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Lea Verou, PhD @lea.verou.me · 3h

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Sometimes intent may truly be a date ± N days but I suspect it’s far more common to think of a range of dates and need to manually calculate a date and extent so you can express it that way.

Sadly, while kiwi’s UI is all around awesome, actual results were worse than other search engines :/

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Lea Verou, PhD @lea.verou.me · 3h

I’m in love with this flexible date selector by kiwi.com 😍

It really drives home the point that good #UX is about accommodating user intent, not conserving clicks.

Clicking on the more common "±N days" is faster, but is it always a better experience?

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Lea Verou, PhD @lea.verou.me · 7h

Here’s my original proposal, which has more examples: github.com/w3c/csswg-dr...

[css-values-5] inherit() function: like var() for parent value, for any property · Issue #2864 · w3c/csswg-drafts

[Edit: We've now defined 'inherit()', but only for custom properties. The issue is left open to track the fuller feature.] We've declined numerous author requests to extend var() to arbitrary prope...

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Lea Verou, PhD @lea.verou.me · 7h

1. Only available for custom properties *for now*. Eventually, the goal is to expand to all properties.
2. Even for custom properties, you can use the inherited value in calculations or even a *different* property’s parent value.

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Lea Verou, PhD @lea.verou.me · 15h

Yay! This was one of my proposals and I think it has a ton of potential to revolutionize how we use design tokens in components and UI libraries today.

IntentToShip @intenttoship.dev · 1d

Blink: Intent to Prototype: The inherit() CSS function

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Lea Verou, PhD @lea.verou.me · 15h

I can’t tell if this is satire or serious.

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Lea Verou, PhD @lea.verou.me · 1d

Same. I try not to because it’s a huge rabbit hole but sometimes it’s hard to resist 😅

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Lea Verou, PhD @lea.verou.me · 1d

I’m in love with @sarahedo.bsky.social’s hand-drawn illustrations in her #jsconf slides 😍

Great talk too, I dig the high-level overview of how different platforms do UI, that’s exactly the kind of cross-pollination we need to design better APIs for the Web.

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Lea Verou, PhD @lea.verou.me · 1d

Very annoyed at Slack rn. It quietly decided to stop syncing DAYS AGO for no apparent reason so I missed a ton of messages 😒

Plus, all the messages *I* sent were never sent, and just vanished when I restarted the app. 😒

Silver lining: turns out people weren't suddenly all ghosting me in unison 😅

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tef @tef.bsky.social · 2d

it's kinda weird that all the software i am expected to use for work are all written by distributed teams, go, python, postgres, linux, chrome, k8s etc

and despite being told "the best teams work in an office together" i don't know of any software i use that's actually written that way

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Lea Verou, PhD @lea.verou.me · 1d

This is likely tooling output. Unfortunately many tools do this because browsers have crippled SCG external references. Eg Excalidraw is forced to embed their entire web font as a data URI in their SVGs and I can’t fault them given the current state of the web platform.

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Lea Verou, PhD @lea.verou.me · 2d

✈️ I was puzzled why so many delays and cancellations so I made the mistake of googling it and now I’m terrified. 😰

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Lea Verou, PhD @lea.verou.me · 2d

#JSConf ✈️

Flying Southwest for my 1st time and so far it’s been like a Windows progress bar:
Boarding at 3:20!
Oops, it’s actually 6:48!
Oh nvm, it's 3:55

In other news, if you’re also going to @jsconf.bsky.social , looking forward to seeing you!

Come say hi, even if we haven’t met before!

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Lea Verou, PhD @lea.verou.me · 6d

😍 Great idea, made by the awesome @jakearchibald.com.
Spend a few minutes to select and rank what matters to you and improve the web platform for everyone!

firefoxdevtools.bsky.social @firefoxdevtools.bsky.social · 6d

As an experiment, we (the Firefox team) wanted to try a new way to get feedback on which Interop proposals matter most.

So, here's a web app where you can rank the proposals you care about, giving us data we can use when reviewing which ones to champion.

interop-rank.jakearchibald.com

Interop Feature Ranking

Rank the web platform features you care most about

interop-rank.jakearchibald.com

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Lea Verou, PhD @lea.verou.me · 8d

You probably know that designing for accessibility benefits everyone, but you’re probably thinking of physical disabilities.

But it can hold even more true for cognitive disabilities! UIs with low demands for sustained attention may help ADHD folks more, but it they are less taxing for everyone.

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Lea Verou, PhD @lea.verou.me · 11d

Thanks! Which part of TLDR? Couldn’t see it on their website sadly.

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EricLaw 🎻 @ericlawrence.com · 12d

The Web is the platform you are looking for. Pass it on.

The Verge @theverge.com · 12d

Apple pulls ICEBlock app from the App Store

ICEBlock reportedly has 1.1 million users.

buff.ly

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Lea Verou, PhD @lea.verou.me · 12d

Make PWAs! Then no App Store can shut you up 😀

Reuters @reuters.com · 12d

Apple removes ICE tracking apps after pressure by Trump administration reut.rs/4mIfztt

Apple removes ICE tracking apps after pressure by Trump administration

Apple said on Thursday that it had removed ICEBlock, the most popular ICE-tracking app, and other similar apps from its App Store after it was contacted by President Donald Trump's administration.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 13d

We believe healthcare is a right for every American.

But starting today, millions of people will be notified that they are being priced out of their insurance thanks to Republican policies.

Enough is enough. The GOP may shut down the government, but we will stand tall for YOU.

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Konnor Rogers @konnorrogers.com · 15d

Apropos of nothing, Netlify is a pretty cool place to move your Vercel sites.

front-end.social/@mayank/1134...

Mayank (@[email protected])

Attached: 2 images settled on netlify after all. Matt made it easy

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Netlify @netlify.com · 15d

Vercel ➝ Netlify migration made simple.

✅ Checklist
✅ Next.js tips
✅ Best practices

Start here → docs.netlify.com/resources/ch...

Vercel to Netlify migration checklist

A comprehensive guide for migrating your projects from Vercel to Netlify, including Next.js setup, configuration migration, and production readiness steps.

docs.netlify.com

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Lea Verou, PhD @lea.verou.me · 16d

I have rewritten this post at least 10 times in the past year, so I’m almost in disbelief that I finally managed to hit Publish. 🫣

Hope it resonates!

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Lea Verou, PhD @lea.verou.me · 16d

🔥 New blog post!

Covering, among other things:

- Why making simple things easy and complex things possible is not enough
- How to maximize your UI’s signal-to-noise ratio
- Why you can’t uncover friction through user feedback
- How to prioritize user needs

lea.verou.me/blog/2025/us...

In the economy of user effort, be a bargain, not a scam • Lea Verou

User effort is a currency. To create a product users love, design the tradeoffs of use case complexity to user effort with the same care you design your pricing scheme.

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Lea Verou, PhD @lea.verou.me · 19d

Neurodivergent conditions are only disabilities because we live in a world not designed for us. Easy to imagine a flipped narrative in a world run by neurodivergents,eg “Patient insists others decode hidden meanings behind their words and compulsively makes eye contact for excessive amounts of time“

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Lea Verou, PhD @lea.verou.me · 19d

AuDHD (Autism + ADHD together) in particular bring a host of superpowers when it comes to entrepreneurship & innovation, and many of the greats are speculated to have been AuDHD by today’s diagnostic criteria: Leonardo da Vinci, Newton, Einstein, Tesla to name a few.

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