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I don’t know if anyone needs to hear this but waking up in the morning and being truly energized by your work is one of the rarest privileges in life. No money or status could buy it. If you ever end up being there, stick to what makes it possible when you can.

Heard the term “anti-jaded” today and I can’t stop thinking about it. Maybe it’s time to revisit hopepunk. 🤔

New on the blog: Brief & practical tips foro public speaking

If you, like me, went into adulthood never really understanding how to decorate your space or how to make it look nice and homey, the answer is lamps. Use lamps. Turn off the ceiling lights.

Hi, everyone. I switched my Bluesky account to be personal-domain-verified yesterday! Further bulletins as events warrant.

love designers

Embarrassing to admit that I'm still at the "picking a font" stage of the Great Work

Since this is my new online home, let's make it more comfortable. In the interests of learning in public, Imma build a BlueSky bot! Something I haven't found here is a bot that posts the AWS "What's New" releases, and dunking on the stuff they put out is kinda what makes a platform "home" for me. 🧵

I will try a work around tomorrow but if it does not work then I will have to wait for a patch. Also looks like I am not the only one with this issue so we need a patch no matter what. Sucks to be locked out of full completion specially since I have been enjoying it a lot.

As of Chrome 131 you have more options to style `<details>` and `<summary>`. You can now use of the `display` property on these elements, and also use a `::details-content` pseudo-element to style the part that expands and collapses. developer.chrome.com/blog/styling...

exports CSS variables instead of classes now gradient.style#type=radial&...

/r/meirl

A friend was talking about side projects and said “if I don’t do them and only work, I feel sad and cranky” I’m the same. My job is challenging and demanding, and I love it. X was draining. I used to make many projects but lately didn’t have the energy. This place makes me feel creative again ✨

CWV would be great as iOS is a huge blindspot for a lot of people and is a significant amount of traffic. Even better would be element/container timing. Apple values great user experience yet there’s very little in WebKit to help us measure the performance of what user actually see.

oh no i'm redesigning my website again (again[again{again}]) how we feeling about the typography #designsky? (special thanks to Pangram Pangram, one of my favorite foundries)

this is the start of a kraftwerk song

Here's a fun section from my upcoming Prismic course. The scribble pulls its color from the board image programmatically. Prismic's image CDN has a palette feature that we tap into. We're also using some good ol' SVG filters and offset paths for the drawn effect. 🛹

y'all, Alex is cooking lately. this is only the *latest* cool thing he's shipped — he's building some really incredible stuff if you scroll through his timeline

part of the goal with atcute is to make atproto less daunting, i've tried making it as simple as possible that simplicity means that it's heavily catered to my needs. there is nothing stopping you from forking and making it work for you, if anything, i recommend it

Loving that there seems to be more design folks and esoteric old-hardware/logo archive/photography type accounts cropping up here lately. The devsky community is great but I've missed some of the more eclectic stuff I followed on twitter

An example of how a React component works under the hood. Code from @crutchcorn.dev's Playful Programming book. playfulprogramming.com/posts/ffg-fu... Video created by me in Apple Keynote.

Of all time? Pokémon Silver. Recently? Space Marine 2. Pokémon is the one franchise that is so calming to me. I would play them for hours as a young kid in the hospital. Recently, SM2 scratches that 360 era of third person shooters that I've been so desperately missing.

This does make me wonder: are we on the cusp of many, many IVM implementations? If so, gives me strong vector search vibes. Useful, but, "is this a feature or a product," uneasiness.

Heck yeah we A/B test all our designs: 𝗔sk stakeholders which idea they like 𝗕uild that one

Why create things when you can create strong typings for things instead?

No, YOU have developed an obsessive pottery habit and now feel a need to make garlic plates for everyone you know.

Hi new web dev followers! Here's the best tweet I've managed in 12 years, just so you know where the ceiling is on this account

new scarf 👁️

I've got a piece in the latest issue of Paged Out! about a QR code file sharing trick I discovered earlier this year! This zine is insanely cool if you haven't checked it out yet - short but meaty technical articles by very smart people with some art sprinkled in as well. pagedout.institute

Watching social media history unfold these days is fascinating. You can observe in real time how the character and the feel of different platforms is changing, as millions of people shop around and move, in or out. This entire space hasn't been this dynamic and energized in well more than a decade.