Artem Sapegin

After five years of writing, I’ve finally finished my book! It took a lot of energy (and coffee!) to complete, but it’s finally done, and I’m really happy with the result. sapegin.me/book/

The part of "everyone becomes a manager" in AI that I didn't really think about until now was the mental fatigue of context switching and keeping many tasks going at once, which of course is one of the hardest parts of being a manager and now you all get to enjoy it too

Netflix’s new passwordless login feels like a deceptive pattern. At first glance, it looks like Netflix removed the option to log in with a password. Your only visible path is the email code flow, with a code that expires in 15 minutes.

⚡️ Vite 8.0 is here! The most significant architectural change since Vite 2. ⏬ Powered by @rolldown.rs bringing faster production builds and more consistency 🛤️ New features such as tsconfig paths and emitDecoratorMetadata support vite.dev/blog/announc...

Vitest 4.1 is out! 🚀 ✅ Vite 8 support from day 1 🏷️ Test tags to organize, filter & apply shared options 🪝 New hooks for easier tracing, transactions and AsyncLocalStorage 🔍 Async leak detection 🤖 Agent reporter to reduce token usage And much more! Full blog post at vitest.dev/blog/vitest-...

🚀Launch Week Update #1 🚀 OXLINT JS PLUGINS ALPHA 🏃🏽Run most ESLint plugins w/ 0 changes ✒️Write custom lint rules in JS/TS 🩹Get auto-fixes & suggestions from JS plugin rules 📊See JS plugin diagnostics live in your IDE oxc.rs/blog/2026-03...

It’s fun to watch how LLM is randomly changing values in TypeScript/ESLint/Vitest/etc config files for a full hour until it somehow starts to work. I usually do exactly the same.

This is probably not a revelation to everyone but with CSS nesting adding reduced motion support is as easy as wrapping your transition (or animation) declaration in a no-preference media query. div { /* css styles */ @media (prefers-reduced-motion: no-preference) { transition: …; } }

This is your reminder that women exist in tech the rest of the year, not just in March. Same for queer, BIPoC, disabled people and every other marginalized group. Stop inviting us just as a diversity token during the "month of" for your nice PR campaigns! And stop expecting free labor. Thanks.

another good example of `tabular-nums` in action. must have for columns of right-aligned numbers (tables, invoices, dashboards). normal table's columns have ragged left edges as digits swap between narrow ("1") and wide ("0", "8") glyphs. where tabular stays perfectly flush ~

✨ What's New in ViteLand: February 2026 Recap ◆ Oxfmt Beta: 100% Prettier conformance ◆ @vite.dev 8 includes devtools ◆ @vitest.dev 4.1 beta adds aroundEach/aroundAll hooks ◆ @rolldown.rs becomes 9.6% faster ◆ Oxlint now supports 59/61 ts-eslint rules ◆ NestJS migrates to Vitest ◆ and much more 👀

`tabular-nums` should be the default for any number that updates ( timers, counters, prices, percentages, scores, live data etc ). you can enable this tnum OpenType feature using the CSS property `font-variant-numeric`. .tabular-nums { font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums; }

❌ Instead of: if (map.has(key)) { return map.get(key); } map.set(key, value); return value; ✅ Write: return map.getOrInsert(key, value); This now works in all browsers!

Also, I've prepared a talk to help designers, who are tired of having accessibility pushed later, or ignored. February 25, 9am ET (3pm CET) I'll open the design track at #axecon with my talk "How to Convince People to Care and Invest in Accessibility" : www.deque.com/axe-con/sess...

Little reminder that axe-con, organised by @deque.com is this week!! It's a free online, two days (February 24 25) event, with a very nice line up of talks about accessibility and inclusive design. Want to learn about accessibility? Register, check them live, or catch the replays! #Accessibility

I've been experimenting with local LLM models for coding 🤦🏻‍♂️

I do agree with this part: > So when more and more people tell me they no longer know what code is in their own codebase, I feel like something is very wrong here and it’s time to reflect.

Dear developers, Please respect the reduced-motion preferences of your users. I'm tired of your websites making me nauseous. Motion is fun until it makes your users sick. Here you go: developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...

Accessibility tip of the day: a tool that claims to generate AI alt text, but starts the alt text with "the image is", is not a tool you should use. Why? Because screen readers already announce images, so adding "image of" is annoying and useless.

Meanwhile another LLM agent was flying under the radar and had a bunch of its work merged in. socket.dev/blog/ai-agen...

Obsidian uses local files, so all your standard terminal commands work for editing/moving/searching/etc Obsidian CLI adds everything else: - interacting with the UI - internal functions e.g. base queries, orphans, etc - devtools, console, screenshots, eval, etc See the CLI docs!

For almost 10 years we published daily web platform news in Russian. I always wanted to do the same in English, and five months ago I started. Yesterday I hit the 100th news on @web-standards.dev 🎉 Here’s a story behind the project. Of course, built with @11ty.dev 😎 pepelsbey.dev/articles/web...

Testing accessibility issues at components level is a good first step to make your product accessible. Hidde De Vries shares 5 quick tests you can run: - test component keyboard accessibility

I’ve started posting my photos again, this time on Substack — follow me if you’re there: substack.com/@sapegin

The effect of AI on my blog: from 900 clicks per month down to 200 in the last two years...

Do you use Polypane to check for Accessibility? Jules Ernst maintains an overview of which WCAG SCs Polypane helps with, and he just updated it with all the latest features in Polypane. An invaluable resource, thanks Jules! www.200ok.nl/tips/polypan...

My book, Accessibility For Everyone, is now free and online as a website. accessibilityforeveryone.site The book was first published by A Book Apart in 2017 but it holds up! It covers web accessibility for designers, developers, content folks, and really everyone who works in tech.

It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons: tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-i...

Or do whatever works for you. Arrow keys are good enough for this use case, and I can remember them. I have fzf installed for many years and hardly used it because it takes more mental effort and not worth it most of the time. mastodon.cloud/@mitchellh@h...

Nikita Prokopov points out all the inconsistencies, in the icons of Tahoe, the new Mac operating system. The “fifty shades of new” made my day. If you can’t find a good metaphor, using no icon is better than using a bad, confusing, or nonsensical icon. tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-i...

I’m often asked for accessibility resources for beginners. @laurakalbag.bsky.social's book has been my go to. It’s clear, practical, and works for designers, developers, and anyone involved in building products. The best part: it’s now free and available online. Bookmark it. Read it. Share it!

I've seen a reel from a lady who said that, as an adult woman in her 30s, she's exhausted from trying to get diagnosed for autism/ ADHD and none takes her seriously. She now decided to not get diagnosed and to get treatment for the all her comorbidities instead. It's the sad truth. 😔

Good article on Temporal API — it looks very promising and solves many of the Date issues: piccalil.li/blog/date-is...

Monthly reminder that, while there's no "one size fits all" perfect font for accessibility, you still want to avoid anything thin: it makes it very hard to read. Also, the smaller & thinner the font, the more important contrast is. Let users comfortably read your content! #Accessibility #Typography

"it's an internal app so it doesn't need to be responsive" is something I hear so much. Just because you're forcing your employees to deal with it doesn't mean they don't suffer.

Great article on logs from @boristane.bsky.social loggingsucks.com

Are we stuck with the same Desktop UX forever? This is a really interesting talk from a UX expert directed at programmers. Linux design is overly eager to throw the baby out with the bathwater. desktop UX regressed in the past 15 years Browser UX is stuck too. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fZT...

I feel this is the unfortunate trend in modern software, to bend users to the only correct way to use their software and punish those users who want or need some adjustments; and they refuse to accept that some user _do need_ accommodations.

Apple could surprise remove Liquid Glass the same way it surprise added U2 to everyone's devices and I'd be first in line to call things even.