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New blog post: Construction Lines I turned 39 today. My career turns 20 this summer. Prompted by a recent career shift, I paused to reflect; and ask myself “What has brought me the most joy — and why?” lea.verou.me/blog/2025/cons…

I just realized why high-functioning #ADHD folks make such great PMs & entrepreneurs. We spend years building systems to overcome our own executive dysfunction: frameworks, principles, data etc. Imagine climbing with boulders strapped to your waist — mastering technique is your

Fave recent micro-productivity hack: aliasing ⌘T to New Tab to the Right via OSX settings¹ 1. Makes tab groups work properly for isolating work 2. Eliminates the spatial disconnect of having to hunt a newly opened tab down in a different part of the UI Thank me later :) ¹

💙 New blog post! I set out to announce two web components I put together for displaying 🦋 Bluesky likes and ended up ranting about how painful it is to build accessible, localizable web components in 2025. The components are still there, though — lucky you?

The hardest thing to do as a Software Engineer, Is noticing shitty code and deciding to leave it shitty.

At the start of the AI revolution, our human communication patterns "leaked" into our AI interactions because that was the only way we knew how to communicate using natural language. Things like phrasing requests as questions, saying please and thank you etc. Whatever was common

I had a life-changing conversation with a mentor in Ithaca NY in 2011. He had gotten wealthy off a sweaty startup. Foundation repair. And sold the company for 8 figures. One of his first questions surprised me. “Nick do you like sales and would you consider yourself a good

Jake points out some excellent UX issues with footnotes on the Web. But let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater! Footnotes have valid use cases that neither inline parentheses nor note blocks cover (collapsed or not). But they are definitely in dire need of UX love to

Some great insights here. I love seeing small companies demolish all these ideas about what you “must” do to be productive and reinventing creative teamwork. Because after all “The internet has enabled new ways of working, but we're just starting to see them unfold. There are a

Help me settle a debate: How often do you edit SVG markup by hand? Things that count: ✅ Hand editing output from graphics editors (e.g. Illustrator) ✅ Hand-editing SVG you copied from elsewhere (e.g. icons) ✅ Using low-level abstractions (e.g. the SVG DOM, Lit etc) to

🔥 I have news! After a 1y hiatus, I’m once again leading this year’s #StateOfHTML survey, thanks to generous funding by Google. ❤️ 🙋🏽‍♀️ Is there is an HTML feature or Web API you're just dying to see progress on? Suggest it and it could be included! Browsers fund these surveys

Just finished taking this year’s #StateOfCSS! It was quite funny that there were CSS features I had designed where I had to select "Heard of it" because *technically* I haven't used them yet. 😅 If you plan to take it, do it now, it's closing very soon: stateofcss.com/en-US

Babies 🧵 This wholesome thread is the happiness refresh button you didn’t know you needed 1. When you realize that even your legs are under your own control