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Chris Pennington @codinginpublic.dev · 15/08/2026

👋 I'm speaking at UtahJS! Come join me September 18th! 👇 ti.to/utahjs/2026

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Chris Pennington @codinginpublic.dev · 06/08/2026

PSA in case you are also going insane looking. Cursor word wrap NOT in settings, but here...

show three dot menu in editor with word wrap

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Chris Pennington @codinginpublic.dev · 05/08/2026

P.S. with dialog, popover, etc. you'll likely need to transition both display and overlay like this 👇

showing both display and overlay in a transition block

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Chris Pennington @codinginpublic.dev · 14/07/2026

The position-area is a quadrant with the anchor in the middle. You can use directional (e.g., left, top) or logical properties (e.g., block-start).

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Chris Pennington @codinginpublic.dev · 14/07/2026

3️⃣ Target properties The target must be either position absolute or fixed. Then assign it's position-anchor and set it's relative position-area.

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Chris Pennington @codinginpublic.dev · 14/07/2026

2️⃣ Anchor name In your CSS, give the anchor an "anchor-name", which is a name proceeded with a double dash.

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Chris Pennington @codinginpublic.dev · 14/07/2026

1️⃣ Structure At the most basic, you need two elements: an anchor and a target.

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Chris Pennington @codinginpublic.dev · 07/07/2026

At it's most basic: - Open button: popovertarget pointing to ID - Popover: attribute of popover (with an ID) - Close buttons: same as open, but with popovertargetaction="close"

- Open button: popovertarget pointing to ID
- Popover: attribute of popover (with an ID)
- Close buttons: same as open, but with popovertargetaction="close"

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Chris Pennington @codinginpublic.dev · 01/07/2026

One thing that will trip you up: whitespace is now collapsed automatically.  <span>Hello</span>{' '}<span>World</span> Or...you can fix this with a config (to use the old behavior)

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Chris Pennington @codinginpublic.dev · 01/07/2026

Mostly, it just means everything is faster. Here's a real stress test with 3000 MDX routes (~40% faster). - Astro 7: 17.63 seconds - Astro 6: 29.06 seconds

two logs; one showing 17.63 seconds for Astro 7 and 29.06% with Astro 6

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Chris Pennington @codinginpublic.dev · 28/06/2026

Super proud of my daughter. - Ran her first 5k yesterday - Topped her age group at 29:41 Special thing to share running with her 🥰

Chris with his daughter holding their medals

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Chris Pennington @codinginpublic.dev · 07/04/2026

Code with AI. Clean up poop. Need I say more? clawdagotchi.com

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Chris Pennington @codinginpublic.dev · 07/04/2026

I built a tamagotchi for claude code. - approve/reject requests - clean up poops - try to keep it alive I will not be taking questions at this time clawdagotchi.com

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Chris Pennington @codinginpublic.dev · 25/02/2026

I’m trying to ask the hard questions, to develop a different way of thinking. 5 lessons I’m trying to learn. 👇

og image for "learning to think differently"

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Chris Pennington @codinginpublic.dev · 09/12/2025

My course is 33% off for the holidays. Ask someone to get it for you with a custom link 👇

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Chris Pennington @codinginpublic.dev · 03/10/2025

Name a more iconic team. I'll wait.

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Chris Pennington @codinginpublic.dev · 22/09/2025

Chatting through chapter 3 of Eloquent JavaScript. 🚨 Live now🚨

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Chris Pennington @codinginpublic.dev · 09/09/2025

We can do this! 💪 Yesterday I learned of a mutual friend whose 9-month old is fighting leukemia. Every dollar counts.

Fundraiser snowing 1191 out of 5000 dollars raised

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Chris Pennington @codinginpublic.dev · 05/09/2025

You all are so generous! 😭 Already at >$1000 raised! 🟢🟢⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪

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Chris Pennington @codinginpublic.dev · 04/09/2025

wooow! already to > $1000! 🟢🟢⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪ You all are so generous!

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Chris Pennington @codinginpublic.dev · 04/09/2025

Already raised $546!! 🟢⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪ Let's help defeat childhood cancer together!

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Chris Pennington @codinginpublic.dev · 29/08/2025

How does AI change the learning journey? Ep 3 of convos.⁠dev is out!

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Chris Pennington @codinginpublic.dev · 01/08/2025

I started a podcast! My friend, Jess Wang, and I launched a podcast today! Super casual chats about dev life, marketing, design, and anything else we feel like talking about. Come join us! Subscribe on YouTube or listen in your favorite podcast player.