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Good friends and family know this, but I am bad at email.

There’s a new web platform feature flighting in Chromium called Declarative Partial Updates.

“Triple Threat” Josh Collinsworth has a brand new daily puzzler game called Tupo.

If I’ve been missing from the internet it’s because I’ve been spending my evenings grinding on a game from Butterscotch Shenanigans called How Many Dudes?

A handful of people I follow and know about have announced their recent departure.

I made a smol client-side syntax highlighter that uses the CSS Custom Highlights API called MicroLighter.

Edit (2026.08.24): Got feedback from the Web Components Community Group that I was mixing up inheritance, specificity, and the cascade and that * might be a better selector than :defined.

During my last vibe check the kids were still in school.

I’ve had the pleasure in my career of sitting in tons of different board rooms talking with executives and getting a rundown on different charts and graphs they care most deeply about.

CodePen v2 is now released!

Xavier de Maistre in an armchair, displaying his “book of discoveries” (Veyssier, 1860) Every so often I like to include a public domain image in a blog post.

Named slots are one of web components’ biggest superpowers ✨.

I play Clues by Sam nearly every single day.

Forgive me, Reader.

I have complex feelings about Generative AI but one area I find myself weirdly bullish on is small language models (SLMs) in the browser which are available in Chrome and Edge behind an experimental flag.

The use of AI is leading to burnout among its greatest advocates as they hit the limit of their meta-cognitive abilities: “I end each day exhausted—not from the work itself, but from the managing of the work.

The number of screenshots of Claude conversations is going up in my life and it’s beginning to have an impact on my general mood.

When you make speed and “moving fast” the biggest priority on a project or in an organization, the first thing to breakdown is talking to each other.

We rolled out adaptive light-dark() support on our design system themes and it’s been a delightful upgrade.

It’s a secret to everyone!

I’ve watched a billion hours of YouTube and I’ve noticed a common trend: Whether that’s a drawing, a video game, a song, a cake, or a whole-ass off-grid house; I’ve learned that it’s fun to watch people make something.

The Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect of AI is a pretty well documented phenomenon: The Gell-Mann amnesia effect is a cognitive bias describing the tendency of individuals to critically assess media reports in a domain they are knowledgeable about, yet continue to…

If I can make it smaller, I should.

I had a small, intrusive realization the other day that computers and the internet are probably bad for me.

Skills are the newest hype commodity in the world of agentic AI.