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Shib Willoughby @shibcodes.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Excuse me, what? SWITCHER2! IT'S HAPPENING! 😍😍😍

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Jim Nielsen @jim-nielsen.com · 11/05/2026

📝 Yet another post about how I'm trying out cross-page HTML navigations (with CSS view transitions) over in-page JS interactions. It’s kinda cool to remove JS and get a fancier effect for free with HTML/CSS. blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/out-wit...

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Out With the JS, In With the HTML

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

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Andy Bell @bell.bz · 17/03/2026

On the left, is some normal CSS with a white box under, labelled "DLSS 5 Off"

On the right is some Tailwind slop, attached to a div with an onClick event which triggers an alert saying "Built with Claude".

Under that, a white box which has a green line under it, captioned "DLSS 5 On"

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Haz @haz.dev · 03/02/2026

This border-radius transition 🤌🏽 Believe it or not, it's just CSS.

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Shib Willoughby @shibcodes.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Been working on some better key art for Tea, Please! this weekend. Kinda vibing it!

Tea, Please! A story by Siobhan Willoughby. An illustrated girl looks into a bathroom mirror. The mirror is divided down the middle and slightly askew. On one side of the mirror is her sad self. And on the other side of the mirror is her happy self.

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Jono Alderson @jono.id · 08/10/2025

I’ve been investigating dead websites for years. Same symptoms every time - bloated code, missing structure, too many dependencies and not enough care. It’s not murder. It’s neglect. And it’s everywhere. www.jonoalderson.com/misc/the-dea...

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The death of a website

The call came in after midnight. Another site down. Same pattern. Same rot. Somebody’s killing the web, and nobody’s talking.

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Frosty Games 🍦 @frostygamesfest.com · 15/09/2025

Frosty is back to celebrate the coolest upcoming and recently released games made in Australia & Aotearoa, this December 🍦🥳 We’ll be featuring exclusive reveals, announcements, and updates. Developers can submit their games now until Sep 30! ⤵️ forms.gle/tt8y9N1dPweS...

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Shib Willoughby @shibcodes.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

My game, Tea, Please! received some more funding! This time from Screen NSW! 🎉 Big achievement! And this funding will put Tea, Please! in a really nice position for release next year! Big thanks to Screen NSW for believing in and supporting my little game! 🥹

screen.nsw.gov.au

Screen NSW - Screen NSW delivering over $580,000 in support of development for the next wave of NSW games

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Waypoint @waypoint-events.com · 04/08/2025

The return of Waypoint Constellations✨ 🎫 events.humanitix.com/waypoint-con... A close collaboration with @serenade.games to celebrate Sydney's games and creators. 🗓️On Oct 14th just before SXSW's games festival begins Follow and sign up for more info as we tease out the secrets of this event.

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Shib Willoughby @shibcodes.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Much like the State of CSS Survey - I've been given a special referral link to share to other women developers for the State of HTML survey! Goals are to increase participation of women taking the survey! If you're a woman developer - go and fill it in! survey.devographics.com/survey/state...

Help us share this survey with more women!
We are hoping to increase participation of women in the survey, and one approach we're trying (known as "snowball sampling") is asking women respondents such as yourself to share the link to this survey with other women developers.
If you're able to help with this, here is a special share link you can use so we can track the success of this initiative:
https://survey.devographics.com/survey/state-of-html/2025?source=referral_5n0w

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Jono Alderson @jono.id · 24/07/2025

Why are you shipping 3MB of JavaScript to animate a link? Modern CSS now handles seamless page transitions - natively. No routing hacks. No hydration tax. No excuse.

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It's time for modern CSS to kill the SPA

Native CSS transitions have quietly killed the strongest argument for client-side routing. Yet people keep building terrible apps instead of performant websites.

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Jono Alderson @jono.id · 21/07/2025

Modern HTML is a disaster. It’s bloated, semantically meaningless, and hostile to browsers, bots, and users. We’ve traded structure for utility, and performance is paying the price. Semantic HTML still matters - and here’s why. www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/w...

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Why Semantic HTML Still Matters

If you want to build for performance, accessibility, discoverability, or resilience, you must start with HTML that means something.

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Shib Willoughby @shibcodes.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

It's full steam ahead on Tea, Please! development! I've also just started up devlogs for it to keep me on track! Here's Devlog 01! (also on TikTok: www.tiktok.com/@shibcodes/v...)

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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

This is your periodic reminder that I have the world’s longest ongoing list of accessibility tools for developers and I want more Thank you carry on. Let me know if links die. assisted.site/accessibility

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Zach Leatherman @zachleat.com · 01/07/2025

it feels important to keep saying: SPA as an app framework default (and not an opt-in feature) was a mistake

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Shib Willoughby @shibcodes.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

My favourite read of the day! "...they brought with them an architecture-first mindset: patterns, state management, dependency injection, abstracted logic." I repeat, from my talk last month, men are really out here building JS frameworks so they don't have to learn HTML and CSS.

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Shib Willoughby @shibcodes.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Doing the State of CSS survey and this was interesting to see! One of my favourite (not really) parts of these surveys each year is seeing how horrible the woman:man ratio is lol So, if you're a woman developer go and fill it out too with my ref link! survey.devographics.com/survey/state...

A screenshot reads:

Help us share this survey with more women!

We are hoping to increase women participation this year, and one approach we're trying (known as "snowball sampling") is asking women respondents such as yourself to share the link to this survey with other women developers.

If you're able to help with this, here is a special share link you can use so we can track the success of this initiative:

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Mia [data-css=poetic] @miriam.codes · 30/06/2025

I still get mad that 'we' decided at some point to abandon IDs & element names in CSS, shove everything into hyphenated classes, and complain that "its a global namespace" and "naming things is hard". Then, with only source-order remaining, we let JS load our styles in random order.

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Wholesome Games @wholesomegames.com · 26/06/2025

Calling all content creators who want to flex their decorating muscles ~ MakeRoom's release is right around the corner! Let us know if you're interested in covering the game's launch by filling out this interest form: 🔑 k1zwm815u8b.typeform.com/MakeRoom

A screenshot from MakeRoom.

A isometric diorama of a cozily decorated bedroom. The background behind the bedroom and outside of the diorama is tan with silhouettes of trees and grass.

A screenshot from MakeRoom.

A isometric diorama of a cozily decorated living room with a fireplace, TV, sofas, computer desk, and dining table. The interior wall is a dark green texture with a herringbone patterned wood floor.

The background outside of the diorama is a lighter green with silhouettes of grass tufts.

A screenshot from MakeRoom.

A isometric diorama of a cozily decorated camper van with a mini kitchen, sofa, and small tables. The interior wall is a purple texture with a herringbone patterned wood floor.

The background outside of the diorama is a green with silhouettes of grass tufts and pine trees.

A screenshot from MakeRoom.

A isometric diorama of a cozily decorated living room with a fireplace, sofa, chairs, and center coffee table. The interior wall is a dark red wallpaper with wood panels in the lower half. The floor texture is a herringbone patterned wood floor. The lighting is moody, as if the sun is setting outside.

The background outside of the diorama is a grey-ish purple with tufts of grass and pine trees silhouetted.

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Shib Willoughby @shibcodes.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

lol what is this negging nonsense I just received?

A LinkedIn message from a recruiter that reads:

Rare opportunity scale-up front-end Eng/ Designer/Ul

Good morning,
I hope this message finds you well.
I'm recruiting for a start-up/scale-up company that are looking to bring onboard an experienced designer that has moved into front-end engineering to focus on the last 10% of the Ul (styling, polish etc...) for a rapidly growing consumer facing crypto business.
It is a design led business having been founded due to the lack of a crypto wallet that focused on great design & experience for the consumer. The business just raised $100 million and was founded by a crypto billionaire based here in Sydney. It is 5 days a week in the office, but the office is amazing!!
The best private gym I have ever seen, complete with personal trainer, free food/ drinks, DJ decks in house...Salary would be flex (and can go higher) but circa $160-190k base + super + package.
You would be sat between the design and engineering teams attending design & Front-end Engineering meetings and they are looking for someone that is passionate about the really finer details on the front-end of how the web and mobile app look to the consumer.
It's not for a front-end developer out right as they already have a number of talented front-end devs that want to focus on how features are built, interact and integrate. There is a great deal of interesting greenfield work to do as they build out a whole heap of new features on the web app, a mobile app and a...

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Shib Willoughby @shibcodes.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

I'm just telling it like it is 💅

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Shib Willoughby @shibcodes.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

A wild Shib appeared! So glad my talk resonated with a bunch of people!

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Shib Willoughby @shibcodes.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Toot toot! 📣 Teaser trailer for my game Tea, Please! will be dropping at @frostygamesfest.com on 8th of June! 👀

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Amit Sheen @amitsheen.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

✨ New article is live: CSS Spotlight Effect I asked myself what we could do with just the mouse position, and got to this fun simple effect. Hope you enjoy it, and maybe it will spark some new ideas for you too. 😊 🔗 Check it out on @frontendmasters.com: frontendmasters.com/blog/css-spo...

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rossipedia @rossipedia.com · 05/05/2025

I'll take it further and say many React devs would benefit from building a static website by hand. Straight HTML/CSS/vanilla JS No framework, no build step. Just raw dog the Platform.

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henry ✷ @strange.website · 05/05/2025

a lot of devs have rightfully been pushing to better value the expertise of HTML- & CSS-focused eng more highly, but the actual correct path forward is to actively *devalue* work that does not meet this standard. like i'm glad you're having fun but no one should pay you for your refrigerator sketch

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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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Shib Willoughby @shibcodes.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Great blog about the history of the web / CSS! A little trip down memory lane - I'd completely forgotten about having to use Firebug for debugging back in the early 00s! 🙈 eev.ee/blog/2020/02...

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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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