#195

21 August 2026

This is the stuff that’s exciting about the AT protocol. Not the “new twitter” bullshit, but the endless possibilities that this technology opens up. It’s using the fancy new private data stuff too.

As Bramus says in the article, we can sort of do this already, but those substring selectors don’t perform well. This new method is a very good improvement!

A good write-up on how annoying and harmful notifications are.

So much good stuff has arrived in HTML that gives us rich functionality for free and Chris helpfully breaks that down for us.

An extremely lightweight syntax highlighter using the new ::highlight() functionality? Yes please!

Here’s one from the Piccalilli archives that you might have missed to wrap up this issue.

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

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