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Project Wallace has been going strong for 13 years and I don't see it ending soon. AI has given me some new opportunities, but I keep its input small and keep the fun parts for _me_!

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Bart Veneman @veneman.dev · 22h

Not quite there yet, but not a bad effort for someone learning how to use affinity.

A black t-shirt with a print on the chest area. The print is in white. It starts with a horizontal line, below thaht, in small print "project". Below that the work "Wallace" in bold capitals. The letter "W" has some 80's-like stripes through it. At the bottom is another horizontal line, much thicker than the first one.

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Bart Veneman @veneman.dev · 23h

Doing some investigation for the analysis side. Plan for now: - new repo for data analysis - run scraper locally - upload raw css to some storage (suggestions welcome) - analyze css and store results in duckdb - commit db files to repo - commit queries to repo Hoping to make analysis reproducible

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Luke @lukewarlow.dev · 25/09/2026

Do you use the HTML `<meter>` element? If so when do you use it, and what kinda styling do you use? If you don't use it, are there use cases where you would but don't for some reason? If so what are those reasons.

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Bart Veneman @veneman.dev · 24/09/2026

Going over some ideas that @meyerweb.com and @bkardell.com had in the Igalia Chats episode. Brain is humming with ideas. The vibe was so good, I'm even just smiling when reading back the transcript. www.igalia.com/chats/projec...

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Bart Veneman @veneman.dev · 23/09/2026

End of the year is approaching. I should probably start planning the next CSS Selection and not yolo it like I did this year. Does anyone have requests for what we should analyze?

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Bart Veneman @veneman.dev · 20/09/2026

TIL: CSS `:active` does not trigger when pressing a link or button via the keyboard. Seems like it's mouse-only.

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Bart Veneman @veneman.dev · 20/09/2026

The Beatles - Octopus's Garden Sung by Ringo Starr An alias for Patrick Star? Who lives in Bikini Bottom near Octo's garden? In the shade of his shell? I'M ONTO YOU SPONGEBOB!!!

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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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Kevin Powell @kevinpowell.co · 17/09/2026

What unit do devs use the most often in production? @trost.codes took his best guesses! (Shoutout to @projectwallace.com for the stats)

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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026

Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

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Bart Veneman @veneman.dev · 17/09/2026

2K isn't nearly enough. algo pls add 100K followers instant k thnx bye

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Bart Veneman @veneman.dev · 15/09/2026

DO. Make! This! Happen!

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Bart Veneman @veneman.dev · 15/09/2026

Too many good LEGO Christmas sets released this year!!

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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...

vale.rocks

CSS-Tricks in Limbo - 15 Sept 2026 01:35 UTC

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Bart Veneman @veneman.dev · 14/09/2026

introducing knip.dev at work today and casually deleting ~5,000 LoC

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Bart Veneman @veneman.dev · 14/09/2026

Go check this out! Several early testers found it pretty helpful and it gave them some good insights into some CSS features that they were using in a non-progressively enhanced way.

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Bart Veneman @veneman.dev · 09/09/2026

Anyone who wants to give this a test drive before I release it?

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Bart Veneman @veneman.dev · 06/09/2026

Still some ways to go, but this is turning out useful.

A portion of a page from project wallace. It shows three panels, two on the top, one at the bottom. The top left panel is titled "Baseline status summary" and shows a table and graph showing that 105 feaures are widely available, 3 newly available and 12 limited available. The top right panel is titled "Widely available features by year" and shows a table with all years since 2018 and each year has a bar graph of how many features of that year are used. The bottom panel shows a huge table with each used feature, the amount of usage, the dates fro when it became newly available, widely available and a column for browser support with colorful browser icons.

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Bart Veneman @veneman.dev · 03/09/2026

me: you should absolutely make your website very keyboard accessibe also me, 25 minutes into my working day: hah, whaddayaknow, haven't even turned on my keyboard yet

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Bart Veneman @veneman.dev · 31/08/2026

Pushed two big performance wins on projectwallace.com yesterday. Next up: attempting to virtualize syntax highlighting with the Highlight API additional elements for lines etc. 🤞

projectwallace.com

CSS Analytics - Project Wallace

The best CSS Analyzer on the web. Check your CSS complexity, specificity, performance, design tokens and much more.

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Bart Veneman @veneman.dev · 28/08/2026

bramus/specificity is close to 30M downloads/week 😱

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Bart Veneman @veneman.dev · 26/08/2026

Still one of the best side projects I've ever done (with a couple of mates). We had the whole app, checkout and purchase flow working, but we lost steam. Luckily I had these portraits or our boys made in time.

A white shelf with two portaits on it. They're both 48 by 48 studs on a black background. Both feature a boy's face in grayscale. One has yellow as contrast color, the other uses a purple-ish color.

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Bart Veneman @veneman.dev · 25/08/2026

💡Going to make an ATProto app that stores your CSS analysis and reports. Calling it ATRules.

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Keith Cirkel @keithamus.social · 23/08/2026

Sorry this took over a month to get done, but csskit@0.0.30 now has a JS API. No docs yet 😳 (maybe an adventurous developer would like to contribute some 😉) but it's hopefully intuitive. Parsing only, minification/formatting will come later.

Code:

import {
StyleRule, StyleSheet, Color, MediaRule
} from "csskit";

const sheet = StyleSheet.parse("a { color: red }");
sheet instanceof StyleSheet; // true

for (const rule of sheet.querySelectorAll("style-rule")) {
rule instanceof StyleRule; // true
console.log(rule.constructor.name, rule.text);
// -> StyleRule a { color: red }
}

Color.parse("#ff0000");
MediaRule.parse("@media print { a { color: red } }");

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Bart Veneman @veneman.dev · 21/08/2026

Could be just me, but it feels like `overscroll-behavior` is broken on every website in every browser these days.

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Bart Veneman @veneman.dev · 21/08/2026

Somehow missed `OpaqueRange` but this looks great and will help me speed up some highlighting on project wallace.

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Bart Veneman @veneman.dev · 20/08/2026

How 👏 did 👏 I 👏 not 👏 know 🤯

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Bart Veneman @veneman.dev · 19/08/2026

Mixing web-features with wallace's CSS analysis and you get... a new tool for CSS archeologists! h/t @patrickbrosset.com for pointing me to github.com/web-platform...

A bar chart titles "Widely available, by year". There are 12 columns for the years 2018 through 2026 and "not yet widely", "not baseline" and "untracked". The bars for these last three are grayed out.

Values per item:

2018: 3560
2019: 1818
2020: 107
2021: 9
2022: 182
2023: 222
2024: 120
2025: 58
2026: 10
not yet widely: 8
not baseline: 49
untracked: 671

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Bart Veneman @veneman.dev · 19/08/2026

Trying out a new typeface. I think it works really well for headings. It's too wide for buttons, so I'll have find a solution for that.

Wallace's Analyze CSS form. The title is in a very pretty pixelated font.

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Bart Veneman @veneman.dev · 18/08/2026

Sonar's page for static code analysis for CSS mentions exactly zero relevant stats for analyzing CSS at any scale. www.sonarsource.com/knowledge/la...

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Bart Veneman @veneman.dev · 16/08/2026

Developing a talk. "CSS is a programming language and you should treat it as such" And then I'll throw all kinds of CSS tools and programming concepts in your face and make all the Java/C#/PHP folks jealous.

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Bart Veneman @veneman.dev · 16/08/2026

Ahwyeeaaah :sexy-dance.gif:

Project Wallace stylelint overview. There are three errors. 1 is for an `if()` that contains only an `else` branch. 2 is for an `if()` without an `else`. 3 is for an `else` that isn't the last condition in the `if()`.

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Bart Veneman @veneman.dev · 16/08/2026

Man, parsing CSS's `if()` is such a rabbit hole. Dang you @kevinpowell.co for making me want to print ifs the correct way.

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Sam Rose @samwho.dev · 13/08/2026

This might be the most beautiful thing I've read in my life. What a privilege to be alive in 2026. ordinaryabundance.com

ordinaryabundance.com

Ordinary Abundance

A walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new.

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Bart Veneman @veneman.dev · 09/08/2026

Exploring ideas to split up stylelint so that it can be run in the browser. Hoping that I/O and transformers are the biggest issues and that would could have a standalone module that would accept config, plugins and source code. That could unblock a heap of things?

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Bart Veneman @veneman.dev · 07/08/2026

Quote from Mythbusters I just heard that's also very applicable to programming: "Eventually we'll run out of things to go wrong and then it'll work great!"

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Bart Veneman @veneman.dev · 06/08/2026

I misread and thought it said `eslint-plugin-percussionist` and, honestly, I'd love it to exist. Imagine the errors it'd throw: - percussionist/no-sax-solo: this module has too much going on in too little space - percussionist/eject-conductor: you don't need a centralized state manager for this

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Stefan Judis @stefanjudis.com · 05/08/2026

And the new Web Weekly is about to hit all the inboxes. 🫣 This time it includes CSS `infinity`, the `closedby` attribute, measuring soft navigations, and recent ECMAScript updates. Enjoy! webweekly.email/archive/web-...

Web Weekly 197

- elementtiming & containertiming
- Promise.allKeyed()
- calc(infinity)
- env(preferred-text-scale)
- Measuring soft navigations
- closedby=any

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Bramus @bram.us · 04/08/2026

QQ about Dark Mode Toggles on websites How many options do you show to users? - Three values: System, Light, or Dark - Two values: Light, Dark (with one of them mapping to “System” behind the scenes). Why the one or the other? (I have an opinion about it, but I’m looking for external input)

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Bart Veneman @veneman.dev · 02/08/2026

All projectwallace packages updated to use multi-step release processes, locked down permissions etc. Did it all by hand. Repetitive tasks. No ai. Still liked it. Maybe I'm ai tired.

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Bart Veneman @veneman.dev · 31/07/2026

Share your home office! More pics, more better! Going to redecorate my home office. One of the walls is already completely dedicated to LEGO. Planning on adding tons of plants and CD's/vinyl records. Anyone got other ideas for a cozy space?

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