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And people say CSS isn’t powerful

Screenshot from newslatter with text: "Chrome 144 Beta has been released with support for the Temporal API for working with dates and times."

It's happening!

We are already seeing some fantastic (but horrible) contributions to the Bad UX World Cup! 😃

This year's challenge: Create a horrible date picker!

See all the contributions (so far) here: badux.lol

#baduxworldcup

Balfron Tower, Poplar: ‘they all said the flats were lovely’ In last week’s post, we left Balfron Tower just as its first residents were moving in, among them the Tower’s architect, Ernő Goldfinger, and his wife, Ursula.

Love this

municipaldreams.substack.com/p/balfron-to...

Blueberry Hill ChatGPT 5 was released today. ChatGPT-maker OpenAI has unveiled the long-awaited latest version of its artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, GPT-5, saying it can provide PhD-level expertise. B...

'In fairness to GPT5, in my career I have indeed encountered PhDs with this level of commitment to their particular blueberry.'

kieranhealy.org/blog/archive...

I quite like the framing that my research explores what HTML6 would look like if HTML had computational media instead of limiting itself to just being hypermedia. Check out what that looks like in our latest research notes for @folkjs.org!

Maybe this one is a bit simpler to start with?

I had big ideas of turning this old radio into an internet speaker. But after opening it up I’m having second thoughts 😅

“The greatest war memorial for the Second World War is the NHS”

Jeremy Deller, Art is Magic

Homepage of https://whimsy.joshwcomeau.com/ showing a panel titled "Whimsynth Manual" overlayed on a synth keyboard

@chrislowis.co.uk.web.brid.gy

Seems like something you'd be into...

whimsy.joshwcomeau.com

Good morning to this man, and this man only #bbcqt

Google Maps phone notification with the text “Want to eat like a local? Take a look at top sports near you”

It’s only been 9 years

Deep diving on electricity infrastructure this morning…

LARPing your job A few weeks ago, I went on one of my favorite podcasts — The Ezra Klein Show — to talk about burnout, workism, and our relationship to labor.

annehelen.substack.com/p/larping-yo...

<i>: The Idiomatic Text element - HTML: HyperText Markup Language | MDN The <i> HTML element represents a range of text that is set off from the normal text for some reason, such as idiomatic text, technical terms, taxonomical designations, among others. Historically, the...

One of my favourite things in computers, is the HTML <i> element being retroactively changed from "italic" to.... "idiomatic"

developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...

Happy 2025!

If you like React, Three.js, or anecdotes from building a VS Code extension / IDE you might like this 100 post long thread about @triplex.dev 😁.

Make sure to comment on anything you’d like to hear more about!

#react #javascript #threejs #ide #webdev #webgamedev #html #css

I'm involved in tech hiring. I've interviewed thousands of engineers. And I'd like to tell you about a disturbing trend I've seen in tech in the last 10 years 🧵

🚨 BERLIN SHOPPING HOURS🚨

🔔SUN, 22 DEC: Verkausöffener Sonntag, some shops are open
❄️ MON, 23 DEC: Shops are OPEN
🌌 TUES, 24 DEC: Shops close at 14:00
🌲WED, 25 DEC: Shops are CLOSED
🎁THURS, 26 DEC: Shops are CLOSED
🕯️FRI, 27 DEC: Shops are OPEN

Oh nice, thanks for fixing!

@genmon.org Is the braggoscope search not working on mobile safari? Or am I just holding wrong?

Safari has somehow duplicated my 5 Tag Groups 500 times. Now safari doesn’t work on any of my devices. Nice job

A threat?