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Bret Little
@bretlittle.com
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Web2 software dev at Shopify working on agentic commerce in rural Maine.

More at www.bretlittle.com

See photography at https://bsky.app/profile/bret-little-photo.bsky.social
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Claude is *so good* at ffmpeg
November 12, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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sebastienlorber.com
Firefox just unflagged support for CSS @ scope 🎉

Soon available in all browsers
November 4, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Reposted by Bret Little
sebastienlorber.com
👀 Navigation API will be available in all browsers soon 🎉

Completely redefines the APIs used to build client-side routers / SPAs

🫤 History API: popState, link click.preventDefault() ...

✅ Navigation API: clean, centralized way to intercept navigation events 👌
November 5, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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jakeworth.com
🌲 I made a Bluesky Starter Pack of devs in Maine! We're a small community, and growing. Click that follow button, and let's get a conversation going!

go.bsky.app/6WrdHtm
November 2, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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bret-little-photo.bsky.social
Wonder what Autumn is looking like in Maine this season? See this short montage of of clips.

#maine #autumn #photography #videography

youtu.be/IiAFnb8CQTo
Maine Autumn
YouTube video by Bret Little
youtu.be
October 29, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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rbreich.bsky.social
The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?
October 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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davidheniguk.bsky.social
Tech companies are potentially as dangerous to western economic security as China, and governments are struggling in the same way to balance the potential economic upsides with the threats.
October 24, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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kelseyhightower.com
If we're having a debate, and at any point you say, "let's ask ChatGPT", then you lose by default.
October 21, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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markdalgleish.com
I just created the “Remix 3 Resources” repo, collecting useful links related to Remix 3.

It has *super* granular links to the Remix Jam live stream for each API, feature and demo, plus a bunch of demo apps and 3rd party integration examples.

github.com/markdalgleis...
GitHub - markdalgleish/remix3-resources: A collection of useful links relating to Remix 3
A collection of useful links relating to Remix 3. Contribute to markdalgleish/remix3-resources development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
October 17, 2025 at 11:37 AM
bretlittle.com
Hard to believe that corporate authoritarians lean toward political authoritarianism
October 17, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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justinfagnani.com
inherit() is going to be absolutely huge for working with CSS custom properties. Two big things it'll enable:

Nested indentation:

--indent: calc(inherit(--indent, 0) + 1);

Overridable design token defaults:

--primary-color: inherit(--primary-color, blue);
October 14, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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mhartington.io
This is awesome! Lit being part of the OpenJS Foundation is a huge win for everyone. Congrats to everyone involved
October 14, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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baxuz.bsky.social
The issue is devs using MacOS with hidden scrollbars.

If you're a web dev, your scrollbars need to be set to "always visible".
October 11, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Reposted by Bret Little
firefoxdevtools.bsky.social
As an experiment, we (the Firefox team) wanted to try a new way to get feedback on which Interop proposals matter most.

So, here's a web app where you can rank the proposals you care about, giving us data we can use when reviewing which ones to champion.

interop-rank.jakearchibald.com
Interop Feature Ranking
Rank the web platform features you care most about
interop-rank.jakearchibald.com
October 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM
bretlittle.com
Finally! Long overdue IMHO! Thank you to the team and everyone at meta that made it happen!
react.dev react.dev @react.dev · Oct 7
Introducing the React Foundation
October 7, 2025 at 5:55 PM
bretlittle.com
Gotta wonder if the Remix folks intentionally planned Remix Jam the same week as React Conf, just two days day after 😳
October 7, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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drewharwell.com
The Sora AI disinfo nightmare is here

For more like this:
tiktok.com/@drewharwell
instagram.com/bydrewharwell
October 6, 2025 at 4:53 PM
bretlittle.com
Amazon has gotten so bad, it really is past it's prime. I cancelled prime, and haven't really looked back

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?
Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products? The author and activist behind the term ‘enshittification’ explains what’s gone wrong with the internet – and ...
www.theguardian.com
October 5, 2025 at 10:19 PM
bretlittle.com
If you care to see photography posts, follow this account instead: bsky.app/profile/bret...
bsky.app
October 5, 2025 at 9:29 PM
bretlittle.com
I want a instagram style feed of photography images on my website, but don't want to use instagram. @atproto/api made it super simple and easy to build a web component that does it. My only complaint is @atproto/api is 900kb 🙀

Check it out here: github.com/blittle/blue...
GitHub - blittle/bluesky-image-feed: A web component for displaying image feeds from Bluesky profiles
A web component for displaying image feeds from Bluesky profiles - blittle/bluesky-image-feed
github.com
October 5, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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fraying.bsky.social
Genuinely, the US is quickly sliding into fascism and Google and Apple have proven they are not going to stick up for us when the government gives them unconstitutional orders.

Stop making apps they can remove from their app stories on a whim. Make websites instead. At least make it hard for them.
October 3, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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danabra.mov
i wrote down the process of resolving an at:// URI step by step. turns out, it's a great way to learn how the AT protocol works!
Where It's at:// — overreacted
From handles to hosting.
overreacted.io
October 2, 2025 at 8:21 PM
bretlittle.com
See my keynote at MCP Dev Summit live streamed: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcOk...
October 2, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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stuffbreaker.bsky.social
I'm very excited to announce the release of the #WebComponents CLI validator! Now you can validate your web components in your build pipelines.

#html #javascript
October 1, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Reposted by Bret Little
netlify.com
Vercel ➝ Netlify migration made simple.

✅ Checklist
✅ Next.js tips
✅ Best practices

Start here → docs.netlify.com/resources/ch...
Vercel to Netlify migration checklist
A comprehensive guide for migrating your projects from Vercel to Netlify, including Next.js setup, configuration migration, and production readiness steps.
docs.netlify.com
September 30, 2025 at 5:07 PM