#106

27 June 2025

This is very good and as a brit, it had me hooting. It’s great to see the fun web again!

I’m talking about professional shame: the shame accompanying doing a bad job. Developers, more than anyone else I know, identify with being capable. Pushing poor development work is not just embarrassing, it threatens their very sense of self.

We’re incredibly in to Astro here at Piccalilli. Our whole infrastructure is built around it we’re calling it now: this feature is going to rocket-boost the framework’s usage.

This is a really useful run-down of useful methods to keep up to date. Some added advice from us: don’t feel like you have to be on top of things all the time. CSS is a web standard after all!

Eric Bailey teaches us how to make a hyper-resilient component that responds not only to the container, but other languages too.

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P.S. this is a good demo.

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Andy