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Elaina

@elaina.bsky.social
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Designer, gif-enthusiast. Currently @thoughtbot.com. www.elainanatario.com. Photos: www.instagram.com/elainanatario

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Elaina @elaina.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
ooof yeah so scary!! I'm a pretty relaxed parent and my kids are still small so I don't have to worry about this yet. But I definitely think it's something I'd take a hard line approach to when they're older. Though the trick is to get them to follow that rule which I haven't figured out yet 😂
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Elaina @elaina.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I have a few fellow parent friends who also work in hospitals and e-bikes/ATVs are one thing they've flagged as something they'd never ever let their kids do. They've seen too many traumatic accidents from them.
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Elaina @elaina.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Jim Nielsen @jim-nielsen.com · 16/09/2026
📝 If you’re maximizing a bottle for throughput, I think you’ve misunderstood the bottle. Probably the same for us humans. blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/bottlen...
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Bottlenecks Get a Bad Rap
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.
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Elaina @elaina.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
"Please don't show this latest episode of a series as watched because I told my partner I wouldn't watch it without them but I lied"
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Elaina @elaina.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
"Tell my child this show is broken and won't play until they take a bath"
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Elaina @elaina.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
i can't wait to buy this and monitor all my guests' bathroom activities YOU OK IN THERE SHARON LOOKS LIKE YOU NEED TO HYDRATE MORE WITH PEE LIKE THAT I HAVE SOME WATER FOR YOU
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Elaina @elaina.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
(I do understand how this could be a genuinely helpful product for those with digestive/bowl conditions, but I know how these tend to make their way into the more everyday consumer market so here we are)
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Elaina @elaina.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This testimonial is sending me tho. I'VE ALWAYS WANTED TO TURN MY POOPING INTO OPPORTUNITIES
A testimonial by Fierce Healthcare that says Turn regular routines into proactive health opportunities
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Elaina @elaina.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Just imagining being a guest in a house with data-collecting toilet sending a notification to my host that I'm having some loose stool
An interface showing various poop stool types and colors and times of day
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Elaina @elaina.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Everyday is a new horror, and they really missed an opportunity to call this the ShitBit www.kohlerhealth.com
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Kohler Health - Welcome to Your New Center of Health
Kohler Health is making the bathroom the center of health. Discover Dekoda, a health tracker designed for the comfort and privacy of your bathroom today.
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Mia [data-css=poetic] @miriam.codes · 18/08/2026
My job as a designer is not always to make everything super simple and opinionated and correct, handed down on tablets from above – but to give people agency, and make complex choices approachable as part of an interface.
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thoughtbot @thoughtbot.com · 17/08/2026
Third-party component libraries come with restrictions, the :has() CSS pseudo-selector unlocks flexible style options without needing JavaScript.
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Can’t touch the DOM? Reach for :has() to style any element
Third-party component libraries come with restrictions, the :has() CSS pseudo-selector unlocks flexible style options without needing JavaScript.
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Elaina @elaina.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
my husband brought his dough to our kid's playground so he could stay on the strict folding schedule for it. the addiction to getting the perfect loaf is too real.
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Piccalilli @piccalil.li · 31/07/2026
A rather detailed post that links out to some really interesting studies too. joshcollinsworth.com/blog/product...
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LLMs and performative productivity
It's worth asking whether LLMs are actually making us more productive at all—and if so, what we might be sacrificing in return.
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Elaina @elaina.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Such a pleasure!!
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Elaina @elaina.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Wowowowowow an archive of old user interfaces. Let's go back to thissssss typewritten.org/Media/
A yellow-toned old OS interface with various windows open that use a monospace typeface. One is a terminal, the other is an App manager, and  there are various user action buttons at the bottomVarious windows open on top of each other depicting an older interface against a gray background. One is a color picker with various colors in squares, the main window is a terminal window on a white background, and other windows have a clock, a keyboard emulator, and an isometric circular imageAn old desktop user interface with an 8-bit blue background. There are various finder windows open, a cursor selecting "Print Spooler" from a dropdown menu in a toolbar, and a few desktop icons depicting Trash, Floppy Disk, and Hard disk
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sami 🔵 @hellosami.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I made a website that lets you cut out old magazines from the internet archive (or any PDFs you own) and make collage art out of them: ✂️ clipart.studio
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BoardGameWire 🔜 Spiel Essen @boardgamewire.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
A pair of tabletop game designers have launched an open-source colour identification system called ColorSym, giving publishers a free tool for colourblind-friendly board game creation: boardgamewire.com/index.php/20...
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⭑ salma @whitep4nth3r.com · 03/07/2026
Hi, friends. The last 6 years have been a blast, but I just don't like being on The Internet anymore. I'm leaving DevRel, and I wrote a little bit about why. Look after yourselves, and each other. Love, Salma
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Goodbye, forever, probably.
I’m leaving developer relations and developer education. Rather than disappear completely unannounced, I wanted to tell you why.
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Andy Bell @bell.bz · 24/06/2026
"Pretty much everybody who’s from the 21st century, or anybody who’s a creative person, is pretty furious about AI. Anyone who’s not oblivious to culture is aware of that." Couldn't put it better myself tbh
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How we’ll fight the platform war against Big AI - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
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Ahmad Shadeed @ishadeed.com · 19/06/2026
Working on my wife's portfolio website and solved a design problem by using CSS round(). This is a less used yet very useful function! Here is my article about it, and will update it soon with a new use case: ishadeed.com/article/css-...
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Better fluid sizing with round()
Using the round() function to get a more predictable fluid sizing.
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Elaina @elaina.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
ahhhhh tysm for featuring my article!!! i squealed!
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Bramus @bram.us · 11/06/2026
YES, Dark Mode Toggles _should_ be a browser feature. I wrote about this before: brm.us/dark-mode-ov... Find the link to the Chrome Bug in the post, and hit the star next to it to "upvote" the bug. (I even have a prototype extension to provide this for you: brm.us/chrome-dark-...) #cssday
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Dark Mode Toggles Should be a Browser Feature
When implementing Dark Mode and ways to toggle it, developers currently need to duplicate code and roll their own toggle implementation. What if, instead, browsers would take care of all that?
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Alistair Davidson @moh-kohn.eurosky.social · 10/06/2026
**succumbs to peer pressure** www.mohkohn.co.uk/writing/html...
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How building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight
My client was a utility company, and they had a big problem...
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henry ✷ @strange.website · 08/06/2026
don't ever say "spicy autocomplete" in my presence the debate of whether or not this technology works detracts from the implications of its widespread corporate deployment, regardless of efficacy.
henry.codes
It doesn’t matter if it works | Henry From Online
The personal site & portfolio of creative web developer Henry from Online
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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 03/06/2026
I read the whole encyclical on a plane then I read @laurenshof.online on the encyclical's implications for decentralized networks on a different plane and Laurens is of course extremely good, and between planes the Hallgrimskirkja did me in. A truly odd time. connectedplaces.online/reports/fr16...
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FR#164 – The Pope on Defederation
This week, the Catholic Church wrote one of the better diagnoses of why decentralised social networks keep struggling.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Two of the engineers who built Pi, the coding agent at the heart of OpenClaw, are sounding the alarm on the flood of sloppy AI-generated code. “You see infrastructure crumbling, and software is now much, much more buggy than before” - Mario Zechner, Pi developer
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The AI Superstars Who Say a ‘Vibe Slop’ Crisis Is Coming
A pair who helped launch the agentic-AI craze worry about what their creations are pumping out.
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Dave Rupert @davatron5000.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Whoa, hey, whoa. `contrast-color()` is baseline now?!? caniuse.com?search=contr...
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"contrast-color" | Can I use... Support tables for HTML5, CSS3, etc
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Brennan Kenneth Brown ♾️ @brennan.day · 18/05/2026
The culture around genAI reveals something dark. There's /r/SlopcoreCirclejerk, the gender gap in AI enthusiasm, the history of the Luddites, and why pro-genAI culture is rooted in contempt for artistic labour and introspection. blog.brennanbrown.ca/r-slopcoreci...
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/r/SlopcoreCirclejerk and the Men who are pro-AI
With the AI bubble finally deflating, what can we learn from the gender gap in genAI enthusiasm?
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Elaina @elaina.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
truly i just want out of the techbrotopia
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thoughtbot @thoughtbot.com · 18/05/2026
How AI creates both opportunities and existential risks for minority languages, and what we can do to protect them.
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AI and minority languages
How AI creates both opportunities and existential risks for minority languages, and what we can do to protect them.
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Elaina @elaina.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Love it! And fantastic post 🥰🥰🥰
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Julia Evans @b0rk.jvns.ca · 16/05/2026
also added a note to this post at the end about how the critiques I've read of how Tailwind impacts the industry made me want to stop using it bsky.app/profile/b0rk...
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Julia Evans @b0rk.jvns.ca · 15/05/2026
moving away from tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS jvns.ca/blog/2026/05...
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Ashlee 🤟🏻 @ashleemboyer.com · 15/05/2026
Claude admits bias against accessibility and look at that! It’s the same bias that a whole lot of humans have against accessibility. “Claude treats accessibility fixes as optional trade-offs rather than requirements, even when the project's own rules say otherwise.” github.com/anthropics/c...
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[BUG] LLM biased against accessible code · Issue #56079 · anthropics/claude-code
Preflight Checklist I have searched existing issues and this hasn't been reported yet This is a single bug report (please file separate reports for different bugs) I am using the latest version of ...
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Elaina @elaina.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Mood these days 🫥
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Jaydip Sanghani @jaydip.me · 14/05/2026
I've been working on this article for past month in my free time. dedicated to my hometown "Surat" diamond.jaydip.me
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How Diamonds are Made?
Journey of a very old rock.
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Elaina @elaina.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Totally valid! FWIW, things like background and such are very much seared into my brain, despite my protestations in that post (though I might mix up clip and origin). I just have a preference for writing it out longhand -- I've just found it easier to signal intention for myself.
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Elaina @elaina.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Ooo thanks for the link! Agree that there are definitely plenty that I don't retain because of infrequent use. A lot hinges on my last point, that I prefer to write out things longhand for the explicitness/intentionality of it, especially if I'm only utilizing a few sub-properties from a shorthand.
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Elaina @elaina.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Inspired by @anatudor.bsky.social's fantastic CSS tip about CSS shorthand, I wrote up a post about how and when I use short and longhand (spoiler: it's often the latter). thoughtbot.com/blog/when-to...
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When to use (and not use) CSS shorthand properties
A case for verbosity in CSS properties.
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Eric Bailey @ericwbailey.website · 11/05/2026
It is probably not the smartest thing to channel your anxiety into the place where you curate your professional representation online, but also here's a future I would really like to avoid. ericwbailey.website/published/ev...
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Evolved antennas, LLM-generated code, and a potential antifuture
Being open and transparent is a radical strength, not a weakness.
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Elaina @elaina.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
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Tyra Banks: I Was Rooting For You
Alt: Tyra Banks screaming while whipping her head and pointing. There is text in all white below that says 'I was rooting for you. We were all rooting for you'.
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Ana Rodrigues @ohhelloana.blog · 12/05/2026
It's often uneasy for me to share my experiences as a woman in tech, but this job market has me worried for everyone stuck somewhere harmful. I admire everyone who takes on "women in tech" speaking gigs but I am also angry for them and us. ohhelloana.blog/woman-in-tec...
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It's 2026 and women are still asked to teach others to think a little bit and not be a prick
A while back I went to a tech meet-up and one of the talks was about being a woman in tech and I am finally ready to put into words why I sat through it so uncomfortably.
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Elaina @elaina.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
You can see if there's one near you with this map (though I can't vouch for its accuracy. It lists a few I know that aren't functioning any more) www.photobooth.net/locations/ma...?
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Photobooth.net | Photobooth Locations
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Elaina @elaina.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Did you know there are less than 200 functional analog photobooths worldwide? Theres one near my hometown that's been around for 30 years (which I frequented as a teen). On a date night, my husband and I decided to hit up that same booth. A physical memory of an average night seems novel these days
2 photobooth strips on a white background. The strips are next to each other and are in black and white and depict two people smiling and making silly faces in 8 different snaps in the strips.
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Elaina @elaina.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
HELL YEAH LET'S DO IT 📸 📸 📸
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Elaina @elaina.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Let's do yours sometime if you want! I'm often popping down into the camberville area from the north shore
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