Unrelated, but holy smokes Eric Clapton’s ‘Nothing but the blues (live)’ album is just unreasonably good

Was reading a post by @markboulton.co.uk that mused about design systems, AI, & what it means to be human—which reminded me I was asked to answer
‘Is the human body obsolete’ when in college studying design & making the schools 1st site. Need to do this up w/web fonts: https://www.rwt.io/blog/2018/04/tech-humanism-at-an-event-apart-throwback-trackback/

Wait. You can use media queries for light mode in a picture element??!!!

“You can swap image assets for light and dark themes using the prefers-color-scheme media feature”

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/Elements/picture

Let’s f.#%*ing go America. Hell yeah. Let’s keep the positive change wave rolling

Let’s gooooooo #CoffeeAndSlidePrep

It’s not the coffee that’s bitter, that’s just the taste of your burnt expectations and crumbled dreams.

Of a good cup of coffee.

#conftrekking again

Well this is timely 👀

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Nothing makes me happier than when I look up some new css thing and the top result is written by a friend. H/T to @seaotta.dev this time for writing about CSS for foldable screens TWO YEARS ago :)

Not so much a hot take as an ‘observation of the blindingly obvious’ but an AI company concerned about the trustworthiness of its models’ output perhaps should have rethought naming its latest release ‘Fable’. Just sayin

Goodbye is too hard a word dad, so I’ll just say fare-thee-well
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(Thinking about you dad when that Dillon song you played came on just now. Taking that as a sign of a good day ❤️)

Having a “‘White Stripes’ live album with AirPods, loudly” kinda morning

Metaphysical musings, neverending headwinds, and a gorgeous day out for an age-double birthday ride / #FondoOfTheMonthClub N°100 in a row. Grateful that Goldberg was game to come along for the occasion. Just ride. #cycling #roadcycling #strava #fondo 183km/1161m/7:13

My usual 1hr easy ride loop that I do before work is neither an hour nor easy when the team is -2°C. It’s April FFS. #cycling

today’s race to prove the least reliable (between Amtrak and MBTA commuter rail) is being resoundingly won by Amtrak. This is not a compliment.

Went to the Country Music Hall of Fame last week & blown away by the Muscle Shoals exhibit. Then a tour of Hatch Show print shop & they had the exhibit poster. Shoulda bought it when I was there, but they have it online so I fixed it ❤️ (photo is from exhibit) https://shop.hatchshowprint.com/products/muscle-shoals-exhibit-poster?variant=47530389110958

The work is important. Doing good work is important. But I’m learning that the work rarely, if ever, speaks for itself. I am still learning how much I have to speak for the work in order for its value to be recognized. #TechCoMusings

Week 4 of no heat in half the house. Maybe today. Then the coffee maker died, and dammit this is just a bit much. FFS.

Today’s gratitude post is dedicated to @adactio.com and his wonderful resource Going Offline (goingoffline.adactio.com) -
Just finished adding a first pass at a service worker for rwt.io thx Jeremy!
https://rwt.io

Thx to @bell.bz & @cydstumpel.nl ‘s posts I’ve got some fun lil’ view transitions on my site rwt.io
https://rwt.io

A little rough but migrated kitreviews.cc over to @11ty.dev paving the way for shutting down my virtual server. First time since maybe 1997 or 98 that I haven’t had a server to run CMS sites on. No more custom CMS, no more Drupal, not even this last Wordpress experiment. Weird.
https://kitreviews.cc

Been keeping this tab open for months, maybe longer? Finally put @5t3ph.bsky.social ‘s awesome lil pen about using css filters to make images work better in dark mode. Put it in practice on my site rwt.io this morning in minutes. So. Good.

https://codepen.io/5t3ph/pen/VwModqR

There are a lot of way more important things to deal with in the world right now, but after a very long journey we shipped an update that completes the shift over to our brand font across all of Chewy.com (and we were able to do it via one theme file, loaded from a central cdn). Feels pretty great
https://Chewy.com

Still plenty of work to do but pretty excited to relaunch my website for the first time since 2018. Lots of new typography and techniques already, and really chuffed about how it’s coming along. Welcome to the new rwt.io

Will give this a proper write up soon but finally figured out the JS to create a web component to mimic ‘shape-outside’ for text line boxes. Then I have to resubmit it to the CSSWG issue queue. Example and link to repo here: https://jpamental.github.io/shape-outside-line-box/example.html #typography #design

Every once in a while I get a nudge from a friend I haven’t spoken with in a while. This week it was the wonderful Mr @zeldman.bsky.social - hello Jeffrey! Nice reminder that sometimes social networks can actually be, err, social :)

What a lovely thing to be included in this! Thx @johnpicozzi.bsky.social https://lostcarpark.com/advent/2025/17/curious-findings

Why are mobile browsers so intent on capturing ‘hover’?! It’s just dumb, and breaks things for everyone, making you have to tap twice. Seems bad for everyone.

(I know you can put it in a pointer media query, but conceptually it’s just dumb)

When you realize a coworker is following you on Strava and sees you subtweeting work frustration in your ride titles…

Always a good day when even a bit of it gets spent with @csswizardry.com - so good to catch up tonight, and looking forward to the next couple of days together at #WebUnleashed

I miss the immediate satisfaction of everybody freaking out about #wordle being down and tweeting about it