it's going to be weird when llms can create entire working applications from scratch but the typescript language server still crashes all the time

we live in a completely police state this is horrific

boerum hill celeb sighting on my block report: yesterday, peter dinklage, today, ezra klein

(five days later) yep it's the year of 11ty

reading some academic papers on graph layout: macwright.com/2026/01/11/g...

learned a little sparql to query wikidata and satiate a curiosity: a graph of all the programming languages and what they influenced query.wikidata.org/index.html#%...

if your top housing issue was "stopping corporate buying" this must've been a confusing week

if you're celebrating people getting laid off from one of the very few companies that was consistently contributing to a fully open source product, because you think that css cascades are really that important, really take a long hard look at your priorities

Historically, we've focused a lot on the brutal actions of authoritarian regimes, and today is no different.

masked, unidentified goons who assault and murder with impunity. a literal gestapo.

don't go anywhere near my lakehouse bro, it's swarming with agents

ICE shot and killed a woman on camera today. We all saw the video. The Trump administration is lying.

effect devlog: connecting effect and trpc: macwright.com/2026/01/06/e...

jekyll not working on ruby 4 and only a few people upvoting the issue and the pr sitting unreviewed is probably not a great sign for the great old framework github.com/jekyll/jekyl... might be the year of 11ty i suppose

"genai consumes a lot of water" was the "your phone's microphone is listening to you" of 2025

BREAKING: Explosions felt across New York City as full socialism begins

hit the ‘relearning auld lang syne with classtab.org and worrying that nobody will show up to the party’ phase of nye

we've actually priced in all the externalities of car ownership but instead of having car owners pay for asthma treatment and environmental cleanup, it's a money transfer from idiots to local cartels also we've learned that one cannot use capitalism to limit consumption of cars

what if zod or another parser introduced a way to parse into rich types? effect already has some of this: schema can serialize & deserialize a rich duration type instead of having some ambiguous integer which could me milliseconds. could be cool? macwright.com/2025/12/29/f...

Per longstanding editorial policy, Fingers' 2025 Bad Holiday Gift Guide for Heavy-Drinking Frenemies™️ is being published far too late for you to actually buy any of this schlock for Christmas, even if you wanted to. 🎁 Garbage for garbage, right this way: www.fingers.email/p/the-2025-b...

Okay, folks. I’ve been asked by a lot of friends who aren’t following the AI discourse to sort of clarify what the main camps are arguing, how they approach the issues, etc. As a thoughtful observer, I’m happy to provide this orienting service. No questions or comments, please. Hope it helps!

I just published Potato, a new pansharpening package. It aims to render certain kinds of satellite imagery more clearly and accurately than what’s for sale and on satellite maps today: github.com/celoyd/potato/

i want a product that's just like sentry except it has zero involvement in opentelemetry at all

all right i'll lose my mind over this but as someone who has actually read abundance (the book) in full, i can report that the book spends five paragraphs on ceqa and all of them are about the law being used by nimby groups and none of them are about the law being used by environmentalists

zwift workouts should simulate bad drivers to help radicalize indoor cyclists

every founder of a sequoia-backed company should be asking why they haven’t fired maguire yet

stuff that i did not know off the top of my head before working at val.town - exactly how long a domain label can be (it's 63 characters)

effect devlog: queues & durations macwright.com/2025/12/17/e...

i had a databases class in college in which we were designing a users table and the professor guided us to use (firstname, lastname) as the primary key, and i asked what we'd do if there were two people with the same name, and they said to include the social security number, i think of this a lot

squeaked in one last book to hit 20 books this year (it was there is no antimemetics… and i could see why everyone loved it but it was not for me macwright.com/2025/12/14/t...)

added a color theme selector to my website "the hard way" macwright.com/2025/12/09/t...

making a sunrise plot like this was my interview question for joining @observablehq.com leancrew.com/all-this/202...

wrote a brief history of module specifiers and protocols in javascript: macwright.com/2025/12/08/m...

can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot

google's ai overview has to be one of the most used and also worst ai implementations searching for walton goggins reindeer games = he's not in the movie searching for walton goggins "reindeer games" = he appears in the movie as a hitman for the mob

2025 year in review! includes a surprisingly longitudinal chart of 5k times: macwright.com/2025/12/07/y...

vibecoding is changing all the constrants: we're no longer limited by our coding ability, only by our ideas - some guy on linkedin who can't code and has no ideas

i don't know enough about tv to be critical of it, but i very intentionally use the Full Range of 1-5 stars for my book reviews, and agree that scathing reviews are good and necessary freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/hating-str...

California through certain lenses.

effect devlog: flow & cancellation macwright.com/2025/12/02/e...

css/html nerds, is there a reason why code highlighting implementations haven't switched to the css custom highlight api yet? browser support? nobody has implemented it yet? on the surface, seems like it'd be a huge boon for smaller dom trees developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...

thinking back to the time i almost got cancelled over this tweet

recently, a pretty long one because it's the last for the year! includes a short list of songs for which the 'beat drop' is a 'meter change' macwright.com/2025/12/01/r...

Lol, Zillow tried to rate the climate risks facing individual properties. The real estate industry *hated* it, precisely because it worked -- it made selling risky properties more difficult. So they rebelled & Zillow caved. Don't look up!

Tis the seasona and all that, so I put together a little gift guide of cool artists, makers, authors and other good stuff I like a lot. All rad, no bad. dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...

map nerd challenge difficulty kind of high: name this city depicted in hotel wall art

effect mini devlog: runtimes and logging macwright.com/2025/11/26/e...