Time to make 2025 updates to my annual “opinions about solar” thread. If you like these, you might like the second edition of my book, Solar Power Finance Without The Jargon. A 30% discount code WSQ0437 is valid on publisher website until end of Nov 2025.

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I just realized that the new CSS `field-sizing: content` magic allows textareas AND inputs AND select elements to grow. 😲

I thought it was only about textareas. 😅

So far, it works in Chromium and Safari TP.

I'm sure many of you have heard by now that earlier this week, IU k*lled the print edition of its student paper, the IDS. The issue that was supposed to print this week contained criticism of the Whitten regime and IUs further slide into Fscist control, and they couldn't allow that to happen during Homecoming, when all the rich alumni are in town.

Enter Purdue! The Purdue student paper, The Exponent, owns its own presses. Yesterday, in an act of tremendous solidarity with their biggest rival school, they printed the forbidden issue of the IDS. They then drove it to Bloomington overnight and stocked all of the IDS boxes on campus, just in time for Homecoming.

Solidarity is what makes us stronger, and solidarity will be what ultimately allows us to triumph, if we can ever truly get it together. I hope everyone has a fun, safe day if they're going out today, and I hope we can think about what acts of solidarity we can begin taking to really make this movement MOVE - beyond a permitted expression of upset into more active resistance.

-Sara Whitmer

The #CSS WG is trying to name several properties that do similar things. One controls the length of a text-decoration line in relation to the text, the others control 'rule' lines in grid/flex/multi-column gaps.

Leave your feedback! (Note the poll spans two comments):

https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/8402#issuecomment-3408427694

(share for reach, please)

I'm really excited for a future with CSS Mixins and Functions. @OddBird has some great content on these features if you want to browse our collection: https://www.oddbird.net/tags/css-mixins-and-functions/

What are you most excited about?

Four days till @smashingconf – I'm excited to see some of you there! I'll be talking about CSS variables & type safety.

I also have a workshop on Modern CSS Architecture: https://smashingconf.com/ny-2025/workshops/miriam-suzanne-modern-css-architecture

(And if you can't join in NY, reach out – I'm happy to tailor a workshop for your company)