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I cannot emphasize enough how much I miss street dining and am furious so many outdoor spaces that reduced the risk of Covid-19 were taken away for PARKING SPACES

submitted 2 days ago • 18 comments

After the State of JS, CSS, AI… here comes the State of Devs: a survey for everything that's not code: career, workplace, health, hobbies, and more! survey.devographics.com/survey/state...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

What's cool about shape is it's responsive in many ways. - Want to keep that curve but grow the length? Let's do it. - Want that corner at 90 degrees but fine changing the width? Awesome. - Want to maintain these sides but stretch that other side? LFG See for yourself!

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Carl Sagan was prescient.

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

It's insane how congestion pricing in NYC has been just about the most unambiguously successful new policy implemented in my lifetime and still all the dumbest people in government want to get rid of it

submitted 8 days ago • 15 comments

Say hello to responsive, adaptable shapes in CSS with the new shape() function! Instead of static SVG paths in clip-path, shape() allows you to define scalable, flexible shapes with familiar CSS units, variables, and even calc(). Learn more on the WebKit blog post. webkit.org/blog/16794/t...

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Have you ever wished you could make a real-deal complex shape in CSS? The web’s had circle(), ellipse() and polygon() for years. But in order to do anything more SVG-style syntax was required. Well, no more. Now, you can make complex shapes in CSS! webkit.org/blog/16794/t...

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

Nothing like experiencing a heart rate of 100-140 for hours while sitting still at a desk. I’m exhausted. Way out of pace points for the day. Didn’t even leave my tiny apartment.

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

The cool thing about my job is that I work with new tech, things that aren't out yet or that most people don't know about. The downside is that means there is little documentation, few examples, and minimal information available. Tons of trials and error, and figuring things out on your own!

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

I can. I was made incredibly clear to me in 2022 that they want people like me to go away. Disappear. To die, really. It’s eugenics. And by “they”, I mean you. Well, 99% of you. One by one, I watched you all insist your right to comfort is more important than my right to live. So I stay home. Still.

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

Now I finally know why I still need #CSS float. #shape-outside only works on floated elements .-)

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

✍️ I shared a few thoughts about Item Flow, the new syntax that the CSS working group is discussing. In short, I'm excited. Check it out for more details: ishadeed.com/article/item...

submitted 11 days ago • 5 comments

Better typography with text-wrap pretty by @jensimmons.bsky.social Great article on the Webkit blog about the Safari specific way of implementing the CSS `text-wrap: pretty`. Also a great explainer of typography concepts like rivers, rags, hyphenation and others. webkit.org/blog/16547/b... #css

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

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submitted 13 days ago • 4 comments

The logic of filling in public swimming pools with dirt or cement instead of racially integrating them, applied to the whole country

submitted 14 days ago • 27 comments

All of this yes, all of this, and still the pandemic as well.

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

Typesetting on the Web just got more beautiful! Support for `text-wrap: pretty` has landed in Safari Technology Preview 216. @jensimmons.bsky.social's post on the WebKit blog explains how this improves typography in multiple ways: no more ragged edges, poor hyphenation, or short last lines.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

I’m super excited about `text-wrap: pretty`. It does a lot more to improve typography than you might expect — at least in Safari Technology Preview 216. It improves all lines of text, not just the last 4. It enhances hyphenation & rag, not just avoiding short last lines. webkit.org/blog/16547/b...

submitted 15 days ago • 10 comments

Sure you’ve lost your life savings but hey at least you can say all the slurs you want in the break room of the job you no longer have

submitted 16 days ago • 28 comments

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

submitted 16 days ago • 1114 comments

You guys, they're not stupid They're doing propaganda When they lie through their teeth, they are doing propaganda Do you think the people behind Big Brother in 1984 were stupid? Big Brother says lots of nonsensical shit. It's called p r o p a g a n d a

submitted 17 days ago • 166 comments

every day the CSS spec moves closer to supporting the Persona 5 menu while web design ethos moves further away from it

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

Before I joined Apple, I remember reading so much hate and frustration towards us when it came to supporting web apps. Now that I'm on the inside, I get to see how much work and careful consideration goes into supporting web apps responsibly. This is a great example: webkit.org/blog/16535/m...

submitted 23 days ago • 4 comments

With Safari 18.4 shipping Ogg container support for both Opus and Vorbis, did Safari just pull into first place when it comes to media format support??

submitted 19 days ago • 3 comments

We’ve been on a roll publishing content on webkit.org: Last Thursday: Meet Declarative Web Push webkit.org/blog/16535/m... Last Friday: Item Flow, Part 1: a new unified concept for layout webkit.org/blog/16587/i... Monday: WebKit Features in Safari 18.4 webkit.org/blog/16574/w... Please do read!

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Oh it’s _definitely_ not too late to write a blog post about what you think. We’d love to hear much more.

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

Without requiring Service Worker in JavaScript! THIS IS HUGE WIN! I wish the other browser vendors want to ship it!

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

Today at the CSS Working Group "face to face" meeting… Powerful tools for defining corner shapes. (Beyond the simple rounded corders you can do today with `border-radius`.)

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

ECMAScript excitement 😉 Safari 18.4 ships three new TC39 proposals 🎉 🔶 Iterator Helpers (Stage 4) 🔶 Error.isError (Stage 3) 🔶 Atomics.pause (Stage 3)

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

Today brings 84 new features in Safari 18.4! • Declarative Web Push • Screen Wake Lock API for Home Screen Web Apps • Viewport presets in Responsive Design Mode • Ogg Opus & Vorbis • Image Capture API • WebM support in MediaRecorder • `view-transition-name: match-element` webkit.org/blog/16574/w...

submitted 23 days ago • 10 comments

text-autospace should be of interest to anyone working on Chinese or Japanese sites.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

I’m writing about Item Flow and masonry layouts now, for our Part 2 of this article: webkit.org/blog/16587/i... What do you want to know? (I want to be sure I cover everything.)

submitted 23 days ago • 3 comments