Horizontal buttons/links are superior to vertical: they use less space (if they fit on one line) because they don't need padding between them for clickability.

This is a game changer in the named color technology! 🌈

With CSS5 color-mix() function, you can get a closer match to any sRGB color you want using only named colors.

Compare this beauty:
DarkSalmon 50%, BlanchedAlmond

to this modern horror:
oklch(0.8052 0.0723 48.25)

Fun fact:

Shift+Cmd+D is a shortcut to send email in Apple Mail.
It's also a shortcut to discard email in Gmail 🤦‍♂️

Don't ask how I know.

Fifteen years ago, I launched I Write Like — a playful website that tells you which famous author your writing resembles.

What started as a weekend experiment quickly went viral, with millions of people pasting in everything from essays to fan fiction to grocery lists.

I was craving for an open source Bloomberg Terminal font lookalike, but there was none, so here's my amateur attempt at creating one from Source Sans 3 (on the right).

Repo: github.com/dchest/bergoom

I made a *very* dark mode for I Write Like. 😁

Ooze mode, inspired by Stephen King's On Writing, helps you REALLY spot those adverbs!

Tabs save money!

"WebKit for Safari 18.4 adds support for X25519 for Web Cryptography" 🙌 webkit.org/blog/16574/w...

Mozilla made only Latin fonts for their "reclaim the internet" rebranding, which "pulls together our expanding offerings, driving growth and helping us connect with new audiences in meaningful ways", so their website looks bad in Cyrillic and Greek.

Found an interesting switch variant. Good or bad? I'm not a fan.

Autumn vibes: waterfalls near my town

I can't believe The Guardian style guide allows punctuation in entity names. They can't even write NASA properly ("Nasa"), yet they’re apparently fine with question marks.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The one on the right goes into the soldering iron, right?

Apple's animation of modal dialogs in Aqua served the purpose of indicating that they were attached to a window. Most web apps, and even macOS now, use background dimming for this. There's no point in animating it. Try it — your app will appear more responsive.

I don't understand how it is that traders have this highly specialized, super-fast, data-heavy UI they can control with a keyboard, but a corporate programmer's workplace UI is a board that simulates sticky notes that you have to drag with a mouse.