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Lea Verou, PhD @lea.verou.me · 12h

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

Lea Verou, PhD @lea.verou.me · 14h

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 · 21h

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

✈️ 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 · 1d

#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 · 5d

😍 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 · 5d

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 · 7d

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 · 11d

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.

reut.rs

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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 · 14d

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

front-end.social

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Netlify @netlify.com · 14d

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 · 15d

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 · 15d

🔥 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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