I have a hard time sometimes in conversations with FOSS people about what making software that is accessible to non-programmers looks like, because sometimes people start talking to me about like features in obscure languages and packaging and distribution systems and so on, but in a workshop our lab ran recently one major blocker was "not knowing about the existence of the filesystem" and "have never seen a path as a string before and do not know how that relates to a file picker menu"

Does anybody have opinions on VPS providers? I'm a long time shared/managed hosting user who wants to try his hand at running a basic web app on a VPS.

Putting an inspiration request out for grids and their cards/content (can be CSS grid or flexbox); if you’ve made one or seen one in the wild that you thought was particularly cool I’d love to see it ☺️

#CSS #Frontend

Gosh, I need to watch Belle already https://youtu.be/29K0R5S-v_k

The “replying to” pattern is one of my favorite-ist design touches on @ashur’s journal: https://multiline.co/mment/2026/07/adding-ui-for-replies/

YOU GUYS, I just discovered that WPT's new (broken bad) UI is still connected to the old infrastructure, so if you pull a test ID out of the JSON file for the test, *YOU CAN PLUG IT INTO THE OLD UI*:

The new (jank-ass) UI: https://portal.catchpoint.com/UI/Entry/WPTITP/ARHG-C-E-mvC7kqje27qwN0AA-N

The "classic" (useful) view of the same trace!: https://www.webpagetest.org/result/260707_instant_f24fd88b9f384d799408e2b2a1d45c94/

The waterfalls and filmstrips work; nature is healing:

https://www.webpagetest.org/video/compare.php?tests=260707_instant_f24fd88b9f384d799408e2b2a1d45c94-r:1-c:0

Ok, I'm unofficially looking for work. I haven't _yet_ had the axe fall, but when the whole company is all-in on LLMs, the VP Eng expresses frustration at low velocity over the last month, and the team lead quotes Fable output stating it could do the work in an afternoon...

I should start mapping out the exits for this place. Fifteen years next month, and it could well end quite ignominiously.

Based in Manchester, UK; available to work worldwide (wherever local regulations allow contracting to a consulting limited company); full-remote would be a stipulation, but open to annual meetups etc.

And no LLM usage would be the other stipulation.

If there's work out there in renewable energy or permacomputing, I'd be especially open thereto.

#FediHire #GetFediHired

Added interactive code snippets to my blog, using iframes, srcdoc and contenteditable="plaintext-only". Use the platform, it’s great. https://krijnhoetmer.nl/log/2026/07/code-snippets-and-live-previews

https://gregwolanski.com/pixels/

July 06 - Art 365/187 - Bohemian Waxwing

Around here Cedar waxwings are more common, although I've only ever seen a flock twice. I don't think I've ever seen a Bohemian waxwing in person.

#watercolour #birds #art365 #birb

🕸️ What are some websites you've found recently and adored? :D

📝 Just over here writing about how and why I do the things that I do.

Today's post is about me making a shuffle page with an intentional delay in it.

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/notes-shuffle/

When you forgot to make women part of the design team

🎨 https://dhester.me/a-few-bug-sketches

I had so much fun working on the Ganesha cover, and I'm so happy it was well received! Now I've gone ahead and made one for Rama. This one's not a homage of any specific cover, to my knowledge. #comicbookcover #digitalart #illustration #coverdesign

Experiment in type is not something that comes easy to everyone, maybe that's why I enjoy looking at those who do it graciously.

Plain Text zine uploaded its first issue articles online:
https://text.plain-form.com/en/plaintext/plain-text-1/read

#IStandWithTransPeople
https://goodlawproject.org/petition/transrightspetition/
Please sign and share

Listen, I don’t like the tech industry — I never have. This _industry_ is extractive, at its core; the vine that doesn’t care about the life of the tree it climbs and strangles. Nowhere is that more clear than with LLMs, burning the web and world for the illusion of competence and drop-shipped code.

✨ New post

“Masonry aka waterfall aka collapse aka pack aka Pinterest-style layout — display grid-lanes cheatsheet for my future self”

https://pawelgrzybek.com/masonry-aka-waterfall-aka-collapse-aka-pack-aka-pinterest-style-layout-display-grid-lanes-cheatsheet-for-my-future-self/

#css #masonry

Unless you were largely cognisant during the late 90s, it's very hard to get across to you just _how_ bristling with positive energy computing was back then, just **look** at this opening screen, it screams "ARE YOU READY TO LEARN MOTHERF*CKER?!".

It has dolphins, in the clouds. How many smartphone apps welcome you with dolphins in clouds?

#encarta #90s #retrocomputing