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Here are the most recent QuirksBlog entries.
6 October 2026 | tagged as AI Monetisation
The tech giants are creating a system with the appeal of a 19th-century factory, complete with oppressed and estranged workers, without delivering the sole benefit: cheaper stuff. After each conversation about AI, ask what the true cost of the tokens would be. Nobody knows, but getting used to asking the question is is a good idea.
21 September 2026 | tagged as Personal
About twenty boxes of books were thrown onto the street from my apartment building. That made me sad, but I’m not going read 98% of them. But they were taken anyway, and quickly. Books aren’t dead. They’re just sleeping.
8 September 2026 | tagged as CSS
I plan to use style containers for centralised breakpoint definitions, combining style queries with CSS nesting. Also, I went down a rabbit hole. Do you know what a container is? And that size containers, the ones with the cqw goodness, are the exception rather than the rule in container land?
2 September 2026 | tagged as Safari Web development
Fifteen years ago I helped popularise the meta viewport width=device-width,initial-scale=1. Today I found out the second bit is no longer necessary. A retrospective.
15 August 2026 | tagged as Archives Monetisation
Thoughts about the gig economy from a more innocent era. Maybe they’re still useful today.
13 August 2026 | tagged as Web development
An example of a website being irrelevant bullshit that happened to trigger me. Why didn't a UX designer pull the emergency break?
27 May 2026 | tagged as CSS
I explain a bit of grid theory, a simplified grid algorithm, and how the noble art of not giving too many instructions is best for creating robust layouts. Rambles slightly.
