How Many Dudes? đź”—
If I’ve been missing from the internet it’s because I’ve been spending my evenings grinding on a game from Butterscotch Shenanigans called How Many Du [...]
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I wish you the best in the Offline đź”—
A handful of people I follow and know about have announced their recent departure. Not from a job (although plenty of that going around), but from soc [...]
Introducing Microlighter đź”—
I made a smol client-side syntax highlighter that uses the CSS Custom Highlights API called MicroLighter. I’ll talk about why I made it in a bit but f [...]
Shadow-piercing local component variables đź”—
Edit (2026.08.24): Got feedback from the Web Components Community Group that I was mixing up inheritance, specificity, and the cascade and that * migh [...]
Vibe Check â„–43 đź”—
During my last vibe check the kids were still in school. Time has flown by. Work-life balance disrupted. Camps attended. Vacations were had. Bank acco [...]
Before I go: Double your business with companies you like đź”—
I’ve had the pleasure in my career of sitting in tons of different board rooms talking with executives and getting a rundown on different charts and g [...]
The new yet familiar CodePen 2.0 đź”—
CodePen v2 is now released! Because I co-host a podcast with Chris I’ve had an up-close perspective at this monumental effort over the last five years [...]
Finding curated public domain images đź”—
Xavier de Maistre in an armchair, displaying his “book of discoveries” (Veyssier, 1860) Every so often I like to include a public domain image in a bl [...]
A workaround for hiding empty slots in Chromium đź”—
Named slots are one of web components’ biggest superpowers ✨. Imagine a Button component with an optional icon; in Web Components we don’t need a sepa [...]
Spoons by Sam đź”—
I play Clues by Sam nearly every single day. I wrote about it before, but solving a little crime puzzle adds a micro-thrill to my day. A little blast [...]
Vibe Check â„–42 đź”—
Forgive me, Reader. It’s been five months since my last vibe check. That’s a lot of ground to cover and it’s not possible to get into everything that [...]
The duality of language models in the browser đź”—
I have complex feelings about Generative AI but one area I find myself weirdly bullish on is small language models (SLMs) in the browser which are ava [...]
10,000-watt GPU meet 40-watt lump of meat đź”—
The use of AI is leading to burnout among its greatest advocates as they hit the limit of their meta-cognitive abilities: “I end each day exhausted—no [...]
I don't want a screenshot of your Claude conversation đź”—
The number of screenshots of Claude conversations is going up in my life and it’s beginning to have an impact on my general mood. Most of the time it’ [...]
When moving fast, talking is the first thing to break đź”—
When you make speed and “moving fast” the biggest priority on a project or in an organization, the first thing to breakdown is talking to each other. [...]
Inverted themes with light-dark() đź”—
We rolled out adaptive light-dark() support on our design system themes and it’s been a delightful upgrade. Creating light and dark variable sets isn’ [...]
Ozempic dreams đź”—
It’s a secret to everyone! This post is for RSS subscribers only. Read more about RSS Club. I’ve heard the term “Ozempic face” for awhile. People hav [...]
Before I go: People like it when other people make things đź”—
I’ve watched a billion hours of YouTube and I’ve noticed a common trend: Whether that’s a drawing, a video game, a song, a cake, or a whole-ass off-gr [...]
People are not friction đź”—
The Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect of AI is a pretty well documented phenomenon: The Gell-Mann amnesia effect is a cognitive bias describing the tendency of [...]
Smaller and dumber đź”—
If I can make it smaller, I should. If I can make it dumber, I should. Smaller, dumber things have more applications, go more places, and require less [...]