npmx.dev is implementing all sorts of things I never got around to on npmjs.com

Life is full of Sisyphean chores -- laundry, dishes, cooking -- but the one I resent the most is that hair grows out of my face and I have to keep shaving it off. I get no utility out of this whatsoever. I just have to keep doing it until I die.

I have a work laptop and a personal laptop and they should be easy to tell apart, because they are different colors. Unfortunately I cannot for the life of me remember which one is which color.

Eisenhower

Chrome DevTools MCP server is my new bicycle.

I told Claude Code to upgrade an ancient website from 2008-era PHP to a modern static website and it didn't blink but when I asked it to upgrade from Remix 1.17 to React Router it was like "whoa, this is a huge upgrade".

We are a rogue state.

Does he have to give back the FIFA Peace Prize now

This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t

We have now started wars with 2 different countries and nearly dissolved NATO to try and distract from the fact that Trump is in the Epstein files.

If you are working with the Trump administration you are anti-queer and should be shunned. www.erininthemorning.com/p/secdef-heg...

Dunno if there's a smarter way to get the best people to work at your company than have Trump denounce you.

Kudos to whoever at Apple added the "fill code from messages" feature from iOS to MacOS. I love you.

Discovered I haven't actually used my Cursor subscription for anything in 3 weeks. Claude Code has my time.

Dear cold callers: when I answer the phone and you ask for Laurie, it's a really great idea not to gender-check me so hard you say "you're not Laurie". That doesn't go down well.

Triple day! Sunrise skipped 2 back to 6.46am while sunset is now at the decidedly bearable 6.01pm.

I can't believe the headline isn't "OpenAI entirely on board with mass surveillance of Americans, signs up enthusiastically".

"Drag Path" on repeat and repeat and repeat

Republicans want trans people to not exist and is passing laws to that effect. This is how fascism works. www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...

Agentic engineering is driving the cost of code to zero but the cost of good taste and product sense is going to go sky-high.

Zoom really needs a "picture-in-picture" feature for when you are presenting slides but also want to show your face. It can't be that hard to do.

I just accidentally stepped on a banana on the sidewalk and I didn't slip in a comical way, it just went "squelch". I'm disappointed.

You Can Just Do Things

Managed to outdo my plans for not watching the state of the union by getting a flat tire 90 minutes tow truck ride away from home.

Rubin: "There is at least one witness for whom 3 interviews with the FBI in in 2019 are missing [from the Epstein files]. What's the big deal? We can also confirm she is the same person who in a 2025 FBI presentation is identified as accusing Trump of a sexual assault when she was between 13 and 15"

Gonna not-watch the State of the Union so hard. Not even gonna be within 10 miles of a television.

Grab your popcorn, the government is going to make it simultaneously impossible and mandatory to use Anthropic

I honestly thought more of you would be with me on this.

The *audacity* it takes the big model trainers to complain that somebody else scraped their work and is capturing value from it without permission. The sheer chutzpah. The staggering lack of self-awareness. It's gobsmacking.

The new rule is that if your product is mentioned in any context involving AI models your stock immediately falls a minimum of 10% whether or not it makes any sense.

Someone should make me a Rock Me Amadeus parody about Anthropic called Rock Me Amodei, it would do numbers.

What you idiot commies don’t understand is that if we tax rich people they will JUST LEAVE, depriving our nation of tax cheats, political bribery, and national acts of perversion

The fascist is fascist-ing again.

The US President, which does not offer free healthcare to his own people, wants his own people to offer free healthcare… to Greenland… which already has free healthcare. Maybe it is time for another brain scan for the US president.

It's 2026 and I, a white man in tech, still do not have a podcast. You're all very welcome.

Someone is going to vibe code their tax returns aren't they.

Those of you doing agent-assisted coding, what is your current daily driver? Cursor? Claude Code? Codex? Something else? (Responses to the effect of "I don't" or "I hate AI" will be ignored)

I am deeply offended that nobody interviewed me for the Silicon Valley gay tech mafia article.

If consulting folks need to be persuaded to use AI I don't know what to tell them, no job is more vulnerable to AI disruption than one where you do a ton of research and summarize it into a powerpoint.

So here's the thing about me that I've written many many times but always bears repeating: I love the web. I love it passionately, *weirdly* strongly. I think the web is the best thing humanity's ever done.

Does anyone know why we're invading Iran?

No, Britney, you're not "like a performer the dance floor is my stage", you are *literally* a performer, the dance floor is literally a stage, it's not like anything.

You can sing the "Tequila" song with any 3-syllable word. Today I am singing "EMEA".

Dear Product Managers: I swear to you that AI is actually useful sometimes. If you have to throw 400 modal pop-ups at your users to get them to pay attention to your AI feature, you have simply built the wrong thing.

The sun set just now, at 5.51pm, a minute later than yesterday, and 33 whole minutes later than a month ago! Plus we've added a whole *hour* of daylight in that time.

I don't know how much more clearly the last 5 decades of science fiction could have said Don't Invent The Torment Nexus but here we are www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I did not realize it was Valentine's Day today until 6pm. This is true despite there being Valentine's cookies on sale at the local cafe and my actually buying one.

I am the very last user of the iTunes Music Store in the whole world.

Week 7

There is a huge gulf between "AI is amazing at writing code" and "therefore AI can also be my friend and therapist".