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Brecht De Ruyte @utilitybend.com · 8h

Yeah 🙂 equipment based. Lots of fun

Brecht De Ruyte @utilitybend.com · 19h

Commandering.

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Brecht De Ruyte @utilitybend.com · 1d

2 days ago, I was at @frontmania.bsky.social speaking about why CSS is a programming language. So funny to see that one of my favourite podcasts @whiskey.fm is doing that topic in their latest episode! 😀 whiskey.fm/is-css-a-pro...

Is CSS a Programming Language? w/ Kevin Powell - Whiskey Web and Whatnot: Web Development, Neat - Episode 213

This week, Robbie and Adam talk with Kevin Powell about the quirks and complexities of CSS, from Tailwind and Flexbox to AI’s failure to write decent styles. While sipping some Crown Royal Black, they...

whiskey.fm

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firefoxdevtools.bsky.social @firefoxdevtools.bsky.social · 1d

As an experiment, we (the Firefox team) wanted to try a new way to get feedback on which Interop proposals matter most.

So, here's a web app where you can rank the proposals you care about, giving us data we can use when reviewing which ones to champion.

interop-rank.jakearchibald.com

Interop Feature Ranking

Rank the web platform features you care most about

interop-rank.jakearchibald.com

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Brecht De Ruyte @utilitybend.com · 2d

Time to change some profile pictures. The hair is a bit more salt & pepper nowadays 🙃

Brecht De Ruyte @utilitybend.com · 2d

To elaborate on that. The first question I can visualize is some technical problems or potential dangers. The second one might have some really interesting cases that could benefit design system engineers.

Kilian Valkhof @kilianvalkhof.com · 2d

After @utilitybend.com's excellent talk at Frontmania on Engineering CSS I was left with two questions:

1. Why can't @property declarations be declared in a scope, The ability to scope custom props is so powerful this feels like a miss.

2. CSS Functions are great. Can we have typed in- and output?

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Brecht De Ruyte @utilitybend.com · 2d

Oh cool. I'll add it to my notes. Thanks for taking a look. It really is appreciated 🙂

Brecht De Ruyte @utilitybend.com · 2d

Interesting. How would before, after and between work? You mean based on thumb then? A change I currently think of is rather a numbered segment instead of child. Eg: ::nth-segment(2)

The benefit is that it's easy to manage no matter the amount of thumbs. For example 4 in my opening hours example.

Brecht De Ruyte @utilitybend.com · 3d

I'm at @frontmania.bsky.social watching a talk on local AI with @rowdy.codes wearing a really fashionable hat!

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Brecht De Ruyte @utilitybend.com · 6d

🤔 now that would be interesting. Watching it right now. 🏁

Brecht De Ruyte @utilitybend.com · 6d

It was meant to be. Look at that swan, smiling with glee

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Jeroen Heijmans @jeroenheijmans.nl · 7d

Second at #Fronteers was @utilitybend.com with a presentation about OpenUI, teaching us about a whole bunch of new html and css keywords along the way.

Sketch notes about "The Future of UI is open", various drawings on the page including "A Popover can be anything", and "OpenUI Group", and a handful of new CSS keywords.

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Brecht De Ruyte @utilitybend.com · 7d

Ending the talks with @dylanbeatt.ie how to be a rockstar developer. #fronteers #darkmode

Brecht De Ruyte @utilitybend.com · 7d

Rune going into colors to amp up the #darkmode. @fronteers.bsky.social

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Brecht De Ruyte @utilitybend.com · 7d

Thorston on sustainable web. #fronteers #darkmode

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Bramus @bram.us · 7d

At #fronteers #DarkMode, @utilitybend.com proposed the HTML Element.

It unlocks the multi-handle range slider, a pattern you might have already seen when picking a price-range.

Feedback Form (with links to the explainer and demos): docs.google.com/forms/u/0/d/...