Max Böck
@mxb.dev
🛠️ builds stuff for the web
✨ co-founder codista.com
✏️ writes at mxb.dev
🎉 curates whimsical.club
✨ co-founder codista.com
✏️ writes at mxb.dev
🎉 curates whimsical.club
Short Answer: Fuck no.
Long Answer: If a company tries AI phrenology in their hiring process, they're guaranteed to do worse things once you work there. Don't.
Long Answer: If a company tries AI phrenology in their hiring process, they're guaranteed to do worse things once you work there. Don't.
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
Should facial analysis help determine whom companies hire?
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
econ.st
November 7, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Short Answer: Fuck no.
Long Answer: If a company tries AI phrenology in their hiring process, they're guaranteed to do worse things once you work there. Don't.
Long Answer: If a company tries AI phrenology in their hiring process, they're guaranteed to do worse things once you work there. Don't.
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Inside you there are two woffs.
Ignore the first woff. You just need the woff2.
Ignore the first woff. You just need the woff2.
November 6, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Inside you there are two woffs.
Ignore the first woff. You just need the woff2.
Ignore the first woff. You just need the woff2.
A11y experts should start selling "Agentic AI Optimization" packages and just bring as many sites up to WCAG standards before the hype dies down 🚀
It's neat to see them encourage developers to add ARIA tags to pages though, an "agent" can be thought of as effectively another form of assistive technology
October 23, 2025 at 10:17 AM
A11y experts should start selling "Agentic AI Optimization" packages and just bring as many sites up to WCAG standards before the hype dies down 🚀
I wonder if that will make devs care more about a11y - to make it accessible for AI
It's neat to see them encourage developers to add ARIA tags to pages though, an "agent" can be thought of as effectively another form of assistive technology
October 21, 2025 at 7:36 PM
I wonder if that will make devs care more about a11y - to make it accessible for AI
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Container queries and CSS make it simple to smoothly transition an element to the other side of its parent container without knowing exact dimensions or distance.
Read more in my latest post: ryanmulligan.dev/blog/transit...
Read more in my latest post: ryanmulligan.dev/blog/transit...
October 13, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Container queries and CSS make it simple to smoothly transition an element to the other side of its parent container without knowing exact dimensions or distance.
Read more in my latest post: ryanmulligan.dev/blog/transit...
Read more in my latest post: ryanmulligan.dev/blog/transit...
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This is it. 86,791 words. 836 emdashes. 625 `const`, 141 `let`, 16 `var`. One (1) reference to the pause music from Battletoads for the NES.
Spread the word: JavaScript for Everyone launches tomorrow.
Spread the word: JavaScript for Everyone launches tomorrow.
October 13, 2025 at 4:55 PM
This is it. 86,791 words. 836 emdashes. 625 `const`, 141 `let`, 16 `var`. One (1) reference to the pause music from Battletoads for the NES.
Spread the word: JavaScript for Everyone launches tomorrow.
Spread the word: JavaScript for Everyone launches tomorrow.
You'd think that opting out once is all you need, surely no reasonable person would assume that Microsoft would randomly enable this feature again without consent, right?
...
Riiiight?
...
Riiiight?
October 12, 2025 at 3:23 PM
You'd think that opting out once is all you need, surely no reasonable person would assume that Microsoft would randomly enable this feature again without consent, right?
...
Riiiight?
...
Riiiight?
"built our own auth"
In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.
rm -rf ~/
rm -rf ~/
"The chancellor approved it"
October 12, 2025 at 1:59 PM
"built our own auth"
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OK @kevinpowell.co has written what has to be one of the best (if not THE best) practical article to #CSS colors I have read in a while. piccalil.li/blog/a-pragm...
Easy to read, practical examples, and *perfect* for someone like me who's fallen behind and hasn't kept up with all the new stuff.
Easy to read, practical examples, and *perfect* for someone like me who's fallen behind and hasn't kept up with all the new stuff.
A pragmatic guide to modern CSS colours - part one
Whether you've got a firm grasp on modern CSS colour capabilities, or you're thinking 'I struggle to understand why I should use modern CSS colours at all', then the first part of this article series,...
piccalil.li
October 7, 2025 at 2:53 PM
OK @kevinpowell.co has written what has to be one of the best (if not THE best) practical article to #CSS colors I have read in a while. piccalil.li/blog/a-pragm...
Easy to read, practical examples, and *perfect* for someone like me who's fallen behind and hasn't kept up with all the new stuff.
Easy to read, practical examples, and *perfect* for someone like me who's fallen behind and hasn't kept up with all the new stuff.
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Last week I wrote my first post for @piccalil.li 💛
In this article I explain how you can use container style queries to work around the limitation in media queries that hinders you to use custom properties.
piccalil.li/blog/a-worka...
In this article I explain how you can use container style queries to work around the limitation in media queries that hinders you to use custom properties.
piccalil.li/blog/a-worka...
A workaround for using custom properties in media queries
One of the most frustrating aspects of media queries is that we can’t use custom properties with them. This often results in hard-coded values in otherwise, highly configurable codebases. Manuel has a...
piccalil.li
October 2, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Last week I wrote my first post for @piccalil.li 💛
In this article I explain how you can use container style queries to work around the limitation in media queries that hinders you to use custom properties.
piccalil.li/blog/a-worka...
In this article I explain how you can use container style queries to work around the limitation in media queries that hinders you to use custom properties.
piccalil.li/blog/a-worka...
Watching this is like eating styrofoam. It's just a big bowl of nothing (and will slowly kill you)
September 30, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Watching this is like eating styrofoam. It's just a big bowl of nothing (and will slowly kill you)
I guess I'm team antichrist now?
New argument against AI regulation just dropped. Checkmate, atheists.
www.wsj.com/tech/peter-t...
www.wsj.com/tech/peter-t...
September 24, 2025 at 3:16 PM
I guess I'm team antichrist now?
Dev trick: imagine page weight as *actual weight* on a plane.
"Sir your luggage comes in at 684 lbs, that'll be $7.000 extra. What the hell did you pack?"
"Well you know how eagles are really cool?"
"Sir your luggage comes in at 684 lbs, that'll be $7.000 extra. What the hell did you pack?"
"Well you know how eagles are really cool?"
September 22, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Dev trick: imagine page weight as *actual weight* on a plane.
"Sir your luggage comes in at 684 lbs, that'll be $7.000 extra. What the hell did you pack?"
"Well you know how eagles are really cool?"
"Sir your luggage comes in at 684 lbs, that'll be $7.000 extra. What the hell did you pack?"
"Well you know how eagles are really cool?"
The fax machine is a bit too much, other than that I pretty much grew up here
Hey, 90s kids! Your bedroom is now in a museum!
(Prague's National Museum, if you want to make a complaint.)
(Prague's National Museum, if you want to make a complaint.)
September 20, 2025 at 10:42 AM
The fax machine is a bit too much, other than that I pretty much grew up here
I'm also "sabotaging" my toddler's "strategy" of eating dirt, AMA
AI cannot fail, it can only be sabotaged. You must stay ever-vigilant against Trotskyist wreckers.
September 2, 2025 at 6:06 PM
I'm also "sabotaging" my toddler's "strategy" of eating dirt, AMA
Did he read the em dashes out loud though
September 2, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Did he read the em dashes out loud though
Now if only there was a gov agency of IT professionals actually capable of building stable software for people, let alone the website for it.
Something like 17E or
Something like 17E or
what an absolute and utter shambles this is, in just about every way americabydesign.gov
America by Design
A National Design Studio Initiative
americabydesign.gov
August 25, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Now if only there was a gov agency of IT professionals actually capable of building stable software for people, let alone the website for it.
Something like 17E or
Something like 17E or
Hearing more and more stories about companies reprimanding employees for *not* using AI.
Don't think I've ever seen new tech forced so much down people's throats.
Don't think I've ever seen new tech forced so much down people's throats.
August 20, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Hearing more and more stories about companies reprimanding employees for *not* using AI.
Don't think I've ever seen new tech forced so much down people's throats.
Don't think I've ever seen new tech forced so much down people's throats.
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This, actually works. For me at least.
How to Turn Off Google AI Overview and Set "Web" as Default
tenbluelinks.org
August 17, 2025 at 10:39 PM
This, actually works. For me at least.
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Ever cry while cutting an onion? Well, now you don’t have to! Building off of chef J. Kenji López-Alt, we found the mathematically optimal way to dice an onion. *Cutting uniform pieces has not been proven to reduce crying, but you do get bragging rights.
pudding.cool/2025/08/onio...
pudding.cool/2025/08/onio...
August 14, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Ever cry while cutting an onion? Well, now you don’t have to! Building off of chef J. Kenji López-Alt, we found the mathematically optimal way to dice an onion. *Cutting uniform pieces has not been proven to reduce crying, but you do get bragging rights.
pudding.cool/2025/08/onio...
pudding.cool/2025/08/onio...