Scott Jehl

Web Designer/Developer. Accessibility & Performance Fan. Author, Speaker, Mediocre skateboarder. Engineer on the Squarespace Web Perf Team. Alum: WebPageTest, Filament Group, jQuery

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2024-08-15 13:09:29

🎉 Announcement! 🎉 My online course, Web Components Demystified has been released! Learn to build dynamic, fast, accessible, and resilient web apps with standard web components today. 8+ hours of training. Team discounts available! https://scottjehl.com/learn/webcomponentsdemystified/
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2024-08-10 17:53:17

Today is my birthday and I am spending the first part of it in a studio recording the last module of my soon-to-be-released course, Web Components Demystified! Fair, I make interesting life choices, I get it. But I think it's going to be good! Maybe do me a favor and help spread the word about it to someone looking to learn web components this year if you can? Pre-order button's live. Aiming to release this week! Cheers. https://scottjehl.com/learn/webcomponentsdemystified/
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2024-08-06 13:05:51

HTML Web Components Can Have a Little Shadow DOM, As A Treat
https://scottjehl.com/posts/html-web-components-shadow-dom/?1

2024-06-20 15:11:39

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Like, yes, they make stuff up sometimes. They also can for example, in 10 literal seconds, list 20+ family-friendly activities happening in NYC on a given saturday–a task that would have taken an hour sifting through bookmarks and searches. (Swap in a thousand other use cases.) Just seems like the output is the smallest problem among a lot of very big ones that make me not want to use LLMs, yet it gets so much attention?

2024-06-20 14:58:34

There's a lot about AI/ML that feels deeply problematic/worrying/dire to me but the frequent dismissive takes I see about the value and usefulness of these tools' output just doesn't match what I typically observe when I use them. I'm not sure what to make of that mismatch.

2024-06-07 21:04:27

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I wanted to add: finding the right role in tech right now is atypically hard. It took me a while to find the right fit (I originally started talking with this particular team last fall!). If you've been looking, hang in there! And anecdotally, I think things have started to pick up again too. 👊

2024-06-07 20:47:29

Just signed an offer! Super excited for this next phase in my career. Can't wait to share more soon. Let's get this weekend started 🥳

2024-05-29 20:44:57

New on my blog:
A Responsive Video Wishlist.
In this post I return to my bs with some responsive video features on my wishlist, and 4 WhatWG issues for their specific discussion: https://scottjehl.com/posts/rwd-video/

2024-05-20 16:09:00

There's a shift underway in front-end development. The largest companies in the world are now building on Web Components, and they are hiring! I want this course to help designers and devs prepare for this next phase of the web. Help spread the word! 📣
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/scott-jehl/web-components-demystified
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2024-05-18 20:21:49

So damn impressive to see some of the more complex things that are being built on top of web components right now. Being able to inspect the DOM in Photoshop's web UI and see how it's all composed of web components with their svg icons and aria attributes all working in sync... it's just amazing!

2024-05-17 19:25:09

In watching talks this week about all that has recently landed or is on the way right now, I don't recall a time when useful features were standardizing and landing in browsers at anything near the speed we're seeing now. So many JS workarounds are being replaced with simple, often elegant declarative alternatives. Great to see

2024-05-17 19:25:09

2024-05-13 14:01:42

xhtml is for closers

2024-05-09 13:56:24

🥳 ANNOUNCEMENT! 🥳
I just launched a campaign to crowdfund my next online course:
**Web Components Demystified**. Coming this Summer! Build fast, dynamic, resilient apps for the next phase of the web!
The campaign has 29 days left. Please help make this project happen and help me spread the word! Thank you so much.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/scott-jehl/web-components-demystified

2024-04-20 00:17:17

Friday at 8PM is a great time to soft-launch a thing right? 🥳
This is something I aim to make! I'm excited. It'll mainly be about Web Components, but in the context of building resilient, fast, accessible websites. A holistic take!
I'm planning a different approach for it, using a presale (soon) to gauge interest and shape the scope of what I end up making. I'll appreciate some help making noise about it soon, but for now it's a coming soon page and email collector :)
https://scottjehl.com/learn/webcomponentsdemystified/

2024-04-05 03:15:36

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As an aside, I'd love to see frontend engineer interviewers ask folks how they'd do things like this. "How would you build [popular app] if you could only use HTML and CSS? Which features would require you to use JS to pull off even in a basic way? Can you envision a fictional future standard that would make this easier?"
It would reveal a lot about a candidate's knowledge of web standards, and ideally select for folks who can help us all move away from JS over-reliance!

2024-04-05 02:53:53

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...really wanted to find a way to get that second demo's behavior without JS but I didn't get there. I even tried making the qwerty keyboard out of loads on radio inputs at one point.
...don't try that.

2024-04-05 02:48:23

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There's another linked fork in there that adds a few lines of JS to validate the exact letter matches so that the pattern attribute can drive the tan colors. It made me wish HTML and CSS validation had a little finer grain, ...or that the pattern attribute accepted and exposed capturing parentheses to selectors? :)

2024-04-05 02:40:42

I was tinkering a bit today and it turns out you can pull off a decent amount of Wordle's gameplay with just HTML and CSS. Fun little form validation and CSS selector refresher experiment, anyway.
https://codepen.io/scottjehl/details/LYvQxqa