Today is my eighth Moziversary 🎂 I joined Mozilla as a full-time employee on May 1st, 2018. I previously blogged in 2019 , 2020 , 2021 , 2022 , 2023 , 2024 , and 2025 . You might have come across…

social.lol is gonna go glitchy (in a good way!) As announced earlier today, the social.lol instance is switching to Mastodon Glitch Edition. Yay! Post by @neatnik@social.lol <div style="font-weight:…

booksalefinder.com &#8220;Since 1994&#8221; sort of says it all? This old school HTML Gem (think Craigslist) lists book sales. Book sales are an important resource if you like to read and also…

May Day Participation Guide One-day general strike, via Indivisible. You in?&#8230; [more]

Upcoming Georeferencing Events in New Orleans Here in New Orleans we are looking forward to two georeferencing events coming right up! For the next two Tuesdays (May 5th &amp; 12th) we&rsquo;ll be…

Makes sense. In fact, FeedCity only uses the images and/or icons specified directly with the feed. Eventually I should probably fetch the icons from the website as a fallback. But c’mon: just include…

In case anyone else likes to follow updates from the speakers at Beyond Tellerrand conference 2026, I made my list on FeedCity public. Unfortunately, only a few speakers have a feed. But better few…

Testers, please!

twitter is dead

Spencer Mortensen is trying out various techniques for email address obfuscation: what works in 2026? Turns out that even the simplest measures are very effective, to the tune of 95%–100%. Tyler Gaw…

I’ve professed my love for mid-century signage multiple times on this blog.&#160; Whether it’s understated modernism, lingering neon, or the overt space-age wonderland of Googie, it all evokes the…

I have notifications turned on for both the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. Every day, it feels like I receive at least five "BREAKING NEWS" notifications. Yet often these are just…

Earlier this year, the epic ColorThief library had a pretty significant update. I blogged about a simple demo I built with it but I was fascinated by one particular demo on their site. The "observe"…

on building free public infrastructure for enjoyment

Firstly I want to preface this with a clear opinion. I am not a fan of DRM and believe we should be able to own our purchases. Nothing below should be considered me defending anyone and serves as a…

He&#8217;s running a newsletter with over a million subscribers and an engagement rate that turns traditional wisdom on its head. Sean Devlin, a veteran in the newsletter space, pulled back the…

I've seen three blog posts about this in my feeds today, and it's notable that so far everybody avoids openly sharing that they blog. I do share it when it's relevant, but thinking about this made me…

Stack Overflow turned programming into a shared conversation. AI turns it into a private loop. The answers are faster and more tailored—but something essential may be getting lost in the process. Net…

On Tuesday, the European Parliament presented the statutory review of the Digital Markets Act. So, naturally, I went to Strasbourg to tell politicians that as DMA has only really been in force for…

In case you aren&apos;t terminally online, as the kids say, there&apos;s a popular meme that uses a photo of a balding man with a steely gaze and the caption &quot;Heartbreaking: The worst person you…

A roundup of 50 blogs from the past few months that all focus on maps (including a few adventures that key off the same map).

Basics information about the View Transition browser API

What are those pseudo-elements of the View Transition API and how can I style and animate them?

Ever wanted to know what the weather is going to do for the entire day, and even what it's doing where your friends around the world are?

My friend and I have a game where we talk about what we&apos;d do if we were rich. Not rich like &apos;paid off the mortgage&apos; rich. Rich like a man who owns a submarine he&apos;s never been…

A look back over 25 years and 1000 posts

when you yearn for a connection to the rest of the world, to your friends, to your old self, you reach for the phone. there's nothing on the phone though? you reach for the internet. but the internet…

A subtle sycophancy. Read here.

This is the second post I&#8217;m writing about things that stood out in conversations and presentations at PressConf. I came back from PressConf with a feeling I haven’t been able to shake: the AI…

Yes, we are still alive. My last post was over 3 months ago. It&#8217;s the longest break I&#8217;ve ever had between posting anything. I&#8217;ve been really busy, and perhaps also really absorbed…

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Can AI tools really build accessible websites, and how far does &#8220;100% accessible&#8221; hold up in practice? In this session, Hampus will walk through a AI-built website that we tested with our…

I spent last week in Sicily, Italy for a perfectly organized Checkout Summit. A conference fully dedicated to WooCommerce, organized by Rodolfo Melogli. James Kemp and Katie Keith from the Do the Woo…

Open Graph images are the bane of my existence.↗ Seeing a beautiful one in a link preview in iMessage or Discord is just a chef’s kiss. But for whatever reason, generating them has nearly destroyed…

In appendix A of the book Root cause: Stories and lessons from two decades of Backend Engineering Bugs, author Hussein Nasser has these wonderful words to say about me: Daniel Stenberg is a Swedish…

The development cycle for the 2026.04 release enters the last stage before the stable release – today we have branched off the 2026.04 release candid branch. 2026.04-rc contains all the features of…

The sun was out today, at least for a little while. There was not much for it to shine on. I have had trouble recounting my days lately. A friend of a friend, fuck it, a friend, accidentally reminded…

Hello Bears! Welcome to my very first blog post. I have one goal for this whole thing: to connect with people . To achieve that goal, I will be writing about what I learned from asking my favourite…

Okay, let's try that again, but this time, good.

As time goes on I find myself less and less interested in social media, but I do miss the ability to easily reblog others' cool stuff, whether that's blog posts, cool art, unearthed rarities,…

A few updates for this month! Added a ‘coming soon’ blurb to my Cottage page. Self explanatory. I have several spaces that are currently linkless in reservation for pages I’ll have in the future but…

For this post I thought we'd take a nose around a cool little radio station - in celebration and recognition of the amazing Radio Survivor reaching TWO HUNDRED radio station visits over at their…

Official launch of beats.bitwrap.io as a live-performance tool — content-addressed shareable tracks, full-page Stage visuals, and a hands-free Auto-DJ that runs itself for hours.

The runtime is a Petri net — places hold tokens, transitions fire, that&#39;s the music. Same genre+seed = byte-identical output. Share URLs are CIDv1; the address is the track.

Why I built passport-privacy.meertens.dev — a no-tracking, no-cookies, fully client-side, open-source watermarking tool for photos of your passport and ID documents.

A newsletter earns its place when it gives a publication a narrower, more direct return surface instead of just repeating the archive in the inbox.

With March being so busy , I missed the anniversary of this website and blog. On 3rd March 2016, I wrote my first blog post. You can find it here. [1] . So that means I've had this website for ten…

Go beyond balance. Learn how text-wrap: pretty improves readability, reduces awkward breaks, and makes your UI feel more polished.

Replacing a motion-based animation hack with the native View Transitions API in Next.js. Read more →