I cannot believe people who use AI to create pictures of cats. Cats are the heart of the web. There's no need to create cats with AI, it's a lack of respect to real cats and the World Wide Web.

Alice Averlong 🏳️‍⚧️@alice.averlong.com · 2w ago

the AI industry is full of people who would automate away playing with a kitten

Oldie but goodie: Don't listen to users (watch them!). I can’t count the number of times I had to explain this to well-meaning engineers, who thought the way to good UX was asking users what they prefer. www.nngroup.com/articles/fir...

First Rule of Usability? Don't Listen to Users

For good UX, watch what users do, not what they say. Self-reported claims and speculations about future behavior are unreliable. Users do not know what they want.

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My PR reviewer didn't approve my PR.

Thank you everyone who was here today at @smashingmagazine.com conference in Freiburg! You can find the slides from my talk "Fun with flags" over here: speakerdeck.com/evaferreira/...

Fun with Flags - i18n in the AI era

Smashing conference Freiburg 2026

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"i18n is not just translating strings, it's showing that we care." 💜 @evaferreira92.bsky.social at #smashingconf

Interop 2027 is open for proposals! Is there a well-tested feature that you'd like to see cross-browser focus on next year? Submit it here: github.com/web-platform...

interop/proposal_guide.md at main · web-platform-tests/interop

web-platform-tests Interop project. Contribute to web-platform-tests/interop development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Last couple of days to get your tickets for SmashingConf Freiburg 🎟️ I'll be talking about i18n in this AI era (why are translations so baaaaaad?!?!?!) and also running an accessibility workshop on the 10th Hope you see you there!! smashingconf.com/freiburg-2026

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'Wise people I’ve met seem unhurried. I don’t think it’s because they’re slow thinkers or actors. I think it’s because they’ve learned that important things take the time they take, no amount of urgency changes that.' Wait it out. blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/speed-n...

There's a thing happening when ok-ish quality is now becoming acceptable when building software and it breaks my heart. Our quality bar used to be so much higher. AI should help us build better, not worse. /Rant

Guess who's joining Smashing Conf this September?!?! 🙋‍♀️ If you ever attended a Smashing Conference, you know that no conf is like Smashing 💖 This year I will be speaking about i18n and running a workshop on accessibility. Checkout the full lineup at smashingconf.com/freiburg-202...

SmashingConf Online — Freiburg in Germany, September 7–10.

"Follow all talks live — recorded professionally with good audio and video, and live transcription. Join our hybrid event with online networking, meeting new people & fun side activities."

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Niiiiiiiccceeee And this is why humans still need to code: The beauty of it.

CSS-Tricks*@css-tricks.bsky.social · 7mo ago

A crap-ton of shape() inspiration from none other than @css-only.dev to help burn your Thursday. css-tricks.com/complex-css-...

Remember how I went to see My Chemical Romance a few weeks ago? Turns out they share encrypted messages with their fans. I made a video on how to decipher those 🔓 (Spanish only for now) youtu.be/INf6lT-E9Mw

Desencriptando a My Chemical Romance - Parte 1

YouTube video by Maria Evangelina Ferreira

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Happy to say that in the middle of this madness of a world I'll go out tonight to see My Chemical Romance like it were 2006. Pretend there's no AI, no React, no such right wing3d governmentsss, no CSS gradients nor border radii

This week I'll be speaking about the History of Cryptography in Montevideo for the OWASP Uruguay chapter! There's still some tickets left 🧳 owasp-uruguay.github.io

As someone who reads and speaks English well but has most of her tech devices set up in Spanish... Lately, the web has been extremely annoying. Everything gets translated to Spanish by default, I'm constantly clicking "See English version" EVERYWHERE. Just me? 🥲

The State of HTML 2025 survey is now live! Big thanks to @lea.verou.me for taking the lead on selecting this year's questions and features, as well as suggesting quite a few improvements!

State of HTML 2025

Take the State of HTML survey

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I don't post often but I turned 33 yesterday, life is good

It seems I'm not following enough latines here since no one on my feed is talking about The Eternaut. You go watch The Eternaut. I'll go and find my Latino folk in the 🦋

Why I launched a new, different kind of survey: dev.to/sachagreif/l... (take the survey here! survey.devographics.com/en-US/survey... )

Launching the first ever State of Devs survey

One more survey… but this one is different!

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As someone who takes notes on two languages (my mind works in Spanglish, of course), it seems to me that Google Docs has greatly improved on how it handles that lately. It used to be an uncomfortable experience of getting all your screen screaming red of non real grammatical errors.

Does it bug you that Flexbox always ends up with a very few items in the last row, stretched out extra wide? What if the layout was balanced kinda like `text-wrap`, using: item-pack: balance; Learn more about this idea, and much more: webkit.org/blog/16587/i...

Landed in Salt Lake City for #epicwebconf ✨️🎉

I'm excited to have @evaferreira92.bsky.social speaking at #EpicWebConf in March! She’ll be sharing key insights on why design systems fail and how to make them bulletproof. Get to know her from her Epic Speaker interview on her profile page! www.epicweb.dev/conf/2025/ev...

I'm excited to hear about design systems and building excellent and accessible UIs with @evaferreira92.bsky.social at #EpicWebConf! Look forward to this chat coming soon. www.epicweb.dev/conf

I'm happy to say I'm part of this amazing lineup! Hope to see you all in March 🚀

Kent C. Dodds 🌌@kentcdodds.com · 2y ago

I'm so excited to announce the EPIC speakers for Epic Web Conf 2025! Come meet these and other fabulous web professionals! 🚀 www.epicweb.dev/conf

It's this time of the year again when I say: If only Goodreads and AO3 were friends I would have reached my yearly reading challenge. Fanfiction is my comfort food on a bad day.

I've just sent a talk proposal! And you should too 👀

JSHeroes@jsheroes.io · 2y ago

⏰ LAST CALL ⏰ JSHeroes 2025 CFP closes with the turn of the year! Submit your proposals for the 7th edition of #JSHeroes jsheroes.io/speak

There was no need to attack me like this on a Friday morning.

The #EpicWebConf CFP closes in a few days! sessionize.com/epicweb-conf... Submit your talk ideas please! Let's make this conference truly EPIC!