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Cool native HTML elements you should already be using · Harrison Broadbent
dialog, details, datalist, progress, optgroup, and more:
If this article helps just a single developer avoid an unnecessary Javascript dependency, I’ll be happy. Native HTML can handle plenty of features that people typically jump straight to JS for (or otherwise over-complicate).
In the way
This sums up my experience of companies and products trying to inject AI in to the products I use to communicate with other people. It’s always just in the way, making stupid suggestions.
Ten years ago today I coined the shorthand “js;dr” for “JavaScript required; Didn’t Read”. - Tantek
tantek.com/2025/069/t1/ten-years-jsdr-javascript-required-didnt-read
Practice Progressive Enhancement.
Build first and foremost with forgiving technologies, declarative technologies, and forward and backward compatible coding techniques.
All content should be readable without scripting.
If it’s worth building on the web, it’s worth building it robustly, and building it to last.
Way over yonder in the low-key
Build It Yourself | Armin Ronacher’s Thoughts and Writings
“Wait, not like that”: Free and open access in the age of generative AI
citationneeded.news/free-and-open-access-in-the-age-of-generative-ai/
Teacher, it’s too difficult
Refurbished a Game Boy
Fog from liquid nitrogen ice cream.
Text notebooks with editable outputs
Matt Mullenweg
• Matt
Dalio & Benioff in Singaore
With the world changing so quickly, it’s hard to find alpha, but the best way is by following the brightest thinkers. This CNBC interview with Ray Dalio and Marc Benioff is good, but it’s way better if you go to the livestream about 25 minutes in and see the full discussion without the editing. You … Continue reading Dalio & Benioff in Singaore →
Kicking off St. Patrick’s weekend with a spice bag and Murphy’s!
Kicking off St. Patrick’s weekend with a spice bag and Murphy’s!
Manuel Moreale — Everything Feed
• Manuel Moreale
A moment with snow and trees
I wasn’t planning to find snow this weekend but snow we indeed found. Dog was having a blast.

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Hmm, my last post is poorly truncated on Bluesky because I hadn’t considered the title, link, and new summary taking up more than 300 characters. Going to keep my extra summary text shorter in the future.
Adding an edit button to my static site on mobile
jamesg.blog/2025/03/15/adding-an-edit-button-to-my-static-site-on-mobile
AI's impact on the open web
Since writing more about delayed AI + Siri yesterday, I was thinking about this Bloomberg story of a meeting inside Apple admitting that the new Siri works at best 80% of the time, but they want to “get those percentages up”. After a year of development? They need to seriously rethink their plan.
I'd love to get a list of old school bloggers who are still at it. How would you go about that? I decided to give it to Gemini, limiting it at first to 100 bloggers. Here's the prompt I wrote. For a while I was wondering what "deep research" was for, but as it's starting the work, I'm thinking of resources that would fit in -- like blogtree.com -- a fascinating site, gives a clear picture how blogs emerge out of the community of an earlier blog. Anyway it's working on it while I write this post. 😄