I once had a psychiatrist distinguish between depression and demoralization. Basically I was having a rational response to my life’s (and the world’s) circumstances. I’m not sure she was right in that instance but it’s a useful distinction
I wrote about some things I'm struggling with in the technology industry, preceded by an appreciation for folk music.
but what if we just make it a div and call it a day eric
Have you been wishing masonry layouts would just hurry up and arrive in CSS?? Well, happy holidays!
webkit.org/blog/17660/i...
Bug for me, feature for thee. (BUT ALSO LET ME UNSUBSCRIBE FROM NYC VESSEL NEWS PLEASE I KNOW ENOUGH)
CSS Wrapped is a super fun website that shows off the latest and greatest CSS features: chrome.dev/css-wrapped-...
The website's got some fun light/dark mode action going on too!
🦊
“Artificial intelligence isn’t going anywhere. It’s the future.”
I hear that line a lot. The thing is, futures are tricky.
ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/the-li...
Not sure how I missed that HTML details elements can act as an accordion now, but they can. developer.mozilla.org/en-US/blog/h...
ladies and gentlemen...we got him
My life is now a battle of needing computers to yell at me at precise moments of the day to do remember to do a thing and my oppositional defiance saying "YOU CAN'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO, PHONE. I WILL JUST THROW YOU INTO THE SEA"
View transitions are in every browser now ✨
"Again and again, accessibility as a topic in web standards is treated as simultaneously too trivial for specialists' technical opinions to be given weight, but also too difficult to get right without a specialist volunteering to tackle the tricky details." alice.boxhall.au/articles/a-t...
Focus rings! Plural! I wrote for @piccalil.li about how to create a branded double ring focus effect that is dynamically generated based on the interactive element's text color. piccalil.li/blog/taking-...
👀 commandfor - enabled by default in Firefox 144
Soon, in all browsers, you won't need any JS to open a popover / dialog 🎉
More info in @keithamus.social post here: developer.chrome.com/blog/command...
"Ask an LLM to style a button, and there’s a good chance it’ll still suggest outline: 0 or outline: none from the 15 years of training data." medienbaecker.com/articles/tru...
🚀 Un-Sass'ing my CSS
In recent client work, we focused on leveraging "the web platform" rather than frameworks, libraries, and dependencies.
In this article, I discuss transparency & colour manipulation using CSS instead of Sass.
www.alwaystwisted.com/articles/UnS...
#Sass #CSS #WebDev #FrontEnd
YES! Love this. I think the only thing I'm using Sass for at this point is partial-ing/compiling my CSS into one file and to have breakpoint variables.
Last year, we sunsetted our Bourbon library and wrote about how to leverage native CSS in lieu of those helpers.
thoughtbot.com/blog/you-mig...
scroll-target-group is coming to Chrome 140 (stable next month)!
Building on CSS carousel APIs, scroll-target-group lets you "enhance" elements into scroll markers, enabling you to build this scroll-spy effect in 2 lines of CSS!
Makes for a great progressive enhancement!
una.im/scroll-targe...
A thing to know when you work in digital accessibility is that a non-trivial amount of your peers likely think this way, it's just that they still don't feel comfortable expressing it publicly. That's changing.
Eric this should just be muscle memory from typing out those
~*~DeEp aWaY mEssaGes~*~
omg
oh should i stop incorporating rocks into my daily diet now
Hi, this is Meg Barnette, Brad's wife.
While escorting a defendant out of immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza, Brad was taken by masked agents and detained by ICE.
This is still developing, and our team is monitoring the situation closely.
ARIA! It exists and on a long enough timeline you'll need to use it. Here's how to get into the right headspace to do so! #a11y www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/06/what...
The word product on a beige background with a ligature between the c and t glyphs.
The word stories on a beige background with a ligature between the s and t glyphs.
I chose the typeface for my website purely based on the ligatures.
(It's Nib, but I can't seem to find the package with the original ligature set).
Ohmygod I found another one
This is mostly a rant about a poor user experience in Adobe Lightroom but also why forcing your users down a path doesn't always teach them to use that path if its not intuitive
thoughtbot.com/blog/i-just-...
I beg of you all to write CSS
