I was scrolling through linkedin (I don’t know why) and mos of the posts were very clearly AI generated. If that wasn’t bad enough most of the comments were aswell. This is so dumb. It’s just AI talking to AI about AI? I don’t want to know what AI thinks about itself. This is absurd. I hate it.

I’ve started writing down some of my thoughts about Frontend & AI. I’m not an expert, but where I’ve landed for now is that Design Systems are no longer optional. They are critical, and having dedicated people focused on them is more important than ever. mandy.dev/posts/design...

Some holiday text effects. There are definitely better ways to do these now but use it for inspiration codepen.io/collection/X...

I’ve been seeing a lot of AI talks and articles lately - I have no idea what’s going on but it has got me wondering about Performance and accessibility and I only have more questions. “People deserved a better web. Will AI be the one who gets it?” medium.com/@mandy.micha...

Today I learned about “slopsquatting”. What a word. @webdirections.org #code2025 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slopsqu...

@elly.lol immediately after the talk I realised the answer to your question! You can use size adjust in font face to adjust roboto. There is no reason you can let size adjust multiple fallback options to match your first choice font

Either A.I. is an essential part of the job, in which case it's reasonable for candidates to use it and reasonable for employers to assess the skill of candidates at using it, or it's not.

Whenever I see someone give a talk about CSS I always get reminded how awesome it is! It’s always getting better and solving problems in simple ways! So underrated for what it does!! (Great talk by @5t3ph.bsky.social about Modern CSS at @webdirections.org )

Caught a great talk by @ghuntley.com at Code Leaders @webdirections.org He talked about the future belongs to people who can understand and work with AI. If you're not picking up these tools, you're gonna get left behind.

In Melbourne for @webdirections.org Code and Code Leaders! 👋✨

Why is the new pope being elected at a Figma event? 🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/21894

Nice to see features supporting the use of CSS Grid being implemented into Figma. #config2025 Hope to see more people using CSS Grid in the future as a result!

Visiting SF for Config! Looking forward to all the sessions! #Config2025

Can someone move Buy Nothing groups off Facebook so I don’t have to use it anymore please!?

I was scrolling through TikTok and came across a fashion video - long story short TIL that people don’t know what wingdings looks like and that there are multiple versions. Then I wondered if that’s normal and I’m the weird one?

This is one of my favourite talks about Accessibility! Definitely worth a watch!

I created a starter pack for speakers at @webdirections.bsky.social Tis year go.bsky.app/M4kMv3g

@mariafarrell.bsky.social’s talk at @webdirections.bsky.social is so relatable and interesting. ❤️

Listening to Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.bsky.social present Let’s Rewild The Internet at Web Directions #webdirections @webdirections.bsky.social

Really excited to see @mariafarrell.bsky.social talk “We Need to Rewild the Internet” at @webdirections.bsky.social !

A collection of handy resources for understanding font performance on the web, by @mandymichael.bsky.social github.com/mandymichael... #WebPerf #Performance #Fonts

Great talk by Miriam at @webdirections.bsky.social on container queries! Learnt a lot I’m excited to play with them some more!

I always enjoy coming to @webdirections.bsky.social , the talks are great but i love catching up and seeing friends from all over Australia and the world and talking about fun web stuff. ❤️

I appreciate the matching shirt, shoes and slides that @philna.sh is rocking at @webdirections.bsky.social

🌠 So let’s say you want to use a modern CSS feature like container queries. According to caniuse, the feature is at 93% support. Is that good enough? How do we evaluate this number? I dig into this question in my brand-new just-published blog post, “A Framework for Evaluating Browser Support”. 🎉

Do yourself a favor and check out @numb.comfortab.ly 's public block lists. Mute or block grifters and nazis before they even hit your feed. 💕

As of Chrome 131 you have more options to style `<details>` and `<summary>`. You can now use of the `display` property on these elements, and also use a `::details-content` pseudo-element to style the part that expands and collapses. developer.chrome.com/blog/styling...

Recovering from my sickness eating delicious Dutch and Belgium food. I think I was born in the wrong part of the world.

So many fantastic talks at @perfnow.bsky.social so thankful I was able to attend I learnt heaps and had quite a few surprise reunions with friends I haven’t seen in years ❤️

Immediately after I finished my talk at performance.now I got sick 😅 with a cold and a headache! Typical! Sad I couldn’t hang out for too long.

Here’s another starter pack. This one is for all the people who love #CSS, #CSS, #CSS! 😁🤘✨ (LMK if you know more CSS folks I should add! 💚) go.bsky.app/A6biNib

I lot of folks joining so I made a starter pack. It’s non-exhaustive, I like too many people here. This should help get people going though: go.bsky.app/QHsSenT

"Put users 1st. Stand for the truth. Fight bulls*t with data" This is how yesterday ended at #PerfNow. Thank you @slightlyoff.bsky.social Photo of

Thanks for the shoutout on this issue, @ericwbailey.website. #perfnow folks you can find that issue here and +1 it or comment to keep the discussion going! github.com/GoogleChrome... Also, some further reading from me at the time: www.filamentgroup.com/lab/a11y-rea...

Super excited to see @ericwbailey.website talk about accessibility and performance at @perfnow.bsky.social

Harry Roberts @csswizardry.com on stage at @perfnow.bsky.social #perfnow

The vibes at @laracon.au make me want to learn Laravel just so I can hang out with all the nice cool people.

@laracon.au has such a wonderful community it’s such a wonderful conference with fantastic speakers! Having a blast. Thanks everyone for being so supportive 💖

Oh my way to Brisbane for Laracon AU to talk about using HTML for improving performance and accessibility! The month of performance begins!

Super handy thanks 😄

Not sure if I’m in a bubble or if more people are in fact moving away from SPAs!

First day back at work after being on maternity leave for 12months

Not an April Fools Joke - I added a Webring to my blogs, now you can navigate between variablefonts.dev, texteffects.dev and textlab.dev via the joy of my Webring. I'm immensely happy with this addition. Taking suggestions for a better name! 😄

The video for creating Flickering Glowing Text Effects with CSS & HTML is now available on my YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiX_...

New post on variablefonts.dev featuring Honk by EK Type Foundry the variable color font available on Google Fonts, it's perfect for Batman text (and more). *Warning one of these demos is a bit of an assault on the eyes. variablefonts.dev/posts/honk-v...

New post on TextEffects.dev for creating a "Flickering Neon Glowing Text Effect". Video tutorial will come later in the week. Post: texteffects.dev/posts/flicke... Codepen: codepen.io/mandymichael...

Latest Text Effect Tutorial - Creating icy, frozen, text effect with CSS and HTML (with a little bonus animation). texteffects.dev/posts/ice-te... Youtube Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO3-... Codepen: codepen.io/mandymichael... The Playground (no code) texteffects.dev/icetext

New Website: TextEffects.dev First post featured: Creating Gold Text with CSS Post: texteffects.dev/posts/gold-t... Just the Effect: texteffects.dev/goldtext Video Tutorial: youtu.be/ZbiBmpPZ8zU?... (Can't change the youtube channel url for 14 days so i'm stuck for now 😅)

A little post about using data-attributes and the CSS Content property for things like Text Effects and why it's problematic for accessibility. Plus, what you can do to make it accessible. textlab.dev/posts/data-a...