Max Elkins

Max Elkins

@maxelkins.me

Senior Product Designer @ Raspberry Pi Foundation and wannabe web developer. maxelkins.me

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The one where Ladybird added basic CSS Anchor Positioning support just so it can more accurately run @html5test.com’s cssDOOM: github.com/LadybirdBrow... 🤩

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Large Heydon Collider

@heydonworks.com

📝 Pride, Shame, and Accessibility heydonworks.com/article/prid...

heydonworks.comPride, shame, and accessibilityThe relationship between shame and motivation in web development, especially regarding accessibility.

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@freshmango.bsky.social

So, so true. The gap between design tools and the possibilities of the CSS based web platform is getting bigger year by year. @ishadeed.com at #cssday. (Reminds me of @matthiasott.com‘s talk last year cssday.nl/2024/#matthias)

Bloody love this game! Check it out if you haven't! Multiplayer is super fun too!

Stuffed Wombat@stuffedwomb.at

Mosa Lina: The Second Layer - 24 new tools - 180+ new levels - 38 new pieces of music Out now on Steam and Nintendo Switch™

Thought Figma's grid stuff would at least be helpful for mockups, but it's just jank. Back to encouraging designers to learn CSS and making code prototypes that achieve a better result with a few lines of code... For ref: forum.figma.com/share-your-f...

forum.figma.comGrid for Auto Layout is horribly limited in scope and very awkward to use | Figma ForumI was very excited to hear that grids were coming to Figma. CSS Grid was introduced years ago and brought with it many things that flexbox was incapable of doing, so I was hoping for a similar level o...

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@sarasoueidan.com

"Do Not Publish Your Designs on the Web with Figma Sites…" adrianroselli.com/2025/05/do-n... "…Unless you want to fail all the WCAGs, create litigation risk, close off opportunities in Europe, engage in reputational harm, and oh yeah, throw up barriers to your customers and users." #a11y

adrianroselli.comDo Not Publish Your Designs on the Web with Figma Sites……Unless you want to fail all the WCAGs, create litigation risk, close off opportunities in Europe, engage in reputational harm, and oh yeah, throw up barriers to your customers and users. What am I ta...

Figma be like: <div> rules everything around me, SITES, get the mone<span>y</span>

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THE FUTUR<span class="css-yrwjsr css-ftm40m">E</span> of web development.

Donnie D'Amato@donnie.damato.design

Some source HTML from the Figma Sites demo at Config. (www.configsitesdemo.com)

I love this! Really fun puzzles! Mobile friendly.

adamatomic@adamatomic.bsky.social

new game alert!! MOLE MOLE - out now ! 💣 Blow stuff up 🛌 Take a NA P 🌊 Turn around don't drown!! 🥵 25 (ish) levels of undergroun ADVENTURES 📲 Works decent ish on your phone even ! adamatomic.itch.io/mole-mole

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rem / Remy Sharp

Ranty grumble from me: remysharp.com/2025/03/08/d...

remysharp.comDevs: draw your lineThis post is for my developers out there, web and otherwise. We have super powers. We can make something functional from practically nothing. And you know what…

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Your outie's code works on the first try

When you remember it's monday so there's a new @shoptalkshow.com 👌

3 focus days a week, the dream 😅

Chris Coyier@chriscoyier.net

Meetings & Space Seventeen bits of advice from Ariel Salminen on Leading Successful Product Teams. I really like all of them. Allow me to pluck off a few about meetings: Avoid meetings as much as possible. Instead of having them, communicate asynchronous to each other via tools such…

chriscoyier.netMeetings & SpaceSeventeen bits of advice from Ariel Salminen on Leading Successful Product Teams. I really like all of them. Allow me to pluck off a few about meetings: Avoid meetings as much as possible. Instead of having them, communicate asynchronous to each other via tools such as Linear, GitHub, Figma, Slack, and similar. Provide at least three days of focus time per week for designers and developers in the team.

Love these articles!

Ahmad Shadeed@ishadeed.com

The Gap 🌟 An interactive article about the CSS gap property in Flexbox and Grid. 🔗 ishadeed.com/article/the-...

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@davatron5000.bsky.social

This past few months has reinforced two things about #DesignSystems: 1. Documentation is a work multiplier, time spent re-explaining probably should have been spent documenting. Don't do it too early, but don't wait too long. 2. Spreadsheets are still the best design system tool.

This was super insightful! Thanks @tink.uk! and thanks @remysharp.com for the upload, been waiting to share this around!

Léonie Watson@tink.uk

At #FFConf I talked about Accessibility & AI: the good, the bad, and the bollocks, and the video is now available here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ij-G... #AI #accessibility #a11y

youtube.com2. AI and Accessibility: the Good, the Bad, and the Bollocks / Léonie Watson / FFConf 2024YouTube video by Remy Sharp

Still the best smartwatch I've used.

Eric Migicovsky@ericmigi.com

** It's happening!! ** We managed to convince Google to open source PebbleOS. Took a while, but they just did it today! github.com/google/pebble With that, we're bringing Pebble back! I blogged about it - ericmigi.com/blog/why-wer...

ericmigi.comWhy We’re Bringing Pebble BackEight years later, you still can’t beat a Pebble

Love this so much! 👌

Wes Bos@wesbos.com

I put JavaScript on my Roomba. This might be the stupidest video you watch all week, but I promise you'll either learn something or be entertained. Full build now up! www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jAM...

youtube.comI put JavaScript on my Roomba VacuumYouTube video by Wes Bos

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✏️ ✏️ I wrote a quick little rant about the awful UX of login codes.

bradfrost.comThe UX of login codesI could do a deep dive into the UX of login codes, but I'll do my best to keep it short. If your product texts/emails login codes, the experience better be amazing. Bad The text/email neve...

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@kevinpowell.co

Seems to be the week for annoucements for me... yesterday my HTML & CSS for beginners course, and now: frontendmasters.com/courses/pro-...

frontendmasters.comWrite CSS like a Pro | Build a Responsive Site from ScratchUse custom properties and the latest responsive design techniques to build and deploy a website from scratch!

Kevin Powell@kevinpowell.co

I was going to make this public on Monday, but since it's all done, I figured why not pull the trigger earlier :) - www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

youtube.comHTML & CSS for Absolute Beginners - YouTubeThis is a free course that explores how you can create your very first website. It covers the basics of HTML & CSS. Assuming zero knowledge to start, it expl...

Just used the "My manager will handle payment" function on @frontendmasters.com. Seemless 👌

Finally watched Godzilla Minus One, what a film! 👏

Finding the warm spots 🐶

We need to talk about dog poo bag UX. All bags should have big contrasting text saying 'OPEN THIS END' so when it's dark and my hands are numb from the cold, I can complete my task with low friction. #ux #dogs

What gif pops up when you type in your name?

Andy Bell@bell.bz

What gif pops up when you type your name?

Thinking about @bell.bz's excellent #ffconf talk and trying to go a whole week without sending a lone "Hey" on Slack... which btw I also find frustrating as a recipient 🤦

Some things I like: 👨‍💻 Web design & development, for work and fun. 🎶 Music, mostly electronic but other stuff too. 🎮 PC gaming, mostly indie. 🌐 Self-hosting, "I run Linux btw". 🔌 Modding electronics, then not using them. 🐶 Walking the dog, watching her zoom. 🏙️ Norwich, tis a fine city.

Hello! Don't usually social media but might be giving this a go. Here's a picture I thought was nice.

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