Matt Wing
@wingmatt.dev
Depending on the day, I'm a professional tinkerer, active listener, and/or project manager.
I've built web apps, virtualized domain controllers, and counseled memory care patients.
Current code interests: PHP, Laravel, & Vue
I've built web apps, virtualized domain controllers, and counseled memory care patients.
Current code interests: PHP, Laravel, & Vue
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old friend...art thou not weary? art thou not burdened by the treacherous ghosts of thy unfinish'd side projects...
thy heart yearns for peace
thy heart yearns for peace
November 13, 2025 at 8:39 PM
old friend...art thou not weary? art thou not burdened by the treacherous ghosts of thy unfinish'd side projects...
thy heart yearns for peace
thy heart yearns for peace
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My best advice for becoming a digital accessibility specialist is to make it your job, regardless of your title.
Making a presentation? Putting together a design? Building something in code?
In anything you do, be curious about what it takes to make it more accessible
Making a presentation? Putting together a design? Building something in code?
In anything you do, be curious about what it takes to make it more accessible
November 11, 2025 at 9:25 PM
My best advice for becoming a digital accessibility specialist is to make it your job, regardless of your title.
Making a presentation? Putting together a design? Building something in code?
In anything you do, be curious about what it takes to make it more accessible
Making a presentation? Putting together a design? Building something in code?
In anything you do, be curious about what it takes to make it more accessible
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The @firefoxdevtools.bsky.social JSON viewer got better in @firefoxnightly.bsky.social : the console offers access to the original json data via `$json`.
This allows to easily manipulate the underlying data to get what you want
This allows to easily manipulate the underlying data to get what you want
![Firefox JSON Viewer opened for the html entites JSON file
We can see the various properties of the JSON file, which are all objects containing a "characters" and a "codepoints" properties.
The Console is opened at the bottom. In it, we can see a console message explaining that some data is available (`$json.data` - the parsed JSON object, $json.text` - the original JSON text and `$json.headers` - HTTP request and response headers)
There's a console evaluation done with the following snippet:
```js
Object.entries($json.data)
.filter(([k, v]) => v.codepoints.length > 1)
.map(([k, v]) => ({characters: v.characters, htmlEntity: k, codepoints: v.codepoints}))
```
and the result shows an array of objects containing "characters", "htmlEntity" and "codepoints" properties.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:l6jizqbrtfnhnrd7vmsqmi3n/bafkreigizqr72frwj6qa53onh2tskqmcmrydexkzeydrkrarwiuoyulcmq@jpeg)
November 7, 2025 at 11:40 AM
The @firefoxdevtools.bsky.social JSON viewer got better in @firefoxnightly.bsky.social : the console offers access to the original json data via `$json`.
This allows to easily manipulate the underlying data to get what you want
This allows to easily manipulate the underlying data to get what you want
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🛠️ If your team has issues to work through:
We do an exercise at offsites called Elephants, Tigers & Paper Tigers.
- Elephants are things that the group isn’t talking about but needs to
- Tigers are things threatening the team, risks
- Paper tigers are things that seem like risks, but aren’t
We do an exercise at offsites called Elephants, Tigers & Paper Tigers.
- Elephants are things that the group isn’t talking about but needs to
- Tigers are things threatening the team, risks
- Paper tigers are things that seem like risks, but aren’t
November 6, 2025 at 1:29 PM
🛠️ If your team has issues to work through:
We do an exercise at offsites called Elephants, Tigers & Paper Tigers.
- Elephants are things that the group isn’t talking about but needs to
- Tigers are things threatening the team, risks
- Paper tigers are things that seem like risks, but aren’t
We do an exercise at offsites called Elephants, Tigers & Paper Tigers.
- Elephants are things that the group isn’t talking about but needs to
- Tigers are things threatening the team, risks
- Paper tigers are things that seem like risks, but aren’t
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Declan Chidlow here with some really practical uses of view transitions, along with some of the stuff that will trip you up, with guidance to help you navigate that.
piccalil.li/blog/some-pr...
piccalil.li/blog/some-pr...
Some practical examples of view transitions to elevate your UI
Declan Chidlow here with some really practical uses of view transitions, along with some of the stuff that will trip you up, with guidance to help you navigate that.
piccalil.li
November 6, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Declan Chidlow here with some really practical uses of view transitions, along with some of the stuff that will trip you up, with guidance to help you navigate that.
piccalil.li/blog/some-pr...
piccalil.li/blog/some-pr...
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If NOAA SWPC's CME model is correct, we may get hit by a pretty fast solar storm Thursday night. Impact speed is almost 800 km/s.
Currently, there is a G3/Strong Storm watch for Thursday and Friday, and depending on what we see at Earth, auroral displays may be seen further equatorward than usual.
Currently, there is a G3/Strong Storm watch for Thursday and Friday, and depending on what we see at Earth, auroral displays may be seen further equatorward than usual.
November 6, 2025 at 5:14 AM
If NOAA SWPC's CME model is correct, we may get hit by a pretty fast solar storm Thursday night. Impact speed is almost 800 km/s.
Currently, there is a G3/Strong Storm watch for Thursday and Friday, and depending on what we see at Earth, auroral displays may be seen further equatorward than usual.
Currently, there is a G3/Strong Storm watch for Thursday and Friday, and depending on what we see at Earth, auroral displays may be seen further equatorward than usual.
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Looking for an amazing tech writer to join my org and write for Cash App. 100% remote. Spread the word!
block.xyz/careers/jobs...
block.xyz/careers/jobs...
Careers - Senior/Staff Technical Writer
Made up of Square, Cash App, Afterpay, TIDAL, Bitkey, and Proto, Block, Inc. builds technology to increase access to the global economy.
block.xyz
November 4, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Looking for an amazing tech writer to join my org and write for Cash App. 100% remote. Spread the word!
block.xyz/careers/jobs...
block.xyz/careers/jobs...
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watching someone experienced work is a very underrated way to level up. "tacit knowledge transfer" is how we learn all the little tips and techniques and shortcuts that make experts so dang fast and effective, and it's really, really hard to learn that stuff in other ways
One of the first things I do with new junior engineers is pair with them to show them how I would track down a bug they're working on.
Learning how to problem solve in the codebase is more important than being able to churn out LoC.
Learning how to problem solve in the codebase is more important than being able to churn out LoC.
Like the difference between an entry-level engineer and a senior one might be language fluency, but the difference between a senior one and a distinguished one is the distinguished one knows how to turn 100x 100 hour debugging problems into 4x 30 minute ones
November 3, 2025 at 1:10 AM
watching someone experienced work is a very underrated way to level up. "tacit knowledge transfer" is how we learn all the little tips and techniques and shortcuts that make experts so dang fast and effective, and it's really, really hard to learn that stuff in other ways
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last chance to take the State of JS survey if you haven't already, it closes in a day or two
survey.devographics.com/en-US/survey...
survey.devographics.com/en-US/survey...
State of JavaScript 2025
Take the State of JavaScript survey
survey.devographics.com
November 3, 2025 at 2:59 PM
last chance to take the State of JS survey if you haven't already, it closes in a day or two
survey.devographics.com/en-US/survey...
survey.devographics.com/en-US/survey...
First daylight savings time change with our kittens. They both keep insisting there are four lights 😾😾😫
November 3, 2025 at 2:39 PM
First daylight savings time change with our kittens. They both keep insisting there are four lights 😾😾😫
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content: attr(data-scary);
October 31, 2025 at 9:41 PM
content: attr(data-scary);
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Interesting! Etsy implemented speculation rules and got these results:
👍 Time to First Byte on the listing page improved 23.6%
👍 First Contentful Paint improved 20.7%
👍 Largest Contentful Paint improved 21.1%
👍 DOMContentLoaded improved 20.4%
#PerfNow #webperf
www.etsy.com/codeascraft/...
👍 Time to First Byte on the listing page improved 23.6%
👍 First Contentful Paint improved 20.7%
👍 Largest Contentful Paint improved 21.1%
👍 DOMContentLoaded improved 20.4%
#PerfNow #webperf
www.etsy.com/codeascraft/...
www.etsy.com
October 31, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Interesting! Etsy implemented speculation rules and got these results:
👍 Time to First Byte on the listing page improved 23.6%
👍 First Contentful Paint improved 20.7%
👍 Largest Contentful Paint improved 21.1%
👍 DOMContentLoaded improved 20.4%
#PerfNow #webperf
www.etsy.com/codeascraft/...
👍 Time to First Byte on the listing page improved 23.6%
👍 First Contentful Paint improved 20.7%
👍 Largest Contentful Paint improved 21.1%
👍 DOMContentLoaded improved 20.4%
#PerfNow #webperf
www.etsy.com/codeascraft/...
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What'd I miss?
components know:
- user stuff
- device stuff
- app stuff
- design stuff
- what stuff is in them
- what stuff they're inside
- etc
It's amazing how much a component can know on the web, and I'm going to try and list it all out. Help me 🤓
#CSS
nerdy.dev/components-c...
components know:
- user stuff
- device stuff
- app stuff
- design stuff
- what stuff is in them
- what stuff they're inside
- etc
It's amazing how much a component can know on the web, and I'm going to try and list it all out. Help me 🤓
#CSS
nerdy.dev/components-c...
Web components know about the user, device, variables, layout and more · October 30, 2025
As Miriam Suzanne says "components know stuff," but like, how much stuff?
nerdy.dev
October 31, 2025 at 12:31 AM
What'd I miss?
components know:
- user stuff
- device stuff
- app stuff
- design stuff
- what stuff is in them
- what stuff they're inside
- etc
It's amazing how much a component can know on the web, and I'm going to try and list it all out. Help me 🤓
#CSS
nerdy.dev/components-c...
components know:
- user stuff
- device stuff
- app stuff
- design stuff
- what stuff is in them
- what stuff they're inside
- etc
It's amazing how much a component can know on the web, and I'm going to try and list it all out. Help me 🤓
#CSS
nerdy.dev/components-c...
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Be the interpreter for your non-technical stakeholders. Milliseconds don't mean much to most people, make the data relatable. "Now they get a smoother experience that's over 50% faster."
@ethangardner.com on making performance allies. #PerfNow #webperf
@ethangardner.com on making performance allies. #PerfNow #webperf
October 30, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Be the interpreter for your non-technical stakeholders. Milliseconds don't mean much to most people, make the data relatable. "Now they get a smoother experience that's over 50% faster."
@ethangardner.com on making performance allies. #PerfNow #webperf
@ethangardner.com on making performance allies. #PerfNow #webperf
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“Very often, what sustainability looks like is also what good performance looks like”
— @inesakrap.bsky.social at #perfnow
Yes! Nice to think that a better experience for users can also be better for the planet.
— @inesakrap.bsky.social at #perfnow
Yes! Nice to think that a better experience for users can also be better for the planet.
October 30, 2025 at 2:10 PM
“Very often, what sustainability looks like is also what good performance looks like”
— @inesakrap.bsky.social at #perfnow
Yes! Nice to think that a better experience for users can also be better for the planet.
— @inesakrap.bsky.social at #perfnow
Yes! Nice to think that a better experience for users can also be better for the planet.
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Happy 34th Birthday HTML tags!
On October 29, 1991, the internet pioneer, Tim Berners-Lee, published a document entitled HTML Tags.
#WebDesignHistory
On October 29, 1991, the internet pioneer, Tim Berners-Lee, published a document entitled HTML Tags.
#WebDesignHistory
October 29, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Happy 34th Birthday HTML tags!
On October 29, 1991, the internet pioneer, Tim Berners-Lee, published a document entitled HTML Tags.
#WebDesignHistory
On October 29, 1991, the internet pioneer, Tim Berners-Lee, published a document entitled HTML Tags.
#WebDesignHistory
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Browser support for view transitions is rocketing and there's not many better out there to help you understand how to implement them than Cyd Stumpel.
piccalil.li/blog/start-i...
piccalil.li/blog/start-i...
Start implementing view transitions on your websites today
Browser support for view transitions is rocketing and there's not many better out there to help you understand how to implement them than Cyd Stumpel.
piccalil.li
October 28, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Browser support for view transitions is rocketing and there's not many better out there to help you understand how to implement them than Cyd Stumpel.
piccalil.li/blog/start-i...
piccalil.li/blog/start-i...
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📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms).
It’s also concerning. 1/
It’s also concerning. 1/
PSA: we're aware that Signal is down for some people. This appears to be related to a major AWS outage. Stand by.
October 27, 2025 at 10:38 AM
📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms).
It’s also concerning. 1/
It’s also concerning. 1/
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hello. my comedy special, Demi Adejuyigbe Is Going To Do One (1) Backflip, comes to Dropout November 19th ✨🔥🎷🐵🤖🇮🇹
A new series of Dropout Presents specials are coming soon to Dropout!
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October 17, 2025 at 7:29 PM
hello. my comedy special, Demi Adejuyigbe Is Going To Do One (1) Backflip, comes to Dropout November 19th ✨🔥🎷🐵🤖🇮🇹
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If you're using Windows 11, Microsoft is now surveilling you in a new way. This may already be turned on on your computer, and you would not be notified; it activates whenever they detect you are in a "game", which in my experience Microsoft often false-positives on
doublepulsar.com/microsoft-bu...
doublepulsar.com/microsoft-bu...
Microsoft builds on Recall with Gaming Copilot — fails basic privacy tests
Gaming Copilot, rolling out now to Windows 11, adds a new attack surface to Windows.
doublepulsar.com
October 23, 2025 at 9:52 PM
If you're using Windows 11, Microsoft is now surveilling you in a new way. This may already be turned on on your computer, and you would not be notified; it activates whenever they detect you are in a "game", which in my experience Microsoft often false-positives on
doublepulsar.com/microsoft-bu...
doublepulsar.com/microsoft-bu...
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The best way to deploy software
October 23, 2025 at 3:25 PM
The best way to deploy software
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Hey, so @wil.to has a new online course called JavaScript for Everyone brought to you by our friends at @piccalil.li.
Can't. Recommend. Enough. 🏆
Anyway, enjoy this free excerpt on JS expressions from the course!
css-tricks.com/an-introduct...
Can't. Recommend. Enough. 🏆
Anyway, enjoy this free excerpt on JS expressions from the course!
css-tricks.com/an-introduct...
An Introduction to JavaScript Expressions | CSS-Tricks
A thorough but approachable lesson on JavaScript expressions excerpted JavaScript For Everyone, a complete online course offered by our friends at Piccalilli.
css-tricks.com
October 22, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Hey, so @wil.to has a new online course called JavaScript for Everyone brought to you by our friends at @piccalil.li.
Can't. Recommend. Enough. 🏆
Anyway, enjoy this free excerpt on JS expressions from the course!
css-tricks.com/an-introduct...
Can't. Recommend. Enough. 🏆
Anyway, enjoy this free excerpt on JS expressions from the course!
css-tricks.com/an-introduct...
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Did you know that with the CSS corner-shape property, you can finally get those sci-fi rectangles you always wanted? @davatron5000.bsky.social shows us how.
Easy sci-fi rectangles with corner-shape
In Chromium 139, CSS gets a new corner-shape property which unlocks some cool new CSS tricks. Most notably it gives us “squircles”, the mathematical superellipse shape introduced by Apple in iOS 7.…
daverupert.com
October 22, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Did you know that with the CSS corner-shape property, you can finally get those sci-fi rectangles you always wanted? @davatron5000.bsky.social shows us how.