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Keith Cirkel @keithamus.social · 22/09/2026

I just released avash: www.keithcirkel.co.uk/avash/ It’s like blurhash but uses av1 frame data encode an image, resulting in a (typically) more readable image in the same bytes as a blurhash. github.com/keithamus/av...

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avash encoder

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Keith Cirkel @keithamus.social · 21/09/2026

We're chatting about Declarative Partial Updates at the Web Frameworks Community Group. Want to join in? discord.gg/fXCngmSwHz

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Join the WFCG Discord Server!

The Web Frameworks Community Group (https://www.w3.org/community/wfcg/) | 115 members

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Keith Cirkel @keithamus.social · 19/09/2026

I want Custom Attributes to exist - think Custom Elements (Web Components) but Attributes. I've been working on a proposal, specs, and now a polyfill: www.keithcirkel.co.uk/custom-attri... More coming soon!

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Custom Attributes polyfill

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Keith Cirkel @keithamus.social · 19/09/2026

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Custom Attributes polyfill

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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online.

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Keith Cirkel @keithamus.social · 06/09/2026

I'm still making 1 game per month. I'm counting this new one for the month of August and you can't stop me. Defrag: Time to defrag some disks. www.keithcirkel.co.uk/defrag/

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Disk Defragmenter

Time to drefrag some disks

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Keith Cirkel @keithamus.social · 31/08/2026

That feeling when your Yack Stack is so high that you're running out of disk space with the amount of git worktrees you have (yes this is Rust. Yes I am using cargo sweep).

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Keith Cirkel @keithamus.social · 31/08/2026

I've been playing this all day, addicting as it is frustrating. Love all the little details like how satisfying it is to shoot the rocks. If you're looking for something to take out your rage on between compiles this is a good free web game. farfield.mttshw.com

farfield.mttshw.com

Farfield - a browser rail shooter with a new world every day

Fly a procedurally generated landscape of mountains, cities, deserts and open sea. Everyone flies the same world each day - race the daily leaderboard. Free and in the browser with nothing to install.

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Firefox for Web Developers @webdevs.firefox.com · 24/08/2026

Intent to ship: JPEG XL! This will be on-by-default in Firefox 157, which should become the main release version at the end of September. This includes key JPEG XL features like progressive rendering. groups.google.com/a/mozilla.or...

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Intent to ship: JPEG XL

As of Firefox 157 I intend to turn JPEG XL decoding on by default on all platforms. It has been developed behind image.jxl.enabled, which today is on by default on Nightly only, and has had a Firefox…

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Mitch Dyer @mitchyd.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

We have to go back

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Keith Cirkel @keithamus.social · 20/08/2026

Given <button><span>Foo</span><div popover>Bar</div></button> The popover is open, you hover it, does `<button>` match `:hover`? `:active`? We could break the association on the top layer (popover) boundary. Question is: is that useful? How do you work around either way?

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Firefox for Web Developers @webdevs.firefox.com · 18/08/2026

Firefox 154 landed today, and brings with it some great web platform features: 🎉 CSS text-box 🎉 CSS sibling-index() and sibling-count() 🎉 JS Iterator methods like chunks, window, includes, & join 🎉 HTTP No-Vary-Search …And more! developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/M...

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Firefox 154 release notes for developers (Stable) - Mozilla | MDN

This article provides information about the changes in Firefox 154 that affect developers. Firefox 154 was released on August 18, 2026.

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Keith Cirkel @keithamus.social · 17/08/2026

Web Frameworks Community Group discussed Declarative Partial Updates developer.chrome.com/blog/declara.... We’re getting feedback from framework authors to take to standards bodies. Have opinions? Want to be heard? Join the discord! discord.gg/fXCngmSwHz

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Declarative partial updates | Blog | Chrome for Developers

Learn about new out-of-order streaming capabilities and the renewed HTML insertion and streaming methods available for testing from Chrome 148

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Amy Hupe @amyhupe.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Andy DON’T Burnham more like

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Igalia @igalia.com · 12/08/2026

BIG NEWS: Bocoup is now Igalia! The two worker co-ops have agreed to join forces, with several members of Bocoup coming aboard at Igalia, along with the brand assets and web site. More details in our official announcement: www.igalia.com/2026/Joining...

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Keith Cirkel @keithamus.social · 12/08/2026

I really love my job. I thought I'd always be a web developer, but developing the web is so much more fun! Adding new features for ~4bn customers is such a satisfying feeling.

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Naomi Saphra @nsaphra.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Vast and Trunkless Leg of Stone, Standing in the Desert from classic poem Ozymandias.

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Wordn't of the Day @wordnt.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Wordn't of day 222: jupenter "noun the taste and/or scent of the first few minutes of a fresh rainstorm as it hits the roof of your mouth" Play today's word: k9l.io/wordnt See past words: k9l.io/wordnt-dfns?day=222 #wordnt #game

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FFConf @ffconf.org · 31/07/2026

Current status. We're also closing tickets tonight until September. More details on tickets and the event: ffconf.org/articles/202...

A poster showing "early bird ends today"

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Oliver Medhurst @honk.foo · 27/07/2026

Porffor officially goes alpha on August 11th with an in-person in San Francisco! It brings self-hosting and a complete rewrite, plus more: honk.foo/porffor-alpha/

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Porffor goes alpha August 11th

A self-hosting and rewritten Porffor launches in SF next month!

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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

the good thing about a democratic society is that we don't have to guess at what taiwanese people think:

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Wordn't of the Day @wordnt.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Wordn't of day 195: suscod "noun A very suspicious cod" Play today's word: k9l.io/wordnt See past words: k9l.io/wordnt-dfns?day=195 #wordnt #game

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Joey Arhar @josepharhar.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Hi! I'm working on a new HTML feature: filterable select There are two proposed API shapes so far: 1. Nesting <input> in <select> 2. Sibling <input> for listbox <select> w/id ref Option 1 is more ergonomic, but would break selects in older browsers Thoughts? (Both currently in Canary w/flag)

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Jake Archibald @jakearchibald.com · 29/06/2026

There's an ideal set of sizing constraints for custom <select>, but the CSS is a bit tricky. Here's how to make it work, and a tour of new CSS features along the way. jakearchibald.com/2026/goldilo...

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The Goldilocks customizable select height

The 'ideal' sizing is more complicated than you think…

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Keith Cirkel @keithamus.social · 04/07/2026

Happy 4th July American friends! Consistent feedback from my JND game was people wanting to test their strength at specific hues; some claimed they were better at detecting reds, or blues. So I figured a special "Whats My JND 4th July Edition" could do just that! 🫡🫡🫡🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🫡🫡🫡 k9l.io/jnd-4th-july

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What's My JND? - 4th July Edition

The 4th July edition. Old Glory Blue versus a creeping algae green. How small a colour difference can you actually see?

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Helen Hou-Sandí @helen.blog · 04/07/2026

Okay I’ll bite, who’s Taylor Swift?

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Keith Cirkel @keithamus.social · 04/07/2026

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What's My JND? - 4th July Edition

The 4th July edition. Old Glory Blue versus a creeping algae green. How small a colour difference can you actually see?

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Keith Cirkel @keithamus.social · 01/07/2026

Better late than never, I've finished off my game for the month of June! Introducing "Wire Loop". A game where you drag a loop around a wire, and try not to touch the wire. It has a level editor for you to share new levels among friends! k9l.io/wire-loop

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Wire Loop

Drag the loop along the wire without touching it.

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Keith Cirkel @keithamus.social · 01/07/2026

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Wire Loop

Drag the loop along the wire without touching it.

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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

In programming languages that do not use templates or generics, I use the Unicode symbols ᐊ and ᐅ as visual mnemonics, like MyTypeNameᐊint64ᐅ. Works for me but coworkers think I am Satan.

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Patrick Brosset @patrickbrosset.com · 25/06/2026

CSS `field-sizing` is now Baseline Newly Available! It replaces JS code we won't be missing. web-platform-dx.github.io/web-features...

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field-sizing - Web platform features explorer

The field-sizing CSS property allows form controls such as <textarea> to be sized based on their content.

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Luca Casonato 🏳️‍🌈 @lcas.dev · 17/06/2026

What's this, a new HTML proposal? Built-in localized time formatting in HTML! github.com/whatwg/html/...

<time datetime="2026-06-17T08:13:41.099Z" format="datetime">
fallback
</time>

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Wordn't of the Day @wordnt.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Wordn't of day 164: glefly "adj. In a dreamy fashion, gracefully, yet not present an grounded" Play today's word: k9l.io/wordnt See past words: k9l.io/wordnt-dfns?day=164 #wordnt #game

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rich harris @rich-harris.dev · 10/06/2026

There are two ways to resolve the cognitive dissonance of being on Twitter while also caring about all the awful shit happening because of Twitter 1. Leave Twitter 2. Stop caring Profoundly disappointing how many people I like seem to have chosen the latter

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Wordn't of the Day @wordnt.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Wordn't of day 157: cirds "noun "in cirds", in cahoots with" Play today's word: k9l.io/wordnt See past words: k9l.io/wordnt-dfns?day=157 #wordnt #game

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Wordn't of the Day @wordnt.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Wordn't of day 153: swul "adj. To attempt to romanticise something or someone unintentionally." Play today's word: k9l.io/wordnt See past words: k9l.io/wordnt-dfns?day=153 #wordnt #game

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Keith Cirkel @keithamus.social · 02/06/2026

Try it out, would love to hear feedback!

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Wordn't of the Day @wordnt.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Wordn't of day 152: bloutude "noun an objectively beautiful turd" Play today's word: k9l.io/wordnt See past words: k9l.io/wordnt-dfns?day=152 #wordnt #game

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Keith Cirkel @keithamus.social · 29/05/2026

Happy Friday everyone. Here’s the game I’ve created for the month of May; keithcirkel.co.uk/wordnt. It’s a daily nonsense word puzzle, with a meta game: a quest for the best new made up word. Guess the made-up word of the day. Then define it. Upvote other definitions.

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Wordn't

Guess the made-up word of the day. Then define it. A daily nonsense word puzzle.

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Firefox for Web Developers @webdevs.firefox.com · 19/05/2026

Firefox 151 is out now, and brings with it some tasty new web platform features: 🎉 Container style() queries 🎉 Web Serial API 🎉 Document Picture-in-Picture API 🎉 keyboardLock on requestFullscreen …and more! developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/M...

developer.mozilla.org

Firefox 151 release notes for developers (Stable) - Mozilla | MDN

This article provides information about the changes in Firefox 151 that affect developers. Firefox 151 was released on May 19, 2026.

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Keith Cirkel @keithamus.social · 17/05/2026

If you're ever wondering "hey I wonder what Keith is up to right now"... I'm just running the http-archive through csskit and making databases from it. Just normal stuff over here.

A screenshot of a commandline executing a sql query. The text reads:

sqlite3 -csv data/css.sqlite "SELECT value_text, COUNT(*) AS n FROM decls WHERE property = 'touch-action' GROUP BY value_text ORDER BY n desc;"
none,2929
pan-y,2207
manipulation,1544
pan-x,907
auto,195
pinch-zoom,112
"pan-x pan-y",112
"var(--tw-pan-x) var(--tw-pan-y) var(--tw-pinch-zoom)",93
"pan-y pinch-zoom",57
pan-Y,46
"var(--tw-pan-x,)var(--tw-pan-y,)var(--tw-pinch-zoom,)",17
var(--tw-pan-x)var(--tw-pan-y)var(--tw-pinch-zoom),13
"cross-slide-y pinch-zoom double-tap-zoom",12
"var(--tw-pan-x,) var(--tw-pan-y,) var(--tw-pinch-zoom,)",11
"pan-x pan-y pinch-zoom",9
"var(--yarl__controller_touch_action,none)",8
unset,6
pan-up,4
pan-right,4
pan-left,4
pan-down,4
initial,4
var(--b-modal-custom--page-lock-touch-action),2
"pan-y pan-x",2
"pan-x pinch-zoom",2
inherit,2
"var(--tw-pan-x, )var(--tw-pan-y, )var(--tw-pinch-zoom, )",1
var(--t1ljxn-5),1
"pinch-zoom pan-y",1
pan-zoom,1
"pan-y, pan-x",1
"pan-y pinch-zoom double-tap-zoom",1
"pan-x pan-down pinch-zoom",1
"pan-x pan-down",1
"""pan-y pinch-zoom""",1

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Keith Cirkel @keithamus.social · 10/05/2026

Me: “I’m so bored of playing games where the protagonist is a middle aged white man. Give me something different!” Gamedevs: store.steampowered.com/app/3710850/... Me: “… not quite what I meant” (but I’m still definitely going to play it)

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Become on Steam

Become is a short single-player third-person adventure where you embark on life's most fantastical journey, as one of millions of sperm. Survive the perilous microcosm, wiggle, dash, and outcompete ri...

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Daniel Appelquist @torgo.com · 07/05/2026

Reminder : if you live in England and you’re planning to vote in the local elections today, take an acceptable form of ID. www.gov.uk/how-to-vote/... 🗳️

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How to vote

An overview of voting in the UK, including voting in person, postal and proxy voting, and voting if you're abroad.

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Keith Cirkel @keithamus.social · 01/05/2026

The Web Frameworks Community Group now has over 60 members representing Alpine, Astro, Ember, Lit, Lustre, Marko, Preact, Qwik, React, Ripple, Solid, Stimulus, Svelte, Vue, Web Components, htmx, and more! Did I miss your favourite? Come join us and represent! discord.com/invite/fXCng...

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Oliver Medhurst @honk.foo · 26/04/2026

I got hooked on self-hosting so I made my own entire framework and deployment stack running on my own hardware. porffor.dev and goose.icu have been running on it for a few days. no I wouldn't recommend doing this sort of thing for serious use (and no I won't release it) but it is very fun!

A Grafana screenshot showing:
- req/s and egress per app
- status code distribution
- response times
- power usage
- cpu and memory usage per replica
- porffor RSS per replica
- porffor memory details per app

A terminal screenshot showing the command "porch deploy" being run:

deploying porffor-dev (20260426T152114Z) -> honk@192.168.18.104
building
[1.01s] compiling app
[592ms] reading host state
[222ms] uploading release files
[1.33s] building image

rolling out
[11.10s] replica 1/2: OK
[11.12s] replica 2/2: OK

finishing
[386ms] finalizing host config
[197ms] pruning release 20260426T145728Z
[628ms] settling compose project
[593ms] reloading prometheus

deployed porffor-dev (20260426T152114Z) in 27.18s

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