Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 14/09/2026Saw 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? 110
Reposted by Will BoydBrecht 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.comContainer style queries and advanced attr(): rethinking how to wire up my components in CSS | utilitybendWiring HTML attributes into CSS with advanced typed attr(), and letting container style queries pass that state down to child components. 23314
Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 06/09/2026This is great, very informative. I'm curious though, how would this work with a denominator of 1024? Can you show that? 020
Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 03/09/2026Someone 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 😆 030
Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 30/08/2026So I just marked Domino's as spam and blocked. TLDR: Domino's will send you spam and say you can't unsubscribe. Very uncool. 000
Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 30/08/2026I tell the chat bot I want to unsubscribe. It tells me I need to accept terms and conditions first before talking to me. Nah, I don't trust Domino's anymore, I'm not doing that. 110
Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 30/08/2026They're not important status updates. They're marketing emails. So I go to that link to opt out. There is nowhere to opt out. So I click on a link to email customer service. It takes me instead to a chat bot. 100
Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 30/08/2026Fine, just unsubscribe. Except: "By enrolling in Domino's Rewards, you agree to receive emails related to the status of your account and points total. Members may not unsubscribe from these emails. Members can opt out of Domino's Rewards and associated emails by visiting dominos.com/rewards ." 100
Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 30/08/2026Hey 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. 110
Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 22/08/2026TIL 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...html.comAttribute for NOSAVEImages: The NOSAVE attribute, and why you can ignore it completely. Sorry, it doesn't turn off caching or saving. 110
Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 18/08/2026I'm late to the party, we arguing about dark mode toggles now? 020
Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 16/08/2026Our kid's school just started last week and there was already a case of a kid with covid in the classroom. 🙄 Growing up my parents were those parents. No matter how sick I was, I got sent to school. Even when I was old enough to stay home alone. They just thought my education > everyone else. 000
Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 15/08/2026ok ok ok hear me out: :root { --size-prop: width; } div { var(--size-prop): 100%; } eh? worst idea ever? 120
Reposted by Will BoydcomiCSS @comicss.art · 11/08/2026New "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 25817
Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 05/08/2026this reminds me of an old Japanese commercial 😅 www.youtube.com/watch?v=haVl...youtube.comNon-blinking World Record: Japanese championYouTube video by The One Club for Creativity 020
Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 19/07/2026TIL: 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). 100
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. 000
Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 04/07/2026If the excessively animated doodles on the Chrome new tab page annoy you too: - Go to chrome://flags - Search for "doodle" - Disable 000
Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 24/06/2026Cleared ascension 10 in Slay the Spire 2. Please clap. (sorry for the blown out HDR screenshot) 030
Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 17/06/2026I 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. 000
Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 16/06/2026Neat!theverge.comApple’s weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sicknessIt’s not magic if it’s science. 010
Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 16/06/2026This 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. 000
Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 16/06/2026How 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 🤷 320
Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 03/06/2026It’s only the Oxford comma if it comes from the Oxford region of Britain, otherwise it’s just sparkling punctuation. 030
Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 28/05/2026Been 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. 221
Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 25/05/2026An update on "Allbirds shares jump over 400% on plans to pivot to AI". 080
Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 24/05/2026It 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. 0190
Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 23/05/2026I forgot about Turbo Pascal! Learned it in my high school programming class. I had fun. 171
Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 23/05/2026I 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. 350
Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 08/05/2026Stumbled upon this short and sweet (and well made!) vid on using my wordpress-export-to-markdown tool. Shoutout to @iamkarolk.bsky.social !youtube.comFinally! Export WordPress to Markdown With Working ImagesYouTube video by WP Workshop 031
Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 02/05/2026Goodnight, Ask Jeeves 🥲ask.comA Farewell to Ask.com | 25 Years of Curiosity 010
Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 21/04/2026> designed to mimic our own speech patterns Yep! I hate that things like the em dash and oxford comma are being used as "proof" that something is AI when they're appropriate human things to use. Where do folks think AI got it from?! Also, it's trivial to add "don't use em dashes" to a prompt. 130
Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 15/04/2026oh, okreuters.comAllbirds shares jump over 400% on plans to pivot to AI from sneakersShares of Allbirds surged more than five-fold on Wednesday after the footwear maker said it was raising capital and pivoting towards AI computing infrastructure. 110
Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 14/04/2026I tried to like Fireworks back in the day. Never clicked for me. 030
Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 02/04/2026I'm so happy auto-tune the news is still around, been a fan since this banger 16 years ago 😁 www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBb4...youtube.compirates. drugs. gay marriage. // Auto-Tune the News #2YouTube video by schmoyoho 010
Will Boyd @codersblock.com · 22/03/2026We 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". 🙃 5392
Reposted by Will BoydZach Leatherman @zachleat.com · 16/03/2026The 49MB Web Page thatshubham.com/blog/news-au...thatshubham.comThe 49MB Web PageA look at modern news websites. How programmatic ad-tech, huge payloads and hostile architecture destroyed the reading experience. 3349