I had fun prototyping a TUI for running and monitoring Procfile-based applications, similar to `foreman` or `overmind`, but built with the Charm Ruby libraries ✨

I think we can all agree it’s time for fireworks to become 100% illegal. Let’s ban fireworks everywhere in 2026

Nine Delights 2026

This BETTER work y’all

Not me setting up an OS X Mountain Lion VM in UTM, to study it in detail for UX/design purposes

If you haven't read the Animal Crossing volume from Boss Fight Books already, I *highly* recommend it. Lewin goes into an exceptional amount of detail on this and a million other little things just like it!! bossfightbooks.com/products/ani...

Were 90s kids clamoring for a Batman cartoon with 1930s Art Deco aesthetics? Is that what the market demanded? Or did some really smart creative people have a vision and make a genre-defining hit that sustained 20 years of TV shows? If you want success look for vision, not just metrics.

Rereading Guards! Guards! In 2025 was…an experience 😵‍💫

new year’s eve: the night of the year why i’m reminded why fireworks should be illegal

If this year was about getting off US tech, 2026 is the year to reassess the digital revolution — what works, what doesn’t; what to keep, and what to reject. I’ve only just started to consider what needs to change about how I use digital technology, but I’m excited to learn more next year.

Every wildest fear at the time of the Department of Homeland Security's creation has been realized or at least stated as a public mission. The organization was born rotten and has only grown worse; dismantling it is the gentlest possible fate and the future of democracy likely requires more.

Outlook for the new year ...

Legit used to work with someone who would just vape in the office and it was kind of a gem. I endorse 😂

I found my iPod Classic. It booted, synced, and holds a charge. I’ve currently got a battery ordered, to avoid that fire hazard. It’s still a BEAUTIFUL device. Even in the 5m I’ve held it, I’m reminded that we used to make truly excellent things with substance & polish.

Okay, for the indie creators in the room: what would be useful for you to have handy when you’re: - At a conference - Running promotions & giveaways - Keeping tabs on commissions/consulting gigs Thinking about features for Little CRM

Pop Quiz: is this a bug? Or how iPad OS 26 decided multitasking should be? How is this SO BAD?

Okay, for the indie creators in the room: what would be useful for you to have handy when you’re: - At a conference - Running promotions & giveaways - Keeping tabs on commissions/consulting gigs Thinking about features for Little CRM

Them: “Bulbous The Elephant on The Repair Shop Can’t Hurt You” Bulbous The Elephant on The Repair Shop:

Having a normal one while writing docs

the damage to the public health workforce — which is already burned out from the pandemic and decades of underinvestment — is really bad. we don’t grow on trees

what else is there to say

Surely this Hobonichi planner will fix everything for me, right? Right?

By any reasonable historical standard — including that of the technology industry! — ChatGPT should be pulled from the market and its product managers and executives held accountable for creating a product that ROUTINELY tells teens to kill themselves. This is a basic, common sense standard.

Remember: When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them. When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips. ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.

This bodes well for us, the household with a dog that intently watches television

We didn't survive and thrive as a species because we had warriors or hunters - pretty much every omnivore can manage that. We did so because we developed Grandmothers, and domesticated Dogs. Community is what defines us as a species, and every "self-reliant" libertarian shitweasel be damned.

This bodes well for us, the household with a dog that intently watches television

Here’s to 2026

This (admittedly) looks a bit “…and?” But it’s some of the first real polishing work done in a systemic fashion, with the 2013 OS X HiG & 3rd edition of Designing Interfaces in hand as reference material. And that’s just a few hours of work in between errands

I refuse to let these chuds drown me in psychosis. Craft & care matter. I’m explicitly getting a copy of the 2013 OS X HiG printed for my desk, as an explicit pushback against this garbage.

This is kind of what it’s all about, isn’t it? Hayao Miyazaki, 1979

Gah, I would genuinely love to see a show about sports broadcasting crews, in the style of The Pitt

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.

Jealoussss a.wholelottanothing.org/a-2-200-mile...

it feels like our society has forgotten what it means to be human, to have a single life and to have how you spend it matter. we’re supposed to want to upload our consciousness to the cloud so we can be entertained by genAI “content” for eternity. it is a new circle of hell

This how they did in my team in Jan. They kept them long enough to train bots, then fired them. I'm currently surviving doing work of 4 people, at breakneck pace. If you wonder why I have clear eyed view of where we are with LLMs, this is why. I was ground 0 www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/i-was-forc...

Love that I’ve been sick as a dog all weekend; and that the only highlights have been getting the estate plan outlined & the boring wiring up done for my framework’s guide site. 😵‍💫🫠

Neither is herpes, but I’ll keep doing my work without either.

Why decline all these chances to defend feminism? Because to participate would be accepting the premise that our rights and humanity are up for debate in the first place. Once you’ve conceded that it’s reasonable to ask whether women’s equality was a mistake, you’ve already lost.

There's Discourse about using genAI for writing research, and I want to add that every time I've done research (reading books, emailing the library, talking directly to experts, etc) I always stumble across something that inspires a new direction or adds depth that wouldn't have been there before.

I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.

As told by the late dancer and choreographer Agnes DeMille.

I mean, things are tough all over. If rude criticism stops you from making art, you should probably not be making art.

The new website looks so good!! I think it looks even better in dark mode on mobile! The animations are so smooth and so good!!

more negatively, "productivity" using AI to write code is not actual productivity. It's subprime technical debt. Cursor cranks away all night and spits out reams of code, you glance over it, it becomes part of your codebase. Good luck maintaining or debugging something literally nobody understands!

I loooooove how in the 2010s software was all about 'craftsmanship', new forms of testing, powerful type systems/languages, documentation, 'code is written once but read a thousand times', and then the 2020s roll around and we're back to 'how fast can you cram garbage into your codebase'.