I was filling out a new patient form and accidentally submitted it with only this in the “Please list current stressors in your life” input Meant to add more but you know what I think this captures it well enough
Elaina
@elaina.bsky.social
Designer, gif-enthusiast. Currently @thoughtbot.com. https://www.elainanatario.com. Photos: https://www.instagram.com/elainanatario
A rather detailed post that links out to some really interesting studies too. joshcollinsworth.com/blog/product...
LLMs and performative productivity
It's worth asking whether LLMs are actually making us more productive at all—and if so, what we might be sacrificing in return.
joshcollinsworth.com
I made a website that lets you cut out old magazines from the internet archive (or any PDFs you own) and make collage art out of them: ✂️ clipart.studio
A pair of tabletop game designers have launched an open-source colour identification system called ColorSym, giving publishers a free tool for colourblind-friendly board game creation: boardgamewire.com/index.php/20...
Hi, friends. The last 6 years have been a blast, but I just don't like being on The Internet anymore. I'm leaving DevRel, and I wrote a little bit about why. Look after yourselves, and each other. Love, Salma
Goodbye, forever, probably.
I’m leaving developer relations and developer education. Rather than disappear completely unannounced, I wanted to tell you why.
whitep4nth3r.com
"Pretty much everybody who’s from the 21st century, or anybody who’s a creative person, is pretty furious about AI. Anyone who’s not oblivious to culture is aware of that." Couldn't put it better myself tbh
How we’ll fight the platform war against Big AI - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
anildash.com
Working on my wife's portfolio website and solved a design problem by using CSS round(). This is a less used yet very useful function! Here is my article about it, and will update it soon with a new use case: ishadeed.com/article/css-...
Better fluid sizing with round()
Using the round() function to get a more predictable fluid sizing.
ishadeed.com
YES, Dark Mode Toggles _should_ be a browser feature. I wrote about this before: brm.us/dark-mode-ov... Find the link to the Chrome Bug in the post, and hit the star next to it to "upvote" the bug. (I even have a prototype extension to provide this for you: brm.us/chrome-dark-...) #cssday
Dark Mode Toggles Should be a Browser Feature
When implementing Dark Mode and ways to toggle it, developers currently need to duplicate code and roll their own toggle implementation. What if, instead, browsers would take care of all that?
brm.us
don't ever say "spicy autocomplete" in my presence the debate of whether or not this technology works detracts from the implications of its widespread corporate deployment, regardless of efficacy.
It doesn’t matter if it works | Henry From Online
The personal site & portfolio of creative web developer Henry from Online
henry.codes
I read the whole encyclical on a plane then I read @laurenshof.online on the encyclical's implications for decentralized networks on a different plane and Laurens is of course extremely good, and between planes the Hallgrimskirkja did me in. A truly odd time. connectedplaces.online/reports/fr16...
FR#164 – The Pope on Defederation
This week, the Catholic Church wrote one of the better diagnoses of why decentralised social networks keep struggling.
connectedplaces.online
Years ago I wrote "Designing with Ketchup." Now I'm back with the sequel: Designing with Mustard. This article talks about what design is, the purpose of prototyping, "use AI or else" rhetoric, and refusing to output slop. annaecook.com/writing/2026...
Designing with mustard — Anna E. Cook
Designing with mustard is the future of design. I used to think it was ketchup, but I was wrong. If you're not currently designing with mustard, you should get out of design and tech. The future of de...
annaecook.com
Two of the engineers who built Pi, the coding agent at the heart of OpenClaw, are sounding the alarm on the flood of sloppy AI-generated code. “You see infrastructure crumbling, and software is now much, much more buggy than before” - Mario Zechner, Pi developer
The AI Superstars Who Say a ‘Vibe Slop’ Crisis Is Coming
A pair who helped launch the agentic-AI craze worry about what their creations are pumping out.
wsj.com
Whoa, hey, whoa. `contrast-color()` is baseline now?!? caniuse.com?search=contr...
"contrast-color" | Can I use... Support tables for HTML5, CSS3, etc
caniuse.com
The culture around genAI reveals something dark. There's /r/SlopcoreCirclejerk, the gender gap in AI enthusiasm, the history of the Luddites, and why pro-genAI culture is rooted in contempt for artistic labour and introspection. blog.brennanbrown.ca/r-slopcoreci...
/r/SlopcoreCirclejerk and the Men who are pro-AI
With the AI bubble finally deflating, what can we learn from the gender gap in genAI enthusiasm?
blog.brennanbrown.ca
How AI creates both opportunities and existential risks for minority languages, and what we can do to protect them.
AI and minority languages
How AI creates both opportunities and existential risks for minority languages, and what we can do to protect them.
thoughtbot.com
also added a note to this post at the end about how the critiques I've read of how Tailwind impacts the industry made me want to stop using it bsky.app/profile/b0rk...
Julia Evans@b0rk.jvns.ca · 3mo agomoving away from tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS jvns.ca/blog/2026/05...
moving away from tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS jvns.ca/blog/2026/05...
Claude admits bias against accessibility and look at that! It’s the same bias that a whole lot of humans have against accessibility. “Claude treats accessibility fixes as optional trade-offs rather than requirements, even when the project's own rules say otherwise.” github.com/anthropics/c...
[BUG] LLM biased against accessible code · Issue #56079 · anthropics/claude-code
Preflight Checklist I have searched existing issues and this hasn't been reported yet This is a single bug report (please file separate reports for different bugs) I am using the latest version of ...
github.com
I've been working on this article for past month in my free time. dedicated to my hometown "Surat" diamond.jaydip.me
How Diamonds are Made?
Journey of a very old rock.
diamond.jaydip.me
Inspired by @anatudor.bsky.social's fantastic CSS tip about CSS shorthand, I wrote up a post about how and when I use short and longhand (spoiler: it's often the latter). thoughtbot.com/blog/when-to...
When to use (and not use) CSS shorthand properties
A case for verbosity in CSS properties.
thoughtbot.com
It is probably not the smartest thing to channel your anxiety into the place where you curate your professional representation online, but also here's a future I would really like to avoid. ericwbailey.website/published/ev...
Evolved antennas, LLM-generated code, and a potential antifuture
Being open and transparent is a radical strength, not a weakness.
ericwbailey.website
It's often uneasy for me to share my experiences as a woman in tech, but this job market has me worried for everyone stuck somewhere harmful. I admire everyone who takes on "women in tech" speaking gigs but I am also angry for them and us. ohhelloana.blog/woman-in-tec...
It's 2026 and women are still asked to teach others to think a little bit and not be a prick
A while back I went to a tech meet-up and one of the talks was about being a woman in tech and I am finally ready to put into words why I sat through it so uncomfortably.
ohhelloana.blog
Did you know there are less than 200 functional analog photobooths worldwide? Theres one near my hometown that's been around for 30 years (which I frequented as a teen). On a date night, my husband and I decided to hit up that same booth. A physical memory of an average night seems novel these days
For years, I was the un-official headshot photographer at @thoughtbot.com's Boston office. I now do them at our annual summits (and for friends). What I love most, though, is seeing those headshots still float around the web in avatars. A little moment of delight and warmth in my social feeds.
Can't agree more with this take by Andy Robinson "There's a feeling to writing CSS well. To building a component from scratch and having it sing [...] It's the same feeling the baker gets when the crust comes out perfect.." dev.to/freshcaffein...
I Don't Like Tailwind. Sorry Not Sorry
An opinionated defence of hand-crafted CSS in a utility-class world There. I said it. Call me a...
dev.to
It’s just a radio button. We really don’t need two component libraries, ARIA role remapping, and client-side JS to do what HTML already does.
The Incredible Overcomplexity of the Shadcn Radio Button
Radio buttons are built into web browsers. Why are we using a UI library that wraps another UI library that rebuilds radio buttons from scratch? Why does rendering a radio button require multiple dependencies...
paulmakeswebsites.com
This month, I've published two articles and a workbook as a follow-up from my design keynote at axe-con 2026. TLDR: AI doesn't "fix" accessibility. It reproduces the structural debt it was trained on, at the speed and scale that AI-assisted coding now operates. annaecook.com/writing/2026... 1/2
AI Doesn't Fix Accessible Systems. It Depends on Them. — Anna E. Cook
Why AI depends on the foundation accessible design systems build — and how "AI will fix accessibility" is producing the opposite outcome at industry scale.
annaecook.com