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Well poisoned, @heydon! ☺️https://heydonworks.com/article/poisoning-well/

@jasonsantamaria is back at blogging and I’m delighted to hear he decided to give @getkirby a try. 👏
Welcome back and have fun, Jason! 🤗
https://jasonsantamaria.com/blog/once-again-from-the-top

I’m currently working on a project where the devs obviously had no idea about how to implement responsive images correctly. It’s a wild mix of faulty media, srcset, sizes, and size(?) attributes on img and source tags that really feels like guesswork. (This is now a 10-year-old technology, btw…)

What's the best article (or video, @kevinpowell? 😁) about responsive images you know?

My favs:
@mdn – https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Responsive_images

@eeeps – https://ericportis.com/posts/2014/srcset-sizes/

@grigs –
https://cloudfour.com/thinks/responsive-images-101-definitions/

A (command line) utility I’ve been using a lot lately is GitUI. It makes all my day-to-day git-related work easy and enjoyable.

Isn’t it astonishing that after all those decades of global trade, there still isn’t a safety mechanism in place that protects the world economy – and our collective wealth – from the damaging effects of one country electing an erratic, ignorant idiot for president?

@kevinpowell And regarding the tab order/source order issue: did you see @rachelandrew‘s super interesting talk at @css__cafe, Kevin?
That might answer a few of your questions – and potentially also bring up new ones, for another podcast episode, maybe? 😉

https://youtu.be/cJiLnN9EUlI?si=BJ4O-ClYS1E_4Ifh

@kevinpowell I fully (!) agree that it makes sense to name properties in a more familiar way, e.g. `item-wrap` instead of `item-cross` superceding `flex-wrap`. Tim Berners-Lee knew this as well when he created HTML: a lot of elements were already familiar to people using SGML. Make it as frictionless as possible for people to adopt new things, because, as @adactio would say, humans are allergic to change.

Loved this episode of @kevinpowell‘s podcast in which he thinks out loud about a new unified approach to #CSS layout that is currently emerging.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCnwX2QXTxk

… sneak peek … 🫣

(Grab one of the last tickets for #btconf here: 👉 https://beyondtellerrand.com)

Prototyping … 😉 #OwnYourWeb

Actually, I took that photo a few days ago. That’s how that tree looks today… 🤯🌸

Good morning! ☀️😌

The joy of looking up to the sky after sunset and seeing the moon. — Equipped with Stellarium, I could start to identify patterns in the stars. The patterns had names, like Orion and Taurus. I saw Sirius and Rigel and Betelgeuse. I saw Mars — a planet! I saw a planet! I gazed in the direction of Jupiter. The moon was my anchor as I learned the names of more stars and found patterns. — There is frost on the fields as the sun cuts through the fog on a spring morning. The chill of winter recedes by the day. — The joy of thinking through an idea over my first cup of coffee. — I walked past someone who was wearing a jumper that said “My cat is a rockstar.” I love this message! — Some places are so beautiful that you stop every time you are there. — Overheard: “Dan, you’re just an old soul” — one friend says endearingly to another.

The Barbican complex in London. In the foreground, there is a body of water and many planters in which plants are growing. There are trees on which the light is shining brightly. In the background, there are several storeys of houses with tall glass windows and made of concrete.

This week I have been taking notes about the changes in seasons. Daylight savings time knocked my internal clock a little bit, but the additional hours of daylight more than make up for it. I am grateful to wake up to sunlight, and for the sun to set later in the night – on m...

I was mesmerised by the moon on my train ride home. It’s the early afternoon, but I can still see the moon! I thought to myself. I was on a train going through the country – the rolling hills passed by as my eyes occasionally closed. I could use a nap. Toward the end of the journey, as more buildings would soon enter into view as I reached my destination, I saw two young women sitting on the grass by a river with a dog by their side. One of them waved delicately at the train I was on. I smiled. Maybe they knew someone on the train. I’ll never know, but the wave brought me joy.

On my way to the State of the Browser conference last weekend, I stumbled upon an open space in which many trees were in full blossom. Pink petals fell from the tree branches as the gentle spring wind blew. The trees were outside a church courtyard. I stopped, taking in the b...

If we don’t keep sharing the joys of the web, its fate will go in the wrong direction unnecessarily. Take a moment today to share a joy of the web with someone! Maybe you made a cool web page. Share it with a friend! Did you see something that made you smile, or think, or re...

I love to find links to accompany virtual calls – especially those that explicitly relate to or were mentioned by someone. This led to my being bestowed the title “Fastest link sharer in the world.” When I saw this pop up in the meeting chat, I knew I had to remember it for l...

One of my favourite times of the year is when trees blossom. I love searching for the first signs of pink buds on the trees, looking closely at the tips of branches to guage when I may first see blossom. Over the last few weeks, I have been delighted to see one tree after another show signs of pink blossom. This morning, on a walk, I took a moment to think about how a few trees had blossomed. I had walked past them a few times with their white buds, but this morning got me thinking about how there is always something new to see on the path: the change of trees as the seasons ebb and flow, the birdsong, the light as the seasons change. I saw a cat on my walk, too. His bushy fur made me smile.