FeedCity

Zachary and I recently worked on a collaborative writing project in which we prompted each other to share impressions of an artwork of the other’s choosing. Zachary chose a painting for me to write about. I chose one for Zachary to write about. Below is what we wrote. James’ ...

I had never noticed the sapling with blossom. It was slightly obscured by an old stone wall. The pink made the tree stand out. I have looked in that direction many times, but my focus is usually captured by the gothic architecture or the green trees of spring and summer. Toda...

I was out in the sunset again this evening. I set off a bit later than yesterday. At the beginning of my walk, I looked to the sun – which would not set over the hills for at least an hour – and thought about where it was this time yesterday. I am now thinking about how my gr...

Today I’m making public my little film development web app: https://dt.danielpietzsch.com.

I appreciate being out in the sunset I thought to myself on the final stretch of my evening walk. I thought back to all the times during the pandemic when I would go out for a walk in the evenings. Every day, almost without fail, I would be out for a walk, enjoying the last m...

With the warm, sunny weather that we have had recently, I have twice visited a coffee shop in the evenings. A decaf flat white is my order — my standard after 3pm. Evening walks in the sun feel different. The obligations of the day fade away with each step. I enjoy the way t...

This week I received a lot of submissions to airportpianos.org, the index of pianos in airports that I maintain. Submissions come through a Google Form. The form is intentionally brief 1, asking for two pieces of information: the airport name and the location of the piano. W...

Hear me out: a children’s book called “The Tariffalo” 🤔

The article “Secret to stronger pour-over coffee with no extra beans unlocked by scientists“ recently appeared on the front page of the Guardian. The article notes: Dr Arnold Mathijssen, a co-author of the study from the University of Pennsylvania, said pouring the hot water...

I’m happy to announce that something I and others have worked on very hard for the past few years has been published by the W3C Advisory Board (AB) and sent to the W3C Advisory Committee (AC) for a vote to make it official:Vision for W3C: https://www.w3.org/TR/2025/NOTE-w3c-vision-20250402/Official announcement: https://www.w3.org/news/2025/proposal-to-endorse-vision-for-w3c-as-a-w3c-statement/If your company is a W3C Member¹, please ask your Advisory Committee Representative² to vote to support publication of the Vision for W3C as an official W3C Statement:https://www.w3.org/wbs/33280/Vision2025/ (W3C Member-only link)Thank you for your support.#W3CVision #Vision #VisionForW3C #W3C (@w3c@w3c.social) #W3CAB (@ab@w3c.social)¹ https://www.w3.org/membership/list/² https://www.w3.org/Member/ACList (W3C Member-only link)

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