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Web components at Microsoft. Co-host at ShopTalk. Previously Luro and Paravel. Blogger.
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Talked with @jakearchibald.com about the possibility of an HTML `<include>`. Why doesn't it exist? Could it exist? *Should* it exist? I'm a little obsessed with this. shoptalkshow.com/668/

submitted 4 hours ago • 3 comments

This episode was incredibly good! It’s super interesting that HTML imports would actually be possible (and also that they might be called <rupert> – and include lazy loading)! Thank you guys! 👏

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Was filling out a work form on a portal and –I don't mean to distrub anyone too much (especially over the weekend)– but the 8 and the 3 were upside down.

submitted 3 days ago • 50 comments

Current design tokens project status

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Billionaires ke paas already sab kuchh hai. Ab, aapka time aageya. Billionaires already have everything. Now, your time has come.

submitted 6 days ago • 72 comments

i have the brain cells & masters in compsci to handle a nuanced discussion on the broad topic of artificial intelligence, but not the character count allotment on here. i will say, the “you’ll be left behind if you don’t use it” crowd is very goofy just like the “have fun being poor” web3 folks were

submitted 6 days ago • 7 comments

How did I not know about canidev.tools before today?!

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

it turned out to be a bad year to work in international freight insurance, so i am on the hunt for a new staff engineering role tef.computer i work in the uk, but usually remote and in american timezones. postgres and dist-sys but i can sling json into any replicated log if needed

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

We need to get back to the Obama timeline.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

11pm cockroach encounter. Guess I’ll just never sleep anymore.

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

If anyone is hiring, I'm still looking for my next thing. Senior Frontend Developer. Skilled at HTML/CSS/JavaScript, React, UI/UX, A11Y, web performance, design systems, Web Components, and more. I'd love to work with you! gomakethings.com/resume

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Back when I was finding my feet in tech everybody was buzzing about building positive change. Somewhere along the way, something changed. Fortunately for us though, tech is not the first industry forced to defend itself against dubious practices. What might we learn if we were to look elsewhere?

submitted 9 days ago • 12 comments

📝 The Fifth Estate daverupert.com/2025/05/the-...

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

I'm gonna stream a minute about CSS `@scope` in inline HTML elements and... stuff. www.twitch.tv/chriscoyier

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

In my decades long quest to get text to size inversely to text-length, I think I've made my best attempt yet with the updated CSS `attr()`. codepen.io/davatron5000...

submitted 12 days ago • 12 comments

👀 Coming to Chrome DevTools in Chrome 138: CSS Value Tracing When you hover a --custom-prop in a `var()`, DevTools currently shows you the computed value. From Chrome 138 onwards, you can hover the `var` part to see how CSS actually got to that value.

submitted 12 days ago • 9 comments

The Chrome DevTools Performance panel just leveled up! 🚀 Here's a 69-second taste of the new hotness.

submitted 13 days ago • 8 comments