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@samkapila.com

Three hungry puppies in a trench coat and author of Inclusive Design Communities. Leading UX at @netlify.com. Food motivated. She/her. https://samk.app

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Announcing npmx: a fast, modern browser for the npm registry Today we're releasing the alpha of npmx.dev – a fast, modern browser for the npm registry, built in the open by a growing community.

npmx is now in alpha: this is our story, as told by our team and friends

03.03.2026 12:23 πŸ‘ 361 πŸ” 128 πŸ’¬ 17 πŸ“Œ 34

Oh you’re from Austin? Pronounce β€œMenchaca” (which, honestly, the local pronunciation drives me up the wall; what do you mean it’s man-shack?!

24.02.2026 03:41 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ’πŸ½β€β™€οΈ swoon

17.02.2026 03:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Microsoft training screenshot with a borked up arrow in a git flow chart. There is also a typo that says "major featue for next release" which is likely an AI-generated typo.

Microsoft training screenshot with a borked up arrow in a git flow chart. There is also a typo that says "major featue for next release" which is likely an AI-generated typo.

What is happening with this arrow? Is it a major featue?

16.02.2026 22:19 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Cancelling plans from now on by saying:
I'm so sorry, I can't make it. I'm continvoucly morged.

16.02.2026 22:16 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Oooh this looks cool. The little pet cat πŸ₯Ή

16.02.2026 20:03 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Purple, space-like grid background with a small Netlify logo at the top. Large centered title reads β€œCreator Program” with β€œApply now.” below, and the URL β€œnetlify.com/creator-program” at the bottom.

Purple, space-like grid background with a small Netlify logo at the top. Large centered title reads β€œCreator Program” with β€œApply now.” below, and the URL β€œnetlify.com/creator-program” at the bottom.

Need a place to publish your β€œhow I shipped it” tutorial? πŸ‘€

The Netlify Creator Program is open!

Blog or video, editorial + technical review, you get credited.

✨ Swag + 3 months Pro too.✨

www.netlify.com/creator-prog...

13.02.2026 14:38 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Okay I’ve watched it twice now and I heard Benito shout out the Antillias the first time but only caught Aruba, Bonaire, and CuraΓ§ao’s flags the second time. Sobbing. 😭 πŸ‡¦πŸ‡ΌπŸ‡§πŸ‡ΆπŸ‡¨πŸ‡Ό

09.02.2026 01:48 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Is that El Gran Combo?! AHHHH if it is 😍😍

09.02.2026 01:28 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Hey adobe acrobat AI, I will never ever need the offer to summarize a 1-page restaurant menu.

(As a occasional Adobe user the amount of popups on features was already jarring especially in the middle of other tasks, and now its twice as frustrating with their AI tooling nudges blocking my tasks.)

08.02.2026 20:02 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Your writing is so enjoyable to read!

05.02.2026 02:39 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Come for the cute detective pupper; stay for the cute alt text. For being all about dogs, they're the GOAT (15/10!) when it comes to alt text. πŸ†

05.02.2026 01:54 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm getting so many upgrade OS and iOS notifications. Phew. I don't want to upgrade while the accessibility is so not great. I turned off auto updates for a bunch of senior neighbors and friends (at their request), too. Stop trying to make fetch happen, Gretchen!

05.02.2026 01:51 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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One Year of AX Reflecting on the first year since introducing Agent Experience (AX) and why the term is more crucial and important today than ever.

It's been One Year of AX.

"It's not so much about giving the agent access, as it is about removing friction and making it a great experience for both the agent and the user prompting the agent."

The human is still there. They're just working through the agent now.

biilmann.blog/articles/one...

29.01.2026 16:58 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Accessibility For Everyone by Laura Kalbag Read the book online for free.

My book, Accessibility For Everyone, is now free and online as a website.

accessibilityforeveryone.site

The book was first published by A Book Apart in 2017 but it holds up! It covers web accessibility for designers, developers, content folks, and really everyone who works in tech.

27.01.2026 13:14 πŸ‘ 308 πŸ” 194 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 10
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Netlify Capsules Celebrate 10 million developers on Netlify by launching your ideas into orbit.

I made a capsule to celebrate 10 million users on @netlify.com . My capsule has a photo of my dog doing some Olympic diving that a coworker made, so try to find it in the AR experience :) 10-million-devs.netlify.app/capsules/21

20.01.2026 16:21 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Start here: 10-million-devs.netlify.com

Reply with your capsule link + a screenshot πŸ‘‡

Caption to steal: β€œI just launched my Netlify Capsule πŸ›°οΈβ€

We’ll reshare favorites.

20.01.2026 16:09 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

To mark the moment, we built something you can participate in, with Netlify creator @leemartin.com (250+ sites deployed):

Netlify Capsules: create a payload (your site + photo + song + note), deploy it, and claim your coordinates in an AR constellation you can view in the sky.

20.01.2026 16:09 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Thankful for our @netlify.com users and so proud of the team!
Visit netlify.com/10m to launch your capsule!

20.01.2026 16:12 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

@biilmann.blog's 2026 predictions are out! πŸŽ‰

Big themes: True Computer Literacy, Claude Agent SDK + β€œtrue agents,” AX (Agent Experience), pipelines/sandboxes becoming the bottleneck, and the slow fade of syntax as the default interface.

biilmann.blog/articles/pre...

07.01.2026 17:00 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Those are firework booms, that’s just me sneezing after all of the juniper pollen has entered my face. #cedarfever

02.01.2026 02:15 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Cannot deal with the film version being 20th old, but then again I have the cd and dvd still so…

29.12.2025 20:59 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
A white samoyed dog is sleeping in the lap of a large teddy bear, easily three times the size of the dog. The bear's paw is placed on the dog's back and its face is arranged looking down onto the dog.

A white samoyed dog is sleeping in the lap of a large teddy bear, easily three times the size of the dog. The bear's paw is placed on the dog's back and its face is arranged looking down onto the dog.

Happy 20th anniversary to "Samoyed and teddy bear" on Wikimedia Commons.

"This is a picture of my samoyed with a teddy bear. I release all rights to it, it would just be nice if her image could survive forever."

commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sa...

26.12.2025 16:26 πŸ‘ 1701 πŸ” 816 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 12

Thinking how extra fun it is for food blogs to have RSS _feeds_. πŸ˜‚

26.12.2025 14:02 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Design Engineer, Spectrum Web Join us and help build the next generation of our world-famous tools.

Oh hey, come work with me!

We're seeking an earlier-career front-end dev who is able to work in-office (multiple US locations).

Check it out if you have interest and experience in: #designsystems #CSS #a11y #webcomponents

adobe.design/jobs/job-pos...

23.12.2025 17:28 πŸ‘ 49 πŸ” 21 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Rockets owners expand talks to buy, move Sun

Rockets owners expand talks to buy, move Sun

Terrifying headline if you don’t realize they are sports teams.

19.12.2025 16:37 πŸ‘ 13718 πŸ” 2765 πŸ’¬ 131 πŸ“Œ 129

Whatever make it 10 factor authentication.. I don't want to be able to sign into anything ever again

18.12.2025 15:47 πŸ‘ 2563 πŸ” 553 πŸ’¬ 44 πŸ“Œ 25
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Netlify Observability: See what happens after every deploy See how your app behaves in production after every deploy. Netlify Observability unifies request metrics, function logs, and usage signals.

Really excited for Observability on @netlify.com. Lots of folks really worked hard on this and I'm so proud of the team! www.netlify.com/blog/introdu...

17.12.2025 16:59 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We strongly encourage you to upgrade your sites to non-vulnerable versions.

If you upgraded last week due to the critical #React2Shell vulnerability, you must upgrade again to address these new CVEs.

More details: www.netlify.com/changelog/20...

11.12.2025 21:21 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

🚨 Action required: 2 additional newly disclosed vulnerabilities affect multiple versions of React, Next.js, & other RSC-based frameworks.

As w/ last week's disclosure, Netlify has been working w/ the @react.dev & @nextjs.org teams to deploy network-level mitigations against these vulnerabilities. 🧡

11.12.2025 21:21 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2