mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06I’m a software developer from Poland living in Northampton, UK. I’m a web standards enthusiast, accessibility advocate, and simplicity guardian. The guy behind the NN1 Dev Club meetup. After-hours hip hop head, funky records collector, and photographer.
This recent article by @bramus@front-end.social announces a new web component, that is built on top of two superb exciting modern APIs.
• CSS Custom Highlight API
• OpaqueRange API
These two will change the way we build for the web. This post is really worth reading.
That must be a recent thing in Safari, but the well-known iOS pull-to-refresh gesture is now present on macOS.
OK OK OK. Cool little trick @bramus@front-end.social ❣️
"Animating CSS Grid Layouts with CSS Anchor Positioning"
https://www.bram.us/2026/09/07/animating-css-grid-layouts-with-css-anchor-positioning/
Have you messed up a commit message? The git commit --amend is okay for the most recent commit, but for the older commit you are out of luck and you need to use interactive rebase. Unless you are on version git 2.54, which comes with the git history reword command.
Announcement post: https://github.blog/open-source/git/highlights-from-git-2-54/
✨ New records
Smashing funk landed on my turntable today! So groovy!
Collection:
https://pawelgrzybek.com/music/
✨ New post
Classic end of the month collection of links that I found interesting in the past month. Some old conference tech talks, a bit of a hot UI discussion about theme switches, some Go lang news and a bit more. Enjoy 🤗
Really good read!
“The text mode lie: why modern TUIs are a nightmare for accessibility” by @xogium@tech.lgbt
https://xogium.me/the-text-mode-lie-why-modern-tuis-are-a-nightmare-for-accessibility
set -x DO_NOT_TRACK 1
Yes please! Let's adopt it!
https://donottrack.sh
What a great list of HTML relicts put together by @vale@fedi.vale.rocks I love this king of blogging!
"Antiquated HTML Snippets and Artefacts"
0. Zero! This is the number of people who read the release notes to the Bun 1.4 top to bottom. This changelog is probably longer than the Node.js docs 😂
✨ New post
“Jump between projects in Neovim”
🔥 Vim tip
Do you know the :s (substitute) command? Of course you do!
:s/old/new
But did you know that any single-byte character works as a pattern delimiter? This is so useful when you replace paths that contain the `/` character. No more escapes!
Example:
:s,some/path,another/one
Docs:
:h pattern-delimiter
Really good interview with some of my most beloved musicians ever, all about the new album "Before The World Blows" by Alchemist and Badu. Love them!
Tailwind CSS supposed to solve the Bootstrap syndrome of every website looking the same. Now I see a lot of Tailwind-based websites, and every single one of them looks the same. Well done!
Daptone Records is 25 years old. One of my favourite records labels ever. Here is a good celebration interview with the founder of Daptone.
A little bit of history (ok, quite a lot of history) and the introduction of the new "auto" value for "sizes" for responsive images. This little addition to the spec will make our life a lot easier. Thanks for the hard work, all folks involved!
“The end of responsive images” by @Wilto@front-end.social on @piccalilli@front-end.social
Adding OpenTelemetry to your Go project has never been easier. No more complicated setups and no more manual instrumentation needed. All you need is to build your binary using the new otelc CLI and it will enable auto-instrumentation.
https://opentelemetry.io/blog/2026/go-compile-time-instrumentation-v1/
I knew that the CSS :nth-child(n of selector) is a thing, but I didn’t know how well supported it is nowadays. Another thing I didn’t know is that I can use CSS nesting with it like in the example below. Modern CSS is incredible ❣️
✨ New post
“Vim tip: substitute pattern delimiter doesn't need to be a slash”
https://pawelgrzybek.com/vim-tip-substitute-pattern-delimiter-doesnt-need-to-be-a-slash/
Ok, now you all Cursor users go and have fun on Twitter (X.com, whateva), and I and a bunch of other Vim cavemen are going to have fun here on Mastodon.
Ps. Fuck Elmo!
Huge thanks to @hdv@front-end.social for arranging things like that. I appreciate what you do for the web Hidde!
Good to see that @matthiasott@mastodon.social Own Your Web newsletter is back.
https://newsletter.ownyourweb.site/archive/own-your-web-issue-18-curators/
Hey. I don't care too much about the ATProto, but I like the website a lot. It is full of little nuggets. I like good looking websites like this.
Beautifully written by @rachelandrew@front-end.social
"The importance of people who care"
https://rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2026/04/21/the-importance-of-people-who-care/
One of my favourite @neovim@hachyderm.io features just got a lot better. The incremental selection doesn't need third-party plugins anymore, and it is based on Treesitter first, and only falls back to LSP when needed. This is going to land soon as part of the 0.12 release. This is exciting.
RE: https://zirk.us/@grammargirl/116518636867034077
Thats mad!
Hey all CSS wizards. I need your help.
I would love this bg pattern to be squares instead of little circles (radial-gradient). Is that even possible using pure CSS?
https://codepen.io/pawelgrzybek/pen/OPbVNgN
I have seen that on the ATProto website, but they use SVG for it.
https://atproto.com
@kevinpowell@front-end.social @css@front-end.social @bramus@front-end.social @chriscoyier@front-end.social 🙏
RE: https://mastodon.social/@nn1dev/116498258987684888
I had tons of fun talking to Jamie and shooting some photos for his interview. Good fella he is!
✨ New post
Classic end of the month tradition that I have followed for over a decade now. A collection of links that I found particularly interesting in the past month and also some music recommendation for funky groove lovers. Enjoy ❣️
“Top picks — 2026 April”
This is beautiful music. Beautiful!
RE: https://mas.to/@frontenddogma/116469754706356751
Thanks a ton for sharing !
RE: https://mastodon.social/@nn1dev/116442528303607341
Super freakin' cool!
This is news for today. Finally, someone (Microsoft) admitted that the real running cost of AI infrastructure massively exceeds the income from it.
I expect similar posts from other AI giants to follow.
https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/changes-to-github-copilot-individual-plans/
Not a secret that I recently write more Go lang than anything else. I just wanted to share two resources that I recently found particularly helpful and interesting.
Redowan Delowar’s blog:
https://rednafi.com
@rednafi.com
Fallthrough podcast:
https://fallthrough.transistor.fm
@sudomateo@mastodon.online
🎶 New records in my collection
A little bit of Soul Surfers. Keep it funky!
I checked SoundCloud feed after years of not using it. I was wondering about some new releases of producers I follow there.
I would like to report that SoundCloud on the free plan is absolutely not usable. The amount of super long and obtrusive adverts is insane. Insane! Don't blame them, they need to make money somehow, but UX needs to be there... Now it is just a radio for ads to me.
Deezer reports that 75 000 tunes uploaded to the platform daily are AI-generated. And Deezer is far from being the biggest music streaming platforms. This is awful!
On the 1st of October I'm attending Meet the Open Web Advocacy organised by the @webstandards@mastodon.world . Will I see any of my web friends there?
Date: 1st October 2026
Venue: CIVO Tech Junction, London
Ticket: Free
✨ New post
“Difftastic — my new favourite diff viewer”
https://pawelgrzybek.com/difftastic-my-new-favourite-diff-viewer/
