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This is a cool little site that does a couple of things well. It picks up stuff that lighthouse doesn't so definitely worth adding to your toolkit.

Youtube used to be a refuge from doomscrolling then they added shorts and it felt like they were trying to make me stupider and less attentive.

The tagline is "No watermark. No app. No bullshit." which is nice. It works well enough for me although I'm not on tiktok or Instagram so only tested a YT video. The dev who built it says it's going to be ad free until at least 1k/day downloads, which is lovely.

This is very clever, although something like Simple Analytics would be a lot easier if this method would sit in your backlog for a few months.

I can only imagine the JS imported to build these so a welcome component from Aaron.

Russell is doing the lord's work here.

I like this thinking from Ahmad, it useful knowledge for every developer.

A browser plugin to automatically handle consent banner based on your preferences.

I'm not the first to discover this by a long stretch but worth noting. Anything with display:grid or display:grid-lanes can be fully responsive at any viewport width with this syntax (where 45ch is the minimum inline size at viewport sizes greater that 45ch) grid-template-columns: repeat(auto-fit, minmax(min(100%, 45ch), 1fr)).

Until we had the min() function it was only possible to be responsive above a certain minimum viewport width with something like grid-template-columns: repeat(auto-fit, minmax(45ch, 1fr)); combined with a media query i.e. @media (min-width: 45ch) { /* responsive grid styles */ }.

Neat idea for only loading iframes when a user shows clear intention.

A fantastic rundown of Scott's personally tried and tested ways to ditch SaaS.

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The real issue is this: the same content can create clarity for one person and confusion, stress, or exclusion for another, without changing a single word

A proper explanation or definition of foo bar baz etc.

Having tired of calling themselves software engineers, web developers start to describe themselves as codemasons.

Best explainer I've seen in a long time.

This is very cool. Using CSS you can detect the last scroll direction and apply styles based on it. Pretty mindblowing compared to the CSS I grew up with.