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One more lovely example with a built-in MS Paint. ✏️ extrapage.straw.page

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extrapage's strawpage

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This one is like a reimagining of what social media could have been if the Myspace model won out over Facebook. 🩷 ahona.straw.page

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ahona's strawpage

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iamsolomonica's strawpage

I'm told that this is one of the most popular pages, and it's so legitimately Geocities 😄 iamsolomonica.straw.page

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The monochromatic vibes on this one are immaculate. 🖤 seizurz.straw.page

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AKROMA IS WATCHING

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Straw.Page is the world's simplest website builder. Create unique websites from your mobile device.

I was recently introduced to straw.page, a maximalist Geocities-inspired drag-and-drop website builder. Apparently it's most popular with Gen Z, and it makes me so glad to know this sort of spirit lives on. 😄 🧵 A few examples in-thread.

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Straw.Page

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laura - buy my game!! @freezydorito.lol · 29/09/2026

remember my burger game? its' coming out in TWO DAYS. Go wishlish it and throw me some cash when it's out pls pls store.steampowered.com/news/app/514...

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You Should Consider Making a Burger EX on Steam

HOW HIGH WILL YOU STACK IT? Drop ingredients as high as you can, get powerups, unlock new burgers, that's really all there is to it.

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Sean Lynch @techniq.dev · 15/09/2026

🎉 Introducing npmchart.com Analyze npm packages (downloads, releases), Github activity (releases, stars, commits, issues, PRs), compare packages, user pages, download or copy any charts, and more!

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nolen @itseieio.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I made multiplayer Windows 98 Solitaire. It's called Solitaire Alone Together. You can play together, with the whole internet, but you can't chat or talk. solitairealonetogether.com

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Josh W. Comeau @joshwcomeau.com · 18/09/2026

No way in heck I'd have come up with 3 or 4, despite using them every day 😂

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SonderingEmily ✨️ wishlist Lily's World XD @sonderingemily.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

lily's world XD is OUT at a 20% discount! 🖥️Investigate a missing girl's laptop 👻Psychological horror ❤️Heartfelt story about body image, growing up, and childhood friendship PLAY NOW 👇

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Josh W. Comeau @joshwcomeau.com · 17/09/2026

Actually I did find one advantage of `corner-shape` over `border-shape`: with `corner-shape`, we can apply different colours to top/left/right/bottom borders. Honestly it doesn't work exactly the way I'd want with `corner-shape`, but AFAICT `border-shape` borders are always a single solid colour.

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Chris Coyier @chriscoyier.net · 15/09/2026

This GIF from @joshwcomeau.com's last email is mesmerizing. Here's the border-shape he made of that codepen.io/editor/joshw...

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CSS by T. Afif @css-only.dev · 16/09/2026

📝 New CSS Article! Learn how I used Scroll-Driven Animations and other modern features to extract various information from a CSS grid. blog.master.dev/extracting-g... Another article to show that CSS is more than a simple set of properties/values.

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Extracting Grid Information Using CSS

It's an interesting and potentially useful trick to have an element know where it is on a grid. That's tricky enough when the items are in one row/column, but what about when they span?

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CSS by T. Afif @css-only.dev · 15/09/2026

We should have been writing articles and having fun with CSS, but instead... We can't do much against big corporations (except wait), so let's give Geoff some support. Share (or try) his HTML/CSS course: thebasics.dev 100% human-made by the one who edited 86945 CSS articles!

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Yeah, that makes a ton of sense for the stuff you do! It's fun seeing what new shapes can be constructed with full-radius corners. I think `corner-shape: scoop` could be used to make sparkle-type shapes like "✨" 😄

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Truthfully I'm not the right person to be giving advice on this, since I haven't worked as an IC in years. I think if I was earlier in my career, I would consider pivoting to focus on AI engineering itself (RAG, harnesses, MCP, etc). That seems to be where a lot of opportunity is right now.

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That said, it's tricky because I think a lot of companies are still operating under the assumption that AI tools will continue to improve and that soon we won't need skilled developers at all. And I don't know how long it'll be until things change. 😕

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The elephant in the room • Josh W. Comeau

Hi there! I think that the most successful developers right now are those who have a deep understanding of the underlying technology (HTML/CSS/JS and whatever frameworks/libraries) and who have taken the time to get the hang of agentic workflows. I wrote a newsletter about this earlier this year:

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Newsletter issue is live! It's basically a mini blog post that explores two awesome up-and-coming CSS properties. ✨ I also decided on a whim to include a coupon code for my courses in there. 😄

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Yeah, if I had to pick one or the other, it would definitely be border-shape 👍

Although really I could probably spend a few minutes coming up with 3-4 reusable border shapes and then they'd be equally easy to use. So maybe this isn't that strong of an advantage 😅

I think the benefit of corner-shape is ease of use. I've been using corner-shape: bevel a bunch, using the long form syntax to control the angles of the bevels. I could do it with border-shape, but it would be more laborious.

Josh W. Comeau @joshwcomeau.com · 13/09/2026

Ah autocorrect got me! Yes, border-shape 😄

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Keith Kurson @keithlaugh.love · 13/09/2026

The snail now crosses my header over the course of the week (and you can feed the piggy lots more now fyi) keith.is

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Agustin Capeletto @lowpoly.gg · 13/09/2026

Here's my take on @ivorjetski.bsky.social's LED Art Challenge! I experimented with perspective and blend modes. It's CSS-only 💚 Try it: codepen.io/editor/alowp...

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For sure, let me know if you find yourself back in Montreal at some point, would be fun to catch up 😄. Hope the city treated you well!

This is Montreal, right? Weirdly I think I'm currently in a building like 30 feet from where this photo was taken. 😂

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That was essentially my strategy with CSS for JavaScript Developers. Many of the explanations and analogies in the course are JS-based. For example, I explain the cascade by comparing it to JS spread syntax: const appliedStyles = { ...tagStyles, ...classStyles, ...idStyles, };

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