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Engineer at Shopify. No thought goes unpublished. 'IMO' implicit. He/him.
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it’s funny that they’re both on their own personal websites posting their little posts

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In supermarkets in Australia, you can buy a takeaway roast chicken in a bag. Because it requires no preparation whatsoever, and the bags usually have handles, I used to occasionally hear it referred to as “a bachelor’s handbag”

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On June 12th, I'm going to be attending @middlesbroughfe.co.uk for the third year in a row. There are still tickets available, and I strongly recommend grabbing one. The talks are highly technical, but the environment is friendly and grass-roots rather than corporate. This year's lineup looks great

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Shopify Polaris is now built on web components. My team and I have been working on this for a while and it's been a lot of fun to "embrace the platform"! shopify.dev/beta/next-ge... Lots of things learned, lots of fun edge cases discovered (hello moving web components to iFrames in Firefox)

submitted 16 days ago • 6 comments

My family were not surprised by this.

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One 'gotcha' I've experienced in Italy a few times, is systems often have an unexpected extra dimension. For example, finding platform 4 was a challenge, with signs seemingly pointing in opposite directions. I _think_ there are three platform 4s. One "east", one "west", and another which is neither

submitted 18 days ago • 9 comments

Before an F1 race, they send the drivers around on a truck, doing interviews and waving to the crowd. But just before that, they send around a load of rich/privileged people, who get due respect from the fans.

submitted 19 days ago • 5 comments

Intent to ship for sibling-index() & sibling-count()! You won't need to itemize nth-child to style things like staggered animations anymore 🥳 For example, I'd be able to clean up the angle position and animation delays in this demo: codepen.io/una/pen/Qwwz... Explainer: github.com/w3c/csswg-dr...

submitted 25 days ago • 4 comments

🥳 We added new attributes to HTML to enhance <input type=color>: webkit.org/blog/16900/p...

submitted 30 days ago • 4 comments

I have some (misplaced?) optimism that all mediocre content will be branded "AI slop", even if it isn't AI, and we'll have renewed appreciation for excellent content with personal character.

submitted 28 days ago • 13 comments

Lots of folks fell for the "DOM is slow" marketing of certain frameworks, but DOM isn't slow. *Uncontrolled style read-back* is. But what if that wasn't a thing? Looking for feedback on a new proposal to control layout thrashing here: github.com/MicrosoftEdge/MS…

submitted 29 days ago • 6 comments

"Leaving a talk inspired to be a better human has a far greater impact than any code you will see in a slide." - @ohhelloana.blog ohhelloana.blog/forty-mins-t...

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Hey we're hiring for Developer Relations here in London. @tldraw.com is this mad mix of "exciting product you would work on in your spare time anyway" and "we're selling to loads of developers" ... combined with a hyper-talented mixed-up team of smart creative weirdos.

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

AGI is coming for all of us. It will write symphonies, direct movies, and author the best novels. The only thing it won’t be able to do is VC investing, which must be reserved as a task only for the most-special people

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