so you can sort of click around in the corners if you want to learn more random shit, or at the biggest ones to quickly bump your real world %. the ones you learn get flipped but you have to “protect” them (initially often, then they get more stable) according to spaced repetition decay

Also, just having *more* stuff isn’t always better. Stupid proposals have issues and also have an opportunity cost. All of web components was a huge mistake.

Also, the lack of an alternative proposal is not a good reason to ship the half-baked thing.

I sometimes say that Tim Cook is the world’s greatest glue salesman. Here’s why www.wired.com/story/apple-...

Yes, but. #CSS #scope

Everything else aside, these kinds of extremely severe bugs just being ignored for months really paints an absolutely terrible picture for Webkit and Safari. @jensimmons.bsky.social you’re the only person I hope can get this the urgency it needs. adactio.com/journal/22507

This work is so important that I reinstalled Bluesky to support it. Shoutout James and the rest of e18e for their thankless work making the web a better place

Finally getting my shadcn replacement published and here is why i built it:

We have just published a beta dev tools extension for chrome. It’s great for debugging StyleX and also useful for other atomic style solutions. (Mapping styles to source are obviously impossible with Tailwind, however) Please report any bugs! chromewebstore.google.com/detail/style...

100jumps.org fun game

Liquid Glass was definitely an influence but I think we pulled off something that is significantly better. Specially in hindsight. Liquid Glass has been a disaster.

Even tailwind devs can benefit from this devtools extension! We can’t magically make Tailwind a better experience, but we can at least help debug it a bit better.

Evan Ratliff co-founded a company with an AI agent named Kyle. Kyle, not surprisingly, became a LinkedIn power poster. So much so that the company invited him -- yes, the AI agent -- to speak at an internal LinkedIn event. I won't spoil what comes next, but this entire story is a delight:

Please report any bugs. With StyleX. With Tailwind. With any atomic CSS thing you may use. Also feature requests welcome. This is just the first release.

Reddit took the post down, but you can access the data here: github.com/upper-up/met...

I've released a new word game called Parseword, that tries to make cryptic crosswords more accessible. You can play it here: www.parseword.com

AI isn’t the reason to stop building new frameworks. It’s the reason to build many new frameworks and try ideas that would be considered bad for devX or too verbose in the past. I’ve had near perfect results trying all sorts of non-mainstream tools.

i really don't care about using AI to ship more stuff it's really hard to come up with stuff worth shipping i want to ship the same amount of stuff with higher quality both in product and code

Very good article!! tonsky.me/blog/fall-of...

The Suicide Squad (2021) dir. James Gunn

I would keep paying for cursor even if all it got me was the next edit predictions. But It has gotten so buggy it’s basically unusable. So I cancelled it. Maybe Ill try Supermaven

I would keep paying for cursor even if all it got me was the next edit predictions. But It has gotten so buggy it’s basically unusable. So I cancelled it.

Wrapping react-query APIs is one of the most painful things I’ve done. Worth it though.

Should start a sequel to css-tricks called css-rants but it’s only shorts like this!

team i'm FIRED UP about these gnarly gotchas with Anchor Positioning in CSS.

The most common complaint about themes in StyleX and I’m tired of explaining to people that this is just how CSS variables work!

A) shadow dom considered harmful

Truer words haven’t been said. Also sho king to me that more languages don’t have alternative syntax options. Think Reason for OCaml, Coffeescript for JS (even if I hated that syntax). Where’s the rust but descriptive words instead of inscrutable symbols for everything? Also, aliases.

if syntax truly doesn't matter... then why not give the people what they want? since it doesn't matter anyway

compiler people love to complain that users only care about syntax... but syntax is the primary affordance that users use to interact with your tool! of course it's massively important what that syntax is!

Long interesting discussion about this.

Now that Scott has chimed in a feel a lot more confident about all the “issues” with the HTML dialog element also being issues for a11y.

Available in Safari Technology Preview and Firefox Nightly 🤩 If you would like to see `:heading()` in Chrome/Edge/etc, hit the star next to issues.chromium.org/issues/43814... to signal interest.

Nice try, but you can’t trick me into opening LinkedIn

The react part is …ok. I mean it’s just XML which looks nice to compose stuff. But that tailwind classes pattern is pretty stupid. Just ask for normal props and stop calling it “className”. Eesh.

I miss this from Flow all the time. Typescript is such a big downgrade for this reason alone. And I hate it the most because the type system could support it easily, but JSX has shitty typedefs.

Google Cloud’s customer chief returns to Microsoft as head of security. Hayete Gallot previously spent nearly 16 years at Microsoft. She's taking over from Charlie Bell, who Satya Nadella has asked to take on a new role. Details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/873930/...

I wrote about what I think is wrong or missing with the web component APIs. There’s probably many more nice-to-haves that could be added, but I wanted to focus on what feels like the most obvious issues. nmn.sh/blog/2026-02...

The web component APIs are some of the worst web APIs added within the last decade. Sharp edges. Surprising behaviour. You can tell them were rushed. Maybe I’ll write an article with a list of changes I think could make them usable without significant downsides.

"who cares if it's slop it works code doesn't matter" isn't a good way to sell ai im producing cleaner codebases than ever because of ai now i can actually refactor everything when we find a better way of doing something before shitty code just lingered forever

Still the greatest video ever made. Sorry. I don't make the rules...

“Agentic Web” is a BS term. It’s just agents using the web. It’s not some new kind of web.

“Ugliest of all”

Police Repeatedly Shoot Tim Cook After Mistaking iPhone For Gun https://theonion.com/police-repeatedly-shoot-tim-cook-after-mistaking-iphone-1824184361/

I thought this API supported highlighting (with colors), text within textareas but it doesn’t. So I think this API is pretty pointless

Chrome finally addressed one of the biggest reasons I prefer using Safari for browsing!

I’ve seen this comment so widely and yet it’s an extreme mischaracterization to say that Sadella was “begging people to use AI”. He literally just made statements about hypotheticals. Be better at argument your points.

Wrote this quickly from my phone but I think this is what I’d like to see. gist.github.com/chaance/fb2f...

Make a PR someone?

There is nothing in React itself that prevents using normal radio inputs. The problem is Radix-UI which for better or worse became a standard because of shadcn. Worth checking what react-aria and base-UI are doing. —- Also, maybe have an open mind and consider the div soup may exist for a reason