Control
There is an idea in my bubble that running your own website is A Very Good Idea. I subscribe to the idea that running your own website is A Very Good Idea and will continue to help that along in my career. But there is a heaping helping of It Depends involved here. Perhaps the biggest reason having your own site is a good idea is that you are in complete…
https://chriscoyier.net/2025/01/30/control/
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if I was a designer at datastax, knowing this is the logo, i would put battlestar galactica corners on absolutely every shit. hard design system guideline.
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A Little Arm Chair Businessin’ about Chrome
It was August 5th, 2024 when a federal judge in the US decided that "Google acted illegally to maintain a monopoly in online search". Then November 20th, 2024 when "The Justice Department and a group of states asked a federal court late Wednesday to force Google to sell Chrome". It hasn't been forced yet and I have no idea if it will be.
https://chriscoyier.net/2025/01/29/a-little-arm-chair-businessin-about-chrome/
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Media Diet
🎥 The War of Rohirrim — I was on a bit of a Lord of the Rings kick, reading the books then watching the Extended editions. So of course I had to see this. I tried to see in theaters but I just missed it, so streamed it. I thought it was good! A perfectly fine story and I was happy to get to hang out in Middle Earth on fresh terms.
https://chriscoyier.net/2025/01/28/media-diet-6/
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A Ham of Meat
There's a classic old time tune "How Many Biscuits Can You Eat?". I know it from The Freight Hoppers but it's certainly much older than that. The answer? How many biscuits can you eat? 49 and a ham of meat. Obviously. Wait, did they say "a ham of meat"? Some renditions of the song just cruise right through that. Some of them let some of the instruments drop out during that line (the italics of songcrafting).
https://chriscoyier.net/2025/01/24/a-ham-of-meat/
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I did get around to writing up my own CSS Wishlist again. https://frontendmasters.com/blog/css-wishlist-for-2025/ Nothing terribly surprising on there, I mostly plucked up my favorite ideas from other people.
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Team Bend Racing
The kid and I randomly started watching World’s Toughest Race: Eco-Challenge Fiji on Amazon Prime from 2020. 66 teams descend upon Fiji to compete in the most epic global adventure race ever attempted. Bear Grylls hosts this 11-day expedition that pushes competitors to their physical and emotional limits. We were both like whaaaaat when "Team Bend Racing" took an early lead.
https://chriscoyier.net/2025/01/21/team-bend-racing/
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The Garden vs The River
Robin Rendle quoting Chris Armstrong: ... Chris argues that personal websites could become more like wikis instead: With digital gardens, every new piece of content in the network has the potential to add depth and context to every other part. The whole becomes greater than the sum of its parts. I truly love the idea that topics might grow over time with constant refininement .
https://chriscoyier.net/2025/01/16/the-garden-vs-the-river/
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Nest Cams
First, we had the Nest thermostat. Gotta have that, right? The first thermostat in the history of time that feels well-designed1. Works great. Pleasure to use and look at. Then we got the smoke alarm. Why not — seems nice2. Then we got a free Nest Mini as a promotion when Miranda went Android for a while and got a Pixel phone.
https://chriscoyier.net/2025/01/15/nest-cams/
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1,000 lbs
Rogue has a 1000LB Club. Find your cumulative total of a 1 Rep Max Bench/Squat/Deadlift in one hour I'm not particularly interested in actually doing it. You have to record a video with a bunch of rules and crap. But I heard about it years ago and the general challenge idea stuck in my head. My gym recently did a "Supermax" event where we, over the course of…
https://chriscoyier.net/2025/01/14/1000-lbs/
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Tech + Pace Layering
Steward Brand has talked about Pace Layering for a long time: Pace layers provide many-leveled corrective, stabilizing feedback throughout the system. It is in the contradictions between these layers that civilization finds its surest health. I propose six significant levels of pace and size in a robust and adaptable civilization With this example: The inner layers moving slowly, the outer layers moving quickly/inconsistently.
https://chriscoyier.net/2025/01/13/tech-pace-layering/
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Short Life of Trouble
My fiddle player friend Darin sent me this documentary about GB Grayson, which I enjoyed: The documentary talks about how very few people even recognize the name despite all of recorded tunes essentially becoming standards in today's folk/bluegrass/old-time world and having been covered by extraordinarily huge artists. Gilliam Banmon Grayson (1887-1930) was a blind fiddler from one of the most isolated regions on the East Coast (East Tennessee).
https://chriscoyier.net/2025/01/10/short-life-of-trouble/
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Exploring Hogwarts Puzzle
Over the holiday's our family did the Exploring Hogwarts puzzle. It was just 500 pieces but took us like... a month? Of course at the end there was a missing piece that we absolutely could not find, confirming our conspiracy theories the entire time. It don't know if that looks hard to you, but my gosh, it was just a beast in difficulty the entire time.
https://chriscoyier.net/2025/01/09/exploring-hogwarts-puzzle/
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Check-in-the-Mail IRL Spam (Canada Dry)
I just got a big ol' stack of USPS Priority Mail®️ marked as RETURN TO SENDER. It's... malicious spam. Physical spam, I suppose. I didn't send these, of course. But the return address is CodePen Headquarters, so it seems it was just a free way to get spam into our door. The evil schmucks drop these in the mail to fake addresses, they get returned to sender, and it's marked that CodePen Headquarters is the sender.
https://chriscoyier.net/2025/01/08/check-in-the-mail-irl-spam-canada-dry/
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Starlink
I don't actually have Starlink. I was just considering it for a hot second and figured I'd write down the thoughts. I was getting annoyed at our home internet service the other week and started looking into other options. In the end, I called our service provider (TDS) and they were like (1) your modem is very old so we'll just mail you a new one (2) you're on a grandfathered plan that is 600 megabit…
https://chriscoyier.net/2025/01/07/starlink/
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