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Andy Bell @bell.bz · 5h

If you’re generating an image for your article with AI, you didn’t need one in the first place

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Bruce Lawson @brucel.bsky.social · 1d

AT #smashingconf, @tkadlec.bsky.social is reminding us that betting on the browser (rather than JavaScript abstractions) is our best chance of long-term success.

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Josh Collinsworth @collinsworth.dev · 16d

Even setting politics aside: I honestly can't name a single reason to use NextJS in 2025, aside from "because everyone else is." It has literally no unique benefit or unbeatable feature.

Apparently our moms misjudged us; it turns out a lot of us *would* jump off a cliff if all our friends did.

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Adam Argyle @nerdy.dev · 17d

❌ mobile first
✅ container first

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Bram @bram.smulders.social · 20d

Build for the web, Build on the web, Build with the web.

An excellent take from @csswizardry.com on progressive enhancement, SPA frameworks and staying as close to the platform as possible.

csswizardry.com/2025/01/buil...

Build for the Web, Build on the Web, Build with the Web – CSS Wizardry

What is the real, long-term cost of adopting a JavaScript framework?

csswizardry.com

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Bram @bram.smulders.social · 22d

👋🏼 from the building a cross the train tracks!

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Álvaro Montoro @alvaromontoro.com · 22d

I wrote a short article about the :heading pseudo-class and function.
alvaromontoro.com/tutorial/hea...

It includes a little interactive section where you can play with the values and see how the affect the headings on the side.

#css #webdev

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Bram @bram.smulders.social · 24d

Ran my first half marathon today 🥵

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Chris Coyier @chriscoyier.net · 26d

CSS `field-sizing` on a `<textarea>` is obviously awesome.

But the horizontal growth using it on an `<input>` is less clearly useful to me. But check out this design pattern I cooked up. I don't hate it. Keeps the name area compact until you need to see more. Just a bit of flexbox wrapping.

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Web Witch 🔮 Stephanie Stimac @seaotta.dev · Aug 26

New on the blog: A Social Media Detox for the Soul

blog.stephaniestimac.com/posts/2025/0...

A Social Media Detox for the Soul - Stephanie Stimac's Blog

Trying to radically change how I interact with and use social media.

blog.stephaniestimac.com

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Bram @bram.smulders.social · Aug 20

DeepL maybe?

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Bram @bram.smulders.social · Aug 12

This why I started moving all my repos to @Codeberg@social.anoxinon.de

Currently I’m also pushing to GitHub as a mirror. Contemplating if I just should move off completely.

Original post: front-end.social/@hdv/1150111...

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Fronteers @fronteers.bsky.social · Aug 8

🔎 Digitale toegankelijkheid onderzoeken? Leer het van Jules Ernst (22+ jaar ervaring)!

Hands-on workshop: WCAG, tools, praktijkcases en ruimte voor vragen.

Vrijdag 29 aug, Utrecht – vanaf €150 👉 ti.to/fronteers/in...

#toegankelijkheid #a11y

Portretfoto van Jules Ernst, rechts in beeld, lachend en met een grijze baard. Links staat tekst op een gele achtergrond: “Jules Ernst Introductie onderzoek doen digitale toegankelijkheid Workshop Vrijdag 29 aug. 2025, 10 tot 17 uur.”

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Bram @bram.smulders.social · Jul 20

I got a 445 points knowledge score on this year's
#StateOfHTML survey! I have used 28 features, and knew 33 more, placing me in the top 100% of all respondents. Can you beat my score?
survey.devographics.com/survey/state...

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Piccalilli @piccalil.li · Jul 10

Heydon Pickering takes a fresh look the Every Layout Sidebar layout, 6 years on, to see if modern CSS selectors can improve it.

piccalil.li/blog/a-revis...

A revisit of the Every Layout sidebar with :has() and selector performance

Heydon Pickering takes a fresh look the Every Layout Sidebar layout, 6 years on, to see if modern CSS selectors can improve it.

piccalil.li

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Fronteers @fronteers.bsky.social · Jun 26

Onze workshops zijn terug! 🎉 Boost je JavaScript-skills in één middag 🧠💻 met destructuring, async/await, functioneel programmeren en debugging. Online van 13–17 uur, vanaf €69.
👉 Inschrijven: ti.to/fronteers/ja...

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Anna E. Cook @annaecook.com · Jun 25

Happy "European Accessibility Act goes into effect" week to all who celebrate

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Matthias Ott @matthiasott.com · Jun 23

TFW you build a site with @getkirby.com and web platform standards (== semantic HTML, modern CSS, a little bit of JavaScript, and a dash of ARIA) and you look at Lighthouse for the first time …

Looks like industry best practices actually work. (Sorry for using my platform to ruin anyone’s day. 🥰) 🍋

A screenshot of Lighthouse showing scores of 97 for Performance, 99 for Accessibility, 100 for Best Practices and 100 for SEO

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Bram @bram.smulders.social · Jun 20

Vertical = horizontal 🤦🏻‍♂️

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Jono Alderson @jono.id · Jun 19

We used to build websites.

Now we build pipelines, frameworks, and hydration strategies - just to publish text.

This isn’t progress.
It’s complexity, by design.

We need to escape the JavaScript framework trap.

www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/j...

JavaScript broke the web (and called it progress)

We replaced simple websites with complex apps nobody asked for. Now it takes a complex build pipeline just to change a headline.

www.jonoalderson.com

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Bram @bram.smulders.social · Jun 20

I've added them to our MediaTextCard in one of my recent design systems. When the card is rendered at a certain inline-size it switches from stacked to vertical layout(classic media object).
The design system is getting implemented right now by the teams so it will be running in production soon. 🎉

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Bram @bram.smulders.social · Jun 18

Long time goal of mine to get all these arrows up at the same time 💪🏼

Screenshot of Bram’s Health app. All the arrows are pointing upwards.

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Kilian Valkhof @kilianvalkhof.com · Jun 18

Nine out of ten times, ‘$browser is slow’ is code for ‘my own website is a massive memory hog and I’m not about to admit that’.

Browser engines do a ton of work to mitigate that, but we keep coming out with worse performing websites.

Kevin Powell @kevinpowell.co · Jun 17

Crazy how Chrome was known as slow and a memory hog, and how that's shifted to Firefox now.

It was my favorite browser for a very long time, sucks to see it slowly becoming worse...

www.theregister.com/2025/06/17/o...

Firefox is dead to me

Opinion: Parent company Mozilla's not my fave either

www.theregister.com

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Kilian Valkhof @kilianvalkhof.com · Jun 12

Strong words by Alex Russell at JSNation today.

JavaScript is the slowest way to do anything

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CSS Day @cssday.nl · Jun 6

And don't forget to take the State of CSS 2025 survey when you're not watching #cssday talks. survey.devographics.com/en-US/survey...

State of CSS 2025

Take the State of CSS survey

survey.devographics.com

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