Web Weekly 187 - CSS shape() on the baseline - Feature detection of at-rules - JSON modules & import attributes - color-contrast() beyond b/w - The new focusgroup RFC - Nested SVGs

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document.ariaNotify( `Item ${item.name} added to cart!`, { priority: "high", }, );

Firefox will start supporting `ariaNotify` in release 150. 🎉

`ariaNotify` allows you to provide text that should be announced by a screen reader if available and activated. No more fiddling with live regions. No more fiddling with live regions! 💪

Ticket: bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi...

fwiw I did make Claude rewrite the post and publish it after it did the migration for me 🤖 digital gardening at its finest!

yeah amazing timing from them! I was just setting this up. So far so good :D I need to update this post now

Great write up. I was very excited to use dialog but quickly hit many of the issues mentioned here, especially with third party dependencies (dropdown menus, tooltips, toasts) breaking and no ability to animate. Eventually had to throw in the towel and switch back to portals 😕

oh that's good to know! I was wondering about the conflict resolution experience of the git plugin

I was thinking of trying out the obsidian git plugin and just using my github as the broker. I'll check out Remote Sync as well. Thank you for sharing it!

It started mostly as an experiment to see if I liked using it from my phone, so I didn't want to scrap Obsidian Sync if it turned out I didn't like it. Now that I have it all set up I've been thinking of switching to alternatives. But the speed and ease of Obsidian Sync is really nice...

How I Built My Mobile Second Brain - Rob Dodson A step-by-step guide to running Obsidian, Claude Code, and Happy CLI on a DigitalOcean droplet so you can access your AI-powered second brain from your phone.

Wrote up how I got Obsidian Sync + Claude Code running on a VPS so I can access my notes from my phone. It's like my little mobile second brain 🧠 I'd love if Obsidian came out with a headless version that worked with sync so the setup could be simplified 🙏

robdodson.me/posts/how-i-...

My Second Brain Never Worked. Then I Gave It a Gardener. - Rob Dodson I could never maintain a second brain. Then I pointed Claude Code at my Obsidian vault and let it do the organizing for me. Now I'm writing again.

Lately I've been using Claude Code with Obsidian as a thinking partner and I've found the experience really rewarding. It's helped get me back into writing and get excited about capturing ideas again. Did a little write up on my setup.

robdodson.me/posts/i-gave...

Kind of interesting to watch this Clawdbot thing evolve from a lobster mascot to a crab. Carcinisation in action.

Yeah that one was right on top of us. Maybe the biggest one I’ve felt in about a decade

Yeah that sucked

Yay congrats man!

This is great! Thank you for sharing!

Mozilla, or someone like them, should come out with an open source model trained on actual public domain and voluntary data, to compete against OpenAI/Anthropic/Google/xAI. There is a huge prevailing sense of malaise at the concentration of power in a handful of private AI companies.

“That’s what I love about these enigmas, man. I get older, they stay the same age.”

The Senate version of GOP's budget bill dropped in the middle of the night. Astonishingly, it got EVEN WORSE. It raises energy costs, kills $100s of billions of investment in manufacturing, makes grids less reliable, increases pollution & constrains our ability to compete w/China on AI. Loser stuff.

The best part of having a large dog is that you don’t have to clean your toddler’s booster seat

I may have just had the best on call experience.

Someone signed our Twilio number up for a bakery's rewards point system and we were alerting because an unknown number was texting us every time someone bought a croissant.

I thought it was bad and then I read the article and...we're cooked

this haptic display absolutely rocks. basketball is for everyone.

screenshot of the project's readme file

introducing atcute, a collection of lightweight TypeScript packages for AT Protocol

API client, OAuth client, utility packages for various data formats, Bluesky-specific utility packages for rich text and posting

they're all covered!

Intent to ship for the upgraded customizable select element in Blink!

It's happening!

I2S: groups.google.com/a/chromium.o...

Learn more: una.im/select-updat...

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Found some unnecessary twitter metadata still sitting around on my web site and it’s always a good time to delete code (*especially* now).

Might be worth checking your web sites to see if you can delete it too?

Oh also this. Looks like the timestamps on Mina’s old posts are working

bsky.app/profile/mina...

BlueArk The new blue land is waiting for you. Bring your stories with BlueArk.

I’ve heard about blueark.app but haven’t personally used it so I’m not sure how the timestamps work.

We got @thompsonscribe.bsky.social ! Just need Tim!

now we just need marcus :D