mastodon 4.7.3Just smart enough to know I'm not smart enough. Also, my desk might need a tidy…
The uncomfortable work that we men, the ones who consider ourselves allies, is to call out and teach those boys around us. And fuck yes to gathering evidence to get the shit bags tossed.
👏 and 🙏 to @anarodrigues@front-end.social on her post https://ohhelloana.blog/woman-in-tech/
Prompted by @bramus@front-end.social' encouragement, I've written about popovers and the backdrop psuedo selector and how I think…it can lead to anti-patterns, it certainly did for me.
https://remysharp.com/2026/05/08/popover-backdrop-anti-pattern
Really didn't think it would work, but my hotel offers free wifi for 30 minutes.
So I'm now running this command every 30 minutes then reconnecting:
```
sudo ifconfig en0 ether $(openssl rand -hex 6 | sed 's/\(..\)/\1:/g; s/.$//')
```
I'm just rotating my mac address.
Yep, I'm just a software dev, working on my website…
Sat on the train watching spinners-a-plenty, and reminded of that old adage: PROGRESSIVE FUCKING ENHANCEMENT.
A-thank-kew.
Happy new Murderbot book day. Long one this time too.
The sticker @matthiasott@mastodon.social grabbed for me at @btconf@mastodon.social now appropriately sits on my broken basket.
But (hopefully) it's not quite game over!
TIL on Firefox Android, if I double tap, but hold the second tap, then I drag my finger down and up to zoom on that particular point.
No idea if this is standard across all browsers, only just discovered it this weekend by accident.
I'll just write a short blog post about the thing.
1,100 words later.
🤦
It's done though, link coming.
The last minutes of the last #AllDayHey. Been an honour to speak (in 2019), but moreso, attend.
Huge thanks to @heypresents@mastodon.world and so many others for running it over the last decade.
It's interesting that Mastodon has strong support for accessibility (i.e. blocking posts without alt text - yes, I know bsky can be turned on too, slightly harder UX I think), yet on Masto, you can't add subtitles to video, whereas you can add a vtt file on bsky.
I wish I could make the Firefox View the thing that loads up when I load a new blank tab.
So much better than the history (which I'm sure just misses stuff).
This blog post is so short it (is) a social post.
https://remysharp.com/2026/05/01/devtools-how-to-query-through-the-shadow-dom
But if I don't blog it, I'll forget it.
Huge thanks to @keithamus@indieweb.social for sharing it.
Just discovered @kagi.com's https://news.kagi.com - what a superb service and exactly something I've been looking for.
🤔 not thought about these in a while, but hadn't occurred to me that there isn't (that I could see) a Microformat for a bookmark - seems to fall into the same type as a h-entry which - in my head - is a full post.
I guess a bookmark is a micropost…but still…
We bought the boy a (2nd hand) Pixel Watch 2 (he does lots of running, but doesn't enjoy carrying a phone - plus doesn't really work for swimming) - and fuck me, being 14 really puts a spanner in the works.
Part of me wants to write it up, but not sure it's that useful.
Short version: just…don't?
I keep thinking a native command palette would be a superb new web feature (and yes, web components), mostly because of the universal accessibility.
But then…how on mobile? Maybe browser chrome would trigger it open? Not sure what the mobile UX looks like.
Such naivety that Starmer thinks he can have any kind of conversation with social media bosses to have any kind of impact at all. He's literally a fly to shit in this scenario.
These sites are monetising children and knowingly create addictive algorithms.
I think the answer is no (because I keep testing different variations of it), but(!), is it possible to write a CSS selector based on a pseudo element's position. ie. `dialog::backdrop + div { color: red }` (bad example, but should give you an idea).
Equally is `:has(::backdrop)` a thing?
Enjoying the **last** #AllDayHey.
The biggest thing I get from events, that I can't get from anywhere else: people who care about the things I care about.
I'm always nervous attending, worrying I'll be alone, and it never goes that way.
But it's always okay.
See you at the next event, right?
@janl@narrativ.es no, the link, it was literal paste bug by me. It's your bluesky username without the @ at the front, so it was slurped up as a url.
Like this https://janl.bsky.narrativ.es
But yeah, it would be a little more helpful if I actually tested in private :D @remysharp_testing@mastodon.social
I don't quite understand why installing an extension on Netlify means it's then installed on ALL projects.
I've got a few projects that are achingly old, and as such, the extension actually prevents the build from finishing (and I really don't want to update it because it's in full autonomous mode)
I might have just managed to spin up a new AWS server, and have a full deploy chain running in 30 minutes. I've never had an AWS server live deployed from `main` branch from github actions.
It's always been an extra I've had to pay for/non-AWS services.
Thanks for the clothes recommendations yesterday. This is most of them in a list: https://gist.github.com/remy/9229c42431b45d4122e517c28284dee0
I made myself a quick tool for extract these from future social posts where I ask "recommendation for X" here https://tools.remysharp.com/social-replies/
How do you get your (own?) web components into different projects?
- vendor scripts (i.e. copied into the project)
- npm/bundle
- hosted cdn script include
- other
(can't remember if I can do polls or not!)
Wanting to watch the Women's World Cup qualifiers - is there a website that tells you who is showing it, or is it always itvx?
Testing my new cross post process. I finally managed to fix a LOT of problems in the last one, @janl.bsky.narrativ.es kindly prompted me the last time.
Now I've got a UI that helps me debug too.
(this tests if a) cross posts works, b) find's Jan's masto account on the masto side)
