Matthew Howell
@matthewhowell.net
Web person.
An enthusiastic believer in the Web and all things HTML and CSS. Developer/designer/generalist and–sometimes–other kind of person. Perpetually the only employee at Reasonable Company.
Also an American-Kiwi in Auckland.
↗ matthewhowell.net
An enthusiastic believer in the Web and all things HTML and CSS. Developer/designer/generalist and–sometimes–other kind of person. Perpetually the only employee at Reasonable Company.
Also an American-Kiwi in Auckland.
↗ matthewhowell.net
How's everyone minifying their JS these days? Seems like Deno and Bun have built-in build tools for this?
December 2, 2025 at 2:54 AM
How's everyone minifying their JS these days? Seems like Deno and Bun have built-in build tools for this?
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February 14, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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This module has so far been one of the most useful to people taking JavaScript for Everyone, so we made it free so you can get an idea of how good Mat is at teaching JavaScript. Maybe it’ll convince you to get the whole course 👀
piccalil.li/links/the-en...
piccalil.li/links/the-en...
The entire “Asynchronous JavaScript” module of JavaScript for Everyone is now free
This module has so far been one of the most useful to people taking JavaScript for Everyone, so we made it free so you can get an idea of how good Mat is at teaching JavaScript. Maybe it’ll convince...
piccalil.li
November 28, 2025 at 9:14 AM
This module has so far been one of the most useful to people taking JavaScript for Everyone, so we made it free so you can get an idea of how good Mat is at teaching JavaScript. Maybe it’ll convince you to get the whole course 👀
piccalil.li/links/the-en...
piccalil.li/links/the-en...
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A bit of a vulnerable post by me but we need your help to get us through what has been a more difficult period than 2020.
It would be really appreciated if you could read and share in your networks too 💛
bell.bz/its-been-a-v...
It would be really appreciated if you could read and share in your networks too 💛
bell.bz/its-been-a-v...
It’s been a very hard year - Andy Bell
Unlike a lot of places in tech, my company, Set Studio/Piccalilli has no outside funding. Bootstrapped is what the LinkedIn people say, I think. It’s been a hard year this year. A very hard year...
bell.bz
November 27, 2025 at 4:23 PM
A bit of a vulnerable post by me but we need your help to get us through what has been a more difficult period than 2020.
It would be really appreciated if you could read and share in your networks too 💛
bell.bz/its-been-a-v...
It would be really appreciated if you could read and share in your networks too 💛
bell.bz/its-been-a-v...
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🦊
“Artificial intelligence isn’t going anywhere. It’s the future.”
I hear that line a lot. The thing is, futures are tricky.
ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/the-li...
“Artificial intelligence isn’t going anywhere. It’s the future.”
I hear that line a lot. The thing is, futures are tricky.
ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/the-li...
The line and the stream. — ethanmarcotte.com
“Artificial intelligence is the future,” they tell me. The thing is, futures are tricky.
ethanmarcotte.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:05 PM
🦊
“Artificial intelligence isn’t going anywhere. It’s the future.”
I hear that line a lot. The thing is, futures are tricky.
ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/the-li...
“Artificial intelligence isn’t going anywhere. It’s the future.”
I hear that line a lot. The thing is, futures are tricky.
ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/the-li...
Rewriting htmx (kind of, for fun) and trying to name this architecture pattern that it uses to allow requests to be altered after they're triggered, but before they're sent.
htmx.org/events/#htmx...
htmx.org/events/#htmx...
</> htmx ~ Events
htmx gives you access to AJAX, CSS Transitions, WebSockets and Server Sent Events directly in HTML, using attributes, so you can build modern user interfaces with the simplicity and power of hypertext...
htmx.org
November 26, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Rewriting htmx (kind of, for fun) and trying to name this architecture pattern that it uses to allow requests to be altered after they're triggered, but before they're sent.
htmx.org/events/#htmx...
htmx.org/events/#htmx...
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My dear friend Mike has a new album of electronic music out, and I’d say this even if I didn’t know him: it is a DELIGHT mute-city.bandcamp.com/album/entrop...
Entroponetics, Vol. 1, by Mute City
13 track album
mute-city.bandcamp.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:01 PM
My dear friend Mike has a new album of electronic music out, and I’d say this even if I didn’t know him: it is a DELIGHT mute-city.bandcamp.com/album/entrop...
Reposted by Matthew Howell
participating in the JavaScript community feels like living in a house that’s on fire and all of your roommates are just buying their own fire extinguishers and pretending that it’s just a temporary bout of really hot weather
November 24, 2025 at 6:15 PM
participating in the JavaScript community feels like living in a house that’s on fire and all of your roommates are just buying their own fire extinguishers and pretending that it’s just a temporary bout of really hot weather
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Can we quickly appreciate how powerful CSS has become and what a beautiful snippet this is? 👏
una.im/range-style-...
una.im/range-style-...
November 20, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Can we quickly appreciate how powerful CSS has become and what a beautiful snippet this is? 👏
una.im/range-style-...
una.im/range-style-...
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“GitHub no longer uses toasts because of their accessibility and usability issues.”
Music to my ears!
primer.style/accessibilit...
Music to my ears!
primer.style/accessibilit...
Toasts
GitHub no longer uses toasts because of their accessibility and usability issues.
primer.style
November 12, 2025 at 7:36 AM
“GitHub no longer uses toasts because of their accessibility and usability issues.”
Music to my ears!
primer.style/accessibilit...
Music to my ears!
primer.style/accessibilit...
Rewriting a tiny subset of htmx that only handles GET requests: the working title is htmgets
November 15, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Rewriting a tiny subset of htmx that only handles GET requests: the working title is htmgets
For someone who’s bounced in and out of the front end JS world: anyone have a good resource for structuring modern JS code in the browser?
Like, we used to use IIFEs to encapsulate scope, but now we can use ES6 modules. Any good examples of small modules that are well structured?
Like, we used to use IIFEs to encapsulate scope, but now we can use ES6 modules. Any good examples of small modules that are well structured?
November 15, 2025 at 4:31 AM
For someone who’s bounced in and out of the front end JS world: anyone have a good resource for structuring modern JS code in the browser?
Like, we used to use IIFEs to encapsulate scope, but now we can use ES6 modules. Any good examples of small modules that are well structured?
Like, we used to use IIFEs to encapsulate scope, but now we can use ES6 modules. Any good examples of small modules that are well structured?
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What a great post about community, the people, the narcissists, governance, funding, overtakes, political backwaters, change, loss, and feeling lost.
okayfail.com/2025/in-prai...
okayfail.com/2025/in-prai...
In Praise of dhh
A reflection on Ruby's past, present, and future.
okayfail.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:51 PM
What a great post about community, the people, the narcissists, governance, funding, overtakes, political backwaters, change, loss, and feeling lost.
okayfail.com/2025/in-prai...
okayfail.com/2025/in-prai...
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things that arent the future of civilization
- chatbots
- crypto
- robot butlers
- cars that sorta drive autonomously as long as youre paying attention for when they fail and almost kill a bunch of people
things that actually are the future of civilization
- free clean energy
- chatbots
- crypto
- robot butlers
- cars that sorta drive autonomously as long as youre paying attention for when they fail and almost kill a bunch of people
things that actually are the future of civilization
- free clean energy
November 7, 2025 at 1:40 PM
things that arent the future of civilization
- chatbots
- crypto
- robot butlers
- cars that sorta drive autonomously as long as youre paying attention for when they fail and almost kill a bunch of people
things that actually are the future of civilization
- free clean energy
- chatbots
- crypto
- robot butlers
- cars that sorta drive autonomously as long as youre paying attention for when they fail and almost kill a bunch of people
things that actually are the future of civilization
- free clean energy
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Once you start thinking of AI as a war on humanity, on human thought, on human inquiry, on human labor, on nuance and critical thinking, it slots in pretty seamlessly with the right wing ideological project, oligarchical political projects, big tech's political projects, etc
November 6, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Once you start thinking of AI as a war on humanity, on human thought, on human inquiry, on human labor, on nuance and critical thinking, it slots in pretty seamlessly with the right wing ideological project, oligarchical political projects, big tech's political projects, etc
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The New York Times opinion page isn't holding anything back now smh.
November 6, 2025 at 6:32 PM
The New York Times opinion page isn't holding anything back now smh.
Over here thumbing through my enormous heap of receipts for all of you knuckleheads who've been shamelessly trumpeting "AI" for years.
If you're wondering, I still have my distributed ledger of blockchain receipts as well.
I lost the NFT receipts though, not sure what happened to those.
If you're wondering, I still have my distributed ledger of blockchain receipts as well.
I lost the NFT receipts though, not sure what happened to those.
October 23, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Over here thumbing through my enormous heap of receipts for all of you knuckleheads who've been shamelessly trumpeting "AI" for years.
If you're wondering, I still have my distributed ledger of blockchain receipts as well.
I lost the NFT receipts though, not sure what happened to those.
If you're wondering, I still have my distributed ledger of blockchain receipts as well.
I lost the NFT receipts though, not sure what happened to those.
An underrated aspect of continually working on your personal website is that when you build it locally you can fill in your archive pages by including all of your unfinished drafts and feel more productive lol
October 18, 2025 at 8:49 AM
An underrated aspect of continually working on your personal website is that when you build it locally you can fill in your archive pages by including all of your unfinished drafts and feel more productive lol
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This is the most personal project I’ve made in years.
I launched a new show called The Callback. It’s weekly web dev news with my dumb humor sprinkled on top.
If this pilot does well I get to make more, so watching, liking, and sharing would be DEEPLY appreciated 💜
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMOD...
I launched a new show called The Callback. It’s weekly web dev news with my dumb humor sprinkled on top.
If this pilot does well I get to make more, so watching, liking, and sharing would be DEEPLY appreciated 💜
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMOD...
Remix needs to fix this…
YouTube video by Prismic
www.youtube.com
October 17, 2025 at 3:04 PM
This is the most personal project I’ve made in years.
I launched a new show called The Callback. It’s weekly web dev news with my dumb humor sprinkled on top.
If this pilot does well I get to make more, so watching, liking, and sharing would be DEEPLY appreciated 💜
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMOD...
I launched a new show called The Callback. It’s weekly web dev news with my dumb humor sprinkled on top.
If this pilot does well I get to make more, so watching, liking, and sharing would be DEEPLY appreciated 💜
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMOD...
New poll just dropped.
Are public libraries the single best manifestation of humanity’s potential for good?
- Yes
- Definitely
- They sure are
- Yes
Are public libraries the single best manifestation of humanity’s potential for good?
- Yes
- Definitely
- They sure are
- Yes
October 18, 2025 at 2:26 AM
New poll just dropped.
Are public libraries the single best manifestation of humanity’s potential for good?
- Yes
- Definitely
- They sure are
- Yes
Are public libraries the single best manifestation of humanity’s potential for good?
- Yes
- Definitely
- They sure are
- Yes
Writing down a list of why feeds are nice, what did I miss?
October 16, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Writing down a list of why feeds are nice, what did I miss?
A bit of CSS that you can all pry from my cold, dead hands
```
a:active {
text-decoration-style: wavy;
}
```
```
a:active {
text-decoration-style: wavy;
}
```
October 13, 2025 at 11:15 PM
A bit of CSS that you can all pry from my cold, dead hands
```
a:active {
text-decoration-style: wavy;
}
```
```
a:active {
text-decoration-style: wavy;
}
```
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You can just make things on the web collaborative by adding a single HTML attribute...
October 5, 2025 at 11:53 PM
You can just make things on the web collaborative by adding a single HTML attribute...
