It's not the best sauce, but I can't say it's the Worcestershire.

Let's do a Custom Elements conference or something

There needs to be a "mute this person until the event they're watching is over" button

I'd wager that with all that's going on (waves hands broadly) a lot of countries and companies are secretly beginning their 10 year plan to fully decouple their economies from the United States.

Damn this is a thorough and concise article on Liquid Glass in CSS using SVG filters. kube.io/blog/liquid-...

Thought a lot about Squircles today. - To make a CSS squircle, the border-radius needs to be at-least half of the shortest side (or 9999px) - Hard to progressively enhance without `style()` queries - A CSS squircle is more like a stretched circle than a squished square codepen.io/davatron5000...

Trying to blame the wi-fi. Smdh.

"Do the simplest thing that could possibly work." – some sound engineering advice and better than whatever an MVP is. www.seangoedecke.com/the-simplest...

focus-state work is radicalizing my opinions. - animated underlines? bullshit - thickening borders? bullshit - anything other than outline w/ :focus-visible? bullshit - no outline-offset? bullshit - inset shadows? bullshit - Figma's inner stroke positions? bullshit - outline buttons? maybe bullshit

Cyd's site is fastly becoming one of my new favorite sites.

/me At the back of the bar smoking an Marlboro overhearing some young devs talk about the latest supply chain attack… “You know what doesn’t require package dependencies or build tools…”

In these trying times, I urge everyone from across the political spectrum to not get your news from a guy in sunglasses and a backwards hat in a car.

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

Shitty news cycle? Hit da bricks! - go outside - make a song - buy a new instrument - declutter your house - donate stuff - do that long term maintenance task that doesn’t take that long but you’ve been putting it off because ughck

📝 Many years on the job and I still don't get it. daverupert.com/2025/09/you-...

I did a fairly straightforward tutorial for the @codepen.io spark this week blog.codepen.io/2025/09/08/c... There have already been some nice forks! toot.cafe/@aardrian/11...

I am Locutie of Borg, uwusistance is fuwutile

Me: Uf. I gotta get this shit over to my accountant. 🧠: Or.. Me: Not now, bro. 🧠: Or.. Me: ... 🧠: We try to blog, watch YouTubes, listen to an audiobook, AND do that tax stuff. That would make us really happy.

It's simple: we monetize crying

Kudos to the Storybook team. The work they've been doing is incredible and the differences are palpable. It's a good feeling to see software I use daily get better.

"What do we want?" Data Integrity "When do we want it?" Now in ISO 8601 is okay but RFC 3339 is preferred

more jobs more jobs. come apply!! bsky.social/about/join

We're looking for a journalist with development chops (or a developer with journalism chops) to join our news apps team and build new web-based interactive stories, databases, and experiences. It's a remote role; candidates must be eligible to work in the US. job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/j...

The new Austin logo should have just been a map of the freeways that surround the city.

📝 On a recent episode of Decoder, @reckless.bsky.social asked the question “Why would anybody start a website?” It struck me a bit and I started making a thread... but it got too long, so I blogged about it... on my website. daverupert.com/2025/09/why-...

This is supposed to be ironic but I saw it and went “Yeah!”

My #interop2026 Top 10 list: 1. ReferenceTarget 2. ReferenceTarget 3. ReferenceTarget 4. ReferenceTarget 5. ReferenceTarget 6. ReferenceTarget 7. ReferenceTarget 8. ReferenceTarget 9. ReferenceTarget 10. HTML Imports ( Aug. 19, 2013 - Dec. 15, 2014)

5 five minute fixes for the Figma variables panel: - "collapse all"/"expand all" button set in the sidebar - fuzzy search - toggle between linked alias names and resolved value - size / loading metrics - counts for number of linked collection - bonus: ability to filter by linked collection

👋🏻❤️ I just wrapped a project with a lovely client, and I’m thinking about what’s next. So! I’ve got availability for new work starting in October 2025. Spiffed up the ol’ portfolio a bit to showcase some past projects, and to talk about the work I do: ethanmarcotte.com/work/

This is a good list of all the things developers should be thinking about when approaching a new feature request. I really like @davatron5000.bsky.social's closing statement. Beware of the developer that says 'yes' to every request. daverupert.com/2025/08/got-...

Looking for a front-of-the-front-end developer who works close to the web platform? Or perhaps someone to write some words on the matter? I've got some freelance availability as of next week, so get in contact. My contact details, portfolio, and other such things can be found over at vale.rocks

I wrote some thoughts on the advantages of building your Design System with Web Components when it comes to Design System Education. Using the platform™ pays many dividends! Also included a quote from @davatron5000.bsky.social that I really liked 😂 www.tonyward.dev/articles/des...

👀 commandfor - enabled by default in Firefox 144 Soon, in all browsers, you won't need any JS to open a popover / dialog 🎉 More info in @keithamus.social post here: developer.chrome.com/blog/command...

Dave Rupert Monchichis will be available soon for $39.99 in the shop.

They’re already trying to blame Jerry for the next election!? Damn.

Like seriously, what even are web developers anymore. So much of the development process for web devs is spent on complicated DX methodologies. God forbid we spend the same amount of sprint cycles ensuring people can actually use the UI they "engineered"

👋 Good morning. Made some updates to my `<git-graph>` component on my "The Weave" post to provide better fallbacks for browsers that don't support `attr()` functions and `anchor()`. Attached are screenshots of Edge and Firefox. Here's the post again: daverupert.com/2025/08/git-...

What early bluesky was like

replacing Batman fight onomatopoeiae with old midwestern brewery names

📝 Git diagramming "The Weave" - We all know that Trump has "the best words", so I chased a wild hare and tried my hand at visualizing a short Trump speech using git-graphs. daverupert.com/2025/08/git-...

Some of the most unique web development is being done on type specimen web sites www.redaction.us via social.wake.st/@liaizon/115...

nobody has seen the president in three days [burping and rubbing my president shaped tummy] that’s crazy

Paul is ready to have the web component conversation.

Cuando sabes CSS, todo lo ves diferente

📙 📗 📘 📕 The History of Themeable User Interfaces: bradfrost.com/blog/post/th... It was an incredible experience to write this piece. It blurs together the history of computers, video games, the web, design systems, and my own existence on this planet.

This is some of the hardest shit I've seen in my life

🛠️ New Article: The Basics of Anchor Positioning I wrote an article covering some basics of CSS anchor positioning. Really excited to share this one! 🤩 🔗 ishadeed.com/article/anch...

gradient.style has finally - come out of beta - offers multiple background editing - is open source 🎉 nerdy.dev/gradient.sty...

Sixes and eights, gonna be a good day.

TIL a GoFundMe widget adds an *entire NextJS app* to the page. About 5MB of JavaScript—spread across almost 40 files—just to render a few lines of text and a link. (Yes, the widget has to make an API call to show the campaign's progress. But even given that, it's still absurdly over-engineered.)