Vale

I'm Declan Chidlow, a front-of-the-front-end developer. I primarily post about: - HTML/CSS/JavaScript - UI & UX - Design - FOSS - The IndieWeb/SmallWeb - Digital Gardening ...and other gurgitations of my mind. #Intro #FrontEnd #PromoSky

Shout out to whoever ended up reading my post about my CSS reset from the Google search query 'check parking brake system toyota avensis reset'. I hope you learnt something.

@css-tricks.com is back! Not just back, but returned in a better state than ever. I'm so excited to see the future of the site! Some further musings: vale.rocks/micros/20261...

If you needed a win as badly as I have lately, mark this one down: CSS-Tricks is returning as an independent publication. Spread the word. wil.to/posts/taking...

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

Someone said my image had an alpha channel, but I couldn't see it.

A fresh release of my plugin for KOReader which brings support for downloading books from, and syncing progress with, Jellyfin. It harbours a pleasant number of quality-of-life improvements and a handful of bug fixes. Enjoy! github.com/DeclanChidlo... #KOReader #Jellyfin

Just watched someone ask Claude Code for a Git diff. We're so doomed.

Lemon Demon is one of my favourite bands, and I particularly love the bonus mini-webpages included with albums, accessible only by putting the album's CD in a computer. A quick micro about it: vale.rocks/micros/20261... #LemonDemon

There is a wealth of great new HTML and CSS functionality that can be used to enhance design systems (and anything else, really). Go get yourself caught up with my article over on the @zeroheight.com blog:

Your friend Vale here with a ukulele hooked up to an amp telling you Yanks to go vote. Do your part to gut the swine.

Lola is working on some really valuable stuff here. Consider taking 30 seconds to answer this quick single question survey.

I'm looking to buy a new MacBook so I can upgrade to Golden Gate for Safari testing, and I keep seeing old 12-inch MacBooks. The really awful ones. They bother me every time I see them, so I've taken the time to complain. I'm only a decade late to the discourse. vale.rocks/micros/20261...

With Arc dead, come to Firefox. Let's not give Chromium any more market share. A thriving web is a diverse one. If you want something really close to the Arc experience, check out Zen. zen-browser.app

Is there any effective way to stop all Bridgy Fed posts appearing in my feeds? I have zero interest in seeing them and regard them as rather annoying.

Some thoughts on the recent cybersecurity shambles: vale.rocks/micros/20261...

Just went to publish a new npm package and now npm has died. Ahhhhhhh.

I was idly listening to the background noise of hard drive whirring and clicking coming from my MacBook, before I remembered it is a modern computer and doesn't have a hard drive. The fan isn't spinning either...

I'm fairly sure I don't have anything using PHP deployed anywhere...

I just adopted 'Yellowish Orange' on Colour Names. @meodai.bsky.social makes so much beautiful work so it only made sense to support him a bit. names.color.pizza/color/yellow...

I've never written anything of this nature before (neither topic nor style), but I'm annoyed by the lack of information and detail even from medical sources. These are my personal notes on bruxism and the temporomandibular joint problems that I'm dealing with: vale.rocks/posts/tmj-br... #TMJ #TMD

My browser watching on in abject horror as I go to load the one-page version of the HTML spec to 'quickly' check something.

It is only 7:30 AM, and so far today I've seen four separate, individual, unassociated references to the 1995 film Hackers across different websites.

Yesterday, the CSSWG accepted my proposal for mesh gradients and diffusion curve gradients! Want to make gradients like this natively in CSS? Well, we've started the work on it. It's coming! Here's the Explainer: github.com/w3c/csswg-dr...

Want to hear some exciting news about JavaScript for Everyone: New Game+? Want to learn about putting the `setHTML()` method and Trusted Types API to use? Want to know why my “status” screen has a little skull-and-crossbones icon up next to my name? Well, do I ever have the newsletter for you!

I like hexagons and web design. Do you like hexagons? And, also web design? Can I interest you in calc-size() ? codepen.io/editor/tfedd...