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Eric Portis

@ericportis.com

Web developer; used-to-be-a-printmaker; Let’s Share What We Know

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c0nc0rdance@c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 2w ago

Twice a year, Hawai'i experiences a strange moment where the sun appears to be exactly overhead & anything that is completely vertical casts no shadow. Let's learn about Lāhainā Noon, subsolar points & 'Kau ka lā i ka lolo', meaning "the sun rests on the brains."

From a Reddit forum, a photo of a can of coconut milk with a blue label, papyrus text and a flip-top, on a sidewalk. It seems to hover because there's no visible shadow. The pavement is sort of unevenly colored, with bright spots, and the grass along it is green and lush.
Eric Portis@ericportis.com · last mo.

The features @miriam.codes has helped bring to CSS (Cascade Layers, Container Queries, Scope) have been rooted in a deep understanding of CSS’ _ethos_. They try to close the gap between how CSS could be used, and how it commonly is. If you want to close that gap in your own work (I do!), sign up

Mia [data-css=poetic]@miriam.codes · last mo.

Poetic CSS course is live for early-bird registration! Only available during July. Thanks for your patience, we had some last-minute fixes. #css courses.oddbird.net/poetic-css/

Eric Portis@ericportis.com · last mo.

Micropayments— [crowd goes wild] —using stablecoins— [crowd boooooos] —for but also gating AI agents [crowd is at first confused, and then starts arguing amongst themselves] blog.cloudflare.com/monetization...

Announcing the Monetization Gateway: charge for any resource behind Cloudflare via x402

We're opening the waitlist for our Monetization Gateway, which will allow you to charge for any web page, dataset, API, or MCP tool behind Cloudflare. The charges will settle in stablecoins over the x...

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Eric Portis@ericportis.com · last mo.

briarpress.org is an amazing community and practicing a craft is fulfilling. And: watching the last generation of professional printers age, keep up the hobby in their garages, enthusiastically answer a dwindling number of questions on internet forums, and pass away, has been: sad. We lost so much.

Briar Press | A letterpress community

Briar Press: A letterpress community. Museum of Printing Presses, Letterpress Classifieds, Printer's Yellow Pages, and vintage postscript artwork for download.

briarpress.org

Sarah Drasner@sarahedo.bsky.social · last mo.

Maybe for creative code and personal projects, I could see people showing their skills- just like advanced lithography made printmaking for newspapers obsolete but then a small amount of presses were brought back for artistic purposes

Eric Portis@ericportis.com · 2mo ago

So we're all made of stardust AND we only exist because several of our ancestors caught the worst colds of their lives and ended up with superpowers. Cool.

Ricard Solé@ricardsole.bsky.social · 2mo ago

How did complex cells emerge? In this groundbreaking paper, @tonigabaldon.bsky.social & co show that eukaryotes arose through multiple waves of ancient genetic exchange involving diverse bacteria (& giant viruses!) revealing a far more complex origin than we imagined. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Adrian Roselli, pH0@aardrian.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“heading‍offset is Not the Document Outline Algorithm” adrianroselli.com/2026/06/head... Hi, just me heading off some bad advice I’m starting to see in developer venues. #HTML #accessibility #a11y

heading‍offset is Not the Document Outline Algorithm

Hi, just me heading off some bad advice I’m starting to see in developer venues. Background The proposed Document Outline Algorithm, where headings would automatically reset themselves to the appropri...

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Eric Portis@ericportis.com · 3mo ago

RIP little buddy. I replaced your battery and lightning port last year, but yesterday, I set you on a Qi charger and you got *very* hot and now the 1x camera won't focus. It was a good run. It was a _great_ run.

Eric Portis@ericportis.com · last yr.

Apparently one of the pins inside of my iPhone 12 Mini’s Lightning port broke, and I can only charge it via MagSafe, now. Hold strong, tiny friend. Almost five years together! Only [checks life expectancy] 36 left! You can do it!

Eric Portis@ericportis.com · 3mo ago

One of life's great joys is to witness someone–anyone–doing something–anything!–with skill and (I'll say it) love. Basically, this is gonna be like Jiro Dreams of Sushi, if Jiro was funny, had a Boston accent, played Megaman, and every time he miffed it money went to a great cause.

Mat “Wilto” Marquis@wil.to · 3mo ago

This Saturday at 12:00pm Eastern, join the fight for everlasting peace. I’m playing through ONE-HIT KO Mega Man 2, and donating $10 to @translifeline.org for every time I get so much as grazed by a hitbox — going up $1 for every $100 you all donate (up to $20 per). tiltify.com/@wilto/megam...

Barry Pollard@tunetheweb.com · 3mo ago

So here's an interesting little thing or 2 @nomster.bsky.social , @foolip.org , and myself have been cooking up—along with lots of help from others!: developer.chrome.com/blog/declara... This could lead to some VERY interesting changes in how we write web pages. Would love to hear your thoughts!

Declarative partial updates  |  Blog  |  Chrome for Developers

Learn about new out-of-order streaming capabilities and the renewed HTML insertion and streaming methods available for testing from Chrome 148

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