The Developer Knowledge API and MCP server is now in public preview. This API includes documentation from across Google—including the Chrome DevRel sites. developers.google.com/knowledge/api

Did the X-border 10k today. This sounds more exciting than the reality, which is a race from an industrial park 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 near Carlisle to a shopping outlet in Gretna 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 alongside the M6.

A windy and wet run along Hadrian's Wall. On days like this you really get a sense of this being wild border country. While warmly wrapped up in technical running gear, that is!

I'm excited to welcome @rachelandrew.bsky.social back to @pixelpioneers.co! 🙌 On 19 June, Rachel will present an extended version of her pragmatic guide to browser support, with a special focus on new CSS and JavaScript features. 🎟️ Read the full talk description: pixelpioneers.co/events/brist...

I was thinking, when everyone was posting their 2016 posts, that I was deep in the grid trenches at that point. I miss those days.

My endless going down of strange rabbit holes does create some amusing ad targeting in my social media accounts. That said, I'm very puzzled as to why I'm being encouraged to attend "the UK’s only dedicated exhibition for the concrete community".

Looking for suggestions for WordPress hosting. My blog is currently on WP Engine, because I have done my time as a server admin, and don't need to run servers in 2026. However, it's really expensive, and gets more expensive the more of you look at a post. UK/EU-based preferably.

Eventful run today. Encountered a flock of sheep on a 60mph road. One friend was posting to Facebook (to find the farmer), another calling the police, and I was flagging down very fast traffic. Ultimately we got enough cars to stop, in a way that encouraged the sheep to run back through the fence.

The @e18e.dev community does amazing work to speed up and modernize the web Now's as good a time as ever to join and contribute to this hugely impactful project!

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It's Sunday morning. It's dark. I'm laying a floor. But this is the last one, and I am so ready to be done.

I... wrote a thing: passo.uno/reconsider/

Come and hear me talk about pragmatic browser support and Baseline at Web Day Out on 12 March in Brighton, UK. Tickets are on sale now: webdayout.com If you fancy coming, use my code JOIN_RACHEL for a 10% discount

Quality shitposting here from the LibDems, 10/10, no notes #TheTraitors

Chrome 145 (current beta) includes the column-height and column-wrap properties for multicol. These let you wrap columns onto a new row, rather than overflowing inline. This is something I've wanted to do in multicol for years! developer.chrome.com/blog/multico...

It was just above freezing this morning, but no frost or ice so I could run outside. Rather liked this slightly threatening sky over the station.

Em is here to judge your CSS.

Too icy to run today, but it means I should get this floor done. Only one more room to do after this.

Lovely history of Markdown in this post (though I still routinely grumble about how I preferred Textile).

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.