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Will Boyd

@codersblock.com
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Senior Design Technologist. Previously at Block, Salesforce, Amazon. The front-end is my home. CSS, JavaScript, UX, accessibility. 🌐 Portfolio + Blog: codersblock.com 🌐 CodePen: codepen.io/lonekorean 🌐 GitHub: github.com/lonekorean

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Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 14/09/2026
Saw yet another post where someone mentions em dashes as a dead giveaway for AI — this is a lazy half-truth at best. 2 things: 1. It's trivially easy to add "don't use em dashes" to a prompt — a lot of people do this. 2. Real humans use em dashes — where do you think AI learned it from?
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Brecht De Ruyte @utilitybend.com · 08/09/2026
🚀 Container style queries are baseline; New attr() capabilities are nearly there. Neat apart, but together they change how we can wire up components. Practice will make perfect, and I still need to rewire my brain for this combo. So, time to start that rewire. utilitybend.com/blog/contain...
utilitybend.com
Container style queries and advanced attr(): rethinking how to wire up my components in CSS | utilitybend
Wiring HTML attributes into CSS with advanced typed attr(), and letting container style queries pass that state down to child components.
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Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 03/09/2026
Someone used my portfolio site as inspiration for theirs. I can tell because they copy/pasted the "about me" verbatim, including the name of my site 😆
Someone's About Me section on their portfolio site, with the following text copied verbatim from mine: "I'm a design technologist in Atlanta. I like working on the front-end of the web. This is my site, Coder's Block, where I blog and share whatever side projects I've been working on".
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Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 03/09/2026
what's another word for synonym?
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Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 31/08/2026
👎👎👎 "to keep Reddit safe" 🙄
Screenshot of old.reddit.com, now requiring you to log in with an account.
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Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 30/08/2026
Hey everyone! If you're thinking about ordering Domino's... maybe don't. I made the mistake of ordering through the app. Apparently I'm in their rewards program now and they send me marketing emails.
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Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 22/08/2026
TIL about `nosave`, an ancient HTML property used by Netscape Composer. It was supposed to block right click > saving an image. <img src="potato.png" nosave> html.com/attributes/i...
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Attribute for NOSAVE
Images: The NOSAVE attribute, and why you can ignore it completely. Sorry, it doesn't turn off caching or saving.
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Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 18/08/2026
I'm late to the party, we arguing about dark mode toggles now?
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Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 15/08/2026
ok ok ok hear me out: :root { --size-prop: width; } div { var(--size-prop): 100%; } eh? worst idea ever?
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comiCSS @comicss.art · 11/08/2026
New "cartoon": Border Collie comicss.art/comics/254/ I saw a similar concept on social media, and tried to give it a background-clip CSS twist. #css #webdev #comic
Four photos of a border Collie cropped differently: first one occupied a whole square and it's titled "border Collie". The second one has a blank space in the outside and it's called padding Collie. In The third one, the blank space is larger and it's titled content Collie. The last one is the text "text Collie" and the photo of the dog can be seen through the text.
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Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 24/07/2026
Got this today. I like it.
Air Pods case in the shape of a Korok’s backpack from Zelda.Same Korok backpack case, but open to reveal Air Pods.
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Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 21/07/2026
I do my best work when I don't have to.
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Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 19/07/2026
TIL: JavaScript (basically) has a built-in coordinate distance function. const distance = Math.hypot(x2 - x1, y2 - y1) Also works for 3+ dimensions (just add more params).
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Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 11/07/2026
"piece" is one of those words that looks really weird the more you fixate on it. Piece. Piece. Piece.
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Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 04/07/2026
If the excessively animated doodles on the Chrome new tab page annoy you too: - Go to chrome://flags - Search for "doodle" - Disable
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Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 24/06/2026
Cleared ascension 10 in Slay the Spire 2. Please clap. (sorry for the blown out HDR screenshot)
Screenshot of Slay the Spire 2, showing the run clear summary for an ascension 10 run.
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Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 17/06/2026
I just learned that (US) TSA will accept an expired passport / real ID driver's license for domestic flights, up to 2 years after expiration. Just sharing in case it saves others from the stress I just had.
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Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 16/06/2026
Neat!
theverge.com
Apple’s weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sickness
It’s not magic if it’s science.
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Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 16/06/2026
This reminds me of Houdini and the CSS paint API that let you put JS in CSS to do all sorts of amazing and/or terrible things. I was super excited about it for a while. Chrome supports it, but it seems pretty dead now for better or worse.
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Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 16/06/2026
How much do you use semicolons in JavaScript? I use them religiously, even if I don't need to. I think of them as little hugs at the end of a line of code. But a lot of folks don't 🤷
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Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 12/06/2026
Remember DHTML?
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Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 28/05/2026
Been seeing a lot of "Gemini can't count letters in words" posts lately. AI opinions aside... why is this happening? Like, actually? Wouldn't it be trivial to whip up a skill or MCP or whatever to answer these questions? Genuinely curious.
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Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 25/05/2026
An update on "Allbirds shares jump over 400% on plans to pivot to AI".
Graph showing BIRD stock value over the past 6 months. There's a huge spike where they announced AI plans, but then the value goes down to -23.66% from where the graph starts.
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Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 24/05/2026
It is the year 2034. Chrome has switched to a micro-release cadence. In the time it took you to read this, 7 new versions of Chrome have been released.
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Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 23/05/2026
I kinda miss PHP sometimes. It was the second server side language I ever learned (after Perl lol). Had one of those obnoxiously thick PHP "bible" books, back when that was a thing.
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Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 11/05/2026
Hey React devs! How often do you use Immer?
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Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 08/05/2026
Stumbled upon this short and sweet (and well made!) vid on using my wordpress-export-to-markdown tool. Shoutout to @iamkarolk.bsky.social !
youtube.com
Finally! Export WordPress to Markdown With Working Images
YouTube video by WP Workshop
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Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 02/05/2026
Goodnight, Ask Jeeves 🥲
ask.com
A Farewell to Ask.com | 25 Years of Curiosity
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Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 15/04/2026
oh, ok
reuters.com
Allbirds shares jump over 400% on plans to pivot to AI from sneakers
Shares of Allbirds surged more than five-fold on Wednesday after the footwear maker said it was raising capital and pivoting towards AI computing infrastructure.
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Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 14/04/2026
I tried to like Fireworks back in the day. Never clicked for me.
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Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 22/03/2026
We stopped saying "HTML5" and "CSS3" because these terms are outdated. The web doesn't drop major versions, it constantly evolves. But I wonder how many resumes get passed on because they don't contain those exact strings. Some recruiter is out there saying "oh, they only know CSS, not CSS3". 🙃
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Zach Leatherman @zachleat.com · 16/03/2026
The 49MB Web Page thatshubham.com/blog/news-au...
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The 49MB Web Page
A look at modern news websites. How programmatic ad-tech, huge payloads and hostile architecture destroyed the reading experience.
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Node.js @nodejs.org · 10/03/2026
Node.js is moving to one major release per year starting with Node 27! 🚀 ✅ Simpler: Every release becomes LTS. ✅ Predictable: Version numbers now align with the year. ✅ New: A 6-month Alpha channel for early testing. bit.ly/4rnosLg
nodejs.org
Node.js — Evolving the Node.js Release Schedule
Node.js® is a free, open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that lets developers create servers, web apps, command line tools and scripts.
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Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 06/03/2026
Nice!
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Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 04/03/2026
Hey everyone! You might have heard that 40% of Block was laid off. That includes me. If you're looking for a design technologist (a design-minded front-end dev) then hit me up! Portfolio here: codersblock.com
codersblock.com
Will Boyd
Will Boyd's portfolio and web development blog.
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Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 04/02/2026
Remember Acid Tests? I remember Acid2 in particular being a big deal. www.acidtests.org
acidtests.org
Acid Tests
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Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 30/01/2026
"This email is to inform you that..." You can just say the thing. You don't have to announce your intent to announce.
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Sam Rose @samwho.dev · 22/01/2026
Recently learned there's a whole math-specific language called MathML that browsers natively support???? developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...
developer.mozilla.org
<math> - MathML | MDN
The <math> MathML element is the top-level MathML element, used to write a single mathematical formula. It can be placed in HTML content where flow content is permitted.
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Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 10/01/2026
Anyone here done an extended Amtrack trip? Curious what your experience was. I like the idea of taking a train cross country, but could see it being either amazing or awful.
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Álvaro Montoro @alvaromontoro.com · 08/01/2026
Sometimes I feel like quitting web development and joining my brother-in-law on the ranch. At least cows don't suddenly upgrade to version 5.0 and break the entire farm because the geese aren't on 3.2.4 yet.
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comiCSS @comicss.art · 06/01/2026
comiCSS #109: Coincidence? comicss.art/comics/109/c... November 27, 2023 – One of those small cartoons that are simple yet fun to code. And it's versatile, too. You can basically change CSS for anything you want: Taxes? it works! Humans? Works too! Tailwind? D'uh! #css #html #webdev #joke
Cartoon with a table showing the different planets of the solar system in order closer to farther from the Sun. All of them show 0 deaths and no CSS, except for Earth that has CSS and 117,020,448,575 deaths. Below the table there's a question: coincidence?
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Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 07/01/2026
For those of you with Computer Science degrees... Would you call yourself a "scientist"?
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Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 06/01/2026
Kept track of all the video games my 8yo son and I beat over 2025 on a chalkboard wall. Here’s the final result!
Chalkboard wall with 24 video games written on it, with dates.
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Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 05/01/2026
Lego "Smart Bricks" launching soon-ish Shipping in 2 months with Star Wars sets www.theverge.com/tech/854556/...
theverge.com
Lego announces Smart Brick, the ‘most significant evolution’ in 50 years
Starting with Lego Star Wars.
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Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 25/12/2025
Got the first panicked call from my parents falling for AI. Fortunately it was just misinformation and not someone scamming them. Not a great feeling. Reminded them that if they ever need me to check something, please do call. And that if I ever call them from jail needing $10k, it's not me.
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Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 25/12/2025
isitchristmas.com
isitchristmas.com
Is It Christmas?
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Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 22/12/2025
This just felt weird to watch. Feels like I'm not the target demographic for this ad... even though it's for a CSS feature, and I'm a CSS dev
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Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 18/12/2025
Just randomly thinking about when the pandemic started and there was some random guy in a lab coat on youtube and he told everyone to wash their groceries with soap to prevent getting covid And everyone was just like "yeah I believe him, I mean look at him he has a lab coat on"
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Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 27/11/2025
It's weird that we call it turkey day but we eat the turkey. Looking at you, groundhogs day.
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Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 12/11/2025
This is neat. I like this.
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