✨ Have you ever heard of Disney’s 12 Basic Principles of Animation? The very first rule, “Squash and Stretch”, can make motion feel *way* more satisfying.

I just dropped a brand-new blog post that shows how I’ve been using this technique in my own work:
www.joshwcomeau.com/animation/sq...

Comic. [Sign above four people. A person sits at a desk working on a laptop. A person with ponytail is talking to person with white hat. A person with short hair walks away.] SIGN: It has been [-0.00000000000000044] days since our last floating point error

Day Counter

xkcd.com/3228/

View Transitions are now in all browsers! They also landed in React! developer.chrome.com/blog/view-tr...

Sliwa repeats the bullshit billionaires handout excuses about HQ2 — in truth, refusing to give them those billions of dollars was *exactly* the right call, and Amazon ended up hiring *more* people in NYC than they would have under that plan anyway! #NYCMayoralDebate

Gecko: Intent to Ship: CSS View Transitions L1

CSS conditionals with the new if() function  |  Blog  |  Chrome for Developers Learn about the new CSS if function, which enables a cleaner developer interface for dynamic styles like style queries and media queries.

Wrote a post about CSS if()!

You can now write inline CSS conditionals for:

- style queries
- media queries
- supports queries

Read on:
developer.chrome.com/blog/if-arti...

This @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social video is absolutely INCREDIBLE. The numbers he cites, the strategy and results they produced — it’s the future. When have you heard *any* campaign talk about this, ever? (Video split in 2 to fit in Bluesky’s limits)

One of the things I'm wondering most about this is IPO'ing creating a conflict between driving more resources into AI features, but AI features kind of eating their own lunch. Automating away your employees (problematic) is very different than automating away your users (very problematic).

News from WWDC25: WebKit in Safari 26 beta Welcome to WWDC25!

Coming soon to Safari:

- Anchor positioning (YAYY!)
- Scroll-driven animations (YAYY!)
- text-wrap: pretty
- progress() function
- margin-trim
- contrast-color()

webkit.org/blog/16993/n...

In the pre-LLM era, I would tell junior devs to try to fix something by themselves for an hour before reaching out for help. Now I'd worry that would seem like a total waste of time, and the junior dev's productivity would be critiqued.

sisyphus at daily standup: i had to roll back some changes

I’m loath to share interviews with myself, but I really had a wonderful time sitting down with Ellen McGirt over at @designobserver.com. We spoke about my (too short) time at 18F, about responsive design turning 15, and about the urgent need for collective action — and, yes, unions — in tech.

I’m still looking! Please hire me! 👩🏻‍💻

Storybook 9 is now in beta Try the future of UI testing today

Storybook 9 is now in beta!

It’s ready for you to try today.

Let’s see what’s inside…

Illegally Female The UK's Supreme Court has ruled unanimously that trans women are not legally considered women.

What will happen to us un-women? My thoughts on today’s UK Supreme Court decision excluding trans women from the legal category of women. Over at Autostraddle: www.autostraddle.com/uk-supreme-c...

Twitter dev just announced DMs are going away, so get ready for a wave of new people on here lol.

Writing design systems documentation Writing design systems documentation is a hands-on, half-day course on how to write documentation that people can find, understand and use.

Exciting news 📣

I've just released 2 new dates for my Writing design systems documentation training:

- 1:30-5pm UK time, 23 May: bit.ly/4lpG9Z2
- 9am-12:30pm UK time, 29 May: bit.ly/4j2rW2D

A half-day course that will teach you how to plan, write and test docs that users will actually read.

1/2

Item Flow Notes on the proposed Item Flow system for grid, flexbox, and masonry

Item Flow – notes on the proposed Item Flow system for grid, flexbox, and masonry from @ishadeed.com

ishadeed.com/article...

#CSS #FrontEnd #WebDev #WebDesign

Harvard University Harvard University is devoted to excellence in teaching, learning, and research, and to developing leaders who make a difference globally.

Harvard rolled out a new website alongside its rejection of the admin’s terms. Some people have been working very hard! Kudos.

www.harvard.edu

I'm guessing this is implicit and deliberate comment by whoever does the web layout?

Years without transphobia on stage at TED reset to 0 again and I am so fucking tired. So tired.

I’m still looking! Please hire me! 👩🏻‍💻

Like… I helped him write his speech on Silicon Valley extremism that explicitly laid out what Thiel and Musk and all these dudes wanted to do, and he delivered it *at Stanford* and… folks didn’t pay it much mind. What are they imagining is gonna happen now with them in power? Magic pixie dust?

Hi friends! I’m currently looking for full or part time work. I’ve been a DS/FE/UI engineer for over a decade, at companies ranging from 5-person startups to 1000+ employee global, publicly traded companies.

Remote/NYC/Brooklyn.

Please hire me! 🙏🏻
(and please repost!)

2025 version of the NYC subway map

Say hello to a new subway map! 🗺️

Today, the MTA unveiled a new subway diagram that provides riders with essential travel information in an easily readable, bright, and orderly manner.