Shaun Rashid

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! 🎃

#LetsGoOilers! #GoLeafsGo! I love Maple Leafs western Canadian road trips! #NHL

It's a really good time to get on the newsletter list (if you haven't already, that is): css-tricks.com/newsletters/

If you've ever been lounging around the house and thought "I would like to offload some of my money, and give it to someone handsome and charming, ideally in exchange for many lovely charts", I have solved this problem for you:

Meta took down the No Kings instagram; TikTok banned the Musk documentary account for supposedly violating its political posting policies. A reminder that platforms are owned by the wealthiest of people, control the means of media distribution, & put their thumbs on the democracy scale as they wish

My god. A Virginia data center ran backup diesel generators full blast for 24 hours, creating a giant cloud of toxic smoke that choked its human neighbors. The government claimed there was nothing they could do.

Software developers are not okay: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/05-software-developers-are-not-okay/

For the start of the NHL season, I have relaunched my #hockey stats site hockeybytes.com. With the help of #Claude and #Gemini, I’ve been able to design and build out a more maintainable backend architecture while also being able to focus my energies on an improved frontend and product experience.

How I’ve missed John Forslund #SeaKraken #thatsKrakenHockey

Behold! The time has come for: The TENTH ANNUAL HockeyViz Sour Candy Prediction Contest. If you can correctly* predict the results of the upcoming NHL season, I will send you an unseemly amount of sour candy, no matter where in the world you live. Entry is free: hockeyviz.com/txt/predicti...

The amount of Amazon workers relying on SNAP and Medicaid has nearly tripled since 2020. — while Amazon’s annual profits soared by over 550%. It’s the same story everywhere: corporate profits are at record highs, while workers’ share of the economy is at a record low. We must unrig the system.

Jeremy's whole post is worth a read, and I would underline + bold the last point: the web is the superior choice for privacy and security, and it's anti-web *and anti-user* to be preferencing native app install affordances: adactio.com/journal/22757

Here is my fully documented HTML boilerplate. It is a lean, minimal and solid foundation I use across the sites I develop. Written mostly for me, because I'm sure to forget why I've done things the way I have, but I hope it is of use to you too. vale.rocks/posts/html-b... #HTML #WebDev

Hey @shaynagoldman.bsky.social! At the risk of pulling you back into the grind too early, I have a question. Do you know why the NHL keeps trying to plant a team in Atlanta?

Farewell #OptimusPrime! RIP #PeterCullen

Parton's legacy is proof that you can be a wealthy, powerful, genius who is kind and loved. The jerks at the top are like that by choice.

I was considering heading down for a home game on my potential trip to visit the folks in November but that’s completely out of the picture now.

"The internet represents hegemonic views. It does not represent [everybody] in the world." AI researcher Timnit Gebru untangles the deceptive nature of large language models like Chat-GPT, and explains how so-called "superintelligence" entrenches societal biases and inequality.

While we’re on the subject 💩

babe wake up, we have a blockbuster trade in the Atlantic. Brady Tkachuk’s off to Florida in exchange three firsts + a second. 🚨 grades with @marklazerus.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/athletic/738...

I'm sad to miss you all at #CSSDay this year! Wish I could be there, and see all the great talks. In the spirit of the event, I'm launching my new #CSS course – Poetic CSS! The first module is ready, and early bird tickets will go on sale for the month of July. courses.oddbird.net/poetic-css/

Interested in CSS Grid Lanes? We just launched the Field Guide to Grid Lanes! gridlanes.webkit.org It’s got everything you need in a fun interactive playground + tons of demos. (And read about the Field Guide at: webkit.org/blog/18098/i...) #CSSDay #wwdc26 #CSS

It’s easy to pencil David Carle into every NHL job opening, but not every NCAA is racing to the big leagues. The NCAA may be a deep pipeline for players, but it’s pretty untapped on the coaching side. More here, free to read www.nytimes.com/athletic/733...

TIL Mika Zibanejad not only plays for the #NewYorkRangers, he’s also a #DJ #NHL

Just attended a lovely talk where a product went from 6.6 seconds to 0.8 seconds for first contentful paint by ditching MUI and CSS-in-JS and using vanilla CSS with in-house components instead. #webexpo

For your edification and pleasure: 187 in-depth interviews with the people who built the modern web. Publishing, art direction, content strategy, typography, web technology, and more. Hosted by yours truly. It’s everything web that matters. bigwebshow.fireside.fm/ #WebDesignHistory

Everyone loves icons, so, here we go: Griddy is an open-source set of icons. I do like the simple line style. Designed By Filip Gres and Developed By Zuzana Benova griddyicons.com/

Luke Wroblewski’s brilliant and screamingly influential A Book Apart book, “Mobile First,” is now available for free reading online. lukew.com/mobilefirst/

The @thepwhl.com expansion is incredible!

Nice analysis of the climate costs of Chrome pushing a 4GB Geminin nano to people's devices. Even just looking purely at the download (ignoring inference, re-downloads etc) it's substantial (not sure it's 'insane'), and shows the Google is just kinda doing stuff pretty thoughtlessly

People posting AI-generated CSS saying they're "pretty pleased" with it and I could get the exact same result with 5% of the amount of code, maybe even less... Because, you know, the AI code is setting the exact same property on the exact same damn element to the same damn value 7×7 = 49 times...

The PWHL is officially coming to Detroit, the league announced today

#tinyCSStip Sometimes, if you notice a teeny tiny misalignment and you cannot understand why because *nothing* in your CSS looks like it could have caused it... try using `round()` to round to an integer number of pixels. It just solved my own tiny misalignment problem that was driving me batty. 🦇

Holy Mackinaw! It’s the end of an era. Thank you, Joe Bowen! #LeafsForever

🚨new upcycled NHL playoff bags🚨 slow rolling out stuff all week, up first: sabres, stars, and wild fanny packs made out of jersey scraps + jeans hayyyshayyy.etsy.com

Amazing. #Artemis #NASA

This was a really great read. Highly recommended! gbbns.co/journal/acce... The EAA has made it difficult to ignore #a11y issues. But the fix hasn't been what it needs to be. The solution is treating frontend as a speciality again. AI still can't replace human knowledge, and can break things faster.

Listening to the #Artemis crew describe their moon observations to the #NASA science team and I’m enthralled by the detail in their descriptions.

Obviously the moon is the star of the show but another thing that really fascinates me is watching the #Artemis #astronauts and ground crew work throughout their mission. #nasa

Two sides of the tech PR coin via #Artemis: Impressive looking photos taken by astronauts on #Apple #iPhones vs #Microsoft #Outlook technical issues.

Happy MOONday!

Crazy to think that #Artemis II is less than 50,000 miles away from the moon. #NASA #SpaceExploration

We’re launching a rocket to the #moon! #NASA #Artemis2 #spaceexploration

Artemis II is humanity's first flight to the moon since 1972. https://to.pbs.org/411ctbM

Good advice in this article about managing AI workloads and (potentially only) using AI for automating mundane tasks. I think we're learning that the limititation is not the number of tokens, it's your 40-watt brain at the end of the pipeline responsible for understanding the output.