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@vale.rocks
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Front-end developer, designer, writer, and avid user of the superpowered information superhighway. ✧ vale.rocks ✧ fedi.vale.rocks/vale

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crossmod @crossmod.bsky.social · 12h
It really has come to this, writing a spell of warding to keep out the electronic goblins
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Vale @vale.rocks · 10h
Looking across at the venue I'm speaking at feels like the scene in a video game where the title card comes up introducing the boss battle. On Saturday I'll be on stage giving my first conference talk across the Matagarup Bridge at Optus Stadium.
A bright, illuminated bridge that coils into the sky in front of a massive stadium. It is reflected in a river. In the foreground is me beside my unicycle.
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Vale @vale.rocks · 13h
For what it is worth, I haven't gotten any AI agent emails since I updated my contact page with an admonition. vale.rocks/contact
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Vale @vale.rocks · 13h
Welp, development industry is fucked. What is everyone's plan B?
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Vale @vale.rocks · 18h
There's nothing more we can do. It's in the CI's hands now.
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Vale @vale.rocks · 28/09/2026
It makes me feel so deeply sad to see AI pull requests against PersonalSit.es. Often times they're submitting AI-generated sites, too. Just the complete antithesis of the point.
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Sacha Greif @sachagreif.com · 28/09/2026
The State of Devs 2026 survey results are out! 2026.stateofdevs.com/en-US/ Here's a quick recap 🧵
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State of Devs 2026
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Vale @vale.rocks · 28/09/2026
px in CSS ≠ a pixel on a display. This is something that is obvious when you think about it at all, but many people seem to gloss over it. I was explaining it to someone and figured I'd be best to jot it down: vale.rocks/micros/20260...
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A CSS Pixel Isn't a True Pixel - 28 Sept 2026 05:15 UTC
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Vale @vale.rocks · 28/09/2026
My hammer went rogue and started smashing people's heads in! There was nothing I could do. I tried to stop it, but my arm kept swinging it at people. It isn't my fault! It is the hammer's. This is very dangerous. Someone should regulate hammers. (This is a post about AI safety and liability.)
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grant @grantcuster.com · 25/09/2026
New tabletop recording setup:
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Vale @vale.rocks · 25/09/2026
Over a decade ago I listed myself in my father's phone as 'Supreme Overlord'. To this day he hasn't changed it, and will still say 'Hey Siri, call Supreme Overlord' to reach me. Gold.
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Vale @vale.rocks · 23/09/2026
It is really great that I can generally avoid reading drivel based entirely on if I see that the author has a link to their account on X (formerly Twitter) on their page.
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Vale @vale.rocks · 23/09/2026
Just presented an abridged version of my talk, 'Newly Acquired Powers of the Web Platform', which I'm presenting at DDD Perth on October 3rd. People loved it, and it went smoothly. Extremely excited to present it!
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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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Vale @vale.rocks · 22/09/2026
If you see anyone refer to an LLM as 'Super Intelligence (SI)' then you can immediately discredit them as idiotic. Self-filtering idiots.
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Vale @vale.rocks · 03/08/2026
Want to spend the next half-hour reading my thoughts on the Halo series? I finished Halo: Campaign Evolved over the weekend, so here is my review and full thoughts. vale.rocks/posts/halo-m... #Halo #HaloCE
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"Halo: My Thoughts"
Explore my journey through the Halo series, from the iconic Combat Evolved to the latest release, Infinite. Discover my thoughts, experiences, and insights into each game's virtues.
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Vale @vale.rocks · 22/09/2026
Unless Halo under Activision reviews extraordinarily well and is free of predatory monetisation strategies, I probably won't play any future games in the series. Despite my love for the games, this is likely the killing blow for any excitement I had for future entries. Dreadful. #Halo #Activision
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Vale @vale.rocks · 21/09/2026
This is an extremely odd article from WIRED. It almost seems to be trying to fabricate some sort of culture war around CSS? Bizarre.
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Vale @vale.rocks · 21/09/2026
If ever you search for a song or musical artist on Bluesky, you're likely to find the results flooded with automated accounts which post whenever a song is played by a specific radio station. I find this noise rather annoying, so have compiled this moderation list for easily muting them.
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Vale @vale.rocks · 19/09/2026
The man with motor neurone disease I mentioned in this article died today. As someone whose independance and agency was a huge part of his identity, assistive technologies made the final chapter of his life that little bit more bearable. Once again, accessibility matters.
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Vale @vale.rocks · 02/08/2026
With passion, and with anger, and with pain, and with grief, and with sadness: fuck motor neurone diseases.
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Keith Kurson @keithlaugh.love · 18/09/2026
keith.is/post/digital... I have fully canceled my D/O account 😡
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DigitalOcean has $3 million for DHH and nothing for CSS-Tricks
A week and a bit on UpCloud, deleting my DigitalOcean account after more than 10 years, and what DigitalOcean is doing to CSS-Tricks, one of the best places on the whole internet.
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Geoff Graham @geoffgraham.me · 18/09/2026
The Front-End Community is Still Alive and Beautiful I thought about dropping an addendum into my last post to say just how overwhelmed I am, in the best possible way, by the way all of you in the... geoffgraham.me/the-front-end-commun…
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The Front-End Community is Still Alive and Beautiful
I thought about dropping an addendum into my last post to say just how overwhelmed I am, in the best possible way, by the way all of you in the front-end community have shown up to show support, both for me and for CSS-Tricks. I started to do that but then felt a new post...
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Andy Bell @bell.bz · 18/09/2026
New on the blog
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You’ll miss publishers when they’re gone
Ever since Piccalilli started to get traction, I’ve always seen CSS-Tricks, Smashing Magazine and A List Apart (among others) as peers. We all help each other behind the scenes and importantly, back each other. When CSS-Tricks was initially acquired by DigitalOcean, I was really happy for Chris. The work that he’d put into that publication…
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Bart Veneman @veneman.dev · 18/09/2026
Or let the browser make the sound of a Geiger counter every time the garbage collector runs.
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Vale @vale.rocks · 18/09/2026
Rather than the sound of water trickling, which indicates a typical leak, software memory leaks can be identified by the hiss of a fan.
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Kevin Powell @kevinpowell.co · 17/09/2026
I hadn't posted over on the second channel in a while now, but I felt that it was important to talk about what's going on with @digitalocean.com and @css-tricks.bsky.social as the site has now gone quiet for a second time. youtu.be/9_upvxCAUzM
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Digital Ocean killed CSS-Tricks... again
YouTube video by General Musings with Kevin Powell
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Manuel Matuzović @matuzo.at · 17/09/2026
Friends, it's that time of the year: Once again, I'm asking you to help me create another amazing HTMHell Advent Calendar by writing about HTML. The CFP is open until October 3! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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HTMHell Advent Calendar
Hello, my dear friends of high-quality markup! We're getting closer to the last quarter of 2026, which means that the HTMHell Advent Calendar is getting closer, too. Last year, once again, you contrib...
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CapChord @capchord.com · 17/09/2026
Hello Bluesky. CapChord has a fresh World Wide Web home page. More than that, a post to go with it, too. capchord.com/blog/return-...
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Return to Form
Announcement of CapChord's new site and branding with explanation of the thought and planning behind it. An embrace of an older take on the web and all that encompasses CapChord going forward in new e...
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Vale @vale.rocks · 17/09/2026
I love the CSS spec's take on supporting `text-decoration: blink`. It may as well say, 'Support it, don't support it, nobody here gives a shit. Probably don't make stuff blink though. We all know what a mess `<blink>` was.' (Even before deprecation, none of the major browsers supported the value.)
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Vale @vale.rocks · 17/09/2026
2K followers? Obscene figure. Surely not real.
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Vale @vale.rocks · 16/09/2026
I've had quite a number of people tell me to stop bringing up 'politics' in my writing. For example, when I've decried Elon Musk and DHH when mentioning X (Twitter) and Omarchy, respectively. Plainly, no. I will continue to mention injustices and wrongs. Tech is political – especially now.
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Vale @vale.rocks · 15/09/2026
On the Hacker News front page for the third time in a week. Ahhhhh!
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Andy Bell @bell.bz · 15/09/2026
I run @piccalil.li and having publications like CSS-Tricks around is really important. We all help and challenge each other and the result is a better ecosystem for everyone else. That's the whole point! I really hope this situation gets resolved, or CSS-Tricks gets a new owner that cares.
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Why CSS-Tricks Has Been Quiet Lately - Geoff Graham
Because I haven't published anything to it since August 31. And no one else has either. That's not a super long time to go silent but it is for a site that
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Vale @vale.rocks · 15/09/2026
This whole situation just makes me so sad. There are so few publications left that are reliably producing genuine, non-slop web content. I think I can count them on one hand. Contrast this to the smörgåsbord on offer in, say, 2015. Tragic. Lets be loud about this and keep CSS-Tricks kicking!
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Vale @vale.rocks · 15/09/2026
@css-tricks.bsky.social is once again stuck in an arbitrary suspension at the hands of DigitalOcean's radio silence. It is devastating to see such a brilliant publication treated so very poorly. The current situation: vale.rocks/micros/20260...
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CSS-Tricks in Limbo - 15 Sept 2026 01:35 UTC
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Daniel Schwarz @dxnny.fun · 14/09/2026
It might be too early to really get into it, but I thought everyone should know that CSS-Tricks is mostly in limbo (again). @digitalocean.com, pay your staff (or at least respond). geoffgraham.me/why-css-tric...
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Why CSS-Tricks Has Been Quiet Lately - Geoff Graham
Because I haven't published anything to it since August 31. And no one else has either. That's not a super long time to go silent but it is for a site that
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Juan Diego Rodríguez @monknow.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I've been writing for @css-tricks.bsky.social for almost 3 years along @geoffgraham.me , aka the best editor ever. Lately, things have been a little slow on the site. I think everyone deserves an explanation, but Geoff especially deserves one from DigitalOcean.
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Why CSS-Tricks Has Been Quiet Lately - Geoff Graham
Because I haven't published anything to it since August 31. And no one else has either. That's not a super long time to go silent but it is for a site that
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Geoff Graham @geoffgraham.me · 14/09/2026
📝 Why CSS-Tricks Has Been Quiet Lately (cc: @digitalocean.com @css-tricks.bsky.social ) geoffgraham.me/why-css-tric...
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Why CSS-Tricks Has Been Quiet Lately - Geoff Graham
Because I haven't published anything to it since August 31. And no one else has either. That's not a super long time to go silent but it is for a site that
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Rick Baymax @maincharacter.today · 14/09/2026
sure is fascinating to hear that DigitalOcean can’t pay a few writers at the same time that they’re handing millions of dollars to DHH for a pile of shitty bash scripts
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Mat “Wilto” Marquis @wil.to · 14/09/2026
Digital Ocean ended their $50/month sponsorship of GNOME and FlatHub and went radio silent on CSS-Tricks right around the time they found a spare three million dollars to burn on “sponsoring” a high-profile racist’s dotfiles repo. Impossible to see this as anything but a statement of their values.
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Why CSS-Tricks Has Been Quiet Lately - Geoff Graham
Because I haven't published anything to it since August 31. And no one else has either. That's not a super long time to go silent but it is for a site that
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Vale @vale.rocks · 14/09/2026
I struggle tremendously to read 'Yahoo!' without hearing the epitomous yodel echo forth from the crevaces of my fracturing mind.
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Vale @vale.rocks · 14/09/2026
I've been really enjoying this business' YouTube channel. They make a range of products, most of which are addressing accessibility considerations. The videos showcase their iterative improvement process following testing with users and getting feedback from them. www.youtube.com/@Liberare_co
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The easiest bras you’ll ever put on. Seen in @Vogue @Forbes @GoodHousekeeping
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Vale @vale.rocks · 13/09/2026
When I'm bored I just come on here and search 'LessWrong'. Certain to be a good time.
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Vale @vale.rocks · 13/09/2026
Just published v1.2.0 of my KOReader Jellyfin Plugin. It features an overhauled interface, sorting and filtering, progress syncing, configurable download location, display of book details, improved error messages, and many bug fixes. github.com/DeclanChidlo... #Jellyfin #KOReader
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Release v1.2.0 · DeclanChidlow/KOReader-Jellyfin-Plugin
Overhaul the interface. Allow sorting and filtering when browsing books. Show the cover, genre, series, and other metadata when browsing books. Automatically send current book progress to the Jelly...
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Vale @vale.rocks · 13/09/2026
I'm not sure if I spent the last week testing Internet Explorer, or if Internet Explorer spent the last week testing me.
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Vale @vale.rocks · 12/09/2026
Building on my Halo Service Record post, I've processed my Team Fortress 2 stats. The source data isn't as detailed or comprehensive as Halo's (or even entirely accurate), but it is still mildly interesting to look at. vale.rocks/posts/team-f... #TeamFortress2 #TF2
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Examining My Team Fortress Statistics
'Let's see which of you is a statistical outlier.'
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Vale @vale.rocks · 11/09/2026
Trying to surf the web while the spider who spun it injects digestive fluids into me and I become a slurry.
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Vale @vale.rocks · 11/09/2026
I've covered old HTML relics away from standards, so CSS seemed like the natural next up. Here are a variety of styling oddities and curiosities from years long passed. You know the gist. It is mainly the fault of Internet Explorer. vale.rocks/posts/css-re... #CSS #WebDev
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CSS Curiosities of the Past
Summary of the various CSS syntaxes, parsing bugs, hacks, bespoke features, and implementations used across browsers and the web to achieve specific goals in the days before browser vendors became more adherent to a single solid specification. Particularly focusing on the non-compliant, bespoke implementations of functionality seen in Microsoft's Internet Explorer.
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Vale @vale.rocks · 10/09/2026
If you find yourself needing to use Internet Explorer on Windows 11 for some godforsaken reason, here is a quick note on how you can do that. I hope you get better soon. vale.rocks/micros/20260...
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Access Internet Explorer 11 in Windows 11 - 10 Sept 2026 02:20 UTC
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