Replacing your annoying union joining workers with a compliant AI worker owned by someone else – but since that someone else is a company it’s just common business sense that they try to extract the maximum amount of money? Only when humans do is it against common business sense? (In US tech)

I’m pleased to announce PromptVer, a new versioning scheme designed for the age of large language models. nesbitt.io/2025/12/01/p...

Crazy stuff, and we clearly didn’t learn anything from when torrent sites etc were being blocke

Web standards are stable. Frameworks, especially frameworks centered in transpiled code, absolutely are not. Maintenance cost is much higher for worse performance and accessibility. Just facts.

Pretty cool project: www.crowdsupply.com/open-tools/o...

The dream: To one day have a Fairphone, Mudita Kompakt or similar with an OS like capyloon.org No more native black boxes sold through walled gardens. Instead an open future enabled by web technology. Trump would be furious. But maybe the rest of us can prioritize our happiness over his?

Freedom, sustainability, democracy, accessibility, tolerance – in the wrong context in can all have been redefined to mean the exact opposite of what it should be – the dangerous of fluffy terms with a positive connotation We need to continually define them or else risk a takeover

this argument is dangerous nonsense. There is no legal basis for the US' strikes on "drug boats", not under the ius ad bellum, not under US law, not under the law of armed conflict, not under human rights law. It's state-orchestrated murder, plain and simple. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Oversimplification is so pervasive in today’s world and really exemplifies well that the road to hell is indeed lined with good intentions

The Servo project is starting to publish releases, version 0.0.1 is out today! 🚀 You can learn more about the goals and plans behind these releases in our blog: servo.org/blog/2025/10...

The Gaza ceasefire and peace should really be guarded and enforced by a UN peace force, but considering how Israel (and Hizbollah) has treated the Lebanese UN peace force UNIFIL it wouldn’t make much direct impact, but it would be a good signal and put more on the line.

Nice with some positive political news amidst authoritarians and populists dominating the news

It’s funny when people from USA makes claim like “our great Nation serves as a beacon for freedom around the world” USA is rather making a mockery of democracy, human rights etc and making it real hard for Europe etc to push for all those things as we have to collectively take the blame for the US.

“Hope” in Swedish is “hopp” and “hopp” can also mean “jump” So, take it from a Swede: Jump when you need hope.

Additional JS pro tip: Use the helpers from my module pony-cause (inspired by the Error Cause precursor VError) to work more efficiently with causes: github.com/voxpelli/pon...

Tried using the GitHub Copilot Agent to fix some simple issues – it requires more baby sitting so far than any human developer I have ever interacted with, and it even mentions things like: "I see the problem! [...] I need to actually apply the changes I described in my previous response."

@clever-cloud.com Any plans to offer official @deno.land hosting on your PaaS?

Worried about npm exploits? Deno can run your Node apps with added protection: 🔒 opt-in permissions 🔒 user-authorized postinstall scripts 🔒 permission audit + trace logs and much more 👇 deno.com/blog/deno-pr...

This is excellent! And I see @ap.brid.gy is bridging Bluesky quotes into Mastodon already 🥳

Iconfactory Tapestry 1.3 arrives on iOS 26 with stunning support for Liquid Glass, timeline treats like displaying Mastodon quoted posts and nicer polls, the ability to adjust font size within Tapestry and a native macOS app. Your personal timeline app just got a whole lot better. #TapestryApp

@tangled.org FYI, I mentioned you here in @openssf.org regarding documenting the process and considerations for onboarding new CI platforms to the "Trusted Publishing" model of package registries like @pypi.org, npm etc: github.com/ossf/wg-secu... Relevant if you want to support it in your CI

If you're into new browser engines free from corporate control – maybe skip the latest 'benevolent dictator', and check out @servo.org They have nightly snapshots you can install, and they're rolling out new features regularly: servo.org

Pssst. It's also not mandatory to use a framework if your site doesn't need one.

In defense of “needless” npm modules: Sometimes the pure act of discoverability / documentation as code is the main reason for a module. Eg: Most of the functionality in github.com/voxpelli/typ... could be copied into projects just as well. But having it collected makes the solutions discoverable

What's up with major companies / startups having blogs that has neither RSS-feeds nor newsletters? With eg. Feedbin and Readwise Reader I can subscribe to a newsletter as if it was an RSS-feed, but when they have neither? Do they expect me to keep up to date through LinkedIn / Twitter (🤢)?

I’m really impressed by what I see from @buttondown.com – it feels like one of those web projects that are doing everything the way it should be – I kind of want to start a newsletter simply to be able to make use of it

iPhone 4S: 140g, 9.3mm thick iPhone 5: 112g, 7.6mm thick iPhone 12 Mini: 133g, 7.4mm thick iPhone 13 Mini: 141g, 7.65mm thick iPhone Air: 165g, 5.64mm thick iPhone 16: 170g, 7.8mm thick iPhone 16 Pro: 199g, 8.35mm thick iPhone 17 Pro: 206g, 8.75mm thick

I’m torn on new iPhones. Investing that much money again for a closed ecosystem that adapts to the MAGA wishes and whose profits supports a country run by a bully. It feels wrong.

Message from NPM: "All impacted package versions have been taken down. I'll be in touch when we have more information regarding account recovery." I've requested further information about which packages were published, their versions, and all account actions NPM took.

I run this on Renovate for many of my projects. Good stuff and helps your lockfiles stay clear of sudden attacks like today’s one

I wonder if there’s a way in a post-GitHub world to let the pendulum swing back somewhat. Keep all the good stuff from social coding but return some collective ownership and wikification aspects.

Having an iPhone 12 Mini sure leaves no hands cold - at least not these days. Scorching hot with active use and with a battery bar that one can almost see depleting in real-time. This despite the fact that I replaced the battery less than a year ago (already down to 89% health on it)

In a cryptographically verified communication system you mistrust anyone that has changed their encryption key until you have verified it out of bounds. In a multi-maintainer scenario like now, npm should require confirmation from at least one other maintainer if an account changes eg 2FA

Finally getting somewhat good after being out with a cold this week. So: Sunday evening now and I delved into VSCode tasks.json and set up up for multi-git-status / mgitstatus in a workspace of mine: gist.github.com/voxpelli/f6c...

You may note that the original link above now says something different. You can still find the full letter here: writings.thisismissem.social/statement-on...

@chriscoyier.net @codepen.io Is there any plans for an authenticated read or read/write APU for Codepen? Was briefly toying with the idea of a MCP server for Codepen, but without an API that’s hard

It’s nice that there’s a Gecko based browser out there with some good momentum

What matters, far more than where you publish, is whether your content can be moved easily after receiving a 28-day notice. That’s the difference between being stuck and having optionality. https://buttondown.com/blog/portability-is-optionality

New @httparchive.org analysis about sites adding AI Bots and Crawlers to their robots.txt files. While robots.txt doesn't "block" bots by itself, it's a clear demonstration of the preferences of site owners and the sentiment towards AI crawlers on today's web. paulcalvano.com/2025-08-21-a...

The future of web development is not about machines building in our place, nor dashboards steering in our stead. It is about humans leading, tools assisting, and data guiding. Crafting with intent and agency.

New on the blog: “CSS-only scrollspy effect using scroll-marker-group and :target-current” www.sarasoueidan.com/blog/css-scr... — A short post about the new #CSS scroll-target-group property, how to use it with :target-current, and important #accessibility considerations to keep in mind. #a11y

I've been working out how to communicate these principles for a while and it's about time we put it out there.

Anyone tried this with WP yet? Any experiences?

Reminder to opt in to Fediverse bridging for your Bluesky account!

The strength of open source is that its be peer-to-peer developed, not a producer to consumer relationship. Yet most sustainability efforts focus on unlocking funding to pay for production of open source, not unlocking a wider contribution base of equal peers.

It’s always “AI is great for generating boilerplate code” and never “why do we even need boilerplate code, maybe programming is broken”

Sill can generate RSS feeds for you! One of two ways: 1. A digest of your network's top ten links, daily. 2. A notification feed based on parameters you set. Like Google alerts, but for social media. A really common one among Sill users is "links that 5 or more people share".

Watching this video made me think of the two conflicting movements right now: - USA trying to make as much as possible “Made in America” - The rest of the world responding to the tariff chaos and MAGA rhetorics by trying to avoid anything “Made in America”

It's always a kick to be reminded that much of Firefox's UI is built with @lit.dev.