Follow the grain of the training data: if you want dev tooling, use Golang or Rust (ideally Rust, but Go will do if you're more familiar with it). If you're writing a compiler, use Haskell, and so on. Find frameworks that exemplify the design patterns you want to use, and use them. 1/2

basically I think that if you have a favorite language anymore you might be fucking up

@robbowley.net there's a great rebuttal to Shumer's post: https://davidoks.blog/p/why-im-not-worried-about-ai-job-loss

My biggest Bluesky UX gripe on mobile web: when looking at an image modal, hitting the browser's back button will take me away from the page entirely, rather than just closing the modal 😮‍💨

Most products don't even show you personalized content based on if/else statements. There's a 100 different valuable personalization features a team can ship before they really need to use ML to get more precise data.

This new release from GitHub is a great way for open source developers to automate evaluation and refusal of spam contributions. If they're automating spam PRs and flooding repos with bad contributions, might as well automate the triage on the other side too! github.blog/ai-and-ml/au...

Geez, @css-only.dev is really on a roll! Not only is he rocking a new article on @frontendmasters.com, but he's got another banger today on responsive pyramidal grids. 🔥 css-tricks.com/making-a-res...

stranger: what do you do for work? me, shamefully: computer

broke down how I built the CRT effects on hypertext.tv entirely using vanilla CSS 🧵

If you don’t see the utility personally, I can get that. If I wasn’t coding I probably wouldn’t either. If you’re worried about its downsides, join the club. A lot of us are too. But no matter what your take is, take it seriously. This shit isn’t crypto.

~7 years ago I started curating a list of Design Tokens resources on GitHub… today I launch something better. An updated, tagged collection of 292+ articles on design tokens. www.alwaystwisted.com/projects/dtm... more links/resources coming soon. 🙏🖤 #DesignTokens #DesignSystems #WebDev

OSINT folks, the bar has been raised

its funny to me that the same folks who yell about how people in tech need to take classes in the humanities simultaneously get upset whenever the humanities start getting applied to tech

I've never really clicked with MCPs and how much complexity they introduced for unimpressive gains. Pairing SKILLS with scripts is where it's really at. Extremely easy to create, and you can stitch advanced workflows in 5 minutes just by... talking? wtf?

Happy for they/them

This is so neat! I've long been uncomfortable with how much of our social spaces we're yielding to Slack / Discord when open source alternatives are more and more viable.

I don't think any current model would bootstrap an app with e.g.: vanilla JS and no framework (not that this is bad in itself). The model choosing a framework does eat up the context window and adds extra steps to the work, but even these are non-issues with work across sessions and faster models.

This Tweet is making the rounds: "Nearly every ambitious person I know who has dived into AI is working harder than ever, and longer hours than ever. Fascinating dynamic tbh. I have NEVER worked this hard, nor had this much fun with work." I'm in this Tweet.

Bots inventing what we should have had on social for decades: confidence rating, ability to change our minds.

underrated feature of enterprise saas that can't be vibecoded away: plausible liability. companies buy someone to blame when the software goes wrong. that's the product. no exec is signing off on being the one responsible when the system goes down. you can't build that in house.

AI models fundamentally change the cost structure for creating new design tools and workflows. Most gaps in your design process, design system and internal collaboration that could be solved by an app now cost a few hundred dollars and less than 20 hours to build.

I can see the future of software engineering, and it looks like Dwarf Fortress

Just discovered hiring.cafe and damn... never saw a job platform with such detailed and granular filters (with good UX on top of it).

Some alternatives to substack: Buttondown Ghost Beehiiv I looked at all of these, each of them is fairly straightforward for newsletters/writing. Admittedly they aren’t all very good at accessibility (yet) except maybe buttondown? but that’s an issue for another day

I wrote about the most ambitious form of AI-assisted software development I've seen yet - Strong DM's "Software Factory" approach, where two of the guiding principles are "Code must not be written by humans" and "Code must not be reviewed by humans" simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/7/s...

img:hover { scale: 1.2; clip-path: inset( 10% 10% 10% 10% round 20px ); } nice, n' simple codepen.io/argyleink/pe...

favorite shot from the michael jackson biopic trailer

Announcing The CSS Selection! 📰 www.projectwallace.com/the-css-sele... 📚 100,000 websites ⏱️ 100+ metrics 🔖 7 chapters The biggest deep-dive ever into real-world use of CSS across the globe. Dive in and find out some hidden gems. Also, see how much of 'the new CSS' is actually used!

They thought they could stop me... they thought I had collected enough of the arcane knowledge... they were absolutely wrong 🌑

This post by @rauno.bsky.social from a few years ago is still a great checklist for web UI best practices. #designsky interfaces.rauno.me

It looks like style() container queries are enabled in @firefoxnightly.bsky.social - this is one of the features I'm looking forward to most. Especially with range queries starting to roll out. @ container style(--progress > 80%) { background: green; } bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi...

That‘s the spirit.

*while npm install scrolls by on my terminal* incorporating code into my codebase? without reviewing it? that's irresponsible

Wild how the stock price has no correlation with how their product is positioned on the market. Figma has suffered relatively little pressure from AI tools and it's still a major piece of the design process in most companies that use it – which is most tech companies, by far.

Are you using CSS Grid? If you write CSS & code layouts on the web, and not using Grid — why not?!? I see so many sites that still use only Flexbox for 100% of their layout. 0% Grid. Why? What would help? I hear people say it’s hard. Is it? What’s hard? What do you want to learn about CSS Grid?

Wanna come work with me? ngrok are shortly going to be posting a position for someone to take ownership of our video content, focusing on well-researched, well-presented AI educational stuff (a la ngrok.com/blog/prompt-...). If that sounds like your cup of tea, my DMs are open 🙏

Companies invest millions in their product but treat docs as an afterthought. I disagree, it must be a core concern. I wrote a deep dive into what it takes to write docs loved by millions, the value it delivers, and my experience in Astro Docs. yanthomas.dev/articles/doc...

My contract is ending at the end of February and so I’d like to find a new role ASAP. I am a senior-level design systems developer / design technologist / front-of-the-frontend developer that specializes in web accessibility. I work remotely from my home in Winnipeg, Canada. 🇨🇦 Shares appreciated!

Concentric border radius

Thank you everyone for suggested books! With help from @jenson.org, I turned it into a page on my website, hoping that maybe it will help someone in the future: aresluna.org/ux-books-not...

Hello, Bluesky brand owners. I beg, if you own a reputable website of note, PLEASE do the bare minimum & do the DNS dilligence to confirm that you are the account you say you are. It may seem like a minor thing, but it verifies you're the true source big time. blueskyweb.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/art...

A Black-capped Chickadee showcasing winter fashion by donning a snowflake accessory.

Linked lists using anchor-positioning. Adapted from my JS version which used SVG paths to this version which positions pseudo elements using position-anchor to link them to the checked checkbox items and current selected radio button. See the full demo on @codepen.io codepen.io/cbolson/pen/...

I edited this meme myself

This image is strikingly similar to the famous photo of a young Dilma Rousseff in front of a Brazilian military court also too cowardly to show their faces.

when you collaborate in open source teams, you need to unlearn a lot of what your company work taught you

What an afterword! “Today, as we move toward and beyond 2025, we are entering a possible era of AI-generated content. You may ask yourself, why bother? It matters. Your words matter, your knowledge matters, and we must continue to push back against the entropy and bit rot of the internet. (…)”

For my followers in the EU, there is an European citizens’ initiative you can sign to demand the full suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement. If you are for BDS this would be a huge step up. eci.ec.europa.eu/055/public/#...