Keith J. Grant

Need some colors for your next web project? I’ve got you covered. If you haven’t seen the Theme Machine, check it out! 🎨 #css #webdev tools.keithjgrant.com/theme-machine/

I gave a talk at EMF titled "Men in Tech #YesAllMen", in which I told my experience of being a woman in tech. I was afraid to publish it in case it affected my current or future employment. With all the current news I would like to add my 2¢. So here is the recording: youtu.be/WXL6K1lhvt0?...

Yesterday, the CSSWG accepted my proposal for mesh gradients and diffusion curve gradients! Want to make gradients like this natively in CSS? Well, we've started the work on it. It's coming! Here's the Explainer: github.com/w3c/csswg-dr...

Stupid raccoons have taken to trashing my back deck like a wild frat party

Theory: the rise of YouTube gamers has kind of ruined new games, especially sequels. Nintendo saw countless hours of YouTubers horsing around in Breath of the Wild, so they made a sequel built entirely about horsing around […] https://notes.keithjgrant.com/notes/2026/09/youtube-is-ruining-games/

I really hate the branch naming schemes ai agents come up with

I’m not emotionally ready for it to be dark out by 7:00

Exploring bands I discovered from the show Young Sherlock. Today's listen: The Livelong Day by Lankum. Bluegrassy vibes and cool vocal harmonies tapelink.io/share/vjIAFLkN

- see a product you’re interested in - read three the bad reviews (among many more positive ones) - judge those reviewers - buy the product

What is the best movie ever made and why is it Arrival?

Me: It's Friday. I'm going to knock out everything on my list so I have a clean slate on Monday. My list: yeah good luck

I'll never get over how batshit insane it is that MacOS will let you interact with a window without moving focus to that window. I'll do like three things via mouse right clicks and middle clicks, then start typing, and the text goes to a different app altogether because focus never switched.

OH: “You could cancel the trip and hang around a war-torn city covered in flame retardant, or you could buy some new clothes and go on the cruise”

for some context, the red circle is where it started about 4 hours ago? it went from 50 acres to close to 2000 acres in a few hours. this will probably be the worst fire in spokane since 1992-ish

Oh very cool: Vanilla Web by Maximiliano Firtman, a whole book on build web apps without a framework library www.manning.com/books/vanill...

I rarely go to the theater anymore, but The Odyssey was absolutely worth it. Incredibly well done. Who knew a cyclops could actually be terrifying or a Trojan horse actually believable?

Grimm is one of my favorite shows of all time. But I never get over the way they never stopped messing with the opening credits. Even after they dialed it in mid season two, the length changed wildly all the way through season six

With style queries now in all browsers, here's my take on the best way to do dynamic color theming with modern CSS: - Custom properties - light-dark() - contrast-color() - Style queries - Relative color syntax (^Features available in all modern browsers) Read about it ⬇️⬇️ una.im/modern-css-t...

Gotta collect the whole set 🔥

claim: AI will make developers more productive truth: AI will result in an order of magnitude increase in CVE discoveries, burying developers in security bugs

Watching my uber driver Google “is there a red light camera on <intersection we just went through >”

just found a restaurant who's menu is a link to their menu design on canva.com 😆

Patty Griffin’s Shine a Different Way is such a joyful, hopeful song, but it always hits doubly hard when I think about the entire career of tragic, sorrowful music that preceded it

"In a world first, publishers will now have effective tools to prevent their content being used to power AI features in search, such as AI Overviews." This *is* good, and surprisingly the UK has this first, but also…feels a little like the horse already bolted? 🐎💨 www.theverge.com/tech/942302/...

Ever struggled to get heading tags right in includes/components? headingoffset could be the answer…

One of the more misogynistic takes currently trending in the AI policy space is "women use less AI than men because they have less tech literacy" Ok but have you considered that women use less AI than men because we have more tech literacy?

Paramount+ wanted to use the image on the left as a poster for the wrath of Khan, so they used everyone's least favorite technology to generate the rest of the image.

We're going to have to go back to handmade website indexes, aren't we

Yes, chicken thighs are better than breast, but I’m discovering the wonder of a brined & grilled chicken breast

For all the folks that ever thought frontend development was "easy" This week on Overcommitted we chatted with @nerdy.dev all about job searching in 2026, career growth, and how and how the heck people figure out CSS in the age of AI. Check it out wherever you listen to podcasts!

watching the tech industry burn out all the people i know who actually care about delivering things that aren’t perpetually broken, all at the altar of infinite velocity, is making me utterly utterly furious.

Nothing to waste your time like a 5,000-line PR from a non-developer

Firefox 151 is out now, and brings with it some tasty new web platform features: 🎉 Container style() queries 🎉 Web Serial API 🎉 Document Picture-in-Picture API 🎉 keyboardLock on requestFullscreen …and more! developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/M...

Gap decorations are now in Chromium 149 (stable rollout in 5 days)! Shoutout to the folks at Microsoft Edge for the implementation, post, and demos: developer.chrome.com/blog/gap-dec...

Popcorn emoji needed as a reaction on GitHub

Ah, TSA checkpoints, where the rules change every time you fly, and the agent gets surly with you for following the *old* rules

“Me neither…just don’t tell my boss!” Simple normie-coded quip that disarms + sidesteps the awkward comment and puts everyone at ease (incl assuaging their fear) From early career to college to centimillion boardroom discussions, awkwardness mitigation tactics have always served me incredibly well

"What do you do?" "I'm a software developer" "I don't know anything about computers" Why is this always the conversation? What do you say to that? I've never heard anybody meet a doctor and then say "I don't know anything about medicine".

here is the new CSS Border shape API this is going to unlock so many sick new designs

There’s a character in a Brandon Sanderson novel whose intelligence varies wildly day to day. Some days, he’s barely able to function, some he’s an unprecedented genius, and most often, he’s somewhere in the middle. I just realized this is exactly how an LLM functions.

Alabama white sauce is legit

Just put out the first two free learning paths on The Cascade, looking at Flexbox & Grid. They're a curated list of videos from YouTube, but ad free, with editors in the lesson for you to follow along with, recaps of the content with each video, and extra challenges. thecascade.dev/learning-pat...

Hilarious 😆 youtu.be/xy0U7N3Wnsk?...

ngl, I'm irrationally annoyed that "parkour" is the term these days for movement in games. I'm sure I'm just an old man yelling at a cloud here, but my YouTuber friend, we already had a word for that and it was "platforming"