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My friend Sam just released a new video about things you can do in your every day life to resist fascism and systems of oppression. Some quick notes from my first watch There's a scale of resistance. Most folks start at step 1. Ideally, you work your ...

tl;dr: a paywall is really antithetical to my solarpunk anarchist values, so I'm making most of my members-only stuff free and public. Community digital gardens Back in February, I wrote about how my website would be "my stream" of articles and ...

A few months back, I shared the Kelp Commons License. It's a fair-code license I created for Kelp, my HTML-first UI library. One of the big appeals of fair-code over "true" open source for me was that you can restrict how your software is used. For . ...

I'm currently re-reading A Prayer for the Crown Shy, book 2 in the Monk & Robot series by Becky Chambers. The book explores themes of craft and meaning and purpose, and what happens when something that used to be deeply fulfilling no longer is. This ...

Today, I wanted to share how I built my own DIY Netlify that I use to host over a dozen sites for just $10/month, with way more control and much faster build times. Let's dig in! The Netlify Revolution A few years back, Netlify helped usher in the .. ...

Last month, I wrote about how to dismiss native HTML dialog elements when the backdrop is clicked using the [closedby] attribute. My buddy Konnor Rogers shared a great little trick for handling it in browsers that don't have support yet. By default, ...

With modal components, it's common/expected to prevent the background from scrolling. /** * Prevent background scrolling with a modal dialog is open */ html:has(dialog[open]:modal) { overflow: hidden; } However, if your page was long enough that ...