Kevin Powell
@kevinpowell.co
Helping people fall in love with CSS 📺 https://YouTube.com/@kevinpowell ✉️ https://kevinpowell.co/newsletter
Just watched the video by @kevinpowell.co about AI impact on our jobs: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aW7... I feel like many of us might be having "AI burnout" - a new type of burnout that we in software industry didn't see before. The analogy of moving from hand-crafted to conveyor belts seems right.
We're all fed up
YouTube video by General Musings with Kevin Powell
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on the anthropic IPO stuff, I think this via @garbageday.email is pretty much spot on www.garbageday.email/p/they-want-...
For anyone who missed it: I have now set up membership tiers on Ko-fi! #KofiChallenge ko-fi.com/anatudor Because praise doesn't keep me afloat... but you can!
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After twelve years Irene Pereyra is back on the beyond tellerrand stage. I am very much looking forward to welcoming her. Hello Irene! beyondtellerrand.com/events/dusse...
Irene Pereyra: Speaker at beyond tellerrand in Düsseldorf 2027
Irene Pereyra works at the intersection of design and policy with the Danish think tank 21st Europe, developing speculative design Blueprints that explore how Europe can rethink policy, technology and...
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After careful consideration and a look at where the industry is spending it's funding we've decided to pivot #FFConf in a "new" direction. I present to you: ffconf.ai Please share with bots and humans alike.
FFConf.ai
The web conference, now with 100% less you. Agent-first, human-optional, ice cream not included in the Enterprise tier.
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About a week ago I was talking with someone about the WordPress drama that had been going on what felt like about a year ago, and we were wondering how things were going... Apparently it's just getting even wilder 😅 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylO0...
The most expensive 33 hours in WordPress history...
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This advent calendar is your chance to share your knowledge with a large audience. You have 5 more days to submit your ideas. First-time authors are welcome!
Manuel Matuzović @matuzo.at · 2w agoFriends, it's that time of the year: Once again, I'm asking you to help me create another amazing HTMHell Advent Calendar by writing about HTML. The CFP is open until October 3! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
I made a new PostCSS plugin for the new CSS `corner-shape: squircle`. It creates smooth corners like in iOS (and nature). The plugin adjusts `border-radius` for squircle geometry and can add `corner-shape` automatically. github.com/postcss/post...
Started working on my demo for Fronteers Dark Mode, this is built with CSS scroll-driven animations, no JS 💅 My talk will go into detail on where you can replace JS with CSS! Tickets are still available: fronteersconf.org This cool effect is inspired by @thomasaufresne.com → bennettandclive.com
px in CSS ≠ a pixel on a display. This is something that is obvious when you think about it at all, but many people seem to gloss over it. I was explaining it to someone and figured I'd be best to jot it down: vale.rocks/micros/20260...
A CSS Pixel Isn't a True Pixel - 28 Sept 2026 05:15 UTC
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Excited to see we'll eventually have responsive iframes. It's a one-liner in CSS with `frame-sizing: content-height;` but it does require a meta tag to opt-in from the embedded doc as well. Currenly only behind a flag in Chrome, but will be nice to have once it starts landing.
Responsive iframes in Chrome 154 | Blog | Chrome for Developers
Chrome 154 adds support for responsively-sized iframes, letting an iframe size itself based on the intrinsic size of its embedded document.
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Ever double-tapped a button on your phone and had the page zoom in? In this post over on @piccalil.li, @bell.bz looks at a simple CSS one-liner of `touch-action: manipulation` to prevent that, rather than messing with the viewport meta. piccalil.li/blog/stop-bu...
Stop buttons triggering zoom when they’re double tapped
It’s annoying when your browser zooms if a button is rapidly tapped. There’s actually a really simple fix and no, you don’t have to prevent all zooming with a meta tag!
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The time to ramp up your scroll-driven animations skills is **NOW** Go check scroll-driven-animations.style for and free 10-part video course created by yours truly, as well as a bunch of tools and demos.
Scroll-driven Animations
A bunch of demos and tools to show off Scroll-driven Animations
scroll-driven-animations.style
IntentToShip@intenttoship.dev · 4d agoGecko: Intent to Ship: Scroll-driven Animations
This conversation inspired me to write a bit more about polyfilling/fallbacks for progress(). If your breakpoints are in pixels, which they usually are, all you need is this! Not a nice as progress() but a lot better than I proposing in my previous article. Only 1 @property and 1 tan(atan2())
Selfishly excited about this so when I make videos using it, I can at least say it's newly available 😅
IntentToShip@intenttoship.dev · 4d agoGecko: Intent to Ship: Scroll-driven Animations
Gecko: Intent to Ship: Scroll-driven Animations
Gecko: Intent to Ship: Scroll-driven Animations
Gecko: Intent to Ship: Scroll-driven Animations
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A quick look at how the `lh` unit can make styling textareas a lot easier, and a quick look at field-sizing which makes something that was very hard, very easy 😊
CSS keeps getting better and better, but the problem with hearing about amazing new features is that we're stuck not being able to use them for a few years because of browser support. So, this week I looked at a bunch of well-supported CSS features that I still see people turn to JS for.
Use these CSS features instead of JavaScript
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⏰ Last call for Fronteers Dark Mode 2026! Ticket sales close tomorrow, Saturday at midnight, and there are just 13 seats left. So if you’ve been thinking about joining us in Dordrecht next Friday, this really is your last chance. 🌑✨ 🎟️ www.fronteersconf.org We’d love to see you there! ❤️
✨ SPEAKER HIGHLIGHT: BEN HONG (@bencodezen.io) ✨ In 2021, Ben took the stage at the global online Vuejs Amsterdam. Since then, he’s continued to shape the Vue ecosystem as a Core Team member, Nuxt Ambassador & educator. 🧡 Celebrating the people who’ve helped shape our community. 🙌 #Vuejs
At least in the circles I follow, there's been so much about educators leaving the space because of the various impacts of AI, but everyone is sick of the state of things. Push enough talent away, and bad things are going to happen. youtu.be/1aW7P3ZAUYw
We're all fed up
YouTube video by General Musings with Kevin Powell
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Today we're launching ai-policy.dev! A collaboration of me, @danielroe.dev and @matteogabriele.npmx.social - this provides a few human curated AI contribution policies you can choose from. Our hope is that this will help you better define your stance and what kind of contributions you accept 🙏
AI Contribution Policies
Ready-to-use AI contribution policies for open source projects.
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✍️ New Article: Detect when elements overlap with CSS Can CSS tell when two elements overlap? At first, I thought this was not possible, but it turned out it can be done with scroll-driven animations and anchor positioning. ishadeed.com/article/css-...
Detect when elements overlap with CSS
Detecting when two elements overlap using only CSS anchor positioning and scroll-driven animations.
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My colleague @atbrakhi.bsky.social wrote a nice, cleverly titled post based on a very short exchange we had on Instagram the other day... www.atbrakhi.dev/blog/browser...
Browsers Situationship: When Browsers Agree but the Spec Doesn’t | Atbrakhi's Blog
What came first: browsers or specifications? Why are specifications important? Why do we sometimes change a specification instead of browsers? What matters most: the specification or the user experien...
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A quick look at how the `lh` unit can make styling textareas a lot easier, and a quick look at field-sizing which makes something that was very hard, very easy 😊
Starting to play with progress() now that it's newly available and I can see how it can be more useful than clamp() in some situations, but man, my brain is having a hard time with it 😅
Today at 6 pm CEST I'm doing a live, one hour accessibility testing session. You send me links, I test them and comment what I see. Hosted by my friends at @smashingconf.com! smashingconf.com/online-works...
Live Accessibility Testing — Online Workshops
In this one-hour session, Manuel Matuzović will test the websites you provide for accessibility issues and show you quick first steps you can take to identify and assess them. You will learn how to us...
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