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Andy Bell

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Founder at: @set.studio and @piccalil.li Complete CSS Course: complete-css.com Studio: set.studio CSS Book: every-layout.dev Newsletter: piccalil.li/the-index 🔗 bell.bz/links 🌐 bell.bz 🌍 Cheltenham, UK

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Kevin Powell @kevinpowell.co · 1h
This week, I took a look at some fun ways we can spice up our site with some animations youtu.be/ZSNiSdB8Ens
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CSS animations to bring your site to life
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Scott Riley @scott.is · 3h
a lot of us out here putting in a tonne of effort to teach folks useful shit with just wildly diminished pay-off for the effort, even compared to a few years back. i think there's a bunch of reasons for this, most of which makes me incredibly grateful for folks who do invest in learning new shit.
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Jeremy Keith @adactio.com · 4h
Journal: Twenty five years of writing on adactio.com Happy birthday to my little corner of the web. 🔗https://adactio.com/journal/22781
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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 8h
“In response to “The death of web development education” ” bell.bz/in-response-to-the-death-of… > The most effective way I can contribute, in my opinion, is a crude sketch I just did of Piccalilli‘s Stripe chart for all time sales: That graph is eye-opening
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In response to “The death of web development education”
I read Mat​hia⁠s S​chäf⁠er’s excellent post, titled The death of web development education. I was thinking about how I can contribute to the conversation and really struggled to articulate the problem...
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Andy Bell @bell.bz · 9h
for some reason wordpress decided not to make the chart the featured image, so here it is
A line chart showing sporadic peaks, but healthy sales with a sudden drop-off to an almost flat-line situation. The drop-off is labelled 2026
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Andy Bell @bell.bz · 9h
New on the blog
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In response to “The death of web development education”
I read Mat​hia⁠s S​chäf⁠er’s excellent post, titled The death of web development education. I was thinking about how I can contribute to the conversation and really struggled to articulate the problem. The most effective way I can contribute, in my opinion, is a crude sketch I just did of Piccalilli‘s Stripe chart for all time…
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Sharon Steed 👩🏽‍💻 @sharonsteed.co · 23h
My book "Leading with Empathy For Dummies" is out TODAY! I wrote about what to expect, why to read it, who it's for, and - of course - where to buy it over on LinkedIn! ⬇️ www.linkedin.com/pulse/my-boo...
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My book "Leading with Empathy For Dummies" is out today!
In this newsletter: Why I wrote this book Who this book is for How to read this book Where to buy your copy For the past year, I've been researching and writing Leading with Empathy For Dummies. Today...
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Cassidy @cassidoo.co · 22h
saw this on a walk and I think more of y'all should see it
y'all want everything... but nothing if it takes time
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king lola 👑 @lolaodelola.bsky.social · 21h
WCAG is a great example of the the failure of the W3C's (& TBL's & in many way's Ted Nelson's) one web principle/dream/goal. WCAG is biased in favour of English. Other Latin scripts and languages benefit from that bias but other writing systems are disadvantaged.
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rem / Remy Sharp @remysharp.com · 29/09/2026
After careful consideration and a look at where the industry is spending it's funding we've decided to pivot #FFConf in a "new" direction. I present to you: ffconf.ai Please share with bots and humans alike.
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FFConf.ai
The web conference, now with 100% less you. Agent-first, human-optional, ice cream not included in the Enterprise tier.
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Andy Bell @bell.bz · 29/09/2026
on the anthropic IPO stuff, I think this via @garbageday.email is pretty much spot on www.garbageday.email/p/they-want-...
But I’ll end this here with a little conspiracy theory courtesy of Hacker News that I have decided I will believe until I see proof to the contrary. “OpenAI and Anthropic are publicly asking for slowdown in AI research,” one user wrote. “Translation: We see this technology not being any more useful than what it is now, no AGI is coming, and the first one to accept this and slow down the dollar burn rate will incur the wrath of the market. So let's say this big boogeyman technology will end all life on earth and we all slow down together.”
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Piccalilli @piccalil.li · 29/09/2026
In this final lesson of the free to read Principles module from Complete CSS, @bell.bz breaks down why progressive enhancement is the foundation of building websites that actually work for everyone and without it, you're already losing piccalilli.link/cc-free-less...
We build for everyone. Not just for ourselves or our peer groups.
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The byline left up there like a head on a spike outside a castle
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Andy Bell @bell.bz · 29/09/2026
To call this anything other than genocide should be a crime in itself.
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Chris Brandrick @brandrick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Here’s my Nintendo round up for the week
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Turns out their financials revealed they lost more money than the entire GDP of Iceland
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Andy Bell @bell.bz · 29/09/2026
Formative album for me
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Andy Bell @bell.bz · 28/09/2026
such an obvious win for the government to invest in
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
“Can I have more money?”
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 28/09/2026
John Healey will, according to reports, head into the Budget with a £4bn to £6.5bn chunk of his fiscal headroom having mysteriously gone walkabouts. The cause? A sharp drop in immigration to the UK. Almost as though migrants aren’t all just wandering around devouring taxes for shits and giggles.
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Net Migration if Falling - now the Treasury needs to Pay the Bill for it.
After years of promising that fewer migrants would relieve pressure on Britain, Labour is discovering that cutting migration also means cutting workers, taxpayers and economic headroom.
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Kevin Powell @kevinpowell.co · 28/09/2026
Ever double-tapped a button on your phone and had the page zoom in? In this post over on @piccalil.li, @bell.bz looks at a simple CSS one-liner of `touch-action: manipulation` to prevent that, rather than messing with the viewport meta. piccalil.li/blog/stop-bu...
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Stop buttons triggering zoom when they’re double tapped
It’s annoying when your browser zooms if a button is rapidly tapped. There’s actually a really simple fix and no, you don’t have to prevent all zooming with a meta tag!
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Manuel Matuzović @matuzo.at · 28/09/2026
This advent calendar is your chance to share your knowledge with a large audience. You have 5 more days to submit your ideas. First-time authors are welcome!
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Paweł Grzybek @pawelgrzybek.com · 28/09/2026
"Stop buttons triggering zoom when they’re double tapped" by @piccalil.li Great post. Describes the problem I didn't even know I have, but also comes with a one-liner solution. I also didn't know about this property/value is in the CSS. As always top content! piccalil.li/blog/stop-bu... #css
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Stop buttons triggering zoom when they’re double tapped
It’s annoying when your browser zooms if a button is rapidly tapped. There’s actually a really simple fix and no, you don’t have to prevent all zooming with a meta tag!
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Andy Bell @bell.bz · 28/09/2026
rockin' up to the interview with a tin of surströmming
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The idea of a "tech industry" has always relied on "computer" being a special kind of medium, akin to alchemy. And if tech demands to be king, AI hype has now elevated LLMs to a king of kings. But the solipsism has hit a dead end. The only way forward is to recognize that computers are not special.
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LLMs are just normal technology. But tech is just a normal medium.
The more we focus on a particular technology, the more we lose sight of what normal people actually care about.
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
pervert tamagochi
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Andy Bell @bell.bz · 27/09/2026
I genuinely don’t think there’s a route back this time. Not to mention the seething hatred people outside of tech feel about the industry.
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Rude1 Haunted Badness. ⁂ @rude1.blacksky.team · 26/09/2026
Latest round of hiring is showing me that the tech industry is losing some extraordinarily talented people who are uninspired by its unimaginative visions for the future.
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Andy Bell @bell.bz · 26/09/2026
Basically it’s an illustration of a cuck situation, where the non-cucked people are labelled “Claude code” and “my project”. 

The caption above them reads “are you sure?” 

The caption above the cuck reads “yes”
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Andy Bell @bell.bz · 26/09/2026
lmao
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Mat “Wilto” Marquis @wil.to · 25/09/2026
The trouble with having printed stickers is forever knowing that you can be the change that you wish to see on the back of street signs.
"The people destroying the web have names and addresses" set in in a retro-digital monospaced font (from Metroid II), white on black, with a one pseudo-pixel offset light grey shadow. At the bottom in small monospaced type is "multipa.ge"
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Kilian Valkhof @kilianvalkhof.com · 25/09/2026
This is gonna be super useful. I didn't spend more time on finding an icon than the actual feature, but it's pretty close and I'm still not 100% happy.
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Manuel Matuzović @matuzo.at · 25/09/2026
In case you missed it, here's a recording of my talk 19½ Things You Didn’t Know about Accessibility in HTML and CSS, which I presented yesterday at #ID24. www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3Jh... Slides: noti.st/matuzo/OD53a...
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Manuel Matuzović / 19½ Things You Didn’t Know about Accessibility in HTML and CSS #id24 2026
YouTube video by Inclusive Design 24 #id24
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Andy Bell @bell.bz · 25/09/2026
eggstein island
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Andy Bell @bell.bz · 25/09/2026
nothing makes me miss Astro more than working with other systems. They just don't do it as good IMO
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Astro is our preferred front-end platform
We’ve tried every combination of front-end platform and back-end integration you can think of over the years, but nothing has been as consistently excellent than Astro for us.
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Kevin Powell @kevinpowell.co · 24/09/2026
A quick look at how the `lh` unit can make styling textareas a lot easier, and a quick look at field-sizing which makes something that was very hard, very easy 😊
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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 24/09/2026
Reading and social media How platforms strip all nuance from the debate make it hard to discuss audiobooks, print, and ebooks online See the full video, "Why is social media so humourless?" that talks about the effects of context collapse in social media at youtu.be/dcz8YzRNo5M
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Niels Leenheer @html5test.com · 24/09/2026
For 15 years I've been obsessed with receipt printers and the protocols that they speak. I created an open-source encoder that can run in the browser can create receipts and send them to the printer. That turned into a whole project that is now used by dozens of products: point-of-sale.dev
A dozen receipt printers - only a fraction of my "lab"
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Andy Bell @bell.bz · 24/09/2026
I don’t know how people read “we’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity” and then just crack on with whatever their agents are doing
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Chris Brandrick @brandrick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
you should subscribe to my newsletter. i just sent my 500th weekly issue, ~which is an eternity in internet years~ so it must be half decent ⤵️
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Ahmad Shadeed @ishadeed.com · 24/09/2026
✍️ New Article: Detect when elements overlap with CSS Can CSS tell when two elements overlap? At first, I thought this was not possible, but it turned out it can be done with scroll-driven animations and anchor positioning. ishadeed.com/article/css-...
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Detect when elements overlap with CSS
Detecting when two elements overlap using only CSS anchor positioning and scroll-driven animations.
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Niels Leenheer @html5test.com · 24/09/2026
Fronteers Dark Mode conference is next week! Monday I'll send badges to the printer... which means if you want a proper badge... sign up now! We've got a handful of tickets left and they are only €100 for an evening of front-end talks by some amazing speakers. www.fronteersconf.org
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Fronteers Dark Mode, Friday, October 2nd, Dordrecht
Join us at Cinema de Witt in Dordrecht for our after work conference.
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Scott Riley @scott.is · 22/09/2026
the fun thing with these/this product(s) is that if you like them but hate that there’s no remote sync then you can self-host and then (if you want to use dexie cloud) enabling live sync is like a three-line non-breaking change and will cost you a whopping twelve pence a month.
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Andy Bell @bell.bz · 23/09/2026
This is an outstanding piece of writing
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Kevin Powell @kevinpowell.co · 23/09/2026
It's annoying to keep hearing about cool CSS features only to find out browser support isn't great, so today I take a look at a bunch of features that have fantastic support, but people still turn to JS for instead. youtu.be/qu1jE41O_8o
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Use these CSS features instead of JavaScript
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Blacksky Algorithms @blackskyweb.xyz · 23/09/2026
🎉 Acorn is officially open. You can now create a space for your community on the open social web - no wait required. acorn.blacksky.community
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Andy Bell @bell.bz · 23/09/2026
put // comments in CSS in interop 2027 u cowards
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B. Prendergast @renderg.host · 23/09/2026
@bell.bz that annoys me too! Thanks for writing a whole thing about it (and also thanks 🙏 for being so complimentary about the design). Just merged that change ❤️‍🩹... And for anyone who just wants to listen in to #radioghost → radio.renderg.host
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My personal favourite radio stations — ambient, dub, and underground radio streamed live from Berlin, Bristol, Rotterdam, and beyond.
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Andy Bell @bell.bz · 23/09/2026
you spend all year waiting for inspiration for CSS posts and two come at once
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absolute horses @jcoglan.com · 23/09/2026
someone pinged this thread and I can say a year on that everything I expressed here has got very much worse bsky.app/profile/jcog...
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