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Forced Colors Mode is an accessibility feature that, as my friend Ben Myers explains replaces websites' colors (backgrounds, borders, text, focus outlines, and more) with a significantly reduced color palette, sometimes comprised of user-selected ...

It's rough out there. AI is being used to devalue work, justify layoffs, and depress wages. An utterly shit economy is making everything cost more. Tech is being propped up by a bubble (AI) that will pop eventually. And when it does, things will get ...

Today, I wanted to quickly share how I built Kelp's toggle switch component with a single HTML attribute and CSS (no JavaScript required). Let's dig in! The [role="switch"] attribute The [role="switch"] attribute is functionality identical to [role= ...

A few weeks ago, I learned a fancy new word from Andrew Sage: prefiguration. A few months ago, when SNAP benefits abruptly disappeared, I immediately started working on bringing a Community Fridge to my town. It's something I'd wanted to do for a ...

Nearly 15 years ago, I shared a video produced by a group called the Advent Conspiracy about how the holiday season has lost all of its original meaning, and is now just a celebration at the alter of capitalism. They encouraged people to spend less . ...

Do you remember the Flobots? They had that song Handlebars back in 2007 that was really popular. At the time, I didn't pay them much attention. I wrote them off as pop-alt-rap. I was wrong! They recently showed up on a punk playlist I stumbled onto, ...

Biome is my absolutely favorite code linter and formatter. Its built with modern JS in mind. It has great default options right out-of-the-box, with just enough configuration. It also formats code, and can replace Prettier. It supports JavaScript and ...

Yesterday, I was venting about a bad experience I'd had, and a friend of mine replied by sharing a relevant experience of their own. Then, they immediately apologized for "making it all about them." Dude, not at fucking at all! (I'm using dude in the ...

Last week, I updated the layout of my digital garden and pulled over a ton of stuff that was behind the members-only paywall. I'll be doing some pruning and tending to the garden over the coming weeks. The sections on fetch(), flexbox, and CSS grid . ...

I have a confession: for most of my career, I've hated testing. But I recently learned that's because I've been doing it wrong, and maybe you have, too. In this video, I show you The "right way" to approach testing. What I got wrong about TDD all ...