remy sharp's b:log

I'm in the process of (attempting) to redesign this blog, and in doing so, I'm using a few of the new bits (to me) of CSS to make things fancy.

TL;DR: no.

The boy is 14 and regularly does long outdoor runs.

Bleak.

Tia would have turned 16 this year.

Really enjoyed it, weirdly relatable and kept coming back for more.

Lea's deep dive into dark mode toggles is well worth the read.

Anecdotal, but still an interesting read on stories from (initially) a single developer and how they converted to Claude and then have rewound back quite a bit He told me that features he generated using Claude Code ended up crashing their product on two…

Really enjoyed it.

Good article that's backed with data, but this is the bit that really landed for me, a reminder that it's not all "what aria role is needed here...?"

Lately I've had the opportunity to travel by train and coach, during which time I also tend to work.

This is very cute, a web site minimap in only a few lines of CSS that paints the entire web page into a canvas (background) using the element() CSS function.

Similar to the Pokemon Yellow recently, I had a GBA Emerald Green sent in for repair.

A book about work, felt like work.

I guess I just want bragging rights, but here's the short story of rescuing Pokémon Yellow.

I saw recently saw a blog post (which annoyingly I can't find any more, but I'll link it if I do), showing off a web component that if I recall correctly, would show (or hide) it's contents depending on a browser feature (I'd guess using the @supports que…

I've been following the stories around the "child protection" because on one hand it does afford children some protection, but it also hammers down on the privacy of everyone - i.e. adults who give up their privacy to prove they're not a child.

Really appreciate Jeremy's post on the way he used generative AI to solve a problem.

Quick easy read.

I've been banging on about this for a while now and I absolutely welcome the prospect of this being a reality, and hopefully not just for children.

An excellent post on polyfills, talking through their impact, what issues people (mostly in the standards world) face.

TIL: git (the command line tool) now contains LLM generated code (I'm still unsure, we're calling this generative AI, right?).

Just a brainfart here, but it's odd that even though we have wildcard selectors throughout CSS, and even partial selectors (I'll explain in a bit) we don't have partial wildcard selectors on top level elements.

When I think of AI slop, as a developer working on or around the web, I tend to think of dev-centric content, such as blog posts or even software (a lot of the community I'm connected to will call software slop).

I remember the days I was hungry for features on the web…it was…a long time ago!

Came across this nice little TIL in the qSA API: parentNode.querySelectorAll('> *') you get an error: '> *' is not a valid selector..

Loved it.

As I've been seeing more and more posts about PDS and things like "lexicons" such as standard.site, I've been thinking more about how Bluesky is the main hub of all our our social data (for those left twitter and of course putting aside Mastodon for a mom…

A long article (23 min read!)

In my RSS reader, I stumbled upon this code-golfed (i.e. minimised to death) snippet that's fairly clever, but from the code, utterly opaque.

Solid entry into the series.

This really isn't the intended take away from Eric's post (which is worth reading), but I needed a CSS rule that targetting Safari (because their support is weird): /* this is gross and I hate it but it works to fix Safari’s layout of the table’s top…

As with each year for the FFConf web site, I have a distinct idea of the visual style I want.

This is neat.

Sacha has an in depth analysis of the UK's recent announcements around social media websites and children's access to them.

Today is the anniversary of the first blog post on this website from two decades ago.

I've been catching CSS Grid Lanes in the socials this week, but somehow had it in my head that it was to do with the gaps (the lanes) between the grid.

The UK government has announced they're going ahead with a social media ban for 16 year old and under.

Based on the output of this article the author has styled their project with different AI prompts.

The UK government’s ultimatum to Apple and Google is a blueprint for mass surveillance.

I love these little deep dives into bits of UX that we take for granted.

The "AI overview" is its own content, not just a list of search results.

I didn't really need to read much past the title or subtitle, but it's still an excellent essay that does a good job of drawing comparisons to concepts we already understand, for example: The term deepfake traditionally refers to photos, audio, and video,…

Another (shorter) entry in how how devs are adding Standard.site to their web sites to enrich the social cards.I suspect we'll start to gravitat towards tools to help us to add these - which is what it looks like David is doing.Though I'm a little wary of…

For the second year running, as part of our "stay sane" strategy for FFConf, Julie and I write and send a weekly newsletter.

Today I'm releasing my Game Boy game called Marbles² (or Marbles Squared).

Took me a minute to get into, but then…I cried.

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After attending recent conferences and learning that I can swap out buckets of JavaScript for the HTML native popover property, I've been using it liberally throughout my own projects.

This is a literal TIL but was so handy I had to put it my blog so that I wouldn't forget it later.