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Interested in setting aside the magical prompter and learning some web standards skills the old fashioned way? You can sign up for my online Web Components course for free until Oct 31 with the code markitzero. If you find it useful, please consider letting folks know! 🎃

I'm so gosh-darned excited! css-tricks.com/css-tricks-h...

It’s been a long process but now, masonry layouts have an actual CSS approach, so Saleh Mubashar has put together a really useful guide on how it works, how we got here and what’s next.

Love these minisites Grilli Type make for their fonts. gt-standard.com gt-planar.com gt-maru.com

America now has second-generation school shooting survivors nypost.com/2026/10/17/u...

this is a fantastic example of the kind of care and thoughtfulness the web, or rather we as people and developers should have

Hi, I’m a sighted alt text user! Here are some reasons I use it: - Slow Internet on an airplane - I’m over 40, I have no idea who that celebrity is - Bluesky broke images again - My vision sucks and that text is too small to read otherwise - Conveys further context and authorial intent

It is absolutely preferable to not pick up the cigarette in the first place news.berkeley.edu/2026/10/09/u...

The Israeli army has bulldozed over 1.6 million olive trees in Gaza since the beginning of the genocide in 2023, threatening the livelihood and heritage of olive farming communities, and the survival of a centuries-old Palestinian cultural tradition. mondoweiss.net/2026/10/afte...

finally replaced my mouse switches and omg its so nice to have a working mouse

Uh, look at this MICR-inspired signage on an old building in Singapore.

don't be nice.

Our huge 35% discount on all courses ends on Tuesday. Use the coupon code PRICEFALL at checkout. Don't miss out! piccalil.li/courses/

just learned this today

Meta and X have been quietly downranking external links for ages, but we're now entering a new era of open hostility toward the open web. It's a great time to build your own website, free from any billionaires demanding a tithe for things that have always been free.

Piccalilli's fall sale is still active as well!

i can't wait for my new mouse switches to arrive T-T my mouse can't consistently single- OR hold-click

It’s Friday, so let’s close out the week with some Good Links™ in The Index #197! piccalil.li/the-index/197/

Mindful Design and Complete CSS are both fantastic. I've been very slow to work through Mindful Design but I look at nearly everything through a more discerning lens with regard to both Mindfulness and aesthetic. Complete CSS felt easy and very Piccalilli: organization, iterations, and collaboration

While CEO's see "AI" as tool to ensure they no longer have to pay/depend on people, workers adopting "AI" get taught that skills they don't have/other professions are worth less. This destruction of worker solidarity and interdisciplinary collaboration is a core function of the "AI" discourse.

The current debate between 2 vs 3 state theme switchers is ridiculous. Everyone knows that the right answer is 100 #css #a11y

all the vibe coded apps is really killing my atproto enthusiasm icl gang, do folks have some recommendations for Organic Free Range atproto apps they like?

CAPITAL: We have invented a machine that can cross picket lines PROGRAMMERS: I bet this will give us four day weekends. The left need to get behind this. What else can it do CAPITAL: Psychosis! Deepfakes! Propaganda! Plagerism! Yaml! Todo Apps! PROGRAMMERS: Run those last two past me again

So I kind of learned #GleamLang already. 😅 It didn't take long. The language has really embraced simplicity. And I like it. 😁 Something that makes #LuaLang and #GoLang absolutely shine.

CSS text-box is newly baseline, and it's solves a common text layout issue. Here's how it works:

What do you do when you're working with a rate limited API, a large content base and a dream? Progressive enhancement of course. piccalil.li/projects/per...

I've had Wave of Mutilation stuck in my head for like 3 days now and for some reason my brain has decided it needs to start swapping around the syllables. What the fuck is a "mute wave of elation"? T-T

I can't wait for text-fit and text-box-trim

someone in a chat I'm in said, paraphrased, "there's a lot of programmers who think that they, the Smart People, know how to use AI for good and everything ELSE is slop but claude code doesn't count" and yeah that is DEF the direction I'm seeing people pivot to dodge resistance against AIgen lately

I'm working on my personal site and the layout is kicking my ass T-T I'm happy with the typography and pretty content with color, but everything I try for the layout either feels uncreative or like it clashes with the next thing. It's very frustrating

🔥 The new “Gap Decorations” API allows us to add borders between grid rows/columns and Flexbox children. I spent some time playing around with it and it’s a lovely new feature. 😄 You can learn more on CSS Tricks:

every week I forget that it's friday, and every week i'm pleasantly surprised by another issue of The Index

Happy 35th Birthday The World's First Website! On August 6, 1991, the World Wide Web (WWW) creator, Tim Berners-Lee launched the world’s first website. #InternetHistory

I like to think I keep up with new #CSS features, but sometimes I overlook something fun. For example, improvements to text-stroke: tylersticka.com/journal/impr... #WebDesign #WebDev

It's been a while since I've done a people looking for work thread. If you're looking for work, put what you do and what you're looking for (full time, freelance etc) as a reply. Companies: get hiring people!

brain good

Hey friends. Still looking for work!

I've been relearning gleam and trying to learn atproto (beyond just the high-level concepts) by trying my hand at writing a PDS and its so much! and the specs can be so vague! (I'm not very far along, I've got like, a mostly working CAR parser)

👋 We hope you’re hangin’ in there this summer. While we’ve been hard at work writing in-depth name change guides on a per-state basis, our contributors have added contacts for orgs supporting name changes in Illinois, Kentucky, and North Carolina! namesake.fyi/directory

Fix your hearts or die.

blog.codeberg.org/protecting-o... 👏 TL;DR: keep your slop on GitHub

reasons for having your own website in 2026 🟦 🟦 🟦 🟦 🟦 🟦 🟦 bellkiosk.website/blog/reasons...