I'm really interested to hear devs' thoughts on this – When interviewing, do you prefer Live Coding or Take Home tests?

I've made a poll on Reddit, which would be great if you could respond to, but I'd love to hear any thoughts on here too!

www.reddit.com/r/webdev/com...

If you want to fully dive down the rabbit-hole with CSS Layers, @css-tricks.bsky.social has (as ever) the go-to explainer css-tricks.com/css-cascade-...

Feel very late to the game, but I've been reading up today on CSS Layers, especially with regard to reset styles.

This article gives a good intro to why you'd want to use them with your reset styles > mayank.co/blog/css-res...

Super cool to see Shopify Polaris (built on Web Components) has now become stable!

www.shopify.com/partners/blo...

Amazingly, our very own PIE Design System has been nominated in the 2025 Design System Awards for Best Adoption!

If you'd like to help us out, you can drop us a vote in that category on the link below 👇👇🙏

awards.zeroheight.com/voting/

Want to work with me? (don't let that put you off!) We're looking for a talented Frontend Developer to join our Design System team at JET, working on pie.design – based in either our Bristol or Berlin office.

If you're interested, drop me a DM!

careers.justeattakeaway.com/global/en/jo...

I’ve been hacking on a personal project the last couple of weeks. I’d almost forgotten how freeing it was to push code without waiting for code reviews and comments 😂

Really enjoyed speaking at the @pixelpioneers.co warmup event this evening! Good luck to all of the speakers tomorrow - tremendous line up of talks to look forward to

📣 We've teamed up with Just Eat to bring you a warm-up on the night before @pixelpioneers.co Bristol!

Featuring talks by @gerireid.com and @ashn.uk and @whitep4nth3r.com!

The event is free to attend, but as space is limited, please register to reserve your spot: pixelpioneers.co/events/brist...

Split - I like the visual separation. My brain just doesn’t parse unified as well for some reason

In other news, I’ve been playing around using Cursor this week and enjoying it so far. It’s extremely good in certain use cases and can see myself using it a lot more > www.cursor.com/en

Wish the UK government would take more action in this area - mobile phones and social media do more damage to anyone under 16 than any supposed benefits www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I have covered presidential politics for 40 years. This was the most juvenile display by a President and Vice President I have ever seen. Other presidents treated their enemies with more respect. This is a low point and a dark day for the US. Totally embarrassing.

Also, I'm almost ashamed to say that I had no idea that there was now a HTML element?!

Just goes to show how easy it is to miss things when working with the fast moving worlds of CSS/JS now #PracticalA11y

Having that moment today after watching just enough of #PracticalA11y that I realise how hard some areas of our site must be to navigate for screen reader users.

Learnt a lot about landmarks this week and the best way of using them to signpost content.

Don’t let anyone ever tell you that web components aren’t performant

They can absolutely flyyy 😮‍💨

Yep, for sure - we roll our own web component library, but have taken a tonne of influence from Shoelace. Excited to see how tooling and standards can evolve as more people use Web Components

Essentially, if you only wrap text inside a div or a span, you're explicitly marking that content as having no meaning 🤯

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