bkardell

The web needs interactive lists -

https://sarahmhigley.com/writing/interactive-lists/

CI is short for "Constant Irritation"

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I feel like we should start a movement to agree on the spelling of English words. I am collaborating in a document and so many words are flagged for me as spelling errors, or I feel might be, but are really just the UK variants or something.

If you went back in time to the 80s or further and wrote a story based on literal life in 2026...what does the book review say?

Ah wow.. this is what Vivaldi uses too right?

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/startpage-on-firefox/

Which search engine do you prefer to use? For example, I use several, but I kind of have defaulted to ecosia for a while because I liked their whole idea and they were often good enough.

Today's random wish: Audio only for YouTube. The reason is that I often find videos of talks and things that I want to listen to. I'd love to do it while I walk, or while driving in the car, like a podcast... But lots of things make those improbable as video/normal YouTube

We have so many customizability features in software that will never be discovered by most people because it is so overwhelming a morass of settings and menus and things. Of all things, it strikes me that this is probably something we could use an intelligent (local and small) bot to improve. Have you seen anything doing this particularly well?

RE: https://mastodon.social/@firefoxwebdevs/116680726980295049

Literally the web's oldest problem!

We talked to Keith Cirkel (moved to Mozilla since) about it on https://www.igalia.com/chats/heading

What do you think would be different if we'd landed E4X? Would it have changed anything about where we are? Would it be better or worse because of it?

If you're unfamilliar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMAScript_for_XML - you can see 2004 > JSX relationships etc

In 2026, do you more often say "CSS Custom Properties" or do you say "CSS Variables"?

Seattle light rail is really nice. I wonder why i feel like its so much nicer than busses?

TIL there is a legacy size attribute on

https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/12320#issue-4153544407

Have you some amazing web components using container queries? Share them?

New blog post: What if we just...

What if a better answer to a question I've been struggling with for more than a decade is just... Way simpler? Sharing a potentially half-baked idea for discussion. Let me know what you think...

https://bkardell.com/blog/WhatIfYouJustTellMe.html

My friend and

colleague Alice Boxhall wrote a great piece "Reference Target: having your encapsulation and eating it too" about some important work we've been helping to drive with some funding from NLNet ..

https://blogs.igalia.com/alice/reference-target-having-your-encapsulation-and-eating-it-too/

Did you use cliffs notes (or something similar) in college?

Since he didn't post it here, I'll echo

on bluesky..

Did you know?

You can style XML with CSS using

Tell me a thing that you thought you wanted, and then got and now realize maybe it wasn't as useful or great as you imagined? Could be a standard, or just a thing you bought even...

I seem to have developed a kind of viceral reaction to "dunking" on stuff, whether I agree with it or not - but I also wonder how much I seem to do this without realizing it myself...

When will Times New Roman stop being new?

algorithm should be spelled algorythm

Remember Google Wave?

New Blog Post: Houdini Re-ReVisted

In which I discuss a recent presentation by

at BlinkOn...

https://bkardell.com/blog/HoudiniReRe.html

Import attributes are experimental in FF 138, the last engine needing support!

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Statements/import/with

My colleague

Nikolas, one of the original WebKit SVG Engine authors has left some helpful comments/context on this interesting post...

https:///

/114268401976008102

My colleague Stephen Chenney wrote about how to customize find-in-page highlights, something

has been working to improve with support from Bloomberg Tech

https://blogs.igalia.com/schenney/find-in-page-highlight-styling/

It's funny that we verb-ized and tensed "Google" for search generically - so you might say "hold on, googling..."

"hold on, yahooing" "hold on, binging" "hold on, ecosiaing"

Do those sound as natural to you? Is it just exposure?

Not asking for a critique, or why - but are you also on Bluesky?

Who has done something interesting with their twitter archive?

https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-foundation-announces-the-launch-of-supporters-of-chromium-based-browsers

2025: another year of blog on the desktop again

https://livelaugh.blog/posts/2025/

"i really can't overstate how nice it is to have these old posts to go back to and remind me of all i've accomplished. my brain tends to default to forgetting my wins and replaying the fails"

so so relatable

"Carnegie Mellon University announces free tuition for all students of families earning $75K or less"

https://www.wesa.fm/education/2024-11-20/carnegie-mellon-university-tuition-free

Great statement at #blinkon by

"Chrome is the 4th browser I've worked on. They've all had majority market share. 2 of them don't even exist anymore. The web platform remains. It outlives browsers, engines, companies even."

🤗 yay hi Tim!

New post: Micropayments History🪙

Hey, remember that period when there were a ton of online 'coins' that people are trying to make happen & big companies got involved & even talked about standardizing? Do you remember that time... in the mid to late 90s?

https://bkardell.com/blog/MicropaymentsHistory.html

"you’re very very far into the rabbit hole, Brian, do you need a rope instead of that link?" -

Wow, remember when ringtones were huge? Are they still a thing? What ringtones did you buy?

I was thinking today about how many of the action movies and even comics of my youth which were enjoyed by both sides of the political isle featured a super wealthy bad guy who was just greedy and petty and liked power... Sure, there were a few wildly wealthy heroes too, but they were also selfless. But it's weird, here we are in reality, it seems like now half the people think Lex Luthor is the hero

What do you use for creating/maintaining your blog? Is it custom or out of the box? Do you ever think about changing it?

I'd also love any replies you'd share about what you changed from/to and why!

https://elk.zone/toot.cafe/@bkardell/112524630538073052