"Our investigation confirmed the domain was incorrectly flagged as malicious, stemming from a report by one of our trusted partners, the domain does not pose a threat and it has been, therefore, removed from our global threat database." "trusted partners", eh? bsky.app/profile/dbus...

CodePen to illustrate cascade layer madness! codepen.io/editor/dbush... they shouldn't let me build websites bsky.app/profile/dbus...

developer.chrome.com/blog/cascade... this can result in bizarre behaviour were some properties in a block apply, others don't you know what, just don't use !important

just noticed a typo in one of my URLs and i'm devastated

so i emailed joindns4.eu about a bad DNS response for one of my domains (i don't even use them myself) they automatically created an account with my personal data on a 3rd party CRM not every EU of them 🤨

blogged: No-stack web development dbushell.com/2026/04/10/n... — a little heavy-handed but i say better to build up from nothing than immediately lock-in to fragile foundations

using dnschecker.org to see DNS has propagated around the entire world, except my computer - now playing hunt the cache

Another headline that Google makes for ruining the internet we know.

reading: My salary history adactio.com/journal/22519 my own accounting is a mess, tempted to find the numbers, but from memory: worst years ~£20k and best years ~£60k (since 2012 self-employed). I work a 4 day week but fall shy of my theoretical "maximum" (for my rate) because i don't pack in work

notes on Vibecusation dbushell.com/notes/2026-0... random thoughts triggered by one of those useless "AI vetting" tools I keep seeing

WordPress people - is there a good "related posts" plugin that factors in taxonomies and a few other dials to tweak? something a little beyond a meta query

can't believe i spent 20 minutes trying to hide a ****ing <summary> ::marker Safari is death by 1000 cuts

noted: lazy load web components with conditional imports dbushell.com/notes/2026-0...

i love when Figma zooms in to 97% - yeah that's exactly what i want thank you

happy monday

blocked myself from social media for the Easter weekend see you next week!

I have fail. I'm a fraud. 39/100 is embarrassing. That's way too high, any tips to reach zero?

blogged: CSS subgrid is super good dbushell.com/2026/04/02/c... — in writing this I learned that -1 (negative one) for grid columns is not an integer overflow hack - you can just count the grid lines backwards 🤦‍♂️ imagine reading the spec...

tip for WordPress theme devs if a plugin has terrible CSS specificity (which is all of them) dbushell.com/notes/2026-0...

when your joke homepage is unironically better than the bland distillation it replaced kagi.com - can we keep it?

blogged: I quit. The clankers won. dbushell.com/2026/04/01/i...

excited to try this but disappointed that my paid Proton subscription gets zero benefits (unless i pay more) proton.me/business/blo...

seriously, what was i doing before CSS Subgrid, bashing rocks together? once you see a subgrid they're everywhere

here's your weekly reminder that Git is not Github, you can leave the circus any time notes.zachmanson.com/copilot-edit...

reading: "You're Looking at the Wrong Pretext Demo" denodell.com/blog/youre-l... (scroll past the slop, the man has six fingers ffs) also highly relevant: "You Know What? Just Don’t Split Words into Letters" adrianroselli.com/2026/02/you-... also tangentially relevant: dbushell.com/notes/2026-0...

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...

petition to change "Tooltipped" to "Tooltippable" elenajs.com/components/m... (side note: somehow i've never seen this pattern before, took me a second to realise it was plain JS lol)

Zed editor pros - why is fisher price css spinning up? how do i purge this and never see it again?

nice pixels can i get some alt text i don't read jpeg artefacts

reading: Applying accessibility fixes with stealth for the greater good piccalil.li/blog/applyin... ☝️that's a keeper! bookmarked, pinned, gonna reading it twice, maybe thrice

currently play: game of find where i rsync'd the files on the remote server, because they ain't where i wanted 'em to be

pressed enter to start a new line and the contact form submitted so now i look like an idiot

chocolate milk and cookies for breakfast it's that extra protein milk for men (not even joking this is my life help me)

gotta pay for that subsidised slop somehow stop being the product - GitHub is not your friend github.blog/news-insight...

i feel like Zed editor is a ticking enshittybomb and i'm just waiting for the next editor to come along

I’m excited to announce the 1̶s̶t̶ 7th release candidate of Elena today! 🫶 Elena is a simple, tiny library for building Progressive Web Components. Unlike most web component libraries, Elena doesn’t force JavaScript for everything. Crafted with love and care using HTML, CSS & plain JS: elenajs.com

hey look at all those amazing WebKit features in Safari 26.4 shame Apple doesn't support iOS 18 🫠

me: "why can't i press delete in the DOM inspector to remove an element?" also me: presses delete; element is removed

reading: GPC Opt Out: UX Fails or Malicious Compliance? cloudfour.com/thinks/gpc-o... — i've had too many cookie conversations where no one can answer "what are you tracking?" and "WHO are you tracking for?" and yet web users blame the laws trying to protect them

"These two environments only communicate through serialized messages, which allows safe execution of AI-generated code and makes the sandbox a good fit for inline UI produced by chat agents." arrow-js.com#sandbox hmm yes serialization that's bulletproof *cough* CVE-2025-55182 *cough*

reading: The Death of Character in Game Console Interfaces vale.rocks/posts/game-c... — even when its not ads, Microsoft really do have a knack for telling users what they want and ignoring feedback i bet their employee handbook is titled "The User is Wrong"

reading: blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/notes-s... @jim-nielsen.com i care about this stuff :) i checked my own note URLs and apparently i use both a capital letter and a colon - what have i done! 😭

regular reminder that Git is not GitHub - you're not locked into this car crash mrshu.github.io/github-statu...

talking about Arsenal's treble chance this season init bell.bz/wait-it-out/

did Cloudflare look at the AWS admin UI and say "we can do worse"?

i left all the hard tasks for future me, today i am future me past me is a jerk

Computer, am I burning out? Or is the industry burning down around me?

blogged: Top ten Figma betrayals dbushell.com/2026/03/23/t...

yeah just shut your brain off during your McCode shift, you can always write a poem after work nolanlawson.com/2026/03/22/t... — I continue to be amazed at Nolan's willingness/insistence to accept such a fate. Do you think fast-code will continue to pay the same salary? give yourself more credit!