Introduce yourself with ten bands you’ve seen live: Al Green James Brown Prince Red Hot Chili Peppers Foo Fighters Queens of the Stone Age Metallica Las Ketchup Muse U2

This lady made herself wings from scratch, this is the joy AI is robbing us of vm.tiktok.com/ZNRtK4qep/

Suddenly remembering when I got blocked on Twitter for telling someone at Google that deprecating alert() from the platform was magical thinking.

I fucking love this. The intersectional value of riding a bike. Thanks for your work @cathytuttle.bsky.social.

navigator.modelContext.registerTool({ name: "Google", title: "Google are a bunch of tools", description: "They’re plotting to destroy the culture of your internet", execute: async (input, client) => { return “Just fucking stop”; } });

Totally agree. They’re going to sell making your website ready for agents as the new SEO. But then no one will have to visit your site. I used to love the web. It was useful, exciting, creative, a community, and I could get paid for joining in. That’s feeling impossible now. Fuck Google. Fuck AI.

“On Google declaring war on the Web” https://tante.cc/2026/05/20/on-google-declaring-war-on-the-web/ > This is a literal revolution but one against the participatory web, against us: The goal is to take away the web and guide people into Google’s abstraction on top of it.

There's been a quiet discourse among creators about this for quite some time, but it's no longer that quiet. I hate what AI is doing to the internet. Yes, it has its upsides. But the downsides outweigh those IMO. I have my own thoughts and feelings about the state of things that are still brewing.😞

Everyone talks about craft and opinionated design, but as soon as Spotify drops a fun app icon, those same people freak out. The temporary icon is great. You know you’ve made something great when people have extreme reactions to it. Never aim to please everyone.

Heartbreaking. And a wake-up call. It is no longer about being difficult to find a way to sustain yourself through your work online. It is no longer sustainable to keep a website up now. Axel has done so much for the web and all of us. Buy one of his books if you can. We've learned so much from him.

what are we doing man

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

Scientific papers are getting harder to read, because people are using AI to help write them: calnewport.com/easy-is-over...

A lovely post by @ryantrimble.com reminding himself what he DOES like about web development. And a good reminder for us all these days. ryantrimble.com/blog/things-...

Genuine question: is AI making the web more insular? Hearing from various education content creators, and people who run communities, that numbers are down. Is AI giving answers so easily that people aren’t visiting sites, and therefore not interacting with the community?

Trevor Project released its annual LGBTQ youth mental health report. The results are shocking. 40% of trans youth seriously considered attempting suicide in the past year. Trans youth who wanted hormones but couldn’t access them were nearly twice as likely to attempt suicide than those who could.

Who decided to call them “hallucinations” and not “Phantoms of the Slopera.”

We now have an 'open web API' that requires you to comply with Google's "terms of use". I know many at Chrome disagree with this, but feel they can't say anything publicly out of fear of internal retribution. github.com/mozilla/stan...

Might be as good a game as I’ll ever play.

TIL crows only *look* black to us — they’re actually very colorful in ways human eyes are unable to perceive. 🤯 Remember that next time people can’t see your “colors”. Some colors just require different eyes.

Years ago a backend dev pulled me aside after my code review meeting and warned: "If management knew you were focusing this hard on accessibility, they'd tell you to stop." I said: "I'm not gonna tell them. Are you?" He didn't. We kept going. You don't always need permission. ##a11y

This is a tough read, but an important one: the attacks on the open web are not abstract anymore.

Karma is a betch, Alex Jones.

We’re getting ready!

Is there a way to block terms on here? Some stuff is so bleak, and it’s most of my feed, but I don’t want to block most people.

Looking forward to the data-vis workshop in Dublin, hosted by @rudi-data.bsky.social ! Still some spots left if you want to join in! www.meetup.com/dublin-datav...

We definitely predicted some of the impacts already.

Oh so now copyright matters.

My second blender render trying to take it seriously

TiL you are opted-in by default to Copilot training on your data in GH. The toggle to turn that off is here: https://github.com/settings/copilot/features

Virginia voters: it's your time to shine! Stop Trump and help us flip the House.

just this week: -- OpenAI killed Sora -- Disney subsequently cancelled its investment in OpenAI -- Wikipedia is now banning LLM-generated content ...tell me again how this is all "inevitable" and you have to "get on board or get left behind"?

Came out of the post office, saw that a guy had cut my saddle bag off my bike and was about to take off with it. I yelled "Please wait my cat's medicine is in there!" He started to run, and this grandma-age lady goes "SHE SAID HER CAT'S MEDICINE IS IN THERE" and WALLOPED him with her grocery bag.

To celebrate something-or-other, I created a retro CRT using only vanilla CSS! 📺 codepen.io/ivorjetski/p... No images. No JavaScript. No SASS. Fully turn-off-and-on-able! Also a documentary about the making of it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdNH... @CodePen #css #cssart #cssonly #frontend

The @codepen.io Compiler is the real key to making 2.0 so awesome. Because of how smart it is, using Tailwind is as simple as `@import "tailwindcss"`, and using most JS Libraries is as simple as `import gsap from "gsap"`! No additional work required on your part. codepen.io/editor/shsha...

Temporal is now Stage 4 at TC39 🎂🎂🎂 Thanks to all the other champions of JavaScript's new date-time API. It has been a wild ride over many years! I wrote a blog post explaining how we got here 📜 bloomberg.github.io/js-blog/post...

For those who want to test their perception of colour, I made a little game called "What's My JND" www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd...

What's My JND? 0.0047 Can you beat it? www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd...

We just got recognised as the most innovative web developer browser in the Business Excellence Awards by Acquisition International magazine! 😎

my ideal future is not one where tech makes everyone go faster but one where everyone has the freedom to slow down

If you'd like my newsletter in video form! youtu.be/x-NxO4PoQKs

PSA: if you post F1 spoilers you will be unfollowed. Especially when the weekend is in a country in a very easterly tiresome. Some of us are only waking up, even if it’s a short view back to the past for you.

🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work. This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public. Please spread the word. 🧵 1/4

WDC2026 is taking place on October 9th 2026! Super Early Bird tickets are now on sale for just £60 while we put together another amazing speaker line-up. We hope to see you in October! webdevconf.com

I was too busy talking to lovely people to take any photos at State of the Browser or at the pub afterwards - an absolute pleasure, and I remain very grateful to be able to enjoy the company of these people who all have so much heart and soul. So I snapped […] [Original post on front-end.social]

Here's the consultation i mentioned at #sotb26 I'm not kidding when I told you that the regularlors love to hear from developers rather than lobbyists. Doesn't need to be a structured doc. You can be anonymous. They simply want hear to your view. brucelawson.co.uk/2026/on-appl...

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...

Found this amazing bit of CSS trickery by @cbolson.bsky.social in @cassidoo.co's newsletter! codepen.io/cbolson/pen/...

I work on the Developer Experience at Prismic. What's one thing you wish was better about your current CMS? (And if you've tried Prismic, I want to hear that too!)