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Dave Strock @davestrock.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is one of the biggest points. This concept is foreign even to most in the corporate world. They *think* they've done it, but as soon as you go to build them software to do "the task" you realize 80% of your work is helping them figure out how the task is *actually* accomplished.

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Scott Riley @scott.is · 28/09/2026

one thing that i've noticed has just gone away in The Age Of Shipping Six Thousand Fucking Pointless Features is the purposeful pessimism that helps you realise how your work could be used for harm. it was never popular, but now it's almost fucking impossible to get people to slow down and think.

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Suw @suw.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Fucking hell. Facebook is now limiting the number of links that a page or professional profile can include in a post to TWO PER MONTH, unless you pay them $7.99 a month. Fucking assholes.

A warning pop-up from Facebook that says "you used 2 of your posts with links this month. With Meta One, continue sharing links in your posts and comments, plus other subscriber benefits".

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ppk 🇪🇺 @quirksmode.org · 02/09/2026

Fifteen years ago I helped popularise the meta viewport width=device-width,initial-scale=1. Today I found out the second bit is no longer necessary. A retrospective. quirksmode.org/quirksblog/2...

quirksmode.org

initial-scale no longer needed

Fifteen years ago I helped popularise the meta viewport width=device-width,initial-scale=1. Today I found out the second bit is no longer necessary. A retrospective.

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Pooya Parsa @pi0.io · 18/08/2026

TIL Uint8Array.fromBase64 exists in browsers!

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

there is no such thing as "age verification." All "age verification" is actually "identity verification." You can coat it in glitter and "privacy-preserving" wrapping paper. But in the end, mandating age verification means mandating surveillance be built into software and hardware. Period.

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Roderick Gadellaa @rgadellaa.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

We have a platform that anyone can access from anywhere, is open, interoperable, and has proven it can give native platforms a *serious* run for their money. But *somehow* everyone thinks "we need alternative app stores" instead of "we need to unleash the web on mobile". open-web-advocacy.org

open-web-advocacy.org

Open Web Advocacy

A group of software engineers from all over the world who have come together to advocate for the future of the open web

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Firefox Nightly @firefoxnightly.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Firefox now supports the text-box-trim and text-box-edge CSS properties, and the associated text-box shorthand. These properties allow you to control the leading space above and below text, enabling simpler and consistent vertical spacing and alignment. bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi...

bugzilla.mozilla.org

2050141 - [text-box-trim] Set layout.css.text-box.enabled for all users

RESOLVED (sajidanwar94) in Core - Layout: Block and Inline. Last updated 2026-07-15.

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Large Heydon Collider @heydonworks.com · 22/06/2026

The HTML cat is out of the Web Audio bag. I've finally released HYPERBLAM. It’s my system for sampling, processing, and sequencing sound and music directly in HTML. hyperblam.how

hyperblam.how

Hyperblam Docs Home

Documentation for HyperBlam. Make HTML make music.

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Patrick Brosset @patrickbrosset.com · 16/06/2026

🤔 What if browsers on iOS could use their own web rendering engines? What would, e.g., Blink look like on iOS? Spoiler: it would be awesome 😎 Check out @kylealden.bsky.social's fun perf and feature comparison between Safari and our prototype Blink-based browser: www.linkedin.com/pulse/test-d...

linkedin.com

Test Drive: Blink on iOS

The Edge web platform team has been contributing changes to Chromium to help build a prototype exploring what an iOS browser using Blink (via BrowserEngineKit) can achieve. Blink is the same open-sour...

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pilcrow @pilcrowonpaper.com · 03/06/2026

Announcing my auth book! A completely free online resource on implementing auth with fully-featured examples Over 10,000 words right now and I still have plenty of things to write about auth.pilcrowonpaper.com

Authentication methods
Sessions
Auth sessions
Email addresses
Passwords
Browser client-side storage
Cross-site request forgery (CSRF)
Argon2
Bcrypt
Email address verification codes
Email code authentication
Passkeys
Web Authentication API (WebAuthn)
WebAuthn authenticator data
WebAuthn CBOR encoding
WebAuthn client data
Passkey registration
Passkey authentication
Elliptic Curve Digitial Signature Algorithm (ECDSA)
RSA signature scheme
Edwards Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (EdDSA)

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Love how every website now has a popup that tells you "our website is hot dogshit, download the app instead" And then the app is just an Electron wrapper around the same JS they could have put on the website if they didn't hate you personally

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Johan Westling @johanwestling.eurosky.social · 16/05/2026

Did some precision cut of trees today next to the plant beds. Had a good 3 cm margin for errors at worst 😅 no plant beds were hurt ✅

Happy wife sitting on a cut tree next to the plant beds in front of our house

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Jim Nielsen @jim-nielsen.com · 04/05/2026

📝 Post-mortem on my "lots of little HTML pages" approach — still like it. The browser's most basic feature is following a link. Can I build a site’s interactions around just that? e.g. a "menu" is <a href="/menu/"> + CSS view transitions blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/small-h...

blog.jim-nielsen.com

Reminder: You Can Stitch Together Lots of Little HTML Pages With Navigations For Interactions

Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.

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Jane Ori 💚 CSS Runner 👩‍💻 @janeori.propjockey.io · 29/04/2026

100% CSS repeat() function codepen.io/propjockey/p... Repeat anything, strings, sets of animation properties to help manage parallel array properties, calc() partials, polygon partials, shape partials, text-shadows, anything!

codepen.io

100% CSS repeat() function!

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Justin Fagnani @justinfagnani.com · 29/04/2026

Check this CSS --repeat() function out! The implementation is 👨‍🍳🤌!

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Kayla Cinnamon ☕️ @kaylacinnamon.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Want to learn how to use any model with GitHub Copilot? Check out my walkthrough of BYOK (bring your own key) using a local Ollama model, both in Copilot CLI and VS Code! youtu.be/bbIHmbZux8k

youtu.be

Use ANY AI Model with GitHub Copilot

YouTube video by Kayla Cinnamon ☕

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Johan Westling @johanwestling.eurosky.social · 18/04/2026

If you see this, quote with a picture of you in glasses

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jeremAIas @jeremias.codes · 15/04/2026

I am dealing with certain project, in certain mega popular framework and it makes me wanna quit programming and build a farm far away from civilization.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

This is a good principle for design in general: When users tell you there's a problem, they are usually right. When users tell you how to fix it, they are usually wrong. (bonus: if you replace "user" with "stakeholder" this still applies)

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Richard Gadsden @po8crg.gadsden.online · 17/02/2026

So is programming. Which is why "vibe coding" is bunk. You have to think through exactly what you want the program to do, and only writing the code will force you to actually think it through properly.

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Amir @amirsakhravi.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

shell autocompletions for your javascript cli tool. introducing tab:

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Dave Rupert @davatron5000.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Can we get an “onafterpagecrash” event so companies can track how many times their apps fall over? Sheesh.

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Johan Westling @johanwestling.eurosky.social · 05/12/2025

Found out a way to create an alias for launching vscode directly in a devcontainer, a bit of initial work but worth it! gist.github.com/johanwestlin...

gist.github.com

VSCode - Launch in devcontainer

VSCode - Launch in devcontainer. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

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caztastrophe 🐦🦝🏳️‍🌈 @caztastrophe.gay · 31/10/2025

Yes, do make sure you at least have your final expenses covered. But also PLEASE name a specific adult beneficiary & remember to update it if things change. It's infinitely easier on your family this way. I pay life claims for a living & I'm speaking from experience.

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Josh Collinsworth @collinsworth.dev · 28/08/2025

TIL a GoFundMe widget adds an *entire NextJS app* to the page. About 5MB of JavaScript—spread across almost 40 files—just to render a few lines of text and a link. (Yes, the widget has to make an API call to show the campaign's progress. But even given that, it's still absurdly over-engineered.)

Comparison of a page loading before and after adding one GoFundMe widget to the page. The number of requests goes from 12 to 64; transferred data goes from around 0.5 MB to 2.1MB; resources goes from 642kb to 5.8MB; and the finish time goes from 0.18 seconds to 1.14 seconds.

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eahrend.dev @eahrend.dev · 16/08/2025

Is this kubernetes networking?

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 27/06/2025

People outside tech starting to realize how quality software and typing/generating code fast are not correlated

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Nathan Knowler @knowler.dev · 24/06/2025

I was laid-off and am looking for a new role. Working were design meets code is my jam. I am skilled at building accessible design system components, working with Web Components APIs, and creating scalable CSS architecture. I work remotely from my home in Manitoba, Canada. 🇨🇦 Shares appreciated!

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VoidZero @voidzero.dev · 30/05/2025

Today we are excited to announce Rolldown-Vite: a technical preview of the version of @vite.dev entirely powered by the Rust stack we built over the past year (Oxc + @rolldown.rs) voidzero.dev/posts/announ...

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Announcing Rolldown-Vite

We are building the next generation of JavaScript tooling

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bryn ☼ @bryn.codes · 05/05/2025

if i have to hand-hold you through using semantic HTML you are not a Web Developer and certainly not a Full Stack Engineer and your six figures should be revoked.

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Hasani Rogers @deificartsllc.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Using slots to compose components with web components is more enjoyable than React's children.

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Ricky @ricky.fm · 23/04/2025

"commits messages should be meaningful" me, a professional:

screenshot of github with 18 consecutive "wip" commits

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Alex Russell @infrequently.org · 22/04/2025

"Why is CSS-in-JS terrible for performance?" is a great interview question, actually.

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Ana Tudor @anatudor.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Because I keep seeing `position: absolute` + lots of of offset + size + transform + sometimes even margin properties to stack + middle align the stacked items... you can easily do it with 3 #CSS properties!

.container { display: grid }

.stack-item {
/* stack all items in the same 1 cell grid area
* at the intersection between row 1 & column 1 */
grid-area: 1/ 1;
/* place all items in the middle of this cell
* along both axes, both vertically & horizontally */
place-self: center
}

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Mia [data-css=poetic] @miriam.codes · 26/03/2025

Working on a post to explain the logical shorthand proposals in more detail. Meanwhile, I setup space in my public notebook (where you can follow along), and looked into a question from @johanwestling.bsky.social: Why `inline-size` but `padding-inline`? #CSS css.oddbird.net/logical/rese...

css.oddbird.net

Logical shorthand notes & side quests

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Mike Ginn @shutupmikeginn.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further

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Dan Hon @danhon.com · 02/03/2025

You should know that a big part of 18F's work was to make sure multi-million to multi-*hundreds*-of-millions dollar contracts at fed *and* state level didn't go to shitty enterprise IT consultancies that *repeatedly* delivered tech that didn't work, was late, or didn't even do what it needed to

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Laurie Voss @seldo.com · 12/02/2025

It has been nearly 15 years since Siri was introduced and I still never, ever want to talk out loud to my computer. Am I alone in this? Is yapping at your computer a popular interaction mode?

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Scott Hanselman 🌮 @scott.hanselman.com · 24/12/2024

Hey #dotnet folks if you’re using a CI/CD double check your resource URLs. A CDN has gone bankrupt and may cease operations in the next month. We are working to make transparent fixes but you can be proactive github.com/dotnet/core/...

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Critical: .NET install domains and URLs are changing · Issue #9671 · dotnet/core

Some .NET binaries and installers are hosted on Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN) domains that end in .azureedge.net. These domains are hosted by edg.io, which will soon cease operations due to ...

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Adam Argyle @nerdy.dev · 28/12/2024

need product differentiation? overhire a #CSS front-end team and ask them to: - polish whatever - add delight wherever and watch as your product becomes smooth and buttery while everyone else's gather dust and crust UI is a huge space offering differentiation via quality

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Jason Miller @developit.dev · 18/12/2024

why does nobody understand event delegation anymore? this is the most basic web thing and every day I see code going to absurd lengths to bind/unbind event handlers for bubbling events on large sets of DOM elements. Use a global event handler, they were literally designed for this.

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Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · 18/12/2024

I've stayed away from CSS frameworks for my entire career for one reason: the few times I used a framework, I spent more time refactoring the code from the framework than I did writing that code from scratch. I suspect AI-generated code will be similar, especially for user-centered UI (e.g #a11y).

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Rachel Andrew @rachelandrew.co.uk · 31/10/2024

For years, I've been hoping for more of the paged media specs to come to browsers. In the next version of Chrome (131, now in beta) the ability to create your own header and footer content for printed content is here! Find out more in this post.

developer.chrome.com

Add content to the margins of web pages when printed using CSS | Blog | Chrome for Developers

Create custom headers and footers when printing webpages.

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Johan Westling @johanwestling.eurosky.social · 01/12/2024

This is a very useful feature for testing that require an app for authentication!

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Brad Frost @bradfrost.com · 30/11/2024

HAPPY BLUE BEANIE DAY! The Web Standards movement embodied the idealistic, collaborative, organic, and can-do ethos of the web. That is the spirit I continually strive to embody. I owe so much to @zeldman.bsky.social, and it's an honor to call him a friend. Thanks, Jeffrey! #BlueBeanieDay