Roderick Gadellaa
@rgadellaa.bsky.social
Designer, developer, all things creative. Has opinions, few facts. Front-end developer @decorrespondent.nl Core contributor @open-web-advocacy.org Masto: mastodon.social/@rgadellaa Blog: webventures.rejh.nl
So they removed the option to use the classic editor. Guess I won't be using CodePen anymore. blog.codepen.io/2026/07/23/t...
The Launch of CodePen 2.0
If you sense a joyous exhale, that’s Team CodePen in crossing this launch milestone for the most ambitious professional project any of us has ever achieved. Today, we declare CodePen 2.0 offi…
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Are we at the point where AI bros are boasting about how many times their toys escaped the sandbox and started hacking into servers?? www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Anthropic just now realized its AI models hacked other companies three times by accident.
A little over a week after OpenAI said that its rogue AI agent accidentally hacked Hugging Face, Anthropic is disclosing three “incidents” where a Claude model, during cybersecurity evaluations, was i...
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"[...] Google has essentially said that it can’t accurately forecast its costs [...]. Plus, Google is spending more money than it’s making. And Google is also facing competitive pressures from Chinese AI tools, as well as pricing pressure [...]" www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
AI’s finally expensive enough to make Wall Street nervous
Spending more than you make isn’t an ideal business practice.
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"[By 2021,] social networks were gone, replaced by social media — entertainment with a comments section." www.theverge.com/column/97075...
The vertical video takeover is here
How TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube copied their way to victory.
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A little dive into web standards… Why changes were made to popover="hint", and why diversity in browser engines is important: (sorry again for the YT link - video uploads are still broken on bsky) youtube.com/shorts/9LDmd...
popover="hint" & engine diversity
YouTube video by Firefox for Web Developers
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Great thread on how best to file bugs with browsers if you want to increase the chances they’ll be fixed.
Nathan Knowler@knowler.dev · 2w agoA thread on how I file browser bugs:
Shameless propaganda for... [ checks notes ] ...the concept of time? Can that be right? infrequently.org/2026/07/stat...
The Absolute State of Management - Infrequently Noted
It is by no means the gravest linguistic crime of the React epoch, but 'state management' grates like nails on chalkboard. The most popular tools in this space simply do not manage state, they merely…
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Did I mention that `flex-wrap: balance` landed in Chrome stable last month!? 👀👀👀
Una Kravets@una.im · last yr.Introducing 🤯 flex-wrap: balance 🤯 Would you use this? ⚠️ Not a real feature yet, just something one of our engineers has been working on. (You can try it out in the latest Chrome Canary with the experimental web platform features flag though!)
In een vertegenwoordigende democratie zullen populaire standpunten vroeg of laat vertegenwoordigd worden. Steun voor minder migratie was onder kiezers allang normaal, nu is het dat ook onder politici. Al vinden progressieven het pijnlijk, de democratie is dus niet stuk. @jessefrederik.bsky.social
Democratie in verval? De democratie werkt juist prima (alleen vinden progressieven dat niet leuk)
In een vertegenwoordigende democratie zullen populaire standpunten vroeg of laat vertegenwoordigd worden. Steun voor minder migratie was onder kiezers allang normaal, nu is het dat ook onder politici....
decorrespondent.nl
In my audits, reading the Performance profile is where people get stuck: the flame chart and waterfall look like noise at first I built an interactive guide to make them click, every figure is interactive, plus LCP, CLS, INP and the Insights panel perf.reviews/profile-guide #WebPerf #DevTools
Reading a Performance Profile: Field Guide
An interactive field guide to the Chrome DevTools Performance panel: waterfall, flame chart, LCP, CLS, INP, and the Insights panel.
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If you're dealing with SVG icons you probably know the pain of overwriting colors. There's a new spec in the making that allows controlling CSS variables from "the outside". And it's shipping in Firefox already! https://drafts.csswg.org...
If you make websites for a living, stop what you're doing and read this research by @tammyeverts.com; it shows what many of us have been saying for a long time: even if there is such a thing as "fast enough", it's generally *much* faster than you are targeting: embrace.io/blog/research-co…
New research: The Core Web Vitals thresholds you trust might be wrong for your site
Core Web Vitals data from ten leading online retailers reveals that "good" for Google may not be good enough for your users or your business.
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Great read! These resonate a lot with me: > A Web platform without polyfills would be a stagnant platform > Without polyfills, [...], a single browser has undue power to hold back the Web > Developers being able to use web features before wide availability is a win for the Web as a whole
Lea Verou, PhD@lea.verou.me · 3w ago🔥 New blog post: In defense of polyfills A highly influential spec editor expressed the opinion that polyfilling is harmful. I beg to differ. lea.verou.me/blog/2026/po...
Long, but good (particularly in the background at 2x): youtu.be/CK8M5sKWRkc
Why Google, Apple & Big Tech Keep Making Everything Worse | Cory Doctorow and Trevor Noah
YouTube video by Trevor Noah
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[NL] In Groot-Brittannië is oma tegenwoordig staatsvijand nummer één decorrespondent.nl/shorts/17116...
In Groot-Brittannië is oma tegenwoordig staatsvijand nummer één
Sinds de organisatie Palestine Action in het Verenigd Koninkrijk is verboden onder terrorismewetgeving, zijn er duizenden ‘terroristen’ gearresteerd, vooral vrouwen. Gemiddelde leeftijd: 59. Het is de...
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[NL] Nieuw! Short form vertical video, nu gewoon bij @decorrespondent.nl op de site. Bloed zweet en tranen, maar het resultaat mag er zijn :) Deel de videos gerust - delen is gratis! (Gedeelde links zijn altijd volledig gratis beschikbaar bij De Correspondent) decorrespondent.nl/shorts/17062...
Video’s kijk je vanaf nu direct op ons platform, zonder big tech, advertenties of cookies
Om de inzichten van onze correspondenten tot leven te brengen, maken we steeds vaker ook video’s. Vanaf nu bekijk je deze video’s rechtstreeks, privacyvriendelijk en zonder advertenties op onze app en...
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Om de inzichten van onze correspondenten tot leven te brengen, maken we steeds vaker video’s, die we hier delen: op social media. Maar vanaf deze week kun je onze video’s ook rechtstreeks in onze app en op onze site bekijken, zonder big tech, advertenties of cookies! (1/4)
Newly published tests show a Chromium/Blink engine running on iOS is 28.6% faster than Safari in Speedometer page responsiveness tests. 🏎️💨📱⚡️ This is a clear example of the costs Apple imposes on consumers and businesses, costs created by its 17-year ban on competing browser engines. 🧵👇️ (1/8)
28% Faster: The Blink Prototype That Shows Why Apple's iOS Browser Engine Ban Must End - Open Web Advocacy
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Safari 28.6% slower than Chromium on iOS. This is the tax every single user on iOS has to pay as a result of the #AppleBrowserBan www.theregister.com/software/202...
Apple's WebKit performance tax leaves iOS browsers stuck in the slow lane, says Microsoft
Rival rendering engines could make pages load almost 30% faster on iPhones, Redmond claims
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"Apple's WebKit performance tax leaves iOS browsers stuck in the slow lane, says Microsoft" www.theregister.com/software/202...
Chromium *with its own Blink engine*, running on iOS. 👀 Faster than Safari. Supports features that Safari doesn't. Presumably ships with l/v/h viewport units that are not utterly broken. And this is just a prototype. www.linkedin.com/pulse/test-d... 1/n
