I'm somewhat a fan of resets and sensible global CSS styles, so I thought it would be fun to run through Chris' recent starter and pick out bits I like and don't like. piccalil.li/links/the-co...

I hear we’re sharing dog pictures today.

Got my performance review.

DISNEY: "OK, we are putting Jimmy Kimmel back on the air. You can resubscribe now." ME: "I unsubscribed because you immorally bowed to fascism. I'm not going to resubscribe because you immorally bowed to finances."

It's been 9 years since l arrived in the US. Next month I'm moving out. It's been a great time, and I made great friends. However the constant aggressive developments towards immigrants and the LGBTQ+ community made me reconsider everything.

I mocked Apple for the several compromises taken on the iPhone Air. I went to an Apple Store to check out the new iPhones. I now want an iPhone Air.

1. Bluesky doesn’t downrank links 2. You can choose your own algorithm from among thousands 3. The whole app is open source This keeps it a free and open platform by design, leading to better click-throughs and traffic to your site. We 💙 the open web.

in retrospect, there’s probably never been a name as threatening as “America Online”

evergreen

What 15 years of design debt looks like

Tickets are on sale for Brooklyn Web Workers on September 29th, featuring: Annabelle Adelaide on Forth @eligundry.dev on knowing where your money comes from Victoria Kirst on the wisdom of paper @demarko.org on Kickstarter United music by Corn Mo withfriends.events/event/dDagl3...

Wish me luck 2/3.

Little-less-optimistic is my middle name.

Doomscrolling is a lot more fun when you're rooting for the doom

Microsoft released MAI-Voice-1 and a free tool that will rephrase anything you say in the most obnoxious cringe dialog you can imagine. The audio below was created with what you're reading, with the default settings (Emotive, Rain, Joy).

Look what they did to Notepad. Shut the fuck up. This is Notepad. You are not welcome here. Oh yeah "Let me use Copilot for Notepad". "I'm going to sign into my account for Notepad". What the fuck are you talking about. It's Notepad.

✨ Big O ✨ Let me take you on a visual introduction to what big O notation is in my new blog post: samwho.dev/big-o. With big O notation you can better understand how algorithms will perform in practice, finding orders of magnitude improvements often with very simple changes to your code.

Wish me luck 1/3.

This is glamjurous.

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this could fix me

This is Pungo. He is glad you found a new favorite hobby, but please don't forget about his favorite hobby. 13/10 (IG: ksmith.clay)

I would pay for a drafts folder here.

I scored 15/21 on e-mail.wtf and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media.

And last but not least, I'd love it if you'd consider sharing with your friends, family, and anyone you feel could use a dose of inspiration and positivity! Thanks so much for your support. I’m so excited to help people wake up excited! wakeupexcited.show

This is inspiring me to start my own podcast “Wake Up Anxious”.

No Older Notifications

I don’t use @zed.dev and don’t know pretty much anything relevant about the project. But oh boy do they have a pretty website.

People are lonelier than ever, so here is a robot you can talk to. It won't make you less lonely but it will drive you insane. That will be five thousand dollars.

“a flexible scoring system that prioritizes usability over compliance” Yes, please.

*asks chat gpt how to bulk delete old emails*

This is what 2025 is feeling like.

I always wanted to visit New Nakamia.

“Hey guys, I vibe coded this! Isn’t AI awesome? It works!”

Hi, I tried to open your website on the subway without internet connection and it didn’t work. Unacceptable. Fix it.

AI was supposed to make us more efficient. Instead, it’s fragmenting our workflows, bloating our calendars, and burning out high performers. I wrote about the false promise of AI productivity and why we’re actually working harder than ever: afterburnout.co/p/ai-promise...

“We already have a phrase for code that nobody understands: legacy code.”

It’s finally the year of the Linux slurpie

fun news! I was laid off from Twilio. going to take this weekend to chill out, and will start looking for roles next week. if you or someone you know is looking for staff/principal level Developer Advocacy, OSPO, dev infra, or similar roles pass them along! reposts from tech folks appreciated <3

Same 😮‍💨

NEW POST Many people like to give their LLM assistant a persona, such as a stubborn donkey, a genie, a slot machine, and Uriah Heep martinfowler.com/articles/who...

I now want to read the source code for how Date is implemented in every browser. What the actual fuck.

One of the best new set of features added to the language in years.

People outside tech starting to realize how quality software and typing/generating code fast are not correlated

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ARIA! It exists and on a long enough timeline you'll need to use it. Here's how to get into the right headspace to do so! #a11y www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/06/what...