Matthew Howell
@matthewhowell.net
Web person.
An enthusiastic believer in the Web and all things HTML and CSS. Developer/designer/generalist and–sometimes–other kind of person. Perpetually the only employee at Reasonable Company.
Also an American-Kiwi in Auckland.
↗ matthewhowell.net
An enthusiastic believer in the Web and all things HTML and CSS. Developer/designer/generalist and–sometimes–other kind of person. Perpetually the only employee at Reasonable Company.
Also an American-Kiwi in Auckland.
↗ matthewhowell.net
Rewriting a tiny subset of htmx that only handles GET requests: the working title is htmgets
November 15, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Rewriting a tiny subset of htmx that only handles GET requests: the working title is htmgets
For someone who’s bounced in and out of the front end JS world: anyone have a good resource for structuring modern JS code in the browser?
Like, we used to use IIFEs to encapsulate scope, but now we can use ES6 modules. Any good examples of small modules that are well structured?
Like, we used to use IIFEs to encapsulate scope, but now we can use ES6 modules. Any good examples of small modules that are well structured?
November 15, 2025 at 4:31 AM
For someone who’s bounced in and out of the front end JS world: anyone have a good resource for structuring modern JS code in the browser?
Like, we used to use IIFEs to encapsulate scope, but now we can use ES6 modules. Any good examples of small modules that are well structured?
Like, we used to use IIFEs to encapsulate scope, but now we can use ES6 modules. Any good examples of small modules that are well structured?
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What a great post about community, the people, the narcissists, governance, funding, overtakes, political backwaters, change, loss, and feeling lost.
okayfail.com/2025/in-prai...
okayfail.com/2025/in-prai...
In Praise of dhh
A reflection on Ruby's past, present, and future.
okayfail.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:51 PM
What a great post about community, the people, the narcissists, governance, funding, overtakes, political backwaters, change, loss, and feeling lost.
okayfail.com/2025/in-prai...
okayfail.com/2025/in-prai...
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things that arent the future of civilization
- chatbots
- crypto
- robot butlers
- cars that sorta drive autonomously as long as youre paying attention for when they fail and almost kill a bunch of people
things that actually are the future of civilization
- free clean energy
- chatbots
- crypto
- robot butlers
- cars that sorta drive autonomously as long as youre paying attention for when they fail and almost kill a bunch of people
things that actually are the future of civilization
- free clean energy
November 7, 2025 at 1:40 PM
things that arent the future of civilization
- chatbots
- crypto
- robot butlers
- cars that sorta drive autonomously as long as youre paying attention for when they fail and almost kill a bunch of people
things that actually are the future of civilization
- free clean energy
- chatbots
- crypto
- robot butlers
- cars that sorta drive autonomously as long as youre paying attention for when they fail and almost kill a bunch of people
things that actually are the future of civilization
- free clean energy
Reposted by Matthew Howell
Once you start thinking of AI as a war on humanity, on human thought, on human inquiry, on human labor, on nuance and critical thinking, it slots in pretty seamlessly with the right wing ideological project, oligarchical political projects, big tech's political projects, etc
November 6, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Once you start thinking of AI as a war on humanity, on human thought, on human inquiry, on human labor, on nuance and critical thinking, it slots in pretty seamlessly with the right wing ideological project, oligarchical political projects, big tech's political projects, etc
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The New York Times opinion page isn't holding anything back now smh.
November 6, 2025 at 6:32 PM
The New York Times opinion page isn't holding anything back now smh.
Over here thumbing through my enormous heap of receipts for all of you knuckleheads who've been shamelessly trumpeting "AI" for years.
If you're wondering, I still have my distributed ledger of blockchain receipts as well.
I lost the NFT receipts though, not sure what happened to those.
If you're wondering, I still have my distributed ledger of blockchain receipts as well.
I lost the NFT receipts though, not sure what happened to those.
October 23, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Over here thumbing through my enormous heap of receipts for all of you knuckleheads who've been shamelessly trumpeting "AI" for years.
If you're wondering, I still have my distributed ledger of blockchain receipts as well.
I lost the NFT receipts though, not sure what happened to those.
If you're wondering, I still have my distributed ledger of blockchain receipts as well.
I lost the NFT receipts though, not sure what happened to those.
An underrated aspect of continually working on your personal website is that when you build it locally you can fill in your archive pages by including all of your unfinished drafts and feel more productive lol
October 18, 2025 at 8:49 AM
An underrated aspect of continually working on your personal website is that when you build it locally you can fill in your archive pages by including all of your unfinished drafts and feel more productive lol
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This is the most personal project I’ve made in years.
I launched a new show called The Callback. It’s weekly web dev news with my dumb humor sprinkled on top.
If this pilot does well I get to make more, so watching, liking, and sharing would be DEEPLY appreciated 💜
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMOD...
I launched a new show called The Callback. It’s weekly web dev news with my dumb humor sprinkled on top.
If this pilot does well I get to make more, so watching, liking, and sharing would be DEEPLY appreciated 💜
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMOD...
Remix needs to fix this…
YouTube video by Prismic
www.youtube.com
October 17, 2025 at 3:04 PM
This is the most personal project I’ve made in years.
I launched a new show called The Callback. It’s weekly web dev news with my dumb humor sprinkled on top.
If this pilot does well I get to make more, so watching, liking, and sharing would be DEEPLY appreciated 💜
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMOD...
I launched a new show called The Callback. It’s weekly web dev news with my dumb humor sprinkled on top.
If this pilot does well I get to make more, so watching, liking, and sharing would be DEEPLY appreciated 💜
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMOD...
New poll just dropped.
Are public libraries the single best manifestation of humanity’s potential for good?
- Yes
- Definitely
- They sure are
- Yes
Are public libraries the single best manifestation of humanity’s potential for good?
- Yes
- Definitely
- They sure are
- Yes
October 18, 2025 at 2:26 AM
New poll just dropped.
Are public libraries the single best manifestation of humanity’s potential for good?
- Yes
- Definitely
- They sure are
- Yes
Are public libraries the single best manifestation of humanity’s potential for good?
- Yes
- Definitely
- They sure are
- Yes
Writing down a list of why feeds are nice, what did I miss?
October 16, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Writing down a list of why feeds are nice, what did I miss?
A bit of CSS that you can all pry from my cold, dead hands
```
a:active {
text-decoration-style: wavy;
}
```
```
a:active {
text-decoration-style: wavy;
}
```
October 13, 2025 at 11:15 PM
A bit of CSS that you can all pry from my cold, dead hands
```
a:active {
text-decoration-style: wavy;
}
```
```
a:active {
text-decoration-style: wavy;
}
```
Reposted by Matthew Howell
You can just make things on the web collaborative by adding a single HTML attribute...
October 5, 2025 at 11:53 PM
You can just make things on the web collaborative by adding a single HTML attribute...
Recently came across Poly Form: “plain-language source code licenses with limited rights.” Anyone using this anywhere?
Looks like Creative Commons noncommercial, but for software.
polyformproject.org/what-is-poly...
Looks like Creative Commons noncommercial, but for software.
polyformproject.org/what-is-poly...
What is PolyForm? – Polyform Project
polyformproject.org
September 27, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Recently came across Poly Form: “plain-language source code licenses with limited rights.” Anyone using this anywhere?
Looks like Creative Commons noncommercial, but for software.
polyformproject.org/what-is-poly...
Looks like Creative Commons noncommercial, but for software.
polyformproject.org/what-is-poly...
Anyone have thoughts on using Vento templates with #11ty ? It’s not a bad time to move away from Liquid templates and the idea of full JS seems inevitable as long as it’s performant.
Or, please talk me out of this before I begin rewriting a bunch of templates.
vento.js.org
Or, please talk me out of this before I begin rewriting a bunch of templates.
vento.js.org
🌬 Vento
vento.js.org
September 27, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Anyone have thoughts on using Vento templates with #11ty ? It’s not a bad time to move away from Liquid templates and the idea of full JS seems inevitable as long as it’s performant.
Or, please talk me out of this before I begin rewriting a bunch of templates.
vento.js.org
Or, please talk me out of this before I begin rewriting a bunch of templates.
vento.js.org
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✏️ New post: The writer, the text and the audience hidde.blog/connection-c...
The writer, the text and the audience
Meaning in art comes from more than the artifact.
hidde.blog
September 21, 2025 at 9:35 AM
✏️ New post: The writer, the text and the audience hidde.blog/connection-c...
Me, working toward a single goal, and completing it: Blah I’m not good enough, this was so slow
Me, working on handfuls of vaguely related projects, and completing absolutely none of them: Productivity!
Me, working on handfuls of vaguely related projects, and completing absolutely none of them: Productivity!
September 18, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Me, working toward a single goal, and completing it: Blah I’m not good enough, this was so slow
Me, working on handfuls of vaguely related projects, and completing absolutely none of them: Productivity!
Me, working on handfuls of vaguely related projects, and completing absolutely none of them: Productivity!
Debate me in the replies if you think there's a better baseball play-by-play expression than "on his horse."
September 12, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Debate me in the replies if you think there's a better baseball play-by-play expression than "on his horse."
Another head-scratcher from iOS 26: in dark mode, turning on Increase Contrast changes backgrounds from black (or near black) to gray, which reduces contrast with the white foreground text. 🫠
September 11, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Another head-scratcher from iOS 26: in dark mode, turning on Increase Contrast changes backgrounds from black (or near black) to gray, which reduces contrast with the white foreground text. 🫠
The degradation of the Reduce Transparency experience on iOS 26 will continue until morale improves.
September 11, 2025 at 3:42 AM
The degradation of the Reduce Transparency experience on iOS 26 will continue until morale improves.
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It’s still a bit buggy and some things aren’t working properly, I suppose. And I also can’t wait to improve it and add more stuff to it now…
But hey: it’s alive!
🥳👀
matthiasott.com
But hey: it’s alive!
🥳👀
matthiasott.com
· Matthias Ott
Matthias Ott is an independent user experience designer and web design engineer from Stuttgart, Germany. He also teaches Interface Prototyping at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design.
matthiasott.com
September 7, 2025 at 7:47 PM
It’s still a bit buggy and some things aren’t working properly, I suppose. And I also can’t wait to improve it and add more stuff to it now…
But hey: it’s alive!
🥳👀
matthiasott.com
But hey: it’s alive!
🥳👀
matthiasott.com
Want to popularise calling web apps waps.
Install this cool wap
Oh, it’s not in the App Store, it’s a wap
Use the wap instead, you can use ad blockers
Install this cool wap
Oh, it’s not in the App Store, it’s a wap
Use the wap instead, you can use ad blockers
September 8, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Want to popularise calling web apps waps.
Install this cool wap
Oh, it’s not in the App Store, it’s a wap
Use the wap instead, you can use ad blockers
Install this cool wap
Oh, it’s not in the App Store, it’s a wap
Use the wap instead, you can use ad blockers
Reposted by Matthew Howell
Every time I hear about how the ATmosphere isn't decentralized enough... and then I see things like Laurens' regular newsletter showing how much non-Bluesky PBC development of incredibly cool stuff is happening... (this is just a snippet, full newsletter has more):
September 6, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Every time I hear about how the ATmosphere isn't decentralized enough... and then I see things like Laurens' regular newsletter showing how much non-Bluesky PBC development of incredibly cool stuff is happening... (this is just a snippet, full newsletter has more):