as lenin once said we should transform imperialistic war into a civil one

import { createMedia, createSizes, cx } from "css-in-ts"; const { p } = createSizes(); const { sm, md, lg, xl, xxl } = createMedia({ sm: "screen and (min-width: 640px)", md: "screen and (min-width: 768px)", lg: "screen and (min-width: 1024px)", xl: "screen and (min-width: 1280px)", xxl: "screen and (min-width: 1536px)", }) function Div() { return ( <div className={cx(p(2), sm(p(4)), md(p(6)), lg(p(8)), xl(p(10)), xxl(p(12)))} /> ); }

so maybe we can do things)
a simple compiler like a github.com/feathers-stu...

yeah. stylex looks promising but too many rough edges (or just skill issues). i'm using vanilla extract for several projects and quite happy with it. panda css also seems to have some niceties but i've not tried yet.

This is the complete, real migration of @mk.gg from the Bluesky PDS to a new Cirrus PDS Worker.

The more boring bits are sped-up to get it under the 3 minute video limit. The real thing took about 12 mins.

Try it yourself: github.com/ascorbic/cir...

My experimental single-user PDS has a name!

Meet ☁️ Cirrus, the lightest PDS in the Atmosphere

npm create pds@latest

GitHub - localsend/localsend: An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop - localsend/localsend

there is localsend for this now

github.com/localsend/lo...

there were “soviety” during russian soviet revolution. and then they made out ussr - union of soviet socialist republics. i’ve an idea that pds resembles a soviet — self organised group of people. and updssr is for union of pds social republics) pdss of the world, unite!

yeh, i’ve been thinking about that lately. so pdss are literally ‘soviety’. so we can even have the updssr someday)

You can run your own PDS on Cloudflare for free. I've been doing this for 4 months!

Compressed Fluid Typography · Matthias Ott Matthias Ott is an independent user experience designer and web design engineer from Stuttgart, Germany. He also teaches Interface Prototyping at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design.

✍️ New post: Compressed Fluid Typography

#blogtober #css #web #typography
matthiasott.com/notes/compre...

The present and potential future of progressive image rendering Exploring progressive image rendering across JPEG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, and JPEG XL.

I dug into progressive image rendering and found a bunch of common assumptions aren't quite true.

➡️ JPEG & WebP progressive-renders worse in Safari
➡️ AVIF _does_ support progressive
➡️ But JPEG XL in Safari doesn't
➡️ JPEG XL decodes much slower than AVIF
⬇️ and more

jakearchibald.com/2025/present...

yeah. they made it based on the incredible work of @ertdfgcvb.xyz. here’s the source github.com/oxidecompute...

mitos.shared.oxide.computer

Grainy Gradients This is about reducing banding effects in gradients by introducing noise. A nice approach is a displacement map using SVG filters.

Grainy Gradients

This is about reducing banding effects in gradients by introducing noise. A nice approach is a displacement map using SVG filters.

Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps The original promise of personal computing was a new kind of clay. Instead, we got appliances: built far away, sealed, unchangeable. In this essay, we envision malleable software: tools that users can...

New longform @inkandswitch.com essay! 📜

Malleable Software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps

by me, @joshuahhh.com, @pvh.ca and @seaofclouds.com

inkandswitch.com/essay/mallea...

It's about why people need agency over their software tools, and how to make that happen.

Smart TVs were a mistake

A beautiful mixture of Mongolian vertical writing and English

www.instagram.com/p/DHdZKVUymk...

🎉 Welcome to our new sister project: TinyTick!

Most intelligent and local-first web applications need background tasks like fetching, syncing, and cache eviction.

But managing them - with scheduling, failure handling, retries, and so on - can be a pain.

I have a soft spot for visual formalisms. Some examples:

• neural circuit diagrams (Vincent Abbott)
• revision diagrams (Burckhardt et al)

Any other good examples?

The source code for Ghost House is *incredible*

What if a spreadsheet cell could hold multiple values at the same time?

That's the idea behind Ambsheets, a project I've been working on w/ @geoffreylitt.com at @inkandswitch.com. It's a new spreadsheet that makes it easier for you to explore many possibilities simultaneously.

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A creative landscape arrangement forming the word 'accio' using natural shapes and fragments that resemble the letters A, C, C, I, and O

nice
landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/apps/YourNam...

A dog on a leash walks through a snow-covered field, the white expanse stretching out into the distance where it meets a grey sky.

in case you were wondering what seva was up to

Flexoki 2.0 introduces 88 new colors that feel like watercolor pigments on paper.

This is my attempt to bring the feeling of analog color to digital emissive screens. This version expands the palette to a full range of values for every color, without desaturating the pigment effect.

Best Data Visualization Projects of 2024 Many datasets were analyzed and many charts were made this year. These are my favorite data visualization projects from 2024.

Before this year wraps, my favorite data visualization projects flowingdata.com/2024/12/30/b...

A vast, broken ice field under a cloudy sky, with no visible horizon.

new year’s horizons

i have been thinking about + building a local first super-app that works off an encrypted personal data store. some ideas:

1
the data store represents "the digital you" – a .life file containing a structured data graph of contacts, events, notes, media, webpages, etc.

a photo of the wall with some letters on it

i don’t know what it means

a photo of the window with wooden bird and paper star lamp on it. a table with a pine leaves next to it

some holidays vibes