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✨ I just published a brand-new blog post about a modern CSS feature! But, honestly, I’m still on the fence about it. 😅 In this post, I’ll dig into the gnarly issue I ran into, and share three possible workarounds. Along the way, you’ll learn a bunch about the CSS cascade and specificity!

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GORN TREK TIME!

Probably a dicey topic, but I used Cursor to vibe-code a complex #WordPress YouTube plugin that automatically displays multiple YouTube embeds from a user, channel, or playlist using InnerBlocks and the core WP Youtube oEmbed block. github.com/tomfinitely/...

Just a heads up. I was able to schedule my COVID vaccine appointment. Online it will ask “do you have a condition that puts you at high risk for severe outcomes from COVID-19 virus.” Click yes and it will allow you to schedule an appointment. No questions asked. No proof required. Pass it on.

🎶 Vapin’ in the boys room 🎶

What if Zohran Mamdani is the prophesied Joe Rogan of the left

I wrote about Brad Lander newrepublic.com/post/197324/...

Okay so I need to get a clip, but there is currently an ad for Better Offline airing nationwide on the radio where I call OpenAI a financial abomination, very funny to say that I was encouraged to put this ad out there too!

LOL let the pearl clutching commence (cc @jacobsberg.bsky.social @tiff.is)👇 www.axios.com/local/washin...

Yo @eve6.bsky.social, proof of life MF’er

My Dearest Wife, We rode the groovy vibes into battle at dawn yesterday….

The *reason* Ai-generated text contains semicolons, en dashes etc. is that experienced, skilful writers use these marks to subtly convey meaning and nuance in their work. And the Ai LLMs have been trained on the stolen work of experienced, skilful writers.

If I want to learn to be a more agile and charismatic conversational _and_ public speaker, what are some objectively good (and free?) resources to use as my starting points?

You cannot stay in a poison swamp and not get poisoned.

$8.8T is the conservative value of open source—and most of it’s held up by overworked volunteers. Just dropped a post on what I saw at #OpenSourceSummit: FAIR, OSPOs, Gen Z, governance, and more. Feat. @marucchi.com & @joost.blog 👇 rogerwilliamsmedia.com/the-8-8-tril... #opensource #wordpress

jesus christ somebody's gotta stop this guy

in 2026 we're bringing back consequences

“Nononono… That’s a nasty nasty comment. The song is called ‘Total Obliteration of the Heart.’ TOTAL. 100%. Nobody’s seen a heart obliterated like that. It’s why they wrote a song about it. Eclipse? Nobody’s ever heard of eclipses.”

You can't literally primary everyone. But you can make everyone afraid of being primaried, and that will change a lot.

I think what establishment democrats need to understand is that most of us hate them all very much for being so persistently useless and shitty in our time of desperation and it fills our hearts with hope and joy when someone who might not be those things beats them.

Slate’s gonna publish 2 separate listicles tomorrow 5 minutes apart with some loser-ass headlines like “10 Reasons Bluesky is Only for Urban Elites” and “15 Ways Bluesky Can Improve by Placating Mediocre Mens’ Egos”

brad lander primary chuck schumer

you can't draw a lot of conclusions from a single race. there are external factors, flawed candidates, the right political climate. but one conclusion you can absolutely draw is that all of the people who tell you that there's only one way things can be are fucking wrong

Not a New Yorker but Staten Island and the Bronx seem to be living up to their reputations.

Video captured the moment a road buckled and sent a car flying as a heatwave impacted Missouri on Sunday.

I generally take a 'tech isn't inherently bad, capitalism just makes it manifest in bad ways' position but..............honestly, I think LLMs are inherently bad. Their technogical characteristics just fundamentally skew towards harming human information spaces severely and rapidly Wild piece:

Pot of gold in Alexandria cc: @capitalweather.bsky.social

Beautiful full rainbow over Rock Creek Park in DC today 🌈 @capitalweather.bsky.social

Due to the weather, tonight’s Kendrick Lamar & SZA concert may go later than expected. If so, we’ll extend Metrorail service with the last trains passing through Downtown Largo & Morgan Blvd at approximately 11:45 p.m. Stay safe, dry, & have fun! We’ll be there to get you home!

The failure to deploy rural broadband has become synonymous with excessive bureaucracy, Asad Ramzanali and Benjamin Dinovelli write. The real story is more complicated:

my goodness. someone on new york ave was killed by a driver hauling a tank post-army parade. a woman literally died for this useless excess.

I feel like some writers deliberately set out to antagonize Bluesky and like three of them work for the Atlantic

The owner of Twitter sends out 100 right wing propaganda tweets every single day and the algorithm is set up so that every single person on Twitter has to see every single one of these tweets. Now here’s another piece about Blue Sky’s ideological diversity problem.

I'm interviewing DC-area immigration lawyers about what they are navigating out there for a freelance feature, and man. A lot is happening. A whole lot. But the fire and passion all of these folks have to help and stop the evil wherever they can is reassuring. This call was heavy.

Republicans: WE NOMINATE SKELETOR Democrats: We dislike Skeletor but we will vote to confirm him. Please give us between 5 and 50 dollars. <Later> Democrats: I stand before you to condemn the actions of Skeletor. He should have never been given this power. Please give me between 5 and 50 dollars.

-Bluesky está muerto. -No, atiende que te lo explico... ¿Has visto 'El sexto sentido'? Pues tú eres Bruce Willis.

I saw Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready being harangued by a fanboy in the William Penn lobby before their PGH show circa 2008. After said fan left I carefully approached Mike (w/ approval from security), thanked him for the blistering DC a month prior & asked if they were well-rested after hiatus.

Researchers found that "AI therapist chatbots are contributing to harmful mental health stigmas — and reacting in outright dangerous ways to users exhibiting signs of severe crises, including suicidality and schizophrenia-related psychosis and delusion" futurism.com/stanford-the...

A few weeks ago, we launched the Ollie Theme Academy, a free video course for modern WordPress theme development. And today, we're releasing ANOTHER free video course. Introducing the Ollie Block Academy, a free custom block development course. olliewp.com/block-academy/

You’ll be too young to remember, but there was a time when you could wake up as many as three mornings in a row and not find the world had lost its fucking mind.

We've just updated the @wired.com guide to protecting your privacy while attending protests with the latest best practices. @agreenberg.bsky.social and @lhn.bsky.social report: www.wired.com/story/how-to...

Remember last year when people were gaming AI recruitment bots by putting hidden "hire me" messages in white text in their CVs? Well unsurprisingly, there is a very similar "zero click" cybersecurity loophole fortune.com/2025/06/11/m...

Creators of LLMs benefit from the general purposeness of their products because we have no constraints on what it means for them to *work* They can always escape accountability because a "use case" is an abstract concept that the products will never be optimised for.

Dominionists absolutely see war in the Middle East, directly involving Israel as a game, catapulting us that much us closer to Revelations.