I finally got around to importing my whole historical Twitter archive (just my own original tweets, not replies or retweets) into this WordPress site as a proper Custom Post Type: https://chriscoyier.net/tweets I haven’t added it to the navigation or anything else on the site yet. Not sure what I want to do there. Just feels […]

Look at this clock. It’s a clock. I bought it once because I needed… a clock. It’s $29, which is totally reasonable for… a clock. Then it was Daylight Saving Time one day, and I went to update it, but… it was already updated. That’s because: The Atomic Time Feature conveniently allows the clock to […]

I remember working in digital prepress decades ago that .eps files were just kinda weird, and I didn’t love it when I had to deal with them. Like, what even made this? Why? I assumed it was some kind of antiquated software or practice, and I’d just deal with it, and eventually the world would […]

Dave, from #735: Never trust an adult over 35 who can’t explain what they need from you in a bulleted list. I’m thinking like a laptop sticker or t-shirt, right? A little AI slop to help pick a direction can be helpful. We’ll see we’ll see.

Not much screen time for me lately, so this is a few months’ worth. But I have enjoyed some things! I have all these shows that I really wanna finish, but just can’t get the gumption to do it. Lanterns didn’t hit for me. I’m only slogging through Hacks season 2. I would love to […]

Just noting Mat’s Multipage Version zine rules. I bought both issues right away. It’s weird, it’s funny, it’s a work of art, and you might even learn something. The page that is a spliced version of Marc Andreeson proposing the IMG tag in HTML with all his recent crazy shit about how he “has” zero […]

Fun seeing CSS be a topic in WIRED. Pete Millspaugh shouting out some greats: One programmer recently re-created Doom in CSS. Others have used it to build holographic Pokémon cards and 3D-rendering engines. Cassidy Williams, who competed in this year’s inaugural March MadCSS tournament, built an experimental database-query engine entirely in CSS. I mean, hell […]

How it started: How it’s going: This is my prescription: I think it means nearsightedness. I’m mostly fine with close-up objects (like my phone/computer), but things 10+ feet away are blurry. The glasses help! Nice for driving and being inside large buildings. While my vision was getting worse, I honestly thought I just had watery […]

My sister is in a currently-running-on-TV political ad. It’s against the republican chucklefuck Tom Tiffany who was one of those anti-American dingleberries that claimed Biden “stole the election” and thinks Trumps tariff plans are super neato. Kelsey’s journey with healthcare insurance has been pretty rough. She gets denied for medications and treatments all the time, […]

I’ve still got all my WordPress sites on Pressable and happily so; I think they do a good job! They do everything you’d expect a WordPress host to do. The things I specifically like are: On that last point, I appreciated this little one-clicker: With that on (and presumably because I also use Jetpack and […]

This promotional video is either too weird or not weird enough, but I like core idea of im Water: a carrying strap for a water bottle designed into the label itself. The family business had a screen printing business growing up, including a big die cutting machine, which could totally be used for a job […]

I recently bought a bed setup from Nectar. (This is not an ad; I just prefer linking to things.) I needed a quick setup for a guest room, and an online ad showing the no-hardware bamboo bed frame caught my attention. The pieces just slide together! Which means they’ll just slide apart! Advertising works. The […]

Went camping with Adam. He blogged it because blogging rules. His post has some videos we did kinda right when we got there for a memento. Here’s a couple of those same songs in shorter clips smooshed together.

I’ve got a basic block of Zwilling J.A. Henckels knives. They are fine? Or were they when I got them? They got dull. I bought the HORL®3 knife sharpener to bring them back to life. It absolutely didn’t work after really committing to trying to get it to. Note how I’m not even going to […]

I bought a standup bass back in June! I set up a Facebook Marketplace alert for them, and it actually worked; a good option came up. It feels like Craigslist and Facebook Marketplace are the only options for local sales online, and it’s been that way for a long time. And Craigslist sucks? It used […]

It’s a little surreal watching Kevin recap the current CSS-Tricks situation. It’s been rollercoastery after DigitalOcean’s acquisition. Thoughts: I have zero background knowledge of what’s going on. Just thought I’d share my gut.

What? Axe-con ’27: The world’s largest digital accessibility event. Where? At your computer. When? February 23-27, 2027 Who? Me! I’m a keynote speaker along with Jennison Asuncion, Co-Founder of Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD). There will be 70+ other amazing presenters as well I’m sure that will be announced soon. Why? Because it matters.

I think I bought this thing at some grocery store endcap or something. The magic is that it can do all three advocotasks: Amazing! All in one! My review: I actually kinda like it. I do reach for it when I have this job. But I’ve shown it to several people who have almost viscerally […]

The commerical airport we use here in Bend, Oregon is actually in Redmond, Oregon. Flights from here generally depart very early. It think it’s because they need to make it to bigger airports to make connections to further-away places. Flight typically depart at 4:30-6:30 AM. They want your bags an hour before departure, and the […]

Arc is the greatest web browser ever, and has been tragically moved-on-from by The Browser Company of New York-come-Atlassian. I’ve been back on it the last month or so though. It’s still very usable as they keep the Chromium version updated. I just really like it. It’s so good. My second favorite is Zen because […]

I pulled the trigger on an underdesk treadmill. Basic research suggested GoPlus is a decent one. I was hoping it would be $300-400 USD. Turns out this one is just $119.99. So cheap it had me a little worried, like it was going to be cheap junk, but I pulled the trigger anyway. It took […]

I’m a good 50/50 split on music and podcasts while I’m driving. So lots of podcasts! I love them! I use Overcast, and it’s got a decent CarPlay app. So I see this screen a lot: It shows 3 podcasts I’ve started and 5 of the most recently published podcasts to choose from. THIS IS […]

It’s my birthday! Well, it was a couple of days ago. I was busy. Here’s an <ol> element that I made all by myself.

Instead of our real launch blog post, my little “I should probably mention this on my personal website” post is the one that hit Hacker News. Nevertheless, people got the message. What I loved about CodePen was just being able to try out something really quick and simple. But the new interface makes me feel […]

Just had a little trip up to my favorite city of Juneau, Alaska. So lovely. Here’s just one story from the trip. There is a Big Thing going on there right now which is essentially an impending flood that is going to happen any day now. It’s an “Outburst Flood” or GLOF (“glacial lake outburst […]

Email from Apple: We’re reaching out to let you know that the iPhone Upgrade Program is coming to an end. Thank you for being a loyal member.  Awwww. Sad trombone. I’ve been on this program for as long as I can remember. Every year you just send back your old phone and get the new […]

Noting perhaps my largest personal career accomplishment, which is launching CodePen 2.0. Far more work, believe it or not, than the entire creation of the original CodePen. This isn’t the place to describe every detail of what we did and why we did it. If you’re interested, perhaps our Why 2.0? podcast or the What’s […]

Almost surely, if you totaled up the number of hours of movie watching I’ve done and the hours of TV show watching I’ve done, TV dwarves movies. It’s not a conscious choice; just how it shook out for me. Via the internet, I “know” a couple of people who are consciously movie-only. Khoi Vinh does […]

Did you think this was gonna be some grand metaphor blog post? Nope. You probably know: if you put Mentos in Diet Coke, it makes the carbonation go crazy and fizz shoots out of the bottle. It’s a “science” experiment akin to baking soda & vinegar volcano, freezing a banana in liquid hydrogen and shattering […]

If You are Asking for Human Attention, Demonstrate Human Effort — Tom Bedor. There’s a bit of a blog post that goes with it, but the title really says it all. Pairs nicely with Dave’s I don’t want a screenshot of your Claude conversation and Simon’s “I will not publish anything that takes someone else […]