Hot take: being easy to work with is _just_ as important as technical skill

A great article by @addyosmani.bsky.social addyosmani.com/blog/cogniti... Offload; don't surrender. "Cognitive offloading is delegating to the AI and still owning the answer. Cognitive surrender is when the AI’s output quietly becomes your output and there is nothing you feel is left to check."

Today I learnt Stupid Girl by Garbage samples the riff of Train In Vain by The Clash

Tune in to watch our very own Josh-oo-ahhh if you want to know what the fuss is about

Well the new Studio Display is going _right back_. The colour temperature felt weirdly orange next to my MacBook Air. Maybe it’s fine in isolation, but my 8 year old LG Ultrafine fits much better with my MacBook display. So odd. Looked around at some alternatives and the BenQ MA270S looks perfect.

This is exactly what LinkedIn feels like haha

Language matters

I’m really excited to be working on the next version of Statamic Forms this week. I’ve moved from the “blank canvas I hate everything” phase to the “starting to get a buzz” design stride. Design is either torture or joy. Nothing in between!

I tried to love Penpot, I really did—but there are just a few too many keyboard-related friction points for me. It doesn't seem like you can quickly rename layers with a nice shortcut (F2 is weird), and even pressing `?` to bring up shortcuts doesn't actually focus the search box 😮‍💨

Yesssss!

it’s important to keep caring about how things work and how they’re built

If anyone is looking for someone to help with your video work, may I suggest my brother Joseph? Full on editing, sound/music/light motion design for long form, short/social, you name it. He's gotten so stinkin' good. https://josephmcdade.com/

Wow this sounds like my Mondays too

Protest and purchase power absolutely work. The plummeting of Tesla sales in Europe, Elon exiting the White House, the rise of vegan products and menus, the popularity of actually-good zero alcoholic drinks. Carefully boycotting or choosing goods/services shapes the world we live in.

After lamenting Plumtree (band) disbanding for a few decades, I've been listening to Ratboys new album (Singin' to an Empty Chair) and grinning

lol they removed the racist video and blamed staff. Paffetic mate.

It me! P.s. if any focus states upset you in Statamic come to me 😃

How is this not everywhere on the news? Normalised

In case you missed it, @statamic.com 6 has been released this week. And I think there are three standout features that will help improve the DX for devs, and the UX for content authors. What do you think? What's your top feature in Statamic 6? www.youtube.com/watch?v=q40Q...

Trust is interesting because it’s not quantifiable but it certainly is palpable. Teams with trust move lightning speeds faster than those without.

Awesome

After a year of hard work with some incredibly talented people, here it is—a bold refinement of a brilliant CMS. And it’s completely free to use with a solo licence.

Yup. Switched to Claude for a desktop app. Very easy switch

So they disarmed him **then** shot him to death?! Jesus

“Right to bear arms” unless we don’t like you

I wonder if they give him a Nobel Peace Prize, he won’t invade Greenland. It’s all his ego wants, really.

Believe your eyes

Yassss queen

Immeasurably grateful to have this in 2026 💥

“Imagination is not about making things up. It’s about perception” —Phillip Pullman

The culmination of what I've been working on for about a year is now in BETA! Please check it out, we're very proud of it. And in case you don't know what I'm talking about, Statamic is a beautiful CMS that runs on the Laravel framework. You can use it for free statamic.com/blog/statami...

Brilliant

Sorry to anyone who thought Wokeness was annoying but as we now know it's the price we pay for a civilized society

Time to pack up the Christmas decorations 😢

I want to disconnect but I also want to stay informed

I try not to get caught up in everything, but I still find this Renee Good moment horrific and haunting. The US is becoming a different place, and its collective values are drifting. This is a good balanced video questioning the details of the event youtu.be/NtAHG4LRvbg?...

I’d be inclined to agree

What a lovely typeface

Absolutely fucking disgusting

Truly awful. These people are murderers, thugs, and villains. They are the SS of modern day America www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

“There’s a huge difference however, between AI used to automate something you don’t appreciate or fully understand, and AI tools used appropriately by people with real knowledge of what they are trying to do.”

Bwahahah

Great design is the strive to balance flourish and restraint. You need both.

I took the drone up for NYE in Naples. Madness

Funny timing. I was just telling my parents that touch screens in cars are terrible. (Dad is considering getting a Tesla 😫🤢)

Headlines fade, but the need does not. In Gaza, homes are still destroyed, food is still scarce and children are still going hungry. As winter ramps up, it’s as important as ever that we not forget about those families still in need.

I’ve just seen a demo with anchor positioning combined with scroll triggered animations. I honestly think we’ve finally reached the point where we can natively create something of GSAP standard in the browser, which leaves me very excited to play with side projects over holidays 🥳

I don’t need an “end of year review” because this was basically it.

Now this is AI slop. So trashy