randomly giving out genuine compliments is such an easy way to make the world a little nicer, i'm always surprised more people haven't figured that out and have a ton of respect for those who have

this attitude is, imo, one of the biggest keys to a happy life no matter who you are, there are going to be people in your life who are more successful than you at things you care deeply about, and sometimes that’s skill and sometimes it’s luck, but if you resent them for it you’ll be miserable

John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 6d ago

The flip side of understanding how much of one's career is luck is that it helps tamp down envy when friends catch luck. I have friends with movies and TV series! Other friends with ten times my sales! Good for them. It's nice when people you like get that break. They deserve it, as much as anyone.

1/8 This is the Sun's surface, the photosphere, seen as we've NEVER seen it before. 🔭 The Hawaiian Islands give you a scale. Those thin filaments? They're magnetic boundaries shaped by the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHI) previously ONLY theorized, and FINALLY observed.⚛️🧪 #stellarastro #Sun

Psst: Moonlighter is free on Steam if you get it within the next 24 hours, apparently.

Save 100% on Moonlighter on Steam

Moonlighter is an Action RPG with rogue-lite elements that demonstrates two sides of the coin – revealing everyday routines of Will, an adventurous shopkeeper that secretly dreams of becoming a hero.

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a great battle was fought here

I feel this very strongly

Going to try a family feud style thing... the first question I'm collecting answers for: What is your favorite named color value? asked-100-devs.netlify.app

📢 We're hiring! Know any great Laravel devs or a career changer/recent grad looking for an entry-level support engineer role?

Geocodio@geocod.io · last mo.

👩🏽‍💻We’re hiring! We’re looking for two engineers to join our intentionally small team: a 𝗦𝗼𝗳𝘁𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿 (Laravel/PHP, 5+ years exp) and a 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿 (GIS, entry-level). Both US Eastern. geocod.io/careers?utm_...

pro-color-harmonies v0.11.0! ▸ opt-in gamut mapping ▸ grey input → proper neutral ramps ▸ smooth Bezold-Brücke + Abney hue drift in tints & shades ▸ demo accepts wide-gamut colors thanks to @argyleink.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy's <color-input> meodai.github.io/pro-color-ha...

Pro Color Harmonies – OKLCH palette generator

Generate perceptually-tuned color palettes from a single color: six harmony types, four styles, wave modifiers, and wide-gamut input.

meodai.github.io

It's heeeeere!! Three months of work has led to this: Introducing Voxacon! A multiplayer 3D virtual Laracon watch party, together with @tighten.com's annual puzzle (with prizes!) Check out a writeup and a quick video preview: tighten.com/insights/int...

Introducing Voxacon, the 2026 Tighten Laracon Puzzle

Every year, Tighten builds a puzzle for Laracon. We’ve run typing challenges, coding challenges, and, last year, an entire game-building challenge. It's a fun chance for us to build something for th...

tighten.com

This is the food supply chain equivalent of “[software] is insecure because they put out a lot of CVEs” It’s GOOD that they patch and disclose a lot of vulnerabilities, actually. Who you really need to worry about are the ones who don’t think they have any

Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · last mo.

A quick word on Taco Bell: That's where we found the suspected lettuce, and it's not bc Taco Bell is gross. It's bc Taco Bell is REALLY GOOD at tracing product! Keeping track of exactly where they got their ingredients, & exactly what restaurants each shipment of ingredients went to!

Canadians and Northern USers, you would be shocked how well these work! Please, please, if you have the time and the money, make one.

🍁Mel🇨🇦@melhathnofury.bsky.social · last mo.

Here’s instructions on building your own Corsi-Rosenthal box.

New: Late last night, Taylor Farms quietly posted an official recall notice We now know that the parasite-linked iceberg lettuce was shipped to Walmart & food distributors in 27 (!) states It was for some reason still being sent out up until Thursday July 16 www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...

Parasite-Linked Lettuce Was Sent to Walmart Stores and Food Distributors in 27 States - Consumer Reports

Taylor Farms' recalled the parasite-linked lettuce it said was sent to Walmart stores, Sysco, and other food distributors in 27 states.

consumerreports.org

DIY air filtration reminder: cleanaircrew.org/box-fan-filt...

VANISHING CULTURE is out now! From #InternetArchive, this book looks at what is disappearing online. It asks what it means when the record of ourselves starts to vanish 🕳️ 📖 Download: archive.org/details/vani... 🛒 Purchase in print: www.betterworldbooks.com/product/deta... #DigitalMemory #Books

Don't feel confident with either Flexbox or Grid? I recently created a free learning path for each of them over on The Cascade. The paths are curated videos from my YouTube channel, along with code editors to follow along with, and extra challenges to reinforce what you're learning.

Free learning paths by Kevin Powell

Focused topics, clear order. Each learning path guides you through one concept at a time, with curated resources to help you build real understanding.

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🎉 Registration is now open for my latest course, Whimsical Animations! This course will teach you everything you need to know to design and build stunning, creative animations and interactions. It’s time to make the web less generic and boring! 😄

Whimsical Animations

Learn how to create charming interactions and delightful touches using the magic of CSS, JavaScript, SVG, and Canvas. I’m sharing all my tricks in this one!

whimsy.joshwcomeau.com

sizes="auto" landed in Firefox 150, making responsive images simpler and more reliable. Here's when you can use it, and how…

Gather, my friends, and you shall learn the esoteric history of fridge magnets, and how they function as tacky little references for human memory:

Fridge Magnets and Memory: Part 1

Fridge magnets are more than tacky souvenirs. They're vessels for our memories.

little-flying-robots.ghost.io

Picture of the century. 😍 📷 credit: Science Tube

This is great because you get a visceral sense of the acceleration. h/t @jdotj.bsky.social on the video app.

we don't talk enough about how cool the color-interpolation-method is in CSS gradients all of these slices have the same gradient: linear-gradient(#00ffff 0%, #ff00ff 100%) each one is just using a different colour interpolation

OH. MY. GOD. THIS IS THE MILKY WAY SHOT BY THE ARTEMIS II CREW. LOOK AT ALL THOSE STARS!!!!

The highest quality video of the moon was just released… so beautiful * Artemis II

Some lunar vocabulary in case you're following along with the #Artemis II flyby: * albedo: reflectiveness (high albedo=very shiny) * mare/maria(plural): from Latin for "sea," dark regions on the Moon, which are dried lava basins * terminator: the line of the transition between sunlight & darkness

FYI, this gallery has all the photos NASA is sharing from Artemis II in one place, with descriptions.

Journey to the Moon - NASA

Artemis II lifted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 1, 2026, and will reach the lunar sphere of influence—when the Moon's gravity exerts more force on the Orion spacecraft than the Ear...

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If coding is your favorite part of software engineering, keep coding. AI doesn't stop you. But if coding was the only part you were good at, that's a different conversation. The job was always bigger than the code. #bransoncognac blog.bryanl.dev/posts/ai-sen...

AI Didn't Break the Senior Engineer Pipeline. It Showed That One Never Existed.

Most organizations never had a model for developing engineers. They had an environment that produced growth by accident. AI just made the luck run out.

blog.bryanl.dev

You can throw away innerHTML and replace it with the new setHTML(), which has a built-in sanitizer. Here's how it works:

The Sanitizer API landed in Firefox 148, along with element.setHTML(). This lets you fully configure how HTML strings are cleaned as they're parsed. hacks.mozilla.org/2026/02/good...

Goodbye innerHTML, Hello setHTML: Stronger XSS Protection in Firefox 148 – Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog

Cross-site scripting (XSS) remains one of the most prevalent vulnerabilities on the web. The new standardized Sanitizer API provides a straightforward way for web developers to sanitize untrusted…

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🦥 A fun update over on the blog: 🦥 Standard HTML Video & Audio Lazy-loading is Coming! scottjehl.com/posts/lazy-m...

Standard HTML Video & Audio Lazy-loading is Coming! | Scott Jehl, Web Designer/Developer

A quick update on my team's work to bring video and audio lazy loading to browsers today

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