Steve Workman

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Front-End Lead @Maersk, @BerkshireJS organiser, occasional speaker & #webperf advocate. Used to run @webstandards. He/him/his. Opinions are my own
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The stories about 10x engineers never include:
• Adding meaningful test coverage
• Updating outdated README sections
• Mentoring junior engineers
• Listening to burned-out coworkers
• Improving on-call runbooks

No glory in these things, but those that do them are the ones you desperately want to keep.

They plant trees they don't expect to sit under.

I have avoided Tailwind for years. I find myself having to add in design tokens from an external source to some tailwind code...

My only question - who hurt you? Why would you bind yourself to this.... "syntax"....

3. Sa11y is a really great tool: https://sa11y.netlify.app It’s a live, in-page accessibility audit whose workflow is far, far more useful for actually improving the page than the server-based “enter your URL” online services. Killer features:

- It live-highlights potential issues on the page.

- It lets you dismiss warnings and •remembers that you dismissed them•, so it can offer subjective concerns that require manual review (e.g. “this image is marked as decorative; is that correct?”).

- Per the previous post, it actually respects the contrast setting, because it reports on what’s on the screen.

Bookmarklet - Sa11y, the accessibility quality assurance assistant - Toronto Metropolitan University

Sa11y is an accessibility quality assurance tool that visually highlights common accessibility and usability issues.

Live now Christian Ulbrich is presenting Versioned Web Components

Tune in live on YouTube: https://www.
youtube.com/live/De4n7vjEO1o

Throwback to when I learned how mastodon felt about Google & Chrome.

OH there will be some scenes if that rumor of OpenAI buying Chrome comes to fruition.

https://front-end.social/@benschwarz/113127311078023574

benschwarz (@[email protected])

🕵️ Still using Chrome? How do you feel about any site being able to call `document.browsingTopics()`to learn all about you? https://developers.google.com/privacy-sandbox/private-advertising/topics/web/topic-classification

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TIL that the useful code quality tool Sonar has a rule that you don't have to write code coverage if you make a change that is less than 20 lines.
So that one line critical hotfix passes the check without needing a test, or any comments of any kind.

This toot is brought to you by hindsight!

Simple access to a built-in AI small language model is now available in Microsoft Edge, as a dev preview.

I helped put together the blog, docs, and demos for this and I'm happy this is now out.

The team working on this is very interested in your feedback and use cases if you have any.

See https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2025/05/19/introducing-the-prompt-and-writing-assistance-apis/

Simplified access to AI in Microsoft Edge: Introducing the Prompt and Writing Assistance APIs

Local AI models are a great way to bring AI capabilities to your web application with increased privacy, network independence, and, most importantly, reduced costs relative to cloud-based services. But hosting local AI models on the web, via existing

Microsoft Edge Blog
It's my birthday tomorrow, a tennis number! To celebrate, here's a song about getting old https://youtu.be/zOL81oOjGUI?si=SiYplPGMrinl9kHf
Frank Turner - Love Forty Down (Official Video)

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This week at Maersk is the Front-End community's annual conference. Hundreds of developers from all parts of the company brought together in three different sites with three guest speakers and 7 internal talks.

This is the fourth time we've done this and I'm just as excited/anxious as ever. Can't wait @daniel @thisisjofrank !

I _could_ let an AI try to code a Saturday project for me whilst I sit in the sunshine, but it's more like trying to relax with a needy toddler, constantly falling over, getting stuck, imagining things and flicking sand in your eyes.

I have real children for that!