People are gonna really freak out when they learn servers can send HTML (and web components are just fancy HTML).

The Jetsons lied to us

When I grow up I want to be a human in the loop.

To get slightly more context, read also my article on Progressive Web Components (just published!): arielsalminen.com/2026/progres...

I’m excited to announce the 1̶s̶t̶ 7th release candidate of Elena today! 🫶 Elena is a simple, tiny library for building Progressive Web Components. Unlike most web component libraries, Elena doesn’t force JavaScript for everything. Crafted with love and care using HTML, CSS & plain JS: elenajs.com

Just added ~20ppl to [REDACTED SECRET SOCIAL CLUB]. Some folks emailed me in 2024. Oof. I bear much shame. I spent some time improving/automating the process to lower the cognitive maintenance costs. May do a write up but small idea has turned into big idea and now I've got my hands full.

When I was at Microsoft, we were trying to find ways around some of the pain points of #WebComponents, so I did an exploration on what Declarative Custom Elements could potentially provide us. #html #css #javascript dev.to/stuffbreaker...

They said blogs were dead, and this article is the 6th link in a chain of blog responses...

as I call it “the acid reflux capacitor”

Takis and coffee. It’s an acquired taste.

SNIKT! [a single adamantium claw prong pops out half way, another prong fails to stop and ejects from my hand shooting across ground behind me in a trail of sparks and slides into a storm drain] Look, bub... I'm tired.

ICE, well-known for their ability to diffuse stressful situations, will deploy to airport security lines across the US and as we all know airport security lines are historically very chill and not a place where people go apeshit for no reason.

Hell yeah. it exists.

🤔 A bluesky labeler that adds corporate donor and PAC names to political candidate accounts.

A Bluesky labeller that labels accounts using a custom domain according to the over-the-wire size when the domain is loaded in a browser. 10kb, 100kb, 1MB, 10MB, etc.

This is maybe controversial, but we should solve the mystery of the pyramids by getting all the Adult Fans of LEGO together to disassemble and reassemble The Great Pyramid Of Giza.

It's over 12 years old, but Ep28 of @pftompkins.bsky.social's time-travelling Dead Authors Podcast featuring Walt Whitman is –to me– the single best podcast episode ever made. thedeadauthorspodcast.libsyn.com/chapter-28-w...

Love this rebound from @matthiasott.com on my post from yesterday. He captures a nuance I was living in but couldn’t quite express. There is a friction when traversing disciplines, but that’s good friction. The ”iron sharpens iron” kind. We should seek that out more and put value on it.

Finally had a sec to write about the conversation component we added to the @atproto.com blog.

getting sent to the stocks for reading my postes at renaissance faire

You can just pluck one-off Web Awesome components to use as you please. See how easy:

📝 New post about generative AI, friction, and people. daverupert.com/2026/03/peop...

There are 92 notification settings in Nextdoor. 🫠 Plus (on my account) an additional 114 notification settings for local services (like fire/police/etc). 🫠🫠

New game! This week, it is a HTML-themed crossword. Play online at: comicss.art/games/12/ #css #html #game #crossword #webDev

Hi. I majored in Japanology at university and as a trained Japanologist I can say without a doubt that this idiot is fucking exhausting.

Jazz car is complete

Nice result in @zeroheight.com's 2026 Design Systems Report: report.zeroheight.com#your-tools Web components are the second-most used "framework" among the respondents. This makes sense: if you build web components you support all the frameworks. Otherwise, you'd probably only support React.

Today is my last day with the Deno team 🦕💖💔 I know they're gonna keep making awesome things. But now *I* need to make awesome things for someone else! If you're looking for a DevRel with a JS focus and extra sparkle, get in touch!

I’m winding down with two clients I’ve been working with since January, which means I’ve got some availability for new work opening up soon. If you need a designer who thinks deeply about systems, teams, and users, AND who will ooh+ahh over an especially pretty serif, I’d love to chat with you!

<reggae-horn>RESTRUCTURRRRING!!!</reggae-horn>

Join @whiskey.fm tonight at 5pm PT for a 🍀 St. Patrick's Day 🍀 livestream collab with @shoptalkshow.com nerdy.dev/st-paddys-da... #stpaddysday

Yesterday was my last day at Deno. From today, I'll be cheering the talented team on from outside the org. This also means that I'm now considering my next move in the DX/DevRel/Technical marketing space.

AI is leading to burnout among its greatest advocates. When I hear about people spinning up too many projects chasing the dopamine of productivity and then crashing against the wall of their own meta-cognitive limits, I'm like "Oh, poor babe. You gave yourself ADHD." hbr.org/2026/03/when...

Figured I'd open source the little preact+signals mastodon client I wrote a few years ago, in case the code is useful to folks. It's called Mastodawn.com - a streaming, offline-first installable Mastodon web app that weighs under 100kb. github.com/developit/mastodawn

I can’t remember which newsletter it was in but my whole family are now simultaneously playing this stupid thing and it’s simple and joyous! 100jumps.org/play/

Flight home is delayed; getting in around 4:15am now. Despite that, I had a good week at the mothership. Saw my incredible coworkers. We shared many meals and beverages. Good handshakefulness all around.

DOOM fully rendered in CSS. Every surface is a <div> that has a background image, with a clipping path with 3D transforms applied. Of course CSS does not have a movable camera, so we rotate and translate the scene around the user.

WebKit blocking interop on CSS modules (import … with { type: "css" }) [1] affects a lot more than meets the eye. It means web component authors cannot make component styles a first-class dependency unless they’re willing to stuff them into a JS string. [1] caniuse.com/wf-css-modules

Tomorrow I'll show you some contrast-color() hacks for better control over your color palette selection

Then print out 50 Ways to Meet Your Neighbor and stick it on the back of your front door. millionexperiments.com/zines/50-way...

Y'all probably already knew this, but I just put it together that SVGs don't have a hidden property in JS. ```js myDiv.hidden = true // works, hides it mySVG.hidden = true // no worky, does nothing ``` Excuse me while I refactor a bunch of code....

I've had access the @codepen.io 2.0 editor for awhile and it's all the upgrades I could ever ask for in a product I love and use daily. The new Blocks feature is the "Missing GUI" for your build pipeline. Great for beginners and excellent for those of us who are tired of setting them up. Recommend++

🎵 Our Claude is an anxious god 🎵 He refrains from going outside

> Nobody gets promoted for the complexity they avoided. 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 terriblesoftware.org/2026/03/03/n...

The JSDoc compiler is insanely fast. It takes 0.00000s to compile my JavaScript app.

Help my podcast editor is roasting me in the Discord.

Hi Josh, what are we doing about the Jerry situation?

Are you passionate about accessibility, organized, and good at communicating with and motivating teams to drive compliance? You should apply for this role on my team: apply.careers.microsoft.com/careers/job/...

re animation: i'm aware of github.com/kristerkari/... for that at least