I'm pretty sure listening this song would be torture for some people, but it just makes me sleepy www.youtube.com/watch?v=8k4o...

explaining to a normal grandperson “Yes, it’s called Chainsaw Man” “What is it, some kind of guy who cuts people up with a chainsaw?” “It’s actually a meditation on economic disparity and emotional isolation and despair in the modern world. But yes, he also cuts people up with a chainsaw.”

Web component folks: A common feature with request is to "inherit from a button". If that's something you want, which specific button behaviours is it you want to inherit? Why is putting a button in the shadow root not the answer?

I think I have to stop playing video games over lunch Work is rewarding in its own way, but trying to get back into the zone after having my reward centers flooded with feel-good juice? Let's just say clacking out "as per my last email" hits different 😒

It's so frustrating that the way you get good at most things is by doing them

I’ve been on bsky for like 5 min and I think I need to log off for the day

Just picked up my iPad Mini and it was at 20% battery. It somehow torched 7 percentage points over about 2 minutes There are so many bugs in the 26 OS updates that Apple *has* to overhaul their processes, right? RIGHT!?

WELCOME TO NEWS

Hey, that's almost every day for me!

I have no idea what this song is about, but it's a bop www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAh8...

I'm cautiously optimistic about Atlassian acquiring The Browser Company I liked a lot about Arc, especially how it challenged long held assumptions about web browser (and desktop app) user experience. I hope this will enable that team to keep exploring and experimenting www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/09/...

Anyone else have a bad habit of picking the funniest option in a tense moment instead of the smartest or safest? No? Just me?

What might the future of writing apps look like? @nerdy.dev thinks it's going to be a different style of writing www.youtube.com/watch?v=jF2e... creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...

Anyone know why everything is getting remade in UE5 these days?

Did you know you can lie on the internet and no one will stop you?

Honestly snippets are one of my favorite features in DevTools. I love hacking on small tools and iterating directly in the context where I’ll be using and debugging them

Very exciting news. With these changes, you can more easily build accordions such as seen in this recording. developer.chrome.com/blog/styling... Currently supported in Chrome and Safari, and soon Firefox!

Why don’t payment kiosks at restaurants ever seem to have an @ on the keyboard when entering an email address? 🤔

Only one week left to pre-order JavaScript for Everyone and get £100 off the full price of £249. Until next Tuesday, £149 ($200) will get you a whole seat—BUT YOU'LL ONLY NEED THE EDGE. bsky.app/profile/wil....

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: "

I have absolutely no coincidence in Perplexity as a steward of the web www.theverge.com/news/758218/...

Introducing WCAG for humans: the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines manually summarised on one page in 7 practical themes: AndrewHick.com/humans ♿️ Feedback welcome! Many thanks to Martin Glancy for reviewing the draft and @tempertemper.bsky.social for the initial inspiration. #accessibility #wcag

Ugh, too many ideas for things I want to build and not enough time For some reason this morning I've been thinking about imgdiff.app, a domain I own that says what it should do on the tin

🎙️New Igalia Chats: a conversation with Seth Dobbs, the CEO of the W3C. @bkardell.com and @meyerweb.com spent an hour talking with @sethdobbs.bsky.social about what the CEO of a standards body does, the W3C’s new vision statement, the future of the W3C, and much more! www.igalia.com/chats/w3c-se...

For some reason my brain just decided that "Tremendous" is a fantastic first name

The other day @davatron5000.bsky.social shared a link to the new `stretch` keyword in CSS – and I saw a lot of questions about how it's different from 100% (or 100vh when doing full-screen layouts). So I made a quick video to show how these all work! #CSS youtu.be/iZZXOuLxagE

Atlassian product plugin pricing blows my mind

Well, I _had_ stuff to do this morning, but I guess this is good too

My laptop is temporarily out of commission so my gaming PC has become my work computer

🚨 PSA for @firefox.com add-on developers 🚨 There's a phishing campaign that's using false urgency to trick developers into granting a 3rd party access to their AMO accounts. Stay safe out there! blog.mozilla.org/addons/2025/...

Huh, I think I have one of those around here somewhere…

Idk if this is the neurodivergent in me or what but I just really wish everyone could be upfront with their motives, intentions, and feelings. It’s so exhausting to have to second guess people’s intent even when they do good things. And I do it bc too often, people completely switch up years or even

Dousing myself with coffee was not the distraction I needed this morning

I started doing this a while ago because of spam Spammers (used to) have a tell: an audible click when the call gets passed from the automated dialer to whoever will be doing the cold pitch. So if I didn't know the number, I listen and prepare to hang up www.businessinsider.com/gen-z-phone-...

Declaring #tabbankruptcy at 885 tabs across 13 windows. This one was long overdue

Happy 7/11 to those that celebrate

Welp, I accidentally bought a used phone and missed that the title said "wifi only". That explains why it was so cheap 🤦🏻

npm ruin

Sometimes when taking notes in a meeting I'll realize that I've stopped processing what people are saying. I'm just writing out words and hoping that they make sense to other people

Match 3 games are increasingly leaving me feeling hollow. All the addiction, none of the substance

“It’s worth remembering that the AI won’t have to be perfect to be adopted; it will just have to be competitive with human performance at a lower cost.” ( - _ -*)

I think I’ve identified an emerging trend in one of my online communities where newer folks are asking weirdly inaccurate questions It hasn’t happened much, but what just clicked is that in each case so far the question asker got their info from (or linked to) Perplexity

Once in a while I’ll remember that I set up beep.ist, open it, then feel fuzzy Always be beeping! 🐤

Maybe RSS is the social media I've wanted all along 🤔

@nerdy.dev How did you integrate Mastodon & Bluesky replies, reposts, and likes on your blog?

Brox and Staten Island, y tho?

What are your favorite blogs about the #web, #webdev, and #webstandards? (gross hash tags regrettably used to try to cast a wider net)

@piccalil.li FYI your Links feed is has the title "Piccalilli - Articles", which is the same as your Articles feed

I'd bet 😅 is my most used emoji. I think that just means I have a lot of anxiety

I wish we were all a little more comfortable owning how little we all know