Nathan Knowler

There’s one house where their sidewalk is extremely fucked up and they’ve started putting their bins in the path that bikes have made to go around it. I nearly took out my kid because I hit the bump wrong. Tempted to start a new path further into their yard.

henderson hwy desperately needs bike lanes

I discovered recently that if you constantly flip your airpods case open and close on a flight, anyone around you will be very annoyed because it keeps opening the airpods connection dialog on their device.

maybe I'll try to do something for wpg next html day

They Don't Have to Believe, by PUNCH 15 track album

omg I just found out about Punch from the new The Armed record (Meghan sings on Kingbreaker) and holy shit are they good.
punchcrew.bandcamp.com/album/they-d...

Is the a block list or labeller for blogs that are AI slop?

Evolution of <img>: Gif without the GIF tl;dr GIFs are awesome but terrible for quality and performance Replacing GIFs with <video> is better but has perf. drawbacks: not preloaded, uses range requests Now you can <img src=".mp4">s in Safa...

This is quite dated, so I’m not sure about the preloading advantage is true (especially since `preload` attribute is a thing). calendar.perfplanet.com/2017/animate...

Would you want that for play/pause functionality?

On the flip side, I wish more browsers supported video files in <img> tags (like Safari does).

Narrowed it down to setting `appearance: none` and `display: inline` in Safari. No dice for Chrome and Firefox.

Interesting. I can get it to work with a reset of `all: initial` in Safari, but I haven’t been able to narrow down which property is the issue.

You’re not imagining them:
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fluid.style
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I think actually the proposed `@sheet` stuff might completely solve this, since it would allow the document to use an identifiable stylesheet that could be referenced by shadow roots for inclusion as well: github.com/MicrosoftEdg...

With that said, there would still need to be some way of identifying what the document stylesheets were, especially if they inlined in a `<style>` (or bundled with other styles). There’s also some overlap with CSS Module Scripts (Chrome-only right now) and the proposed declarative form of that.

[cssom] Can we lift the restriction on constructed flag for adoptedStylesheets? · Issue #10013 · w3c/csswg-drafts Currently adoptedStyleSheets has a restriction on CSSStyleSheets that have the constructed flag set: The set an indexed value algorithm for adoptedStyleSheets, given value and index, is the followi...

There’s a CSS WG resolution for removing the restriction of only being able to use constructed stylesheets for `.adoptedStyleSheets` and Firefox Nightly has a flag for it: github.com/w3c/csswg-dr...

This would allow us to adopt stylesheets from `document.styleSheets` in shadow roots.

oops, I stayed up past midnight on a thursday night and now I have to listen to all the new music

My RSS reader is full of kill the newsletter feeds (kill-the-newsletter.com)

ICYMI I am looking for my next role. Hopefully something design systems and accessibility related. Ideally using Web Components APIs.

Shares, tips, and referrals appreciated!

Seeing the Skytrain construction run through Surrey/Langley is surreal. There would've been a stop within a minute walk where I grew up.

Nathan Knowler (@knowler@sunny.garden) Attached: 1 image @Wilto@front-end.social I might redo my entire website like this 😅

I’ve been thinking of taking some game related ideas for a redesign of my website. I really like how Celeste animates words to express more emotion, so I attempted to recreate its dialogue UI: sunny.garden/@knowler/114...

Not exactly game assets, but similar aesthetic: nicchan.me (@nicmakesstuff.bsky.social)

fun news! I was laid off from Twilio.

going to take this weekend to chill out, and will start looking for roles next week.

if you or someone you know is looking for staff/principal level Developer Advocacy, OSPO, dev infra, or similar roles pass them along!

reposts from tech folks appreciated <3

I just watched a person stand in line to order a coffee while in a Team's meeting on their laptop at a café.

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Yes, but unrelated—biblical studies. I do like to think that it has helped me understand working with documents and their semantics, and maybe even the fallibility of authors and user input. The reverse is true too.

“Content Editable is so bad I don’t want to use it.”

"What are your pain points around HTML forms?"

Oh, let me tell you…

Mind mapping software is nice, but I tend to express ideas in code rather than sketching with a design tool. I would just want a UI for linking and annotating them.

Then add query param that would allow the relationships to be visualized.

I could probably achieve this if I just added some kind of tagging, but also for forks, actually store the previous ID.