I've never upgrading blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/tahoes-...

interesting read: Perfecting Baseline piccalil.li/blog/perfect... my beef with Baseline is that is doesn't adequately account for bugs, and even if it did, I can't afford to report bugs, because I'm too busy working around them 🫠

reading: “A.I.” browsers: the price of admission is too high vivaldi.com/blog/a-i-bro... maybe I'll give Vivaldi a try today 🤔

Apple TV already has ads I have to skip ads EVERY SINGLE TIME I play something ads for other Apple TV shows are still ads, and the "skip" button is delayed on purpose fight me arstechnica.com/apple/2025/1...

Hello it is I, Linux user of an obscure web browser variant several versions behind with JavaScript and CSS disabled, last of his name, your website is broken. I shall not elaborate further.

me: "here's a solution that solves 99 problems" "but it adds 1 new problem..." me: "...we're going to stick to the 99, aren't we?"

you guys get screenshots? I don't even get that! parkscomputing.com/page/i-hate-...

death, taxes, and this comment :) bunch of nerds!

Time to start de-Appling heatherburns.tech/2025/11/10/t... "de-Apple, de-Google, and de-American"

Do you need a JavaScript date picker? The answer might surprise you. Pikaday - A friendly guide to front-end date pickers! by @dbushell.com pikaday.dbushell.com

just "AI" destroying a website but I'm happy your tab-completions are correct 40% of the time www.holland-cycling.com/blog/321-hol...

reading: Alchemy joshcollinsworth.com/blog/alchemy

scrambling to purchase a Cloudflare premium plan so a shitpost (atop Hacker News) doesn't take down my serious projects 😰

A friendly guide to front-end date pickers! pikaday.dbushell.com — and a work in progress, if you know of other patterns let me know :)

blogged: Reimagine the Date Picker dbushell.com/2025/11/10/p... redirecting an old project domain to modern ideas :)

coming in with no chill this morning! xslt.rip best website I've ever made 💀

Seven *more* families? And this is only the families who have the means to sue, and (critically) the families who FOUND OUT. How many more vulnerable people has ChatGPT convinced? Will we ever know? Fuck all this. techcrunch.com/2025/11/07/s...

reading: It ain’t easy to move a side project off Big Tech maier.tech/posts/it-ain...

I'm relaunching a 12 year old project on Monday 👀 the domain still gets so much traffic I figured it'd be best to push visitors towards new ideas

POV you're a professional web developer who knows their stuff

adactio.com/journal/22235 ☝️ wise words in this link

what's worse than a meeting that could have been an email? a meeting that WAS an email 🫠

what percent of "FAQs" are actually *frequently* asked questions? I feel like 90% of the FAQs I style are literally never asked before totally made up content for a new website. The other 10% are lorem ipsum.

just use a 1.35 MB JavaScript / WASM polyfill 🤡

cancel Interop 2026 until the visual style of `text-decoration-style: wave` is standardised

I'm reminded of the time I style a <details> element and never used it again, as predicted dbushell.com/notes/2025-0...

that explains why macOS is running at a snail's pace I'll come back after Apple has stopped using my computer

What Apple’s UK Strategic Market Status Designation means for Browsers and Web Apps open-web-advocacy.org/blog/what-ap... TL;DR good news

"near the very bottom" I didn't even win the wooden spoon :( now I'm very curious what pipped my proposal lol bsky.app/profile/jake...

reading: "Inline Custom Identifiers" blog.kizu.dev/inline-custo... good and simple ideas here! sucks the `anchor` attribute isn't happening. Naming stuff in CSS is a real pain. I use the `attr(type())` trick but it's chrome only 😔 dbushell.com/2025/11/01/b...

some of Apple's Svelte code recovered from a source map github.com/rxliuli/apps... they use Sass CSS too 🧐 I wonder if they debug in production like pros.

big cursor club is bigger than I thought! www.stefanjudis.com/blog/web-wee...

First working day of November. UNLEASH THE CHRISTMAS TUNES.

Intent to Deprecate and Remove Google Chrome dbushell.com/2025/11/01/i...

It's Friday which means it's time for The Index, issue #138. Andy actually got the issue number right this time too. piccalil.li/the-index/138/

Firefox ESR is now v140 (from 128) this is typically my lowest browser support target www.firefox.com/en-US/firefo...

Enjoyed this writeup by @dbushell.com about the usability of custom cursors in #CSS dbushell.com/2025/10/27/c... When I visited the Wondermake website I was surprised the cursor was that big. I didn't realize it was responding to my OS settings. Neat. Interesting that Windows doesn't do the same.

my Apple TV updated to liquid ass and the UI is insanely laggy, it's so bad 😭

blogged: Better Alt Text dbushell.com/2025/11/01/b... ignore the date 🤦‍♂️ and the feature is Chrome-only 🤦‍♂️ but otherwise it's good! 😃

I saw this code yesterday and thought: I don't need that, I'm a pro! ...used it this morning to find and fix a bug 😅 bsky.app/profile/jami...

I swear Theo re-uploads the same video every month lol. "this is the coolest thing ever!" — *AI repeatedly fails* — "I swear it worked before!" — *hours debugging* — "it was user error!" — *AI fails again...* my career is safe for another month. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vgtf...

😀 random plug for my RSS feeds: dbushell.com/subscribe/

here me out! new media query: @media (dev-tools: open) { /* debug / shenanigans */ } eh?

tough draw for my Interop 2026 proposal lol adios styled RSS feeds 🫡 groups.google.com/a/chromium.o...

Anyone built WordPress with ACF blocks v3? www.advancedcustomfields.com/blog/acf-6-6... (I've started to throw away Gutenberg entirely unless the client requests it)

reading: "Start implementing view transitions on your websites today" piccalil.li/blog/start-i... FYI — Safari 26 has a nasty bug that can break view transitions: codepen.io/dbushell/ful...

remember when you could just edit and save files and you didn't need to login to a cloud

you're not "serverless" until you struggle to update a website because you've forgotten where it's hosted and how to deploy