i'm just an onlooker but it seems like @leaflet.pub is such a good example of a technology that waited around for the right wave and then rode it: leaflet existed as just a document editor on the web for a long time before the atproto wave came around, and then it all locked into place

now that is a very fast web application experience (c++ to wasm afaict): tracy.nereid.pl

sketching practice

gray codes in rotary encoders look like ancient geometric puzzles from sci-fi, translating an angle of rotation to a number in binary en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_code

recently: macwright.com/2026/03/01/r...

Once again, I regret to inform you that Ben Thompson is wrong about monopolies. www.ianbetteridge.com/the-fundamen...

When D3 was released in February 2011, it transformed how we build data visualizations for the web and ushered in a new age of unbridled creativity in information design, data journalism, and beyond. Today, it remains the backbone of modern, interactive data viz. Happy 15th birthday, D3 🎂 d3js.org

i've been hating on ipfs for a decade now, but for the first time i'm encountering it in the wild, and it's being used to host malware payloads so i hate it even more

are there any non-criminal uses of telegram

crafted a new tote bag macwright.com/2026/02/25/n...

just wrote a blog post about using claude code with subagents, wait no, about sewing

One thing I find so embarrassing about the "agentic AI is so great this changes everything" discourse is while I'm sure Claude is great for various use cases people sound like they're in a commercial and that just is the opposite of cool

did you know that the highest paid actor in hollywood from 2015 to 2018 was jim parsons, the lead actor in 'the big bang theory'

tremendous levels of ripping off a company's brand coming from promptingcompany.com wholesale stealing the browser company's shtick

@taylor.town fun coincidence, i've spent a lot of time with the creator of iota, he's the chair of nyu linguistics now

animation, yes

out of nowhere, thought "error dithering with color could be cool" and, yes, it is cool observablehq.com/@tmcw/color-...

"the left is ignoring the usefulness of AI" no it's more like it is kind of central to left leaning politics that causing massive negative externalities for your own personal convenience is a shitty way to live. you're just saying you do not like the implications of this position

The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory

i read about @mapbox.com publishing new maps with vantor imagery and wondered "who's vantor" and made this chart (based on wikipedia sources) www.mapbox.com/blog/mapbox-...

reactionary ai centrism (the difference between the two kinds of good): macwright.com/2026/02/12/r...

i was definitely expecting the refusal here but the thought process seems a little over the top

working on a typology here

anyone i know involved in / gone to resistor nyc events? feeling like i should

some feb faces

getting pretty atproto pilled. still need to learn about the hard parts: privacy and performance, are there good articles about that stuff?

"For far too long we've treated our streets as places to store cars, instead of places where people live their lives, right? And as transportation chair, my guiding principle is that our public space should serve the public," said @shaunabreu.bsky.social.

jarred wrote about how claude identified and fixed a memory leak in anthropic's sdk (the sdk generator code is from stainless, a separate company) claude's fix was wrong

oh man, adam neely's film-length critique of suno is spectacular: www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8dc...

today's "searching for mapbox and observablehq on twitter results": a groyper used mapbox to make a racist map and mapbox shut them off, so a bunch of assholes are crying a pedocon is using an observablehq map of historical age of consent to downplay the epstein files 2026 is 2026 in every corner

I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.

perusing the @val.town npm module cache usage…

recently: macwright.com/2026/02/03/r...

found this metal-punch plate for encoding x/y coordinates on a telephone pole in columbus ohio. probably in a local grid system?

finally got happy apple's 2020 album, this bassline 💯 sunnysiderecords.bandcamp.com/track/vanity...

database correctness seems like the only kind, database software is all formally proven and simulation tested and every other genre of software is the wild west. "actually testing web applications" is impossible in practice. i feel like this engenders an unearned sense of superiority.

is 'death stranding' in the same genre as 'there is no antimemetics division' discuss

●●●●○ six centuries of type and printing: brief, exhaustive, fascinating, not for people with a passing interest in the subject, adore the physical book and the indie publishing macwright.com/2026/02/01/s...

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

Today on Volts: I'm joined by the great @michaelhobbes.bsky.social to discuss "reactionary centrism," an intellectual tendency that's come to dominate US public life. You know the type: would never view themselves as conservative, yet finds voluntary pronoun use vastly more aggravating than fascism.

drawing faces is hard, i've been trying though macwright.com/2026/01/31/s...

it's striking how most companies bury their customer support channels and make it impossible to contact a human, but when i have a concern about a crosswalk in my neighborhood i can email my local rep, the dept of transportation, and the mayor, and get real replies from at least one of them

I wrote a quick piece about what it would really mean to abolish ICE

oof, this is a good reminder to blog more about sewing blog.avas.space/response-hob...

another banger from lars doucet! Housing can be affordable, or an investment, but not both. progressandpoverty.substack.com/p/the-housin...

For all the fearmongering about capital flight from New York City, there’s an exodus few want to talk about: working people.

Sky-high rents and outrageous child care costs are already pushing families out of the city they keep running.  
That’s what we have to change.

Democrats should demand every sitting Republican decry this attack and explicitly denounce it, and then censure all of them when they don’t do it. Act like normal decent humans defending your colleague.

I dislike Paul Graham, but credit where it’s due, he’s the only billionaire I’ve seen discussing ICE and Trump.