My hottest “I have no data to back this up” take is that phones aren’t making young people less happy. What’s making them less happy is living in a world where everyone is having their reality defined by recommendation algorithms that can only care about whether something keeps you watching.

Help us define CSS gap decoration, an awesome new CSS feature which lets you draw within flex, grid, or multicol gaps. Read blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/20... for context.

Great work by the Adobe Spectrum Web Engineering team here, very helpful for anyone interested in the intersection of Web Components and modern CSS functionality in particular!

Boy I sure hope this mission to slingshot around the moon to go back in time and save Earth works out or we're really screwed.

Stop writing boilerplate JS for accessible menus. We’re proposing a new HTML primitive: focusgroup. It brings native keyboard arrow-key navigation directly to the platform. Tell us what you think → goo.gle/4uvFIkz 🧵(1/3)

Aw yeah, CSS Shaders are back, baby youtu.be/NZRqnohI3m4

DOOM.css is getting somewhere. Gameplay is pretty much done completely in JavaScript, but the whole rendering is 100% CSS. This map is 768 div's with 3D transforms. Added a nice spectator view as well which is literally just adding a couple of CSS custom properties override for the rendering.

This weekend my kid, as Doug Panch, got to ask @batmanofsanjose.bsky.social to spell "Cow": www.instagram.com/reels/DVrAdg...

A few min on <geolocation> in HTML/CSS/JS. 1. I like how explicit it is for users & how it helps "recover" from incorrect permissions. 2. It's *super interesting* how it checks the contrast accessibility and just makes the button not work if you dink it up. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hffX...

The internet hosts several very good Walkman/personal stereo archive sites, but this is the slickest yet walkman.land Thanks @kottke.org The others will be linked below

Because of AI, it's getting harder to be a public educator on the internet. Devs are watching far fewer tutorials and buying fewer paid courses, making it financially tough for teachers. If you like a creator's content and can spare some cash, find out how you can support them.

The browser-compat-data project (used by MDN, caniuse, and tools) now has: 20,000 commits 1,123 contributors 465 releases 19,148 data entries That's what comprehensive web compat data looks like. And it takes well funded teams at @openwebdocs.org and @mozilla.org plus amazing contributors.

this is why you should *never* hit someone with an rpg. it’s dangerous, it’s shitty, and it’s wrong

Wild how far you can push "customizable select" with just #CSS nerdy.dev/nice-select

I wrote about Minneapolis. nymag.com/intelligence...

My bus just went right past my stop and my first thought was "Oh no, I'm the duck!"

Sure. AI companies have ALWAYS been training their models on Wikipedia content, which under the free and open access model is available to anyone — including AI companies. Agreements like these require AI companies to limit and offset the strain they place on Wikimedia infrastructure.

Go to personalsit.es Hit the “go to a random site link” Enjoy

For ease of navigation and sharing, I have turned my little list into a website: standwithminnesota.org

Firefox 147 just landed & it's pretty huge in terms of web features: 🎉 CSS anchor positioning 🎉 The navigation API 🎉 View transition types 🎉 Brotli support in Compression/DecompressionStream 🎉 CSS module imports And more! https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Releases/147

Looking forward to seeing what infiniteballdrop.com does when the new year hits

Amazing "Untimely death" entry in our Quixort game

I remember installing this back in the day! For a couple of years I would totally change my desktop theme to get in the Christmas spirit.

Good thread from a good person in a tough situation ❤️ I’ll keep using and believing in Firefox as long as they employ folks like this.

I am so proud of them. the kids did it. they made a new stupid number to say. they may now take their place in history.

lol it’s so genuinely fun seeing Cory take decades of fluency in how these systems are broken and serve it up for a mainstream audiences. Even if you know “enshittification” well, this is worth the watch. And love to @eff.org! youtu.be/d2e-c9SF5nE

What is happening? Orcas started wearing dead salmon as hats again and chimps are once again putting grass in their ears. “We were even more shocked that they were doing their own spin on this by also inserting the grass and sticks in a different orifice.” [cbc.ca]

Love me a gorgeously designed single purpose website

Couple of my favorite trees spotted at Christmas in the Park in San Jose

Since it's Giving Tuesday, today's a great day to make use of company donation matching to charities! There's a lot of great causes out there that need your money now more than ever. Given how dire things are out there I've just used up my entire annual allotment for the first time.

Saw "Annie" on stage for the first time last night. Great performance but uh... A billionaire with the federal government in his pocket who's interested in adopting a young girl because he's lonely hits differently in 2025.

Inside you there are two woffs. Ignore the first woff. You just need the woff2.

WHEN THERE’S TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Oh wow. Yes, very clever! Waterfall treasure! No one’s ever done that before. Lazy jackass WHEN THERE’S NO TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Wow. Too stuck-up to put treasure there huh? Too much of a fucking ICONOCLAST for that? Piece of shit. FUCK you

New Can I Use update! Support tables from web-features are now included on the site and there's new feature list UI with improved filtering/sorting of results. More at caniuse.com/ciu/news

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

Periodic reminder that you can usually buy a copy of the funny books you see in memes, and not spend a lot in doing so.

The most accurate recreation of DS9 I've seen.

If you have an extra $10 a month to spare, here's a list of worker-owned cooperative news sites you might want to support: • 404 Media • Defector • The Flytrap • Flaming Hydra • The Appeal • Aftermath • Racket • Hell Gate • The 51st • The Colorado Sun • Range Media • Discourse Blog • Pop Heist

It is fucked up what they did to the headphone jack

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hi, cis folks! if you said you’d stand with trans people, we need you now. the FY26 budget bill gets a vote by 9/30. the GOP wants to jam a ban on federal funding for ALL health services that provide trans care for ANY AGE. we need you to call senators: reps.fyi more info & script downthread.🧵

Today I got to see Weird Al AND I also saw this really cute bunny in my yard munching on a plum so all in all a pretty excellent day, I gotta say.

Stop offloading cognitive tasks to "generative AI." Stop using systems w/ "AI" features either inextricably woven through them or prominently displayed at the top to nudge you into their use. Stop *Designing* "AI" tools & integrations that way. Stop building or using "AI" like this. Fucking Stop it.

New scam detected: Just got an email from PayPal with this as the headline and main content. I was thrown off by the authenticity of the sender but then I realized what's going on: The whole damn thing is just a "name" and this is just some developer invitation email!

RFK Jr. backs down all the time when he gets push back, so if anyone wants to call, here's the HHS number 1-877-696-6775. I'd also call your senators/reps as well.

Newsletter: In a media landscape dominated by algorithmic feeds that aim to manipulate and extract, sometimes the most radical thing you can do is choose to read what you want, when you want, without anyone watching over your shoulder. Here’s how to use RSS. www.citationneeded.news/curate-with-...

Motherfucking wind farms…