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AI & Alignment
Raw coding speed isn't the bottleneck. Alignment is the bottleneck. That seems to be a zeitgeist-y theme lately. If you're using AI to code, maybe you're feeling it. You can code more and faster. And clearly a boatload of other developers are doing that too. But software doesn't seem to be exploding in quantity or quality broadly. Maybe it's…
team i'm FIRED UP about these gnarly gotchas with Anchor Positioning in CSS.
It’s an assumed truth that Safari is better for battery life — without data to support it.
This pseudo-truth just bugs me. I hear it all the the time. People saying they choose Safari as a browser because it's better for their battery. But there isn't any data (that I know of) that proves that Safari is more efficient at battery usage than any other browser. I applaud Matt Birchler who did real testing on this (2024). He scripted a 20 minute loop that watched YouTube…
Miscalibrated
I've been gaining weight again. More than twenty pounds in the last ~4 months. I've been hitting the gym hard and getting measurably stronger, so: Food! See, your boy can eat. The amount I can eat before I feel full would astound most of you out there. Whatever you think of as a complete hearty meal, sure as you're born, ain't gonna get me there.
Playing Wordle though the Firefox URL bar via *OpenSearch* is one hell of a trick. https://eieio.games/nonsense/implementing-wordle-in-the-firefox-address-bar/
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Lars Mensel: ... the only way out of the delusion that AI can replace all of us is to do good meaningful work, and to appreciate good work when we see it.
Meets Style Sheets
I've accepted an invitation to speak at Smashing's (Online) Conference Meets Style Sheets. It's free on Wednesday, May 6th. I named my talk In-N-Out Styling. Long time CSS evangelist Chris Coyier will talk about how you can style things on their way into view on a webpage, and on their way out. Of course, with Chris being Chris, there will be plenty of things which are food for discussion, as well as plenty of practical take-aways as well.
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I like how Nolan paints this two-sided picture of AI coding. The worst fact about these tools is that they work. They can write code better than you or I can, and if you don’t believe me, wait six months. You could abstain out of moral principle. And that’s fine, especially if you’re at the tail end of your career.
Ghostty has `background-opacity` why don't YooOOOuUUUuu have `background-opacity` CSS?
Hawai’i
I'm just back from the United States 50th state, a staggering 2,500 miles from the mainland. For the next week or two, I'll pronounce it Ha-Vie-ee, like how it's pronounced in the native Hawaiian language. A language, by the way, that only a few thousand people speak natively, no doubt due to the 91 years (1896-1987) where there was "strict physical punishment"
You can `glob` a folder full of Markdown+Front Matter files in CodePen 2.0 and build a site out of it.
Use the Vue + Vite block and do the glob in the Vite config. Use the define method to pass it to the client.
Here's how:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Pn-2BPSlgn8
Example Pen:
https://codepen.io/editor/chriscoyier/pen/019d31b8-a215-7132-8772-8e96cbff1665
You Get Good At What You Do (Or Do You?)
I used to feel really strongly about this. You get good at what you do. Like, if you build websites all the time, you get good at building websites. If you make burritos all the time, you get good at making burritos. It could extend to almost anything. Healthy places that fit into the logical narrative you already know, like if you lift weights to the point of exhausting your limits a lot, you'll get stronger.
https://chriscoyier.net/2026/02/24/you-get-good-at-what-you-do-or-do-you/
Kermit Roosevelt
I was at a school function the other day where the 2nd graders performed a bunch of Aesop's Fabels and it was great. It was a double-header with 3rd graders who then read prepared reports on famous people. It was cross-disciplinary thing as the kids brought props from design class, costumes from performing arts, and did the speech both in Spanish and English.
Tucci Pan Review
Stanley Tucci has a set of cookware named after him that GreenPan sells. I've got these two pans: I forget where they came from exactly, some silent auction or something, but I unboxed and started using them about 8 months ago. I was so hyped the first few months! Ultra extremely non-stick Washing them with a soft sponge is nearly effortless because of how non-stick they are.
Good reminder: don't lazy load hero or product images.
https://cloudfour.com/thinks/stop-lazy-loading-product-and-hero-images/
It hurts both your UX and your Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) score.
Help Me Understand How To Get Jetpack Search to Search a Custom Post Type
I've got a Custom Post Type in WordPress. It's called docs because it's for documentation pages. register_post_type("docs", [ "labels" => [ "name" => __("Docs"), "singular_name" => __("Docs Page"), "add_new" => __("Add Docs Page"), "add_new_item" => __("Add New Docs Page"), "edit_item" => __("Edit Docs Page"), ], "public" => true, "publicly_queryable" => true, 'exclude_from_search' => false,…
AI is my CMS
I mean... it's not really, of course. I just thought such a thing would start to trickle out to people's minds as agentic workflows start to take hold. AI agents are already up in your codebase fingerbanging whole batches of files on command. What's the difference between a CMS taking some content and smashing it into some templates and an AI doing that same job instead?