Chris Coyier

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2026-03-02 15:26:33 GMT

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I like how Nolan paints this two-sided picture of AI coding. The worst fact about these tools is that they work. They can write code better than you or I can, and if you don’t believe me, wait six months. You could abstain out of moral principle. And that’s fine, especially if you’re at the tail end of your career.
https://chriscoyier.net/2026/03/02/13264/

2025-08-01 17:46:52 GMT

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I think I fixed it... maybe? Can anyone see?
I have NO idea why it was gone. I have an old Photoshop file of where I created it and clearly used it at one time.

2025-07-01 22:23:00 GMT

coyier.com
Somebody emailed me out of the blue offering to sell me coyier.com. Usually I'm not interested in domains. I have this one, it's fine. Subdomains are cool. You can put dashes in domains and get them cheap (see: css-tricks.com). There are a billion TLDs now and you don't really need the dot-com. But I thought about it, and my brain told me I'd spend a grand on it and absolutely no more.
https://chriscoyier.net/2025/07/01/coyier-com/

2025-06-10 12:52:00 GMT

Lest We Forget The Horrors
Just a high five to McSweeney's for the month-by-month documentation of the horrible crap Trump does. Just a paragraph reminder with good links to confirm. I try to keep my own little mental list of things that horrify me. Not to slather myself in, as I don't have the mental health spoons to live like that, but to be ready when I find myself in a…
https://chriscoyier.net/2025/06/10/lest-we-forget-the-horrors/

2025-06-04 14:13:04 GMT

Ugjkagk i love the Microsoft Design blog header.
https://cdn.masto.host/frontendsocial/media_attachments/files/114/625/500/304/621/854/original/562bee3b80772b4a.mp4

2025-05-22 00:23:37 GMT

White Noise
My 7 year old strongly prefers to sleep with white noise playing. She's got a little machine that does it on a timer. Whenever she sleeps somewhere else, if she can't bring the machine, it's best to have another solution. YouTube has those 10 hour long videos that do it which I can just play on my plugged-in phone. I've run across a little website with just a button though, which: better.
https://chriscoyier.net/2025/05/21/white-noise/

2025-04-25 21:54:04 GMT

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i mean its in my body now so

2025-04-25 21:47:41 GMT

today i didn't cut a sandwich diagonally or at a right angle. It was like a 30-degree angle. and the sides weren't even quite the same size. is this what social media is for?

2025-03-14 15:47:49 GMT

Google Being Forced To Sell Chrome is Not Good for the Web
You've got a monopoly on lemonade because you pay all the grocery stores to be the default lemonade. So we're going to force you sell your car. What's with the weird redirect? If the monopoly is directly caused by paying the grocery stores for placement, then stop that part. We can see this exact redirect happening in the ruling in the U.S.
https://chriscoyier.net/2025/03/14/google-being-forced-to-sell-chrome-is-not-good-for-the-web/

2025-01-31 00:14:01 GMT

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that’s a great framing. There is possibly a certain kind of success that is chased by doing all the things, but that doesn’t mean you have to or want to.

2025-01-30 23:30:57 GMT

Control
There is an idea in my bubble that running your own website is A Very Good Idea. I subscribe to the idea that running your own website is A Very Good Idea and will continue to help that along in my career. But there is a heaping helping of It Depends involved here. Perhaps the biggest reason having your own site is a good idea is that you are in complete…
https://chriscoyier.net/2025/01/30/control/

2025-01-30 17:23:14 GMT

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We should talk about it on shawptalkshow

2025-01-29 19:12:57 GMT

if I was a designer at datastax, knowing this is the logo, i would put battlestar galactica corners on absolutely every shit. hard design system guideline.
https://cdn.masto.host/frontendsocial/media_attachments/files/113/913/229/149/409/500/original/a075e48d5e67bfbe.png

2025-01-29 18:17:36 GMT

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Yeah #2 sounds good, but I don't think they were accused of a monopoly in that area.

2025-01-29 15:34:23 GMT

A Little Arm Chair Businessin’ about Chrome
It was August 5th, 2024 when a federal judge in the US decided that "Google acted illegally to maintain a monopoly in online search". Then November 20th, 2024 when "The Justice Department and a group of states asked a federal court late Wednesday to force Google to sell Chrome". It hasn't been forced yet and I have no idea if it will be.
https://chriscoyier.net/2025/01/29/a-little-arm-chair-businessin-about-chrome/

2025-01-28 18:51:33 GMT

Media Diet
🎥 The War of Rohirrim — I was on a bit of a Lord of the Rings kick, reading the books then watching the Extended editions. So of course I had to see this. I tried to see in theaters but I just missed it, so streamed it. I thought it was good! A perfectly fine story and I was happy to get to hang out in Middle Earth on fresh terms.
https://chriscoyier.net/2025/01/28/media-diet-6/

2025-01-24 17:04:36 GMT

A Ham of Meat
There's a classic old time tune "How Many Biscuits Can You Eat?". I know it from The Freight Hoppers but it's certainly much older than that. The answer? How many biscuits can you eat? 49 and a ham of meat. Obviously. Wait, did they say "a ham of meat"? Some renditions of the song just cruise right through that. Some of them let some of the instruments drop out during that line (the italics of songcrafting).
https://chriscoyier.net/2025/01/24/a-ham-of-meat/

2025-01-21 16:52:16 GMT

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2025-01-21 16:25:21 GMT

I did get around to writing up my own CSS Wishlist again. https://frontendmasters.com/blog/css-wishlist-for-2025/ Nothing terribly surprising on there, I mostly plucked up my favorite ideas from other people.

2025-01-21 15:42:12 GMT

Team Bend Racing
The kid and I randomly started watching World’s Toughest Race: Eco-Challenge Fiji on Amazon Prime from 2020. 66 teams descend upon Fiji to compete in the most epic global adventure race ever attempted. Bear Grylls hosts this 11-day expedition that pushes competitors to their physical and emotional limits. We were both like whaaaaat when "Team Bend Racing" took an early lead.
https://chriscoyier.net/2025/01/21/team-bend-racing/

2025-01-18 22:36:44 GMT

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yeah it’s opposite in many ways. Robert Johnson is famous and idolized and the story of the crossroads is legend. GB is barely known.

2025-01-18 06:00:37 GMT

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lol. You can close it - you have my permission haha. It’s prettttty niche.

2025-01-17 03:06:34 GMT

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I love that idea.

2025-01-16 23:01:43 GMT

The Garden vs The River
Robin Rendle quoting Chris Armstrong: ... Chris argues that personal websites could become more like wikis instead: With digital gardens, every new piece of content in the network has the potential to add depth and context to every other part. The whole becomes greater than the sum of its parts. I truly love the idea that topics might grow over time with constant refininement .
https://chriscoyier.net/2025/01/16/the-garden-vs-the-river/

2025-01-16 00:32:54 GMT

Nest Cams
First, we had the Nest thermostat. Gotta have that, right? The first thermostat in the history of time that feels well-designed1. Works great. Pleasure to use and look at. Then we got the smoke alarm. Why not — seems nice2. Then we got a free Nest Mini as a promotion when Miranda went Android for a while and got a Pixel phone.
https://chriscoyier.net/2025/01/15/nest-cams/

2025-01-14 22:13:07 GMT

1,000 lbs
Rogue has a 1000LB Club. Find your cumulative total of a 1 Rep Max Bench/Squat/Deadlift in one hour I'm not particularly interested in actually doing it. You have to record a video with a bunch of rules and crap. But I heard about it years ago and the general challenge idea stuck in my head. My gym recently did a "Supermax" event where we, over the course of…
https://chriscoyier.net/2025/01/14/1000-lbs/

2025-01-13 17:43:23 GMT

Tech + Pace Layering
Steward Brand has talked about Pace Layering for a long time: Pace layers provide many-leveled corrective, stabilizing feedback throughout the system. It is in the contradictions between these layers that civilization finds its surest health. I propose six significant levels of pace and size in a robust and adaptable civilization With this example: The inner layers moving slowly, the outer layers moving quickly/inconsistently.
https://chriscoyier.net/2025/01/13/tech-pace-layering/

2025-01-10 16:36:07 GMT

Short Life of Trouble
My fiddle player friend Darin sent me this documentary about GB Grayson, which I enjoyed: The documentary talks about how very few people even recognize the name despite all of recorded tunes essentially becoming standards in today's folk/bluegrass/old-time world and having been covered by extraordinarily huge artists. Gilliam Banmon Grayson (1887-1930) was a blind fiddler from one of the most isolated regions on the East Coast (East Tennessee).
https://chriscoyier.net/2025/01/10/short-life-of-trouble/

2025-01-09 17:17:58 GMT

Exploring Hogwarts Puzzle
Over the holiday's our family did the Exploring Hogwarts puzzle. It was just 500 pieces but took us like... a month? Of course at the end there was a missing piece that we absolutely could not find, confirming our conspiracy theories the entire time. It don't know if that looks hard to you, but my gosh, it was just a beast in difficulty the entire time.
https://chriscoyier.net/2025/01/09/exploring-hogwarts-puzzle/

2025-01-08 16:24:27 GMT

Check-in-the-Mail IRL Spam (Canada Dry)
I just got a big ol' stack of USPS Priority Mail®️ marked as RETURN TO SENDER. It's... malicious spam. Physical spam, I suppose. I didn't send these, of course. But the return address is CodePen Headquarters, so it seems it was just a free way to get spam into our door. The evil schmucks drop these in the mail to fake addresses, they get returned to sender, and it's marked that CodePen Headquarters is the sender.
https://chriscoyier.net/2025/01/08/check-in-the-mail-irl-spam-canada-dry/

2025-01-07 16:39:43 GMT

Starlink
I don't actually have Starlink. I was just considering it for a hot second and figured I'd write down the thoughts. I was getting annoyed at our home internet service the other week and started looking into other options. In the end, I called our service provider (TDS) and they were like (1) your modem is very old so we'll just mail you a new one (2) you're on a grandfathered plan that is 600 megabit…
https://chriscoyier.net/2025/01/07/starlink/

2025-01-07 03:28:35 GMT

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depends. Local hand me downs is the best, otherwise sell or trade in. Recycle if ancient

2025-01-07 03:27:25 GMT

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I think we’ll have an issue out tomorrow 🙂

2025-01-07 02:20:34 GMT

M4
When the M1 MacBooks dropped, they looked amazing and I picked one up in 2021. It's 2025 now, so it's fairly typical of me to be upgrading. It felt a little unnecessary since my M1 was: extremely perfectly fine. It's an excellent machine really and it will continue to be for it's next owner for surely many, many years. I'm just a privileged dude and we have a work budget for these things.
https://chriscoyier.net/2025/01/06/m4/

2025-01-06 18:38:55 GMT

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The host tracked it down to a weird NGINX config rule. Fixed! I know everyone was waiting with bated breath.

2025-01-06 18:34:56 GMT

Untitled
When haters deny HTML’s status as a programming language, they’re showing they don’t understand what a language really is. Language is not instructing an interlocutor what to do in a way that leaves no room for other interpretations; it is better and richer than that. Tim Carmody, HTML Is Actually a Programming Language. Fight Me If you need a bit more proof that HTML can do dynamic, interactive, logic-oriented tasks, see the article I've been working on and…
https://chriscoyier.net/2025/01/06/11937/

2025-01-06 15:58:20 GMT

Recreate a Cool Shuffling Effect in Pure CSS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=An3QMWg3m1c https://chriscoyier.net/2025/01/06/recreate-a-cool-shuffling-effect-in-pure-css/

2025-01-05 16:20:47 GMT

Media Diet
🎥 Get Duked. I liked the cute premise of these hard kids doing a challenging nature walk thing. It was a great little set of actors and it started strong. Then it just went off the rails, as they say. It tried to do too many things and make it feel like a mess and I stopped caring. Try The Kings of Summer for a similar vibe and better film.
https://chriscoyier.net/2025/01/05/media-diet-5/

2025-01-05 00:27:40 GMT

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I fixed the faux bold, thanks for that. Such an easy thing to forget!
I think I only paid for the "Roslindale Display Normal Series" so probably don't have the full set of axises. Axeez? ha

2025-01-04 22:22:46 GMT

Slash Pages?
Sometimes I look at this list of "slash pages" and I'm like ughkgh I love these, I should do like all of them. Then something stops me and I think I've figured out what it is. They seem more like blog post ideas to me than permanent (if occasionally updated) pages. For example /carry is one of the ideas:
https://chriscoyier.net/2025/01/04/slash-pages/

2025-01-03 22:27:33 GMT

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oh interesting. Is that like different values of `font-variation-settings` or whatever?

2025-01-03 22:24:47 GMT

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DERP. I think I've tracked it down to the web host level caching, so I've hit them up to see if they can ensure that particular route is never cached.

2025-01-03 20:17:30 GMT

Realign
I just popped out a realign of the ol' personal website. I only say realign as I didn't rethink every single detail of the thing. I'd say probably 40% of the original HTML and CSS are there from old site, 70% of the PHP, and of course 98% of the content. It won't stay this way forever, so I figured I'd document a little of it for fun and see what kinda interesting tech is in there, if any.
https://chriscoyier.net/2025/01/03/realign/

2025-01-03 19:23:25 GMT

Untitled http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDMDqUiobNo https://chriscoyier.net/2025/01/03/11900/

2025-01-01 17:15:56 GMT

Self-Recorded Music Vids
Just trying to make sure to remember to post these videos here, where they will actually be preserved over time. 🤘🪕
https://chriscoyier.net/2025/01/01/self-recorded-music-vids/

2025-01-01 04:45:20 GMT

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amazing. I’d love to see those.

2025-01-01 00:14:58 GMT

The Last Calvin
31 December 1995. Still the perfect goodbye. Liesbeth Corens I'm not always the most nostalgic guy but Calvin & Hobbes never fails to warm me up. I was such a super fan as a kid and had great experiences like this as an adult. Don't miss Bill's new book.
https://chriscoyier.net/2024/12/31/the-last-calvin/

2024-12-31 02:15:10 GMT

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How do you do the web search within Raycast? Special key command or prefix or something?

2024-12-30 22:56:12 GMT

Watching Google Search in 2025
It will be fascinating to watch what happens with Google Search this coming year. It's the behemoth. It alone is the life blood of countless small businesses. And yet "Google Zero" threatens — radical changes to Google search results where good, previously-reliable traffic absolutely plummets to essentially nothing. Review site HouseFresh's story is an example. AI slop generation is flooding the web, and people are feeling like that's…
https://chriscoyier.net/2024/12/30/watching-google-search-in-2025/

2024-12-28 20:57:07 GMT

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sure would be nice if there was an option other than a daily pill

2024-12-28 20:55:48 GMT

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cheers! Much appreciated

2024-12-28 20:55:37 GMT

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ooof described like that it feels like it might still be a bit heavy handed

2024-12-28 15:06:20 GMT

Ads After You Do a Thing
I've been noticing a certain type of ad placement lately I have no better name for than "ads after you do a thing". I'm sure they aren't new, they just feel new to me as I've been thinking about it. Examples: After booking a class on Mindbody, the "You've successfully booked this class!" splash screen that comes up sometimes has an ad on it.
https://chriscoyier.net/2024/12/28/ads-after-you-do-a-thing/

2024-12-27 17:58:30 GMT

Blood Pressure Monitors: QardioArm 2 vs OMRON Silver
I've got high blood pressure at the moment. My doctor wanted to keep an eye on it. It's tricky as one blood pressure reading isn't particularly useful. You need a whole bunch of readings over time, and that's pretty hard to do unless you're taking the measurements at home. So, I got a home blood pressure monitor. The first one I got was the…
https://chriscoyier.net/2024/12/27/blood-pressure-monitors-qardioarm-2-vs-omron-silver/

2024-12-27 14:49:17 GMT

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ok ok ok I'll do it! :) I like the app icon better anyway haha

2024-12-26 17:22:35 GMT

Default Apps 2024
I wanted to update my list from my Default Apps 2023 list, but as I went through it... I haven't really changed anything at all. What does that mean? I'm set in my ways? It doesn't really feel like that, it feels more like I'm pretty happy with my choices and haven't been sufficiently convinced there are better options for me.
https://chriscoyier.net/2024/12/26/default-apps-2024/

2024-12-25 02:57:18 GMT

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right? Ughkgh Dave has a knack for hitting the heart of things

2024-12-25 02:56:00 GMT

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woah never seen that

2024-12-24 23:14:49 GMT

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ah yeah nice! Turns out NetNewsWire does too. Ah well, this feels like it will transcend the reader itself and work no matter what I read in.
Another interesting feature... In the app "Unread" the main linked-to article just loads in underneath. Example in screenshot.
https://cdn.masto.host/frontendsocial/media_attachments/files/113/710/339/007/940/921/original/ca4cd3e3e5f39da0.jpeg

2024-12-24 16:45:57 GMT

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Offering both is a great idea. I wonder why it was ever a "toggle" instead of a URL param or something in CMS.
Tricky on your site, seems like *sometimes* the entry is all that you wrote and *sometimes* it's not and the only way to know is to click over.

2024-12-24 16:44:21 GMT

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dammit I do that ALL THE TIME and can't figure out why. I need a little custom stylesheet to warn me I think.

2024-12-24 16:43:15 GMT

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rant on!

2024-12-24 16:42:37 GMT

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do it!
There is always https://frontendmasters.com/blog/guest-writing-for-boost/ too

2024-12-24 15:36:54 GMT

Full Feed RSS
With Paul Kinlan's Full Feed RSS I can now subscribe to Khoi's site where the RSS entries are more than one sentence. It does make me think... would this annoy Khoi? Does he have it that way on purpose, perhaps because he really wants the site to be read on the site? Do I feel compelled to respect that wish, if it were true?
https://chriscoyier.net/2024/12/24/full-feed-rss/

2024-12-22 16:41:20 GMT

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ah ha! Thank you. Bit of an awkward spot then.

2024-12-22 16:02:01 GMT

Seems like one browser is right and one browser is wrong here, I'm just not sure which it is and it's annoying.
(Situation: if a child element has `z-index: -1` on it, that puts the element behind the parent in Chrome & Firefox. It stays on top in Safari. But this only happens if inside of a "container".)
Demo https://cdpn.io/pen/debug/KwPmYrJ
https://cdn.masto.host/frontendsocial/media_attachments/files/113/697/302/769/955/262/original/f9ac315222f70e5c.png

2024-12-21 22:22:13 GMT

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yo CHEERS Chris!

2024-12-21 20:03:27 GMT

Untitled
Dastardly fun from Herman Martinus, who runs Bear Blog, on a very special UX implemented on the page when a user is determined to be a spammer: When spam is detected, clear the form (so all the info needs to re-typed) and throw an error, eg: "Our servers are bearly managing. Try again later." Disable pasting in all text areas.
https://chriscoyier.net/2024/12/21/11806/

2024-12-16 22:16:40 GMT

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hilarious. I saw a movie the other day and even it wasn’t safe.
https://cdn.masto.host/frontendsocial/media_attachments/files/113/664/812/359/810/824/original/59f7e428c44092fc.jpeg

2024-12-16 20:14:02 GMT

Made a "Word Search Puzzle Maker" for my daughter and I to create these, as they've been a fun hit in the house lately.
https://codepen.io/chriscoyier/pen/MYgbXjv
Any other features that would be cool you think?

2024-12-16 18:58:23 GMT

Just worked on a page that needed an `<h5>`.

2024-12-10 21:53:40 GMT

Cool people link to text fragments. https://dbushell.com/2024/12/05/url-fragment-text-directives/
https://theonion.com/blood-blood-everywhere-1819569736/#:~:text=passersby%20were%20amazed%20by%20the%20unusually%20large%20amounts%20of%20blood

2024-12-10 18:44:00 GMT

Untitled
Chris Coyier and Dave Rupert join Adam and Jerod for a ShopTalk & Friends conversation on the viability of the web, making content, ads to support that content, CodePen’s future plans, books, side quests, and social networks devaluing links. ShopTalk & Friends
https://chriscoyier.net/2024/12/10/11791/

2024-12-07 19:00:27 GMT

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heck yeah super cool

2024-12-07 18:22:40 GMT

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Here's another one with more complex grid changes.
https://codepen.io/chriscoyier/pen/YPKqqaV?editors=1100
https://cdn.masto.host/frontendsocial/media_attachments/files/113/612/930/402/396/898/original/1e6057db1e23fd40.mp4

2024-12-07 18:20:08 GMT

Oh, just having a little scroll-driven morning.
https://codepen.io/chriscoyier/pen/zxOqqpx?editors=1100
https://cdn.masto.host/frontendsocial/media_attachments/files/113/612/917/555/685/899/original/0035511d7fbf0b0d.mp4

2024-12-04 21:13:37 GMT

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I haven't actually done it but I really like that idea generally.

2024-12-04 19:32:33 GMT

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lollll

2024-12-04 19:27:32 GMT

Attempting a Safari Move
Safari isn't any better with battery life. I feel like that needs to be shared more as it's very strong folk tech wisdom that Chrome eats battery and Safari does not, which is apparently not true at all, and might be the opposite. But I don't care too much about that. I have a first-gen M1 Mac from 2021 and the battery on it is still pretty damn impressive and I don't do…
https://chriscoyier.net/2024/12/04/attempting-a-safari-move/

2024-12-04 16:33:18 GMT

In 1960, 38 Rhesus Monkeys Escaped from the Zoo in Madison, Wisconsin
They broke out of a loosely wired cage door in the basement of the monkey house, but from there it seemed they didn’t have a plan — most hung out in a nearby canopy of trees as mesmerized onlookers watched Madison Magazine Who was in charge of that loosely wired cage door? My grandpa! Lolz. I remember exactly the monkey house that was there.
https://chriscoyier.net/2024/12/04/in-1960-38-rhesus-monkeys-escaped-from-the-zoo-in-madison-wisconsin/

2024-12-01 17:35:17 GMT

Me and Skiing
I don't seem like I'd be much of a skiier, do I? (I do not.) But here I am, doing skiing. It's very (very) popular in Bend, Oregon because of the proximity to Mt. Bachelor (and to a lesser degree Hoodoo) and the outdoor lifestyle vibes here. People you know will be downhill skiing in the winter and, hey, why miss the fun?
https://chriscoyier.net/2024/12/01/me-and-skiing/

2024-11-30 22:13:10 GMT

Designing DX Keynote (20 min) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRZL_tBv_zw https://chriscoyier.net/2024/11/30/designing-dx-keynote-20-min/

2024-11-23 01:25:06 GMT

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ha yeah for sure reading puts me right out. Sheng Wang has a great standup bit about this.

2024-11-22 17:49:52 GMT

Untitled
Manuel Moreale: Sometimes I spot posts like Chris’ Media Diet in my RSS feed and I’m always amazed by the fact the people manage to keep up with movies and TV series and the rest of the media landscape. I can totally see how someone posting a post like mine makes it feel like I just bathe myself in popular media.
https://chriscoyier.net/2024/11/22/11767/

2024-11-22 15:31:10 GMT

Untitled
The Jaguar rebrand is a head turner. I don't care enough to weigh in, I just literally cannot see letter-spaced lowercase characters without thinking of Frederic Goudy. Any man who would letterspace lowercase would screw sheep.
https://chriscoyier.net/2024/11/22/11763/

2024-11-22 02:22:33 GMT

Super cool interactive widget on Toni Lijic's site.
https://www.toni.li/
https://cdn.masto.host/frontendsocial/media_attachments/files/113/524/221/015/147/556/original/d93b4db0f59be1a0.mp4

2024-11-20 23:36:56 GMT

Media Diet
🎮 Donut Country — You move a hole around and get things to fall down it. Very satisfying mechanic. The kid and I loved it. Except the story part, which was excruciatingly long and boring. More things falling into holes and puzzles and less talky talky. 📕 The Nineties — A smart look back at this decade. I don't think there is much to be learned here, but the analysis was still astute and the nostalgia was thick.
https://chriscoyier.net/2024/11/20/media-diet-4/

2024-11-20 15:39:20 GMT

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i hold strong on https://css-tricks.com/use-target_blank/

2024-11-19 19:32:20 GMT

Still have in your brain, like me, that if you do `target="_blank"` on a link (which you better have a good reason lol) that you also have to do `rel="noopener noreferrer"`?
Apparently that's just not a thing anymore.
https://werd.io/2024/browsers-imply-noopener-for-links-in-new-tab
> It turns out that browsers have been *automatically* setting this for links where `target="_blank"` since 2021: for three full years (and, actually, longer for Safari and Firefox).

2024-11-14 18:08:24 GMT

I didn't know this either, thanks @npub1an7…3w7j
https://marcthiele.com/notes/i-didnt-know-this-typing-special-characters-on-macos
(Just hold down the `a` key, on macOS, to get a popup menu to help you get a character like `ä`.)

2024-11-08 17:03:02 GMT

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A fork is one thing, but this was "we're taking over the URL that the plugin installs from" so existing users get the new one by a new owner without opting in.

2024-11-08 17:01:38 GMT

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I'm already working on it, Brandon is helping me out. 💜

2024-11-08 16:30:53 GMT

I didn't ask for this plugin. It was literally stolen by Automattic and now is on my sites just by virtue of upgrading versions. Ostensibly it was about a security issue which was patched. That same week there was a security patch in Jetpack too. The pettiness just astounds me and I'm still completely turned off by all this.
https://cdn.masto.host/frontendsocial/media_attachments/files/113/448/278/384/114/476/original/6243bf5cf25a92d0.png

2024-11-08 00:26:37 GMT

Designing DX
👋 Fellow Webnerds! This is a written version of my talk "Designing DX". I just want to lollygag about with y'all about this squishy concept of DX. We'll draw ideas and parallels from the real world (the one with grass, boozy milkshakes, and that glowing orb in the sky that makes you squint). There are things to be learned out there.
https://chriscoyier.net/2024/11/07/designing-dx/

2024-11-07 18:38:59 GMT

Every time I restart my computer I don't have internet, and I have to come into this setting and delete the DNS server (or replace it).
Anyone know what's up with that?
https://cdn.masto.host/frontendsocial/media_attachments/files/113/443/125/781/821/481/original/34525ea969d9d9c5.png

2024-11-07 01:10:38 GMT

Well that's a nifty responsive design trick.
https://css-tricks.com/fluid-everything-else/
https://cdn.masto.host/frontendsocial/media_attachments/files/113/439/004/010/894/975/original/8722c46b25fe839b.mp4

2024-11-01 14:33:17 GMT

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MochaNutChino

2024-11-01 14:27:08 GMT

ooops i dropped a reeces into my coffee ooops

2024-10-29 21:47:49 GMT

hey McD's, when does lunch start?
[[ AI crunching noises ]]
When breakfast is over.
https://cdn.masto.host/frontendsocial/media_attachments/files/113/392/906/462/030/886/original/f32836cd85378fea.png

2024-10-29 14:07:31 GMT

The new "someone left their phone sitting there, take a funny selfie!" is the "open their ChatCPT app and mess with their 'Custom Instructions'."
lololol
https://cdn.masto.host/frontendsocial/media_attachments/files/113/391/089/642/236/629/original/ecffb5c82dfb4668.png
https://cdn.masto.host/frontendsocial/media_attachments/files/113/391/092/388/804/475/original/d016c20760c3af89.png