If you see this, post a robot 🤖

It’s starting to get a bit grifty around here (again)

When you like an article, I like to make it in video form. Here it is, including excerpts of the songs mentioned which will (hopefully) immerse you deeper in the story. Love to you all.

I ended up back on Alfred ✨️ I tried a whole bunch of launchers over the weekend and this one _just works_ for what I'm after. It's a bit clunky in appearance, but makes up for it in speed and I really like the workflows builder. Not being so focused on the two letters has been a plus point too.

Glad I found GoodTasks in one last (lol, it was never going to be the last) search. It's like a layer on top of the stock Reminders app, and solves every gripe I had with it. Takes a bit of setup to get going as it's so customizable, but so far so good. goodtaskapp.com

Thanks to my partner for nudging me to grab my phone before and open Merlin Bird ID, we got to listen to (and see) some on a nearby power line. 

 Nice way to start the day!

owenpomery.com @odpomery.bsky.social for the real deal! Now that I’m in the UK I should get some more prints and avoid the border tariff I usually have to pay

Turns out you can transition CSS variables directly with property at-rules - no need to add color transitions to every element individually. Makes dark mode fade animation way simpler! Wrote about it here: jonshamir.com/writing/colo...

Want to learn all about web components this week? My 8-hour online course, Web Components Demystified, is on sale for $10 through March 13th. Use the code JUST10 scottjehl.com/learn/webcom...

11ty friends, I'm sad to announce that after nearly 5 years and 30 episodes, the 11ty Meetup is coming to an end. 🎈🐁 I've been contemplating this for a while and has nothing to do with Build Awesome. I need more time for my offline artistic pursuits. #11ty

I wrote about some things I'm struggling with in the technology industry, preceded by an appreciation for folk music.

Grass successfully touched! 🌱 While we didn't get a great haul of wild asparagus, it was so, SO good just to get outside for a bit.

Whew. What a week. We have some hard but important news to share about the Kickstarter: blog.fontawesome.com/pausing-kick... We’ll be back soon!

Switching off to go touch grass, spot some cool looking mushrooms, and forage for some wild asparagus 😊

Can't spell bluesky without AI

A rather AT protocol and positive aspects of the web industry-themed issue of The Index here for you, mixed with some great CSS. piccalil.li/the-index/169/

For a brief picosecond, the sun shines through the blanket of clouds. Informing me, that the correct attire for the day is shortsMode™ 🩳

walkman.land there's a lot to love about this, but my favourite detail is the spool cogs _correctly_ animating at different rates.

Incredible. Y’all are *amazing* www.kickstarter.com/projects/fon...

11ty is now Build Awesome 🤩 www.kickstarter.com/projects/fon...

I was thinking about trying Zed again, but perhaps I will try this first. It's an opinionated fork, and I like the opinions. gram.liten.app

You know it's gotta be good when the 'Popular With Friends' feed is just back-to-back (no really, I've scrolled by 23 of them so far) npmx posts 🥳

I'm once again being told by folks I look up to in this field, that I'm going to be left behind if I don't use the two letters 😔

opening bluesky for: confidently incorrect Roseate Spoonbill discourse 🪿

It seems we can now customize the select element, right? right?! Demo: codepen.io/t_afif/pen/P... via @codepen.io

One day. We didn’t add more ingredients. We fixed the recipe. Fast by default, calmer to maintain, and built to last after it’s baked. Full reveal tomorrow. www.kickstarter.com/projects/fon...

A little espresso while standing out in the sun has done wonders for my mood today ☕⛅

Tiny snail in a flower 🐌🌸 #photography #macrophotography

Spending some time practicing macro photography today 😊 Here's a shot of the current setup. Sony A6700 + Laowa 65mm F2.8 2X lens.

I've only started getting into birding (and mostly just from home); but this multiplayer bird watching game, Flock Around, looks right up my alley! 🐦‍⬛ store.steampowered.com/app/3618030/...

Seeing all the coolest folks headed to SotB26, and telling myself I should go to one of these conference things, one day 🥺

Swapped the camera lens, got the lights out, cleared the table ready for a macro photography sesh of a flower + tiny snail. Went outside to get one… forgetting that the petals close at night 😔 Sleep well lil snail buddy (Phone photo from yesterday, to show what I’m working with)

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.

I think this is my first sighting of a Eurasian Jay! What an amazing way to start the day! #birding #birds

www.kickstarter.com/projects/fon... Hey now, I'm recognising some stuff 👀

Static site pals not using Netlify, what we doing for contact form handling?

The mushroom and its keeper 🍄‍🟫 #Cats #Fungi

I didn't want to look for a new todo app, but Apple Reminders only giving me FOUR due date options when trying to set multiple tasks at once, is seriously hindering my flow in making a weekly planner. Today, Tomorrow, This Weekend, Next Week, 😩 I'm open to suggestions: macOS and no subs please.

Coffee, brewed Polypane, loaded VS Code, "npm start" And away we gooooooo

Spotting so many interesting birds lately, I think I might have to keep the 500mm lens attached and the camera batteries charged, and then lug it around with me at all times.

Not a good photo by any means (It's cropped from a 3 second video from my phone, before it flew off) but here's a Eurasian Hoopoe I spotted on our fig tree 😊 Hope it comes back 🥺 I'll try to be ready with the big camera. #birds

Dusting off some old devices (a laptop, Raspberry Pis, and some Android with a wrecked screen) as I tentatively look into home lab / self hosting 🥺

Muting accounts is bliss 😊

Issue 84: Lessons learned, Fantasy football, Ignor-ance is bliss, IndieWeb all the way, and Good meddling @11ty.dev

NEW: A hobbyist has created Nearby Glasses, an app that warns you if someone close by is wearing smart glasses. 404 Media spoke to the creator who said he was inspired by our coverage that uncovers how men are wearing Meta's Ray-Bans to covertly film massage parlor workers.

Forever love leaving Lisbon because it means two things: - We're headed back to the calm of the countryside. - We drive by the massive Asian supermarket and can stock up on all the things we like. Today was S&B golden curry, sriracha mayo, big slabs of tofu, and a variety of snacks 😊

Out with :nth-child(), in with :sibling-index()! Just so satisfying to use. * no Firefox yet

RSS finally clicked for me 😊

✨ I just published a new blog post about a nifty lil’ animation technique: sprites! Sprites are used all the time in video games, but they’re less common on the web. We do have the tools to manage it in CSS, but there’s a gotcha. In this post, I share some of the cool use cases I’ve found: