My headphones are so much more comfortable with fresh earpads. It's crazy that I had to go all the way to Korea for OEM ones though. Come on Sony, everyone should be able to repair their stuff!

This film will stay with me for a while. https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/perfect_days_2023

I just finished my first day as a Senior Frontend Engineer at Storyblok ! The team is lovely, I can't wait to get going on new challenges with them.

There is exactly one valid use case for Grokipedia, and that is as a source for spectacularly bad markup samples to use in your #accessibility presentations and shitposts. This, for instance, is their take on inline reference/citation controls: ``` <sup type="button" aria-haspopup="dialog" […]

I like the occasional gift shop, but when the first thing I see is AI generated "artwork" I'm outta there.

This critter was so smol 🥹

I found Aquila in South Korea.

Today is my last day at the agency I've been at for 12 years. I start a pretty different job next month but until then I'll be travelling to Qingdao (China) for a couple of days, then onto South Korea for ~3 weeks!

I'm trying to use Claude Code again and it's still incompetent. I'm updating some old code used in multiple files to a new method I've manually done in 1 file already. Basically I want a smarter find + replace and but it forgets something every single time, no matter how detailed the instructions.

Truncation is not a content strategy... also I have the humour of a 12 year old.

Did a big thing. Now I feel weird.

I am now below 100kg for the first time in my adult life 🎉🎉🎉

This podcast is wonderfully wholesome and sometimes hits really hard. It's kind of like Humans of New York in audio form and with a song written about the subject at the end of each episode. https://linktr.ee/strangersonabench

I'm glad there was a copy of this on eBay.

It's kind of awkward to have your first session with a physio then realise she's leaving in the same direction. I'm now waiting on a bench for her to get some distance.

Bluebbery vodka tonic 🇫🇮

Perfection. No notes. https://youtube.com/shorts/5aZcd8ZqhAc

On the 20-step problem and the economics of agentic AI. https://utkarshkanwat.com/writing/betting-against-agents/

I wasn't expecting to be singing The Rasmus and Black Sabbath on Singstar tonight but here we are!

FINALLY! https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:cs3zn3kikj5kwzljlvyr55sg/post/3luph5kzacr2m

Tearing your meniscus sucks.

Dear BigCommerce, an un-configurable select list of 24 hour options is NOT a useful Timepicker component.

I'll be working in and exploring #turku 🇫🇮 for the rest of the week so if anyone has any recommendations for laptop friendly cafes, libraries, sights, restaurants etc. I'd be grateful for your recommendations.

Staying with musical family is nice. My mother in law has been playing my wife and I's first dance song on the harp lately. ♥️

Welp, despite explaining and documenting #a11y overlay issues, apparently we're going ahead and adding them now.

In the last five years, we've gone from "employees will never have to go into an office" to "employees need to be in the office because creative and innovative work can only be done face-to-face between humans" to "lol we don't need humans"

I'm currently working on a React+Typescript app and I feel like I have one hand tied behind my back. There's so much that I would normally do with web primitives but that's not always an option. 😢 Copilot is being helpful for the first time though!

Do any orgs like the W3C or OWD maintain a list of #css named colors in a data format like JSON/XML?

Okay, #css corner-shape is pretty super. No SVG, no shape() clip paths, or gradients, just some basic border-radius and you can make Superman's logo. https://codepen.io/jbasoo/pen/raVoGxQ (Inspired by Amit Sheen's Frontend Masters article)

The Grenfell documentary is just so tragic and harrowing.

I blogged, a little less coherent than I hoped, but I hope still understandable :-D https://yatil.net/blog/so-you-screwed-up-your-eaa-compliance-what-now

If you're in London and like a nice brunch then I can wholeheartedly recommend Chuku's Nigerian tapas. 3 plates, 3 drinks, £40. Everything I tried was excellent but the suya meatballs were a standout for me... and the jollof... and the sinasir 🤤 https://www.chukuslondon.co.uk

On one hand, it's nice that a big innovation event wasn't entirely about AI. On the other hand, the UI changes have some serious accessibility concerns and probably drain more power.

Surprised Pikachu face https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/09/apple-artificial-intelligence-ai-study-collapse

I've been designing my CV in Affinity Publisher and it's really making me appreciate just how powerful the web is compared to design software.

A framework explicitly telling you that they avoid dependencies? It's a risky thing to admit and I respect it. > Avoid Dependencies. Dependencies lock you into somebody else's roadmap. Choose them wisely, wrap them completely, and expect to replace most of them with our own package eventually […]

I just got an email from Thames Water saying it's a dry spring so make sure to not waste water and fix leaks. I think they need to send that email to themselves. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/feb/12/thames-water-forecasts-more-leaks-over-next-two-years-than-predicted

For the first time in ages I opened up Firefox to test a new feature (Temporal API). It feels weirdly nostalgic.

Weighing 1.2 kilograms, this is an absolute unit of a purple sweet potato.

It is amazing how some "clever" people completely misunderstand the world. "I don't want to watch a video! Give me the text!" "Urgh! I don't need my browser to summarise this document." "Just spend a few years learning to play an instrument." "Did you even read these 17 poorly-formatted but […]

It's only been a couple of weeks and I've already put a big scratch in my new screen protector while showing my wife how to do car maintenance before her road trip.

Yesterday I bought a bay tree, repotted 2 more big plants and made fresh pasta with my new pasta maker. Id be grateful if anyone has any ideas of what I can name the bay tree. I can only think of Michael but he's not exactly my favourite director.

As unpleasant as Clarkson can be, discussing the mental health difficulties that farmers can go through on his show is refreshingly decent.

I would like to work on something technically competent that I actually give 2 hoots about please.

Renting sucks. Apparently an old toilet seat falling apart isn't "reasonable wear and tear" so I have to spend my own time and money maintaining some rich landlord's asset who already gets a large chunk of my salary every month.

For anyone still saying magic mouse charging isn't a problem, my coworker literally wasn't able to use his mouse this morning because it was plugged in.