I just noticed that one of the moderation lists I subscribe to, “AI Slop,” is filtering a bunch of legitimate news and activist accounts. Check your moderation lists, folks!

AI Tip: If you want to know if something is AI, the hashtags might offer clues.

Is it a coincidence that this will destroy the SEO for @theglazeproject.bsky.social ?

At my local military surplus store there’s a brightly-colored poster for “gender reveal smoke grenades” and I suspect they leave it up because it’s a perfect troll… almost on the same level as man cereal.

vite is so fast, time paradoxes were bound to happen

Did you know? The branding for @vite.dev is so iconic that the framework's original logo was included in Yasaburo Kuwayama's book, "Trademarks and Symbols of the World Volume 2," published in 1987.

Want to deploy a website to Cloudflare Pages from your JavaScript codebase? I extracted the Cloudflare Pages deploy logic from the Cloudflare CLI so you can deploy a website with a single function call: www.npmjs.com/package/clou...

How we rewrote Moby Dick with a photocopier in one week

Incredible. Here's CSS styling a table with a dynamic number of rows and columns to apply a color spectrum, perfectly balanced by hue and shade, to the backgrounds of the cells using sibling-index() and computed LCH colors. Two lines of CSS. Repl: svelte.dev/playground/d...

I just published three npm packages 🥴 None of them are ready for public consumption yet, but it feels amazing to get this far.

I just posted my first review on @bookhive.buzz 🤓📚 It was a review of the classic history book “Bond Men Made Free” by Rodney Hilton. #medievalsky bookhive.buzz/profile/litt...

gushing over the maintainability and simplicity of @jim-nielsen.com’s menu as a whole dang separate-standalone-HTML-page: blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/lots-of... (via @dbushell.com)

Do any static web hosts respect “Accept: text/markdown”?

When a tooltip appears on the notification icon urging you two check your two unread notifications, saying "You have important updates."

I ❤️ homemade websites. All the differences and nuances thanks to individual preferences and decisions. Visual and technical diversity. Here is also where we can tell where web development really stands, how much it has evolved. The homemade part of the Web is—the Beautiful Web. #web #indieweb

I rarely evangelize my favorite tools… …but every few months I have to post about how much I love Helix Editor. I really cannot imagine editing text without it. It’s the fluidity of a TUI editor like Neovim with the default config of a GUI editor like VSCode 👨‍🍳👌

Last year I used ChatGPT to add highlights to text. Success rate at or near zero. 😑 The most basic rich text editors solved text formatting more than 40 years ago. Yet the most advanced LLMs still bungle copy/paste. How do you trust an assistant that can’t copy and paste?

Seems like a good time to launch a batteries-included Markdown website generator 👀

I'm almost done rewriting Vowel from scratch. It's currently building its own documentation site in 227ms with no cache and 60ms with the cache. More info to come 👨‍🏭

Should I use @tangled.org or GitHub for my new open source project?

You know that feeling when you’re about to start rewriting your interactive CLI app, but you haven’t been able to find a good CLI prompting framework, and then a new state-of-the-art CLI prompting framework drops? That’s a good feeling.

And also, please get in touch if you'd be interested in testing it. This package is a general-purpose file processor aimed at JavaScript devs. It's like if Gulp was written in 2026. #webdev #javascript 🫣 pls rt

Yesterday I finished a first draft of a new engine for @vowel.cc, which I'm going to publish as a standalone package this week. Stay tuned if JavaScript read/write operations get you pumped. #javascript #webdev #markdown

Six months later I realize I effectively invented the progressive web app.

What are the minimal requirements for a personal PDS? (i.e. I write and host it by myself for myself from scratch.) @danabra.mov has nerd sniped me. #atproto #pds

I'm setting up a new Mac. No one warned me that the migration from Intel to Apple Silicon would break everything 🥲 Am I the only millennial traumatized by the migration from Mac OS 9 to OSX?

This is a perfect piece of technical writing. alexharri.com/blog/ascii-r...

Web 2.0 2.0

Using a large, reputable npm package that has seven million weekly downloads.

Ask anyone I know about my plans to build a raccoon army.

My go-to reply for combatting spam 😆😁

Holy crap. This is legitimately the best piece of technical writing I've read in ages.

Woahwoah. This includes a proposal to add `<geolocation>` as a submittable form element, meaning you could have a plain HTML form that submits the client location: <form method="post"> <geolocation>Here I am!</geolocation> <button>Submit</button> </form>

It feels like a missed opportunity that markdown doesn't use the section symbol (§). There's a bit of ambiguity as to whether a markdown heading should indicate the start of a new <section> element. What if `#` was neutral and `§` created a new <section>? ``` § Postscript Lorem ipsum... ```

At karaoke recently, the emcee was pleading for people to sign up because the list was almost empty. I went up and asked if I could do 4’33”. She said no.

the anthropic drama (tl;dr they blocked third party tools from using claude code subscriptions) is a useful reminder that you use LLMs at the pleasure of the companies providing them sounds obvious but despite all the AI discourse, i don't see a lot of people talking about the consequences of this

I think Svelte 5 had some drama when they shortened the comment syntax in the compiler output to <! etc /> to save bytes and everyone freaked out because they didn’t know what it was.

In fact we have records of at least 65,000 immigrants in the late MEDIEVAL period. This means real numbers were significantly higher. In England more than 1% of the population was foreign born (never mind 2nd gen) with numbers as high as 1 in 10 in cities. There’s a database!

I just searched Google for a synonym and the thesaurus box came up empty. I wonder if Google's dictionary and thesaurus features are headed toward @killedbygoogle.com.

A hot take after seeing yet another fancy tabs design: the classic "tab component" is over-engineered for 90% of use cases. You probably don't need it...

Lock them in a room with a laptop that will unlock the door if they can correctly answer ten entry-level coding interview questions.

mkdir 26

you should start a blog

The church invented the modern “family” (a procreative corporation) in the late middle ages to reinforce the feudal social order, wherein the father had absolute authority solely within his household. The word “family” is Latin for “house slaves.”

In case anyone ever fears you’re not supporting the author by reading from a library, you absolutely are! And the more people request a book the more copies they buy!

This is an interesting #UI experiment and concept: "an alternative to drag and drop". jgthms.com/picknplace.js/ #frontend #JavaScript #webdev

Whatever happened to chivalry*? *Old men fighting protracted legal battles over how they were allowed to decorated their horses

Found the best named law ever on Jane Austen's wiki

I made my brother a cake in the shape of the Sackville Cube for his birthday. Chocolate stout cake with cream cheese whipped ganache icing.