Please watch this.

Jo Franchetti @thisisjofrank.bsky.social · 5d ago

I gave a talk at EMF titled "Men in Tech #YesAllMen", in which I told my experience of being a woman in tech. I was afraid to publish it in case it affected my current or future employment. With all the current news I would like to add my 2¢. So here is the recording: youtu.be/WXL6K1lhvt0?...

The first Public Working Draft of Animation Triggers has just been published, introducing mechanisms that affect animation playback based on DOM events from user interaction or on entering or exiting ranges on animation timelines. www.w3.org/TR/2026/WD-a... developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...

After the CSSWG resolved to explore mesh gradients, the chair also made me an editor of the CSS Images 5 spec. 😱 FYI, I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing, but thankfully I have help from some very clever people. Sadly I will have to spec what happens if someone makes a mesh gradient like this:

Yesterday, the CSSWG accepted my proposal for mesh gradients and diffusion curve gradients! Want to make gradients like this natively in CSS? Well, we've started the work on it. It's coming! Here's the Explainer: github.com/w3c/csswg-dr...

Finally looked into CSS scroll triggered animations and wrote down what I learned! Special thanks to Bramus for answering some of my questions cydstumpel.nl/css-scroll-t...

CSS scroll-triggered animations are here, and I completely missed them | Blog Cyd Stumpel

Did you know scroll-triggered animations are available in Chromium browsers? Because I sure didn’t, until Bramus van Damme pointed it out under Kevin Powells post. After Kevin Powell shared one of his...

cydstumpel.nl

These were all brilliant speakers! Thank you again to @alexolder.com and @lurkmoophy.bsky.social for another wonderful, organic, homemade, wholesome conference.

WDC@webdevconf.com · 2w ago

A huge thank you to everyone who attended WDC2026! We can’t wait to see you all again next year! Thanks to our awesome speakers: @paavandesign.com @duncanpetrie.com @amyhupe.bsky.social @joshtumath.uk @hidde.blog @cjforms.bsky.social @rivea0.bsky.social @jesslynnrose.bsky.social

The @webdevconf.com somehow finished early so we had an extra bonus talk from @lurkmoophy.bsky.social The intro alone took about 10 mins as Luke told us the various things that they have tried to do. 😂 But that was sort of the point. They talked about the effect of doing too many things at once.

Our last talk was by @paavandesign.com who talked about how to make our designs make us feel calmer. Even just a notifications settings page on your OS can feel quite intense. So how do we do 'calm design'? A feeling that it's handled and you can just relax?

The next talk was by @jesslynnrose.bsky.social and @rivea0.bsky.social as a dynamic duo. Talking about how the AI hype that is everywhere right now. And how that is affecting our skills. It felt like necessary therapy for all of us!

We've had @amyhupe.bsky.social who has worked for us at the BBC!! We loved it when she was with us. She was talking about whether we have a listening deficit in the UK. How well are we listening to one another? And how is it affecting us?

We've had a lovely lightning talk from @cjforms.bsky.social about when we lie on forms. And often it's because we need to muddle through the form and we're not given valid options. Or we want to protect our privacy.

I'm the next talk, @hidde.blog told us about how Ada Lovelace was the original dev rel. Dreaming up ways to use Charles Babbage's machines with algorithms. The history of computer science is so interesting. But that doesn't mean it can replace creativity. @webdevconf.com

We had Duncan Petrie talking about some incredible and creative ways of using requestAnimationFrame which involved Fabergé eggs and a springy chicken crossing the road and very well animated spiders! @webdevconf.com

Hooray! I'm here at Bristol for @webdevconf.com! Looks like I'm speaking first tomorrow. Very excited! If you're here, come say hi!! I'd love to meet you.

I like that @keithamus.social keeps trying to carry old things across the finish line. It's such a shame that so many thing fizzle after so much work and good ideas. The web needs more (paid) people doing this.

“Let me make it clear: without people at the top of their game sharing their experience and knowledge—regardless of whatever ‘game changing’ technology is in place—we are pulling up the ladders and committing our industry to stagnation and death.” bell.bz/youll-miss-p...

You’ll miss publishers when they’re gone

Ever since Piccalilli started to get traction, I’ve always seen CSS-Tricks, Smashing Magazine and A List Apart (among others) as peers. We all help each other behind the scenes and importantly, back…

bell.bz

If you work on websites for ordinary web browsers, you are truly blessed. Working at the BBC, I am always shocked by how bad the built-in web browsers are on smart TVs. They fork browsers and rip out lots of web platform features. Apparently one made Math.random() return the same number! 😂

I'll be speaking at Web Dev Conf next month, talking about the work we've been doing at the CSS Working Group to make your website more accessible for users who want larger text! Come along! It's a lovely conference with lovely people in a lovely city - and it's not expensive!!

WDC@webdevconf.com · last mo.

We're just 1 month away from WDC2026! Tickets are just £99! This year we have an awesome lineup of speakers @paavandesign.com @duncanpetrie.com @amyhupe.bsky.social @joshtumath.uk @hidde.blog @cjforms.bsky.social @rivea0.bsky.social @jesslynnrose.bsky.social webdevconf.com

The plot thickens.

Lea Verou, PhD@lea.verou.me · 2mo ago

🔥 New blog post! My post on two-state dark mode toggles sparked a lot of discussion around what the optimal dark mode toggle design is. But should you have a (persistent) dark mode toggle *at all*? I have since been convinced that for most websites, the answer is NO. lea.verou.me/blog/2026/da...

We've made it to September which means WDC2026 is just over a month away! Tickets are just £99! With awesome speakers: @joshtumath.uk @amyhupe.bsky.social @paavandesign.com @cjforms.bsky.social @duncanpetrie.com @hidde.blog In the great city of Bristol! webdevconf.com

WDC2026 - October 9 2026, Watershed, Bristol, UK | Web Developers Conference

WDC is the web design and development conference based in Bristol, taking place in autumn each year.

webdevconf.com

Call me naïve, but I think the Web should be making it *easier* to create accessible UIs than inaccessible ones. Instead, once you go beyond the basic primitives, the platform is a minefield: the obvious thing to do is rarely accessible, and devs must jump through hoops to make it so.

So @nerdy.dev and @matuzo.at have got me addicted to Angine de Poitrine. I am officially a fan. open.spotify.com/track/19MAOZ...

Utzp

Angine de Poitrine · Vol.II · Song · 2026

open.spotify.com

Does anyone ever feel limited by the visible light spectrum? All we can use in our designs is various shades of red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, purple, magenta and grey. We could really do with another one for our design system.

OK, I'm persuaded. For a toggle in the header or footer, a toggle between 'system colour scheme' ↔️ 'the opposite' is better than system ↔️ light ↔️ dark. Lea is a master of user experience.

Lea Verou, PhD@lea.verou.me · 3mo ago

🔥 New blog post: Dark mode toggles that expose three states (system, light, dark) seem like the best option. Until you think about user goals, that is. Before rushing to disagree, hear me out. lea.verou.me/blog/2026/da... PS: As a data point, @jakearchibald.com was converted after reading this 😅

Come along! This is a fantastic conference!

WDC@webdevconf.com · 3mo ago

Summer is here which means WDC2026 is just around the corner! Tickets are just £99! We have an awesome lineup of speakers including @hidde.blog , @amyhupe.bsky.social , @cjforms.bsky.social @joshtumath.uk, @paavandesign.com and @duncanpetrie.com (more TBC!) webdevconf.com

I've just been in my first mosh pit. It was for the Oxford symphony orchestra. 😂

I'm at my first music festival. Are you proud of me, @letorey.co.uk ?

Count Binface takes down Newsnight. 😂 (And raises good points about the need for more funding for investigative journalism. @backthebbc.bsky.social )

The TV Room@thetvroom.com · 3mo ago

🟦 CLEAN FEED | @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social tries to unmask @countbinface.bsky.social...

Last month, I was speaking at @cssday.nl on the new <meta name=text-scale> tag. I've just published a blog post with my slides and summary. www.joshtumath.uk/posts/2026-0...

I'm so grateful to Bramus for making this. It's awesome. Wouldn't you love to make these kinds of gradients natively in CSS - with the browser's graphics engine giving you a native hardware-accelerated render?

Bramus@bram.us · 4mo ago

At the CSSWG there is an issue about 2D Mesh gradients. The consensus was that whatever we do, it should be PDF compatible. With the help of Gemini I found my way to “Coons Patches” as the underlying mechanism. Using AIStudio, I then generated this editor: genuine-waterfall-crane.codepen.app