Tobias Fedder @tfedder.de · 11hStarting a political movement with the goal of turning all businesses in the world into worker coops, but framing it as true meritocracy. 021
Tobias Fedder @tfedder.de · 29/09/2026Last day at the office, packing up my stuff. I will miss the whiteboard quote, as well as the a11y poster peeking over my shoulder in video calls. And the cafeteria. 😢 Starting next month: new org, new processes, new workplace, but same tasks, same employer, same team 😊 (mostly). It's complicated. 141
Tobias Fedder @tfedder.de · 26/09/2026There is at least one other reason for (more-than-)valid HTML: not all software consuming your HTML is as clever as the browsers are. Having some knowledge about how browsers parse HTML, earlier versions of my site left out <head> and <body> tags. It broke RSS auto-discovery in some readers. 050
Tobias Fedder @tfedder.de · 26/09/2026When I tried using other length units I had issues with some browsers and atan2(). I wanted to calculate progress in `rem`s of the viewport inline size. In the end I calculated the unitless number of pixels of the viewport and the number of pixels of 1rem. tfedder.de/blog/scaling...tfedder.deCareful scaling of my heading sizes ⸺ tfedder.deI built a fluid type scale for my headings, in a way that should consider the viewport and your preferred font size. 010
Tobias Fedder @tfedder.de · 24/09/2026TIL buttons turn inner nodes presentational. That was great! You scared me a little when you took your time on the <title> in the <svg>. I was afraid I'd been too generous with the aria again. But you added the aria-labelledby in the end. 000
Tobias Fedder @tfedder.de · 23/09/2026Some of that harm is unavoidable when going with masonry for wildly different content. Other stuff like the reading-order property could have been prioritized. Yet, the auto-placement cursor just feels like a mistake. 010
Tobias Fedder @tfedder.de · 22/09/2026So, less from a perspective of: WebComponents, yet you only write CSS; but instead viewing it as a way to use custom-elements only for CSS purposes, avoiding div/span with classes. Yes, having to repeat the <template> for DSD is annoying, and even without repeating it, less portable. Makes sense. 110
Tobias Fedder @tfedder.de · 21/09/2026Great post! @scope really does improve the situation here. It sounds like you would not consider zero JS, custom-element-shaped markup with declarative shadow DOM to be CSS-only custom elements; stating they have no shadow root, therefore no shadow DOM slotting. Any particular reason for that? 110
Tobias Fedder @tfedder.de · 21/09/2026It's not trying to fabricate it. It has been a part of the tech culture war for a long time. The outspoken among us have been calling it out for a while. I instantly thought of @heydonworks.com as I saw that headline. webbed-briefs.teemill.com/product/css-...webbed-briefs.teemill.comCSS Is For Girls tee(CSS is for girls and exceptionally smart boys.) 180
Tobias Fedder @tfedder.de · 20/09/2026I know I should be angry about the "largest theft of labor in human history", other anti-social tech, blocking client-side rendering, and shit. But what about my fellow web devs getting excited to optimize their sites for the newest gadget from the "you have to install an app for that" corp? 000
Reposted by Tobias FedderMia [data-css=poetic] @miriam.codes · 18/09/2026If you want to claim technology is neutral and what matters is how we use it… this is it. This is the "how we use it" part. These are brand name products built by companies, so ~5 of the worst men on Sir Tim's world wide public domain web can sell our own Redit posts back to us for profit. 1131
Tobias Fedder @tfedder.de · 18/09/2026Dear border-image-*, Why? Have I wronged you? Why are you like that? Why are you doing this to me? Why‽ #CSS 030
Reposted by Tobias FedderAlex Russell @infrequently.org · 17/09/2026It's also anti-privacy to bounce folks to native apps and app stores filled with invasive, proprietary, unauditable technology. 181
Tobias Fedder @tfedder.de · 17/09/2026I had to ssh into my server this morning to get my NextcloudAIO instance up again. Many container images needed updating. Now, the interesting question is: Did I jinx it, or is five months too long a period for me to have been able to jinx it? bsky.app/profile/tfed... 010
Tobias Fedder @tfedder.de · 16/09/2026Looks like I overestimated the appetite for hexagons on the web. Like, by a lot. bsky.app/profile/tfed... 020
Reposted by Tobias FedderTobias Fedder @tfedder.de · 15/09/2026I like hexagons and web design. Do you like hexagons? And, also web design? Can I interest you in calc-size() ? codepen.io/editor/tfedd...codepen.ioCSS calc-size() function’s potentialA code demo by Tobias Fedder created on CodePen 011
Tobias Fedder @tfedder.de · 15/09/2026I like hexagons and web design. Do you like hexagons? And, also web design? Can I interest you in calc-size() ? codepen.io/editor/tfedd...codepen.ioCSS calc-size() function’s potentialA code demo by Tobias Fedder created on CodePen 011
Tobias Fedder @tfedder.de · 13/09/2026It will compress. Unless the code has to be edited by the visitors, I wouldn't go there. 000
Tobias Fedder @tfedder.de · 12/09/2026Let's say the government in 1934 thought some of the names were too DEI. 110
Tobias Fedder @tfedder.de · 12/09/2026If you are going to try it, make sure to avoid the versions containing Nordpol. 😬 100
Tobias Fedder @tfedder.de · 12/09/2026The new German phonetic alphabet is based on city names. Level: impossible 120
Tobias Fedder @tfedder.de · 12/09/2026ffs make the "the fire department is socialism"-people go away. 000
Tobias Fedder @tfedder.de · 12/09/2026No, you don’t have to. Feel free though. It’s just that no one can agree on a definition anymore. 101
Tobias Fedder @tfedder.de · 12/09/2026Imagine a world where every business is owned by all its workers, and only its workers. Does that sound like socialism to you? Then please tell me how that's not capitalism. Does that sound like capitalism to you? Then please tell me how that's not socialism. 100
Tobias Fedder @tfedder.de · 11/09/2026Excellent blog post. “it doesn’t matter, as long as everything is calculated off the same ratio” is pretty much what I bet on. I am a fan of the 1.5 ratio as well, so, great choice there. 110
Tobias Fedder @tfedder.de · 10/09/2026Are you suggesting that primitives and system tokens, or whatever else these tiers might be called, should be enough, and having a third tier with tokens per component is almost like not using tokens at all? 110
Tobias Fedder @tfedder.de · 09/09/2026Utility classes on a block, which have to be repeated on every HTML block of that kind, or repeating CSS declarations across CSS rulesets for those blocks’ CSS, or mixins: how to decide where to put what in CUBE CSS. 010
Tobias Fedder @tfedder.de · 07/09/2026"far too costly" as in: the government, rather than fixing and maintaining IT systems that are already in use, spends money on mass surveillance programs. just saying, with no particular recent event in mind lol 031
Tobias Fedder @tfedder.de · 07/09/2026Same here. I'm baffled that it became even more useless to me since I switched my main machine from Windows to Ubuntu. 010
Tobias Fedder @tfedder.de · 05/09/2026It seems that Blink doesn’t care about balancing text after an explicit line break. While Gecko does… something…, maybe balancing all lines except the one with the explicit line break??? I am so confused. At this point, what are the web-platform-tests actually testing for? wpt.fyi/results/css/...wpt.fyiweb-platform-tests dashboard 000
Tobias Fedder @tfedder.de · 05/09/2026I don’t know. Does it feel broken to you? codepen.io/tfedder-de/p...codepen.iobalance after br... 100
Tobias Fedder @tfedder.de · 05/09/2026Regarding Interop 2027, I was thinking about writing a proposal for `text-wrap-style:balance`. I had some issues with it in the past when adding line breaks. There are a few failing web-platform-tests left. But now that I’m playing with it to remember what’s so broken about it… 110
Reposted by Tobias FedderScott Riley @scott.is · 04/09/2026”it is not fair to suggest that *checks notes* ethnically cleansing the romani is not a valid idea. you cannot think that not supporting *double-checks notes* ethnically cleansing the romani makes you better than people who want to *makes sure i’ve got this right* ethnically cleanse the romani” 1163
Tobias Fedder @tfedder.de · 04/09/2026Vaultwarden, if someone on the team is comfortable hosting it, and you need to reatrict access of different groups of creds to different groups of users. KeePassXC, if ways for syncing files are available, and everyone is allowed to see all creds. Obviously there is a risk: file sync conflicts. 100
Tobias Fedder @tfedder.de · 03/09/2026Sooo, can issues be too small to qualify as an interop-proposal? For example, me wishing for just one additional web-platform-test to turn green in all three engines? wpt.fyi/results/css/...wpt.fyiweb-platform-tests dashboard 000
Tobias Fedder @tfedder.de · 03/09/2026I guess our 1‰ of users on iOS ≤16.4 disagree. OTOH, what are iOS users expecting from the web anyway? 100
Tobias Fedder @tfedder.de · 03/09/2026I'm asking why asking that is worthy of a thread. Now someone please question why this is worthy my reply then. Also, can we get a philosophy and psychology duo explain how shaming immoral behavior helps in deterring immoral behavior? Please tag them here. That will be worth their time? 140
Tobias Fedder @tfedder.de · 02/09/2026Me: Just once, maybe? NVDA: Like twice? Me: Less than twice! NVDA: Okay. Not at all then. 🤬🤬🤬 000
Tobias Fedder @tfedder.de · 02/09/2026Making some fixes to a modeless dialog. Me: Please NVDA, read it to me. NVDA: Sure thing, let me read the whole thing twice. Me: Oh, my bad, fixed it. Only heading and focussed button, please. NVDA: I see, I’ll announce heading and button, twice. 110
Tobias Fedder @tfedder.de · 01/09/2026Releases every two weeks that's great. The question is: is it because of peer pressure? 110
Tobias Fedder @tfedder.de · 30/08/2026This week I found myself commenting on a PR: "Caution: `alertdialog`s should be modals, not dialogs – yeah, I know." So I guess I couldn't agree more. 010
Tobias Fedder @tfedder.de · 30/08/2026I agree, and it has never been easier. `@layer`, `@scope`, `revert-layer` are helping with styling the elements themselves, while providing ways to opt out where necessary. 020
