I wrote a few words last night. nvie.com/posts/15-yea...

🎙️ New Episode of Igalia Chats - Web Backstories: Shadow DOM @meyerweb.com and @bkardell.com chat with @jayhoffmann.bsky.social and @adactio.com about Shadow DOM's backstory and long origins www.igalia.com/chats/shadow...

Fuck apps - build websites.

Today in Web development history. The responsive design of The Boston Globe launched in 2012. It was the first major site to use RWD and was a showcase of the techniques @ethanmarcotte.com had written and spoke about. FED by Filament Group + Ethan. www.filamentgroup.com/lab/introduc...

i do not think ezra klein genuinely grieves for charlie kirk. i think ezra klein thinks it’s professionally advantageous to perform grief.

The History of the Web: Year of A List Apart thehistoryoftheweb.com/year-list-ap...

Is blogging a lonely activity? Does it have to be? thehistoryoftheweb.com/do-blogs-nee...

I will probably spend the rest of my life thinking about how, in the first decade of the web, we all spontaneously decided to use it to be our true unmasked honest selves and it was fucking amazing, and then the rest of the world got online and decided to use it as an angry toilet.

The idea that personal ideology is a continuum from right to left and that people who cannot reliably be expected to vote for one party or another must be in the center is the kind of thing you can only believe if you don’t know anyone who didn’t go to grad school

To me, this is when the web began. Not the memo of an idea, asking for permission to work on it. Ideas are everywhere. An idea is not A Real Product. The day something ships is the day it’s in the hands of customers. Which, for the web, was April 30, 1993: yes webmasters, now you can make websites!

we're doing the thing unbreaking.org

Excited to see how the unforced economic crash is worsened by the (spins wheel) peruvian iguana foot virus in (rolls dice) three months as a result of medical misinformation spread by (pulls lever) robert f kennedy jr’s elle magazine girlfriend at (guides ouija board) gayle king’s bastille day party

Another great piece by @jayhoffmann.bsky.social : thehistoryoftheweb.com/our-online-h... "Slowly, slowly, the web was taken over by platforms..." Thanks to AI coding tools and open source software, I'm back at building my own infrastructure to run my homepage, podcast feed, newsletter, courses.

This is the only correct way to cross the street.

My favorite NYers are the ones that still go ahead and cross the street in front of an oncoming ambulance— but they speed up their ambling walk to a slight jog, so everyone sees they’re AWARE and CONSIDERATE

If you haven't had a chance to pick up Ethan's book yet, this lovely new design seems like a perfect excuse.

🦊 I am downright delighted to announce that my latest book, YOU DESERVE A TECH UNION, has a brand new look. I really love it, and I hope you do too. Here’s a look at what’s changed and—maybe more importantly—what’s stayed the same: ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/refres... #YDATUbook #books #unions #1u

I have a couple of angles I want to come at this from, but here's my first post on the history of online shopping and what we now call ecommerce. thehistoryoftheweb.com/expanding-ac...

Ezra Klein may be the single most credulous dope in the world. Deep Research is total crap, and a "former AI expert to the Biden white house" spouting fan fiction about AGI is useless, wasteful and only seeks to help valuations of AI companies. Despicable. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/o...

+ you don’t even need the “large” in LLM to do a pretty solid job here. SLMs have proven pretty effective. It’s building a sand castle with a bulldozer, except the bulldozer is plowing down rainforests.

your reminder that i'm currently tracking changes to the homepages of 1,373 federal domains since february 4 and if you need any historical data about changes made to a particular domain since that date, i'm happy to provide it.

18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people: 18f.org

If anyone would like to send multiple in-depth reports about your week to our pals in the federal government, here you go

what the fuck is git switch -c

Correct. If the birthdate field contains corrupt or mismatched data, it defaults to 1875-05-20, which serves as a flag. May 20, 1875, is the day the international standards and metrics treaty was signed. Everything is a conspiracy when you don’t know how anything works.

Strong rumor with credible sourcing: DOJ has put all of public integrity line attorneys in a room and told them they have an hour for someone to choose who will sign motion to dismiss and if nobody does, they will all be fired. The nastiest strong-arming in DOJ history by a long shot.

This @cssday.bsky.social lineup has me really wishing I could make it out to Amsterdam this summer. cssday.nl/speakers.html

This future AI is generating is risking not just the slop it spits out, but what's already been created. thehistoryoftheweb.com/what-happens...

A swastika t-shirt is the only item on the Yeezy website. Powered by Shopify. It's not the first time Shopify has powered stores selling items with Swastikas. I've reached out to them about this before, and they kept powering the stores. The only thing they changed, eventually, was their rules.

Anyone having a word with Shopify about this one?

"whoever " + ("coined the term " * 4)

There appear to be at least three separately operating heel factions breaking things within the government in wholly different ways right now. There's the Miller-headed immigration one, the DOGE/Elon one, and a Project 2025 OMB one. This dynamic hasn't showed up in mainstream reporting at all.

If I’m not seeing Congressional pages place a coat around the shoulders of a visibly exhausted and trembling Ron Wyden after a three hour stall speech over a nominee and led off like James Brown then you *fucked up*.

The major media is utterly failing to simply state that Trump is a vicious racist, who blames everything on presumed racial or ethnic minorities. How hard can it be to just say “In shockingly racist remarks Trump refuses to accept responsibility and blames deadly plane crash on minorities”

On The History of the Web, @jayhoffmann.bsky.social considers ‘Would the #Internet exist today if the #PrintingPress didn’t come before it?’ thehistoryoftheweb.com/would-the-in...

Please, anybody, run against this guy in the primary so I can vote for you.

It’s done. 153 pages. I drew a whole graphic novel. Wow.

This such a good point. So much of what people want to do with AI is just automate a series of pretty basic things they want to do. We don’t need a huge LLM to do that, a simple abstraction layer would do the trick. I bet we could do that for less than a trillion dollars and all the rainforests.

It’s sitting right there. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/democ...

Pin this, save it, we’ll need it. “When a prison camp opens in your town…when a DREAMer is disappeared from your classroom…when the President destroys what’s left of the Constitution…They will all say they didn’t know this was coming. And I want the American people to know that they did.” AOC 🔥🎯

This time around how about instead of donating ungodly amounts of money to longshot candidates who dunk on the other guys in KY, we find the people rolling up their sleeves and doing the work, and give our time and attention to them instead?

If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, and hangs out with a bunch of other ducks, and writes for a german newspaper saying vote for the alt-right duck party, and does a nazi salute like a duck... my dude, that's a duck and you should throw away your duckmobile.

I’m just going to say that AOC is the acting leader of the Democratic Party until someone proves otherwise. At least insofar as she is responding to the moment with leadership.

The TikTok ban, the Musk Twitter takeover, the Facebook moderation policy changes, the Republicans’ rapidly intensifying crackdowns on speech... let these be the proof you needed to move anything you care about online to a space you control. Digital sovereignty is more important than ever.