✨ New article ✨ Are we at the start of a new era? Chrome 140 introduced CSS Typed Arithmetic. It might seem like a minor change, but I believe it's huge as it opens the door to countless new possibilities and a whole new era of Computational CSS. What do you think? css-tricks.com/css-typed-ar...

can we get some last-minute votes for this very important issue? github.com/web-platform... until it's fixed, none of us can safely use top-level `await` on the web

Just had a chance to watch @ryansolid.bsky.social’s transitions stream, highly recommend watching it if you want to understand where frameworks are innovating today www.youtube.com/live/eZAcJc_...

It’s the thoughtfulness that makes the repudiation so devastating

Covenant, one of three insects featured in Macbeth

Protuberant, an insect fond of potatoes

Sextant. Horny insect communication. See also formication.

Hello friends... I'm trying to track down an article I saw here talking about how Tailwind v4 reflected a more idiomatic approach to CSS, but I can't find it for the life of me... I *think* it might have been a repost by @localghost.dev... but maybe someone else also knows what I'm talking about?

IT'S FRIDAY AND CYRIAK'S VIDEO FOR BUXTON IS OUT can today get any better

This is a must-have initiative! Especially once it becomes a GitHub Action.

You should go an read @43081j.com new article on why everything in the JS world is so messy. Written by the very person who is trying to tidy the mess.

It's that time of year again: time to support @open-web-advocacy.org's call to end secret vetoes of Interop proposals. Web developers deserve to know who is pushing cuts to the web's most effective "TODO" list, if not why. Show your support (politely) here: github.com/web-platform...

another #oss maintainer got compromised: fasterthanli.me/articles/co... be careful folks (and follow Kevin on all platforms for more updated news)

"Parse, don't validate" rule applied to command-line applications makes sense because the input is external to the system. You don't allow external input wandering around in the system unchecked. hackers.pub/@hongminhee/...

It's seven years since we posted on Twitter about how kids kept coming into the library asking if we had any books about FORTNITE. We didn't back then, and we'd never heard of it so we tried asking what it was.

I'm a bit late with writing this week's Web Weekly, so it'll probably go out tmrw, but if web dev fundamentals are your thing (you know HTML, CSS & JS), you should check it out! 👇 This time it'll include view transitions on Google Search, anchor positioning and HTML `commandfor`. webweekly.email

This, the finest news story ever published, has once again appeared in my inbox, and it would be rude not to share it.

“exploit the AI to steal vibe-coders’ crypto” is a perfect summation of our modern tech environment, well done all around

The Freddy Mercury hoovering display team were also a particular highlight...

gradient.style has finally - come out of beta - offers multiple background editing - is open source 🎉 nerdy.dev/gradient.sty...

🛠️ New Article: The Basics of Anchor Positioning I wrote an article covering some basics of CSS anchor positioning. Really excited to share this one! 🤩 🔗 ishadeed.com/article/anch...

Worth noting that Google is effectively the sole reason this happens: publishers don’t benefit from the ad ecosystem that Google manipulates, and users aren’t protected from the predatory spying that cookie banners enable. It’s literally just Google exploiting the market from both ends.

The making of a #css5 HDR enabled gradient tool a fun peek into the sketching that led to the gradient line UI, the color picker, the overall layout, some math and more! https://nerdy.dev/the-making-of-gradient.style

It's Minnesota State Fair time! It's time for Minnesotan folk art! Here, for example, is Saturn Devouring His Corn, in the seed art category!

Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Launched A Great Lawsuit Industry watchers hoping for novel jurisprudence in which all parties are found liable

Reading an article titled "Why didn't Brazilian democracy die?" and a key part of the story is a Supreme Court that actually did its job

📢 I've written the @financialtimes.com Free Lunch newsletter today on the rise of populism & its economic implications 📢 No surprise: populism makes for very bad economics, with clear negative impacts regardless of whether it is left-wing or right wing variety Free-to-read link👉 on.ft.com/4fViP31

Pace of Svelte|Kit is 🚀 so I wrote down a list of resources that help me stay up-to-date. Let me know if I missed something: fubits.dev/notes/how-to...

Sam Altman keeps saying the quiet part out loud - valuations are too high, there's no biz model w/copyright, there's not enough electricity, LLMs aren't the path to AGI - yet govts and AI cheerleaders seemingly bend over backwards to ignore that fortune.com/2025/08/20/u...

New in Chrome Canary: You can now access a currently active view transition from JavaScript without the need to monkey-patch document.startViewTransition(): Say hello to document.activeViewTransition [Does not yet work on arbitrary elements when used with scoped view transitions]

Little Fashy Crowds

Finally some studies www.theregister.com/2025/08/18/g...

The Svelte 5 guide has everything from reactivity and how it works, when to use and avoid effects, events, bindings, components and composition, transitions and animations to using third party libraries and making external systems reactive. 🔥

My colleague Alice Boxhall has a question over on Mastodon.. "There are some posts doing the rounds at the moment asking questions about using IDREF attributes like `for` without using IDs. I think these polls are asking the wrong questions. I think these are the right questions: "

The UK Emergency Alerts system will be tested on 7 Sept 2025 at 3pm. It shares warnings during emergencies like floods, wildfires and storms. Domestic abuse survivors with concealed phones might need to turn off alerts. Here's how you can opt out ⤵️ www.gov.uk/alerts/optin...

👋 Chicago frontend crowd – curious why Svelte keeps ranking #1 in "admired" and "positivity" in JS surveys year after year? It's the framework … AND the people 🫶. Come hang with us next Tuesday to see for yourself #Chicago #JavaScript #Svelte #React

I have a new job. I'm incredibly excited and I've been dying to tell you about it, but I didn't wanna just type it into this box. So I'll get you to type it. Into 5 boxes. Enjoy. samwhere.dev

Big tech keeps hammering that wedge further and further

In tribute to the late Ray Brooks the ITVRetro YouTube channel has today added the entire run of Mr Benn to its output. This includes the 2000 special episode 'Gladiator' which is definitely worth a look if you've never seen it. Maybe as a soothing bedtime story... youtu.be/ctHBeUMK8UU?...

Mexit, not Brexit, is the new priority for the UK www.theregister.com/2025/08/08/o... "A Microsoft Exit strategy isn’t just a good idea, it’s vital. It must go a long way beyond a farewell to Redmond … The current UK gov [mistakes] a fondness for magical AI and datacenters for a digital strategy."

Ronnie Spector wrote an afterword to her memoir a few months before she died in 2022. Re-read it today on her birthday, and enjoyed her valedictory payoff in this paragraph.

The results of the State of CSS are ready! It was a great year for CSS community. Go check this out ✨ 2025.stateofcss.com/en-US

Show me your getaway vehicle

Willingness to step into, debug, and learn from external packages will help teach you way more than you could imagine AND will set you apart from the vast majority of developers.

🚴💨 The Fastest Site in the Tour de France Every bike brand claims to have the fastest bike, but who has the fastest site? csswizardry.com/2025/07/the-...

haha this rules. folks don't know that AIs scraping websites accounts for like half of all internet bandwidth usage right now. Sites get scraped- ie, all the contents downloaded- over and over again, destroying/wasting their bandwidth, often maxing it out. It's like being continually DDOS'd

Patient, sobbing: But Doctor, I AM Pagliacci! ChatGPT: Apologies. I didn't realise when recommending Pagliacci's epic show to cure your depression that you were the genius himself. I'm impressed! With regards to your initial question, I can recommend seeing the Great Clown Pagliacci.