Jon McLaren
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Jon McLaren
@thewebtech.bsky.social
Staff Dev Advocate at HubSpot
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❌ mobile first
✅ container first
September 21, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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stumbled on this pretty one while testing!

try it gradient.style#layers=%5B%7...
August 29, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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We were warned by Washington, Lincoln and others. Now we must oppose this authoritarian regime, firmly voice our commitment to the Constitution and rule of law—and assert what it means to be American.

www.americaamerica.news/p/its-villai...
It's Villains All the Time
We were warned by Washington, Lincoln and others. Now we must oppose this authoritarian regime, firmly voice our commitment to the Constitution and rule of law—and assert what it means to be American.
www.americaamerica.news
August 29, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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I'll be there!

Making sure JS devs aren't installing packages for features that are now 1 line of CSS

nerdy.dev/css-at-casca...
August 13, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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I’ve been positing this every year for sixteen years. Happy Easter.
April 20, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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G̶o̶o̶g̶l̶e̶r̶… ex-Googler.

nerdy.dev/ex-googler
G̶o̶o̶g̶l̶e̶r̶… ex-Googler. · April 10, 2025
My role at Google was eliminated.
nerdy.dev
April 11, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Today at the CSS Working Group "face to face" meeting…

Powerful tools for defining corner shapes. (Beyond the simple rounded corders you can do today with `border-radius`.)
April 1, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Unbelievable turnout in this ruby red district for the Darrell Issa empty chair town hall!
March 23, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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❤️ 🇨🇦
March 16, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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The genre of Farming Sim makes sense but it's interesting that a core mechanic of the genre has been Getting Married. the two things you do as a farmer is make corn and put a ring on it
March 15, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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To probationary federal employees who have been terminated:

Democracy Forward has filed a first-of-its-kind class-wide complaint with the Office of Special Counsel. If civil servants want to join in the complaint, you can email info@civilservicestrong.org
Civil Service Strong: Resources for Civil Servants
Effective. Impartial. Resilient. The civil service comprises dedicated, nonpartisan federal employees who work tirelessly across the country and around the world to ensure the effective delivery of go...
www.civilservicestrong.org
February 16, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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February 14, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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“After Auschwitz, the human condition is not the same, nothing will ever be the same. Here, heaven and earth are on fire.”

—Elie Wiesel
January 27, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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I was interviewed at CES this morning. We mentioned that consumers will decide whether they want to be on a platform that is “unfiltered free speech “ or “ moderated”. I mentioned that I loved @bsky.app , and spontaneously people started clapping 🔥.
January 9, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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These extraordinary photos of the LA fires have been shared widely on social media, often without crediting the photographer.

These are all the work of Ethan Swope, an LA-based photojournalist working for AP.

You can follow his remarkable reporting here👇
www.instagram.com/ethanswopeph...
January 9, 2025 at 12:44 PM
I support #Deno in this. I also support the web dev community comically referring to #WASM as "Orykle" until the trial ends.

Silly behavior begets a silly response.
deno.land Deno @deno.land · Jan 8
#FreeJavaScript update: Oracle has informed us they won’t voluntarily withdraw their trademark on "JavaScript". Next: they’ll file their Answer and we’ll start discovery to show how "JavaScript" is widely recognized as a generic term and not controlled by Oracle.
January 10, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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Reminder…Self care is going to be critical to our survival.
Please look after yourselves mentally, and physically.
Let’s also not forget to look after one another. 💙
December 15, 2024 at 2:20 AM
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✍️ "Hard truths about AI-assisted coding" tips & tricks in my latest article: bit.ly/ai-assisted

While AI-Assisted coding can get you 70% of the way there (great for prototypes or MVPs), the final 30% requires significant human intervention for quality and maintainability.
December 5, 2024 at 12:07 AM
It’s Cyber Monday, got myself a new hat. Holiday spammers beware, with this hat, I can’t be found.

#webdev #error404 #404NotFound
December 2, 2024 at 5:45 PM
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✍️ AI coding tip: Automatically keep a log of what, why & how decisions were made. Great for education.

> Make sure to keep a log of what, why and how you did what you did in fyi(dot)md. Keep it updated.

Works well with Bolt, v0, Replit, Cursor, Cline etc.
November 25, 2024 at 6:16 PM
I was today years old when i realized iPads don't have a way to tell them to just restart. You have to manually turn it off, wait, turn it back on.

Sorry as a computer and android user for 25+years it is shocking to me that a basic function like that is non existent.
November 26, 2024 at 12:32 AM
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Pretty much every serious photographer here tries to capture photos of the volcano and the northern lights together. Sometimes, they succeed quite well ;) Photos from Wioleta Gorecka, taken near Reykjanesvíti.
November 23, 2024 at 12:38 PM