there are things we must end sometimes to make way for bright beginnings to blossom and new discoveries about ourselves to be made in earnest with a full heart and a free mind endings
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endings we can be so hesitantto accept endingsthey are heavyso heavyweighted with the passing oftime you did not quite noticewhen things changedthough it...
buttondown.com
✨ Exciting proposal alert: the CPU Performance API. This proposal will add `navigator.cpuPerformance`, a value that measures the broad performance capability of the CPU. That way, we can scale up/down our animations to make sure everyone has the best experience possible for their device. 😄
GitHub - explainers-by-googlers/cpu-performance: An API that exposes some information about how powerful the user device is.
An API that exposes some information about how powerful the user device is. - explainers-by-googlers/cpu-performance
github.com
After nine years of development, meshoptimizer has reached its first major version, 1.0! This release focuses on improvements in clusterization and simplification as well as stabilization. Here's a release announcement with more details on past, present and future; please RT! meshoptimizer.org/v1
🐇 meshoptimizer v1.0
Mesh optimization library that makes meshes smaller and faster to render
meshoptimizer.org
You too can make a tiny, fixed-width website in the year of our lord 2025 ⚡️ lynnandtonic.com
Lynn Fisher
Lynn Fisher is a web designer, CSS developer, and artist from Phoenix, Arizona.
lynnandtonic.com
So happy to have this out there. I've dreamt of a new home for the GSAP demos for so long. I can't wait to get cracking with some more uploads, framework collections and integrated tutorials for more complex techniques. 🤘
GSAP@gsap-greensock.bsky.social · 8mo ago💚 The new GSAP Demo Hub is here! 🤘 We’ve kicked things off with 50 demos, with plenty more on the way, including some framework-specific collections and inspiring community contributions. Would you like to contribute or suggest an example? Get in touch, we’d love to hear from you! demos.gsap.com
🎉 And we're live! 🎉 We just launched CSS Wrapped 2025: our annual recap of all things CSS & web UI that landed in Chrome over the course of the year. 🚀 This is a big one! We highlighted 22 new features to help you build better on the web. Check out: chrome.dev/css-wrapped-2025
CSS Wrapped 2025
Sculpt dynamic interfaces, stretch your imagination, and play with these 22 powerful new CSS features that landed in Chrome this year.
chrome.dev
OKAY making a quick tool in #godot so my art partner can make some motion comic things without worrying about code
📣 New article on @frontendmasters.com about a visual problem that bugged me for years: making a card that truly feels deep. frontendmasters.com/blog/the-dee... Would love your thoughts.
i finally fixed caching! (i think) did -> handle, handle -> did, and did -> avatar lookups should all be getting cached in redis now which should considerably speed up navigations and stop 1s+ load times on some pages cause was fun: github.com/vercel/next....
Docs: [Cache Components] "use cache" pitfalls with map() · Issue #86896 · vercel/next.js
What is the documentation issue? Here's a fix I'm going to deploy now: const resolveDidToHandle = cache(async function resolveDidToHandle(did: string): Promise<string> { "use cache: redis"; tagDid(...
github.com
cool news, sidetrail.app is now open source on @tangled.org! the stack: - atproto (jetstream + new lex client) - next 16 + cacheComponents (yes, a recent version) - postgres + drizzle, redis - vitest
danabra.mov/sidetrail
an app to share curated trails
tangled.org
Test it out and let us know if it solves your needs! Use the experimental-web-platform-features flag in Chrome 142+ Open questions: - Should the last line of a paragraph be scaled? - Is the current line-height behavior as expected? - Should it scale non-text parts such as inline images together?
Adam Argyle@nerdy.dev · 8mo agoFit width text in 1 line of CSS `text-grow: per-line scale;` nerdy.dev/css-text-grow (prototype in Canary 165+)
An unpopular belief I hold: kids aren’t actually *that* much better at learning languages than adults. Kids are often immersed in language, spending up to 16 hours a day practicing for many years. Adults will typically take a 3-hour-a-week course. It’s a totally different level of investment.
No f***ing way I’ve been waiting for this css all my life and I was born in the 60s
Adam Argyle@nerdy.dev · 8mo agoFit width text in 1 line of CSS `text-grow: per-line scale;` nerdy.dev/css-text-grow (prototype in Canary 165+)
