I have feelings about AI & the web & my experience being trans "in tech" in 2025 - so I screamed some thoughts onto my personal web log. I hope for all of us a more queer & humane future. Keep building communities & dreaming better paths.

Miriam Eric Suzanne

Tech continues to be political

And the politics aren't looking great

Do you ever resize the browser window during the course of your day – apart from testing a responsive layout or using dev tools? (I would include other non-dev things that change the viewport inside the browser window, like sidebars coming in and out, or split screen tabs, etc)

NBD just jumping back and forth between full-day CSSWG meetings and reports of the government trying to order me out of existence. Status update: I still exist. (But with significantly fewer rights than I had a week ago, and new orders dropping daily – it's fucking dark)

The oss 'benevolent dictator' model was always a bad one, always built on an imagined 'best way to get things done' which frames collaboration as impossible, and was always a setup for claiming the rich tech guys are the best guys.

When we "keep specificity flat" in #CSS we have to give up on semantic selectors and built-in naming conventions, in return for… also giving up control in the cascade. We can't avoid the cascade, it applies to all styles. We can only refuse to use the tools that are available for *managing* the cascade. Start using Cascade Layers, and let your specificity run wild. It's a useful tool!

I am very tired of conference talks that start by telling me - everyone is excited - these tools are the future - now is the time to get on board - you don't want to be left behind You do not need to be excited for the machine they wish could replace you already

People now trust 'information' coming from black box algorithms controlled by just a few companies, as though they have "looked it up" somewhere, but also we can copy/paste relevant code snippets, with some amount of success! so it's great, actually! ✨ this industry is fucking stressful

What are your favorite little day-to-day use cases for the #css :has() selector? Anyone using it in their reset yet?

Q: How is AI being used in web development? A: CEO's stole our copyrighted work, and are now using it to threaten our jobs, lay people off, and cut our pay.