Connections Puzzle #669 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 My first perfect game! 🤘
Joe Maffei
@joemaffei.dev
web/mobile developer • mentor • musician • tinkerer • foodie AFS global citizen
I just sponsored @heyandras.dev. Go Sponsor your open source dependencies! You can join me at: github.com/sponsors/coo...
Sponsor @coollabsio on GitHub Sponsors
Support our open-source work and the idea of coolLabs.
github.com
🎉 OMG OMG OMG Chrome is shipping CSS attr() for every property!!! 🎉 I’ve been asking for this for over a decade!! w00t!!! 🤩 developer.chrome.com/blog/advance...
CSS attr() gets an upgrade | Blog | Chrome for Developers
You can now use attr() with any CSS property–including custom properties–and it can parse values into data types other than strings.
developer.chrome.com
Hey. Don’t wrap a `<figure>` in a link. Definitely don’t use a `title` on that link. adrianroselli.com/2025/01/dont... #html #accessibility #a11y
Don’t Wrap Figure in a Link
In my post Brief Note on Figure and Figcaption Support I demonstrate how, when encountering a figure with a screen reader, you won’t hear everything announced at once: No screen reader combo treats th...
adrianroselli.com
How AI-assisted coding will change software engineering: hard truths. About how these AI tools really work and how they could be the start of the return of software, as a craft. Based on a guest post by @addyosmani.bsky.social. Read it here: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/how-ai-wil...
Net Neutrality Rules Struck Down by Appeals Court www.nytimes.com/2025/01/02/t...
FCC’s Net Neutrality Rules Struck Down by Federal Appeals Court (Gift Article)
After nearly two decades of fighting, the battle over regulations that treat broadband providers as utilities came to an end on Thursday.
nytimes.com
Honestly love Safari's "hide distracting items" button. Tired: ad blocker Wired: blast ads like space invaders Needs a leaderboard and a speedrun timer though
"Inaccessible products are broken products. The first step to fix them is to give a damn." uxdesign.cc/giving-a-dam... #a11y
Giving a damn about accessibility
A candid and practical handbook for designers.
uxdesign.cc
Holy macaroni! Never expected this to happen. Thank you Hetzner💜 (You can now one-click install Coolify to one-click install a lot of other things 😅)
💻 Remember, if you're on a Mac, you can clean up your desktop by having screenshots sent to another folder: defaults write com.apple.screencapture location whatever-the-pwd-of-folder-is (then do killall SystemUIServer)
One of the small quality-of-life improvement specs I've been closely following for a bit now: httpwg.org/http-extensi... Sharing just cause I'm not sure how many folks have been paying attention to HTTP maybe getting a new verb soon 😍
The HTTP QUERY Method
This specification defines a new HTTP method, QUERY, as a safe, idempotent request method that can carry request content.
httpwg.org
“The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions and godlike technology. And it is terrifically dangerous, and it is now approaching a point of crisis overall.” -Edward O. Wilson
"Saying you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is like saying you don't care about freedom of speech because you have nothing to say." -Edward Snowden
Sometimes the best engineering happens when you’re just tinkering, free from expectations and deadlines.