Your reminder that: a) representative democracy cannot function without adequate education. b) Republicans have been dedicated to reducing education funds for the last 50 years.

I just need everyone to know that my 15 y.o. Daughter just beat Elden Ring, a game that I would never even attempt to play because it looks way too hard.

This is becoming a common but not enough interrogated buzzphrase for a very real problem - LLM output is verification and technical debt. One person can generate plausible enough looking results that they can pass through several hands before a close enough reading shows it's full of shit.

looking forward to the near future when these 7-day workweek dorks burn out and invent weekends + 8 hours of sleep but call it something goofy like "REM-maxxing" and start ridiculing each other like "bro you don't let your subconscious cook on problems 8 hours a day bro you're ngmi"

I say it every year - if you're even the least bit interested or involved in web performance, this is THE place to be every year. It's the one trip I prioritize my travel budget for. The talks are awesome, but the hallway track is unbeatable. The concentration of experts in one place is insane.

At some point soon (if not already) businesses are going to lose customers from the degraded experiences that no-human-has-reviewed-LLM-generated code spits out. And then what?

Same pattern, every team. Designer annotates everything. Design system specifies focus states, heading structure, the lot. Engineering ships something broken anyway. Not an awareness problem. A skills gap the industry built deliberately. Rant here - gbbns.co/journal/acce... #Accessibility

You absolutely cannot separate the artist and the art without contributing to the persecution of trans people. Boycott everything Potter.

Yes, it’s a Substack article. It may also be the best ADHD article I’ve ever read. If it might help someone I’m willing to put it out there.

OK so this young trans gentleman was cut off by his parents, has been unable to get MIT to up his financial aid, has been working multiple jobs while maintaining an A- average AT MIT (no one does this), but he is gonna need to actually pay his tuition to graduate: www.gofundme.com/f/help-matth...

The most disturbing aspect of the AI era is realizing how many people have only ever valued others for their labor and not their humanity.

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The paralympics have been so fun to watch, just amazing athleticism on display

holy shit

having used claude extensively for the past couple of months, i think there is still a lot of value to understanding your code and steering it intentionally. the amount of incidental complexity claude accumulates otherwise (which mostly results in bugs that it can't ever fix reliably) is staggering.

I started a new chapter of my Agentic Engineering Patternw guide about anti-patterns - things NOT to do So far I only have one: Inflicting unreviewed code on collaborators, aka dumping a thousand line PR without even making sure it works first simonwillison.net/guides/agent...

Now I know how I’ll be spending my funemployment!

Block was a really great place to work for the past four months. Unfortunately, I’m part of today’s 40% layoff. If you need an old hand at web stuff, who has staff software engineering experience at multiple international corporations, hit me up. ❤️

Getting laid off sucks, but I just realized that I have never taken more than 2 weeks off between jobs before, and I’ve always juggled interviews with actually working. So, silver lining, I’ll get a nice long break for the first time ever, and I’ll be able to focus on studying for interviews

Hi friends I just got laid off along with 40% of Block. No idea what comes next, but if you have need for a Principal Frontend Engineer hit me up!

THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS. not just in communities, but companies too. I have never in my long career worked with anyone who deliberately *made the choice* to be a “low performer” without curiosity/discipline/agency, it’s always been beaten out of them

Props to @scott.hanselman.com for naming the elephant in the room in big tech. AI coding tools boost senior engineers but create challenges for juniors who lack context to judge outputs. Cutting junior hiring for near-term gains weakens the future pipeline. We’ll need apprenticeship-style paths.

Oooh this is super exciting to see Container Timing come to life! This will be so helpful for measuring user-triggered page updates!

I won't have time to debunk the old "yellow is not accessible" myth in my axe-con talk. But, you are lucky: I already wrote a whole article on how accessibility does NOT limit color choices. stephaniewalter.design/blog/yellow-... #Accessibility #AccessibleColors #YellowColor

The FBI hard at work investigating the Epstein Network; this picture cost $400,000 U.S. tax dollars to produce.

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Study proves what we’ve already know, Elon has turned Twitter into a right wing propaganda fire hose. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A sad day for rectangles

Really interesting - lately I've been wondering what it looks like to retrofit the software factory model onto an existing engineering team and this starts to answer that question - The Era of the Software Factory 🏭 refactoring.fm/p/the-era-of...

Arguing about unit tests vs. integration tests sucks. It's dogma and I feel like a heretic. This post discusses a different way to think about a test’s scope. I love it.

Hi friends, we’re looking for a senior PM for the project I am the eng lead for! block.xyz/careers/jobs...

It's been a while since my last blog post, so I made up for it with a wall of text 😅 This article looks at why JS-heavy web apps tend to miss their performance goals over time, what you can do to somewhat mitigate that, and ends with a plea for us to move back to the server, as an industry.

It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this

The Heritage Foundation has released a 250-year roadmap to “save America.” The document is a how-to guide for subjugating girls & young women: a detailed plan to push them out of college, funnel them into early marriage and motherhood, and then trap them there. jessica.substack.com/p/theyre-com...

⭕️ NEW: An Al Jazeera investigation finds that Israel has used U.S.-supplied thermal & thermobaric weapons in Gaza that burn at up to 3,500°C, leaving no remains of victims. Gaza’s Civil Defence documented 2,842 Palestinians who effectively “evaporated” since Oct 2023, identified through forensic...

‘Shut up and focus on the mission’: Tech workers are frustrated by their companies’ silence about ICE

This is the same tech that all the software engineering influencers on X are telling you to use to open PRs to your codebase without reviewing the diffs.

Fascinating overview of the symbolism and meaning from Bad Bunny’s halftime show

We had really been hoping the plant people were gonna dance but alas, they were there in lieu of trucks

production of The Muppet Show should not be dependent on petty vulgarities like “ratings” or “revenue.” it should be preserved as a vital function of american culture. it should have a taxpayer-funded budget rivaling the CIA

1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

Relatedly, if you "like" web performance and want to give a talk at @nywebperf.com, or just want to learn more, feel free to DM me. Or, just head right to bit.ly/speak-at-nyw... ⚡️

Meta now forcing all employees to use AI tools and tying it to employee performance, according to @theinformation.com. HR said "this is not an activity tracker—it’s an impact-evidence starter" That's a fun way to rebrand workplace surveillance.

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

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The latest from Anthropic: using Anthropic's products makes you worse at your job

Had a shower thought yesterday that c-suite ai true believers / magical thinkers have convinced themselves that AI will somehow allow them to pick all three from the adage “pick two: good, fast, or cheap“

ICE has been holding a disabled Black man for a year! Rodney Taylor is a double amputee who was days away from receiving new prosthetic legs when ICE took him. He’s been denied his prosthetics & placed in solitary. His health is declining. Public outrage might save his life. Say his name: