James Basoo

Interested in setting aside the magical prompter and learning some web standards skills the old fashioned way? You can sign up for my online Web Components course for free until Oct 31 with the code markitzero. If you find it useful, please consider letting folks know! 🎃

I saw "The Only Brown Deaf Man In England" last night, my first one-person and first sign-language/visual-vernacular play. It was brilliant and lovely to witness a largely deaf audience resonate with the performance. I'm grateful for the voiceover and captions so I could experience it too.

Less than 2 weeks until our next event, which has a focus on Foldable and Dual Screen Devices londonwebstandards.org/events/lws-n... Get your free tickets 1/3

Introducing the Accessible Components Library! Common components with accessibility requirements, test scenarios, and automated tests. • Free to use and adapt • Human-readable tests in Gherkin • Mapped to WCAG 2.2, levels A to AAA Dig in! #Accessibility #OpenSource #WCAG #AccessibleComponents

So it seems developer relations isn't dead yet! @storyblok.com is hiring for devrel in the UK and US: UK: grnh.se/sy5g6ao2teu - www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/44... USA: grnh.se/kl6mtjn2teu - www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/44...

Do I know any devrels who would be interested in a remote role in the CMS space? UK: grnh.se/sy5g6ao2teu USA: grnh.se/kl6mtjn2teu

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!

"Pixel Dissolve Mask Generator" by Matthew Morete codepen.io/editor/matth... + a very cool website! matthewmorete.com

I just updated our hiring process component with some tasteful animations using #WebComponents & modern #CSS (scroll-driven animations, style queries, anchor positioning). We're especially looking for documentation engineers right now but have other eng roles too! www.storyblok.com/jobs?query=e...

Again, why can't people build websites?! White text on light yellow is not a readable error message.

film you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. hard mode: no star trek, star wars, lotr, marvel, disney, or ghibli.

English breakfast, Finnish lake.

Is there a German word for the feeling of loss when your wife forces you to throw out an old, holey t-shirt?

This is one reason why I always say “consistency is more important than absolute correctness”. Yes, it’s bad that the decimal point is implied in the first examples, but if it works the same everywhere, it’s at least manageable. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/IoqZsOmfbnA

🚨 Cool Job Alert! Are you: - a front-end dev (Sass, Vanilla JS, React) - based in Austria / Vienna - ideally with some backend knowledge (Python, Django, APIs) - looking for work in a small, dedicated, remote team? Let's talk! (reposts for reach appreciated)

A dumb joke where a TV show or movie or maybe a book meets a technology. I will go first - Docker Who.

enjoy CSS Day and the other web/tech events for those who are visiting Amsterdam

does anyone else mourn the loss of a favorite tree

The excellent accessibility team at the Ministry of Justice are looking for two Accessibility Specialists. Deadline: 12th June. www.jobtrain.co.uk/justicedigit...

Hi BlueSky pals 📣 Having just completed a fun project with the folks at Clearleft, I’m on the lookout for my next project. I’m open to part-time or full-time contracts outside IR35 and I can help you with: - design systems consultancy & management - content design - design systems documentation

A good cautionary tale for when someone claims that trusting data analysis done with an LLM is good because it’s “objective.” In this example, Copilot apparently decided to ignore the data it was given and just run with all the subconscious biases its (human-made) training data inevitably gave it.

I really wish Apple would allow me (Android user) to mark my wife's Airtags as safe and not keep notifying me that I'm being followed. Better yet, just make them work on Android!

London. Next week. The Astro core team, more than 100 Astro devs, and… you? Unique swag, talks from @mk.gg, @fancypenguin.party, @florian-lefebvre.dev, and more. Sign up: luma.com/lzh944vx

Rather than the same old boring internet pranks, I thought I'd build something more fun this April Fools. CSS or BS. Can you tell your CSS properties names from BS? www.keithcirkel.co.uk/css-or-bs

Google's Circle to Search has just become incredibly useful to me. I've just been added to my wife's family group chat and, while imperfect, the screen translation lets me quickly understand the gist of the Finnish conversation. I'm not sure I could use a phone without this now.

WarGames font? Yes please. mw.rat.bz/wgterm/

Video game developers: not every gamer is sitting six inches away from their screen. Some of us game in our living rooms where the TV is several meters away from where we're sitting. Please include the option to enlarge onscreen text.

My electric shaver died and I just tried using a regular razor for the first time in years. I won't be doing that again. I look like Electrode.

"Jaffa" crepe cake. Alternating clotted cream and orange marmalade between regular and chocolate crepe layers.

have a chuckle at this "Git flow" slop might explain GitHub's recent outages learn.microsoft.com/en-us/traini...

📣 NEW! I’ve just released the BIGGEST and perhaps most creative project I’ve ever worked on! “Searching for Birds” searchingforbirds.visualcinnamon.com 🐤 A project, an article, an exploration that dives into the data that connects humans with birds, by looking at how we search for birds.

I've been on a bit of a social media hiatus, but I've written a new post about something that's been on my mind a lot lately localghost.dev/blog/stop-ge...

It's Winterwatch week! 🐿️ www.bbc.co.uk/live/c0keg04...

I’m not a big user of BlueSky (yet), but if anyone sees this I’m looking for work. I’m a front-end developer, with a focus on low-carbon, design-led, accessible, websites — often using Astro and headless CMSs like Storyblok. I’m open to freelance or possibly the right perm role 🤞

I don't suppose anyone has collated a list of good front-end or web conferences worth attending somewhere? Ideally with information such as dates and ticket prices.

As a sponsor of this year's State of the Browser conference, I have one online ticket to give away. I'd love to give it to a student or some who otherwise can't afford it. If your interested, send me DM. :) 2026.stateofthebrowser.com

UX Designer at the Tate, £40k, London jobsearch.tate.org.uk/jobs/job/TG7...

Delightful youtu.be/zFWE3D5pawY

While tailwind usage is up, website visits are down in the age of LLMs and they've had to fire 75% of the eng team Tailwind is one of the most successful projects in the space, this is a bit sad

Does this look like a Chrome bug to anyone else? codepen.io/jbasoo/pen/z... Focusable elements inside an inert parent are still accessible when the inert grandparent has inert removed. It behaves as I would expect in Firefox and Safari.

My headphones are so much more comfortable with fresh earpads. It's crazy that I had to go all the way to Korea for OEM ones though. Come on Sony, everyone should be able to repair their stuff!

Interesting, second time I’ve seen someone get hit with a fine because their website made a cached copy of an open graph image from another site. In this case its Ghost scraping the site (cc @alistairshepherd.uk)

Here’s a question I get a lot: > “Now that AI can generate front-end UIs for us, what’s the point of learning CSS ourselves?” I think there are lots of reasons, including that you can use AI much more effectively if you understand CSS yourself. But is that actually true? Let’s discuss. 🧵

Introduce yourself with four spaceships.

First beachball I've seen in a while and it's in the calculator app. 🤨

Wow, ChatGPT seems to always pick 7, then 3, then 9. Starting a new session achieves the same result.

This film will stay with me for a while. www.rottentomatoes.com/m/perfect_da...