This is a fun one: what a 1990s PlayStation game studio taught me about software engineering 🎮 youtu.be/86bnEALGiDY

Blink: Intent to Ship: Interest Invokers (the `interestfor` attribute)

The #1 reason to upgrade to iOS 26… particularly in the UK, spam has been epidemic recently.

Added an Interop 2026 Proposal for CSS Scroll State: github.com/web-platform... – please upvote! It would be nice to remove JavaScript requirement for various popular design patterns we're all using on the web (floaty navs, scroll shadows etc) cc: @nerdy.dev @bram.us #webperf #webplatform #webdev

"It’s time to choose frameworks based on constraints and merit rather than momentum." – @cheddybop.bsky.social Amen 👏 www.lorenstew.art/blog/react-w... #webplatform #webdev #webperf

Even if you don't contribute a proposal, you can participate in Interop 2026 by upvoting your most desired features, here are a few of mine: Invoker Commands: github.com/web-platform... Scroll-driven Animations: github.com/web-platform... LoAF: github.com/web-platform... #webdev #webperf

Ways to track LCP and INP are coming to browsers this year, hopefully for 2026 CLS we can get added. github.com/web-platform...

Given some of the recent dependency issues, it's worth considering every single dependency you are using in your JS projects. Everything has a cost...

Holy fuck Safari is dropping so much gold in this release 😍

Interop 2026 is now open for proposals! This is your chance to tell browser-makers which well-defined, well-tested features you wish had better support across browsers. ⬇️ Here's how ⬇️ github.com/web-platform...

What if some client-side browsing features were part of the web platform? Direct CSS reflection of URL state, snappy pending/optimistic UI, URL-to-scroll-snap binding, and some basic same-document navigation use cases, with JS being only an option. github.com/WICG/declara... Inviting feedback!

Oh, it's September already. Time for the HTMHell Advent calendar Call for Papers! 🖤 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Has anyone seen any neat uses of the command/commandfor API yet? Any component libraries that support custom command events? Even just anyone whose tried them and wrote about their experience?

Message/Event buses are such a slept-on pattern in web development. - The code is super simple - They are fast - They are built on native browser events - They work within any framework I am massively more productive because of them.

A little reminder: if you work in #webdev you should care about #webperf. @perfnow.nl is *the* yearly conference, an opportunity to learn from the absolute best plus a super supportive and welcoming community. Tickets will pay dividends in business impact.

👏👏👏 James is doing amazing work in the #JavaScript ecosystem to reduce the baggage we all collect when reaching for `npm install`. There's a very good chance he's had significant impact on your bundle size without you even knowing it. #webperf

Just got command buttons enabled in stable on WebKit trunk! Firefox recently sent out an intent-to-ship so hopefully by early next year they'll be available across the board.

Very exciting news. With these changes, you can more easily build accordions such as seen in this recording. developer.chrome.com/blog/styling... Currently supported in Chrome and Safari, and soon Firefox!

colleague: "hey, did I ask you to review this doc yet? <link>" me: [ opens link, reads ] me: "nope, and I can tell because there's no names or dates on it" infrequently.org/names-and-dates/

I didn't ask, but... cool? Just generate the CLI command please.

This post is the culmination of my thinking about (and building) SPA-like apps w minimal JS for the last 2 yrs The ideas are informed in large part by the @infrequently.org blog posts and talks Thanks @htmx.bsky.social and @astro.build for building great tools. www.lorenstew.art/blog/progres...

Anyone got the DL on email #accessibility? Do folks just use the text-only versions or does proper HTML markup matter?

Did you know you can do `height: stretch` now in CSS? Works for `width` too. /via @patrickbrosset.com developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...

My friends over at RUMvision.com have sent me a lovely gift. I think my boys love it as much as I do, though they are mostly interested in fighting over occupation of the box. Thank you @jordyscholing.bsky.social, @erwinhofman.bsky.social and @karlijnlowik.bsky.social ❤️

It was #RubyonRails’ 21st birthday last week, which means I’ve been using it for two decades! To celebrate, I’ve published a video about my favourite 21 features from my experience using it for large-scale applications 👉 youtu.be/R2tiFtPXobI

Don't make me point at the sign.

Nothing beats a…

I've been working with #Rails for 20 years now and today marks my first ever contribution: github.com/rails/rails/... Feels good to finally give back—albeit in a *very* minor way—to the framework that has given me *so* much.

🏁 Any car nerds in my network? I just got back from my first Goodwood Festival of Speed. Witnessed some utterly incredible vehicles many of which worth more than my house.

@whitep4nth3r.com bravo 👏👏👏 no notes #frontendnorth

“The holy trinity of boring” – @ichimnetz.com at #frontendnorth

Who knew @bell.bz was such a fantastic copywriter?! 👌 #frontendnorth

Can anyone recommend an online QR code generator that's the quality of Squoosh / SVGOMG? Google results are ad-riddled server-side garbage.

Pro-tip if you're travelling to @frontendnorth.bsky.social by train: don't book your origin and destination the wrong way around on a non-refundable ticket 🤦‍♂️

it feels important to keep saying: SPA as an app framework default (and not an opt-in feature) was a mistake

As much as I love @bell.bz and @amyhupe.bsky.social, @joehart.bsky.social's talk title alone sold me a ticket 👏

The commit to enable scheduler.yield in Firefox just got merged: github.com/mozilla-fire... 🙌

Firefox shipping scheduler.postTask() and scheduler.yield() for all your long task-avoiding scheduling needs!!

Can't wait to add a 5th lanyard to my @perfnow.nl collection – no conference comes close to it's #webperf line-up each year, a privilege to learn from the absolute best.

youtu.be/hwG89HH0VcM “I prefer switching the frameworks instead of finishing the feature” Bet the JS community feels seen 🫠

Found my first ever USB stick yesterday (a whopping 12mb in capacity!). On it was a backup of one of my websites from 2004 which included some server stats. Imagine these being the buckets for HTTP response body size these days! #webperf #webdev

... we're going to announce start of ticket sales to the mailing list first. The rest of the world will follow later, and will likely miss out on the cheapest tickets. So if you want those cheap tickets, make sure to subscribe to our mailing list via perfnow.nl/subscribe

Who's responsible for Git not replying "What's tatus Precious?" when you type "git tatus"?

If you ever wanted to use `sizes=auto` and were bummed out about Safari/Firefox support, Shopify now got a polyfill for ya! github.com/Shopify/auto...

View Transitions Level 1 have been enabled in Firefox Nightly 🙌 bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi... – still plenty of dependencies before it'll reach stable by the looks of things, but a positive milestone!

Shout out to @11ty.dev's Fetch plugin. Every time I've needed to do something I'd consider esoteric recently, it's had a clean solution – a perfect combo of simplicity on the surface to get started with and accessible low-level APIs. Solid work @zachleat.com!

Happy 25th, “A Dao of Web Design” alistapart.com/article/dao/

LQIP may not be coming to browers any time soon but this is a really tidy implementation that will only get better with improved `attr()` support in CSS. #webperf

Another screenshot for my "we [as an industry] can do better" folder... scrolling down on a Forbes article consistently bricks the page. *checks console* yup, it's *that* JS framework. It's a fucking static article 🤦‍♂️