@DavidDarnes sweet!

@DavidDarnes you need their hub thing too, to bridge to matter?

@SaraSoueidan bless you Sara.

I know you know, saying this out loud so you know I know…
Blog post updates are not on you! Your writing was true to your (extensive!) knowledge and understanding when you hit publish. The onus is on the rest of us to catch up in the meantime 😅

Seriously, great to hear you are busy with work that pays 🙏

@sundress

Researchers, using the JWST, have confirmed that a black hole, first detected in 2023 by the same team, is indeed a supersonic Runaway Supermassive Black Hole, ejected by and racing away from its host galaxy at 3.43 million km/h 😮

RBH-1 contains ~20 million solar masses and has left behind a 200,000-light-year-long "contrail" of newborn stars, twice the diameter of our Milky Way galaxy, as it plows ahead into the circumgalactic medium (CGM).

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.04166
https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/hubble-sees-possible-runaway-black-hole-creating-a-trail-of-stars/
1/n

Color.js v0.6.0 has just been released. A bunch of improvements and bugfixes:

https://github.com/color-js/color.js/releases/tag/v0.6.0

@catdad @cstross single parenting is a challenge at the best of times

Time for a touch of #appreciation. Opening mastodon on xmas day has been thoroughly wholesome. Thank-you. You folks are a lovely lot 🤗

@letterror @birds Flow is on my to-watch list, but haven’t quite got there yet.
I have watched one of these birds on telly. It was using those long legs to end a snake!

Secretarybird

A distinctive, tall, long-legged, crane-like raptor with unique quill-like plumes on its head and bright-red facial skin. In flight, the dark edge to the hind wing, diamond-shaped tail, and long spatulate tail feathers make it unmistakable. It prefers open rangeland and savanna, where it strides about hunting for reptiles, small mammals, and insects, which it bludgeons with its powerful legs.

Link: https://ebird.org/species/secret2
Photo Location: Kenya

accessible?

@SaraSoueidan made an in-depth analysis of the accessibility claim for CSS carousels and found holes: https://www.sarasoueidan.com/blog/css-carousels-accessibility/

Too many words? Take note of that feeling, and let @sundress explain why all these words are necessary: https://alice.boxhall.au/articles/a-threat-model-for-accessibility-on-the-web/

If CSS carousels have been since fixed I’d be delighted to hear about it!

@mdione the images failed to load. The alt text is overlaid.

@AmeliaBR @tigt @eeeps I understand the need to have the control self contained, for portability. But a thought I don’t expect I’m first to think:
```
<img src="animated-meme.gif" id="meme" alt="My surprised face when I paused this gif with a button.">
<button command="play-pause" commandfor="meme">Play/Pause</button>
```

One of the world’s earliest surviving chess sets ♟️

This nearly complete set dates to the 12th century and is believed to come from Nishapur, Iran. Made of molded and glazed stonepaste, the pieces take beautifully abstract forms. This set is now preserved at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

@archaeology

#archaeology #archeology #archaeologynews #AncientIran #medieval #chess

In this interactive web demo, @gdc shows an alternate method for text justification, called “cogent” or “semi-justified” alignment, where each line is justified if possible within a range of spacing limits, but left-aligned otherwise:
https://blog.glyphdrawing.club/semi-justified-text/

Fraser Muggeridge gave a great related talk at @ANRT this year, focused on an example from Herbert Bayer:
https://vimeo.com/1059643515
(Unfortunately the video is cut off at the end.)

Does anyone know other examples of this technique in use?

Temperature's just dropped to 40.8°C, so that's nice if you like that sort of thing.

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Setting grid-auto-rows to min-content fixed it 🙌

Nope, this is not what our going on. Something is screwy with the height calculation of subgrid row 2

Anyone using #CSS subgrid encountered this problem?

Appears subgrid lanes (plus subgrid row-gap) must be at least as tall as parent grid row-gap to avoid excess height?