Nils Riedemann

People used to recognize me because they had seen one of my 7,000+ Stack Overflow "free" answers when they got stuck on a tricky CSS issue. Now, you will thank your favorite LLM for giving you that bad/outdated/inaccurate answer. And some people pay for that.

So, we're full circle and back at the Frontpage/Dreamweaver era, right?

It’s funny how Discord seems to have some kind of heuristics for when to install updates. Opened it this morning: No updates. Opened it just now, on a train: TIME FOR UPDATES!

There it is! Finally, a real solution for how to style all of the HTML form controls using your own custom CSS to change anything — building on an interoperable UA set of defaults. First, styling the in-page part of controls + the popover for <select>. (Later we’ll do popovers for more things.)

Where have all the tech creators gone?

This is the funniest ligature I've ever seen

CSS functions make this type of shenanigans SO much easier - and kinda addictive. Love 'em! All from a single element, no JS. codepen.io/nocksock/pen...

It’s that time of the year again.

[scene int. mozilla board room] P1: We're in a tough spot. We need fresh ideas. Let's start by reading our mission statement: We are a priva– P2: I just had the best idea (closes techcrunch tab in Chrome), what if we do an AI ad platform on demand gig economy vpn powered by crypto streaming platfo

✨Heads up! Observables are shipping natively to a browser near you soon! Huge thank you and congrats to @domfarolino.com ❤️ I've helped / worked on / watched this through different standards bodies for more than 10 years now. ☠️ (I'm going to have a lot of work now to adapt RxJS to this 😅)

"I ask AI and it’s totally worthless, synthesizing disparate topics about CSS into a seemingly right on the surface but totally wrong answer" Couldn't sum up "AI" better if I tried. blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/aspect-...

Interop 2025 is launched! This is the culmination of months of work to find focus areas that really matter to developers. I’m gonna plan a vacation now 😅 webkit.org/blog/16458/a...

Remember Unhinged? One of my goals is to keep it as visually minimalistic as possible while still staying true to its name. It's not supposed to feel like a run-of-the-mill app without character. Instead, I want it to feel slightly weird while still being easy to understand. (Thread) #BuildInPublic

I think in CSS the BEM approach is very similar to OOP; while Utility First is closer to FP. So when people haven't been exposed to FP much or have a hard time with it, I found they tend to struggle more with Tailwind and how to create useful custom utilities, variants or components.

Understanding the purpose and usefulness of contexts in Phoenix took me a while, but over time they became a natural way of doing things for me in general - not just in phoenix/elixir. Elixir idioms are leaking into every other language I write, and so far it was *always* for the better.

I really enjoy a positive read on a Saturday morning www.theverge.com/2025/1/24/24...

How my sentiment towards Web-Components changed over the last 2 Years:

Oh yeah this specific seller is all fake generative AI work. Wrote up a piece about it: maggieappleton.com/generative-f...

Starting the new year with the heaviest cold I had in years. 🤒 Time to make use of my gitnation multipass and watch a bunch of talks in my queue - and then finish the last season of Shippuden.

No typing feedback should be the default for all real-time messaging apps, together with buffering messages if the user presses Enter but keeps typing. It would encourage healthier exchanges by avoiding quick reactions to incomplete ideas.

Friends, a new and improved version of my little mood-tracking app, UNHINGED, is now available on the App Store. I’ve been using it for most of the year and can’t recommend it enough—it fits my needs perfectly. apps.apple.com/us/app/unhin...

Unsolicited design tip: When in doubt, use fewer shadows, fewer gradients, and fewer decorations.

Bought a 3D printer a while ago when I encountered the gridfinity system. I’m still in the early phase and have a lot of uncluttering, clearing-out and even more printing to do, but I am already so hooked on this system.

I have a couple of these. And even if you already have deep knowledge on any of these topics, these are really great to learn how to explain them more clearly to those who don’t!

You can get Every Layout for £34.50 for Black Friday btw every-layout.dev code is already there waiting for ya

I just realised that Bluesky's custom feeds are not simply "saved searches", but algorithms via a custom service. That's... absolutely genius. Naturally, I find out about that sort of thing past 23:00, when trying to sleep. But now I have to read all about it and play around with it instead.

That feel when you submit a button to send an e-mail to ~6000 people, and seemingly nothing happens. But the browser is awaiting a response. 😬 But it all worked out fine and I added a todo to handle this in a less anxiety inducing way.