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the film American Pie studied this phenomenon through the lens of the American experience in great detail and to great effect, if I remember correctly (in retrospect I probably don’t remember correctly)

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Zach Leatherman @zachleat.com · 9h

“Why’s your website slow?”

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Jovi 🐨 @jovidecroock.com · 13h

Preact 11 is out 🎉 We’ve been hard at work at making our diffing use modern features like moveBefore , leveraging ESM for tree-shaking Preact Compat and ensuring you have a great experience with resumed hydration.

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Kilian Valkhof @kilianvalkhof.com · 29/09/2026

Working on an infinite canvas is just so, so smooth.

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Zach Leatherman @zachleat.com · 29/09/2026

look, figma for iframes goes *hard*

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Kathryn Grayson Nanz @kgrayson.com · 28/09/2026

"Front-end web developers have lived through a few cycles of this...sold as though improvements to developer experience would cause the reanimated corpse of Ronald Reagan himself to ask you for commit access to ship trickle-down improvements to user experience." www.zachleat.com/web/ai-websi...

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“AI, make the website good”—zachleat.com

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Zach Leatherman @zachleat.com · 29/09/2026

all websites are beautiful

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Zach Leatherman @zachleat.com · 29/09/2026

are the people classified

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Zach Leatherman @zachleat.com · 29/09/2026

does this also explain why AI company web sites are all slow

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Zach Leatherman @zachleat.com · 29/09/2026

does anyone know who manages this page?

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Kilian Valkhof @kilianvalkhof.com · 29/09/2026

hold up when did example.com get a redesign?!

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Example Domain

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Álvaro Montoro @alvaromontoro.com · 29/09/2026

The W3C released a new HTML element out of nowhere. It was the element of <surprise>.

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Manuel Matuzović @matuzo.at · 28/09/2026

This advent calendar is your chance to share your knowledge with a large audience. You have 5 more days to submit your ideas. First-time authors are welcome!

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Zach Leatherman @zachleat.com · 28/09/2026

(ah, yeah I just just kidding around with that last one 😅)

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Zach Leatherman @zachleat.com · 28/09/2026

yeah i wouldn’t imagine silica is very comfy

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Zach Leatherman @zachleat.com · 27/09/2026

my thoughts are with you in these strenuous times

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Grace @gracekind.net · 25/09/2026

This is complete vibecoded slop, I’m sorry

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Zach Leatherman @zachleat.com · 25/09/2026

the awkward part of this post is that if these companies improve the performance of their websites it will change the meaning of the post (the filmstrips update over time) so far I’m about 5% worried about it

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Ben Schwarz @benschwarz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Credit where it's due. Frontier tops the airline benchmark, and has trimmed LCP from 3.29s to 2.60s over 9 months. Small, steady wins. Ryanair has been quietly shipping perf improvements since I wrote about their redesign in 2015. A decade of discipline.

Bar chart from Calibre's Core Web Vitals test showing Frontier Airlines' mobile Largest Contentful Paint over nine months. It trends steadily downward from 3.29 seconds to 2.60 seconds, crossing below the 2.5-second "good" threshold marker near the end of the period.

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Zach Leatherman @zachleat.com · 24/09/2026

sorry I can only Servo twice in these trying times

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Zach Leatherman @zachleat.com · 24/09/2026

aha yes, this is resonating!

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Ahmad Shadeed @ishadeed.com · 24/09/2026

✍️ New Article: Detect when elements overlap with CSS Can CSS tell when two elements overlap? At first, I thought this was not possible, but it turned out it can be done with scroll-driven animations and anchor positioning. ishadeed.com/article/css-...

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Detect when elements overlap with CSS

Detecting when two elements overlap using only CSS anchor positioning and scroll-driven animations.

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Zach Leatherman @zachleat.com · 24/09/2026

we are making commentary! commentary is happening!

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Zach Leatherman @zachleat.com · 24/09/2026

is candy corn was really corn they would have used it to make ethanol by now

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Zach Leatherman @zachleat.com · 23/09/2026

Aw dang, sad to see your website sign off here! Definitely a staple in the dev world! Hope you stick around on socials!

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Bryce Wray @brycewray.com · 23/09/2026

Post > Eight years, and done • And I am aware this is not an airport.

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Eight years, and done | BryceWray.com

And I am aware this is not an airport.

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Jake Archibald @jakearchibald.com · 23/09/2026

I've proposed "progressive image rendering" as a focus area for Interop 2027, so we can get progressive JPEG XL support in Safari, and progressive AVIF support in both Safari and Firefox. github.com/web-platform...

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Progressive image rendering for JPEG XL and AVIF · Issue #1459 · web-platform-tests/interop

Description When we looked into JPEG XL, I asked developers why they were interested in the format, and the most common answer was "progressive rendering". This is now working in Firefox and Chrome...

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Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

If you're designing a website for a restaurant, my tip would be: making it easy to find the menu is important, a 30-year breakdown of the founder's original vision and evolving philosophy less important.

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Paul Kinlan @paul.kinlan.me · 23/09/2026

Great seeing responsively sized iframes landing in Chrome - developer.chrome.com/blog/respons... In my post "The browser is the sandbox", I said: "We need a way to size the outer-iframe (or iframes in general) that doesn’t rely on access to iframe.[...].innerHeight and sandbox='allow-same-origin'"

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Responsive iframes in Chrome 154 | Blog | Chrome for Developers

Chrome 154 adds support for responsively-sized iframes, letting an iframe size itself based on the intrinsic size of its embedded document.

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Bramus @bram.us · 22/09/2026

Another week, another package: show-keystrokes.netlify.app The native app I typically use to display keystrokes on the screen is disallowed by a corp policy. So I wrote a component to fill that gap. Embed it on your site and you’re good to go.