1: Good for him. 2: I’m sure that if he did the opposite thing and missed the birth of his son, the press would also be extremely cool and normal about it.

when you transition but keep the same name

My loves, please stay doing your business on Signal

Tired: Conversation pit Wired: Soliloquy moat

It’s called elevated horror, T. It’s when the dracula is actually repressed trauma.

If you enjoy Bloodborne you really owe it to yourself to read EM Carroll's WRITHE (it's free) emcarroll.itch.io/writhe

“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas and city center in 2021.”

New Nordzij Cube just dropped

"Anthropic’s Roman moment is a masterclass in soft-power repositioning. By embedding itself in the Vatican’s moral architecture at the precise moment it is under fire from Washington, the company is doing several things simultaneously:" decode39.com/14852/anthro...

🚀 New article on gap decorations (coming soon) in CSS. I have a small obsession with clean layout lines, and this is the first time it feels easy to draw them without polluting the markup. Goes through the new properties, a playground, and some experiments... 👾 utilitybend.com/blog/css-is-...

Happy 16th Birthday Responsive Web Design! On May 25, 2010, web designer Ethan Marcotte published an article entitled "Responsive Web Design" in the online magazine A List Apart. #WebDesignHistory

Taking walks increases the number of birds and dogs I see in a day. It works. You should try it.

Media Club Plus's Sopranos has started and I was so excited to join on the premiere ep to talk for almost FIVE HOURS about the first two episodes of season 1. mediaclub.plus/at-first-it-...

Sources tell me the NEXT JAMES BOND will have an ANXIOUS ATTACHMENT STYLE

LLMs intensify a tension in the present political economy of authorship. On the one hand, cultural production is obviously collective, citational, iterative, and infrastructural. On the other hand, the only durable mechanisms many artists have for surviving are individualizing property forms.

CSS trivia fun fact: `bold` and `bolder` are valid font weights in CSS. `bolder` is relative to the parent's `font-weight`, while `bold` has an absolute value of 700. So `bolder` could be less bold than `bold`.

enough. i’m tired of github actions. it’s time for github consequences

New blog post about how to get started with generative art using JavaScript and SVG: fmarx.com/journal/undu...

we need to bring back “web-surfing.” people don’t surf the web anymore in any meaningful sense, because the internet has been colonized into captive platforms and endless scroll algo-slop. refuse the “safety” of the feed! bring back the joy of information anarchy, unexpected encounters & discovery

the ai industry unleashing genai into the public & expecting society (academics, policy makers & cso) to find solutions is like big oil polluting oceans & expecting individuals to clean it up 👇🏾 approaches are important but we need sustainable solution that tackles prob from th root: regulate big AI

A lot of people are sad and they’re right to be so but I am angry that the vision to profitability or whatever is so myopic that games, one of the biggest cultural forces of the planet, isn’t in there. Especially given the things I’ve seen the company spend money on in the past (and even recently).

A Garland for Mayday

Radical bookstores don’t just sell books. In Chicago, Baltimore, and beyond, they host book clubs, training sessions, meetings, jail support work, and organizing that can shape entire movements. New from @leftiecowboy.bsky.social

I wrote about why I quit my job, and how weird and tiring tech feels these days.

Guy eating a perfect delicious grape: we should step on these with our nasty feet, let the mush ferment, then drink what comes off it

There are absolutely “character actors” of fonts. It’s not that you know the name, but you know what they’ve been in.

Responsive images are tough and often implemented incorrectly. With sizes=auto the browser will figure things out. Chromium supports it, Firefox 150 in two weeks, Webkit in tech preview. I can't wait for this! https://developer.mozill...

Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat, Lizard, Spock

This React -> Web Components post by the MDN team touches on challenges and solutions I've seen dozens of times over frontend's lost decade. Kudos to them for the improvements in performance, and the bravery to tell the story in an unvarnished way: developer.mozilla.org/en-US/blog/m...

“Chat,

I’m excited to announce the 1̶s̶t̶ 7th release candidate of Elena today! 🫶 Elena is a simple, tiny library for building Progressive Web Components. Unlike most web component libraries, Elena doesn’t force JavaScript for everything. Crafted with love and care using HTML, CSS & plain JS: elenajs.com

love to see more people pushing back on goals of being “frictionless”. friction is a part of how we make meaning and build things that are worth building. messy, slow, human conflict has value

“They called Coney Island the playground of the world.”

This is where they store the web components.

“When building an app that relies on syncing local data with a server, make it seamFUL, not seamless. People should always know the status of critical data so they don’t experience any bad surprises.” — Aleth Gueguen #WebDayOut

Happy International Women's Day. 🏴

Happy birthday to the great revolutionary and theorist, Rosa Luxemburg, born on this day in 1871.

I'm at the beginning of my rope. I'm doing great.

*adds “communal knowing” to personal lexicon*

I think the most pragmatic thing people can do, if they're being mandated to use LLMs, is to unionise. If by some miracle the bubble doesn't burst, there will still likely be lots of layoffs so get protecting yourself and your colleagues. @ethanmarcotte.com has got the blueprint for you here.

given the existence of skeleton and luge, i postulate the existence of two other, yet to be discovered, winter olympic sports

I dunno. I got my PhD from a lab called "The Stanford AI Lab" and I'm described as "an AI skeptic." Not an engineer, not a computer scientist, not someone who has built things that work and describes the harms of tech as a technologist, but as an "AI skeptic." Interesting.

good morning! apropo of nothing, here is a manga about Weird Al Yankovic that appeared in a 1984 issue of the japanese magazine “FM RecoPal”(translations in alt text)

Happy Valentine's Day to everyone who isn't a Nazi, and especially to the trekkies.

If you don’t love me at my “Horkheimer and Adorno predicted Anakin Skywalker’s fall to the dark side”, you don’t deserve me at my “Is Yoda a bug or an insect?”

The trick to making perfectly poached eggs is always using at least n+1 eggs. Follow for more cooking tips.

Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich