just to be clear the pluribus hive mind is the borg with a smile happy holidays

My Year in Review post is wip, but here's last year's, www.nickyt.co/blog/2024-ye... I think it's good to reflect on the year you had. If you've never done one, I encourage you to start this year. It's a fun little time capsule to see how far you've come.

first draft of zero configuration typescript (with dependency mapping) in @11ty.dev is working — weeeeeeeeeeee

Have you been wishing masonry layouts would just hurry up and arrive in CSS?? Well, happy holidays! webkit.org/blog/17660/i...

software complexity sells via developer ego happy holidays!

we released the new @e18e.dev ESLint plugin today! 🎉 this comes with 3 categories of rules: modernisation, performance, replacements it also works with oxlint and most of the rules have auto-fixes 🛠️ try it out and let us know any feedback/rule suggestions in discord/bsky/github!

I think github.com/zachleat/imp... is one of the best things I’ve built this year (even if no one else does 😅)

Sometimes courage is not the presence of hope but the absence of fucks

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...

When it comes to error handling, Swift is what JavaScript should've been. Here's why!

What’s really amazing about vibe-coding is how people are replacing programming languages which are strictly deterministic with human speech which is highly ambiguous and expect programming to be faster and better.

As predicted the online safety act has succeeded only in making us less safe. Admit your mistake. Repeal it now.

HTML hidden=until-found and auto-opening <details> is newly baseline… or is it? Here's how it works, and issues to watch out for:

Sending my heart out to my trans friends and followers today. You are seen and you are loved.

these sad, broken, hurtful little men, and all the harm they do

If you love @11ty.dev and make use of the 11ty Bundle website, we’ve got a beta test of the redesigned site just for you. There's a feedback link at the top. Enjoy! @zachleat.com redesign.bob-monsour.workers.dev

Writing database queries is too close to the metal. Best practices don’t work! It’s time to make SQL enterprise-scale with utility classes. tailwindsql.xyz

Whatever make it 10 factor authentication.. I don't want to be able to sign into anything ever again

It’s ‘Guess the speaker’ time! Our clue for you this time is…This person is a former DJ and sound engineer who later went on to push new standards for the web. On Friday, we will officially announce them, so you have until then to try and figure out who this is. 🤫 #SotB26

On Kindness, Power, and Hypocrisy. “And [Stephen Miller] says to me, ‘You know, you have a lot of power in the discretion you use to be kind to people.’ And I looked at him and I said, ‘You know, you do, too.’” [kottke.org]

we have a really good dev rel engineer here throwing himself to (i would say) a small number of very loud, hungry wolves because the new ceo did (i would also say) a very weird announcement that sounded like it was written in 2024 by an ai startup

Good thread from a good person in a tough situation ❤️ I’ll keep using and believing in Firefox as long as they employ folks like this.

blogroll.org This site by Manuel Moreale is not just lovely in the abstract, it might be the _calmest_ and most pleasant design I've seen in quite some time.

The photos of those Haitian refugees was his first big break, as they earned him the Robert Capa Gold Medal award, which catapulted his career. But at the moment he took the images, he and the other men on the boat thought they were going to die. He had this to say about the experience:

Wow, if you've ever gotten upset about having to support some browsers that are a couple years out of date - Google search apparently _just_ started rejecting the Dreamcast browser! www.timeextension.com/news/2025/12...

all I want for Christmas is to see this wall of friendly faces continue to grow. thank you SO MUCH to everyone who supports @codetv.dev, and if you want to see more tv for developers, consider becoming a supporter today! codetv.dev/support

“a one-way mirror, also called two-way mirror…” — en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-way...

What are your biggest complaints about using the web right now?

looking for website inspiration 👀✨ what are your favorite personal dev portfolios/blogs (or websites of small dev/design agencies)? I'm not talking super whimsical (although they are great 🤩), but beautifully made, nice to look at and read, great typography, nice little extras... 😊

leadership wants an everything app users want an everything bagel

Losing myself in the wonderful dreamlike experience that is strangersbyspring.com, made by @likethecolour.red and @strange.website (found via @piccalil.li). We need more of this sort of internet.

Tiny bug fix release of `<table-saw>`: github.com/zachleat/tab...

Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true

I can see how it's easy to get swept up in the rush of making the computer do an incredibly impressive trick. but also the trick makes it impossible for any shared information or consensus reality to exist. so it's impossible to say etc

Ope I have to update my stance that zero websites make good use of onscroll effects. There is now exactly *one* website that makes good use of onscroll effects: strangersbyspring.com

Lazy loading out-of-viewport images can make the main content on your website load faster. ⬇️ Learn how in this video. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPJf...

Well, wait — @deno.land both supports and absolutely does not support CommonJS 😅 1️⃣ docs.deno.com/examples/cjs... 2️⃣ deno.com/blog/commonj... 3️⃣ docs.deno.com/runtime/fund...

a dad hat that says “corny on main”

Released v0.9.0 of Cally: 🧩 New <calendar-select-year> component for quickly selecting a year 🧩 New <calendar-select-month> component for quickly selecting a month #️⃣ Option to show week numbers 💅🏼 Many new CSS parts for greater control over styling Changelog: wicky.nillia.ms/cally/change...

"Icons won't change the world … but good people might." New episode of Podcast Awesome drops today. This one’s all about inclusive nerdery and building company culture that actually means something. 📹 Watch → youtu.be/Qf6kt2X0-Gc?...

Currently wondering what it feels like to work so hard on a typeface only to have it co-opted by very terrible and very famous people as part of their core brand identity.

Well, this brightened my day: blog.codepen.io/2025/12/15/c... Thank you for the kind words, @chriscoyier.net 🫶

How can I get Nestflix to be the “producer” of a fake movie on The Studio? 😂 “I’m having directors’ agents call me to pitch their clients to be the directors of fake movies on our show, which is very weird and very meta.” deadline.com/2025/11/seth...

Web Performance Calendar day 13 with Yoav Weiss (@yoav.ws) showing us a clever and creative way to ship *only* critical/necessary CSS for each page type (home, search, etc) while also avoiding duplicate code in the CSS bundles. calendar.perfplanet.com/2025/how-to-...

After 3 years of development I finally published the first alpha version of FilePond v5! <file-pond> is now a full blown custom element, it implements ElementInternals, can be styled with CSS Custom Properties, and can be fully customised with templates and extensions! 🎉 🚧 v5.filepond.com

honestly i'd be ok if they banned users over 16 from social media too! we can all go touch grass

ok fine but can react server components show emotional vulnerability too

Eleventy Core Dependency Watch (2025 Edition) www.11ty.dev/blog/depende... v4.0.0.alpha.6 (compared with v3) reduces: 1️⃣ dependencies 21.6% 2️⃣ 3rd-party dependencies 27.6% 3️⃣ node_modules weight 33.3%

is software getting better?

The handmade, human qualities of your work are more valuable than they've ever been. Don't doubt that for a second.