The Up Front make all their reporting about accessibility in air travel free to read, such as this excellent feature on the nasty "Jetway Jesus" myth. If you are the sort of person who likes in-depth, longform journalism and is interested in air travel, subscribing helps to fund their work.

A shortish review of my 2025, a year in which I turned 50 and returned to the North. rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/202...

Everything is icy, so no run for me today. Walked round Cawfields Quarry with my camera instead.

Just been in a supermarket where they were directly replacing Lindt reindeer with Lindt bunnies on the shelves.

Trying to find information about the bits of Hadrian's Wall I see when out running I found this amazing map, which links to the detailed archeological reports. This might be a very deep rabbit hole I have entered. archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/col...

Got some new trail running shoes in the sales, and appropriately christened them this morning.

Photos from a Boxing Day walk in Northumberland and Cumbria borders, along Hadrian's Wall.

Oh hey, come work with me! We're seeking an earlier-career front-end dev who is able to work in-office (multiple US locations). Check it out if you have interest and experience in: #designsystems #CSS #a11y #webcomponents adobe.design/jobs/job-pos...

I particularly love the ginger mog with the kitchen roll. Absolutely weapons-grade catting.

If you’ve attended JS/CSSConf EU, it wouldn’t have been the same without @lukaszklis and now he needs your help: his family home was devastated in a fire. I know times are tough for all, but if you can, please help turn this nightmare into a community miracle. 🙏 front-end.social/@fox/1157439...

A child got onto this aircraft yelling "NO NO NOT THE AEROPLANE" and I'd quite like to join in. I am so tired. At least this aeroplane is heading back home.

Tuesday run. I'm very lucky that all this is just up the hill. You can see one of the milecastles on Hadrian's Wall in the first photo.

I've got a new smart ring. This morning it told me I was 78% ready for the day. I'm not sure how useful this is, given that 100% of me has to be at work, I can't leave 22% having a cry in bed.

It's that time of year again! Let's have a look at the deals we, and our much loved community are offering this year. It's the most important time of year for independents, so let's give them our support 💛 piccalil.li/links/black-...

For the first time, the Web Extensions specification is linked on MDN! As we start building it out, I’m excited to see this more 🙂 developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/M...

I've been trying to learn mandolin on and off since lockdown, on a crappy 80 quid instrument. I eventually listened to the advice that I might have a better time if I got a decent beginner mandolin. This was good advice, though I've shredded my fingers this weekend.

It's all fun and games moving back up North until you go to put the bins out and discover your wheelie bin is frozen shut.

Every time I go outside, the neighbours have put up more Christmas lights. I'm now the weird dark house on the street. Peer pressured into ordering LEDs by neighbours I haven't really met yet.

I have some questions about this hotel room.

My slow trek home from TPAC has begun with a Shinkansen ride back to Tokyo. I'm now in a Hilton sports bar with a collection of solo business travellers, and what appears to be an Austrian sports team.

Eating cheese cubes on the KLM airplane heading to TPAC! Looking forward to a week with my friends-in-standards.

Looking for an amazing tech writer to join my org and write for Cash App. 100% remote. Spread the word! block.xyz/careers/jobs...

Quick trip to Mountain View for a meeting this week. Went for a pre-flight home run on the Bay Trail and saw the Pathfinder 1 airship! Sadly not in flight, but still quite exciting.

Quick trip to Mountain View for a meeting this week. Went for a pre-flight home run on the Bay Trail and saw the Pathfinder 1 airship! Sadly not in flight, but still quite exciting.

Having edited thousands of tech articles at this point, I've always been fascinated by how use of words, phrases, or patterns spread. It's not surprising given most of us are essentially untrained writers learning from the things we read. Now LLMs are just doing the same, at speed.

In the Air France lounge at CDG, I have a very sore arm and I don't think that going to Mountain View for two days will help. But here we are, eating the French lounge cheese and praying for working airplane wifi.

In 2017 I needed to create a grid of logos for Monotype requiring separators between items. I had to use pseudo-elements & "magic numbers" for simple lines 😩 In 2025: CSS finally solves this! Styling the gap, with CSS www.alwaystwisted.com/articles/sty...

I was reading about people buying gold. I've never been the sort of person who could afford gold, so I wondered how you go about it. Turns out, online shopping www.royalmint.com/invest/bulli... They deliver. I'm assuming with Evri, who will leave it behind someone else's bins.

I spend half my life in meetings on camera, so to make things more interesting I decorate my background. My current Halloween display includes a guide to Internet Explorer 4 that came with .net magazine in 1997.

The #CSS WG is trying to name several properties that do similar things. One controls the length of a text-decoration line in relation to the text, the others control 'rule' lines in grid/flex/multi-column gaps. Leave your feedback! (Note the poll spans two comments): github.com/w3c/csswg-dr...

Question for home automation nerds, I have some older Philips Hue lights and the Hue Bridge, thinking about moving to an open platform. Perhaps getting a Home Assistant Green? Recommendations appreciated, I don't want to spend hours arsing about with it initially.

Had a wander round some of the local history. Birdoswald Roman fort and Lanercost Priory.

A lot has happened since Chrome shipped Same-Document View Transitions in 2023. In 2024 we shipped Cross-Document VTs, added refinements such as `view-transition-class` and VT Types, and also welcomed Safari in adding VT support. And this year … well, I wrote a post summing it all up.

We've created a tool called the "Screen reader support look up tables" designed to help people quickly check how screen readers interpret HTML elements and attributes across multiple combinations of browser and screen reader.

The WebDX Community Group is hosting an AMA on the r/webdev subreddit tomorrow. This is the group behind the "State of ..." surveys and Baseline, so if you have questions about those initiatives—or anything else around developer experience, join us! web.dev/blog/baselin...

I have varifocals for the first time. I'm now like "what even are eyes?" and "why is my desk all wavy?"

Between the time we launched the original Learn CSS course on web.dev and today, container queries landed in browsers and became Baseline Widely available! It was high time for an update, and we were lucky enough to have the team at OddBird work with us. Enjoy 9 new modules! web.dev/blog/learn-c...

Max here to help with post run stretching. Though really he's hoping to eat my yoga mat or foam roller.

Another year of Interop improvements is coming up. Submit your proposals for features to be included in Interop 2026, and tell browsers what you most want to become Baseline next year. web.dev/blog/interop...

Show us your best tooling ideas to help developers adopt more modern web features! Join the hackathon for your shot at $10,000 in cash prizes 🔥🔥 web.dev/blog/baselin...

My first race back up North. Chopwell Woods trail 10 mile. Over 1100 feet of elevation so I'm quite broken now.

Lovely running weather this weekend. A short trail run straight up a hill yesterday, and early morning loops of town today.

I've taken an extra day off for this long weekend as it's time to tackle the garage where everything got dumped in the move. By the end of this I hope to have a workbench and storage out here.

View Transitions are enabled by default in Firefox Nightly, so they're on their way to stable. Give it a test with your current transitions, and give me a shout if anything doesn't look right.

The phrase "a spanner in the works" is never so relevant than when dealing with multicol, however we resolved a bunch of issues on block direction wrapping in the #CSSWG today.

I've got a TV for the first time in over five years. Cat TV has caused absolute chaos.

I'm enjoying living in a place where I can run out my front door and within a couple of miles I'm running along Hadrian's Wall. We did get chased by a cow, enjoyed that a bit less, gets the heart rate up though.

My job for this weekend has been hauling the contents of these two bad boys into the garden. So far the only casualty has been the shit wheelbarrow that fell apart after load 2. I now have shit wheelbarrow the second because you can't buy a good wheelbarrow in an emergency.

Exploring around my new home with a local running group. Finding bits of Hadrian's Wall up some completely terrifying steps.

CSS masonry is going into developer trial (behind a flag) in Chromium. Learn how to test the implementation and give your feedback in this post from the Microsoft Edge team developer.chrome.com/blog/masonry... #css