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Chris Ferdinandi @cferdinandi.bsky.social · 23h

And they just work SO WELL! Heats fast, and has that same "turn down the temp and the cook surface instantly cools" effect like gas. It's not just safer. It's ALSO a superior cooking experience. That rarely happens! Win-win!

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Chris Ferdinandi @cferdinandi.bsky.social · 23h

"Actually..." I also had a now-former Jewish friend tell me that the Jewish people have unique ownership over the word "genocide" and that to call what Israel is doing one is "blood libel"

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 23h

stating that Israel is engaged in an ongoing genocide against Palestinian people is a basic fact. It's uncontroversial. It's true.

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Chris Ferdinandi @cferdinandi.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Arguably, AI agents are a major compounding factor Of global warming.

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Chris Ferdinandi @cferdinandi.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Ours provides massive rebates for heat pumps... but only if you're converting from an existing electric resistance or natural gas setup. If you're new install, you're out-of-luck. Which is dumb because it'd almost be "cheaper" to install, then retrofit, even on new construction.

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Chris Ferdinandi @cferdinandi.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Already done! I may also know some folks with conference experience I can connect you with (and also noted such in the form)

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Chris Ferdinandi @cferdinandi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If you're looking for speakers, I'd be thrilled to talk about what I learned building Kelp (kelpui.com), an HTML-first web component library, and forking it for a client project used across multiple sites and web apps.

kelpui.com

Kelp

A UI library for people who love HTML, powered by modern CSS and Web Components.

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Chris Ferdinandi @cferdinandi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I’m thinking of a situation where only the table exceeds the viewport width, but causes an overflow on the whole page. If on a section of the page other than the table, you can end up accidentally scrolling into an empty white void.

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Chris Ferdinandi @cferdinandi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I hear you. I also think it's fair to say that "native scrolling" (it's always native, you mean body vs. container) creates other issues when not all of the content on the page bleeds horizontally out the viewport. And the scrolling-element-inside-another effect is, to many folks, displeasing.

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Chris Ferdinandi @cferdinandi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

So in that demo, you can scroll horizontally with sticky row headers, but the column headers don't stick. The only way to fix that would be to add a `height` property to that containing element.

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Chris Ferdinandi @cferdinandi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Ok, got it! codepen.io/cferdinandi/... Your demos let the body have its natural overflow. A lot of sites prevent that so that users can't horizontally scroll in random places with blocks of text, but DO want scrolling for the table. Adding overflow around the table messes up `position: sticky`.

codepen.io

Fixed Table Header Demo: Page Level

Using position: sticky to create fixed cell/row headers. Used in my post "Fixed Table Headers" https://adrianroselli.com/2020/01/fixed-table-headers.h...

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Chris Ferdinandi @cferdinandi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

No, I'm very clearly missing something! I'm seeing in your first Pen that it behaves the way I want, but my own code doesn't. Thanks for that! This is a very useful starting point!

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Chris Ferdinandi @cferdinandi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

And the hack I was thinking of is where you replicate an entire table with <div> elements and ARIA roles.

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Chris Ferdinandi @cferdinandi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I likely did a bad job explaining it. In this pen, the "Scrolling in Two Directions" table only works if there's a `height` attribute set: codepen.io/aardrian/pen... Scrolling (and the sticking headers) happen on containing element, not the body.

codepen.io

Fixed Table Header Demo: Responsive with Scroll Snap

Used in my post "Fixed Table Headers" https://adrianroselli.com/2020/01/fixed-table-headers.html...

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Chris Ferdinandi @cferdinandi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I'm getting a LOT of pushback on having a vertical scrolling element inside the `body`, which also scrolls vertically, and I can't figure out how to fix it short of doing the "two tables stacked" or "use divs with `[role]`" hacks, which I really want to avoid!

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Chris Ferdinandi @cferdinandi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

@aardrian.bsky.social I keep coming back to your fixed table headers article. Is there any way to make a table with both sticky column and headers work WITHOUT having to set a fixed height/internal scrolling on the table's wrapping element? adrianroselli.com/2020/01/fixe...

adrianroselli.com

Fixed Table Headers

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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin @bethsawin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Honestly instead of learning new techniques to hack my nervous system I'd like to live in a equitable life-affirming society that didn't push me into fight or flight hour after hour. You?

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Chris Ferdinandi @cferdinandi.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Unrelated: is hopepunk similar to solarpunk?

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Chris Ferdinandi @cferdinandi.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

100% have witnessed this first hand. Principal level devs trying to ship code that a junior would get coached out of writing their first week on the job.

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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Nah, it actually sucks at the user level. I live with someone forced to use it, whose coworkers have become progressively less able at their jobs, less able to communicate effectively, less moral, less ethical, more paranoid, and it links directly to the C-suite’s (not-yet homicidal) AI psychosis.

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Chris Ferdinandi @cferdinandi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Thank you! The Digital Garden is my new place for all things I've learned, but no plans to create any more courses going forward.

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Chris Ferdinandi @cferdinandi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Most folks don't realize it, which is why I mentioned it. (I only learned in the last year or two)

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Chris Ferdinandi @cferdinandi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Technically not me anymore. I literally quit because the whole industry tanked and it wasn't worth the amount of work to keep it going.

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Chris Ferdinandi @cferdinandi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

That’s a sing about his dad dying. We need to let that joke go.

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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

100% policing women's bodies is authoritarian bullshit, policing *anyone's* body is bullshit, full stop, just stop don't be the body police for patriarchy

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chadzia dax 🔞😷 @m00psy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

did you know that every day, more people are getting long covid? because the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic never actually ended, even if eveyone is acting like it? mask up and start stopping the spread again. we have the tools to actually end the pandemic. we just have to all pitch in and use them.

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Chris Ferdinandi @cferdinandi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Literally had to close shop entirely last year on a course business I spent a decade growing into my fulltime job. Couldn’t cover the bills anymore.

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Chris Ferdinandi @cferdinandi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Meanwhile Vivaldi remains AI free to its core. Nothing to even disable.

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RobotLyra, Single and Silly @robotlyra.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I used to say my philosophy major just taught me to think for myself outside of doing what my parents told me, but I had NO IDEA how frighteningly far that defense would be needed

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Lydia Hekataia @frogmother.net · 29/09/2026

Discrimination against us isn't just bad because the hypothetical issue is tiny. The entire basis people have for believing it is an issue is false. Plenty of people think the bans are too discriminatory but that they are based in "common sense", and that's wrong, and should be pushed back against.

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Lydia Hekataia @frogmother.net · 29/09/2026

Trans athletes should be accepted, and should be able to win and succeed just like any other athletes, and a trans athlete winning every so often is not evidence that there's an underlying truth in banning them.

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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026

Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 29/09/2026

The turn most software devs have taken shouldn't have surprised me. Well before LLMs, most devs I've met had the soul of a landlord Sometimes "landlord trying to be cool". Sometimes "landlord who wants suffering with the rent" But both see the world with the eyes of a rent-seeker

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Chris Ferdinandi @cferdinandi.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I probably should have specified US-based, not because I don't wat to support my international comrades, but because shipping and tarriffs are wild right now! Sadly, all of the best stuff seems to be from Europe.

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Chris Ferdinandi @cferdinandi.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I'm trying to buy some leftist patches for my backpack, but everything I'm finding on Etsy is 3" or larger. Anyone have any other places to look that aren't Amazon or the like?

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Chris Ferdinandi @cferdinandi.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

My experience with their stickers was... very bad

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Chris Ferdinandi @cferdinandi.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I'm trying to buy some leftist patches for my backpack, but everything I'm finding on Etsy is 3" or larger. Anyone have any other places to look that aren't Amazon or the like?

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💀your friend corrigan.🥀 @hereliescorri.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We had a Palestinian Christian pastor speak in chapel at my evangelical university back in like, 2006, and I remember there being many students who were outraged by his (very mild) criticism of Israel, not by the persecution he faced as a Christian.

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Chris Ferdinandi @cferdinandi.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

And yet people still pronounce gif wrong 😂

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Chris Ferdinandi @cferdinandi.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Oh, you’ve probably been insulated from most of it then. The free accounts are stuffed full of ads, premium channels, UI, clutter, and constant messages trying to get you to upgrade to a monthly paid subscription. I get it. The servers cost money. Is a terrible user experience.

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