thunderstruck sounds like a song the gremlins from gremlins would make if you locked them in a Guitar Center

Maria Blondeau, 18 ans Louise Hublet, 20 ans Ernestine Diot, 17 ans Félicie Tonnelier, 16 ans Kléber Giloteaux, 19 ans Charles Leroy, 20 ans Émile Ségaux, 30 ans Gustave Pestiaux, 14 ans Émile Cornaille, 11 ans Fusillés par l’État à la demande des patrons de Fourmies le 1e mai 1891.

It's been clear for a hot minute an anti-autism diagnosis campaign is in the works but I am truly stunned they are literally just going for the Detransitioner playbook

CSS tip: make sure that selected text remains readable. Style `::selection` to at least disable text effects like drop shadows, gradient fills, etc. A decent chunk of your users treat text selection as a reading aid, highlighting words or paragraphs to keep track of their position in the text.

Favorite Lord of the Rings character, wrong answers only. Mine is Fraudo Baggins.

Some personal/work news: I was laid off mid 2024 and took a sabbatical, which quickly turned into taking care of my pregnant partner (part time job) and then our twin babies (full time job ^^). How time flies! We also moved to Réunion recently.

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

Caravan Sandwitch (2024) Art director Charles Boury: "Nausicaa was a big inspiration, visually and politically. The other main influence is the illustrative work of Simon Stålenhag. Then there are more specific refs: the character eyes of The Wind Waker, the dunes of Journey, the music of Sable."

See "Ironies of Automation"

After a couple decades reading standards from W3C et al, it’s a shock when you try to read some other specification published by someone else. Adobe: sure, try to fish out some PDF from the unsearchable entrails of our many websites. ISO: here it is, that will cost you CHF 227 for a 100-page PDF.

Anyone knows a cross-platform app that can stream audio/video from one device to another on the same wifi network? Everything I find is for phones, but I need it on a laptop too.

remake The Vampire Diaries & set it in the age of true crime podcasts, you cowards!

every time i read about ai agents allegedly blogging about drama, it’s really just some human playing wizard of oz

A good read on issue management for open source projects, which matches the consensus among Godot maintainers. (Any patronymic resemblance to the author may or may not be fortuitous.)

The thing with "not everyone likes working from home," "some people work better in company" is some people don't like working in the office & work better left to their own devices but apparently that's not as important - they're expected to be companion donkeys as well as doing their actual job.

We're announcing two things: node:vfs, a Virtual File System landing in Node.js core (PR #61478, ~14,000 lines across 66 files) @platformatic/vfs, a userland package you can use today on Node.js 22+ blog.platformatic.dev/why-nodejs-n...

Stranded @ JFK airport, so overnight I wrote and recorded an absolutely insane noise album. Documented events include: • salad • the custodian named Hugo cleaning the floors • Delta's AI helpline • a baby This is real and it's real weird. Maybe you'll dig it. anaerobic.bandcamp.com/album/terminal

So, consensus among devs who use AI coding tools is that Anthropic and OpenAI's models/agents are finally good now (since Dec 2025). It's reaching a critical mass which makes me think *maybe* I should try those. But I also don't have too much cash and don't want to fund school bombings. Thoughts?

The emerging cases of AI psychosis have shown that all it takes to drive some people completely insane is to put them in contact with a sycophantic chatbot who always agrees with them. Now, what does that tell us about billionaire CEOs surrounded by sycophantic people who always agree with them?

Your menu doesn’t need Miller’s 7±2 rule. Be careful with anyone selling “magical” UX rules as universal answers. Miller’s 7±2 rule was about memory, not how many elements you can put on the screen. stephaniewalter.design/blog/your-me...

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Saw a French language trailer for the movie Zeh Weel Keel Yoo.

@sneyers.info Possible JPEG XL spotting: DxO PureRaw 6 launched this week with a new "High fidelity DNG" export option that reduces its notoriously high file sizes. No details given, but I highly suspect it's using lossy JXL to compress data (like in Apple's lossy ProRaw).

This is a shitty outcome for a valid criticism of an #overlay product: • www.lalutineduweb.fr/en/help-lawy... • www.lalutineduweb.fr/aide-frais-a... France needs SLAPP laws. I have a 2022 post detailing the failings of this overlay: adrianroselli.com/2022/03/faci... #accessibility #a11y

Our StatiCache 2.1.0 release comes with a significant performance boost by pre-compressing cache files on write: github.com/getkirby/sta... Thanks to Tobias Möritz for his contribution 👏

they sent 3,000 agents. they weren't ready for the PTA. youtu.be/t8LjsiLi1q0

"Artists peak at 30", "30 under 30", "by 30 you should" ridiculous. Arts industries capital craves young people to exploit and burn out. It doesn't want older artists thriving and guiding the young. It also doesn't want artists to exist. Stop letting cannibals tell you you only matter on a plate.

for reference, that's more than 1 in 10. for people who are out of the closet and show up in statistics, it's 1 in 5. imagine 20% of any population being forced to uproot and relocate. this is not normal

Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.

I was there, Gandalf. I was there three thousand years ago. I watched it live on Twitch. I'm literally in the chat logs.

🎉 Looking for new work. 15 years front-end dev + Design Systems specialist. I help folks build, maintain & transform design systems. I'm also available for focused projects, front-end builds, codebase modernisation. Short to long term. Let's chat - [email protected] reposts appreciated <3

Announcing Oxfmt Beta * 100% Prettier Compatibility * Additional File Formats * Tailwind CSS Integration * Import Sorting * package.json Sorting * Embedded Language Formatting * Node.js API * `--migrate prettier` * config overrides * Full IDE support oxc.rs/blog/2026-02...

“is there a technology that the left is excited about?” Trains. We love trains, actually

I can’t believe you lefty Luddites hate tech so much that you embrace mRNA vaccines, heat pumps, electric bikes, hybrid work, renewable power (and awesome advancements in storage), space telescopes, and hot/cold running water but reject the planet destroying plagiarism enrich the worst people bots!

Thankfully I don't get any of that directed my way, I just see it in other people's comments. My online bubble is strongly anti-AI, with a few moderate AI-assisted coders mixed in. My offline bubble is two 8 month olds that don’t want to replace me with AI just yet.

I balk at comparisons of LLMs to interns or junior coworkers. I’ve worked with juniors who needed lots of guidance, I’ve liked teaching what I could and have felt frustrated by the time commitment. Ultimately, helping people gain confidence and start their career is worth it, because they’re PEOPLE.

Interop 2026 launches today! If you want know on what it includes and what it means for web development — our article provides all the details. webkit.org/blog/17818/a... Focus areas include Anchor Positioning, Style Queries, contrast-color(), WebTransport and much, much more.

When "we cannot have serious conversations about AI" is just a shorthand for "I want critics to overlook that none of the criticism has been answered and I need them to accept that AI is without alternative and forever" the problem lies not with the critics.

“In October, one of Discord’s former third-party vendors suffered a data breach that exposed users’ age verification data, including images of government IDs.”

you say "i asked chatgpt" i hear "i asked [an improv comedy group]" an improv group wrote this report instead of a therapist i use an improv comedy group

While decent people have known this for years, it’s nice to have a more recent reference. Also, this is why I don’t read nor share Substack and why I judge those on it.

Democratizing the arts looks like universal income, low-barrier grants for both emerging and working artists, well-funded municipal arts & recreation programs, vibrant third spaces, and a well-funded public school system with progressive curriculum. Not a free pass for corporate-owned slop engines.

Wanted feature: register a fingerprint as a "turn off biometrics" trigger. I'd use my index finger or thumb for that. Middle or ring finger for normal unlock. And for passwords, a "delete all keys and power off" trigger would be great.

I should do a list of my favorite musicians/bands/singers but focused on the one song that hooked me for each one. Even if I don't love that song as much by now.

I’m working on an update to ReMarkdown. github.com/fvsch/remark...

The blessed day is upon us once again

Ads for developer tooling are just "AI will make a mess and break production. We can fix it." In the words of @edzitron.com: Is That Good?!!