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04 February 2026

This will make you angry but it’s really important for you to understand what has happened here. Not many people understand and explain the impact of 4chan et al quite as well as Ryan does here.

The recent situation with Tailwind CSS funding had people asking a lot of the right questions about open source funding again. Nate has some great points here for you too.

The AT protocol stuff seems to be exploding in popularity for developers recently, so allow us to introduce this very interesting resource.

A brilliantly concise run through of why progressive enhancement is so important.

We’ve got more info on progressive enhancement here for you too.

I put out a coding challenge based on an 8 year old prototype. Kitty came through with a brilliant approach.

A surprising number of options to get that UI sweet spot of a contrasting text colour that works with any background.

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P.S. this is a good website from personalsit.es.

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