Sara Joy ☠️

I came up with the term Inclusive Front to mean the band of people who care about the web's inclusivity. It's a play on words; we largely work on the front end, but I feel at times we're also like a political 'popular front' against a poorly built web that excludes people. I've had stickers made!

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Excellent news and couldn't have happened to a better @geoffgraham.me! Support support support 🧡🧡🧡

Yesterday I pushed samwho.dev 2.0. - Every interactive/visual post revamped. - New content added to several old posts. - New consistent visual style throughout. - Dark mode(!) - New interactive heroes for all posts that didn't have them. - Updated dog animations.

It’s exciting to wake up in the morning to bloodied footprints in the garden and a trail of cogs. “The Clock Man’s been!” I exclaim to the children as we examine the clocks for proof. And indeed, he has given back the stolen hour because we have been so Good.

Lovely little video of a chap (in Germany or somewhere German speaking) dealing with people standing on the ridged lines used by cane using blind people: youtube.com/shorts/Ih1xF...

This week you can find The Scale of a Man, my illustrated reflection on craft, grief, and inheritance, on @therumpus.net. Thank you @marinaomi.bsky.social for believing in this piece and getting it further into the world. Read the whole thing here: therumpus.net/2026/10/13/t...

Now I'm starting to understand the ick factor of the doors in the Heart of Gold ship, in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Bought a cute little IKEA KALLSUP* Bluetooth speaker today, and it works pretty nicely! I pulled it open out of curiosity because there were just two screws and I thought, why not - if it breaks I've only lost 4.99€ It has a nice little 14500 battery in it […] [Original post on front-end.social]

Good news (I hope): CSS-Tricks will indeed be back later this month!

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

This yes this!! Thank you @michelleb.bsky.social

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...

I’m looking to connect with university lecturers and staff. We offer student tickets for @ffconf.org, but they’re easy to miss, and I’d love to give the next generation of web developers the chance to attend a great indie event. If anyone can contact please drop me comment here I can follow up.

Hi, I’m a sighted alt text user! Here are some reasons I use it: - Slow Internet on an airplane - I’m over 40, I have no idea who that celebrity is - Bluesky broke images again - My vision sucks and that text is too small to read otherwise - Conveys further context and authorial intent

It’s Friday, so let’s close out the week with some Good Links™ in The Index #201!

Just had to tear up this rag that appeared in our postbox. It's a publication by the AfD which wasn't obvious until I looked at the social media handles on the back page. Gross. Get out of here.

Ideally a 74th birthday involves racing your grandchildren to blow out your birthday cake candles, not blowing up a country.

This this this: youtube.com/shorts/v0hh9...

Did you know you only need a small brain to make silly little drawings?

Doctor Who and Sherlock died as their storylines went up their own arses, entangled in some kind of self importance instead of being part of the wider world.

It's a new week of Tupo (including four new bonus puzzles)! playtupo.com

Whew, we're still reeling from Fronteers: Dark Mode this past friday! We brought developers from multiple countries together to celebrate front-end and human connection. It was super "gezellig"! Thank you everyone for helping us make this event happen, thank you for supporting Fronteers!

No better time to organise some stickers than on a long train ride...

We started with @csswizardry.com with a message on embracing the platform and progressive enhancements. Always bet on the web! #fronteers #darkmode

Had an excellent time at @fronteers.bsky.social Dark Mode yesterday. For an industry that feels uncertainly balanced on top of the AI bubble, and is collectively very tired of the topic - it helps so so so much to connect and bond with other humans. We get by with a little help from our friends 💛

Heydon doing very cool things with Web Audio API and custom elements #fronteersDarkMode @heydon

Wow. Announcement on train to look after all belongings because of "an active pick-pocket on the train". So presumably people have reported stuff missing, and they haven't caught the thief! Could be anyone 😶

Relevant to my course students who get a free Polypane trial (and recurring discount) with their purchase! 👇🏻 Polypane is fantastic browser for us devs and the #a11y features make it even more valuable for our work 🙌🏻

Some flavourful goodness about some fresh new web things over on the @zeroheight.com blog. Certainly read up on the latest and greatest to grace the web platform! So much brilliant new stuff to help your design systems thrive. zeroheight.com/blog/new-htm... #DesignSystems #HTML #CSS

Heading to Dordrecht on the Deutsche Bahn today, two changes, already had a flurry of automated emails from them about delays. It's anyone's guess what time I'll actually arrive 😅

The State of Devs results are out and the state of devs is more tired than wired: 2026.stateofdevs.com

Polypane 31 is here and ...it has a boatload of cool new features! 🖼️ Canvas layout with free-form placement ↔️ Flex item inspector 🎯 Navigate to custom properties ...and back! 🔍 Per-pane zoom settings 🏎️ Page performance monitoring 📱new iPhone 18 and duo presets polypane.app/blog/polypan...

Whooooop see some of yous there!

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