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A new official extended version of TANK! from Cowboy Bebop has been released, with the original Seatbelts members from 30 years ago omg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d75ov4HvRrM

Yoko Kanno & SEATBELTS - TANK! Extended [Official Music Video]

YouTube

Ste Grainer 1d ago

As more and more of my social media life moves out of public spaces, I figured I’d share a bit of my reasoning as well as a few rules I try to follow when engaging with any public social media. These are what work for me. Feel free to borrow, adapt, or ignore at your discretion.
https://stegrainer.com/journal/2026/social-media-strategy

My Social Media “Strategy” » SteGrainer.com

A few thoughts on how I approach being social online

Ste Grainer 3d ago

🔗 The Great CSS Expansion — A handy intro to new CSS features available now or coming soon and the JavaScript they can replace

https://blog.gitbutler.com/the-great-css-expansion

The Great CSS Expansion

CSS now does what Floating UI, GSAP ScrollTrigger, Framer Motion, and react-select used to require JavaScript for. Here is exactly how much that saves, why these libraries were painful beyond their size, and what the platform still hasn't figured out.

Butler's Log

Ste Grainer 4d ago

When I had the idea for Friday Faves, Lord of the Rings was one of the first things that popped into my head. I read the series once a year every year through high school and college. While I haven’t read the full series in almost a decade now, it still holds a very special place in my heart. And maybe I should pick it back up again soon …
https://stegrainer.com/journal/2026/friday-fave-lord-of-the-rings

Friday Fave: Lord of the Rings » SteGrainer.com

On a favorite fantasy series

Ste Grainer 4d ago

🔗 My default config for new Craft CMS projects — A great intro to good Craft CMS config settings and the reason behind them

https://moritzlost.dev/articles/default-craft-cms-config/

My default config for new Craft CMS projects

My annotated default configuration for new Craft CMS projects. May include wildly controversial takes.

Ste Grainer 6d ago

“The people who cannot sit through novels aren’t broken. They’re adapted to an environment we built. We hand them infinite information and wonder why they drown. We give them tools designed to fracture attention and blame them when their attention fractures. We built a world that profits from distraction and then pathologise the distracted.”

I feel like I could quote almost every in this essay about literacy and design. Well worth the time to read or listen.

https://aeon.co/essays/what-we-think-is-a-decline-in-literacy-is-a-design-problem

Ste Grainer 6d ago

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Ariel Salminen 6d ago

To get slightly more context, read also my article on Progressive Web Components (just published!):

https://arielsalminen.com/2026/progressive-web-components/

Progressive Web Components

Introducing Elena, a simple, tiny library for building Progressive Web Components. Unlike most web component libraries, Elena doesn’t force JavaScript for everything. You can load HTML and CSS first, then use JavaScript to progressively add interactivity.

Ariel Salminen

Ste Grainer 6d ago

RE: https://front-end.social/@ariel/116288522052192356

This looks really awesome! I need to find a way to work this into a project pronto.

Ste Grainer 6d ago

🔗 Stuff Everybody Knows — Great general advice about how to build on the web, agnostic of specific tools

https://stuffeverybodyknows.com

How to be a web developer: Stuff Everybody Knows

A guide to the rest of your web development career, by Laurie Voss

Ste Grainer 6d ago

🔗 Elena — A simple, tiny library for building Progressive Web Components.

https://elenajs.com

Elena | Progressive Web Components

Elena is a simple, tiny library for building Progressive Web Components.

Elena

Personal Site	https://stegrainer.com
UXcellence	https://uxcellence.com
Pronouns	he/him
Location	Richmond, VA