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Marcos Calatayud @marcoscalatayud.bsky.social · Jan 14
Have you ever asked for a bigger font in any app or site and all you got for an answer was that you can do it yourself updating the preferences of your browser or operative system?

I have, and I don't buy that.

Also, I brought back vertical rhythm :-)

marcos-calatayud.com/blog/2025-01...
Site maintenance (2025 edition)
marcos-calatayud.com
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meyerweb.com
Every paragraph of this article is a banger. “We don’t need to reinvent styling. We just need to respect the boundaries that made the web work in the first place. CSS is not broken; our discipline is. The answer isn’t more abstraction—it’s better understanding.” thenewstack.io/css-in-js-th...
CSS-in-JS: The Great Betrayal of Frontend Sanity
CSS-in-JS promised simplicity but delivered performance issues. Learn why ditching it for native CSS solutions leads to faster, more maintainable web apps.
thenewstack.io
November 28, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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falseknees.bsky.social
Kneesvember 2025 Day 18
We see Bagglyn and Grell following the red knight along the water's edge with greenery in the background. Bagglyn still has the arrow through her cap, and has now attached the yellow knight's sword to a rope around her belt and it is being dragged behind her. She is also now sporting the blue knight's discarded eye patch. The solemn trio continued their queste upstream. "What cowardice on display from the Queen's supposed finest!" said the red knight. "How is it that two historians are braver than knighted warriors?" "This beats manual labour," said Grell. "–ah what my colleague means is that the strenuous transcribing of historical manuscripts is not for the faint of heart," Bagglyn was quick to add. "Quite," said the red knight, narrowing his eyes.
November 27, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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falseknees.bsky.social
Kneesvember 2025 Day 11
The red knight is in the foreground, speaking to a distracted group. Grell is wistfully watched the snipe wading away. The blue knight is releasing the yellow knight's steed, the great bumblebee. The blue knight's dragonfly steed is hovering overhead. And finally, Bagglyn has her cap back–with arrow still lodged through it–and is tentatively picking up the yellow knight's discarded sword. "Hah! That was no Dragon, but a mere malevolent minion of darkness!" scoffed the red knight. "Forget that yellow-bellied knight and her leaden greaves. Onward! I have a strong notion we shall find what we seek." So onward they went–toward certain disaster!
November 18, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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nerdy.dev
10 powerful ways to use #CSS variables

a non-exhaustive list, but a good one nonetheless!

nerdy.dev/custom-prop-...
10 powerful ways to use CSS variables · January 26, 2023
Tokens, house props, adaptive props, pseudo-private props, partial props, mixin props, swappy props, style query props, meta lang props and typed props. Oh my!
nerdy.dev
December 3, 2024 at 11:49 PM
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neorsd.org
just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management.

remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
What Tom Holland’s historic lip-sync showcase taught us about stormwater management
Grab your umbrella and your tights.
neorsd.medium.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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xkcd.com
Car Size

xkcd.com/3167/
4-panel vertical comic. (1) 100 Years Ago [two people standing next to bicycle with small car nearby] PERSON 1: It’s too dangerous riding a bike with these cars around. I should get a car, too. (2) 50 Years Ago [two people between smaller car and bigger car] PERSON 2 with short hair: Small cars are less safe in collisions with larger vehicles, so I should get a bigger one. (3) Today [two people between big car and even bigger car] PERSON 1: Everyone has huge SUVs now. If I don’t get the biggest one, I’m putting my family at risk. (4) Soon [two people next to large armored car with spiked clubs attached] PERSON 2: If I don’t install more whirling spike clubs, I’ll be destroyed by all the other drivers who...
November 14, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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tzschk.bsky.social
This was fun. 46 tris, 128x128 texture.
April 25, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
crazy

IG em_clarkson
November 14, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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jakearchibald.com
I dug into progressive image rendering and found a bunch of common assumptions aren't quite true.

➡️ JPEG & WebP progressive-renders worse in Safari
➡️ AVIF _does_ support progressive
➡️ But JPEG XL in Safari doesn't
➡️ JPEG XL decodes much slower than AVIF
⬇️ and more

jakearchibald.com/2025/present...
The present and potential future of progressive image rendering
Exploring progressive image rendering across JPEG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, and JPEG XL.
jakearchibald.com
October 16, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
this marc jacobs suit looks like a spanish textbook
The cover of a Spanish textbook. The colors are purple, red, teal, black, and brown. Two people are talking to each other on the cover. The book is titled "En español!" Zendaya in a Marc Jacobs double-breasted suit. The colors are purple, red, teal, black, and brown.
October 13, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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simonmunoz.bsky.social
¿En qué momento de la burbuja de la IA nos encontramos? ¿Estamos en 1999, cerca del pico, o en 1995, sus inicios?

www.estrategiadeproducto.com/p/es-la-ia-u...
¿Es la IA una burbuja? Paralelismos y divergencias con la burbuja .com
Un viaje por la historia de la burbuja punto com y lo que nos enseña sobre el momento del ciclo actual.
www.estrategiadeproducto.com
October 12, 2025 at 7:22 AM
marcoscalatayud.bsky.social
Just wrote about a very valuable, but often overlooked, feature of computer software and its relation with videogames: undo.

marcos-calatayud.com/blog/2025-10...
Videogames and UX: undo and rewind
marcos-calatayud.com
October 4, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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jesusgallent.com
Colección de logos de videojuegos de los 90s/2000s junto con la info del diseñador, cliente, año y software.

Disponible en archive.org/details/supe...
October 2, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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sarasoueidan.com
I've said this before and I'll say it again: I'll take simple, readable #CSS code over clever-looking one any day.

I'm more impressed with simplicity that achieves the same result than I am with "cool, complex" solutions that produce the same results.
September 24, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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samhenri.gold
Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge?

It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.
September 6, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
these are the two "fashion" outfits men know
Mads Mikkelsenin a gray checked suit, black cardigan, and striped dress shirt. Mads Mikkelsen in an olive green field jacket, blue jeans, and tan work boots.
September 7, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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falseknees.bsky.social
A scene of destruction; a city's downtown lays in smouldering ruin, skyscrapers crumbling, fires creating toxic smoke. A colossal mechanical robin stands in the middle of this mayhem. The machine leans forward with a hydraulic "VVVVRT" and exhaust shoots out of its neck with a "PSSHHT!". In the interior of this horrible mechanism we see a robin in the command centre, pausing and looking away from its module. Two more robins wait in pregnant pause, all wearing headsets. There is a poster hung that reads "WORK SAFELY" and features a bird wearing a hardhat. Another begins "you don't have to be CRAZY to work here but..." and is cut off by the frame of the image. We see the captain of the vessel, in a captain's hat, pause before commanding "Full power to thrusters". In the final panel, the mecharobin is blasting forward with immense jet engines that have emerged out of each side of the machine. Entire buildings are blown apart in its wake. The target of this war machine is a giant earth worm which is laying waste to the city in the foreground. It seems surprised at this maneuver of the robins.
August 27, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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simonmunoz.bsky.social
"Dejar en manos de las tecnológicas la seguridad de los niños es una apuesta que no podemos permitirnos."

www.estrategiadeproducto.com/p/meta-avala...
Meta avala que sus IAs tengan conversaciones románticas con niños
Un documento interno de Meta destapa cómo la compañía permite a sus IA simular relaciones románticas con niños, generar respuestas racistas o imágenes violentas, entre otras.
www.estrategiadeproducto.com
August 17, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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pbpbpbdav.bsky.social
El uso absurdo e indiscriminado de IA va a terminar de hundir el negocio de las revistas de moda, cosmética y lifestyle femeninas, no puedes usar esta herramienta para BORRAR a tu público objetivo.
El esperpento es en el último número de NewBeauty.
www.instagram.com/newbeauty/
August 14, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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kikollan.llaneras.es
España y la paradoja de la densidad 🏘️

Decimos que España está 'vacía' y es cierto: gran parte se ve blanca en mapas de población.

Pero OJO: en densidad superamos a Finlandia, Suecia, Estonia, Irlanda o Grecia. Estamos casi en media europea de hab/km².

¿Cómo se explica? Hilo:
August 11, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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meyerweb.com
New meyerweb post! I crawled down a #CSS hole to find where it ended. The results were as mind-bending as I could’ve hoped, even though I was sort of hoping they wouldn’t be. Come see what happens to browser engines when you literally push them to infinite lengths! meyerweb.com/eric/thought...
Infinite Pixels
In which I push browser engines to their finite limits using infinite values.
meyerweb.com
August 7, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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exaltada.bsky.social
Usar "refugio climático" para referirse a zonas comerciales sujetas a horarios y que te empujan sin sutilidad a consumir ES ingeniería social, es neolengua disfrazando de eco-friendly y de comprometido la misma mierda de siempre y para montar el marco donde los que mandan quieren.
August 6, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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gamemakerstoolkit.com
Just seeing what it would actually provide...

My wife would think I have been kidnapped and am trying to signal a secret plea for help
Gemini screenshot. User: "write me a text message. Tell my spouse I'm 15 minutes late and send it in a jokey tone." Gemini: "Running a little behind, be there in 15. The traffic seems to think it's a personal challenge to make me late! 😅"
August 6, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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lamuertaviva.bsky.social
356. DILO, REINA.
August 3, 2025 at 9:35 PM