Ash

@ash.pink

🌱 The Web and Stuff - Software Engineer at @sanity.io ✨ ui 💕 server 🌈 html 🦦 css ⚛️ react 🔌 ts 🌍 Chichester, UK 📠 https://ash.gd

I always struggle with finding the right icon, so I built semantic search into our icon picker @sanity.io ✨ No more time spent trying to remember if the icon is called `create-user` or `add-person` 😮‍💨

With style queries now in all browsers, here's my take on the best way to do dynamic color theming with modern CSS: - Custom properties - light-dark() - contrast-color() - Style queries - Relative color syntax (^Features available in all modern browsers) Read about it ⬇️⬇️ una.im/modern-css-t...

una.im | Modern CSS theming with light-dark(), contrast-color(), and style queries

Combine three new CSS features to build fully adaptive themed components.

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The WebDX Community Group released a new CLI to query pretty much everything about a web feature: - browser support - baseline info - specs / docs - bugs / WPT tests - interop status - ... All in one query. 👏 www.npmjs.com/package/web-... If you live in the terminal it's def worth checking out.

Today, we launched Effect v4 beta 🚀 Rewritten runtime. Smaller bundles. Unified package system. Performance: v4 is faster and lighter than v3 across the board. Rewritten runtime: lower memory overhead, faster execution, simpler internals. Full announcement: effect.website/blog/release...

GitHub - Effect-TS/effect-smol: Core libraries and experimental work for Effect v4

Core libraries and experimental work for Effect v4 - Effect-TS/effect-smol

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The real singularity is just google using slop to fake a browser feature that actually exists in multiple browsers. Who made the demo? No one. Who needs it? No one. Devrel no longer requires developers on either end. Capital has become sentient and self-sustaining. We did it! 🎉

To rely on LLMs as a source of knowledge in a constantly changing, unpredictable, and chaotic world is nuts to me. To reduce discovery of knowledge to what was scraped at some past snapshot in time, and assume it’s an accurate portrayal of the world right now? Seems like a huge loss.

The British government admits it is now monitoring VPNs use by UK residents. Regulator Ofcom has contracted with an AI-powered surveillance service to detect the number of citizens using VPNs to evade the Online Safety Act. The UK tech minister has said a VPN ban is on the table.

Exclusive: Ofcom is monitoring VPNs following Online Safety Act. Here's how

Ignoring VPNs risks creating ineffective laws, but tracking them threatens people's privacy

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