Mandy
@mandymichael.bsky.social
Lead Software Engineer, Frontend Dev, Speaker, Eng Manager (she/her) | GDE Web Tech, Microsoft Regional Director (MVP program) | http://instagram.com/adognamedjello
I was scrolling through linkedin (I don’t know why) and mos of the posts were very clearly AI generated. If that wasn’t bad enough most of the comments were aswell. This is so dumb. It’s just AI talking to AI about AI? I don’t want to know what AI thinks about itself. This is absurd. I hate it.
I’ve started writing down some of my thoughts about Frontend & AI. I’m not an expert, but where I’ve landed for now is that Design Systems are no longer optional. They are critical, and having dedicated people focused on them is more important than ever. mandy.dev/posts/design...
Design Systems Are No Longer Optional
Frontend notes, type experiments, and web things by Mandy Michael
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Some holiday text effects. There are definitely better ways to do these now but use it for inspiration codepen.io/collection/X...
I’ve been seeing a lot of AI talks and articles lately - I have no idea what’s going on but it has got me wondering about Performance and accessibility and I only have more questions. “People deserved a better web. Will AI be the one who gets it?” medium.com/@mandy.micha...
People deserved a better web. Will AI be the one who gets it?
Like many people in the web industry I’ve been keeping an eye on the “state of AI” and what it means for my job, and my day to day life. To…
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Today I learned about “slopsquatting”. What a word. @webdirections.org #code2025 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slopsqu...
@elly.lol immediately after the talk I realised the answer to your question! You can use size adjust in font face to adjust roboto. There is no reason you can let size adjust multiple fallback options to match your first choice font
Either A.I. is an essential part of the job, in which case it's reasonable for candidates to use it and reasonable for employers to assess the skill of candidates at using it, or it's not.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · last yr.Goldman Sachs, Amazon, and Anthropic all discourage candidates from using ai during the hiring process 🤷🏿♂️
Whenever I see someone give a talk about CSS I always get reminded how awesome it is! It’s always getting better and solving problems in simple ways! So underrated for what it does!! (Great talk by @5t3ph.bsky.social about Modern CSS at @webdirections.org )
Caught a great talk by @ghuntley.com at Code Leaders @webdirections.org He talked about the future belongs to people who can understand and work with AI. If you're not picking up these tools, you're gonna get left behind.
In Melbourne for @webdirections.org Code and Code Leaders! 👋✨
Why is the new pope being elected at a Figma event? 🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/21894
Nice to see features supporting the use of CSS Grid being implemented into Figma. #config2025 Hope to see more people using CSS Grid in the future as a result!
Visiting SF for Config! Looking forward to all the sessions! #Config2025
Can someone move Buy Nothing groups off Facebook so I don’t have to use it anymore please!?
I was scrolling through TikTok and came across a fashion video - long story short TIL that people don’t know what wingdings looks like and that there are multiple versions. Then I wondered if that’s normal and I’m the weird one?
I created a starter pack for speakers at @webdirections.bsky.social Tis year go.bsky.app/M4kMv3g
Listening to Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.bsky.social present Let’s Rewild The Internet at Web Directions #webdirections @webdirections.bsky.social
Really excited to see @mariafarrell.bsky.social talk “We Need to Rewild the Internet” at @webdirections.bsky.social !
A collection of handy resources for understanding font performance on the web, by @mandymichael.bsky.social github.com/mandymichael... #WebPerf #Performance #Fonts
GitHub - mandymichael/font-performance-resources: A collection of handy resources for understanding font performance on the web
A collection of handy resources for understanding font performance on the web - mandymichael/font-performance-resources
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Great talk by Miriam at @webdirections.bsky.social on container queries! Learnt a lot I’m excited to play with them some more!
I always enjoy coming to @webdirections.bsky.social , the talks are great but i love catching up and seeing friends from all over Australia and the world and talking about fun web stuff. ❤️
I appreciate the matching shirt, shoes and slides that @philna.sh is rocking at @webdirections.bsky.social
🌠 So let’s say you want to use a modern CSS feature like container queries. According to caniuse, the feature is at 93% support. Is that good enough? How do we evaluate this number? I dig into this question in my brand-new just-published blog post, “A Framework for Evaluating Browser Support”. 🎉
A Framework for Evaluating Browser Support • Josh W. Comeau
Lots of exciting new features have been landing in CSS recently, and it can be tough trying to figure out if they’re safe to use or not. We might know that a feature is available for 92% of users, but...
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Do yourself a favor and check out @numb.comfortab.ly 's public block lists. Mute or block grifters and nazis before they even hit your feed. 💕
As of Chrome 131 you have more options to style `<details>` and `<summary>`. You can now use of the `display` property on these elements, and also use a `::details-content` pseudo-element to style the part that expands and collapses. developer.chrome.com/blog/styling...
Recovering from my sickness eating delicious Dutch and Belgium food. I think I was born in the wrong part of the world.
So many fantastic talks at @perfnow.bsky.social so thankful I was able to attend I learnt heaps and had quite a few surprise reunions with friends I haven’t seen in years ❤️
