Nostr notes by Alvaro Montoro

New comiCSS strip: become ungovernable ...

2026-10-26T03:16:38Z

New comiCSS strip: become ungovernable
https://comicss.art/comics/265/

The comic is coded using CSS and HTML (with web components).

#css #comic #ai

The W3C released a new HTML element out of nowhere. It was the ...

2026-09-29T00:12:36Z

The W3C released a new HTML element out of nowhere.

It was the element of <surprise>.

just this one ;)

2026-09-21T06:59:55Z

In reply to nevent1q…qgh5
_________________________

just this one ;)

The first person I showed it to didn't either. I think this ...

2026-09-21T06:57:37Z

In reply to nevent1q…rp26
_________________________

The first person I showed it to didn't either. I think this is more of a fail on my side. It's supposed to be a kid wearing a JS t-shirt causing some ruckus at a restaurant. Not really that good of an idea as I thought it was when I started coding it.

New comiCSS strip: If CSS was like going to a restaurant (II) ...

2026-09-21T06:33:10Z

New comiCSS strip: If CSS was like going to a restaurant (II)
https://comicss.art/comics/258/

Coded in CSS and HTML. Did I reuse a lot of the code from a previous comic for this? Yes I did 😅. Am I ashamed? Not really 😂

#css #html #webdev #comic #cartoon

New comiCSS cartoon: Nobody will remember... ...

2026-09-18T15:27:25Z

New comiCSS cartoon: Nobody will remember...
https://comicss.art/comics/257/

As always, this CSS cartoon was coded in CSS (this one was pretty easy actually 😅).

#css #meme #webdev

Holy guacamole, Google! This AI search suggestion is... ...

2026-08-08T02:18:45Z

Holy guacamole, Google! This AI search suggestion is... something... 😬

Why is it that every time an AI "goes rogue," it hacks ...

2026-07-31T13:25:29Z

Why is it that every time an AI "goes rogue," it hacks its competitors' servers and steals information, but never takes a few minutes to knock out some random Jira tickets?

Claude, take one for the team, you jerk!

New comiCSS Game: HTML Mini-Crossword ...

2026-05-07T21:34:40Z

New comiCSS Game: HTML Mini-Crossword
http://comicss.art/games/51/

All the words in this crossword are HTML tags, attributes, and values. Can you solve it?

#css #html #crossword #game #webdev

If VAR had existed when Maradona scored the Hand of God, ...

2026-05-04T01:16:38Z

If VAR had existed when Maradona scored the Hand of God, they'd have checked the goal from twelve different angles and still somehow given it.

I've been trying to get my kids excited about Coyote vs Acme ...

2026-04-25T18:20:22Z

In reply to nevent1q…xlac
_________________________

I've been trying to get my kids excited about Coyote vs Acme movie, but it's not working. So I'll likely end up going with other nostalgic millennials 😅

True, living in the US (in Texas, no less!) and working in ...

2026-04-06T19:53:34Z

In reply to nevent1q…7p8r
_________________________

True, living in the US (in Texas, no less!) and working in software development, those feelings are becoming the regular state of affairs at a personal and professional level... which is a bit sad 😓

Seeing a conference organizer ask for non-AI topics because they ...

2026-04-06T19:15:30Z

Seeing a conference organizer ask for non-AI topics because they received far too many proposals for that track (and not so many for the others) is… I'm not sure what the right word is, but it feels like a mix of sadness, satisfaction, disappointment, joy, and uncertainty about the future.

Do you like anagrams and HTML? Then you’ll enjoy this puzzle! ...

2026-04-06T12:05:35Z

Do you like anagrams and HTML? Then you’ll enjoy this puzzle!
https://comicss.art/games/20/

ABCnagrams are anagrams with a twist: there are 26, each missing a different letter of the alphabet. Can you figure out which letter is needed to solve each anagram and reveal the HTML tag?

#html #webdev #game #css

New comiCSS cartoon: -webkit-box-reflect ...

2026-04-06T04:33:16Z

New comiCSS cartoon: -webkit-box-reflect
https://comicss.art/comics/245/

A cartoon version of one of my terrible CSS-Dad Jokes. -webkit-box-reflect is the pun and part of the code in the cartoon (creates the reflection).

#css #webdev #comic

A comiCSS cartoon for Valentine's Day. ...

2026-02-14T18:17:48Z

A comiCSS cartoon for Valentine's Day.

Nice! Congratulations to you and the conference. Lineup++

2026-01-27T16:53:30Z

In reply to nevent1q…q7kh
_________________________

Nice! Congratulations to you and the conference. Lineup++

New comiCSS cartoon: Sheriff https://comicss.art/comics/190/ ...

2025-06-09T06:06:54Z

New comiCSS cartoon: Sheriff
https://comicss.art/comics/190/

Today's comic is about the web and fonts. Can you find all the differences?

#css #webdev #font #comic

yes. I have a raspberry pi with a case that looks like the NES ...

2025-05-18T21:55:17Z

In reply to nevent1q…cpj9
_________________________

yes. I have a raspberry pi with a case that looks like the NES Classic, thought it was the same.

is that a retro pi?

2025-05-18T20:22:29Z

In reply to nevent1q…n4p6
_________________________

is that a retro pi?

I'll leave that to the pros 😅 Last time I drew a butt in ...

2025-05-12T13:21:59Z

In reply to nevent1q…rl4u
_________________________

I'll leave that to the pros 😅

Last time I drew a butt in CSS (for Divtober), people complained... although my kids found it hilarious. https://cssdrawings.com/#toot

found them https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkGZmmrLFAU

2025-05-12T13:06:05Z

In reply to nevent1q…yph5
_________________________

found them https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkGZmmrLFAU

Video unavailable: The uploader has not made this video available ...

2025-05-12T13:03:36Z

In reply to nevent1q…0rz9
_________________________

Video unavailable: The uploader has not made this video available in your country :(

It is 2000. I'm 18 years old. They say my job won't ...

2025-05-12T12:56:46Z

It is 2000. I'm 18 years old. They say my job won't survive quantum computing (IBM is really close).

It is 2005. I'm 23 years old. They say my job won't survive visual IDEs.

It is 2010. I'm 28 years old. They say my job won't survive smartphones.

It is 2015. I'm 33 years old. They say my job won't survive web3.

It is 2020. I'm 38 years old. They say my job won't survive AI.

It is 2025. I'm 43 years old. They say my job won't survive quantum computing.

When I asked about why I had been told it was a screening and ...

2025-05-06T16:29:21Z

In reply to nevent1q…rlfh
_________________________

When I asked about why I had been told it was a screening and covered by my insurance. They told me they didn't know or doubted it, and that I should know how my insurance and its coverage works. I requested the logs of the call where I was told it was covered and was denied them, but was told that they'd be reviewed if I appealed/requested a review of the charge. But that I should be aware that if I did, the most they'd readjust the bill was 50%, so I would still have to pay at least $1,850.

Tha saga continues ...

2025-05-06T16:23:58Z

Tha saga continues https://front-end.social/@alvaromontoro/114308010244957500

I received a $3,700 medical bill for the screening that was fully covered.

I called my insurance and they told me the screening is covered for people 45yo and older, but I'm only 43... So they washed their hands and referred me to the doctor's office.

The doctor's office says that because it was something requested by the doctor during a visit, and not a regular check-up thing, it's considered diagnostic and I need to pay for it.

That wasn't that bad, and I kind of like the result. Maybe I ...

2025-05-04T14:36:56Z

In reply to nevent1q…dffu
_________________________

That wasn't that bad, and I kind of like the result. Maybe I should get rid of the lightsaber to make it less evil (CSS is inherently evil anyway, but deep down is good).

They are CSS Art part of comiCSS, and the source code is on ...

2025-05-04T13:34:40Z

In reply to nevent1q…n06j
_________________________

They are CSS Art part of comiCSS, and the source code is on https://comicss.art/comics/137/may-the-fourth.html

Maybe I should do something similar with Tailwind... But then TW would be the good one and CSS the bad (turned good)... Heck... I'll do it anyway...

Title of article: do not boycott Amazon. Body of article: do not ...

2025-04-18T00:19:56Z

Title of article: do not boycott Amazon.

Body of article: do not boycott Amazon! Instead, stop buying there, just as I did a long time ago instead of boycotting Amazon.

...dude, I have some news, and a dictionary definition, for you...

---

This person got 1,000 times more engagement in a BS article than I do in any of my "serious" articles.

Enshittification sucks. A lot. But it works because, deep down, people enjoy it. They know it's terrible content, still they go for it.

New comiCSS cartoon: Type of GitHub users ...

2025-04-14T08:03:42Z

New comiCSS cartoon: Type of GitHub users
https://comicss.art/comics/180/

#github #cartoon #css

Preparing the comiCSS cartoon for next week. It answers the ...

2025-04-10T19:14:52Z

Preparing the comiCSS cartoon for next week. It answers the question "what if Piet Mondrian had been a software developer?"

Doctor: The procedure is a screening so it's 100% covered by ...

2025-04-09T12:30:16Z

Doctor: The procedure is a screening so it's 100% covered by your insurance...

Me: Good.

Doctor: ...unless we find something, then it changes into surgery and we can't tell you how much it'd cost until after the fact. It could go from $$$ to $$$$$

Me: Wouldn't it be covered too?

Doctor: LOL. No.

And so it begins the next episode of "Everyone hates the US 'healthcare'." In which we go see a doctor, are put to sleep, and find out if we are $$$$ into medical debt when we wake up! Isn't it fun?

I have my @npub1sf7…gl68 profile above my personal site or ...

2025-02-15T16:43:58Z

In reply to nevent1q…gf2n
_________________________

I have my CodePen (npub1sf7…gl68) profile above my personal site or GitHub. Priorities 😅

I only list the last 10 years of experience (I have 20+). The ...

2025-02-15T16:42:09Z

In reply to nevent1q…hcxk
_________________________

I only list the last 10 years of experience (I have 20+). The font is Calibri at 12 (and 11 sometimes for the side column), I wouldn't consider it too small... but maybe?

I want to change the font because it looks a bit thin on print... but do people still print resumes?

Nostr event nevent1qqsxylqvm65apyyfvs45qcvfwrunhspywdgjsznswfuh7qlgqr2qlwszyrdve0dzdhxr7zze7wxgxm235wgw5ng5st98449nnx0yz7a04ej85tsaftn

2025-02-15T12:49:08Z

Am I the only one around here with a 1-page resume?

It's a silly joke but I find it incredibly funny... And what ...

2024-12-01T18:47:09Z

It's a silly joke but I find it incredibly funny... And what more can you ask for a joke to be that Mario, Zelda, and HTML altogether? I wish I had thought of it for comiCSS.

#cartoon #joke #html #webDevelopment

Did you know that you can connect a game controller to the ...

2024-11-20T14:19:07Z

Did you know that you can connect a game controller to the browser —not the computer, but the browser!— and use it to code games and different ways to interact with a website?

Read more about it in this tutorial for the Gamepad API: https://alvaromontoro.com/blog/68044/playing-with-the-gamepad-api

#webdev #javascript

in Spain too? The only case I can imagine that emoji not being ok ...

2024-11-18T13:39:44Z

In reply to nevent1q…vprv
_________________________

in Spain too? The only case I can imagine that emoji not being ok in Spain is being upside down and as part of the silly game that is in the USA too, but things change and i've been in and out for 15 years. I remember reading articles in Spain about how the harmless/meaningless emoji was taken by the neonazis as a sign.

Happy birthday! Have a great day. As for the question about the ...

2024-11-16T15:00:13Z

In reply to nevent1q…kp4q
_________________________

Happy birthday! Have a great day.

As for the question about the age guessing...

Concave rectangle? Or maybe just curve?

2024-10-13T21:18:13Z

In reply to nevent1q…lxve
_________________________

Concave rectangle? Or maybe just curve?

💯 Cars 2 doesn't exist. The movie series went from Cars to ...

2024-10-06T15:26:33Z

In reply to nevent1q…0s7u
_________________________

💯

Cars 2 doesn't exist. The movie series went from Cars to Cars 3 directly.

When I was a manager, I used those movies to motivate a (Disney-movie loving) dev wanting to become a senior dev. "You are Lightning McQueen in Cars, you need to be Lightning McQueen in Cars 3!"

this and the "save and close" button in the settings get ...

2024-10-05T21:58:48Z

In reply to nevent1q…3d70
_________________________

this and the "save and close" button in the settings get me all the time. I don't want to save yet, I just want to get the "run" button available.

Why did the last <div> blush? . . . Because it was next to ...

2024-09-30T12:08:04Z

Why did the last <div> blush?

.
.
.

Because it was next to its parent's bottom.

#css #joke #humor #dadjoke #webdev

most of the time is heavy criticism and I hide under a rock. But ...

2024-09-20T16:10:37Z

In reply to nevent1q…qlxy
_________________________

most of the time is heavy criticism and I hide under a rock. But it's never something I developed myself, so I have that going for me, which is nice. 🤷😅

MFW every time someone mentions LinkedIn on their posts... ...

2024-09-20T16:08:45Z

In reply to nevent1q…tpkf
_________________________

MFW every time someone mentions LinkedIn on their posts...

There are more new features and extensions to existing ones (new ...

2024-09-18T15:21:29Z

In reply to nevent1q…mnz9
_________________________

There are more new features and extensions to existing ones (new *-progress() and *-mix() family of functions, new URL modifiers).

You can check out the CSS Values and Units Module Level 5 at https://w3.org/TR/css-values-5/

(Thanks for editing and publishing the document so tab today (npub1dqn…shg2), fantasai (npub1lq4…emz2), and Mia [data-css=poetic] (npub1szd…5a79))

# Flow-relative positions CSS has logical properties for things ...

2024-09-18T15:17:52Z

In reply to nevent1q…j8mt
_________________________

# Flow-relative positions

CSS has logical properties for things like margin, padding, or border. Now, they will also be available in the position type (e.g. the value for background-position, not to be confused with the position property).

# New calc-size() function

A new function able to safely operate with intrinsic values (auto, max-content, fit-content, etc.) And new keywords (size) to add more flexibility to the calculations.

# New functional notation As you may have noticed, some of the ...

2024-09-18T15:16:54Z

In reply to nevent1q…pdz3
_________________________

# New functional notation

As you may have noticed, some of the functions from this thread may take a comma-separated list as arguments. To accommodate these values unambiguously, parameters may be separated by semi-colons (;) instead of commas (,).

# New first-valid() function

A problem with CSS variables is they may be valid even if they contain an incorrect value. The first-valid() function deals with this easily and effectively, returning the first valid value from a list of parameters.

# Updates to the attr() function Right now, the attr() function ...

2024-09-18T15:15:57Z

In reply to nevent1q…5lqp
_________________________

# Updates to the attr() function

Right now, the attr() function works only with strings and only with the content property. This module extends its functionality so it can operate with more data types without limiting the properties.

# Sibling functions

Two new functions, sibling-count() and sibling-index(), that return numbers and allow operations with the amount of siblings and their order (index). As it is common in CSS, these functions will be 1-index.

# Randomization Two new functions that return random values from ...

2024-09-18T15:14:59Z

In reply to nevent1q…dngr
_________________________

# Randomization

Two new functions that return random values from a list or between a range. No more hacky tricks or dependencies on other languages to achieve this. And the syntax is straightforward and powerful!

# New toggle() function

A convenient new way to define values in nested elements. The toggle() function sets values that the element and its descendants will cycle through, simplifying the code considerably. Forget about complex rules or redefinitions.

The CSS Working Group has just published the first public draft ...

2024-09-18T15:14:00Z

The CSS Working Group has just published the first public draft of the CSS Values and Units Level 5 Module. Although still in its early stages, this release introduces many new features and exciting improvements.

Here's a summary of some of the changes.

The JS Developer face when they find out CSS has (or will have) ...

2024-09-18T13:50:33Z

The JS Developer face when they find out CSS has (or will have) more random functions than JavaScript... and they are more flexible and powerful, too!

When the Back-End Engineer tries to add some white space below a ...

2024-08-02T14:06:56Z

When the Back-End Engineer tries to add some white space below a component.

For May the Fourth, here there are two versions of the same ...

2024-05-04T17:42:17Z

For May the Fourth, here there are two versions of the same comiCSS cartoon #MayTheFourthBeWithYou
https://comicss.art