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I tried to like Fireworks back in the day. Never clicked for me.

We stopped saying "HTML5" and "CSS3" because these terms are outdated. The web doesn't drop major versions, it constantly evolves. But I wonder how many resumes get passed on because they don't contain those exact strings. Some recruiter is out there saying "oh, they only know CSS, not CSS3". 🙃

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Node.js is moving to one major release per year starting with Node 27! 🚀 ✅ Simpler: Every release becomes LTS. ✅ Predictable: Version numbers now align with the year. ✅ New: A 6-month Alpha channel for early testing. https://bit.ly/4rnosLg

Nice!

Hey everyone! You might have heard that 40% of Block was laid off. That includes me. If you're looking for a design technologist (a design-minded front-end dev) then hit me up! Portfolio here: codersblock.com

Remember Acid Tests? I remember Acid2 in particular being a big deal. www.acidtests.org

"This email is to inform you that..." You can just say the thing. You don't have to announce your intent to announce.

Recently learned there's a whole math-specific language called MathML that browsers natively support???? developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...

Anyone here done an extended Amtrack trip? Curious what your experience was. I like the idea of taking a train cross country, but could see it being either amazing or awful.

Sometimes I feel like quitting web development and joining my brother-in-law on the ranch. At least cows don't suddenly upgrade to version 5.0 and break the entire farm because the geese aren't on 3.2.4 yet.

comiCSS #109: Coincidence? comicss.art/comics/109/c... November 27, 2023 – One of those small cartoons that are simple yet fun to code. And it's versatile, too. You can basically change CSS for anything you want: Taxes? it works! Humans? Works too! Tailwind? D'uh! #css #html #webdev #joke

For those of you with Computer Science degrees... Would you call yourself a "scientist"?

Kept track of all the video games my 8yo son and I beat over 2025 on a chalkboard wall. Here’s the final result!

Lego "Smart Bricks" launching soon-ish Shipping in 2 months with Star Wars sets www.theverge.com/tech/854556/...

Got the first panicked call from my parents falling for AI. Fortunately it was just misinformation and not someone scamming them. Not a great feeling. Reminded them that if they ever need me to check something, please do call. And that if I ever call them from jail needing $10k, it's not me.

This just felt weird to watch. Feels like I'm not the target demographic for this ad... even though it's for a CSS feature, and I'm a CSS dev

Just randomly thinking about when the pandemic started and there was some random guy in a lab coat on youtube and he told everyone to wash their groceries with soap to prevent getting covid And everyone was just like "yeah I believe him, I mean look at him he has a lab coat on"

It's weird that we call it turkey day but we eat the turkey. Looking at you, groundhogs day.

This is neat. I like this.

Today was one of those days where I hit up a retirement calculator to see if I could just say nope and retire today and live free. The answer is no.

Mom came by to drop off this ludicrous amount of kimchi. Not pictured: the radish kimchi, white kimchi, and kimchi soup she also dropped off.

Please check your kids' Halloween candy! I found `will-change` being prematurely and excessively applied to elements and pseudo-elements in a way that actually harms performance and could have stacking context side effects in this candy bar.

Amazon laying off 14k "corporate" employees is worse the more I think about it. - These are not seasonal layoffs. - That figure is expected to double, according to Reuters. Amazon has stated they intend to continue to "remove layers, increase ownership, and realize efficiency gains".

Happy 34th Birthday HTML tags! On October 29, 1991, the internet pioneer, Tim Berners-Lee, published a document entitled HTML Tags. #WebDesignHistory

Sriracha wings for dinner.

oh no

If you send me an email with “re:” in the subject and it’s not actually a reply to an email I sent you then you should go straight to email jail. STRAIGHT TO EMAIL JAIL

We adopted our cat from the Humane Society when he was ~1 year old. He's ~16 now. Generally an awesome cat. But he's never buried his poop. He'll do his thing, then get OUT of the litter box and scratch at the floor around it. The instinct is there, but the execution is lacking.

Dropped my wedding ring and it shattered. Fortunately it was only $3 from a beach gift shop and I bought an extra.

I had a middle school teacher that, on the first day of class, said "when I yell CHIMICHANGA that means stop and turn your attention to me!" and she only did that like once because yelling tex-mex dishes while middle schoolers are misbehaving didn't hit the way she thought it would

I somehow created a merge conflict, with myself, on the *initial commit* of a brand new git repo. I'm sure there's an explanation, I was doing weird stuff, but still. I'm very impressed/disappointed with myself.

Chipotle gets our orders wrong a lot, but this is prob the best one yet. Kid’s cheese quesadilla, but instead of cheese, they put… nothing. A kid’s nothing quesadilla 😅

... say what now

so glad I got the chance to develop this interactive dataviz piece for @puddingviz.bsky.social! I'm really proud of how it turned out, and amazed there are others who also love cooking + math + web dev enough to help me make this silly dream a reality

It's easy to miss a key feature of Node's TypeScript support that was released on Friday: it's zero config 💥 Meaning you don't need to put anything in package.json. Strictly speaking you don't even need a tsconfig to run the code. nodejs.org/en/blog/rele...

Been feeling like a ghost at work lately. People ignoring my requests, pointing out things I've already pointed out, forgetting I worked on a project. I don't think it's malicious. But it's not fun.

huh, the new Donkey Kong game is a prequel to Mario Odyssey www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVUi...

Me: Everything at work is down. Wife: Oh no... Wait, did you do it? Me: I only wish I had that kind of power.

Spent half my day solving something and while I'm typing up the PR on GitHub I suddenly realize there's an easy fix that doesn't even require any code. So it goes.

I feel like a lot of posts in /r/MaliciousCompliance could be easily resolved if people just tried talking and weren't fixated on passive-aggressive revenge fantasies.

What even is contrast anyway?

Sometimes, the internet is fun!

I wasn’t able to pre-order a Switch 2, but on a whim I checked out my local Best Buy at 10:30am today and got one, no problem. 🎉

I'm old enough to remember when the mouse wheel was invented. No joke, it was a pretty big deal.

I’ve been busy, so I also wrote about how I optimized the webfont performance on my new website: arielsalminen.com/2025/optimiz...

Just noticed this in Chrome on Windows. Catastrophic. Literally unusable. I just... I have a child. He's so young and innocent. I don't know how I'm going to explain this to him.