I just got a big ol’ stack of USPS Priority Mail®️ marked as RETURN TO SENDER. It’s… malicious spam. Physical spam, I suppose. I didn’t send these, of course. But the return address is CodePen Headquarters, so it seems it was just a free way to get spam into our door. The evil schmucks drop […]

I don’t actually have Starlink. I was just considering it for a hot second and figured I’d write down the thoughts. I was getting annoyed at our home internet service the other week and started looking into other options. In the end, I called our service provider (TDS) and they were like (1) your modem […]

When the M1 MacBooks dropped, they looked amazing and I picked one up in 2021. It’s 2025 now, so it’s fairly typical of me to be upgrading. It felt a little unnecessary since my M1 was: extremely perfectly fine. It’s an excellent machine really and it will continue to be for it’s next owner for […]

When haters deny HTML’s status as a programming language, they’re showing they don’t understand what a language really is. Language is not instructing an interlocutor what to do in a way that leaves no room for other interpretations; it is better and richer than that. Tim Carmody, HTML Is Actually a Programming Language. Fight Me […]

I was on Learn with Jason the other day! Jason and I go way back and it was a dang pleasure getting to hang out with him to chat and build a thing together. We made a light-DOM-y LitElement photo shuffle machine thingy. Mega high five to Toni Lijic where I swiped the whole idea […]

🎥 Get Duked. I liked the cute premise of these hard kids doing a challenging nature walk thing. It was a great little set of actors and it started strong. Then it just went off the rails, as they say. It tried to do too many things and make it feel like a mess and […]

Sometimes I look at this list of “slash pages” and I’m like ughkgh I love these, I should do like all of them. Then something stops me and I think I’ve figured out what it is. They seem more like blog post ideas to me than permanent (if occasionally updated) pages. For example /carry is […]

I just popped out a realign of the ol’ personal website. I only say realign as I didn’t rethink every single detail of the thing. I’d say probably 40% of the original HTML and CSS are there from old site, 70% of the PHP, and of course 98% of the content. It won’t stay this […]

Brad was able to edit and publish ~20 minutes of Frostapalooza so far. My little cameo is at about 2:10. My heart still sinks that the hired out sound team screwed the pooch on the real audio recordings. But I suppose it’s a lesson for all of us to learn to accept the things we […]

Just trying to make sure to remember to post these videos here, where they will actually be preserved over time. 🤘🪕

31 December 1995. Still the perfect goodbye. Liesbeth Corens I’m not always the most nostalgic guy but Calvin & Hobbes never fails to warm me up. I was such a super fan as a kid and had great experiences like this as an adult. Don’t miss Bill’s new book. I’m writing this just after coming […]

It will be fascinating to watch what happens with Google Search this coming year. It’s the behemoth. It alone is the life blood of countless small businesses. And yet “Google Zero” threatens — radical changes to Google search results where good, previously-reliable traffic absolutely plummets to essentially nothing. Review site HouseFresh’s story is an example. […]

I’ve been noticing a certain type of ad placement lately I have no better name for than “ads after you do a thing”. I’m sure they aren’t new, they just feel new to me as I’ve been thinking about it. Examples: What distinguishes these to me is that: they aren’t terribly annoying. I’ve already done […]

I’ve got high blood pressure at the moment. My doctor wanted to keep an eye on it. It’s tricky as one blood pressure reading isn’t particularly useful. You need a whole bunch of readings over time, and that’s pretty hard to do unless you’re taking the measurements at home. So, I got a home blood […]

I wanted to update my list from my Default Apps 2023 list, but as I went through it… I haven’t really changed anything at all. What does that mean? I’m set in my ways? It doesn’t really feel like that, it feels more like I’m pretty happy with my choices and haven’t been sufficiently convinced […]

With Paul Kinlan’s Full Feed RSS I can now subscribe to Khoi’s site where the RSS entries are more than one sentence. It does make me think… would this annoy Khoi? Does he have it that way on purpose, perhaps because he really wants the site to be read on the site? Do I feel […]

Dastardly fun from Herman Martinus, who runs Bear Blog, on a very special UX implemented on the page when a user is determined to be a spammer: It works, too, apparently. I love the idea of wasting bad people’s time. It reminds me of that episode of Mythic Quest, “Dinner Party” where they trap all […]

Chris Coyier and Dave Rupert join Adam and Jerod for a ShopTalk & Friends conversation on the viability of the web, making content, ads to support that content, CodePen’s future plans, books, side quests, and social networks devaluing links. ShopTalk & Friends

Safari isn’t any better with battery life. I feel like that needs to be shared more as it’s very strong folk tech wisdom that Chrome eats battery and Safari does not, which is apparently not true at all, and might be the opposite. But I don’t care too much about that. I have a first-gen […]

They broke out of a loosely wired cage door in the basement of the monkey house, but from there it seemed they didn’t have a plan — most hung out in a nearby canopy of trees as mesmerized onlookers watched Madison Magazine Who was in charge of that loosely wired cage door? My grandpa! Lolz. I remember […]

I don’t seem like I’d be much of a skiier, do I? (I do not.) But here I am, doing skiing. It’s very (very) popular in Bend, Oregon because of the proximity to Mt. Bachelor (and to a lesser degree Hoodoo) and the outdoor lifestyle vibes here. People you know will be downhill skiing in […]

The short ‘n’ sweet version of my talk from All Things Open.

Manuel Moreale: Sometimes I spot posts like Chris’ Media Diet in my RSS feed and I’m always amazed by the fact the people manage to keep up with movies and TV series and the rest of the media landscape. I can totally see how someone posting a post like mine makes it feel like I just bathe […]

The Jaguar rebrand is a head turner. I don’t care enough to weigh in, I just literally cannot see letter-spaced lowercase characters without thinking of Frederic Goudy. Any man who would letterspace lowercase would screw sheep.

👋 Fellow Webnerds! This is a written version of my talk “Designing DX”. I just want to lollygag about with y’all about this squishy concept of DX. We’ll draw ideas and parallels from the real world (the one with grass, boozy milkshakes, and that glowing orb in the sky that makes you squint). There are […]

I have a killer business idea. I’m just going to take one penny from every bank account in the world. I’m not going to ask; you can’t say no. It really won’t affect you. You probably won’t even notice, and even if you do, again, it will not affect you. What’s a penny? Nothing. It […]

I’m certainly not above government criticism nor do I think lying for political gain is a new trick. I am bummed that a website needs to exist called Hurricane Rumor Response from FEMA in order to combat a barrage of lies accusing them of everything stealing donations to literally preventing aid. Hey, I’m not on […]

Jeff Bridgforth: A front-end developer is the one that makes the design come alive. He or she is the person responsible for bringing the creative vision of the designer into being through code and can even push the design further by adding the interactivity or animation layer that the designer may not have even thought […]