Bruce Taylor
@brootaylor.com
I build websites • Fairly curious • Trying my best to process the effects of "Overshoot" • Prefer slower & contemplative • Live in a country I wasn’t born in • Love drums & the outdoors • Wannabe pilot.
🌐 https://brootaylor.com/
🌐 https://brootaylor.com/
@dbushell.com, your dbushell.com/copyright/ page is genius.
Copyright
Copyright
dbushell.com
June 3, 2025 at 4:28 PM
@dbushell.com, your dbushell.com/copyright/ page is genius.
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Want to hire a good frontend developer? Here's the trick:
💡In your job posting, ask for someone who is skilled in writing "HTML" and "CSS".
Your posting will be the only one mentioning these secret technologies and will instantly stand out
💡In your job posting, ask for someone who is skilled in writing "HTML" and "CSS".
Your posting will be the only one mentioning these secret technologies and will instantly stand out
February 14, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Want to hire a good frontend developer? Here's the trick:
💡In your job posting, ask for someone who is skilled in writing "HTML" and "CSS".
Your posting will be the only one mentioning these secret technologies and will instantly stand out
💡In your job posting, ask for someone who is skilled in writing "HTML" and "CSS".
Your posting will be the only one mentioning these secret technologies and will instantly stand out
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February 12, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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I wrote some thoughts about AI in coding based on a recent experience
blog.stephaniestimac.com/posts/2025/0...
blog.stephaniestimac.com/posts/2025/0...
The hard truth about using AI in coding - Stephanie Stimac's Blog
Some thoughts on using AI to help you code.
blog.stephaniestimac.com
February 7, 2025 at 11:25 AM
I wrote some thoughts about AI in coding based on a recent experience
blog.stephaniestimac.com/posts/2025/0...
blog.stephaniestimac.com/posts/2025/0...
Would it be ok with y’all if we scooted back a bit further from 'midnight'? Please.
thebulletin.org/doomsday-clo...
thebulletin.org/doomsday-clo...
2025 Doomsday Clock Statement - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
It is 89 seconds to midnight.
thebulletin.org
February 3, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Would it be ok with y’all if we scooted back a bit further from 'midnight'? Please.
thebulletin.org/doomsday-clo...
thebulletin.org/doomsday-clo...
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🍦 New Article: How to structure functions
How to structure functions
When it comes to writing functions, there are two extremes:
One really big function that does all the things. Lots of really small functions that do just a single thing. In my experience, beginners tend to write really big functions, while more seasoned devs tend to break stuff up into lots of really small “pure” functions.
While I think smaller, more narrowly focused functions are better for readability and maintaining code, it can also lead to code bases that are big nested dolls of functions calling functions that call other functions that call more functions.
gomakethings.com
January 17, 2025 at 5:33 PM
🍦 New Article: How to structure functions
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New on the 11ty YouTube channel:
Start Your Escape from WordPress Using 11ty (in 3 minutes!):
Start Your Escape from WordPress Using 11ty (in 3 minutes!):
Start Your Escape from WordPress Using 11ty (in 3 minutes!)
It’s time to think about getting off of WordPress for more stable blogging pastures. In this video we’ll talk about using 11ty to do just that!Read the docs:...
www.youtube.com
January 15, 2025 at 9:54 PM
New on the 11ty YouTube channel:
Start Your Escape from WordPress Using 11ty (in 3 minutes!):
Start Your Escape from WordPress Using 11ty (in 3 minutes!):
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For developers using #Git, keep this handy if you use "Oops" (or other words) when you hit a problem...
ohshitgit.com
Like undoing commits, wrong branches, and more.
#webdev
ohshitgit.com
Like undoing commits, wrong branches, and more.
#webdev
January 16, 2025 at 9:46 PM
For developers using #Git, keep this handy if you use "Oops" (or other words) when you hit a problem...
ohshitgit.com
Like undoing commits, wrong branches, and more.
#webdev
ohshitgit.com
Like undoing commits, wrong branches, and more.
#webdev
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#CSS scroll-state() container queries
in Chrome 133!
@container scroll-state(stuck: top) {
…
}
Read all about snapped, stuck and scrollable in this post:
developer.chrome.com/blog/css-scr...
↪ nerdy.dev/scroll-state...
in Chrome 133!
@container scroll-state(stuck: top) {
…
}
Read all about snapped, stuck and scrollable in this post:
developer.chrome.com/blog/css-scr...
↪ nerdy.dev/scroll-state...
January 15, 2025 at 8:21 PM
#CSS scroll-state() container queries
in Chrome 133!
@container scroll-state(stuck: top) {
…
}
Read all about snapped, stuck and scrollable in this post:
developer.chrome.com/blog/css-scr...
↪ nerdy.dev/scroll-state...
in Chrome 133!
@container scroll-state(stuck: top) {
…
}
Read all about snapped, stuck and scrollable in this post:
developer.chrome.com/blog/css-scr...
↪ nerdy.dev/scroll-state...
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The nice thing with custom properties is that they inherit... except there are times when turning off inheritance with a registered custom property is super useful!
I shared an example of turning it off for a layout in this video... anyone have any other use cases?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8Ny...
I shared an example of turning it off for a layout in this video... anyone have any other use cases?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8Ny...
Turning off inheritance on custom props is more useful than I'd thought
YouTube video by Kevin Powell
www.youtube.com
January 14, 2025 at 7:22 PM
The nice thing with custom properties is that they inherit... except there are times when turning off inheritance with a registered custom property is super useful!
I shared an example of turning it off for a layout in this video... anyone have any other use cases?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8Ny...
I shared an example of turning it off for a layout in this video... anyone have any other use cases?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8Ny...
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📝 Work on multiple projects that have a CLI tool whose functionality differs from one project to the next, so you always need to use the locally-installed version? You can do:
1. npx
2. node_modules/.bin/
3. npm run
blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/local-c...
1. npx
2. node_modules/.bin/
3. npm run
blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/local-c...
Using Locally-Installed CLI Tools In Node Projects
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.
blog.jim-nielsen.com
January 14, 2025 at 4:10 AM
📝 Work on multiple projects that have a CLI tool whose functionality differs from one project to the next, so you always need to use the locally-installed version? You can do:
1. npx
2. node_modules/.bin/
3. npm run
blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/local-c...
1. npx
2. node_modules/.bin/
3. npm run
blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/local-c...
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A friend of mine started this website and has some really awesome recipes on it, if you're looking for some tasty options!
www.itsprobablyspicy.com
www.itsprobablyspicy.com
It's Probably Spicy
Head Chef Daisy presents her amazing recipes from all around the world. Just remember, It's Probably Spicy!
www.itsprobablyspicy.com
January 12, 2025 at 4:47 AM
A friend of mine started this website and has some really awesome recipes on it, if you're looking for some tasty options!
www.itsprobablyspicy.com
www.itsprobablyspicy.com
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Cannot emphasise enough how out of touch web developers have become. The blue dotted line in this chart is worldwide average selling price for smartphones over the past decade, and the second chart is CPU performance.
January 10, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Cannot emphasise enough how out of touch web developers have become. The blue dotted line in this chart is worldwide average selling price for smartphones over the past decade, and the second chart is CPU performance.
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To the blog! Let's Standardize Async CSS!
scottjehl.com/posts/async-...
scottjehl.com/posts/async-...
Let's Standardize Async CSS! | Scott Jehl, Web Designer/Developer
We need async CSS loading let's make some noise.
scottjehl.com
January 9, 2025 at 10:20 PM
To the blog! Let's Standardize Async CSS!
scottjehl.com/posts/async-...
scottjehl.com/posts/async-...
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The first rule of ARIA isn’t quite, as the quip goes, “Don’t use ARIA” — and I wonder how many people have been discouraged from diving into ARIA from being told the quippy version.
If quip we must, I hereby humbly submit the (also imperfect!) “ARIA is not the first resort.”
#accessibility #a11y
If quip we must, I hereby humbly submit the (also imperfect!) “ARIA is not the first resort.”
#accessibility #a11y
![§2.1 First Rule of ARIA Use: If you can use a native HTML element [HTML51] or attribute with the semantics and behavior you require already built in, instead of re-purposing an element and adding an ARIA role, state or property to make it accessible, then do so. Under what circumstances may this not be possible? • If the feature is available in HTML [HTML51] but it is not implemented or it is implemented, but accessibility support is not. • If the visual design constraints rule out the use of a particular native element, because the element cannot be styled as required. • If the feature is not currently available in HTML.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ml5axo24i4xibb4rdfwgzrle/bafkreidrocnm3cuw5zsyitvscv7ce72x5ecsx2evqyn76k6wt46glywdma@jpeg)
January 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The first rule of ARIA isn’t quite, as the quip goes, “Don’t use ARIA” — and I wonder how many people have been discouraged from diving into ARIA from being told the quippy version.
If quip we must, I hereby humbly submit the (also imperfect!) “ARIA is not the first resort.”
#accessibility #a11y
If quip we must, I hereby humbly submit the (also imperfect!) “ARIA is not the first resort.”
#accessibility #a11y
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⌨️ I blogged about what I’d like to see come to #CSS in 2025. Some of my wishes are repeats from past years, but it was nice to see how many past wishes have (or are about to) come true! meyerweb.com/eric/thought...
CSS Wish List 2025
Back in 2023, I belatedly jumped on the bandwagon of people posting their CSS wish lists for the coming year. This year I’m doing all that again, less belatedly! (I didn’t do it last year because I c...
meyerweb.com
January 8, 2025 at 4:34 PM
⌨️ I blogged about what I’d like to see come to #CSS in 2025. Some of my wishes are repeats from past years, but it was nice to see how many past wishes have (or are about to) come true! meyerweb.com/eric/thought...
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After 15+ years of teaching, architecting & delivering CSS for global organisations & startups, I’ve collated that experience into an extensive course which will take your CSS skills beyond the next level.
Complete CSS has taken nearly a year to produce and it’s officially live 🎉
complete-css.com
Complete CSS has taken nearly a year to produce and it’s officially live 🎉
complete-css.com
Complete CSS
A high quality, expansive CSS course that will elevate your CSS and core skills to a level you never thought was achievable.
complete-css.com
December 13, 2024 at 9:56 AM
After 15+ years of teaching, architecting & delivering CSS for global organisations & startups, I’ve collated that experience into an extensive course which will take your CSS skills beyond the next level.
Complete CSS has taken nearly a year to produce and it’s officially live 🎉
complete-css.com
Complete CSS has taken nearly a year to produce and it’s officially live 🎉
complete-css.com
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Everyone: dude you gotta download this icon library it bundles everything with sprite deduping and type-safe icon names and brotlis to negative 10 kb-
Me:
Me:
January 7, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Everyone: dude you gotta download this icon library it bundles everything with sprite deduping and type-safe icon names and brotlis to negative 10 kb-
Me:
Me:
Quite an interesting moment when one’s child is ‘officially’ diagnosed with ADHD… and then one notices many of these same traits and behaviours in oneself… 🤔
January 8, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Quite an interesting moment when one’s child is ‘officially’ diagnosed with ADHD… and then one notices many of these same traits and behaviours in oneself… 🤔
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the desire to use “AI” for things is a desire to avoid living
so many of the “AI” pushers — the individuals, even — want to avoid every good thing about being alive
so many of the “AI” pushers — the individuals, even — want to avoid every good thing about being alive
So many of these things are an attempt to shortcut habits, practices, and hobbies where many people actually enjoy the process of improving.
January 8, 2025 at 4:12 AM
the desire to use “AI” for things is a desire to avoid living
so many of the “AI” pushers — the individuals, even — want to avoid every good thing about being alive
so many of the “AI” pushers — the individuals, even — want to avoid every good thing about being alive
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It's 2025 and everything sucks and everyone is job hunting, please enjoy this slowly unfolding thread of tech jobs at places that aren't making the world worse.
If you're hiring at not-evil (or even minimally evil) orgs, please reply w your tech jobs too?
If you're hiring at not-evil (or even minimally evil) orgs, please reply w your tech jobs too?
January 6, 2025 at 2:37 PM
It's 2025 and everything sucks and everyone is job hunting, please enjoy this slowly unfolding thread of tech jobs at places that aren't making the world worse.
If you're hiring at not-evil (or even minimally evil) orgs, please reply w your tech jobs too?
If you're hiring at not-evil (or even minimally evil) orgs, please reply w your tech jobs too?
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I think you should read this because more people need to know about HTML! It is a very cool programming language all the kids are getting into.
Also my husband wrote it and I think he's pretty great so if you read it you will also think he's great. He's in WIRED! The magazine! That's so cool!
Also my husband wrote it and I think he's pretty great so if you read it you will also think he's great. He's in WIRED! The magazine! That's so cool!
In 2024, @wired.com launched Machine Readable, a monthly column about programming. It's been a consistently huge hit, and I'm very glad that this month @tcarmody.bsky.social is offering to fight anyone who dares besmirch HTML's good name:
www.wired.com/story/html-i...
www.wired.com/story/html-i...
HTML Is Actually a Programming Language. Fight Me
In fact, HTML is the most significant computing language ever developed. Underestimate it at your peril.
www.wired.com
January 6, 2025 at 4:36 PM
I think you should read this because more people need to know about HTML! It is a very cool programming language all the kids are getting into.
Also my husband wrote it and I think he's pretty great so if you read it you will also think he's great. He's in WIRED! The magazine! That's so cool!
Also my husband wrote it and I think he's pretty great so if you read it you will also think he's great. He's in WIRED! The magazine! That's so cool!
Here's a cheeky post about what I've implemented recently in an attempt to make it trickier for "Ai" bots to scrape my website's content to train their data models.
brootaylor.com/writing/2025...
brootaylor.com/writing/2025...
"Ai" Bot Blocker • Bruce Taylor
"Ai" Bot Blocker. A little bit of fun and a middle finger up to the bots and their hubris-infested creators.
brootaylor.com
January 8, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Here's a cheeky post about what I've implemented recently in an attempt to make it trickier for "Ai" bots to scrape my website's content to train their data models.
brootaylor.com/writing/2025...
brootaylor.com/writing/2025...