As soon as someone invokes their job title, rank, or placement in the org chart as a reason for why they're right and I'm wrong, I lose a huge amount of respect for them
John Kreitlow
@john.kreitlow.rocks
Señor UX Engineer at Microsoft, building web components and design systems. Game collector, vinyl collector, and hobbyist. Also a gay. All opinions (especially the bad ones) are my own.
I've got a falsifiable local hypothesis: You're a complete twat
I'm calling it now, this "Internet" thing is gonna be BIG and I'm getting in on the ground floor
Sol's voice is significantly less condescending. Opus's voice significantly more so.
Please don't let Julian Casablancas get away with normalizing whatever this autotune effect is on his vocals
Guess who forgot about the lunch they packed last night and brought with them to work
NPM: 11 high security vulnerabilities. To address issues, run `npm audit fix` Me: `npm audit fix` NPM: 12 high security vulnerabilities.
I reformatted my MacBook yesterday and it's fucking hilarious that I still have to deal with this in vscode in 2026 github.com/electron/ele...
Implement keyboard actions to avoid beeps on certain key bindings · Issue #2617 · electron/electron
When ctrl-cmd-down, ctrl-cmd-left, or ctrl-cmd-right are pressed in any Electron (or Chrome) input or textarea, an audible beep occurs. I believe I've tracked this down to the following methods not...
github.com
Imagine being a PM trying to make number go up, and pulling this shit thinking "yeah this is what the people want" 🤮
Chrome’s breaking and entering – Unsung
A blog about software craft and quality
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Trent Reznor building sandcastles on the beach: Nine Inch Pails
StopSkeletonsFromFighting@stopskeletons.bsky.social · 3w agoTrent Reznor busting out his tech deck finger board: Nine Inch Rails
No X, no Y — just Z. And that's fucking real, you goddamn useless meatbags.
Most mornings are pretty uneventful but sometimes you get to watch a kid on a razor scooter bail hard tricking off a short set of stairs
A change dot org petition to get a new Picross 3D game on the Switch 2
Doing a fairly regular "listen to the entire discography of Spoon" exercise and it's always exciting to be reminded of how consistent they are.
Gboard's emoji kitchen is simultaneously unhinged and unnecessarily limited
My talk from React Summit in July was just published. Thanks again to the organisers and the whole @gitnation.bsky.social team for inviting a somewhat radical perspective: gitnation.com/contents/buildin…
Building Bridges to a Post-SPA Future by Alex Russell
The speaker reflects on professionalism, tech collaboration deficiencies, and changing perspectives. They discuss React community involvement, cultural implications of technology choices, and the impa...
gitnation.com
HDMI CEC is the shittiest poopest shit-ass garbage poop from a butt ever crapped out
🎉 Fluent Web Components v3.0.0 is published! (More compelling details about this huge milestone will be shared in the coming days, from folks who are better at making announcements than me) web-components.fluentui.dev
Fluent UI Web Components
Fluent UI Web Components is a set of UI components and utilities built with web standards.
web-components.fluentui.dev
Big documentation push coming today too, along with another pretty big thing 👀
Dave Rupert@davatron5000.bsky.social · last mo.🚀 Last week my team released FASTElement v3. Tons to say but one small bit I want to highlight is: it's smaller! A before/after for a basic FASTElement (with common features like `attr`, `html`, `css`)... v2.10.5 → 63.6 kB (19.3 kB gzip) v3.0.0 → 45.5 kB (13.9 kB gzip) bundlejs.com?q=%40microso...