⚖️ Article 50 of the #EU #AI Act, and what it means for you by @craigabbott
"AI models have already started putting invisible watermarks into the content they write..."
https://www.craigabbott.co.uk/blog/2026/article-50-of-the-eu-ai-act-and-what-it-means-for-you/
@leaverou published an interesting article on website theme toggle design, which set me off thinking about them. After a bit of experimenting and testing with users, I’ve got a pattern I quite like.
I might just have spent as much time on this specimen page than on the font itself but it's finally out in the world: Peritel, a nostalgia-fuelled retro typeface. I'll do a follow-up post on my blog at some point, soon-ish.
Test it out here — I'd love to hear your thoughts: https://chriskirknielsen.com/fonts/peritel/
#typeface #fontDesign
RE: https://front-end.social/@leaverou/117048761441552914
Lea does say this in the article, but highlighting this helps me:
There are two different situations.
One is say, a blog website. A news site. People are linked to it, come to it occasionally, and don't visit daily. A single button, two state toggle makes sense here.
The other is a daily website, maybe something people need for work, or social media. Here you might have all sorts of UI settings and preferences for user comfort. Then you offer all three within a larger settings dialog or page.
🔥 New blog post: "Dark mode toggles: two states are enough"
Dark mode toggles that expose three visible states (system, light, dark) seem like the best option.
Until you think about user goals, that is.
Before rushing to disagree, hear me out.
https://lea.verou.me/blog/2026/dark-mode-toggles/
PS: As a data point, @jaffathecake was converted after reading this 😅
🎉 new post!
Dynamic Colour Schemes With Modern CSS
What magical CSS can we use to create not just a quick and dirty colour palette, but a whole colour scheme?
Anogulous? Complementary? Triadic?
It's all here!
https://www.alwaystwisted.com/articles/dynamic-colour-schemes-with-modern-css
🙏🖤
Imagine if real engineering worked like tech?
Bridges that need to keep constantly adding features to improve KPIs and get someone promoted.
We rebuilt this dam real quick with entirely new materials because they're the current hot shit, but it's okay we also rewrote the safety guidelines and the tests still pass.
We left the fire escapes out of the apartment building this time because it was convenient for the engineers. All of them have moved on to other jobs already so no-one knows why.
"The Inspiration Porn Industrial Complex"
@gedankenstuecke https://scholar.social/@gedankenstuecke/117043007124865653
📝 A quick post that's somewhat obvious, but I think it's important. A simple formula for keeping good things around.
Look folks the genie is out of the bottle. The genie went from $20/mo to $200/mo. The genie is spending $8 for every dollar it makes. The genie is reactivating every coal power plant it can. The genie needs 60% of your town's water. The genie is hiding $1.65 trillion in debt. But it's out of the bottle! The genie is out of the bottle folks.
✍🏻 “AI” Statement
I finally had the time, space, and inspiration from @beep to write down what I’ve been mulling over for a long time.
”When it becomes increasingly unsafe to have any other than unfettered enthusiasm stance in the workplace, here I’m in position to make my own judgments. Avoiding the use of 'AI' is a conscious choice I’ve made through the lens of purpose and ethics.”
As promised, the accessibility work never ends no matter my role. Wrote a piece for zeroheight on a problem I keep running into: systemic accessibility gaps between base and product design systems.
zeroheight.com/blog/how-acc...
https://zeroheight.com/blog/how-accessibility-gets-lost-between-base-and-product-design-systems/
Use cases for aria-expanded
Without reading dry documentation, finding the correct use for aria roles can be a challenge, so Steve Frenzel is here to break down the often mis-used aria-expanded.
I finally published a post about my feelings about AI today: https://www.eamoncaddigan.net/posts/ai-in-2026/
I've been blocked for months, trying to figure out a tone and framing that I feel good about sharing publicly. To be honest I'm kinda proud of this one, but even if nobody cares it feels so good to just get these thoughts out of my head.
I wrote about how it feels to step out on stage https://michellebarker.co.uk/writing/stage-fright/ #writing
The Website Specification is an attempt at creating a spec, that answers the question “regardless of the stack you build on, what should a good website do? “. This covers 160 topics, organised in a checklist from foundations to accessibility, SEO, security and beyond and comes with a MCP if you want to run it via an agent. A project by Joost de Valk
It’s taken a while to put into words what I find so distasteful about AI in type design (even — especially — the ‘boring parts’). It’s not the threat of being put out of a job.
Some thoughts:
https://mass-driver.com/article/from-human-hands
Memories Can’t Wait—or, How I Learned to Keep Worrying About the Web
The web is still the best hope we have for a durable, shared memory. But it requires us to be gardeners, not merely tenants....
https://zeldman.com/2026/07/06/memories-cant-wait-or-how-i-learned-to-keep-worrying-about-the-web/
Aujourd'hui, l'Assemblée nationale a encore voté en majorité pour l'aide active à mourir.
Sachez que nous aurons l'aide active à mourir avant les soins palliatifs pour toustes.
Nous aurons l'aide active à mourir avant des délais décents dans les MDPH.
Nous aurons l'aide active à mourir avant les soins psychologiques remboursés par la Sécurité sociale.
Nous aurons l'aide active à mourir avant l'AAH au SMIC, ou mieux, le revenu universel et la fin de la pauvreté.
Nous aurons l'aide active à mourir avant la Sécurité Sociale universelle, peut importe la nationalité et le statut légal sur le territoire.
Nous aurons l'aide active à mourir avant l'abolition des institutions qui ségrèguent les personnes handies.
Nous aurons l'aide active à mourir avant la fin des handicides.
Nous aurons l'aide active à mourir avant la climatisation dans tous les hôpitaux.
La gauche qui se targue d'être progressiste en votant pour l'AAM est criminelle et trahit tout ses idéaux. Quant à la macronie et l'extrême centre... est-ce que j'ai vraiment besoin de commenter ?
#validisme #handicap #handicide #secu #securitesociale #MDPH #aam #stoploieuthanasie #euthanasie #suicideassiste #soinspalliatifs
Every language app in your pocket inherited a teaching method built for Latin. Understanding why that happened is a more useful design lesson than anything the apps themselves can teach you.
New ALA author Shrey Shah takes us on an amazing journey, showing what happens when assumptions based on constraints become invisible to interface designers.
https://alistapart.com/article/designed-for-a-dead-language/