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Jemima runs through just some of the exciting new additions to CSS:

Replacing 150+ lines of JavaScript with just a few CSS features is genuinely wild. We’re able to achieve the same amount of complexity that we’ve always had, but now it’s a lot less work to do so.

And Jemima will be opening the show at Web Day Out in Brighton on the 12th of March if you want to hear more of this!

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I really enjoyed this chat with Marc:

I recently sat down with Jeremy Keith for a spontaneous conversation that quickly turned into a deep dive into something we both care a lot about: events, community, and why we keep putting ourselves through the joy and pain of running conferences.

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Visited Palmanova plenty of times in my life but never paid attention the writings at the center of main square.

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Doing way too many things simultaneously today. Took a few minutes to unplug and read a book in the afternoon before diving back into code. Only finished one book in January, hoping to make progress on a few more in February.

OpenAI has a new Mac app for Codex. It appears to unify both Codex CLI and the web-based Codex into a single interface. This is where they always wanted to go by naming everything Codex.

Working on something new that is ending up much more costly to run than I was expecting. I’ve tried to move features that previously required Micro.blog Premium down to the standard Micro.blog subscription whenever possible. Probably can’t happen for this new thing.

So much of success is just timing. I feel lucky to have been 20-ish in the mid 1990s, seeing the potential for the web, being able to focus nearly all of my attention on it. The same will happen now for young folks who understand the AI shift. (Ironically, my own kids want nothing to do with it!)

I have an array built into every app I do, on server or in the browser, called snarkySlogans. When I need a bit of text to test with I just choose a random snarky slogan. They are little truths that have occurred to me over the years. You're free to steal this code, they do come in handy at times. There's a snarky slogan to cover that -- "Only steal from the best." Another one I really like: "Just because you're offended doesn't mean you're right."

Listening to the latest AppStories podcast. Fun discussion about OpenClaw, but also they make a really good point about the future of software: developers will need to focus even more on polish and making an app feel like a finished product to distinguish from the vibe-coded flood of new apps.

Carlingford mussels and oysters

Gone skiing.

The UT tower as we’re heading back from Blade Runner Live. Don’t think I had ever been to a movie or video game in concert before, but always wanted to. Great movie and great music.

Why did we need all those programming languages?

Imagine building blocks to assemble your own social web app. A toolkit you could plug into your bot.