A hero video component is a popular request/demand. Unfortunately for our users, videos take longer than images to download, and cannot be preloaded like images can. But when the boss says "video", what are you to do? This handy component tries to find the best of both worlds, responsively…

January 6, 2021 was the most shameful day in American history. It should live in infamy. We will never forget it, and we will not let the nation or the world forget — despite the revisionism of Trump and his lackeys in the Republican Party.

Today’s Readings The latest installment in my "Today's Readings" series, offering my rants and thoughts based on findings from around the world-wide web, including Accessibility, CSS, Core Web Vitals, DevTools, HTML, NoLoJS, Performance, Progressive Enhancements, View Transitions, WordPress and…

Well this seems like it should be bigger news…

NoLoJS Featured in the HTMHell Advent Calendar The December 27, 2025 HTMHell Advent Calendar post featured NoLoJS. Another attempt to get us all thinking about reducing JS where possible, letting the recent HTML and CSS advancement shine where they can, so JS can focus on more important things.…

The latest installment in my "Today's Readings" series, offering my rants and thoughts based on findings from around the world-wide web, including AI, Compression Dictionaries, CSS, INP, JS, web performance, React, RUM, Web Components and more. Happy reading!

Split text with blended half shadow on @codepen.io: codepen.io/thebabydino/... No text duplication whatsoever, no images other than CSS gradients, no funky fonts* - all done with #SVG #filter magic! 🪄✨ *font used here is fonts.google.com/specimen/Rub... - you can see the effect isn't baked into it

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've had an execeptionally tough year. I have no income or health insurance, and could really use your help finding my next paid project. 💜 semanticfish.com/2025-year-in... Open to front-end, full-stack, design system, & accessibility projects. 10+ years experience. Many more details in post!

Huge thanks the browser makers for making 2025 a cracking year! And to the Interoperability project folks as well! Seeing such fierce competition, and yet commingling, is truly encouraging! Happy Holidays! @developer.chrome.com @firefoxperformance.bsky.social @webkitgtk.org (Hope I got everyone!)

All I want for Christmas, like all future Christmas’, is for these monsters to pay for these crimes against humanity… 😭

No text duplication. A single image used. All with clever #CSS and #SVG #filter magic! 🪄✨ Uses `text-orientation: upright` for vertical text. Matrix filter extracts just the red areas of the image. These get intersected/ subtracted from the text. Live on @codepen.io: codepen.io/thebabydino/...

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

We at ProPublica obtained internal government data in May that showed the Trump administration knew the vast majority of Venezuelans sent to El Salvador had not been convicted of violent crimes. Our reporting is featured in Frontline. Read our full coverage: www.propublica.org/series/depor...

Quite a fun (and funny) trip down memory lane... Can't say I remember *all* of these, but lots are painful... 😆

This is indeed a wonderful holiday gift, @jensimmons.bsky.social, thanks for all you and the team have accomplished this year! 💝

Updated de Content-Visibility snippet for Chrome DevTools - Detects existing content-visibility usage - Finds offscreen optimization opportunities - CLS warnings for missing contain-intrinsic-size - Configurable thresholds webperf-snippets.nucliweb.net/Loading/Cont... #WebPerf #PerfTools

Web Performance Calendar day 18 with Amrik Malhans on breaking down LCP to pinpoint what's slowing down the page exactly and where to focus your UX-optimizing efforts calendar.perfplanet.com/2025/the-ana...

On day 18, @[email protected] shares his opinion about the state of native form elements in HTML. #htmhellAdventCalendar htmhell.dev/adventcalend...

Web Performance Calendar day 19 with Alex Podelko on how performance engineering has evolved with computing: from mainframes to distributed systems, web/mobile, cloud, AI. Knowing your history may help reduce wheel-reinvention and encourage skills reuse calendar.perfplanet.com/2025/a-short...

🤔 What are request priorities, and why do we even need the HTML fetchpriority attribute? Check out my new video to find out! www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoa7...

Web Performance Calendar day 17 with Adam Zachary Wasserman on outperforming modern frameworks with this one weird little trick calendar.perfplanet.com/2025/the-old...

I had apparently not realised that emoji don't announce themselves as images at all, and just get read out as their Unicode name. Thanks @gerireid.com! So much good advice in this article from today's HTMHell advent calendar (@matuzo.at): htmhell.dev/adventcalend...

Answering some of your questions about what it means now LCP and INP are "Baseline Newly available" across all major browsers. Let me know if you have any more! web.dev/blog/lcp-and... #CoreWebVitals #webperf

Oh for F’s sake…

🎂 I could list a bunch of my fave css people like @lynnandtonic.com @kevinpowell.co @una.im @nerdy.dev @jhey.dev, but you can also catch many of them at the annual @cssday.nl conference in 🇳🇱, and watch some presentations here: 🎥 2025: youtu.be/NXF-exPCqis?... 🎥 2024: youtu.be/VS3ERmCsM_o?... #HBDCSS

This is fun…

Gecko: Intent to prototype and ship: support shape() in basic-shape

On day 11 Robin Whittleton shares what he knows about HTML for ePub. #htmHellAdventcalendar htmhell.dev/adventcalend...

The latest installment in my "Today's Readings" series, offering my rants and thoughts based on findings from around the world-wide web, including #accessibility, #aria, #baseline, #compressiondictionairies, #css, #js, #performance, #speculationrules and more. Happy reading!

Fun... 🥰 And thoughtful, and informative! Brava!!

This is absolutely gorgeous…

`dialog` is getting some real love this advent season, and with good reason! Superb method for displaying content, semantically, with almost no extra effort!

On day 9 you discover dialog with @sjoy.lol #htmhellAdventCalendar htmhell.dev/adventcalend...

Exciting release! 🤩

👉🏽 Common misconceptions about #WCAG by Ela Gorla of @tetralogical.com "the way the guidelines are discussed often leads to mixed assumptions about what they cover and how they should be used." tetralogical.com/blog/2025/12...

Great update to the years’ progress! Thank you browser maker teams!!!

A tiny line if CSS makes a big difference for CLS and UX…

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NoLoJS Featured in Planet Performance’s Web Performance Calendar After years and years of reading each and every article posted on Planet Performance's Web Performance Calendar, I have the distinct honor of being featured on December 6, 2025! Have a look, and let me know what you think! Happy…

Well looky there, boys and girls! I made the big time! 🤣 Honored to share the stage, and share some NoLoJS ideas; more to come!

The latest installment in my "Today's Readings" series, offering my rants and thoughts based on findings from around the world-wide web, including Accessibility, anchor-positioning, Project Baseline, CSS, HTML, JS, performance, Speculation Rules and more. Happy reading!

The latest installment in my "Today's Readings" series, offering my rants and thoughts based on findings from around the world-wide web, including #animation, #baseline, #css, #cwv, #devtools, #grid, #js, #performance, #ux and more. Happy reading!

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I know these are *eventually* going to burn in hell, but can it not happen sooner???

These are going to look beautiful sitting in my calendar next everyone’s birthdays… 🎉🎂🤣

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Looking for Black Friday deals? @piccalil.li has a nice roundup of dev-related ones that are currently running. piccalil.li/links/black-...

Yes! More like this, please! The government could very easily put pressure on corporations to pay employees a living wage, this reducing the burden on tax payers.

An interesting idea…