“My personal website is not an emergency service, so I’ll optimize the CSS when I get to it. Which is never.” — @ohhelloana.blog reminding us to set realistic expectations for our side projects #btconf

It’s @bell.bz reminding us that developing strong communication skills is more important than worrying about the latest tools or technologies. “Get the core right, and resilient code will follow.” #btconf

Frostspeed You! Brad Emperor #btconf

“If the first generation of the Web gave us villages, and the second generation gave us unlivable megacities, I want the third generation to have neighborhoods again.” — @sachajudd.com #btconf

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

“Writing a useful encyclopedia entry does not mean “putting down random facts in no discernible order.”” “Real humans with real taste and real thoughts and real perspectives discuss and debate the types of information that should be included in any given article” www.404media.co/grokipedia-i...

The violence of policing is proportional to the inequality it maintains. Our current level of inequality requires constant, shocking violence.

Finally bought my ticket for #btconf Berlin next week. Who else is gonna be there? beyondtellerrand.com/events/berli...

look every programmer needs an emotional support bard and every writer needs a programmer to do their wretched little tasks so why are we dancing around like this

“Single point of failure? Oh no, we have a lot more than that.”

fixed that for you

Unbelievable bargain

"Social media regulation took far too long to arrive, and even then, it came in an imperfect form. But governments don’t appear ready to grapple with the reality that chatbots and image and video generators are speedrunning the harms caused by social media."

Another view of ITC Zapf Dingbats in U&lc, vol. 5, no. 2, 1978. Layout probably by Herb Lubalin. archive.org/details/ulc-...

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

People are opening up Meta AI Ray Ban glasses and modding out the LED recording light, then selling them on eBay. There is huge interest in disabling this functionality, which means basically you cannot trust anyone wearing these (i'm sure you already weren't) www.404media.co/how-to-disab...

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.

"Transsexuality is bourgeois" reflects the common belief that medicine, technology, and any improvements to quality of life are owed to capitalism. The reality is that capitalism holds these improvements hostage for the sake of wealth.

This was super relevant when reviewing some recent user testing, design folks commented on how zoomed in the user was and how it throws off button placement and spacing leading to confusion. Sorry (not sorry) to say, not everyone is going to see the interface exactly as it is mocked up in Figma!

I know the headline everyone's running with is "erotica" but "we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues" and "we are putting personality back in ChatGPT so it will act like a friend" are diametrically opposed statements that's the cause of most of the mental health issues

rawdogging some shape() to build "round out" tabs. I'll blog it eventually. modern CSS rules.

The trailer for Tron: Ares looks like someone watched Blade Runner 2049 and thought to themselves “what this needs is more Jared Leto”. No thank you!

TL; DR In the next 5 business days you should be able to go to Link's page on blacksky.community and see his posts and he'll be able to post but people using the bsky mobile apps won't see it. After that we'll get Blacksky-only posts up. After that we can talk about purging bsky mod tools fin/11

“The fact that copyrighted works aren’t eligible unless they’ve formally registered feels like a lawyerly dodge: a legal maneuver to help Anthropic reduce the size of its payout pool …” — @ethanmarcotte.com ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/a-righ...

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU. Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

Fuck apps - build websites.

Newsletter: This is The Case Against Generative AI, a comprehensive analysis of a financial collapse built on myths I’ll dispel, the markets’ unhealthy obsession with NVIDIA's growth, and the fact that there is not enough money in the world to fund OpenAI. www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-aga...

i made a helpful reference

Weaponized sunk-cost fallacy as a power-grab: Power-players seize momentary opportunities to drive heavy investments into decisions that further their own agendas. When the negative side-effects become fully apparent, they say “that’s a shame, but we’ve already invested too much to change course.”

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

I love the scene in Alien: Earth where they try to access the security system but the computer just goes “Ah-ah-ah! You didn’t say the magic word!”

"We're going to have to learn to live with [radical right wing demagoguery with all its associated violence]" is: - An abdication of responsibility. - An abandonment of hope. - A position only available to those who feel safe enough with an ongoing catastrophe to begin the work of normalizing it

"Resistance doesn't always look like marching in the street or holding rallies ... Sometimes noncooperation looks like regular people stubbornly holding to the existing rules and procedures of a democratic society." My latest: lakauffman.substack.com/p/on-complia...

Promething Young Titan

The Black community around Princeton gave Einstein an entrance into the civil rights movement. He joined the NAACP and the American Crusade Against Lynching (ACAL), an organization founded by Paul Robeson. Einstein had a 20-year friendship with Robeson; he also wrote for W.E.B. Du Bois's mag.

Five ways to do "three columns, except when narrow screen, then one". frontendmasters.com/blog/breakpo... Including some fancy newfangled CSS. Which one do you like?

Spread calm. Tell the truth. Defend vulnerable people who are under attack. Getting stuck in a reactive mode is exhausting, and exhaustion can make us weak.

How would you center an absolutely-positioned element? auto margin combined with width/height? top/left combined with translate? With modern CSS, you can use place-self: center! Demo: codepen.io/t_afif/full/... via @codepen.io More alignment tricks below 👇

If you sincerely believe there is one tool universally suited to solving any conceivable problem, I have an LLM to sell you.

“You want to know you can use it sometimes without me thinking less of you. You […] just want me to be polite about it. But I am a hater, and I will not be polite.” “AI cannot be a hater, because AI does not feel, or know, or care. Only humans can be haters.” anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

Western leaders have appeased Donald Trump since he returned to power, only to be hit with new demands after every concession. On Tuesday, Trump declared economic war on countries that regulate its tech companies. It’s time for the world to break from the US and aggressively target Silicon Valley.

In a world where women and trans people and marginalized folks the world over are having to fight tooth and nail for any right to bodily autonomy and a decent life, the Guardian pretending we should be concerned about non sentient language learning models rights is fucking absurd.

(guy who just learned the word "egregious") that's egregious

Who among us hasn’t handed a reporter a wad of cash in a bag of sour cream & onion chips, hoping that they would become our “one good friend”. www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/w...

Weapons shares many narrative and tonal qualities with Fargo, so having writer/director Zach Cregger on this episode of @blankcheck.bsky.social’s miniseries about the Coen Brothers was a special treat! blankcheck.podcastpage.io/episode/farg...

for resiliency and redundant fallback make sure you have more than one single point of failure in your software stack

New on the blog: The arcane alphabets of Black Sabbath To commemorate Ozzy Osbourne, we took a deep dive into the obscure typefaces used on Black Sabbath’s first four album covers. fontsinuse.com/uses/35835/t... (Buckle up, it’s a long one.)

#TikTok workers in Berlin are on strike today ("warning strike"), with support of the service worker union verdi.