Latest wave of AI hasn't helped there. To be fair, both can probably be true at the same time 😅

I switch between "I'm so privileged to work on the web for a living" and "this entire industry is cursed, I need to get out and never touch a keyboard again" a few times a month.

The Prodigy - The Fat of the Land (Full Album) - YouTube

Also "The fat of the land", Prodigy 1997

youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Insert obligatory mention of Rage against the Machine here

🎉 Looking for new work.

15 years front-end dev + Design Systems specialist.

I help folks build, maintain & transform design systems.

I'm also available for focused projects, front-end builds, codebase modernisation.

Short to long term.

Let's chat - stu@alwaystwisted.com

reposts appreciated <3

"creative" needs some massive air quotes in that meta description 😅

CV | pawelgrzybek.com I’m a software developer with 15 years of professional experience, specialising in building performant and accessible full-stack web applications. I’m passionate about web standards and ethical design...

Last week I lost my job. It took me a while to process...

If you or your company needs an experienced full stack developer who understands how the web works, knows modern tech, communicates well, please reach out.

My CV: pawelgrzybek.com/cv/

I'd appreciate if you could share. Thank you.

Back-scratching bovine leads scientists to reassess intelligence of cows Brown Swiss in Austria has been discovered using tools in different ways – something only ever seen in humans and chimpanzees

MooTools

www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

Ha, got that one for christmas this year! Great set. Even the power switch feels right 😅

Speculation rules improvements - HTMHell A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites.

On day 3 @tunetheweb.com introduces us to Speculation Rules and recent improvements to the API that help us speed up our websites. #HTMHellAdventCalendar

htmhell.dev/adventcalend...

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I' m fairly sceptical about most courses.

But this @piccalil.li stuff - especially "JavaScript for Everyone" by @wil.to - is the real deal.

It will improve your entire understanding of JS, not just framework-specifics. That kind of stuff pays off for years!

Get. It. Now.

piccalil.li/courses/

For extra realism, enable it at random every few weeks and give the user 3 "opt-out credits" per year

Short Answer: Fuck no.

Long Answer: If a company tries AI phrenology in their hiring process, they're guaranteed to do worse things once you work there. Don't.

Inside you there are two woffs.

Ignore the first woff. You just need the woff2.

Omg that just made my day

cc @matuzo.at get that money

A11y experts should start selling "Agentic AI Optimization" packages and just bring as many sites up to WCAG standards before the hype dies down 🚀

Definitely. But sites that provide a service that's interesting to an AI agent (think booking engines and stuff) could see this as incentive to improve a11y. And (accidentally) make it better for humans too. Sad order of priorities though.

I wonder if that will make devs care more about a11y - to make it accessible for AI

Screenshot of AWS east health dashboard, showing major service disruption

Is that what they mean by "Disrupting the Industry"

Container queries and CSS make it simple to smoothly transition an element to the other side of its parent container without knowing exact dimensions or distance.

Read more in my latest post: ryanmulligan.dev/blog/transit...

Nice post! stuff like this used to be such a headache and now it's essentially 3 lines of css. 😍

A Majora's-Mask-style "Dawn of The Final Day. 24 Hours Remain" title card, but using the JavaScript for Everyone Atari-style type and branding. The background is made up of two low-angle perspective views of rectangles on grids that meet at a sharp line, resembling a horizon.

This is it. 86,791 words. 836 emdashes. 625 `const`, 141 `let`, 16 `var`. One (1) reference to the pause music from Battletoads for the NES.

Spread the word: JavaScript for Everyone launches tomorrow.

I swear the shit that seems to fly these days would have gotten UX designers fired just 5 years ago

You'd think that opting out once is all you need, surely no reasonable person would assume that Microsoft would randomly enable this feature again without consent, right?

...

Riiiight?

"built our own auth"

A pragmatic guide to modern CSS colours - part one Whether you've got a firm grasp on modern CSS colour capabilities, or you're thinking 'I struggle to understand why I should use modern CSS colours at all', then the first part of this article series,...

OK @kevinpowell.co has written what has to be one of the best (if not THE best) practical article to #CSS colors I have read in a while. piccalil.li/blog/a-pragm...

Easy to read, practical examples, and *perfect* for someone like me who's fallen behind and hasn't kept up with all the new stuff.

"The girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

Feels like the same founder's mindset that values "the idea" above all else and thinks the implementation is just a detail that any nerd can do.

AI lets all these people play pretend until it eventually turns out the way things are built is pretty damn important

Mine is mxv.dev but there are way cooler ones at whimsical.club