space using CSS transforms. cssdoom.wtf Try it out! But... not every browser can handle it. This is taking the browser to its limit. Chrome has some issues. Safari too. Bugs will be filed.

Got some great news this week and looks like I’m all booked until early 2027 for client work. *needs to update the availability on the website*