Arpit Agrawal

Serbia and Brazil. Let's keep it going.

What’s `b` after this runs? let a = 10; let b = a; a = 0; It’s 10. Even though I had gotten it right, I couldn’t have explained why. @danabra.mov and @maggieappleton.com’s course, Just JavaScript, helped me develop a better mental model of how it works and now it's free. justjavascript.com/learn

truly a wild time to be alive when the cryptography world is split between those worried about quantum computers and those whose private key is “4”

I am afraid my stuffed dinosaur will eat us all. He must be stopped buttondown.com/practicaltip... by @mattmay.bsky.social

This is so much fun! destroy.spritefusion.com

Most organisations want accessible websites, but their colour palettes weren't built for it. Plenty of contrast checkers flag the problems. We couldn't find one that helps fix them, so we made one. Introducing...✨This hue shall pass✨ thishueshallpass.clearleft.com

We'll quickly regret defunding and losing those who read the specs, learn, explore, measure, weigh, and share their hard-won experience. When the answer to every question is "I asked Claude and clicked approve" we yield actual answers to probabilities and will always be left asking, "Are you sure?"

“In response to “The death of web development education” ” https://bell.bz/in-response-to-the-death-of-web-development-education/ > The most effective way I can contribute, in my opinion, is a crude sketch I just did of Piccalilli‘s Stripe chart for all time sales: That graph is eye-opening

<elton-john-voice>🎶 THE CIRCLE OF LIIIIIIIIIIIFE!</elton-john-voice> github.blog/engineering/...

One of the most consistently neglected parts of today’s user experiences is our handling of errors. We’re so busy designing the happy paths through our products that we often forget to give the same care and attention to the times when things will go wrong piccalil.li/blog/how-to-...

9 Times the Web Platform Was Influenced by Libraries, by @jadjoubran.io: https://jadjoubran.io/blog/web-platform-influenced-by-libraries #webplatform #retrospectives #libraries #dojo #bootstrap

Staff Software Engineer, great with: SQL, Node, Accessibility, Web Assembly, CSS, React, 3D Experience with: Firebase, PHP, Python, C, C#, C++, Java, Native Wii Homebrew Known for: CSS hacking & inventions, tech writing, (offline) game hacking, and many published OS packages

This is as close to a cry for help that you'd see from me. I need work. I need money for shelter and food in the meantime. I've run out.

New Things You Should Know About HTML Here in Mid 2026 The foundational language of the web is getting plenty of love lately! While HTML moves a bit more slowly than its buddies, CSS and JavaScript, that tends to be a good thing. I'm not gonna do, like, in here. That's too basic for you. Tha

I was going to do a short post on Modern Web Guidance; it turned into a huge deep dive. Here's what it does, why it raised eyebrows, and on-point information with truth bombs. I tried to be complete and honest. It's not magic, but in time, it might just make the web a little bit better.

youtu.be/uJuKN0chAZk?...

Meat proxy (noun): “A person who forwards AI-generated text, code, or other output without reading, understanding, or validating it. The person acts only as a relay between the AI system and the intended recipient.” [sfisms.org]

So many career/life skills boil down to seeing things from someone else’s pov and focusing on value for THEM, not YOUR needs. The only variable is who you’re empathizing with (friends, customers, biz partners, etc). Perhaps Empathy is as fundamental as Math and should really be taught at school?

📝 I was listening to this talk from @feross.bsky.social and the thought hit me: sloppy interface design is an attack vector because it makes imitating you low-hanging fruit, _especially_ with AI tools. blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/sloppy-...

Here is another gotcha: css-tip.com/nesting-sele... less common but tricky as well.

And because no one will remember all the weird values, I made a small generator to get the code in no time. css-tip.com/text-box/

Blink: Intent to Ship: Margin-trim

I would really appreciate a job since I have about 30 days left to survive. Nothing has worked out for a while now. Been living in hostels in SE Asia for over a year. Full stack js, Staff Engineer or PM, react, astro. Many senior positions, consulted for Apple Wireless on their data dashboards, etc

I never understood why Safari dropped support for theme-color. Doing something automagic to create a seamless edge-to-edge experience seems fine, but that should be a fallback in case there is no theme-color. That way we can move on from hacks like grooovinger.com/notes/2026-0... to set the color.

Just watched @nerdy.dev's CSS Day talk on Contextualism. Excellent as usual. Adam shared a mega list of things a component could and should respond to. He was so mad that most of our components (including his own) do almost none of it. conffab.com/presentation... css-day-2026.netlify.app

How am I just learning that CSS container queries have been Baseline Widely Available for almost a year (since 2025-08-14)! web-platform-dx.github.io/web-features...

It's been a while since I've done a people looking for work thread. If you're looking for work, put what you do and what you're looking for (full time, freelance etc) as a reply. Companies: get hiring people!

Over 30,000 people have mowed our digital lawn so far, but only 16% found the perfect path. How close will you get to the optimal solution? Go ahead, touch grass. pudding.cool/2026/06/mow/ #dataviz #datascience #data

I wrote this after travelling by train (after a long time of not really travelling anywhere): Progressive Enhancement inside of JavaScript remysharp.com/2026/08/05/p... Nothing new, just nice to see it up close.

An extremely good and important read. henry.codes/writing/it-d...

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So good.

Mat explains the ever-useful, but sometimes hard to understand destructuring assignment in JavaScript. css-tricks.com/javascript-f...

blogged: Fixing full-bleed CSS dbushell.com/2026/07/03/f... (obvs it depends, I already regret using the word "fixing" here!)

Custom Properties. Variables is what people wanted. Custom Properties is how they were implemented in CSS. Because they are properties, they are a core part of the language: they cascade, go through the value processing steps, etc. — so much more powerful than just "variables".

If you ask me there's been way too much VAR in this World Cup. They should be using LET and CONST much more often.