Benjie Kibblewhite

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Mr. El-Sayed do you disavow the Hamburglar and his reign of terror on the citizens of McDonaldland

Be serious. Bert and Ernie are not “in love.” Maybe they used to be, once

At it's best, politics (in the workplace) is just people skills by a different name. At it's worst, politics is just dark people skills.

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Capitalism lives in the eternal "now". It doesn't want you to know about history, it doesn't want you to know art has existed for tens of thousands of years, it wants you slavering for whatever's coming NEXT, whatever's HOT and NEW, and ignoring everything else. You do not have to do this.

I took some fun photos of some pretty flowers with my new lighting set up last week. I'm really proud of this one, but they're all nice! benjie.ca/photos/2026-...

Engineers treat perceived friction as a problem to be automated away, while digital accessibility is more about reframing how to think about and approach the medium. We'll be doing this dance until the heat death of the universe.

I think we, as a society, are too generous with our standing ovations. Make them earn it

the reports of code's death are greatly exaggerated i spent 10 hours writing this blog post by hand. i would be delighted if you read it stevekrouse.com/precision

seeing all those happy green little checkmarks when, finally, all the tests are passing, is the greatest feeling on earth

Sorry, but it’s not actually spring until you’ve completed the whole card.

The biggest change in software development is not AI code, but a permission structure for disregarding quality in the pursuit of velocity

It seems we can now customize the select element, right? right?! Demo: codepen.io/t_afif/pen/P... via @codepen.io

i built an entire x86 CPU emulator in CSS (no javascript) you can write programs in C, compile them to x86 machine code with GCC, and run them inside CSS lyra.horse/x86css/

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo what a dumb goal!!!! #womenshockey #olympics

Context: this speech is from SIR THOMAS MORE, a history written, as near as scholars can tell, in the early 1600s by 6 or 7 people including Dekker, Heywood, Chettle, Shakespeare, and Munday. It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.

“-All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us”

My first day getting a perfect game on inkwellgames.com, and I managed to get it for both! 😎😎😎😎 How's that for circling back Inkwell Games - Stars Tuesday, January 6 ⭐ 2:21 🎯 a perfect game Inkwell Games - Fields Tuesday, January 6 🌾 1:41 🎯 a perfect game

Also, of course, the State Department changing typefaces for reasons that boil down to "fuck accessibility" is both utterly in line with the overt bigotry of this administration and a signal indicator of how unserious these people are, it doesn't matter what typeface you use when you're a joke

My company gave me a new macbook today, with twice as much RAM, even though my last one was only a year old M4 mac with, frankly, plenty of memory. I'm taking this as a comforting sign that I am not at risk of losing my job anytime soon, if they have this kind of cash to burn...

Horrified to learn that we don't have dedicated engineers working on our design system at work anymore. Teams get to approve & merge in their own changes, updates, and additions, with, as far as I can tell, no oversight or governance. Coolcoolcool, this is fine.

Really proud of this shot I took this weekend walking around on a drizzly day.

"What should poor people be allowed to eat?" seems to be a burning question for those who aren't poor, have never been poor, and can afford to eat what they like, but want to keep poor people from eating anything that tastes really good. "No fresh meat," said Iowa, a few years ago.

This 1911 book shows that taking photos of cats and furnishing them with an amusing caption was a thing long before the internet... https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/kittens-and-cats-a-first-reader-1911-cats-and-captions-before-the-internet-age #InternationalCatDay

It’s a great day to pick out a bunch of THINGS for your loved ones! Here’s Johnny with his THINGS print. Maybe I should add “excellent beard” to the THINGS database. Www.lucyknisley.com/things

sure wilhelm screamed but did he laugh — did he cry — did he love

Cats are just so good.

When did Deviantart become just a pile of AI slop? Whatta shame.

"Again and again, accessibility as a topic in web standards is treated as simultaneously too trivial for specialists' technical opinions to be given weight, but also too difficult to get right without a specialist volunteering to tackle the tricky details." alice.boxhall.au/articles/a-t...

Fall at last! I've updated my code editor and terminal theme for the season 🍂🍂🍂

I returned my first car to the dealership today! It was a lease, we had four months left on it, but our insurance is sky high, my partner is going back to school, and that extra money goes a long way. I almost never drove it myself, but it's a little sad! Thanks for the adventures, Gladys.

About a year ago I bought a tiny, cheap little linux box with the intention of setting up a local web server, Just For Fun. I finally got it working! I won't share the link, the page is just a doodle, but still. It's such a small thing, but it's so cool this site lives 1' away from me in meat space.

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TIL about responsive viewport units! Also this is, like, the fourth time I've seen something cool about/on the internet posted somewhere else, and saw that it was done by this delightful human. If you haven't seen lyra.horse/antonymph/ yet, do - it's my favourite piece of web-art.

Hats off to the etsy witches!

Every single person who thinks a trans person should just pipe down until we restore democracy is, in my view, an enemy of democracy. I’m not doing it.

Using craigslist for the first time in a long time, and I'm just so thrilled at how *fast* everything is. Turns out not having tonnes of ads, javascript, and f e a t u r e s results in a site that just works, and works very well.

Sure I'm really proud of the a11y work I do, but this? Getting people to call buttons buttons instead of always CTAs? This is my real impact, my pride and joy.

I wrote a blog post about this: benjie.ca/blog/2025/05... Inspired by some similar thoughts by Clayton Ramsey: claytonwramsey.com/blog/prompt/