Web applications are only as trustworthy as the servers that serve them, and servers can get hacked. That’s why we are introducing WEBCAT, a tool allowing web browsers to verify the origin of code before they run it. 🌞 Today WEBCAT enters alpha testing! If you like to experiment with […]

“A bayonet, that’s a weapon with a working man at either end. Betray your country, serve your class, don’t sign up for war, my friend, don’t sign up for war.” https://youtu.be/07KX91eKFdQ

More and more relevant

I've had a few people ask me about (or, more accurately, complain about) passkeys recently, so I wrote my own explainer. https://chromamine.com/2026/02/should-you-care-about-and-use-passkeys/

😓 "email is dead"

I've had a few people ask me about (or, more accurately, complain about) passkeys recently, so I wrote my own explainer. https://chromamine.com/2026/02/should-you-care-about-and-use-passkeys/

“AI means we can work less for more money!” The working less and more money:

I gotta start keeping a `HARRIS.md` so I don’t have to rebuild my context from scratch every time I wake up.

Is any DOM method more fantasy-coded than `.createTreeWalker`? I think not

“The former, elder worker may find some interest or curiosity in applying her knowledge to this new technology, especially as the modes and methods for doing so are still being developed. But what of the worker who begins their work a decade from now, who has been specialized to do nothing more […]

Call me Farfetch’d because leeks are my favorite thing

Absolute gibberish from Instagram

...horrifying message without context, thank you

wow I don't know how I missed this feud between musk and JCO, but it tickled me to catch up now https://www.forbes.com/sites/danidiplacido/2025/11/11/elon-musk-vs-joyce-carol-oates-the-online-feud-explained/

Happy 175th anniversary of Tolstoy buying a horse he didn’t need to all who celebrate. https://diariesofnote.com/2023/01/25/went-to-a-party-and-lost-my-head/

Regrettably I have made this original meme

I've discovered, by accident, that A6 binder refills sold online (at least ones sold on Amazon) are *not* actually A6 size. They seem to be 105mm × 170mm. This is non-standard in the sense that ISO defines A6 paper as 105×148, but seems to standard in the sense that almost all the "A6" paper […]

What in the surveillance capitalism

Kind of wild how the take that some of Trump's supporters were "deplorable" was some huge scandal, but regularly screaming about "radical left scum" is just a thing he'll say with no media backlash.

“Framing illness as even involving morality seems to me a mistake, because of course cancer does not give a shit whether you are a good person. Biology has no moral compass. It does not punish the evil and reward the good. It doesn’t even know about evil and good.” — John Green, Everything is […]

Rick Steves is an American treasure. Just all-around, one of the absolute best of us.

NIST reassures the world that despite atomic clock power outage time is not broken. https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/power-outage-boulder-atomic-clock-nist/

The Facebook algorithm served me up some antisemitism from a group I’m not a member of and when I reported it, they told me it’s not against their community standards and told me to explore my options for controlling what I see. Again, this was surfaced to me by […] [Original post on social.coop]

I designed a set of 10 Christmas ornaments that can be 3D printed in vase mode for Printables’ Winter Holidays Decorations contest. I knew when I started my design process that I wanted to design something that could be printed in vase mode. Read more […]

Um NYT, I thought part of the reason I pay for games was so that I don’t have to tap through fucking ad interstitials? You becoming Zynga or what? (Screenshot from NYT Games’s year in review)

I designed a set of vase mode printable Christmas ornaments! They come with their own loops to go on tree branches *or* you can clip them around a string of lights to make them glow! #3dprinting https://www.printables.com/model/1518800-vase-mode-christmas-ornament-collection

Because apparently I'm having a software quirks kind of day, here are the results of me pressing "Add iteration" five times in GitHub projects. I did not rename or renumber anything myself.

tfw your file extensions are case sensitive #falsehoodsprogrammersbelieveaboutfileextensions

Struggling with a new issue on my Prusa MINI where it seems to be depositing a blob at the layer change. It doesn’t do it on every seam, just where the layer changes. See this image where I stopped the print during the third layer—you can see a blob on the lower […] [Original post on social.coop]

In year of our lord 2025 someone emailed my mom about making NFTs of her art and I had to explain what that meant to her

SEPTIMUS: When we have found all the mysteries and lost all the meaning, we will be alone, on an empty shore. THOMASINA: Then we will dance. — Tom Stoppard, Arcadia

Thoroughly enjoyed Wake Up Dead Man. My *only* critique is that the stacked ensemble cast are much underutilized, but the main characters that the movie revolves around make the whole thing worth it. It was thoughtful with serious depth and still kept me guessing the whole time, even when I […]

A Lover If I could catch the green lantern of the firefly I could see to write you a letter. — Amy Lowell

Started Stranger Things S5 and was like “who tf is Holly Wheeler?” and now I’m going back and rewatching S1 and it’s like she’s in the background of every scene suddenly.

Mamdani hypnotized Trump somehow. I know people have all sorts of explanations for how their meeting went, but none of them seem more plausible to me than that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmSpyRNXtXo

I’m enjoying Pluribus, but I’m a little sad that my favorite ten minutes of it were the first ten minutes. #tv #appletv

Just found out that MacWhisper, my favorite macOS app for transcribing audio to text (using Whisper or now also NVIDIA Parakeet) now has an Automatic Speaker Recognition feature too https://simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/18/macwhisper-speaker-recognition/

👁️ ORBS ARE NOW ON MOBILE 👁️ (Discord making a full screen modal just to speak absolute gibberish to me)

My new hobby is watching Death by Lightning on Netflix and every time they say "Garfield" I pretend they're talking about the cat and not the president.

I'm hard-pressed to think of a non-Jewish Democratic politician who has spoken to Jews with more respect and empathy than Mamdani. The fact that many Jewish establishment orgs are going after him while staying relatively mum on resurgent Nazism is a disaster, both for American Jews and in general.

the elaborate shader-based neuomorphic effects in Liquid Glass will be *incredibly* annoying to fake. counterfeits which do not have the bottom 90% of the iceberg that users will hopefully come to expect, will look wrong and janky and will be immediately *visually* identifiable as low quality […]

I swear I can typeset things in faces other than Minion, but I’m starting to wonder why I would.

Facebook has recently decided to serve me tons of clickfarm reposts of content from r/AmIOverreacting and r/AmITheAsshole and the whole experience is very “Are the straight monogs OK?” Every post is like, “My partner is texting her high school friend using heart emojis. Should I be worried?” […]

I’ll be calling contra dances along the east coast this month! Catch me in one of these cities. Full details at https://chromamine.com/dance/

It’s honestly a marvel that I developed any modicum of fashion sense at all in my life. My father and I are going out to a nice dinner tonight and he asked me, “What should I wear?” I said, “Do you have a dress shirt?” He replied, “What do you mean by that?”

I'm looking at migrating from my #11ty setup from #cloudflare Pages to Workers and as far as I can tell it's strictly a downgrade for static site use cases? Lots of added complicated configuration code, no automatic branch deployments—or automatic any deployments for that matter; I have to add […]

Earlier this year, while designing the songbook for Emma’s Magnolia Sun album, I encountered the challenge of creating “chord over lyrics” style chord charts. https://chromamine.com/2025/10/chord-charts-in-indesign/ #music #design #code

I am convinced that Zohran's breakout popularity is not because he's so uniquely progressive or radical, or that he's a generational charismatic political talent, but simply that he has positions based on specific beliefs and when you ask him what they are he will tell you. Later, if you ask him […]

What’s the best mid-range 3D printer out there these days for someone who values being able to self-repair and extend their machine but also doesn’t want to spend all their time maintaining and fine-tuning it? Is the Prusa CORE One the best middle ground here? #3dprinting