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We’re trying a rather radical new approach at Piccalilli by doing real world projects — for real clients — in the open. This gives us a context to provide genuine high quality, real world education...

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Post your favorite Doctor Who. Wrong answers only.

kottke.org@kottke.org · last yr.

Post your favorite Doctor Who. Wrong answers only.

I’ve been thinking about the idea of customizing the gap between flexbox or grid items for a while. I wrote down a few thoughts with current solutions and a proposed idea: 🔗 ishadeed.com/article/self...

Self Gap

Thinking of a way to have a custom gap between some flex or grid items.

ishadeed.com

It’s no myth: Astro 5.5 is here Dive deep with better diagramming tool support, typesafe sessions, and improved Markdown compatibility astro.build/blog/astro-5...

Astro 5.5 | Astro

Astro 5.5 dives deep with better support for diagramming tools, improved Markdown compatibility, and type-safe sessions!

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quick important announcement: deck.blue is now my full-time job! patreon tiers are increasing prices though new members can use this discount code: 7C3E9 for the first month! please read the whole post below for more information on what this means for me and the future of deck.blue thank you all!

Making deck.blue my job | deck.blue

Get more from deck.blue on Patreon

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International Women’s Day 2025: Meet India’s 18 women Chief Ministers. www.thehindu.com/news/nationa...

International Women’s Day 2025: Meet India’s 18 women CMs

International Women’s Day 2025: India's history of women Chief Ministers, from Sucheta Kriplani to Mamata Banerjee, spanning 77 years of independence.

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Every day, way more knowledge is created than we could possibly consume. Therefore, if we define ignorance as the ratio of our knowledge over all knowledge, we can mathematically prove that we become more ignorant by the day, no matter what we do. I’ll let that sink in for a bit.

Catching up on past episodes of Guidance Counselor 2.0 from @tdesseyn.bsky.social. The one with @joshwcomeau.com is really good—it softened my random pangs of self-doubt in doing what sparks joy for me rather than "Resume Driven Development". And it helps that Josh's joy comes from CSS!

I put on my r̶o̶b̶e̶ ̵a̶n̶d̶ ̵w̶i̶z̶a̶r̶d̶ vibe coding hat⁣. Me: "Claude, could you add a slider to this div"⁣ Claude: "Here's your slider! But look, I also made the div draggable! And resizable! Isn't that cool!?"⁣ Sometimes Claude feels like an excitable and overenthusiastic new dev.

New post: An amateur's deep dive into CSS circles, positioning and animation!

Fun with Concentric Circles

Or: How I learned to stop worrying and love CSS. It's not messing around if you document it.

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Conversations with Miles are unbelievably life-like. Maya feels much more artificial. www.sesame.com/research/cro...

Crossing the uncanny valley of conversational voice

At Sesame, our goal is to achieve “voice presence”—the magical quality that makes spoken interactions feel real, understood, and valued.

sesame.com

Me: "I wonder if I should set up some GitHub actions to build and deploy my site to Netlify" @netlify.com: "Hold my beer" Awe-struck with Netlify's seamless integration with GitHub and Astro. Automatic CI/CD from the repo took less than a minute to set up. And it's available in the free tier!

Having your own website is not going to fix democracy, or capitalism, but it makes a political statement. It says "I want to carve my own space on the web" and I think this is a radical act. It was when I originally said this in 2022, and I mean it even more today. localghost.dev/blog/this-pa...

This page is under construction - localghost

If you take just one thing away from this article, I want it to be this: please build your own website.

localghost.dev

With apologies to Brandon Sanderson: rantinghuman.com/notes/we-are...

We are all Taravangian

Why I keep attempting to write for myself, time and again.

rantinghuman.com

Finally got around to pushing out my first personal website in years! Love that @astro.build makes it so easy to write and publish. rantinghuman.com

Rantings of a Fellow Human

Rantings of a fellow human. Notes and thoughts on life, software and design.

rantinghuman.com

RIP Valencia Street bike lane (2023 - 2025). 🪦 You will (not?) be missed.

I’ve started using em dashes every chance I get after rediscovering this fun bookmark: www.pierrickcalvez.com/journal/a-fi... But now, I wonder—does that make it seem like LLMs were somehow involved?

"You are normal,"—“Or rather, nobody is normal. Normal doesn’t exist. So if we slavishly try to dress ourselves to imitate it, all we’re really doing is becoming a different kind of abnormal—a miserable kind.” Brandon Sanderson dropping all kinds of wisdom in Wind & Truth.

Asking for a friend: Does anyone else find themselves automatically stopping all activity on a social media platform right around the time their parents sign up?

Had someone asking me about scroll-driven animations with CSS, and they didn't realize you can still use animation-timeline-function with them. Very easy way to do a lot more with those scroll-driven animations!

The most fun way to learn SVG Paths, IMO. Also, why did no one tell me SVG Paths were basically Logo! www.nan.fyi/svg-paths

A Deep Dive Into SVG Path Commands

An interactive guide to understanding SVG paths and path commands.

nan.fyi

Just to make it clear: this was a strike slip earthquake offshore of Northern California and NOT a subduction type event on the Cascadia subduction zone! So no significant tsunami would be expected. (I am seeing a lot of posts that say otherwise..) 🧪⚒️

Jascha Polet@jascha.bsky.social · 2y ago

Shallow strike slip M7.0 earthquake off the coast of Northern California. Strong shaking was felt near Eureka. 🧪⚒️ earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

I guess it is time to introduce Bluesky to my latest work, HTML for People. Anyone can make a website with HTML. No previous coding experience required. I cover everything you need to know to get started in an approachable and friendly way. And it’s free for all. 🚀 htmlforpeople.com

HTML for People

HTML isn't only for people working in the tech field. It's for everyone. Learn how to make a website from scratch in this beginner friendly web book.

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I feel less resistance/reluctance to post and reply to strangers on the internet on this “platform” compared to others. Some intangible quality that harkens back to my blogosphere / rss days. Maybe it’s just seeing all the people I somewhat kept up with ~15 years ago show up in one place.

I put all of the demos in one place on CodePen. codepen.io/collection/j... Be sure to try them out in Safari Technology Preview, Safari 18.2 beta, or _perhaps_ the version of Safari you have right now after enabling a flag. (The demos will tell you if your browser has support or not.)

An unexpected flood of fond childhood memories while visiting the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, and all it took was seeing this one thing. I half expect to fall down a Panama Joe rabbit hole soon!