As of today I'm beginning to work on the design for my personal site! I'm still working through Mindful Design but I think I've got a solid enough foundation

Lynda Barry did not squeeze your heart and simultaneously explain the point of all art with the barest of line drawings so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

bsky hail mary because any second not spent on linkedin is a second to be cherished: i’m booking work in for july/august and would very much like to work with nice people on nice things. if you have any reccs then pls let me know thanks love ya x

aformentioned stickers aquired :3

this is poetry to me

What the fuck is it good for? Im asking sincerely. Medical people say its shit for diagnosing, its utter garbage for creative fields, it cannot teach and hallucinates false answers, programmers have to fix its code half the time, businesses find it doesn't help productivity and it causes psychosis.

TIL recap: Did you know that incorrectly applied ARIA roles can nuke semantics entirely? The standard rule applies: if you're reaching for ARIA, make sure you know what you're doing. https://www.stefanjudis....

This probably isn't even worth of a post but I have a placeholder website up! punkrockweb.dev! Now I just have to hurry up and finish Mindful Design so it can stop being a placeholder :P

hey y'all, I know times are tough, but if you have any $ you can spare this month for our scrappy team of volunteers building open source tools for trans people, we deeply appreciate every share and donation 💜 plus if you donate and DM or email me, I will personally mail you some stickers 💌

Happy Pride Month from us at Namesake 💜 We’re living in dangerous and uncertain times, but our team is committed to helping empower trans people through our tools and resources.

Please Use AI

**succumbs to peer pressure** www.mohkohn.co.uk/writing/html...

don't ever say "spicy autocomplete" in my presence the debate of whether or not this technology works detracts from the implications of its widespread corporate deployment, regardless of efficacy.

In love with @namesake.fyi and their design choices for all the normal reasons but also:

My crankiest old man take is that referring to all art/entertainment/journalism/criticism/comedy/advertising as “content” helped pave the way for broad-ish acceptance of AI slop.

Ever struggled to get heading tags right in includes/components? headingoffset could be the answer…

Would love for any well-off cis/het allies to send some money to @namesake.fyi so we can keep building out legal name change resources

thankful for all the weirdos and perverts (complimentary)

gay month

In Sikh culture, when the racists started attacking us because they thought we were Muslims, we didn’t correct them and say we were Sikhs because the point is it shouldn’t happen to anyone. As a cis woman, I do not correct someone attacking me because they think I am trans for the same reason.

it’s fucking insane that (if you have adult content set to “warn”) someone who gets hit with the account label gets a DOUBLE content warning on image posts now, and neither has anything to do with the post so it makes the whole warnings completely meaningless. this fucking suckssssss (the art rocks)

Shoutout to everyone who choose to create in spite of everything

the vast majority of humankind does not need agents or bleeding edge technological innovation. they need things that help them get through their days a little better and easier. this industry would be so much better if we unfucked our weird little saas brains and just built nice shit.

“according to ai-“ listen to yourself. what are you talking about. “according to the three most likely words above my phone’s keyboard-“ that’s what you sound like.

Forgot to mention: this shipped in @sugarcube.sh last week! No more back-and-forth between sugarcube and utopia.fyi. Thanks to @arpit.codes for helping push me to actually implement this. Check out the fluid space & type docs for more:

I am not interested in a product that teleports me directly to the end of my life so that I don’t have to be bothered with the nasty business of living.

This Saturday at 12:00pm Eastern, join the fight for everlasting peace. I’m playing through ONE-HIT KO Mega Man 2, and donating $10 to @translifeline.org for every time I get so much as grazed by a hitbox — going up $1 for every $100 you all donate (up to $20 per). tiltify.com/@wilto/megam...

watching the tech industry burn out all the people i know who actually care about delivering things that aren’t perpetually broken, all at the altar of infinite velocity, is making me utterly utterly furious.

If you ignore the health, ethical, social, moral, financial, environmental, creative, cultural, privacy, quality, legal and geopolitical concerns, then this thing really has legs!!

Experimented with some CSS :has() on my contact form page. I've used it to make a "multi-level" <select> listbox, conditional block of text to aid visitors, and sprinkled in some animation for the grid resizing too. Just CSS doing all of this, pretty happy with it ☺️

what is that thing | patreon.com/lubchansky

saw this on an ACT UP poster from 1988 at the Poster House museum today. the more things change :)

slow down and feel things

Excited to finally launch the Mindful Design Toolkit. A free collection of workshops, resources and files to help you with any stage of your design process. Completely open source, and available in open source formats. I’ll be adding to this consistently this year. mindfuldesign.xyz/toolkit/intro/

It’s Friday, so let’s close out the week with some Good Links™ in The Index #180! Sponsored by the fantastic CodePen 2.0. piccalil.li/the-index/180/

Chrome looks set to ship an LLM Prompt API to the web platform. At Mozilla, we oppose this API. We feel it has a large interoperability risk, and Google imposing T&Cs on a web API sets a dangerous precedent. Full details: github.com/mozilla/stan...

I fully believe that the only sustainable future for tech – and possibly work more broadly – is to do work that matters. Make music, make humanist software like @namesake.fyi, make a bench and put it somewhere.

I personally almost immediately click away. I rarely—if ever—read through the post. And I do take note of the author, unsubscribe from their RSS feeds, and stop reading their content. This may sound drastic but if the author is using AI to write their posts they're likely to continue doing it.

looking to take on some fun, fractional design/frontend work in the coming months. if you wanna collaborate on something lovely that's not just another ai tool then drop me a lil intro at [email protected]. i'm especially interested in smaller design system (especially 0-1) bits.

I’m so tired of the tech hype machine. Idgaf how you’re optimizing with AI, what the hell are you doing for people? How are you making the world actually better? Idgaf what your job title is or what you’re selling. I could give two fucks about your manifesto or your stocks. Be a fucking human.

I would rather attend an event with a super shitty, MS paint made flyer, an event with a flyer scrawled in crayon by your nondominant hand, than attend an event advertised with an AI slop flyer.

another one from the ol' personal site series WordPress + Astro works so very well for me

The testimony here about sexual violence by Israel against Palestinian prisoners is so beyond the pale everyone must see it. It is so bad I can’t in good conscience share a quote other than the headline, which somehow manages to understate the horror within. www.middleeasteye.net/news/i-wishe...

We don't need to speed up production. We need to slow down. We don't need to write code faster. We need to think through what we write. We've spent decades working to ship faster, and that's landed us in a world of hurt. Build better products, not faster.

it's weird to be numb and incandescently angry at the same time

We built a communications system intended to be so redundant it could survive a nuclear war and now it struggles anytime there's a rainy day at an Amazon server farm.

www.microsoft.com/en-us/micros... is it good to build an entire economy and software infrastructure on this

I got banned from twitter in 2023 for this drawing. They called it "violent speech". It had over 40K likes and too many comments for me to read before my ban, but I still see it floating around here and there. Save a copy, and use it freely. No attribution needed. Love u #transdayofvisibility #tdov

The WebAIM Million 2026 report is out, it reports on overall accessibility across the web: 1. The number of failures increased 10.1% YOY 2. The average number of page elements increased 22.5%YOY Meaning accessibility progress is backsliding. Personally, I am quite certain this is related to AI.