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

I'm intending to build a garden office again, for now I'm in a box room upstairs. The cats think this is the most exciting place in the house.

I started my day with a swim in the glorious open air pool in the little town I've moved to. At the weekend I got a floor down in my office and my desk set up. Nice not to feel surrounded by chaos, and work feels like a chance to have a little sit down. Moving house is hard work.

Day three in my new home. Carpet out, first coat of paint up (F&B Setting Plaster, it's looking awesome in the light), hope to start on the floor later. On a deadline before I collect the cats.

I had no idea these prayer plants flowered, but this one just popped out these tiny white flowers.

I’ve just been chasing Max (orange maine coon) round the garden because he had managed to get a poo stuck to the end of his tail, which he was proudly wafting aloft like a flag for our times.

Here's my monthly post on what's landed on the web platform with the browser releases during June. It's been another busy month! web.dev/blog/web-pla...

Flying ant day appears to have started in Bristol. There are swarms of them outside. That'll be nice for everyone having a BBQ.

Ended up at the gate for my flight an hour early because my computer was still set to European time. Not that I'm tired or anything.

Boss @paul.kinlan.me and @rachelandrew.bsky.social are on stage at Google I/O Connect Berlin sharing all the hottest web features 🔥 #GoogleIOConnect

Sunrise run to beat the heat. Still pretty warm.

Bristol looking beautiful this morning.

I love #CSSDay. It brings together so many of the CSS Working Group to share talks on the newest CSS features being worked on! If it wasn't for this conference, I never would have had the encouragement to join the working group last year. A huge privilege to be alongside these incredible people.

Happy to publish a post from the Microsoft team about the work to implement gap decorations for multicol, grid, and flex layouts. You'll soon be able to add a border round grid items, for example! Check out the demos in Chrome Canary developer.chrome.com/blog/gap-dec...

My talk from CSS Day covering multicol, fragmentation, the new gap decorations spec, why printing from the browser sucks despite the fact we have specs that could make it better, exclusions, and regions. noti.st/rachelandrew...

Multicol and fragmentation by @rachelandrew.bsky.social

A #sketchnotes for the talk "Multicol and fragmentation" by @rachelandrew.bsky.social‬ at the @cssday.nl #cssday

Using Baseline and Chrome stickers to explain multicol at #cssday

New CSS features, AI in Chrome DevTools, and multimodal AI can help you to build a more powerful and modern web. Senior Tech Writer @alexandrascript.com recaps the top web announcements from #GoogleIO. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSVe...

If the news cycle is wearing you down, take a look at the BBC reporting from the cheese rolling. "Woman, 20, says 'I don't like cheese'" www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...

Those of you who design websites, or FE devs who implement things from designers. Do you still get requests for layout that's common in print but essentially impossible (or very hard to do) on the web?