#CSS by Chris Coyier - Container Queries (Size & Styles) - Container Units - :has() - View Transitions - Nesting - Scroll-Driven Animations - Anchor Positioning - Scoping - Cascade Layers - P3 Colors - Color Mixing - Margin Trim - Text Wrapping - Subgrid frontendmasters.com/blog/what-you-…

Spent 5 months building the new Purdue Hackers passport. Each one is handmade by its owner & has an NFC sticker embedded in its cover. We've built a bunch of cool infra around them, including a "Sign In with Passport" API written in Rust. 41 have been made so far. More ↴

I made a spatial canvas UI for searching my blog posts, using embeddings for groupings. They’re surprisingly cogent—far more compelling than a one-dimensional vertical link list. It’s using OpenAI embeddings stored in ChromaDB for the search & xyflow · React Flow · Svelte Flow on the frontend.

Got to catch up over skiing & hiking with the Hack Club crew in Burlington this weekend, then experiencing totality with Vincent Spitale. I just stood there crying, utterly overwhelmed, & we gave the moon a standing ovation. Made basically no attempt to capture it. Spectacular.

I wrote a quick wishlist of features I’m hoping to see in Next.js v15 this fall: notebook.lachlanjc.com/2024-04-17_10_… cc Lee Robinson Tim

No more forwardRef!!!

*it's been 84 years...* Hi y'all I'm back to tell you about a project I've been working on for a year, in collab with teenagers at Hack Club: 🤖 AI SAFETY FOR FLESHY HUMANS 🤖 🙀 aisafety.dance 🙀 Learn about AI the non-cringe way. There's a Robot Catboy Maid. Enjoy!

The energy across standards bodies, browser engines, & frontend developers going into improving the web platform for UI engineering is phenomenal. Has anyone written about how this acceleration got going? What pushed the web to start improving so fast?

Introducing the Daylight Computer It does less… So you can be more 🍃 Order now: daylightcomputer.com

A lovely May: wrapped up a fantastic year 3 of 4 at IMA | Tisch | NYU, returned to the design team Watershed for the summer in NYC, saw my sister graduate (4th time), ended by turning 23 🎈

This passage from Linus is beautiful: “If you consider yourself a technologist, here’s your imperative: build things that are unabashedly, beautifully tangled into all else in life — people and relationships, politics, emotion and pain, understanding or the lack thereof,

So so excited to re-join Watershed as Design Engineering Lead after I graduate next spring!! I had a blast piloting the role this summer 💙 I started in Feb ‘21, when we were a dozen ppl on Zoom. Today, it’s ~400 across 4 offices managing a gigaton of CO2, yet just beginning!

Research shows friend-to-friend get out the vote (GOTV) can increase voter turnout by as much as 8.3% points (!) - huge in GOTV efforts! 🗳️ So Peyton Klein and I made 🇺🇸 Texts For Democracy🇺🇸, an app to get YOUR people to the POLLS! And reconnect with your friends in the

☁️ glitchclouds.com introducing a a new project, custom-knit sweaters and pen-plotter prints, designed from my dithered cloud art!

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My beloved dog Wily is lost in SF. Please help return her by calling SF Animal Control at 415-554-9400 if spotted.