More and more people I deeply respect and have learned a lot from over the years feel like they are speaking into a void, to the point where they are losing motivation to continue making content, which got me to write my first post on my site in over a year... www.kevinpowell.co/article/tell...

blogged: Web whetstones dbushell.com/2026/05/18/w... how to stay sharp as a web developer?

Did your editor font go default serif on WordPress 7.0? Mine did. Like this: so meta. I guess WordPress 7.0 assumes you are using a theme.json file these days. I'm not doing that yet on any of the sites I work on. If you want to embrace that future, you could add a theme.json file to the root of…

ooooooo `line-clamp: auto;` with a max-height

Last call for the DEEP early access discount on the AI & Design Systems course. $500 instead of $995. Plus, SHOPTALKSHOWISAWESOME takes another 15% off that. Here's Brad & Ian on the show hanging out to talk about all this: shoptalkshow.com/713/

🚀 New article on gap decorations (coming soon) in CSS. I have a small obsession with clean layout lines, and this is the first time it feels easy to draw them without polluting the markup. Goes through the new properties, a playground, and some experiments... 👾 utilitybend.com/blog/css-is-...

If anything, AI has taught people how to use Shift-Enter.

About time.

Testing in Safari can be an expensive ordeal thanks to Apple only supporting the browser on their platforms. Over on @frontendmasters.com, I wrote about testing in Safari without spending a small fortune. frontendmasters.com/blog/testing... #Safari #FrontEndDev #WebDev

"Like if shadcn and Open Props had a baby." open-props-ui.netlify.app/html/

My next ten thousand dollar idea is Chris ‘n’ Daves Website Salvage Yard. You give us old websites you can’t keep up anymore, we slather them in ads, but promise to keep them online in perpetuity.

I can’t explain it but Fred Armison is The Decemberists of comedy.

I can say the server reacted to my component ya know

My unpopular opinion is that Markdown is 75% just because writing <p> tags sucks and 25% for lists and that’s it, nothing else is better or annoying enough to want a whole processing language for.

My ten thousand dollar idea is hitting the road and doing a documentary on the joy of middle school talent shows.

Still got Private Pens and they work the same way, but now there is 📝 password protected Pens and 🎟️ invite-only Pens.

A browser plugin that just div:hover, div:hover * { transform: none; } to get all these claude sites to calm the hell down.

Turns out if you move focus in a `startViewTransition` you can move the :focus-visible look around. But cleaner to use a `:focus-visible > span`.

All week I’ve woken up like “Feels like a Nancy Sinatra kinda morning”

It's the best.

My favorite (underrated) font right now: At Umami. I've designed keycaps with it, used it for branding, heck it's currently the font I use on my ereader since it's so pleasant to look at. arillatype.studio/font/at-umami

I did up a new talk! I'm calling it In-N-Out Animations, and covers animating elements in and out of view/existence. It's FREE to see tomorrow at @smashingconf.com's Meet Style Sheets event. smashingconf.com/meets-style-... See ya there or, be `display: none;` or... uh, a funny version of that.

`zoom` in CSS was so known to be unreliable for so long I don't think I ever really learned what it was supposed to do. But I think that's all fixed now and @stefanjudis.com's demo makes it super clear. Scales stuff while keeping the element in flow. www.stefanjudis.com/today-i-lear...

Bring back the ancient knowledge

🎨 Level up your CSS game! Smashing meets Style Sheets is a FREE online event on May 6th. Featuring: ⚓️ Anchor Positioning 🎮 CSS Gaming 🛠️ Practical tips from @chriscoyier.net, Juan Diego Rodriguez and @rebane2001.bsky.social Grab your free spot here: smashingconf.com/meets-style-...

Y'all @chriskirknielsen.com cracked it and was even so kind to pop it on a codepen 🥳 front-end.social/@chriskirkni... direct to Codepen: codepen.io/chriskirknie... What a legend 💜

When Sites Need to Walk Away The Internet Archive has a new book: VANISHING CULTURE. (Digital copy is free.) According to a Pew Research Center report, 26% of pages from 2013-2023 are no longer accessible. But that’s not the whole story. In a new study published in Internet Archive's book,…

Browserslist works across Babel, PostCSS (preset-env), and Lightning CSS (on CodePen). I like it. One place to store browser support information, multiple tools use it.

Weird to not be on @shoptalkshow.com today, but for good reason! We had a cheer competition in Tampa and turned it into a mini-vacation. I locked my computers in a safe for the week and it feels pretty good. Thanks to @chriscoyier.net and @scottjehl.com for holding it down. shoptalkshow.com/712/

Got this sweet DTF St. Louis commemorative cup from Target.

Not selling many tickets to my “Situational Awareness for Eight Year Olds” seminar

Bette Midler sings Woodie Guthrie 80 years old and killing it.

🎶 If you think of an idea you just have to do Just remember pen dot new slash two! 🎶

finally secured some footage of my ancestors

AI & Alignment Raw coding speed isn't the bottleneck. Alignment is the bottleneck. That seems to be a zeitgeist-y theme lately. If you're using AI to code, maybe you're feeling it. You can code more and faster. And clearly a boatload of other developers are doing that too. But software doesn't…

One of our most exciting releases since the founding of Blacksky. Multi-community support. acorn.blacksky.community

It’s an assumed truth that Safari is better for battery life — without data to support it. This pseudo-truth just bugs me. I hear it all the the time. People saying they choose Safari as a browser because it's better for their battery. But there isn't any data (that I know of) that proves that…

Dig the story and the new footer design on @rands.bsky.social randsinrepose.com/archives/sho...

Ruby (8) is home from school today for professional development days. She really wants to make a web game, and there is a lot to explore there, but as I'm at work, I set her up to just vibe code it out to start, using @anthropic.com's Claude.

This HTML-in-Canvas stuff is pretty wild. Never would I ever have guessed we'd get this on the web. @amitsheen.bsky.social shows off how it works and many different possibilities. frontendmasters.com/blog/the-web...

Fun conversation with @chriscoyier.net and @davatron5000.bsky.social. Worth a listen if you’ve ever installed Oh My Zsh and never questioned it since. 👉 shoptalkshow.com/711/

Stories from Alaska Folk Fest 2026 is not an intellectual experience, it’s an emotional experience. Bob Banghart Visiting Alaska gives me the feeling that people are chasing after when they travel: a little taste of what it’s like to be a part of another world. To live another version of life. Not…

_Illusions_, Michael.

Is the Tailscale loader a Conway's Game of Life "Glider" going by?

Great blog post on @frontendmasters.com from @chriscoyier.net - What to Know in JavaScript (2026 Edition) Covers everything from the latest in ECMAScript to Meta Frameworks. Definitely worth checking out to stay up to date on the #JavaScript ecosystem in 2026! frontendmasters.com/blog/what-to...

A totally unnecessary retrospective, by moi.

I and Jason are currently working on implementing the CSS `polygon() round` keyword in Chrome. This is one of my favorite CSS features! Thanks to @lea.verou.me for bringing it to CSS. Enable the `enable-experimental-web-platform-features` flag in Chrome Canary codepen.io/yisi/pen/NPR...

Mr. @davatron5000.bsky.social and I on @whiskey.fm for St. Pats day. whiskey.fm/flogging-mar... I DRINK, and I KNOW HOW TO ROUND RECTANGLES. [in my best Tyrion Lannister voice]

You can `glob` a folder full of Markdown+Front Matter files in CodePen 2.0 and build a site out of it. Use the Vue + Vite block and do the glob in the Vite config. Use the define method to pass it to the client. Here's how: www.youtube.com/shorts/Pn-2B... Example Pen: codepen.io/editor/chris...

Good news: support for this feature will be out in FF149 and Chrome 148! I did the implementation in both FF and Safari because @nerdy.dev and I wanted it so badly haha. And chrome has had it behind a flag for a bit. See github.com/mdn/browser-...