Thats a refreshing take. Forget about “optimization,” since AIO is too nebulous to chase and SEO has gotten canned. You’re free. Write whatever you want.

Last month I bought this teak coffee table for $30 on Facebook marketplace. I disassembled it, sanded it, oiled it, waxed it, redoweled it, and put it back together. I may never be so proud of anything else I do. (Dog for scale.) (Dog is either a very large small dog or a very small large dog.)

Readers are justifiably wary of the relentless creep of AI slop, so in Saltscapes, we're giving you our word.

Alright, I just need to write the docs and then the beta is gonna drop. Pray for me ❤️

Yo watch this space 😁

Really good read! “The text mode lie: why modern TUIs are a nightmare for accessibility” by Casey Reeves xogium.me/the-text-mod... #tui #a11y

It’s only a matter of time before Richard Dawkins demands legal protections for Comic Sans.

AI companies are collapsing **checks notes** because of AI?

Ngl when I open on Drive, Photos, Calendar, or Maps, it’s a 1-in-4 chance I get the right one.

It’s pretty crazy that there’s a decentralized software on billions of devices around the world that is constantly updating with crazy new features like new ways of perceiving color or conceptualizing time and it’s built through a cooperative global effort, and it actually works really well.

The other day my friend said that they are good at “challenging” ChatGPT to correct its biases. New research in HBR shows that sometimes it is literally impossible to correct those biases. hbr.org/2026/03/rese...

This is exactly what it looks like when you’re wrong about something but you hope that if you say it loud enough people will just believe you… right before you discover that they will not.

Nolan squandered an all-star cast in the Batman movies, and Heath Ledger is the exception that proves the rule.

Gotta say — I'm researching some scary health stuff right now, and these AI-generated snippets feel like a personal attack. When you search "Is X a symptom of Y?" anxious for clarity and a plausible-sounding summary pops up... you forget for a moment that it's randomly-generated brain garbage.

A subtweet challenging a minor detail tangential to the article’s thesis without tagging the author. ericwbailey.website/published/a-...

Being a web developer in 2026 is really cool because at this point there are technologies that are effectively ancient that still feel like magic. I've been using nodemon for almost ten years, but I just configured it for this slightly complicated codebase and it feels like alien super technology.

Most new products are priced at an enormous loss to appear “revolutionary,” when in fact they are just burning investor funding to sell repackaged old tech at a discount.

If you need to run LLMs for a week to build a UI mechanism, ask yourself if you might be fighting against your users’ interests and the platform built to serve them.

I have never once heard a developer or user complain that their text is not constantly reflowing around animated objects. You know what I could imagine hearing them complain about?

Have you read this? www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

My reaction on realizing there’s a troll emoji

thank you @halifaxexaminer.ca for pointing out this survey www.surveymonkey.ca/r/F9WBTLZ

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...

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