As someone who's lived through the fax machine that would save time and money, the PC that would save time and money, the internet that would save time and money, etc.: The result is *always* workload expansion, because that is always the goal: To extract more out of you, the human resource.

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.

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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?!!

Someone pointed out that influencers use serotonin/dopamine/cortisol/oxytocin like they’re the four humors and now I can’t stop seeing it

Abolish ICE

In this episode we rolled back the clock and did a full retrospective on the infamous Harper's Letter. This conversation with @parkermolloy.com was so much fun and what a trip it was travelling back to seemingly simpler times in the discourse. youtu.be/NF-M3Nz0azE?...

Today at 19:00 Paris time, developers from French studio Humble Reeds will demo 3 other French games from other developers, including Oremus. Don't miss it, and pass the word! 🙏 Details in next post ➡️ To wishlist Oremus: store.steampowered.com/app/3857110/... #gamedev #indie #indiedev #gaming

It’s so jarring to see programmers completely change their concept of what code even *is* because they want to use LLMs to generate code that is incompatible with said concept.

"Police officers who use their sidearm in the exercise of these duties will enjoy my support, irrespective of the outcome of the use of force. Officers who fail to make use of their weapon out of a false reticence, should expect disciplinary action.” - Hermann Göring, February 17, 1933

If AI coding is so good, where are the performance numbers? Claude bros know how to measure performance. They just don't. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeU2... - video pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260113-if-... - podcast time: 7 min 34 sec

There were plenty of middle-aged white men in the Nazi group chat. These guys grew up on 4chan but are now fully cooked after 20 years of being inside that mind hive. Long past intern age and this professional racist is probably making $100k

Can't let people find out that the x in "10x developer" stands for 0.08

Latest Zed editor (zed.dev) update has fixes I wanted to the Helix (helix-editor.com) mode, and initial support for Dev Containers. Nice.

Trying to write a blog post but my only free time is midnight to 1am. (First version of this post said 12pm instead of midnight. The AM/PM system, not even once.)

EasySpeak Voice control for Linux desktops - Fully local, no cloud, Wayland-native, free and open source. github.com/ctsdownloads...

Porn and erotica are important and societally valuable forms of speech, and the defense of them, in the face of state and church attempts at repression, is a necessary political act.

The end goal of Grok sexual harassment is to make women afraid to be visible. It’s a punishment for daring to exist in a way the perpetrators can’t control. There’s no one solution to this, because the problem isn’t just technological. It’s cultural. It’s misogyny. This is just one expression of it.

My patreon sub to @ifbookspod.bsky.social expired, so I can only listen to the first 80% of each bonus episode.