iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Rach Smith @rachsmith.com · 30/07/2026

I've been using them in the private preview and love it. So glad GH brought this.

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Rach Smith @rachsmith.com · 30/07/2026

it's next on my list of blocks to add 😊 hopefully you won't have to wait long

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Shaw @shaw.city · 24/07/2026

The new @codepen.io 2.0 is now the default experience. If you wanna give it some ✨ Classic flair ✨, check this out: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMxX...

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CodePen 2.0 But Make It ✨Classic✨

YouTube video by CodePen

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Rach Smith @rachsmith.com · 24/07/2026

so glad you like it 😊

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Rach Smith @rachsmith.com · 24/07/2026

thank you Alex! That is kind of you to say

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Rach Smith @rachsmith.com · 23/07/2026

and thanks for yours, good sir

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Rach Smith @rachsmith.com · 27/05/2026

hello, I’ve been largely offline lately… just too busy with IRL stuff. Anyway, this is the newest member of our family, Teddy Bear.

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Chris Coyier @chriscoyier.net · 10/03/2026

The way our @codepen.io 2.0 editor deals with npm packages is pretty cool. 1. Detect package usage 2. Create/edit `package.json` file to reflect needed packages 3. Inject an `<script type="importmap">` into any HTML produced by compiler Here's using React in 53 seconds.

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Shaw @shaw.city · 06/03/2026

codepen.io/beta

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Rach Smith @rachsmith.com · 29/01/2026

this is exactly how I pronounce it ftr

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Rach Smith @rachsmith.com · 22/11/2025

How good is being a full-stacker? You can make anything you want!!

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Rach Smith @rachsmith.com · 15/11/2025

I hate trucks too!!!!!! The absolute worst americanism to infiltrate Australian culture in recent years… many haters call them yank tanks.

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Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

can you imagine making a feature that's so awful you have the most creative people on national television calling it a piece of shit and telling you to "FUCK OFF." on national tv.

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Rach Smith @rachsmith.com · 27/10/2025

I think it will be my go-to for future personal web projects.

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Rach Smith @rachsmith.com · 27/10/2025

I’ve been rewriting one of my home-cooked SvelteKit apps with Go and @data-star.dev. Had to wrap my head around the paradigm shift (I’ve never tried HTMX) and deepen my understanding of Go templates… but now that’s done, I’m loving the simplicity of this stack!!

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henry ✷ @strange.website · 14/10/2025

yea so this is no big deal. ive been taking the lead protein powder for about six months and the only noticeable change is that lately I'm really into using LLMs to unlock critical strategic business insights

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Rach Smith @rachsmith.com · 11/10/2025

What is really quite good: woolworths.com.au. I mean... you'd think performance would be a top priority for most big commercial operations... but no. It's not like I'm surprised, I knew it would be bad but it's BAD out here.

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Rach Smith @rachsmith.com · 11/10/2025

It's a long story but basically we've been without broadband for an entire week so I've had to survive on my spotty 4G connection. Most of the web doesn't work with a shitty connection but the worst offender for me and my needs has been github.com.

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Rach Smith @rachsmith.com · 03/10/2025

And they blessedly haven't added any bullshit AI "features". Mad respect. Here are your flowers 💐.

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Rach Smith @rachsmith.com · 03/10/2025

Shouts to the @ynabofficial.bsky.social team for making some top quality web software. I've been using the site for 8 years, have not run in to anything buggy or broken even *once*. I can do everything with the keyboard!

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Rach Smith @rachsmith.com · 01/10/2025

(I’m front and back) It’s decent at Golang, React and TypeScript. Especially for things like writing test cases for me. The HTML and CSS sucks though. I turn off CSS suggestions because it wants to display: flex flex-direction: column literally everything.

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jenn schiffer 😎 @jennschiffer.com · 27/09/2025

i just want software that leaves me the fuck alone you know what i mean?

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Rach Smith @rachsmith.com · 25/09/2025

Anybody else compulsively hit ⌘+S no less than 5 times per save?

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Rach Smith @rachsmith.com · 24/09/2025

the fact you kept this up while having two pregnancies and babies: a rather…. chaotic time for pooping, makes this all the more impressive IMO

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/09/2025

of all the things I am not going to buy, this is the thing I am not going to buy the most

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Jason Lengstorf @jason.energy · 31/08/2025

solved an edge case style override in @astro.build using CSS layers a little while back and got around to writing it up still extremely happy with Astro and its technical choices to lean heavily on web standards. makes stuff like this feel so natural 💜 codetv.dev/blog/astro-c...

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CSS overrides without important using layers in Astro components

We used to need `!important` to override styles, but it’s not 2021 anymore and there’s a better way: CSS layers.

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Rach Smith @rachsmith.com · 25/08/2025

As a kid I was resentful about being made to learn classical piano while other kids got to play pop songs. Now I’m like why would I want to play pop when Beethoven is lit.

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Rach Smith @rachsmith.com · 22/08/2025

When I go back to a dynamically typed language (Ruby) after working in a statically typed language (Go) I wonder how I even built *anything* with this thing. Golang has ruined dynamically typed languages for me. (except for JavaScript of course… my ride or die.)

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Rach Smith @rachsmith.com · 19/08/2025

100%!! for me 1 hour of exercise + 5 hours of work in a day will _always_ generate more value than 7 hours of work.

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Rach Smith @rachsmith.com · 11/08/2025

apart from the fact it’s literally hard to see, it just feels so… dated. I swear I had a Winamp skin just like this in 2002. It’s like the way I feel about super low rise jeans. We don’t need to do this again!

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Rach Smith @rachsmith.com · 10/08/2025

today’s drawing: ghosts - redrawing the little guys my kid drew for his haunted house. Tag yourself, I’m bottom left.

A digital drawing of 5 ghost characters with various expressions.

The same small ghost characters: drawn on paper, cut out and sticky-taped on to a coffee table with toys and books on it.

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Rach Smith @rachsmith.com · 10/08/2025

I think this might make me officially old and crotchety but I think iOS/iPadOS 26 looks terrible and I hate it 👵🏻😭

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Rach Smith @rachsmith.com · 10/08/2025

Month notes & numbers No. 15 rachsmith.com/mnnm/15/

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Rach Smith @rachsmith.com · 09/08/2025

today’s drawing: froggy

a drawing of a green tree frog sitting on a branch

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Rach Smith @rachsmith.com · 25/07/2025

I found one of these in our house a few years ago and at first thought it was a baby snake until I saw its little teeny tiny legs 😊

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Annie Sexton @anniesexton.com · 22/07/2025

I love CSS folks. They are soldiers of joy and delight. The world is burning and AI debates have people at each others throats and CSS peeps keep being like “check out this dancing turtle I made out of divs 🥰”

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