Eric Portis

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I learned some of the wonderful history of the TIFF file format and its uses today via overcast.fm/+ABFoJNbzUiQ (@henrihelvetica.bsky.social relevant to your interests)

📢 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...

As an IC 4 LYFE I’m not qualified for this, but I bet some of you are apply.careers.microsoft.com/careers/job/...

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.

It’s looking increasingly likely that I’m going to need to start earning a much more regular salary than freelancing is providing, so if anyone has any leads on remote front-end dev roles please hit me up. Everyone I’ve worked with says I’m proactive, communicative & great at what I do.

A stoner-ish thought I have had while standing before actual post/impressionist paintings is: woah, and like, can you imagine if they'd had access to an even *redder* red? Anyways wide-gamut color on the web is cool. compare-images.val.run?a_url=https%...

Good news (I hope): CSS-Tricks will indeed be back later this month!

The CSS Linked Parameters Module is cool. You can essentially pass parameters to SVGs that are embedded on the page using the image source or background image. @pepelsbey.dev has a great post about it! Vadim's post: pepelsbey.dev/articles/svg... Spec: drafts.csswg.org/css-link-par... #svg #css

Standards In Progress: Making Video Posters Accessible, Responsive, and an Element scottjehl.com/posts/respon...

The 11th edition of the @webaim.bsky.social Screen Reader User Survey is now live! This is a vital resource into better understanding how people who use screen readers actually operate your website or app. webaim.org/projects/scr... My commentary on it as a thread 🧵 #a11y

How far ahead browsers fetch lazy images: • Chrome: 1,250px on 4G, 2,500px on 3G, 6,000px (!!) on 2G • Firefox: 600px, on any connection • Safari: one viewport. Lazy iframes: 0px, they wait until on screen

I almost didn't remark upon the fact that this shipped a couple weeks ago, on September 15th. sizes=auto is all green developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...

I've proposed "progressive image rendering" as a focus area for Interop 2027, so we can get progressive JPEG XL support in Safari, and progressive AVIF support in both Safari and Firefox. github.com/web-platform...

An SVG inside <img> has always been a styling dead end: you can place it, but you can’t paint it. CSS Linked Parameters fix that in Firefox Nightly, so I traced Warhol’s Marilyn and repainted it nine times from one 50 KB file 💅 pepelsbey.dev/articles/svg...

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

Free CSS-Tricks #FreeCSSTricks

There are more! www.alibati.com/horse#:~:tex... (via @spavel.bsky.social)

Oh look, the latest issue of the preeminent semi regular outsider zine on the topic of the hypertext markup language

📝 Why CSS-Tricks Has Been Quiet Lately (cc: @digitalocean.com @css-tricks.bsky.social ) geoffgraham.me/why-css-tric...

People will reduce infinitely detailed reality to a handful of composable abstractions encoded as numbers and letters for *anything*. Math, baseball, and TIL: flowers en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floral_...

IMAGES is angry and beautiful.

The Interop 2027 call for proposals is now open! Learn more about the process at github.com/web-platform..., or start a proposal via github.com/web-platform... today. You can also read about it in our news post at www.igalia.com/news/interop....

Multipage Version is a zine about HTML elements. Issue #1: HEADINGS and #2: IMAGES are both available now. multipa.ge

Hey! You there, looking at a screen. You should read a little Wendell Berry today. And think about your values, work, and tools; your one precious life on this one precious earth. RIP Wendell Berry. www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

Intent to ship: JPEG XL! This will be on-by-default in Firefox 157, which should become the main release version at the end of September. This includes key JPEG XL features like progressive rendering. groups.google.com/a/mozilla.or...

After some experimentation, I think this is how you do this in Vivaldi

Twice a year, Hawai'i experiences a strange moment where the sun appears to be exactly overhead & anything that is completely vertical casts no shadow. Let's learn about Lāhainā Noon, subsolar points & 'Kau ka lā i ka lolo', meaning "the sun rests on the brains."

I read moultano.wordpress.com/2026/06/19/w... last week and despite some muddiness around “color” as measurable stimulus vs “color” as subjective experience, I really enjoyed it. It got me thinking about adding primaries. Today I learned: people are on the case: en.ubiresearchnet.com/multi-primar...

"what will set you apart a year from now? If you don’t have a deep understanding of your output, the best result you can hope for is “average” — the best you can hope to be, as a developer, is “average.” If you’re not honing your craft, you stagnate." @wil.to beautiful read: wil.to/js4e/newslet...

The features @miriam.codes has helped bring to CSS (Cascade Layers, Container Queries, Scope) have been rooted in a deep understanding of CSS’ _ethos_. They try to close the gap between how CSS could be used, and how it commonly is. If you want to close that gap in your own work (I do!), sign up

added delphitools to my links page :) coolest set of small and useful tools for all sorts of common Computer Jobs i've seen in a minute — long live the handmade web. tools.rmv.fyi

Micropayments— [crowd goes wild] —using stablecoins— [crowd boooooos] —for but also gating AI agents [crowd is at first confused, and then starts arguing amongst themselves] blog.cloudflare.com/monetization...

I love the work of Jiří Trnka. Maybe you will too.

My "Poetic CSS" course goes live on Wednesday, with an Early Bird discount for the month of July! Here's another "side quest" on using shorthand properties: youtu.be/LNZQmOk3hKk Sign up for email updates (and a drawing for a handmade @OddBird mug): courses.oddbird.net/poetic-css/#... #css

briarpress.org is an amazing community and practicing a craft is fulfilling. And: watching the last generation of professional printers age, keep up the hobby in their garages, enthusiastically answer a dwindling number of questions on internet forums, and pass away, has been: sad. We lost so much.

So we're all made of stardust AND we only exist because several of our ancestors caught the worst colds of their lives and ended up with superpowers. Cool.

Hell yeah

“heading‍offset is Not the Document Outline Algorithm” adrianroselli.com/2026/06/head... Hi, just me heading off some bad advice I’m starting to see in developer venues. #HTML #accessibility #a11y

Responsive images syntax was always a compromise forced by constraints. Lazy-loading removes the one of those constraints. Now we have an opportunity to simplify responsive images. Let's make it happen! cloudfour.com/thinks/endin...