Have a Fucking Website - Other Strangeness — merritt k For fuck's sake

Have a Fucking Website www.otherstrangeness.com/2026/03/14/h...

Wes Cook and the Centralia McDonald's Mural A personal story about discovering a mural in a McDonald's, an unknown artist named Wes Cook, saving the mural, and a conference talk about the whole thing.

over a year ago, i gave a talk at the xoxo conference about a mural, a mcdonald’s, and a man. (but it was also secretly about life, and legacy, and meaning.)

finally, i’m blogging the full story, with behind-the-scenes details, and a video of the talk.

enjoy. cabel.com/wes-cook-and...

Stop generating, start thinking - localghost Instead of wanting to learn and improve as humans, and build better software, we’ve outsourced our mistakes to an unthinking algorithm.

I've been on a bit of a social media hiatus, but I've written a new post about something that's been on my mind a lot lately localghost.dev/blog/stop-ge...

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

COW TOOLS COW TOOLS COW TOOLS

Everybody thinks 'https:// stands for 'hypertext transfer protocol secure' but it actually stands for 'head to this place, sucka' followed by a colon and two laser sounds

Happy to inspire! 🫡
Fetching new data based on the track's playtime is a clever idea

magical

A Website To End All Websites | Henry From Online How to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want.

you’re right! it feels mostly awful to Go Online™, these days. the internet in a sad state, for reason after reason after reason. but there is a way to fix it; to trade the voidful howling for a quiet & joyful song.

here’s how to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want.

“Serving Size: About 12 chips” please get fucking real

You Can't Opt-Out of Accessibility Shiny exclusion all the way down.

A rant in the face of the industry's continued neglect and outright hostility towards digital accessibility and care for users.

vale.rocks/posts/access...

#WebDev #Accessibility #a11y #FrontEndDevelopment

The Impact of Web Accessibility Overlays | Master's Thesis by Daniela Kubesch This thesis, published in 2024, investigates the impact of accessibility overlays on the usability and user experience (UX) for individuals with permanent visual impairments. The conducted research…

Daniela Kubesch wrote her Master's Thesis on "The Impact of Web Accessibility Overlays on the Usability and User Experience for People with Permanent Visual Impairments".

Now we can say "Scientific research has shown that accessibility overlays are ineffective."

overlays.dnikub.dev

Dynamically displaying my media consumption on my website Using APIs and scripts to share what I've been up to

I wrote a blog post about how I used scripts and APIs to show my latest media on my website!

Had a great conversation with @sjoy.lol today. We both toyed around with the web as a hobby starting in the late 90s, before eventually turning it into a career much later on.

We talked a lot about that, but then got into accessibility and I just loved how she referred to it as "a heart thing" 😊

I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.

An Interactive Guide to SVG Paths • Josh W. Comeau SVG gives us many different primitives to work with, but by far the most powerful is the <path> element. Unfortunately, it’s also the most inscrutable, with its compact Regex-style syntax. In this tut...

✨ I just published a brand-new post! It’s about the notorious SVG <path> element.

With its compact Regex-style syntax, <path> can be super intimidating. But they’re also *incredibly* powerful, letting us draw (and animate!) curved lines.

You can read it here, and I’ll share more info in thread. 🧵

Two of my favorite and most frequently used #SVG tools:

SVG/URL encoder yoksel.github.io/url-encoder/

SVG crop svgcrop.com

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I have certainly shared these tools before throughout the years, especially during the period I focused a lot on SVG. I love them and use them so much I wanted to reshare.

What’s a technology that you think is overhyped? I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry. Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto. It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.

Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

State of HTML 2025 Take the State of HTML survey

I got a 300 points knowledge score on this year’s #StateOfHTML survey! I have used 17 features, and knew 26 more, placing me in the top 100% of all respondents. Can you beat my score? survey.devographics.com/survey/state...

When you throw a dead fly in the trash you’re laying it to rest amongst a great fortune like a pharaoh

dark mode version?? 👀

I Deleted My Second Brain Why I Erased 10,000 Notes, 7 Years of Ideas, and Every Thought I Tried to Save

I Deleted My Second Brain

Why I Erased 10,000 Notes, 7 Years of Ideas, and Every Thought I Tried to Save

*looking both ways suspiciously, coast seems to be clear*

*binding a click event to a div*

*deafening, seismically loud incorrect buzzer knocks me out of my chair and i go sliding across the floor*

"the ai agent in my ide helps me ship faster" i have seen your git hygiene and stewardship. you actually need to ship far slower

JavaScript broke the web (and called it progress) We replaced simple websites with complex apps nobody asked for. Now it takes a complex build pipeline just to change a headline.

We used to build websites.

Now we build pipelines, frameworks, and hydration strategies - just to publish text.

This isn’t progress.
It’s complexity, by design.

We need to escape the JavaScript framework trap.

www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/j...

"In a moment where machines churn out mediocrity, make something yourself. Make it imperfect. Make it rough. Just make it."
dansinker.com/posts/2025-0...

State of CSS 2025 Take the State of CSS survey

I got a 405 points knowledge score on this year’s #StateOfCSS survey! I have used 21 features, and knew 39 more, placing me in the top 100% of all respondents.

Can you beat my score? survey.devographics.com/survey/state...

A versatile keyframe animation configured using css variables #css A versatile keyframe animation configured using css variables #css - configurable-keyframe-anim.css

This is so cool!! I can imagine doing some fun stuff with mixing transforms.

I totally had the same realisation about using CSS vars.
gist.github.com/JezDriver/dc...

I have a few anims I can reuse wherever, like `move-in-x` which animates from `transform: translateX(var(--move-x-dist, 1rem));`

if you know a lot of stuff i think it is your moral duty to be kind and excited when people learn stuff for the first time. the world is full of stuff we don't know about, don't be mean