Mike Jeffery

I'm so gosh-darned excited! css-tricks.com/css-tricks-h...

Updated this post to reflect the completely predictable result that ~30% of the 100 top English-language content websites are now using Google's Prompt API for browser fingerprinting, Google Advertising profiling, or both. The purpose of a system is what it does. eupolicy.social/@thatprivacy...

As a perpetual web components beginner, I found this article very helpful. #webcomponents www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/07/web-...

We'll quickly regret defunding and losing those who read the specs, learn, explore, measure, weigh, and share their hard-won experience. When the answer to every question is "I asked Claude and clicked approve" we yield actual answers to probabilities and will always be left asking, "Are you sure?"

for some reason wordpress decided not to make the chart the featured image, so here it is

If you thought the departure of Tim Cook would see a new caring "Consent is a human right" Apple, think again. Not-Steve-Either has been in post 10 minutes, and they're forcing 22GB of AI on you. That's the equivalent of 32 shit U2 albums. dbushell.com/2026/09/22/a...

The Front-End Community is Still Alive and Beautiful I thought about dropping an addendum into my last post to say just how overwhelmed I am, in the best possible way, by the way all of you in the... https://geoffgraham.me/the-front-end-community-is-still-alive-and-beautiful/

"LLMs are a product that destroys its supply chain." –Microsoft And the theft is ongoing, because LLMs become irrelevant without it. It's not a past failing, it's the entire business model. www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...

And before anyone comes at me with “but calling it fascist tho?”. Read up on the DHH of '26. He wrote on his blog: “When wolves get out of control, you shoot them. When gypsies take over public spaces, you deport them. This isn't hard, it isn't cruel. It's the basic logic of self-preservation.”

Seinfeld '98. An animated version of Seinfeld picking up where the old show left off. I'd watch the hell out of that.

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

The Spotify desktop app is killing me lately. The jank from the slow loading hero section coming in and shifting the entire UI consistently causes me to click stuff I don't mean to. Yet another reason to get away from it. What music apps/streaming do people like these days?

Have you ever been stuck in a cycle where you're trying to do to much and you're getting nothing accomplished? Hi, I'm Mike. Welcome to my life lately!

“It’s not a failure when someone doesn’t take your advice”. Lots to reflect from Joe’s talk. I’ve explored the “talking about risk” from the dev perspective but talking about fear and frustration is more complicated as that’s also part of company culture. #SmashingConf

@davatron5000.bsky.social I kinda need to know about the guitar pedal rabbit hole you were in during the last shoptalk.

It’s not the US vs Canada. We ♥ Canada. It’s Diaper Donnie and his morons against the world.

Next week, dorks. Get ready.

I actually strive for perfect clarity with my color theme pickers. codepen.io/editor/chris...

In their rush to feed large language models and “improve the quality of AI writing,” AI companies are secretly destroying rare books. theweek.com/culture-life... #DestroyingRareBooks #AIcompanies #AlexandriaLibrary2026

I get to visit Montreal today. Gonna wear my Expos cap. Where's the real good poutine?

I wish there was a way to unfollow a whole-ass starter pack... Wait. Is there? Does anybody know how to unfollow a whole starter pack? I'll be your best friend!

Ford has rehired hundreds of senior engineers after replacing them with AI backfired and has cost the company billions of dollars. AI adoption is blamed for Ford being the most recalled automaker in the U.S. with 51 recalls covering over 11 million vehicles in the first half of 2026 alone.

Who wants to start a band?

The HTML cat is out of the Web Audio bag. I've finally released HYPERBLAM. It’s my system for sampling, processing, and sequencing sound and music directly in HTML. hyperblam.how

Protip: make overly pessimistic predictions and people will be happily surprised.

Sucks that every tech podcast has turned their focus almost solely on AI. Drop me a recommendation for something tech and/or web dev/design focused that doesn't care about AI.

Indie game idea: 8-bit Megaman style platformer with soundtrack performed by John Frusciante.

Ever struggled to get heading tags right in includes/components? headingoffset could be the answer…

All Chromium browsers are the same? O RLY ?!?!? Take a look at Google and Vivaldi's roadmaps.

The energy here lately is truly energizing, as bleak as it feels sometimes. Some actions I've taken in the past week: 1. Bought a course made by real humans. 2. Downloaded a more private browser 3. Signed up for more private, secure email. Remember that small actions add up!

Is #cssday being offered online this year? I couldn't find the option for online tickets on the website yesterday. CC: @cssday.nl

Name your top 15 TV shows ever, gut instincts only: Lost Breaking Bad Mad Men Seinfeld The Office HIMYM GoT Andor Star Wars: Rebels Sons of Anarchy Walking Dead Peacemaker Star Trek: Enterprise ER Myth Busters

The first nine tracks of my LP-in-progress are available for free streaming and downloading. Likes and reposts appreciated. sonica.music/8yxbzc5igk8j #soundtrack #electronic #triphop #acidjazz #funk #hiphop #beats #chords #melodies #albums #composinginpublic

Tomorrow's premium: AI Isn't Too Big To Fail - a comprehensive analysis comparing the Great Financial Crisis to the current AI bubble. AI companies are not systemically necessary, and no bailout will happen. Here's $10 off annual. edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo...

Really feeling the #enshitification of the internet these past few days. The #AI bots should be the ones jumping through hoops, not humans. If I have to "identify the pictures of bikes" every time I want to order tacos, I'll just go back to speaking to other humans.

repost if you think that designers and devs forming an integrated partnership ends up resulting in a better product than the typical “hand it off to the devs” approach

Gas is so expensive that the pump counts cents by 3's.

This article by @anneapplebaum.bsky.social may be the most important news piece you read this week.

This polarizing post led to many interesting takes. The whole thread is worth a read.

This feels like a good way for the AI bubble to burst - people get to keep their useful pet oracles and stop paying and giving their data to the oligarchs: youtu.be/YTLnnoZPALI

Lately, each update to @microsoft.com Edge seems to break something in Linux. A previous update broke the ability to inherit OS theme (dark/light mode.) the latest seems to have a bug in the theme emulation in dev tools.

Today I learned that you can curate your own lists of people on Blue Sky. This is great because I've been missing all my faves on the wash of bullshit going on in America. Now, I have a less active feed that I love right next to the chaotic nightmarish feed that I need. 10/10 highly recommend.