Will Boyd

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I wonder if people named Al have to put up with constantly being confused with AI

Saw yet another post where someone mentions em dashes as a dead giveaway for AI — this is a lazy half-truth at best. 2 things: 1. It's trivially easy to add "don't use em dashes" to a prompt — a lot of people do this. 2. Real humans use em dashes — where do you think AI learned it from?

🚀 Container style queries are baseline; New attr() capabilities are nearly there. Neat apart, but together they change how we can wire up components. Practice will make perfect, and I still need to rewire my brain for this combo. So, time to start that rewire. utilitybend.com/blog/contain...

Someone used my portfolio site as inspiration for theirs. I can tell because they copy/pasted the "about me" verbatim, including the name of my site 😆

what's another word for synonym?

👎👎👎 "to keep Reddit safe" 🙄

TIL about `nosave`, an ancient HTML property used by Netscape Composer. It was supposed to block right click > saving an image. <img src="potato.png" nosave> html.com/attributes/i...

I'm late to the party, we arguing about dark mode toggles now?

ok ok ok hear me out: :root { --size-prop: width; } div { var(--size-prop): 100%; } eh? worst idea ever?

New "cartoon": Border Collie comicss.art/comics/254/ I saw a similar concept on social media, and tried to give it a background-clip CSS twist. #css #webdev #comic

Got this today. I like it.

I do my best work when I don't have to.

TIL: JavaScript (basically) has a built-in coordinate distance function. const distance = Math.hypot(x2 - x1, y2 - y1) Also works for 3+ dimensions (just add more params).

"piece" is one of those words that looks really weird the more you fixate on it. Piece. Piece. Piece.

If the excessively animated doodles on the Chrome new tab page annoy you too: - Go to chrome://flags - Search for "doodle" - Disable

Cleared ascension 10 in Slay the Spire 2. Please clap. (sorry for the blown out HDR screenshot)

I just learned that (US) TSA will accept an expired passport / real ID driver's license for domestic flights, up to 2 years after expiration. Just sharing in case it saves others from the stress I just had.

Neat!

This reminds me of Houdini and the CSS paint API that let you put JS in CSS to do all sorts of amazing and/or terrible things. I was super excited about it for a while. Chrome supports it, but it seems pretty dead now for better or worse.

How much do you use semicolons in JavaScript? I use them religiously, even if I don't need to. I think of them as little hugs at the end of a line of code. But a lot of folks don't 🤷

Remember DHTML?

Been seeing a lot of "Gemini can't count letters in words" posts lately. AI opinions aside... why is this happening? Like, actually? Wouldn't it be trivial to whip up a skill or MCP or whatever to answer these questions? Genuinely curious.

An update on "Allbirds shares jump over 400% on plans to pivot to AI".

It is the year 2034. Chrome has switched to a micro-release cadence. In the time it took you to read this, 7 new versions of Chrome have been released.

I kinda miss PHP sometimes. It was the second server side language I ever learned (after Perl lol). Had one of those obnoxiously thick PHP "bible" books, back when that was a thing.

Hey React devs! How often do you use Immer?

Stumbled upon this short and sweet (and well made!) vid on using my wordpress-export-to-markdown tool. Shoutout to @iamkarolk.bsky.social !

Goodnight, Ask Jeeves 🥲

oh, ok

I tried to like Fireworks back in the day. Never clicked for me.

We stopped saying "HTML5" and "CSS3" because these terms are outdated. The web doesn't drop major versions, it constantly evolves. But I wonder how many resumes get passed on because they don't contain those exact strings. Some recruiter is out there saying "oh, they only know CSS, not CSS3". 🙃

The 49MB Web Page thatshubham.com/blog/news-au...

Node.js is moving to one major release per year starting with Node 27! 🚀 ✅ Simpler: Every release becomes LTS. ✅ Predictable: Version numbers now align with the year. ✅ New: A 6-month Alpha channel for early testing. https://bit.ly/4rnosLg

Nice!

Hey everyone! You might have heard that 40% of Block was laid off. That includes me. If you're looking for a design technologist (a design-minded front-end dev) then hit me up! Portfolio here: codersblock.com

Remember Acid Tests? I remember Acid2 in particular being a big deal. www.acidtests.org

"This email is to inform you that..." You can just say the thing. You don't have to announce your intent to announce.

Recently learned there's a whole math-specific language called MathML that browsers natively support???? developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...

Sometimes I feel like quitting web development and joining my brother-in-law on the ranch. At least cows don't suddenly upgrade to version 5.0 and break the entire farm because the geese aren't on 3.2.4 yet.

comiCSS #109: Coincidence? comicss.art/comics/109/c... November 27, 2023 – One of those small cartoons that are simple yet fun to code. And it's versatile, too. You can basically change CSS for anything you want: Taxes? it works! Humans? Works too! Tailwind? D'uh! #css #html #webdev #joke

For those of you with Computer Science degrees... Would you call yourself a "scientist"?