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On AI Coding and Its Discontents [link] 🔗

Anecdotal, but still an interesting read on stories from (initially) a single developer and how they converted to Claude and then have rewound back qu [...]

Three Men in a Boat [book] 🔗

Really enjoyed it. Lots of stupid tales - surprisingly fresh for 1889. As per the title, it's a story, almost, of three men (and their dog), who take [...]

Not All Screen Reader Users Are Blind [link] 🔗

Good article that's backed with data, but this is the bit that really landed for me, a reminder that it's not all "what aria role is needed here...?" [...]

Progressive Enhancement inside of JavaScript [blog] 🔗

Lately I've had the opportunity to travel by train and coach, during which time I also tend to work. It's really only during these periods that I'm re [...]

A Firefox-only minimap [link] 🔗

This is very cute, a web site minimap in only a few lines of CSS that paints the entire web page into a canvas (background) using the element() CSS fu [...]

Pokémon Emerald [tif] 🔗

Similar to the Pokemon Yellow recently, I had a GBA Emerald Green sent in for repair. Just 24 hours ago, this was going to be a post on how I had fail [...]

Human Software [book] 🔗

A book about work, felt like work. I suspect this is very specific to me, but I found the majority of the story pretty triggering - specifically, I fe [...]

Rescued Pokémon Yellow [tif] 🔗

I guess I just want bragging rights, but here's the short story of rescuing Pokémon Yellow. I run "fix your gameboy game for £10" which occasionally I [...]

when-do web component [blog] 🔗

I saw recently saw a blog post (which annoyingly I can't find any more, but I'll link it if I do), showing off a web component that if I recall correc [...]

'VPNs are lawful technical tools,' says EU Court in landmark copyright ruling [link] 🔗

I've been following the stories around the "child protection" because on one hand it does afford children some protection, but it also hammers down on [...]

Image to text [link] 🔗

Really appreciate Jeremy's post on the way he used generative AI to solve a problem. Specifically he considers the options carefully and was able to m [...]

The Air Raid Book Club [book] 🔗

Quick easy read. Little repetitive, but shines a nice light. The story starts in 1938 and we follow Gertie as she plans to retire as a widow having ru [...]

The infinite scroll may become endangered if controversial Calif. law passes [link] 🔗

I've been banging on about this for a while now and I absolutely welcome the prospect of this being a reality, and hopefully not just for children. Ad [...]

In defense of polyfills • Lea Verou [link] 🔗

An excellent post on polyfills, talking through their impact, what issues people (mostly in the standards world) face. Chock full of quotable lines, w [...]

This was the first commit via an LLM to git [link] 🔗

TIL: git (the command line tool) now contains LLM generated code (I'm still unsure, we're calling this generative AI, right?). Landed in Jan 2026. I a [...]

Wildcards In CSS [blog] 🔗

Just a brainfart here, but it's odd that even though we have wildcard selectors throughout CSS, and even partial selectors (I'll explain in a bit) we [...]

AI Content Is Everywhere on Social Media, Especially LinkedIn [link] 🔗

When I think of AI slop, as a developer working on or around the web, I tend to think of dev-centric content, such as blog posts or even software (a l [...]

Web Platform Wishlist on Vale.Rocks [link] 🔗

I remember the days I was hungry for features on the web…it was…a long time ago! So it's refreshing to read that others still have ideas and want more [...]

querySelector immediate children with :scope [link] 🔗

Came across this nice little TIL in the qSA API: parentNode.querySelectorAll('> *') you get an error: '> *' is not a valid selector.. That doesn't wo [...]

Fundamentally [book] 🔗

Loved it. Intelligent and genuinely made me laugh. This book was recommended in our work Slack, and just pull quote for the book description, I found [...]

Why we moved our Bluesky data to Eurosky [link] 🔗

As I've been seeing more and more posts about PDS and things like "lexicons" such as standard.site, I've been thinking more about how Bluesky is the m [...]

Under the hood of MDN's new frontend [link] 🔗

A long article (23 min read!) on the rebuild of MDN away from React and into Web Components. There's lots in there, but I particularly like the sectio [...]

Decompressing 33 signal bytes [blog] 🔗

In my RSS reader, I stumbled upon this code-golfed (i.e. minimised to death) snippet that's fairly clever, but from the code, utterly opaque. I couldn [...]

Platform Decay (The Murderbot Diaries, #8) [book] 🔗

Solid entry into the series. I've read all the previous Murderbot books, but since the last, I also watched the TV series - which I equally enjoyed, b [...]

Accessible (I Think) Split-Cell Table Headers by Eric Archived Thoughts [link] 🔗

This really isn't the intended take away from Eric's post (which is worth reading), but I needed a CSS rule that targetting Safari (because their supp [...]

FFConf 2026 is live: Things I Learnt [blog] 🔗

As with each year for the FFConf web site, I have a distinct idea of the visual style I want. It has zero to do with the content we're presenting each [...]

prop-for-that: CSS reacts, JS just listens [link] 🔗

This is neat. Effectively injecting a tonne of JavaScript based sensors into the elements that ask for the particular category via data-props-for, suc [...]

A bouncer in your pocket by Sacha Judd [link] 🔗

Sacha has an in depth analysis of the UK's recent announcements around social media websites and children's access to them. I wanted to pull a few quo [...]

20 Years of Blogging [blog] 🔗

Today is the anniversary of the first blog post on this website from two decades ago. It was about client side JavaScript to automatically (albeit bli [...]

Enhancing with CSS Grid Lanes [link] 🔗

I've been catching CSS Grid Lanes in the socials this week, but somehow had it in my head that it was to do with the gaps (the lanes) between the grid [...]

Social media to be banned for under-16s in landmark government move to give kids their childhood back - GOV.UK [link] 🔗

The UK government has announced they're going ahead with a social media ban for 16 year old and under. In our household we've already had this restric [...]

AI designed pages and prompts [link] 🔗

Based on the output of this article the author has styled their project with different AI prompts. I think what I find interesting here is after the j [...]

The “Nude” Ultimatum: Privacy Is Dead - The Unknown Universe [link] 🔗

The UK government's ultimatum to Apple and Google is a blueprint for mass surveillance. A warning on why "nothing to hide" won't protect your digital [...]

More molly guards [link] 🔗

I love these little deep dives into bits of UX that we take for granted. Admittedly I think extending the idea of a Molly Guard to a "Are you sure" pr [...]

Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers [link] 🔗

The "AI overview" is its own content, not just a list of search results. This is really interesting and I would love to see this set the tone for oth [...]

No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious - Ted Chiang [link] 🔗

I didn't really need to read much past the title or subtitle, but it's still an excellent essay that does a good job of drawing comparisons to concept [...]

Are you standard.site? [link] 🔗

Another (shorter) entry in how how devs are adding Standard.site to their web sites to enrich the social cards.I suspect we'll start to gravitat towar [...]

How I foot-gunned our newsletter this week [blog] 🔗

For the second year running, as part of our "stay sane" strategy for FFConf, Julie and I write and send a weekly newsletter. It's structured the same [...]

The 30 year game [blog] 🔗

Today I'm releasing my Game Boy game called Marbles² (or Marbles Squared). It's a port of a game that I originally wrote back in 2002, but is a game t [...]

When the Cranes Fly South [book] 🔗

Took me a minute to get into, but then…I cried. The good kind. It took me until around 20% of the book to get on with it properly. I was struggling to [...]

NES Programming in 6502 Assembly [link] 🔗

Source: pikuma.com [...]

A popover backdrop anti-pattern [blog] 🔗

After attending recent conferences and learning that I can swap out buckets of JavaScript for the HTML native popover property, I've been using it lib [...]

devtools: how to query through the shadow DOM [blog] 🔗

This is a literal TIL but was so handy I had to put it my blog so that I wouldn't forget it later. Thanks to Big Brain Keith Cirkel for sharing this. [...]

Apps I use, that you might not know [blog] 🔗

This is a cheap post to share some of the apps (macos, sorry Windows users) that I use on a fairly regular basis and think some of you might not have [...]

Lost Lambs [book] 🔗

Enjoyable, well drawn characters, a pleasure to read. I really enjoyed reading this book. The story floats like a butterfly from one character to the [...]

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