Matthew Balaam

I always ponder this myself even when expecting a sighted person to read this so it would be great to learn of people’s thoughts.

Quite rare to see a chart that says quite so overtly that no one involved has the slightest clue what’s happening here

it used to be “here’s a thing I built that uses this framework and this database and this UI library”

now it’s all “I’m running multiple agents on a thousand VMs bro”

yes but what are you _making_

what are you _doing_ for the world

what will your legacy be

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Maybe one there too. I used to go on the Yarmouth one as a kid - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roller_...

Would be cool to have that wooden rollercoaster like Yarmouth actually :D

It’s always definitely seemed to be paying a lot less than London for these roles, but even considering that it seems super dry right now.

Er, this is me right now. If anyone has any leads for frontend development roles either in Brighton or remote/hybrid I’m looking at the moment.

Is everyone else finding the market super tough at the moment?

This is really well done.

Wondered if there was some rule around dialogs I wasn’t aware of. Nice article by the way👌

Out of interest in this case why haven’t you put the links inside a <nav> element?

Screen grab of my location in the Bluesky user map

Right on the edges, sounds about right.

Depends what you mean by “listening” I guess. I really like to have some music on keeping me company but a lot of it will just go over my head. Podcasts on the other hand it would need to be very rote repetitive work without much concentration required.

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With visually hidden items you don’t want them to affect the dimensions on the page, if you just used this it would leave some white space you probably don’t want.

Someone may also correct me if wrong, but some screenreaders may also remove items with opacity: 0 from the accessibility tree too.

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Lazer definitely always looks much cooler to my inner pulpy-sci-fi child.

Looking forward to one last dance at Corsica Studios

Ride or Erasure?

Typo here?

> I’ve had the attitude for years now that content-box should be the default, but it is what it is.

📝 I was trying to write a `:has()` selector with `:visited` and it wasn't working as expected. Turns out it wasn’t a bug, it was the browser telling what MDN calls “a little white lie” ha!

blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/browsers-…

Clique

A GUI helps discovery of settings you don’t know about though?

A - inside out feels the most natural to me

Great, I’ve been waiting for this since custom properties arrived.

Is this a JavaScript solution I am looking at?

I’m having to “upskill” my AI knowledge at the moment. Does this still happen even if you’ve added an instruction in Claude.MD?

SCREAMING_CASE?

Nobel Laureate, María Corina Machado presents some cunt with a massive board of Scampy Fries she nicked from a pub.

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