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Álvaro Montoro @alvaromontoro.com · 21h

Checking the prices of candy at the store, all the trick-or-treaters at our house this year will be getting tricks.

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comiCSS @comicss.art · 1d

New comic: Midlife Crisis
comicss.art/comics/216/

#css #cartoon #comic #webdev

comic with 4 panels in a 2x2 grid titled Midlife Crisis. Two characters speak:
- We have a problem with Steve!
- What is it?
- He is going through a midlife crisis...
- Oh no! Did he buy a motorbike?
- No. worse!
- A speedboat?
- Way worse!
- Oh, no! Please tell me it's not...
- Sadly, yes!
- Really? Again??.

The last panel shows a character (Steve) typing in a computer while someone off-panel says: He is building a new JS framework?!

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CSS by T. Afif @css-only.dev · 1d

Do you want to see more cool stuff using modern CSS? This time, the tooltip will consider all four positions, and the tail will always point to the anchor. 👀

css-tip.com/tooltip-anch...

Still 100% CSS magic! 🪄

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T3chFest @t3chfest.es · 1d

International speakers are welcome to T3chFest 2026! We cover all expenses, send a tech related proposal talk in our call for papers 🌍

Call for Talks - T3chFest 2026

Propón una charla para T3chFest 2026. 12 y 13 de marzo de 2026.

t3chfest.es

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Adam Argyle @nerdy.dev · 2d

"Oops… #CSS got away from me, send halp!"
🎥 video out now

a 25m tik-talk just given at @cascadiajs.com

⤷ nerdy.dev/oops-css-got...

Oops CSS Got Away From Me Send Halp At Cascadiajs 2025 · October 12, 2025

You can now watch my talk from CascadiaJS 2025 3 weeks ago 🏻 Watch on YouTube

nerdy.dev

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Álvaro Montoro @alvaromontoro.com · 2d

Does brunch count?

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Álvaro Montoro @alvaromontoro.com · 2d

Post by did:plc:xei4kpuuaogvgnvufre7wvjm

Álvaro Montoro @alvaromontoro.com · 2d

A video with the coding process: www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5G1...

Inktober/Divtober: Drawing a Bee with CSS

YouTube video by Alvaro Montoro

www.youtube.com

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Álvaro Montoro @alvaromontoro.com · 2d

Surprised no one has come up yet with the classic slider. It's ugly and all, but it helps _easily and accurately_™ pick a date within [-200,+200] of today. That should be acceptable, no?
codepen.io/alvaromontor...

#BadUXWorldCup #html #css

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Álvaro Montoro @alvaromontoro.com · 3d

a pixelated image of a man making a face

Alt: animated man with a caucasian man (Nathan Fillion from the show Castle) making gestures trying to interrupt or say something, stopping at the end covering his mouth and looking down in resignation.

media.tenor.com

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Aleksandr @aleksandrhovhannisyan.com · 3d

> Writing an article

> Hey I should explain some background knowledge first

> Hmm, maybe that should be its own article

> Neither article gets written

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Álvaro Montoro @alvaromontoro.com · 3d

I'm in this post and I hate it.

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Álvaro Montoro @alvaromontoro.com · 3d

I did a single-div CSS Art based on today's inktober prompt: Sting.
codepen.io/alvaromontor...

#inktober #divtober #sting

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Álvaro Montoro @alvaromontoro.com · 3d

MacOS: System Data 85.28GB

Me: *deletes 2GB of System Data files and cache, empties Trash*

MacOS: System Data 86.94GB

🤬

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Álvaro Montoro @alvaromontoro.com · 3d

I like living dangerously... close to the HD space limit 😅

I got this computer ~8 years ago, and age is starting to show. It is enough for video editing and casual web/mobile development, but the keyboard's dead, and a replacement costs more than a new computer. So an upgrade may be in the horizon.

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Álvaro Montoro @alvaromontoro.com · 3d

OS + System Data basically taking half of my hard drive... Ugh!

Screenshot from MacOS showing space used:
- Other Users & Shared: 1.6MB
- macOS: 16.14GB
- System Data: 85.28GB

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Ana Tudor @anatudor.bsky.social · 3d

Please stop setting `width: 100vw` on the `body`.

It's unnecessary. By default, the `body` stretches horizontally as much as necessary.

It's problematic. Setting `width: 100vw` on it can cause overflow even if you remove the default `margin`... because the page may have a scrollbar.

#CSS

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Álvaro Montoro @alvaromontoro.com · 3d

I can't English this morning.

Álvaro Montoro @alvaromontoro.com · 3d

Practical visualization of how using robots.txt works to prevent AI bots from going through your site.

A cheeto/potato chip used to lock a door

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Álvaro Montoro @alvaromontoro.com · 4d

Any recommendations for newsletter services? (Free for beginners if possible)

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Álvaro Montoro @alvaromontoro.com · 4d

Antifa founder's girlfriend role may be available from what I've heard

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CSS by T. Afif @css-only.dev · 4d

💡 CSS Tip!

A simple line of modern CSS to create a conditional Border Radius. The value will adjust based on either the container width or screen width.

css-tip.com/conditional-...

cc @ishadeed.com @una.im

The following CSS code:
.box {
border-radius: calc(sign(100cqi - 100%)*2rem);
}

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Raul Jimenez Ortega @rauljimenez.info · 11d

¡Volvemos a la carga! 💪 .
El martes 14 de octubre a las 17:00 daremos una charla (ONLINE) para madres, padres y tutores.

Hablaremos sobre qué está ocurriendo en Internet (redes sociales, juegos online, etc.).

🎯 Objetivo: informar, dar herramientas útiles y resolver dudas.

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Álvaro Montoro @alvaromontoro.com · 5d

This.

The AI results were underwhelming. But that was kind of expected, so my frustration is more towards the other side... and that makes me frustrated with myself too 😓

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Álvaro Montoro @alvaromontoro.com · 5d

- You finished the task already?
- Yes, AI made development so fast
- Nice! Let's chec... Wait... What's that?
- What?
- The copy doesn't match design
- Oh, that's the copy AI generated
- We need the copy from design
- Ok
- ...And the spacing looks off
- Oh, that's the spacing AI generated
...

😖

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