Jaz

Time to update the intro! Yes, I am a senior developer with over 20 years experience. I like art and photography and books and I'm neurodivergent. But perhaps the most important thing to know is that I have a tattoo of Mr Blobby in my armpit.

Ok just discovered one of my old freelance sites was hacked. It’s 11pm on a Friday. I just want to sleep y’all.

Honestly between the PHP thing, Google thing, Cloudflare thing and Railway thing, I need to sleep for a year.

Wish someone would release patches for my vulnerabilities

If God didn’t want us to open 300 tabs, he wouldn’t have given us laptops with 16GB of RAM.

I regret nothing. @webdevconf.com

Coming up to 6 months in a full time job, I've been keeping busy 👀

WDC2026 is tomorrow! @lurkmoophy.bsky.social and @alexolder.com are looking to see all you beautiful people in Bristol tomorrow! We have a great lineup of speakers who will be sharing their knowledge with us We will see you at the @wshed.bsky.social tomorrow! Doors open at 8:45! webdevconf.com

I am reading six books at once send help

This whole situation just makes me so sad. There are so few publications left that are reliably producing genuine, non-slop web content. I think I can count them on one hand. Contrast this to the smörgåsbord on offer in, say, 2015. Tragic. Lets be loud about this and keep CSS-Tricks kicking!

I had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you gave it back to me.

I put petrol in my car for the first time in months and now I have no money. What the hell?

trying to make new friends as an adult

Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts.

📝💝 but what a privilege it is to read your code kayserifserif.place/posts/2026/h...

Great news! The CSS sibling-count() and sibling-index() functions are now Baseline Newly Available! I.e implemented in all major browsers.

We got so much done on the massive top secret project this week ❤️ 🙌 Am feeling much more settled as well so energy for more creative and fun things is coming back 👻

The spider situation in my new place is… upsetting. Kicked one earlier. Found one on the toilet last night. One in my washing. One setting off the motion sensitive light repeatedly. And these are the big fuckers that make a thwack sound when you defenestrate them.

@matthamm.com happy birthday twin!

This really was a great way to start the final year of my 30s ❤️

Describe your music taste with only three artists 1. Muse 2. Aqua 3. Ólafur Arnalds

New tattoo day!! Flowers chosen based on my/loved ones favourites. And errr… I can’t be normal.

Yes it’s a real photo with a real laser. Ask me how I know 🤩 (also probably the best photo I’ve ever taken)

I woke up at 4, which bodes well for a very busy Monday 🫠

What do you all do to make your coding environments more whimsical and fun?

youtu.be/1gINATB2Eik I’m fairly sure this is the most beautiful song ever written.

I’m exploring the mental health effects of AI coding. This is a super quick (blazing fast), anonymous survey. Please fill out and share so that the responses will be well rounded. forms.gle/dpD8Tk1QnXAz...

I mean, we all joked about comic sans and everything, but what I wouldn't give to see it on a poster these days instead of that fucking dreadful slop font. Would go to war for comic sans, I would run through a wall for times new roman. Impact, I take back everything I said about you.

Was at the train station when it started raining. People actually cheered.

Having ADHD is wild because tell me how I just worked for 12 and a half hours and could have kept going, but when I woke up this morning I absolutely could not start. Yes, they need to rename it. It’s not a deficit of attention, it’s an inability to regulate attention.

Choo choo, I’m a train! I do really love this walk. Although so much has happened in my life recently that even 12 miles of trudging through thoughts wasn’t enough.

Don’t know why I thought walking twelve miles was a good idea…

Happy flying ant day

The reaction from the pub just shook my windows

As of this month I’ve been working for twenty years. Twenty years of websites and graphics and code and clients and peers and creativity and gifs and jifs and browsers and conferences and teamwork and learning and ideas and tech and wcag and emails and slack and zoom and pixels and CSS and emojis…

Drunk people singing Hey Jude is a nice lullaby (I have moved next to a pub)

On my way, Clacton.

Okay folks. People are interested in this idea – it has legs and I want to make it happen. If you're a digital professional and interested in being part of such a freelancer collective, send me a message. Nothing set in stone yet, but I've got concepts of a plan and would like to establish this.

LLM's are helpful because they're trained on years of high quality educational material and forums where people helped each other. People aren't visiting forums or paying for educational content anymore because of LLM's. The well isn't going to magically fill itself in perpetuity.

Haven’t really had time off this year. Today started a four day weekend after a big project launch. I slept the entire day and now I’m off up town for fancy dinner. Bliss.

Been in my job two months. Did two go lives today.

Having an actual payday is still such a novelty. Not gonna lie I did miss it.

I am so obsessed with this song. When it gets to the organ 😭😭 What a great album. Hush and Cryogen also bangers. May now be going to both O2 gigs… be rude not to. youtu.be/bdN6c6DdSYc?...