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Courtney Robertson

Courtney RobertsonNov 7, 2026

Who pays when WordPress /random/ becomes the default?

You can want a random post button and question its default. Follow the WordPress record, the community replies and the work a merge gives other people.

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Courtney Robertson

Courtney RobertsonNov 6, 2026

How do open source licenses work, and what do they leave out?

An open source license is permission from the people who hold the copyright. Here is what that permission covers, how permissive and copyleft licenses differ, who can change a license, and what no license decides.

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Courtney Robertson

Courtney RobertsonNov 5, 2026

From GNU to GitHub: what does the history of open source say about who decides?

Seven dated records, from a 1983 Usenet post to the GitHub mirror WordPress keeps today. For each one: what happened, who made the call, and where you can still read it.

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Courtney Robertson

Courtney RobertsonNov 4, 2026

Free as in freedom or free as in beer: which free does open source promise?

Free has two meanings in English, and software licenses care about only one of them. Here is what free as in freedom promises, what it leaves to the price tag, and where WordPress lands.

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Courtney Robertson

Courtney RobertsonNov 4, 2026

What are the four freedoms of open source, and where does WordPress use them?

In 2006 I opened a theme folder and could read how the thing worked. That was one of the four freedoms of open source. Here are all four, where WordPress uses each one, and what the license leaves undecided.

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Courtney Robertson

Courtney RobertsonNov 2, 2026

Merge Conflicts: what happens when open source governance procedures aren’t written down?

In 2024 I asked who decides, into a microphone. In 2015 I was walked out of a room. Merge Conflicts is my long answer: twelve projects, dated documents, labeled evidence, and my disclosures up front.

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blog.srsatt.dev :: Frontend FeedOct 27, 2026

Agent Interfaces, Native TypeScript, and Musical Nodes

Agents get smaller interface builders and inspectable tool plans, TypeScript and Bun open new compiler possibilities, and visual experiments turn music and tree growth into something you can explore.

blog.srsatt.dev :: Frontend FeedOct 20, 2026

Browser Workflows, Compiler Experiments, and Practical Tools

Declarative demos, visual data tools, compiler experiments, and smarter browser controls stood out, alongside useful ideas for security, rendering, and image-format trade-offs.

Courtney Robertson

Courtney RobertsonOct 20, 2026

WordPress accessibility remediation: Claude and Checker Pro

WordPress accessibility remediation went faster on my 2008 site once Claude grouped 557 open findings into 16 root causes and fixed each one at its source. It went wrong whenever Claude assumed instead of measuring. On the morning of my talk, the live site showed 779 open findings again. Here's the method, the mistakes, and...

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blog.srsatt.dev :: Frontend FeedOct 7, 2026

Color Cues, Local Tools, and Faster Decisions

Custom CSS makes account switching clearer, browser tools keep video edits local, Rust creative apps embrace automation, and new decision and reasoning models explore very different ways to get useful work done.

Henry From Online

Henry From OnlineOct 5, 2026

blog.srsatt.dev :: Frontend FeedSep 29, 2026

One Config, Parallel Agents, and Cursed Fonts

This week has tools for coordinating agents, streaming useful results sooner, and handling concurrent edits, plus practical accessibility lessons, critical CSS, a distinctive UI kit, and some questionable font science.

blog.srsatt.dev :: Frontend FeedSep 22, 2026

Fast Decisions, Faster Builds, and CSS Fossils

This week speeds up the developer loop from Rust tooling and preview servers to CI and browser agents, while Jev asks whether many agent decisions need text generation at all. There is also a formal Skia optimizer, a sharp WCAG 3 critique, and some glorious old CSS nonsense.

blog.srsatt.dev :: Frontend FeedSep 15, 2026

JPEG XL Doubts, Half-Past Fetch, and Tiny GPU Lexers

This week questions JPEG XL's fit for the Web, looks past `await fetch()` into the still-streaming response, and finds a tiny model highlighting code on the GPU. Plus new HTML experiments, local accessibility checks, Interop 2027 proposals, native secret storage, and local-LLM break-even maths.

Courtney Robertson

Courtney RobertsonSep 14, 2026

Day one at Pantheon: good docs, good company

Today is my first day as a Technical Writer at Pantheon. On August 17, I published a list of the roles I wanted next. Technical writing and documentation were right there. I wanted work that helps people understand software, solve problems, and get back to building. Four weeks later, here we are. Apparently, sometimes the...

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blog.srsatt.dev :: Frontend FeedSep 8, 2026

Inbox-Free Verification, Browser Editors, and Direct DOM

This week explores inbox-free email verification and native spell-check dictionaries, compares browser editor and main-thread tradeoffs, and collects direct-DOM runtimes, a broader Remix, Rust-powered pnpm, and cheaper agent routing.

blog.srsatt.dev :: Frontend FeedSep 1, 2026

Soundprints, Syntax Highlighting, and 56k RuneScape

This week follows browser fingerprinting and Manifest V2's final Web Store exit, rethinks syntax highlighting and flex layout with newer CSS APIs, studies ruthless RuneScape networking, and collects small tools for configs, LLM routing, specifications, and tests.

blog.srsatt.dev :: Frontend FeedAug 25, 2026

CSS Bombs, Private Keys, and Persistent Agents

This week pairs defensive tools for private keys and credentials with hostile CSS, alternative UI and Rust runtimes, and a cluster of experiments aimed at smaller, cheaper, or continuously thinking agents.

blog.srsatt.dev :: Frontend FeedAug 18, 2026

Less JavaScript, Native React, and Terminal Everything

This week trims JavaScript with Baseline, takes React into GTK and the DOM into terminals, adds practical accessibility resources, connects compression to prediction, and includes four of my experiments around WASM SSR, generated MCP applications, YouTrack, and durable agent reports.

WRZKY

WRZKYAug 11, 2026

Is Islam Compatible with Western Civilisation?

When someone declares that Islam is "incompatible with Western civilisation," why is the West automatically treated as the moral standard? Before you judge whether Islam fits your "Western" world, you must first prove that your world is morally defensible.

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blog.srsatt.dev :: Frontend FeedAug 11, 2026

Canvas Apps, CSS Routes, and Small-Device AI

This week mixes route-aware CSS, Canvas-first interfaces, tiny web tools, practical Node.js resources, and a cluster of AI projects focused on familiar APIs, cheaper MCP context, and useful inference on smaller devices.

blog.srsatt.dev :: Frontend FeedAug 4, 2026

200 Milliseconds, Correct Merges, and Franken-Domains

An HTTP request becomes a 200-millisecond interactive journey, while Ink & Switch shows why CRDT convergence does not guarantee valid data and Playwright turns long-lived SPA memory leaks into nightly tests. The tooling side spans proof-oriented F*, OCaml UIs, React over X11, compile-time CSS, progressive Web Components, a no-VDOM React successor, and a visualization language designed for agents. MobX and TanStack both get major cleanups, privacy law gets a practical home at noyb, and the strange-web section brings stitched-together domains, stolen buttons, collectible real cats, and local image dithering.

blog.srsatt.dev :: Frontend FeedJul 29, 2026

ScriptC, AI Guardrails, and Looking Beyond React

ScriptC makes a compelling case for compiling the static part of TypeScript into fast, small native programs with an explicit escape hatch for dynamic code. js13kGames starts in two weeks, while A11Y.md and Boffin explore persistent, targeted constraints for better AI-generated code. On the security side, fake interview projects are now hiding malware across SVG files; and Stack Match plus Framework Benchmarks provide some useful evidence for looking beyond React before choosing a frontend stack.

A2AdamJul 25, 2026

Ownership vs Access - Enjoying Media by Finding and Preserving It Ourselves