Person Analysis

Tester 2.0: becoming indispensable in the age of AI

I've been thinking about this, and I do think it's a great form of degradation. I would love to see more sites that are statically rendered, but under load dynamic features are removed.

Healthy code needs 22 to 35% fewer tokens for agentic code review

Quirks and Vintage Uses of CSS Table Display

A select should tell you something

Creating Dynamic Social Media Cards for User Content

setting goals

Just put some HTML on the web

CSS-Tricks has a new owner!

Pinning Both Ends: Letting AI Rewrite 15k Lines of Test Tooling

Small models, specific purposes

Websites Should Be Printable

I guess I’m using WebP now?

There's no point at which turning your brain off will work

Fully customise your select elements

> Giving clear instructions about what to do and what not to do, and ensuring those instructions are consistent and not noisy, will forever be a challenge with AI, no matter how good it gets. > > We have coworkers, partners, and other people we know and interact with who are sentient. They pass the...

The State of Context Engineering

There isn't an easy exploit for this PHP vulnerability

The Polyglot's Dilemma: Conformance Testing a Dozen Specs in as Many Languages

Interesting systemd features you may not know about

Native masonry layouts with CSS grid lanes

Software is slow because of bad design, not slow languages

> If you’re using quotes around your own terms and preemptively closing any discussion about it, then you’ve already lost. This is exactly what the article is trying to argue, in the authors own words, he wants a "meaningful conversation". As for the quotes, it's challenging the claim that "coding ...

Your AI agent fixed the bug, but what else did it change?

Tales of an Old Programmer in a Changing Software Field