It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9

Really interesting results here, makes sense that full css-in-js would slow down SSR

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

I just want to once again congratulate every business and media outlet who tripped over their own dicks to take right-wing outrage in uncritical good faith and ruin peoples’ careers over extremely tame internet comments about Charlie Kirk 48 hours before immediately forgetting he ever existed.

TGIF: I'm having some guests join me on Wednesday Dec 3rd to talk about Core Web Vitals. I revealed the 1st set of presenters today, and will reveal the others on Cyber Monday. Nonetheless, join us, @stoyan.me @cdaveross.bsky.social + a few more... 📆 Wed Dec 3rd ⏰ 11a EST 5p CET 🔗 bit.ly/cwv-summit

The job market is pretty bad right now but I think we'll see a bounce back within the next few years. With seniors retiring and no trained juniors / mids available to be promoted, there will be a massive skill gap that needs to be filled.

THIS IS A GOOD HEADLINE.

Yep. I don’t promote mine and I even don’t like to bring it up when men explain databases to me (yes that still happens) High Performance MySQL 4th edition learning.oreilly.com/library/view...

next: Oh Shit, Git! This was a collab with the amazing Katie Sylor-Miller (@ksylor.bsky.social), the author of ohshitgit.com It's a reference for what to do to git out of a git mess wizardzines.com/zines/oh-shi... (5/16)

No matter what you eat for the holidays, please never: - comment on how much someone is eating - comment on how little someone is eating - comment on someone eating This can be a major trigger for people with eating disorders. Plus it’s none of your business. Thanks!

Just because LLMs are pretty good at writing javascript doesn’t mean that building complex web UIs is “easy” - it means that there‘s a metric shit ton of training data for it to use.

Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…

It's almost Thanksgiving! Got an ICE member coming for dinner at your house? No you don't! Can't stop them because you're not the one hosting? No problem. You can shun them, mock them, shame them, cough in their food. They get the weird chair. No weird chair? Make a weird chair.

“Trump whore” isn’t how we (the left, generally) would insult one of them. “Whore” is pure conservative. It’s how they imagine cruelty, but that kind of gendered slur is how they hate each other, not how we hate them. But I suppose “fascist bootlicker” is harder to write oh your own torso.

A friend of mine has early access to cutting edge corporate jargon, I heard the phrase "let's double-click on that" from him long before anywhere else. I asked him what's new these days and he says it's "the shark closest to your body" for the most urgent issue.

Every day I work at Big Tech I understand this guy more and more

Video of my @perfnow.nl keynote is up! In this talk, I challenged the false choice between magic and pragmatism. Don't settle for "fast enough". Instead, aim to create a user experience that's #pragmagical — blending user delight with measurable business impact. conffab.com/presentation...

What shouldn't be a hot take: All stepped forms should be state machines.

QANON CULTIST IN 2017: "In this 1,879 page thread I will unravel the byzantine system of codewords and phrases the global elite use to mask their pedophile cabal." JEFFREY EPSTEIN WRITING AN EMAIL AT THE SAME TIME: "helo its me jeff had fun cmmitting sex crimes wit u lst weeknd"

This is now live! modernleader.is/posts/invisi...

"You privately think 'the kids' are alarmingly intolerant of free speech these days, but you’d never say this aloud or online because 'the kids' are your bosses." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/sig...

Tonight, we Yub Nub

[Exit Clown.]

Another source from my #PerfNow talk… Here’s why you need to know the performance plateau for your site. www.speedcurve.com/blog/web-per...

Friendly reminder! #perfnow

Amazon just announced 14,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $40M last year. UPS announced 48,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $24M last year. Intel announced 20,000 layoffs. Its new CEO's pay package is valued at nearly $69M. This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

“Walmart was the top employer of SNAP recipients in five states and one of the top four employers in the remaining four states. McDonald’s was among the top five employers of Medicaid enrollees in five of six states and SNAP recipients in eight of nine states.” www.cnbc.com/2020/11/19/w...

The Hub of the Universe

Earlier this week, we lost my husband’s best friend of the last 25 years suddenly from a heart attack. He was a part of our family and we are devastated. It’s trite but true tell people that you love them. Take more pictures & videos of every moment together. Take no one in your life for granted.

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UPDATE: More donors funding the demolition of the East Wing for Trump's $250M ballroom have been identified

my toxic engineer trait is that I'm basically allergic to code all code is bad. the less code the better. why are you writing new code stahp *sprays devs with squirt bottle*

I turned a leak investigation into a post on the Block eng blog to share a method that works well! It's a bit long... I had to show how to encode code knowledge to automate leak investigations, and dig even deeper with YourKit Java Profiler. engineering.block.xyz/blog/the-lea... #AndroidDev

said it forever and i’ll say it again for you guys in the cheap seats, it’s cool to be nice. being a huge dork is punk rock in its own way. be the full sized candy bars house at halloween. return the shopping carts. pick up that little piece of trash on the sidewalk. it’s cool to be mister rogers.

I would laugh if this wasn't so true 😭

Structural #racism for Dummies... 101 seconds of education

🎉 Preact 11 beta is here! After years of thoughtful development, we're delivering major improvements with minimal breaking changes. Better hydration, forward refs by default, and performance upgrades - all while maintaining the stability you love about Preact X.

We had something like 2k next door in Acton!

Greetings from this morning’s #NoKings rally on the Lexington MA Battle Green, which was packed with patriots once again to stand up against a corrupt and capricious would-be ruler. More photos… 🧵 @indivisible.org @universalhub.com

or, in the words of the Nac Mac Feegle: “Free Men! Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna' be fooled again!”

Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay

😍 Boston, you are beautiful. #NoKings

Can confirm - Anil shares my opinion, and the opinion of the vast majority of people I know in tech.

Right now in Boston Common ...

[email protected] sharing the best kept secret of senior ICs. A weekly email to your boss is better than a hype document. #StaffPlus

MANY BOSTONIANS & MASSACHUSETTSIANS KNEW WAT IT WAS 2 BE UNDER THE BLOBS THIS DAY, EYE CULD TELL U

Some days I just really really really want to subtweet how pissed I am about stupid work bullshit but I know I shouldn't so I don’t.

"WE MAKE NEWS LOUDER. IF STORY GOOD ON ONE SIDE, SHOW OTHER SIDE TOO. OTHER SIDE WRONG? OTHER SIDE WANT BLEACH IN VEINS? ANIMAL RUN BOTH. REPORT BOTH SIDES. EVEN WHEN ONE SIDE THINK HEAD MEDS MAKE QUIET BABIES."

Accessibility is popular, it's rare I meet anyone who thinks it doesn't matter. Usually it's the systemic failures that make us de-prioritize it, things like perceived tight timelines, low budgets, lack of resources. Regardless, the future world is accessible. There's too many of us that want it