Mike Hall

The lady beside me on the train just ordered a hot chocolate. "Extra hot please!". What the fuck does that mean?! A mug of hot steam??

@mikehall314/cushion - JSR @mikehall314/cushion on JSR: A CouchDB-style document database built on Deno KV. Cushion gives you documents with optimistic concurrency, materialised map-reduce views, and a query builder — backed b...

Just published v0.1 of Cushion, a CouchDB-style API on top of DenoKV. Features optimistic concurrency, materialised views, namespaces, and cursor-based pagination. Inspired by @couchdb.bsky.social and built with love in @deno.land

I have picked up many new software web people followers today thanks to #SotB.

With due apologies to you all for the Doctor Who and skepticism content to come.

Zach Leatherman standing at the lectern at State of the Browser 2026; the slide shows an old television set displaying “10 PM – Do you know where your JavaScript are?” against a brick wall.

Slide styled like a digital time display showing “08:00 AM” and “1991” with the label “Destination Time,” presented by Zach Leatherman at State of the Browser 2026.

Close-up of a slide showing JavaScript code from an HTML file, highlighting functions such as “MM_findObj” and “MM_swapImage,” presented during Zach Leatherman’s talk at State of the Browser 2026.

Zach Leatherman presenting a slide featuring a scene from a workplace TV show; a flip chart displays a triangle labeled “SPA,” “Client Side Rendering / CSR,” and “Create-React-App,” State of the Browser 2026.

Great, great talk by @zachleat.com at #SotB26: „It’s 10PM - do you know where your JavaScript is?“
Very entertaining, very thought provoking and a trip through Web UX history with a very critical point. (Didn’t expect to see MM_swapImage today.)

2026.stateofthebrowser.com/speaker/zach...
#SotB

#SotB26 #SotB Client side rendering is still the default in React. And honestly so many engineers view anything other as a hassle.

#SotB26 #SotB my first ever web job, we did a static build of a job board every morning from an MS Access database. It took 2 hours every day.

#SotB26 #SotB Zach really speed-running the history of web performance and I’m loving it.

#SotB26 #SotB “Network dependencies can fail.”

#SotB26 #SotB Consider how your progressive enhancements load and test at each level! Yes!

#SotB26 #SotB MM_swapImage(). Wow. That is a blast from the, etc.

#SotB26 #SotB “Be inspired by something which isn’t WCAG”

#SotB26 #SotB Special Effect are awesome! I did some fundraising for them about 6-7 years ago. Happy times.

#SotB26 #SotB Video games seem to be really putting the web to shame on accessibility

#SotB26 #SotB “You can go your entire career without ever talking to a disabled person”.

#SotB26 #SotB I’ve worked with designers in the past who refuse even WCAG AA because they didn’t know how to make it pretty and accessible. And so accessible is what they dropped.

#SotB26 #SotB I wish I were posting more about Chad’s talk but I am absolutely rapt!

#SotB26 #SotB Just had a push notification from the Trainline reminding me that I’m going home tomorrow. NOT NOW TRAINLINE. You’re being a downer!

#SotB26 #SotB “Be kind to yourself” is such a succinct way of summarising it. Such a fantastic talk.

#SotB26 #SotB “I made this mistake that, if I talk all the time, or I engage all the time, then maybe I’ll be seen.”

#SotB26 #SotB “Uncertainty is what drains us”. Again relating hard to this. Great insights from Fiona Safari!

#SotB26 #SotB “How can I work with who I am?” is such a good question to ask.

#SotB26 #SotB Relating hard to the talk from Fiona Safari

#SotB26 #SotB implicit anchors for the popover API!

#SotB26 #SotB There is a nice simple declarative API for anchor positioning, but there is also a manual mode which we can animate!

#SotB26 #SotB CSS anchor positioning has both logical and physical positioning options which is nice. Useful if you are in a locale with a different reading order.

#SotB26 #SotB CSS anchor positioning allows you to position an element relative to the position of another element. Lovely stuff.

With due apologies to anyone who doesn’t care about software, but today I am at a conference so I will mostly be posting about web software

@mikehall314/cushion - JSR @mikehall314/cushion on JSR: A CouchDB-style document database built on Deno KV. Cushion gives you documents with optimistic concurrency, materialised map-reduce views, and a query builder — backed b...

Just published v0.1 of Cushion, a CouchDB-style API on top of DenoKV. Features optimistic concurrency, materialised views, namespaces, and cursor-based pagination. Inspired by @couchdb.bsky.social and built with love in @deno.land

I am in That London.

I am on the train heading to #SotB