James Nash

📙I wrote a new book! It’s called “Standout Designs for the Web” and I wrote it because too many websites look the same, and I want to show how to make them stand out. Pre-orders start 12 Nov. Read more here: stuffandnonsense.co....

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

Migrated my Bluesky account (or should I say PDS? Not super familiar with all the #ATProto lingo) to @eurosky.social today and it was seamless.

Tomorrow, October 16th, marks Practical Accessibility's third birthday. 🎂 To celebrate, I am gifting everybody 25% off for the next 48 hours 🎁 Individual and team licenses alike! The discount is automatically applied during checkout—no code is needed. 👉🏻 practical-accessibility.today Enjoy! #a11y

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X is bad, though: https://lexontech.org/x-is-bad-though

HUMAN ARTISTS, use only one piece to convince people to follow you

What if there was a Web Components conference?? @stuffbreaker.bsky.social and I are teaming up to get a little more serious about the idea of getting one together. We want to gather data on if there is interest in the community forms.gle/ZGqtYGj7V6q8... Please fill out and share to anyone!

Setting aside whether the a UK AI fund is a good idea or not, this site is embarrassing. UK gov sites normally have a stellar reputation for usability and accessibility. They have to work for all citizens after all. How did this mess of scrolljacking and gratuitous parallax effects get approved?!?

ATTENTION! We are legally required to implore you to read this message.

Some more reading on this from people smarter than me, if you're interested: www.techpolicy.press/the-web-is-b...

The State of Devs results are out and the state of devs is more tired than wired: 2026.stateofdevs.com

”Today, we often hear the word “democratize” from GenAI promoters, but it means the exact opposite. AI centralizes power and commodifies knowledge, instead of teaching skills and deep understanding.”– @molily.de molily.de/web-dev-educ...

It’s astounding to me that any human being would allow a device like this to have access to every detail of their life, especially a device sold by this serial privacy violator.

I can't recommend highly enough this thread in which meta's muse model is shown to be so poorly hardened that it will tar its own VM filesystem and let you download it neuromatch.social/@jonny/11732...

over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say

ceo of burger king: our burgers have gone rogue again and infected people with e coli

There are no "rogue AIs". Just rogue AI companies. Regulate them hard.

Lately, I've been exploring CSS-only custom elements. They're pretty rad! #html #css #webcomponents dev.to/stuffbreaker...

STOP OMARCHY: Boycott Tech's Far-Right Backers 🔖 https://stopomarchy.neocities.org/#ref61 🔗 https://ellyloel.com/stop-omarchy-boycott-techs-far-right-backers/ #Bookmarks #Fascism #Tech

I’m so done with tech CEOs sharing their beliefs, I now need to find a different code editor, password manager and probably a new bookkeeping system.

Yarrr, me hearties! It's International Talk Like A Pirate Day talklikeapirate.com Will ye join me setting sail across the Interwebs in search of precious memes, and nerdy bounty? Beware of the Xraken and West America Trading Company though!

"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."

Customizable selects are so 2025. Now is the time for styleable multi-thumb range controls! Great work by @utilitybend.com and Open UI. The <rangegroup> element is being prototyped in Chromium by our team. Can't wait to play with it, which you can do with: brechtdr.github.io/enhanced-ran...

New on the blog

I hadn't posted over on the second channel in a while now, but I felt that it was important to talk about what's going on with @digitalocean.com and @css-tricks.bsky.social as the site has now gone quiet for a second time. youtu.be/9_upvxCAUzM

Meta and X have been quietly downranking external links for ages, but we're now entering a new era of open hostility toward the open web. It's a great time to build your own website, free from any billionaires demanding a tithe for things that have always been free.

I'm so thrilled to see another handmade guestbook appear on the web! @espy.world did an incredible job and their website is one of the coolest things I've seen recently

Digital Ocean ended their $50/month sponsorship of GNOME and FlatHub and went radio silent on CSS-Tricks right around the time they found a spare three million dollars to burn on “sponsoring” a high-profile racist’s dotfiles repo. Impossible to see this as anything but a statement of their values.

Jeremy's whole post is worth a read, and I would underline + bold the last point: the web is the superior choice for privacy and security, and it's anti-web *and anti-user* to be preferencing native app install affordances: adactio.com/journal/22757

sum up the tech industry with one image

Oops. I invented a new CSS shrink-wrap technique and blogged about it. blog.codepen.io/2026/09/11/s...

"Omarchy should not matter. But sadly it does. As a power grab." I wrote about why we have to care about Omarchy. As a fascist power grab within the FLOSS ecosystem.

🤩 Safari is about to support `interactive-widget` in the viewport meta tag github.com/WebKit/stand... This allows you to control what should happen to the viewport when the virtual keyboard gets shown. developer.chrome.com/blog/viewpor... (from 2022!) has the details.

Interop 2027 is open! You don’t need to be a standards expert to help shape the future of browsers. Just vote for the things you want to see improved. The list is already filling up with suggestions. Go boost the ones you care about and make your voice count. github.com/web-platform...

The controversy surrounds David Heinemeier Hansson, who has posted strident anti-vax and anti-immigrant views. www.theverge.com/tech/988536/...

I had been toying with the idea of moving from 1Password to @proton.me password - mainly to also get their other services - for a while. Guess it's time to take a closer look. Any folks here got experience with Proton Password - especially on Android? Does the autofill work well?

feels like it’s inevitable these days that every tool you rely on is one garbage founder or funder away from their app’s version of this post

New blog post: "iT woRKs BeTter in THe aPp!!" https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/08/it-works-better-in-the-app/ The monkey-punchers at Google never quite seem to finish any of their apps. There's always some useful bit of work left undone, or showstopping bug which remains unfixed, a thousand jagged …

New blog post: A simple "copy this code" button in JavaScript https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/08/a-simple-copy-this-code-button-in-javascript/ Next to all the code samples on this blog is a little "copy" button. That makes it easier to grab any of the code I've shared. The HTML and JS is …

Happy Skynet day to all those who celebrate

In CSS you can feature detect support for selectors, properties + values, and at-rules using `@supports`. But how do you feature detect a change to an underlying implementation, or two existing properties suddenly working together? Enter `named-feature()` … → brm.us/named-feature

Well this is just cool! It even has the invisible cone between an item and its submenu so it doesn't close as you move diagonally. Video made in @polypane.app BTW :)

When I saw this yesterday(since been fixed). I thought it was piling on the recent Cursor reveal. But then I realized these docs are from April. It's not a conspiracy. It's something worse, because there's no one to argue with. Nobody Argued For Your Stack: dev.to/playfulprogr...

Marginalia: a search engine that prioritizes non-commercial content, no AI, no tracking, open-source. "The goal is to bring you the sort of grass fed, free range HTML your grandma used to write" marginalia-search.com

Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE. If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease! Donate at blinkingguy.com