The design decision by @svelte.dev Kit to provide tools for early termination of route execution by calling `error()` or `redirect()` is awesome! That any code does not continue to execute after these functions are called makes it much more idiomatic and safe to write route handlers I <3 Svelte :)

Anyone have deep experience and strong opinions on valibot vs arktype? Seems like arktype doesn't strip object keys that are not defined in the schema, but are present in the input. I like that valibot does that for me.

AI sucks

A little CSS snippet that nobody asked for, but makes me happy by making working with CSS named colors a little easier. austingil.com/every-css-na...

Changes to iOS in Japan to comply with the Mobile Software Competition Act (MSCA). Developers can distribute apps on alternative app marketplaces, process app payments s outside of Apple In-App Purchase, use alternative web browser engines. developer.apple.com/support/app-...

A massive problem today is the uneven distribution of shame. Some of us are running dedicated on-site shame servers 24/7 while others have no access to shame at all, even though they desperately need it. What we need to do is put shame in the cloud

This is the content that keeps me around

Worth your time (see also: "Lights Out: Pride, Delusion, and the Fall of General Electric" by Gryta & Mann): youtu.be/W8Z3MfNpJpE?...

It would be pretty cool if CSS could support Regex rules for class names

Wealth taxes now. youtu.be/6DXZMXZCY0I?si=4…

Why does every bluetooth device use different taps for music controls? Tap once on one device is the same as double-tap on another, and long press on a third

Thanks to SuppCo for supporting our Svelte Custom Renderers initiative 🙌 When ready, this API will allow devs to use Svelte to build Native Apps, Terminal, or anything they want. If your company wants to help make custom renderers a reality, make sure to reach out! svelte-custom-renderers.com

Finally dug into @chriscoyier.net's CSS Starter on @frontendmasters.com. Love it! The decisions and the breakdown (Thanks!) frontendmasters.com/blog/the-coy... My mods: github.com/AustinGil/ut... Shameless plug of a tool I made to test this sort of thing on plain HTML: style-check.austingil.com

Fuck it...

Back to writing some dev content. There wasn't much on implementing TS Generic Constraints using JSDocs syntax. Now there is austingil.com/ts-generic-c...

"Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better." - Florence Nightingale

RSS is the best! Drop your favorite feeds here plz :) (BTW, mine is austingil.com/feed/)

Isn't there a way in TypeScript to define an object with dynamic keys, but whose keys always follow a specific pattern, like ending with a defined substring? Something like { [string + "-suffix"]: any }

Gosh darn, @svelte.dev Kit is good!

A wonderful celebration of RSS by Tom Burkert. Seems like a cool open technology that could bail us out of our billionaire-controlled algorithmic feed problem. blog.burkert.me/posts/in_pra...

EXCLUSIVE: This tech has been used to track heads of state, journalists, and maybe even you. @lighthousereports.com uncovered a vast surveillance empire whose untraceable tech has been used to target people in more than 100 countries. It has operated under the radar for decades. Until now.

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Fuck apps - build websites.

When would you use an HTTP 303 status code?

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

CHICAGO…

delete. old. emails.

Japan 🇯🇵 has officially banned Apple’s iOS browser engine restrictions. Starting Dec 2025, iPhones must allow real Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Brave, Vivaldi and others to run their own engines, just like on desktop. /1 open-web-advocacy.org/blog/japan-a...

TIL: When you put an empty date input on a page, it may ask for user input in this format MM/DD/YYYY (regional). But if you want to prepopulate the input's value, you need to use the format YYYY-MM-DD (which makes the most sense) <input type="date" value="2025-07-23" />