It was a lovely day above the Moon. The Artemis astronauts did some science, took lots of pictures, didn't die or get replaced by bodysnatchers, and perhaps most importantly, made me bawl a couple of times. One was when Orion came back into communications range after 40 nerve-wracking minutes behind…

On 32-bit Café, the wonderful Coyote made a thread about my previous article, "Trust and Faith in Our Web". I am so jazzed and grateful by all the feedback I received! It was such an unexpected surprise. First off, I think I did a bad job of communicating some of my ideas in my original post that…

One old dragon that’s reared its head again in this “age of AI” is the very wrongheaded notion that productivity == code. Managers aim to maximise the amount of code their dev teams produce, and so they maximise the time devs spend writing code. Let me tell you a story about the value of code. When…

Doubts about the wisdom of the masses are as old as philosophy itself. Yet interest in democracy’s “epistemic” merits has surged in the last decade—and it is no mystery why. Democracy is collapsing around us in large part for epistemic reasons: because so many people have become so profoundly…

Imagine you were Vladimir Putin or Xi Jinping and you woke up a year ago having magically been given command of puppet strings that control the White House. Your explicit geopolitical goal is to undermine trust in the United States on the world stage. You want to destroy the Western rules-based…

Like many front-end developers, I don’t have a formal computer science background. I rolled into this discipline as a designer wanting more control over the end product and though I did get a bachelors of ICT degree, the actual studies were, ahem, quite light in terms of “fundamental computer…

Nearly every bit of the high-tech world, from the most cutting-edge AI systems at the biggest companies, to the casual scraps of code cobbled together by college students, is annotated and described by the same, simple plain text format. Whether you’re trying to give complex instructions to ChatGPT,…

Today is Dan McQuade's funeral. To celebrate our friend, we wanted to give the people he worked with a place to explain what they loved so much about him. If you would like to support Dan's widow Jan, and his son Simon, you can do so here. David Roth, Defector Editor Dan was always into something,…

It took only a few minutes before everyone in the church knew that another person had been shot. I was sitting with Trygve Olsen, a big man in a wool hat and puffy vest, who lifted his phone to show me a text with the news. It was his 50th birthday, and one of the coldest days of the year. I asked…

Tragedy from the there-is-no-dispute dept Thu, Jan 8th 2026 10:12am - Renee Nicole Good was a 37-year-old award-winning poet, a mother of a six-year-old, and a wife who had recently moved to Minneapolis. That all ended yesterday when a masked ICE agent murdered her in broad daylight, shooting her…

There’s been a little chatter circling the question “Why would I build a website in 2025?” I was on a panel about it in the last year and it has popped up on various podcasts and such. It’s a fair question, but it’s one that, I think, requires both a very wide lens into what people are doing, and a…

The way we consume content on the internet is increasingly driven by walled-garden platforms and black-box feed algorithms. This shift is making our media diets miserable. Ironically, a solution to the problem predates algorithmic feeds, social media and other forms of informational junk food. It is…

You can’t understand this story unless you understand Kelley Square, and you can’t understand Kelley Square until you have had the near-death experience of trying to drive through it. Technically, it is the intersection of state routes 290 and 122 in what is now called the Canal District of…

The NASA spacecraft tasked with uncovering the secrets of Jupiter, king of the planets, is running out of time. The Juno probe has already survived far longer than anticipated—its path around the solar system’s largest planet has repeatedly flown it through a tempest of radiation that should have…

24th July, 2025 Native CSS transitions have quietly killed the strongest argument for client-side routing. Yet people keep building terrible apps instead of performant websites. The app-like fallacy “Make it feel like an app.” At some point during the scoping process, someone says the words. A CMO.…

This is an updated & abridged version of the talk I gave at several conferences throughout 2022/23, including Beyond Tellerrand, CSS Day and FFConf. If you take just one thing away from this article, I want it to be this: please build your own website. A little home on the independent web. A…

It can be surprising for new clients to see just how much of our design process happens in HTML, CSS and (light) JavaScript. While we do plenty of ideation exercises, sketching, wireframes, mockups and more, we like to get our hands dirty in the browser as soon as we can. There are business and…

Superscripts and subscripts are essential elements in academic and scientific content — from citation references to chemical formulas and mathematical expressions. Yet browsers handle these elements with a static approach that can create significant problems: elements become either too small on…

Failures from the twisting-the-chaos-knob-on-the-levers-of-power dept Fri, Jan 31st 2025 04:04pm - Remember how Elon Musk destroyed Twitter by ripping apart its infrastructure without understanding it? Now imagine that same playbook applied to the federal government. It’s happening, and the stakes…

Build for the Web, Build on the Web, Build with the Web Written by Harry Roberts on CSS Wizardry. This article started life as a post on LinkedIn, but after some gentle nudging from friend, web custodian, and unwitting mentor Jeremy Keith, I’ve decided to publish and expand upon it here. If you’re…

New study on moons of Uranus raises chance of life 11 November 2024 Pallab GhoshScience Correspondent•@BBCPallab SPL Artwork: Uranus and its five largest moons had been thought to be inactive and ster

Can it be done? This plucky front-end developer intends to find out. Can we do it? We looked at the Popover API and how it’s made it’s way across all browsers already just last week. One of the things

A lot of new CSS features have shipped in the last years, but actual usage is still low. While there are many different reasons for the slow adoption, I think one of the biggest barriers are our own b

After 13 years of JavaScript, I finally have a way to remember how the comparator function in Array.sort() works. I think the trouble is that all the examples use this shorthand syntax. This is beyond

62 min read· Apr 23, 2024 -- A few weeks ago, I got a bit miffed reading yet another article that was too dismissive about memory safety, basically being mostly dismissive about the need for change. T

May 10, 2024 The Modern Guide For Making CSS Shapes About The Author Temani was a regular contributor at CSS-Tricks who wrote perhaps more articles than anyone who was not on staff. He loves experimen