“These tools, and the companies that manufacture them, have tremendous costs — to our labor, to our environment, to our futures. And as we’ve been seeing, those costs also include actual human lives.” Good and important read by @ethanmarcotte.com. ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/propel...

It costs $0.00 to uninstall that Big Tech browser you’ve always used and switch to a European browser that has no AI and doesn’t collect your data. 🫶🏻

📣 The (second) cat is out of the bag 🐱💼 I'm happy to announce that I'll be speaking at @jsheroes.io this year 🥳 bsky.app/profile/jshe... 📅 May 14th–15th in Cluj-Napoca, Romania I'm excited to give a talk about Web Standards, specifically about some of the awesome capabilities of #HTML ✨

#lazyWeb Friends on macOS, what is your favorite tool for testing your work using a Windows screen reader? Do you use a Virtual Machine (VM)? If so, what do you use to run it? Do you use an online tool like @assistivlabs.com ? Bonus points for free tools!

Been thinking about the Web platform & it's pretty incredible what #CSS can do now compared to what it did when I started in this field 14 years ago. We went from having too little to having almost too much (if you think how many of the new features you use day to day) Imagine where we'll go next!

Have been commenting "Alt-text, please" when big accounts post images without alt-text. No one has eaten me alive - yet. In Bluesky settings (gear icon, bottom left), click Accessibility, check the "require alt-text before posting" button and it will remind you to add it if you forget. 1/

software engineering in a nutshell

👀 "AI can be very confidently wrong, and if the text seems clear, it’s possible to miss that it’s clearly nonsense." #AI #nonsense rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/202...

"When it comes to front-end development, that line is for me to stay as close as I can to raw HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. After all, that’s what users are going to get in their browsers." @adactio.com adactio.com/journal/22399

Genuine question: Some of you have mentioned complex patterns like trees and table grids. I know calendars are pretty common in UIs, but for the other components: do you have to build them in your day-to-day work or projects? or are they patterns you find difficult to implement *if you needed to*?

We're another account that won't repost a post that has an image with no alt text. We highly recommend enabling the Bluesky setting that won't let you post an image without alt text - that way, you can't forget!

I've reached a point a long time ago where I won't repost a post that has an image with no alt text* no matter how good the post is otherwise — *unless the purpose of the repost *is* to give it alt text

Mind-blowing how many responses (here and on LinkedIn and mastodon) have named date pickers. You'd think that having a native date input would solve this pain. Also, seeing how problematic it is, I don't understand why everyone doesn't just agree to use separate DD/MM/YYYY inputs instead.

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Every time I go shopping while I'm hungry I tell myself I'm never going to do that again. Today was just another never.

people are not built for having an evil genie whispering in their ear about how amazing and perfect they are and confirming every bias they ever had, to say nothing of the constant vigilance for lies and misinformation

Hey Bluesky friends, What UI patterns do you find the most complex or challenging to build or implement accessibly?

Been using this blocklist for awhile now and it's wonderful. A return to a better internet. Highly recommended.

Did you know that at Smashing Amsterdam, we also have 7 full-day workshops? 😎 @sarasoueidan.com on Accessibility 🍱 @nathanacurtis.bsky.social & TJ Pitre on Design Systems 🚧 @kevinpowell.co on CSS 🖼️ @christinevallaure.bsky.social on Figma 🐱 @vitalyf.bsky.social on UX smashingconf.com/amsterdam-20...

this reminds me of when me, you and heydon were talking about exactly this, on twitter, back in 2016 www.scottohara.me/blog/2016/08...

Interop 2026 has launched by announcing the focus areas for this year! The year-long cross-vendor coordination effort on improving web feature interoperability will include a bit of HTML, a dash of JS, a handful of CSS, and perhaps a surprise or two… www.igalia.com/news/interop...

I spent the last four (!!) hours debugging code I'm exhausted I still love my job tho I promise But now it's time to snooze 😴

February is definitely the month of team enrollments for Practical Accessibility! New teams have enrolled in the course since the start of the month, and an existing team extended their license to bring in more team members. 🎈 I'm excited to welcome everybody on board! 🫶🏻

My new CSS course is now live on @frontendmasters.com! Learn the essentials, including responsive layouts, typography, animations, and more. Save $10 on your first month: frontendmasters.com/courses/css-... (affiliate link, so it helps support me too 😊)

Nvm my browsers need updating. 🥲🤦‍♀️

Big big thanks to @sarasoueidan.com for adding full transcripts to the Practical Accessibility course. I have huge troubles following videos, so being able to read the transcript is amazing!

Invoker commands are supported across major browsers, but they're only working for me on Chrome Canary. What am I missing?

Officially started working on *new* content for my upcoming accessibility workshop @smashingconf.com 💃 April 13th, Amsterdam High-level description and tickets are available already so you can grab yours now 🎟️ smashingconf.com/amsterdam-20... #a11y

SmashingConf Amsterdam calling! 🌷🧀 The schedule is live! Expect loads of practical talks, unplugged sessions, and a whole bunch of side events along the way. See for yourself! smashingconf.com/amsterdam-20...

I want a dot-pizza (.pizza) domain name but then I also need a project that would need a dot-pizza domain name 🍕

God I love my job. 🥹 #grateful

corner-shape is one of those things where when you first see it, it's like "oh cool, I can make a scoop!" It's something new, which is fun, but it can be hard to think of good use cases. But, as @cassidoo.co looks at here, it's going to open up a lot of possibilities 🙂 cassidoo.co/post/css-cor...

Good news everyone: Style queries are coming to Firefox, making them finally Baseline!

"Exclusion happens when we solve problems using our own biases. We seek out exclusions, and use them as opportunities to create new and better experiences." ♥️ — The New Inclusive Design website from Microsoft inclusive.microsoft.design

I've looked for something like this to reference every time I've used the inclusive design graphics from Microsoft before. So glad this exists now! 🙌🏻 ✨ "a lot is going on right now" is precisely why we want more posts like this #a11y

Look who is back. And we can’t be more excited! 🌷 smashingconf.com/amsterdam-2026

Going through a visa application form I paused halfway to record the screen as I inspect a button used in a disclosure widget & I ended up with a good example to show in my upcoming workshop @smashingconf.com Speaking of which! Yes, I'll be returning to SmashingConf this year ✨ Details coming soon!

this very aptly applies to developer tools as well

Lots of US politics in my timeline recently. What's everyone doing to dilute and/or filter topics on Bluesky?

Plank update: I haven't planked in almost 10 days. I used the instability plates today: I stopped at 7 minutes because it was enough for a start. They didn't make the plank more challenging though. I thought they'd allow my wrists to rest but instead they strained them more.

We'll be getting multiple outlines in #CSS!! Multiple outlines means no more hacking our way around accessible and creative outline styles with box-shadows that aren't rendered in forced-colors mode! 🙌 Finally!! This is such great news!! 🎉🥳

Here's your friendly reminder that CSS selectors are global and evaluated RTL, so if you have selectors that are very broad like `.container > div` you might be impacting performance in a measurable way 🙈 Before and after profile of server switching after some selector optimizations in @discord.com

My account bas been unsuspended. Thank you to whoever is responsible 🙏🏻

This is a great post about SVG's `feTurbulence` and other SVG filters, @sarasoueidan.com. Thanks a lot! tympanus.net/codrops/2019...

It’s wild to me just how much wrong information there is out there (written by humans in the later half of 2025) about using CSS to create masonry layouts. There is no property named `grid-lanes` (as in grid-lanes: repeat(4, 200px)). There is no `masonry-direction` property. Or `masonry` anything.

I've been experimenting with @bunny.net as my video hosting platform (to replace Vimeo) for a couple of days. I was away all day and just logged back into my account only to be presented with this screen. :) Should I take this as a sign to look for alternatives? Got any recommendations?

Is there a way to detect if the scrollbar gutter is present or absent? There is no media/container query, I believe, and I thought those newfangled svw units would help, but they don''t.

I have a good use case for the new #CSS grid-lanes / masonry layout. ✨ I've been thinking about a horizontal masonry layout for a list of images and this is the perfect opportunity to play with the new property values and use them as an enhancement. Will report back with thoughts/findings/etc.

Behold—I am taking my planks and pushups to the Next Level™️. Excited to see how long I can hold a plank with the instability plates attached. 😃

Proud to announce TechConf.Directory, a directory of tech conferences around the globe. I've found it quite difficult to find conferences. That is true no more! I've made all the data fully open and available via a fully queryable API as well. techconf.directory #Conferences #Tech #Programming