The Select Element Finally Gets a Personality Style the native select with `appearance: base-select`, then see what it saves against a hand-built vanilla JS listbox: bytes, behaviour and a couple of accessibility bugs I made on the way.

Leave it better than you found it

CSS, JavaScript, and the web platform - written honestly, published impatiently, and updated whenever guilt kicks in.

House of Wolves by My Chemical Romance
  1. 01
    The Select Element Finally Gets a Personality
    css
  2. 02
    Baseline Isn't a Green Light
    css
  3. 03
    CSS Columns Are the Layout Method Everyone Forgets
    css
  4. 04
    You Don't Need JavaScript to Highlight Hash Targets
    css
  5. 05
    Google Has Opinions About What Your Posts Say
    seo, ai
  6. 06
    Imposter Syndrome and the “Actual, Real, Developer”
    imposter syndrome, opinions
  7. 07
    Feed the Writers
    personal
  8. 08
    Reclaiming the Flow: Mastering Visual vs. DOM Order with @reading-order
    css, accessibility
  9. 09
    Page Turners - March 2026
    page turners
  10. 10
    The Aesthetics of Code
    essays, opinions