paradox: the most technical people have the worst RSS feeds

(i'm guessing because they develop their own tools (I am guilty))

blogged: Valley Fold Ltd

https://dbushell.com/2026/08/11/valley-fold-logo-brand-design/

do you want to see my new company logo?

noted: WordPress CSS pollution and my final issue closed (unresolved)

https://dbushell.com/notes/2026-08-11T05:54Z/

that's a lot of repos 👀

https://github.com/uk-gov-mirror/deleted-repo-report

WAS IT WORTH IT? https://mbell.dev/post/was-it-worth-it/

apparently "taste" allows you to cosplay all the roles

"oh let's get the CoPyWrItEr involved 🙄" (7:40) https://syntax.fm/show/1027/the-rise-of-the-design-engineer

job insecurity

interesting approach to light/dark theme toggles:
https://vale.rocks/micros/20260810-0330

accounts for the system theme state too with only two buttons

darn it Mastodon cached the typo 🤦‍♂️

blogged: They don’t make ’em like Sublime Text anymore
https://dbushell.com/2026/08/07/sublime-text/

oops typo

reading: "I'm leaving OpenAI to build Jurassic Park"

https://taylor.town/leaving-openai

There are contractors doing work on my apartment building and they want me to download their app.

I'm like, No, I'm not going to download your bloody app. Put a letter in my letterbox.

I like to think I keep up with new #CSS features, but sometimes I overlook something fun.

For example, improvements to text-stroke: https://tylersticka.com/journal/improved-css-text-stroke/

#WebDesign #WebDev

I've been pushing pixels around for an hour I need an intervention

hold up! that one's on me, my bad 🙈 I forgive you, esbuild

https://social.lol/@db/117047773487891159

🤦‍♂️ I switched from LightningCSS to esbuild thinking it didn't mess with CSS

esbuild is literally changing colour values to distinctly different colours 😩

is there a CSS bundler/minifier that doesn't break styles?

trialling Fastmail and it's fine so far but Gravatar, on by default? gross.

I could not.

can I blind one-shot a WordPress theme change on a staging site without spinning up a local dev stack? Let's find out...