Rich bad guys still control the algorithms. Celebrate, but lock-in.

The ball Is rolling up!

maybe a new gundam will fix me?

2.5 of 4 family members are sick. I’m last one standing. I think our dog is even sick. Fuuuu.

Is there an indie website that's like Bookshop, but for comics? (rip, comixology)

I used to be able to smell the difference between a Drupal site, an Expression Engine site, a WordPress site...

I could smell the difference between a Bootstrap or Foundation site...

I could smell React or Tailwind on a site...

I tell you, dear reader, none of those compare to the curse of being able to smell the Claude Code design skill. It's ruining the web for me.

📝 New post: I wish you the best in the Offline

https://daverupert.com/2026/09/i-wish-you-the-best-in-the-offline/

Thanks everyone who contributed. Still have some issues and PRs to triage but I appreciate the patience. Next steps will be to add some release automation.

microlighter@v2.2.0 is out 🚀

- new themes: gruvbox, flexoki
- new grammars: astro, ini, nginx, + fixes
- custom element improvements
- now ~2000x faster on large files thanks to @daniel
- and now has full typescript types (also @daniel)

Still ~2.09kb.

https://github.com/davatron5000/microlighter/releases/tag/v2.2.0

Number go up is boring. Machine has latest gizmos is boring. Human go up is interesting. Human has new perspective is interesting.

Product reviews that just read the spec sheets: 😴
Product reviews that tell me how the product feels after 1 week/month/year of use: 🥰

Finished my HG Gquuuuuux. It’s a very stunning model for its size. Super detailed and visually interesting at almost any angle. #gunpla #plamo #gundam

I am once again asking for your vote for Interop 2027

https://github.com/web-platform-tests/interop/issues/1333

Remember conferences?
Remember meetups?

📝 And here's a quick writeup on my blog.

https://daverupert.com/2026/08/microlighter/

🚀 I made a smol ~2kb syntax highlighter that uses the CSS `::highlight()` API.

- About 2 KiB compressed
- No runtime dependencies
- Uses `::highlight()` not `<span>`
- Languages loaded on-demand
- Human readable CSS themes + light-dark()
- Editable code block support
- And a custom element for more features!

https://davatron5000.github.io/microlighter/

This post was a journey...

try to publish → fetch-feeds plugin broke build → update node version on server → delete plugin → generate ruby version of plugin → update local ruby → update rubygems → update bundler → update jekyll → 2hrs of model confusion → still broke → deploy without cache → works

Suppressing the urge to slop clone one of those shitty games you see in YouTube ads that seem somewhat mindlessly entertaining but you know are filled with ad tech garbage to unlock coins and gems and crap.

I've got 114 draft posts in the hopper and nearly every day I say "I should finish one!" but can't muster the dopamine. Some of that is I'm putting the bar too high for myself, but it's also something else. Even my daily deluge of tech videos is getting boring as shit. Social media... also dumb, offensive even.

Burnout, tech hype malaise... who knows. Space manga is good tho.

When filling out your 2026 State of CSS survey... don't forget to mention YOUR FAVORITE PODCAST at the end, okay?

(I will transfer eight billion fartcoins to your account if the right podcast wins)

https://survey.devographics.com/en-US/survey/state-of-css/2026?source=post_survey_share