Wrote this lil piece about the :has selector: File this under stuff you don’t need to know just yet, but I think the :has CSS selector is going to have a big impact on how we write CSS in the future. In fact, if it ever ships in browsers, I think it breaks my mental model for how CSS fundamentally works because it...

The design team at Sentry is hiring a UI engineer in San Francisco (no remote, sadly) and so this is a rare opportunity: if you like design systems, front-end development, and shouting at me when I rant about CSS for too long then please reach out and let me know. Because I want to work with a great UI engineer to...

Hookshot.app is real good. I picked it up last night and it matches my mental model for how I want to manage windows on my desktop. Throw that app up there, throw this one down there. Get back to work. I think Hookshot is the kind of app that I’ll use it every day ten million times but will probably forget the name...

Over on the Sentry blog I wrote about how we shipped dark mode; what we did, what we struggled with, and ultimately why this was such a great project for our team and our design system: For most front-end codebases, the design of your color system shows you where your radioactive styles are. It shows you how things...

This standup special by James Acaster called Cold Lasagne Hate Myself 1999 is not only the funniest show I’ve seen in a long time but also has the best explanation of Brexit I’ve ever heard. If you’ve never heard of James before (he’s very popular in the UK) then you should absolutely check out Repertoire on...

I love RSS because of how it focuses my attention on the right stuff: big, complex, and contradicting ideas that let you chew on them over extended periods of time. No one can jump into your timeline and hijack your focus or throw junk in front of you. If you take a week off or a month off, it doesn’t matter. I...

Thinking about the American Rescue Plan this morning and I feel light as a feather. It fills me up with something unknown, something almost unheard of during the past year. Hope. Biden's $1.9 trillion dollar stimulus package is a sign of that, yes. But it's something even bigger than hope. This bill shows us a...

Charlie Loyd wrote this great piece about Landsat 8: Here’s a picture of LA, just like an ordinary digital camera would take (if it had ten times as many megapixels and were in space). The image is only two weeks old, taken from Landsat 8, launched by NASA late this winter. Landsat 8 is already one of our favorite...

One thing I love about Sentry is that it's an open source project which means that you can go ahead and look at every line of code I've written over the past year. You can see me slowly refactoring our typography, deleting unused bootstrap CSS, and replacing our old coding font, Monaco, with IBM Plex. Click, click,...

On the way down to California, my dearest Lucy Bellwood stopped by to have a fun, distanced chat about websites, online dating, science writing, and Miss Piggy. It’s the first episode in our dark-web-punk-rock podcast: I’m Sorry, You’re Welcome. On science writing, Lucy said: The trouble with science writing is that...

I’ve long considered everything related to the blockchain to be a poison but I’ve tried to keep an open mind as much as possible. I’ve never played with the technology, never bought a coin, never owned an NFT. But you really don’t need to know how a scam works to know that it’s a scam. One evening many years ago, I...

Over the past few days I’ve been thinking about this piece by everest pipkin on crypto art: ...in a digital context scarcity must be constructed – there is nothing that demands the next block in the blockchain be harder to make than the last. If anything, the opposite should be true – computers grow ever more...