Andy Bell

After 15+ years of teaching, architecting & delivering CSS for global organisations & startups, I’ve collated that experience into an extensive course which will take your CSS skills beyond the next level. Complete CSS has taken nearly a year to produce and it’s officially live 🎉 complete-css.com

Hey followers! I’m currently part-time contracting at the wonderful convocation.design where I get to work on internet freedom and privacy/security projects but I’m also looking for other projects to fill me days that I’m not working for Convocation.

Good news is so rare now and this really is the good stuff. It's been a Weird Time™ for publishers but CSS-Tricks being back is only going to shift the momentum in the right direction.

We’d love your help in filling out the Design Effectiveness survey. If you’re a designer or design-adjacent (researcher, developer, product owner, etc) or simply have opinions about design, then you’re welcome to join in. www.surveymonkey.com/r/RTTG77C We’ll share all our findings later this year.

When I see somebody post on how useful they find generative "AI", an angry, defensive post is sure to follow like clockwork Any circulation of a pro-"AI" post on a site with artists, writers, illustrators or the like, will reach the ears of somebody whose life has been severely hurt by the tech

There's no good reason to repost famous people saying ignorant shit. It just amplifies the ignorance.

If you needed a win as badly as I have lately, mark this one down: CSS-Tricks is returning as an independent publication. Spread the word. wil.to/posts/taking...

🎂 I've been sending my Nintendo newsletter for a decade! It started out as Switch Weekly back in late 2016, and since then I've sent over 500 issues every Sunday. ❤️ 10 YEARS! 💌 hanafuda.report

Some very good news!

is this good

Nintendo remade their old Ocarina ad this week, and thankfully left out one very 1998 line. had a dig into the original:

There is a wealth of great new HTML and CSS functionality that can be used to enhance design systems (and anything else, really). Go get yourself caught up with my article over on the @zeroheight.com blog:

It’s Friday, so let’s close out the week with some Good Links™ in The Index #203!

cool idea, and a neat way to learn more about your area.

📢 I need 160 more web developers to answer 1 important question. How do you interpret the "Fully Supported" label on MDN support tables? Let me know in the survey below and tell your web developer friends to answer too 🙏🏾 github.com/lolaslab/acd...

“AI will HACK ALL THE TVs by the end of 2026! Or not – Pivot to AI” https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/10/22/ai-will-hack-all-the-tvs-by-the-end-of-2026-or-not/ The idea that they're about to create self-replicating LLMs that run on TVs and similar devices is just plain nonsense

I just want a day where I don't see an AI-generated image in a sewing community with someone asking, “how can I get these fabrics?” or “I bought this pattern on Etsy, but something is wrong… what am I doing wrong?" and having to reply “it’s AI”.

With Arc dead, come to Firefox. Let's not give Chromium any more market share. A thriving web is a diverse one. If you want something really close to the Arc experience, check out Zen. zen-browser.app

Today we’re announcing that we (ran out of money and) have been acquired by [Large Company]. We at [Startup who will be culturally decimated by Large Company] look forward to continuing development on [Product that will be shuttered in two years].

is this good etc

Looking for more Tupo to play (and/or just a cool way to support the game?) Puzzle Packs just launched! 🎉👀 There are four packs of 25 puzzles each, one per difficulty level, to sync to your devices and play any time. Each pack is $4, or get the whole set for $10 (~40% off)! 🎁 playtupo.com/packs

this week my co-worker Russell also had a dreaded vet bill so I'm sharing on their behalf a GoFundMe 🧡 www.gofundme.com/f/guss-urgen...

It started with a dream 20 years ago... 10 months of work with a lot of help from the AT Proto community, Bluesky, and friends. FreeMix is live!!! Open to all and all genres welcome. Free to join. I can't wait to see what you create. (oh and some exclusive tracks by me ready to be remixed)

I have been meaning to write about this for a month or so now but it breaks my heart. AI has infected every hobby. Everything is noise. It's hurting existing communities and trudging through the slop is exhausting.

It’s been a long process but now, masonry layouts have an actual CSS approach, so Saleh Mubashar has put together a really useful guide on how it works, how we got here and what’s next.

Thanks to the whole PHP thing, I can’t actually send out the latest issue of my typography newsletter to subscribers, but I *can* still publish it on my site, so here it is. And after the newsletter’s extended summer break, this issue’s a long one! New fonts, new events, new books. All type-tastic.

good thread

Website is back up and running. Grab your tickets for Berlin‘s 15th anniversary meetup. beyondtellerrand.com/events/berli...

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

GM. We are going to win. An internet where 4 corporations wall us all into their surveillance state and make us pay rent forever is just incompatible with human flourishing. The only question is how long it takes everyone propping up history's worst billionaires to figure this out.

The 'AI' Software Crisis: Software Developers have been promoted into incompetence (YouTube edition) www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlh0... Largely through no fault of their own software developers have been pushed into dysfunction by management through the misguided and excessive adoption of "AI" coding

Seems an apt time to pull one out of the archives

Nothing puts the lie to "PHP is irrelevant" like "good morning, 70% of the internet needs to be fixed ASAP".

that’s a wrap on The Cold Start! I had an absolute blast. huge thanks to everyone who joined the live audience and to @cloudflare.social for trusting us to kick off Connect this year. watch this space for the replay to drop soon!

Only two (2) copies of Multipage Version #2: IMAGES left — after this, I probably won’t do another run of ’em until issue #3. Act fast. Also, stickers! So far, I have “JavaScript [is] for Everyone,” “THE PEOPLE DESTROYING THE WEB HAVE NAMES AND ADDRESSES,” and the issue #2 sticker sheet up there.

I don’t know how much more Diogo Dalot I can take

I also wanted to pull out a special part of the piece: fuck Jensen Huang. By forcing customers to take early delivery of GPUs to boost quarterly revenues, he artificially inflated the price of RAM and every consumer electronic. What he and his hyperscale paypigs have done is morally reprehensible.

Pretty much the annual UK education budget in half year losses

"AI is the future" lol

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This year’s FFConf is shaping up to be genuinely unmissable. So …um, you know …don’t miss it: https://2026.ffconf.org/ I’ll see you there! 🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22807

I built a fun little Chrome extension that lets plants invade your abandoned tabs the longer you leave them unread. To access them again, you have to slash through the vines 🪚🌿

Very good read estherweidauer.com/articles/why...

stowaway.live This is very cool. A live rendering of the view from any aircraft. Via the Dense Discovery newsletter (also worth subscribing to www.densediscovery.com/issues/411)