Michael W Lucas 
Overheard by a friend:
"You never see a cybertruck in the parking lot of the library."
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silverorangeCSS aficionado @maureenholland writes about the enduring value of the CSS float property:
Floats are dead! Long live floats!
For a long time, front-end developers had a limited number of layout styling options. This resulted in some creative hacks around the existing browser features. The float property, in particular, was wrangled into many configurations now much better suited to multi-column, flex,…
@siracusa You referenced a cover of U2's bad on https://atp.fm/691 but I couldn't make out the name of the artist. Who was that?
Also, as a fellow not-a-Goose-person person, I recommend their Peter Gabriel cover (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgJq-9qqhtw) or The National cover (#3 on this playlist: https://goosetheband.bandcamp.com/album/2025-08-28-university-of-iowa-iowa-city-ia )
Now, back to the rest of the episode to find out that you talked about all of this already.
Saying “I always review what the AI gives me and I don’t let it write for me” is the new “yes, dentist, I do floss every day.”
The New York Times Connections game is a good band name generator.
I’d go see Hobo Mosey opening for Octopus Breeze.
@mathowie The blog theme looks sharp, but I find it a bit difficult to read the text on the textured background.
I endorse this Countdown Standard proposed by XKCD: https://xkcd.com/3232/
Lady Laura 
Hat tip to our American friends at the #NoKings protests today. 🫡
Reminiscing about some cool sound-design work that @bradsucks did way back in 2004: https://actsofvolition.com/2026/03/sound-design-of-old/