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• Post #1836885

  CSS tip: make sure that selected text remains readable. Style `::selection` to at least disable text effects like drop shadows, gradient fills, etc. A decent chunk of your users treat text selection as a reading aid, highlighting words or paragraphs to keep track of their position in the text.

• Post #1696559

  Some personal/work news: I was laid off mid 2024 and took a sabbatical, which quickly turned into taking care of my pregnant partner (part time job) and then our twin babies (full time job ^^). How time flies! We also moved to Réunion recently. I will be looking for remote work soon (timezone is UTC+2). I have close to 20 years experience in frontend/UI dev and associated skills (UX, full stack dev, e2e testing, wrangling developer tooling for entire teams, etc). If you have some remote and may...

• Post #1462022

  So, consensus among devs who use AI coding tools is that Anthropic and OpenAI's models/agents are finally good now (since Dec 2025). It's reaching a critical mass which makes me think *maybe* I should try those. But I also don't have too much cash and don't want to fund school bombings. Thoughts? Extra background: - I don't like all the other ethical issues with those companies. It's not just the school bombing thing. - Deeply wary of the impact...

• Post #1462021

  Anyone knows a cross-platform app that can stream audio/video from one device to another on the same wifi network? Everything I find is for phones, but I need it on a laptop too. Basically trying to do a babyphone/nannycam thing. Not routing through the global internet please (I'm in the ocean, latency is high).

• Post #1462020

  After a couple decades reading standards from W3C et al, it’s a shock when you try to read some other specification published by someone else. Adobe: sure, try to fish out some PDF from the unsearchable entrails of our many websites. ISO: here it is, that will cost you CHF 227 for a 100-page PDF.