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Stephen Bell

@stephenjbell

Senior Design Technologist (front end dev) at a big nonprofit. Dad to two sets of twins. Canadian living in Oklahoma City. Love your neighbor.

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Turns out you can transition CSS variables directly with property at-rules - no need to add color transitions to every element individually. Makes dark mode fade animation way simpler!

Wrote about it here: jonshamir.com/writing/colo...

07.03.2026 19:14 πŸ‘ 22 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
women's downhill vision impaired alpine skiing. two women are skiing down the course - the athlete is in the back, and the person in front is their guide.

women's downhill vision impaired alpine skiing. two women are skiing down the course - the athlete is in the back, and the person in front is their guide.

okay I know everyone loved the decaf olympics, but now it's finally time for the real stuff (NEAR TOTAL BLINDNESS ALPINE SKIING)

07.03.2026 20:33 πŸ‘ 187 πŸ” 31 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 1

One of the more clear-eyed takes on AI coding I've seen.

Hits on a bunch of topics I've been thinking about lately: team dynamics, tightly controlling the scope of what you work on, the need for more communication, etc...

Definitely worth a read!

(so good I became a paying subscriber)

04.03.2026 21:40 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Will Boyd Will Boyd's portfolio and web development blog.

Hey everyone! You might have heard that 40% of Block was laid off. That includes me.

If you're looking for a design technologist (a design-minded front-end dev) then hit me up!

Portfolio here: codersblock.com

04.03.2026 16:29 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Hey Will. Sorry to hear that. I hope you land some place great!

05.03.2026 03:15 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

100% funded. Congratulations!!!

04.03.2026 00:29 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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02.03.2026 18:49 πŸ‘ 10551 πŸ” 2150 πŸ’¬ 51 πŸ“Œ 50
The Brain Center at Whipple's - Twilight-Tober Zone
The Brain Center at Whipple's - Twilight-Tober Zone YouTube video by Channel Awesome

I love that twilight zone episode. m.youtube.com/watch?v=U1h1...

01.03.2026 13:46 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I just learned the other day that you can buy third party memory foam ear-gasket things, but the regular ones don’t bother me quite enough to bother.

01.03.2026 04:17 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
β€œPerformance is accessibility” on Mike’s slide

β€œPerformance is accessibility” on Mike’s slide

β€œPerformance is an underrated form of accessibility”

YES @mikehall314.bsky.social πŸ‘πŸ»

28.02.2026 15:58 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Jack Dorsey renamed the company to Block because he thought blockchains would be the future, in case you were wondering what his track record of predicting long-term tech trends is

27.02.2026 17:26 πŸ‘ 2590 πŸ” 579 πŸ’¬ 38 πŸ“Œ 16

I was born in 1981, and they keep changing my generation. How am I supposed to know how old or young to feel?

27.02.2026 17:40 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Nathan, wishing you all the best on your job search! I don’t have any leads for you, and I don’t have any advice, but sending prayers and good vibes your way.

27.02.2026 15:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Came across the phrase "cognitive DDOS" to describe our present culture.

Understood instantly what it meant.

26.02.2026 02:54 πŸ‘ 2701 πŸ” 997 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 0
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The first time I’ve seen β€œanything could happen πŸ€·πŸΎβ€β™‚οΈβ€ in chart form.

26.02.2026 14:09 πŸ‘ 112 πŸ” 22 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 6
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Apple Announces Discontinuation of iPhone Product Line - Newsroom - Search Apple Newsroom Search Results

time to all default to eink tablets

www.apple.com/newsroom/sea...

25.02.2026 14:57 πŸ‘ 199 πŸ” 18 πŸ’¬ 17 πŸ“Œ 8
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How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week One engineer used AI to rebuild Next.js on Vite in a week. vinext builds up to 4x faster, produces 57% smaller bundles, and deploys to Cloudflare Workers with a single command.

porting Next.js for $1100 has... implications for any open source library with good tests meant to bait people to use a paid product

24.02.2026 23:42 πŸ‘ 95 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 4

Human interaction is going to shift to discords and group chats, invite-only. The open web and social media are going to be left for the agents lurking amongst the ruins. Everything public will be Moltbook.

It hasn’t fully hit BlueSky yet, but LinkedIn and X are just meaning-shaped comments by LLMs

24.02.2026 22:42 πŸ‘ 192 πŸ” 33 πŸ’¬ 16 πŸ“Œ 18
Tracy Morgan saying β€œI’m going to take a nap. See you in 10 hours.”

Tracy Morgan saying β€œI’m going to take a nap. See you in 10 hours.”

Tracy Morgan is reminding me to take better care of myself. This will work.

24.02.2026 14:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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New in Svelte: Comments inside component/element tags!

20.02.2026 13:15 πŸ‘ 162 πŸ” 18 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 7
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prefers-reduced-motion - CSS | MDN The prefers-reduced-motion CSS media feature is used to detect if a user has enabled a setting on their device to minimize the amount of non-essential motion. The setting is used to convey to the browser on the device that the user prefers an interface that removes, reduces, or replaces motion-based animations.

Dear developers,
Please respect the reduced-motion preferences of your users.
I'm tired of your websites making me nauseous.
Motion is fun until it makes your users sick.

Here you go: developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...

18.02.2026 09:54 πŸ‘ 88 πŸ” 27 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1
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DOG AT THE OLYMPICS
FULL COMPETITION HIGHLIGHTS

18.02.2026 13:26 πŸ‘ 19683 πŸ” 5924 πŸ’¬ 502 πŸ“Œ 1140

When creating PDFs, avoid using "Print to PDF." A screen reader user may still be able to access the text of PDFs created this way, but heading structure, alternative text, and any other tag structure will be lost. Using "Save As" or "Export" can preserve these tags.

18.02.2026 04:25 πŸ‘ 104 πŸ” 38 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 4

it’s important to keep caring about how things work and how they’re built

17.02.2026 21:14 πŸ‘ 279 πŸ” 62 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 7
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Winter Olympics Photo of the Day: A Victory Leap Lucas Pinheiro Braathen of Team Brazil jumps for joy on the Olympic podium.

Lucas Pinheiro Braathen of Team Brazil celebrates after winning a gold medal in the men’s giant slalom event. See the Olympic photo of the day:

15.02.2026 23:15 πŸ‘ 107 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
Watched by Branson Reese 28 Apr 2022

Abrams isn't a man so much as he's an avatar of cultural entropy. If you make something popular enough eventually you will die or sell it off and and a person in thick rimmed glasses whose main artistic vision is that he loves to have meetings will take it and sandblast it until it's nothing. I hate to see this happen here but maybe it's good that this happened. Maybe every franchise should collapse into a version of itself that makes shareholders nod and shake each others' hands. We should learn to speak in a language that rich people who don't dream can't comprehend.

Letterboxd screenshot Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) Watched by Branson Reese 28 Apr 2022 Abrams isn't a man so much as he's an avatar of cultural entropy. If you make something popular enough eventually you will die or sell it off and and a person in thick rimmed glasses whose main artistic vision is that he loves to have meetings will take it and sandblast it until it's nothing. I hate to see this happen here but maybe it's good that this happened. Maybe every franchise should collapse into a version of itself that makes shareholders nod and shake each others' hands. We should learn to speak in a language that rich people who don't dream can't comprehend.

i often think about this review

14.02.2026 03:13 πŸ‘ 12834 πŸ” 3453 πŸ’¬ 125 πŸ“Œ 231
Photo of a cat swiping at a TV showing a flailing Ilia Malinin on a the Olympic skating rink.

Photo of a cat swiping at a TV showing a flailing Ilia Malinin on a the Olympic skating rink.

Sorry, it was Willow the cat’s fault. We tried to stop her.

14.02.2026 03:40 πŸ‘ 1708 πŸ” 176 πŸ’¬ 20 πŸ“Œ 7

I really need to stop opening LinkedIn.

Half the posts: AI is going to steal every job on Earth.

The other half of the posts: No, it’s not.

13.02.2026 05:28 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Your Ring camera can scam passing dogs and compare them to databases of missing dogs and that’s heartwarming and there are absolutely no sinister implications that’s why the guy in the button-down and Dockers is soothing

09.02.2026 02:10 πŸ‘ 2723 πŸ” 362 πŸ’¬ 68 πŸ“Œ 16
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My Second Brain Never Worked. Then I Gave It a Gardener. - Rob Dodson I could never maintain a second brain. Then I pointed Claude Code at my Obsidian vault and let it do the organizing for me. Now I'm writing again.

Lately I've been using Claude Code with Obsidian as a thinking partner and I've found the experience really rewarding. It's helped get me back into writing and get excited about capturing ideas again. Did a little write up on my setup.

robdodson.me/posts/i-gave...

08.02.2026 23:09 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0