Reading list

• If you haven't heard, just want you to know that the entire internet almost imploded last week. Luckily, one guy was monitoring his CPU usage and noticed odd variations, and ventured on to found out why. That led to the discovery of a massive cyber attack in progress. NYT has the full story.
• While on the subject, 404 writes about how bullying in open source software is a massive security vulnerability. But as long as we have the CPU-guy, we should be good.
• The dust is settling on the Vice wreckage, and this elaborate story explains how it all became "a f**** clown show".

Design of the week

• Common Dimensions has a lot of nice details, and expertly balances fanciness with usability. Such as the two columns in interviews, where the imagery scrolls slower. And old trick, but applied well. Same for the behaviour highlighted words etc. Take a look for yourself!
• Oh Suno AI. Don't know if AI generated songs is a valuable distraction, but we're in the Design section now, and at least the accessibility and usability is really good going from the predefined digital LP of sorts over to the Make a Song section.

Tech of the week

• Self explanatory as ever, this article is "An Interactive Guide to CSS Container Queries". Nothing to add, just click on through.
• On that note, why won't you just go ahead and click through this one too: "Dialogs and popovers seem similar. How are they different?", courtesy of Hidden, a developer in Holland.
• Picalilly explains how they're working with theming with modern CSS.
• Typesense, the open source typo-tolerant search engine, has been a team favourite here 4 ever and has just jumped from version 0.25 to 26.0:)
• Lastly, shoutout to @Una, and her excellent simple progressively enhanced image scroll.