noted: reading more shin honkaku detective fiction dbushell.com/notes/2026-0...

Notes – 06:05 Sun 6 Sept 2026

Notes – 06:05 Sun 6 Sept 2026

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i live in fear that some math nerd is gonna reduce my CSS calc()s

blogged: Abattoirs of taste dbushell.com/2026/09/04/a... — I had this draft in the bin but I was feeling daring today and it's good Friday bait

Abattoirs of taste

The one where I get on my soap box

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Interop 2027! perhaps this time browser vendors can pick from the ever growing backlog of issues that were closed as "wont fix" 🙃

after reading The Tokyo Zodiac Murders by Sōji Shimada i think I'm a shin honkaku detective fiction enjoyer (but i worry I've started with the best)

blogged: Plagiarism ain’t cool bro :( dbushell.com/2026/09/04/p... what ya reckon, was my website copied? plagiarism or homage?

Plagiarism ain’t cool bro :(

The one where I discover someone tried to steal my vibe!

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noted: are there any web dev podcasts left? 🤔 dbushell.com/notes/2026-0...

Notes – 06:55 Thu 3 Sept 2026

Notes – 06:55 Thu 3 Sept 2026

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reading: Evaluating a Success Criterion adrianroselli.com/2026/09/eval...

Evaluating a Success Criterion

Sidney Paget illustration of Sherlock Holmes from Strand Magazine, December 1892, p.646, but I added papers from his March 1893 (p.281 of Strand Magazine) illustration and then two versions of the W3C...

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i want to be a coffee taster sip a new roast and then declare what nut, fruit, and sugar it tastes like and then everyone applauds like "wow, he's done it again" 👏 that's some Truman Show job if ever I saw one

men will do anything to avoid writing CSS like a normal person stylexjs.com/docs/learn what an absolute abomination

StyleX — The styling system for ambitious interfaces

The styling system that powers Meta.

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why does a handful of vibe-coded bash scripts to install Slack need a foundation 🤔 brennan.day/normalized-f...

Normalized Fascism in Open Source: $12 Million Given to DHH

Open source has become a safe harbor for far-right politics, from David Heinemeier Hansson's white-nationalist rhetoric and the Omarchy Foundation's $12 million in patron funding to so-called apolitic...

brennan.day

me taking care to get the month correct: 2028-09-01 - nailed it

I am back! with a blog post: "Fine, I’ll build my own text editor!" dbushell.com/2026/09/01/t...

Fine, I’ll build my own text editor!

The one where I build my own text editor (until I get bored).

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I am away, back 1st September 🫡 don't break the web while I'm gone

blogged: Ruminations on notifications dbushell.com/2026/08/20/r...

Ruminations on notifications

The one where I study UI’s worst feature.

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some of you have never won a round of slappers only license to kill in the complex and it shows

lol i mean, this is a lot software nowadays and it's massively concerning when you think about it... but also lol tipiirai.com/writing/bun-...

here's your monthly reminder that Git is not GitHub, you can walk away 🙃 www.githubstatus.com/incidents/zk...

Incident with GitHub.com

GitHub's Status Page - Incident with GitHub.com.

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Penpot please! I'm trying so hard to like you! it's just bug after bug 😔

me after one morning of damp and cold: can we go back to drought and despair?

Each time we have an influx of users from a particular region over at @stoat.chat, I notice small interesting messaging behaviours. I've documented interesting ones I've noticed across Stoat as a whole: vale.rocks/micros/20260... #Language #Linguistics

Regional and Cultural Tells In Digital Textual Communication - 18 Aug 2026 04:55 UTC

vale.rocks

ooooh new web tool! will make a fine addition to my collection rknight.me/blog/favicon...

Favicons to Go

I made a favicon generator site to work exactly how I want without being riddled with ads

rknight.me

today's lesson: do not paste random `git clean` commands when you have important untracked files

Mando vs Grogu was more entertaining than i was led to believe, but Jeremy Allen White sounded like a stand in they forgot to dub over

no thanks bro, evidently my SEO game is already killing it 🔥

I appreciate the AI discosure but I'd have preferred it a little higher up in the blog post

solar eclipse was a let down it's like the sun set and then it never came back because it had also set

This is essentially the entire AI bubble: "If it were opt-in, nobody would opt-in." The tech industry is deeply unhealthy when this is accepted as normal, and clearly these people feel no shame about it. Let's push back and show them the cost of being this anti-consumer.

TQ 🌿@witchytq.bsky.social · 4w ago

they know we don't want it. they do not care.

this was the blog post I was thinking of: front-end.social/@chriskirkni... (not sure if it's what I actually need) bsky.app/profile/dbus...

David Bushell 🪿@dbushell.com · 4w ago

anyone got a link to this responsive CSS technique? I saw it somewhere... instead of two stacked elements snapping side by side at a specific breakpoint, the top element gradually moves into place along an arc (overlapping the corner is fine) does that make sense?

anyone got a link to this responsive CSS technique? I saw it somewhere... instead of two stacked elements snapping side by side at a specific breakpoint, the top element gradually moves into place along an arc (overlapping the corner is fine) does that make sense?