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…

A handful of impactful code samples I encountered early on.

The one where I discover a new book genre.

The one where I discover a new book genre.

The one where I’ve seen enough (for real this time).

The one where I pause my standard.site integration.

The one where Apple decides consent doesn’t matter anymore.

Describe the problem Whenever having 2 data fetches in a load function and want to for example only invalidate the first you cannot do that, yeah you can use untrack but then you lose the automatic...

The one where I make a once in a decade upgrade

Ever since Piccalilli started to get traction, I’ve always seen CSS-Tricks, Smashing Magazine and A List Apart (among others) as peers. We all help each other behind the scenes and importantly, back each other. When CSS-Tricks was initially acquired by DigitalOcean, I was really happy for Chris. The work that he’d put into that publication […]

The comments were made at a summit in Scotland with participants from AI giants including Nvidia, OpenAI and Anthropic.

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A frequently asked multiple-column layout question is why a new paragraph at the start of the column has additional space above it. The space above the first column is the top margin of the initial paragraph. The space is the margin on the paragraph, which doesn't collapse if the paragraph is inside a multicol container....

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Omarchy should not matter. But sadly it does. As a power grab. If you don’t know what Omarchy is here’s the short summary. David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of RubyOnRails, owner of a software busines...

The last few years have been hard as someone who is not only very much engaged with technologies, their applications, damages and affordances as well as their politics. We’ve been moving through hype ...

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The one where I dig into the terms of service.

Overviews of the very many snippets of code that were once commonly included on websites to address specific cases with certain technologies, browsers, operating systems, or extensions. Fragments dating back to the days of Internet Explorer and Netscape, to more modern bits that are nonetheless obsolete.