Holidays are coming, it’s almost time for me to install NixOS in my bare metal Kimsufi server and move my services and blog over!! Excited!!

Don’t trust free VPNs, don’t install joke Chrome extensions. You know what, just don’t install anything at all from now on. And get a new PC.

We have onigiri 🍙 at the groceries now and they are usually sold out. I ask the store personnel if they have it but they are not familiar with the word. I say “triangle sushi” while making a triangle with my hands, and they get it. It worked every single time so far.

A small strip in sketchbook

AI allowed American capitalists to cosplay philosophers and sci-fi writers, and I hate that.

If you want to generate clout in the open-source ecosystem, the easiest bet is to make an AI commit message generator. It's very easy to make, can get infinite GH stars, sounds genius but isn't very useful in practice so no one will report bugs. Zero maintenance. That's why there are tons of the.

Yesterday we launched ngrok.ai into early access. Today we're bringing you a deep dive into LLM internals with beautiful visuals crafted by our very own @samwho.dev. Discover exactly what gets cached to offer you 10x cheaper input tokens. ngrok.com/blog/prompt-...

Hey @aaronfrancis.com can't I buy a lifetime license to Mastering Postgres anymore? I learned about it just now and was looking forward to it!

When I was a kid, my mom woke me up one day saying that "Pentagon is on TV". She meant Pokemon

Size of Life

Researchers have found two new vulnerabilities in React Server Components while attempting to exploit the patches last week. These are new issues, separate from the critical CVE last week. The patch for React2Shell remains effective for the Remote Code Execution exploit.

I kinda hate the “Safari is the new IE” framing. Did we hate IE because it was old and held the web back, or because of the “only works in IE” kind of fragmentation? It’s both, but fragmentation is the greater evil as I see it. But DX trumps everything else once again.

The longer I think the more I believe MCP and GraphQL are pretty similar, to the point maybe MCP was unnecessary? Both APIs with strong types and provided docs, auth not included in.

That's it, I just saw a grokipedia entry before Wikipedia when I searched something on Google. I'm done, I'm switching to Kagi. At least Kagi allows you to block domains wholesale, and they have a great leaderboard for ideas: kagi.com/stats?stat=l... I wish Safari supported custom search engines.

I have a love/hate relationship with this new trend of writing the website’s name in a large font on the footer, on the landing page. What do they call it? I mean it looks good to my eye, but everyone copying it makes it look cheap.

First quiz in a while where most people are getting it wrong with 14% getting it right, with >100 submissions. I was going for something pretty tricky here, lol. You can try at this link - www.youtube.com/post/UgkxQ6I... - and the answer includes a codepen to show the working one in action.

I’ll start the new year with a dedicated server running my blog and all my hobby projects on NixOS. Pretty excited!

You’ll Be OK

424-word hot take: “You Can’t Make Something Accessible to Everyone” adrianroselli.com/2025/12/you-... #accessibility #a11y

You’re absolutely right — you are Pagliacci. It would certainly be difficult for you to attend your own performance! I should not have given such paradoxical advice, and I apologize deeply for the error. There is no excuse for my failure.

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

Looking for Black Friday deals? @piccalil.li has a nice roundup of dev-related ones that are currently running. piccalil.li/links/black-...

Me after every social interaction

I have a hypothesis that solo devs are more likely to find AI coding agents useful. Just an observation and not that strong one at that.

A bit of a vulnerable post by me but we need your help to get us through what has been a more difficult period than 2020. It would be really appreciated if you could read and share in your networks too 💛 bell.bz/its-been-a-v...

A lot of folks know me for one or two posts, and might not know I've created nine (9!) visual explanations of computer science topics, aimed at practitioners. If you're looking for things to read this Thanksgiving, I think you'll love them. Computer science is a lot of fun, when explained well. ❤️

Bodied by my eldest , frankly

I kinda had to. I was always interested in computers as a kid, but around college age I had a sudden interest in industrial design and got into mechanical engineering (?) It didn’t turn out to be what I expected (duh) and after graduation I taught myself CS, and got my first job in the industry.

Apparently you can reliably jailbreak frontier models with poetry. How … poetic arxiv.org/html/2511.15...

📣 Hear hear! The biggest savings on the Practical Accessibility course start *today*—for a limited time only. Starting today, you can get the course for 30% off — that's $279 instead of $399. The discounted price excludes sales tax that may be applied depending on where you are buying from.

Today is the day to repost this meme about International Men's Day, one of the most unironically wholesome memes that has ever been made. Shoutout to all my fellow champs, chiefs, and kings. ✊

New office decoration arrived! 😍

check out my Smart TV replacement product goatremote.com use apple tv remote, or your phone, as voice/ai/trackpad/keyboard to control your mac with just a remote

I’m tired of Safari losing my tabs for no reason. I opened a few tabs in the morning on my iPhone, switched to my Mac, and when I looked at my phone again the tabs were gone The only solution seems to be creating a new profile and deleting the old one, but I don’t wanna do it. What else?

when will the lesson finally get learned? #cloudflare

my haiku summary of cory doctorow’s enshittification: everything is shit in ways you can’t imagine we must regulate

Another TIL, you can use CSS Highlight API to highlight code with CSS, without <span>s. Wow this one is nice! pavi2410.com/blog/high-pe...

Ohh, TIL that there's an imperative table DOM API. Thanks, I hate it christianheilmann.com/2025/10/08/a...

Doctor says, 'Dont worry, parser design is simple. Great programmer Kate Compton has written the parser you seek’

you guys get screenshots? I don't even get that! parkscomputing.com/page/i-hate-...

coming in with no chill this morning! xslt.rip best website I've ever made 💀

Must read: aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

After the Rubygems drama, I felt frustrated that I can’t escape evil people trying to dominate my life. I found myself mourning the future I thought we would have; but also hopeful that it’s not too late to start choosing kindness. Join me in building a better future: okayfail.com/2025/in-prai...

Slightly controversial opinion, but you need to deeply understand the platform you’re building on to build high quality software. Everyone agrees in theory but not many actually employs this in practice. You can’t build good web apps if you don’t know ins and outs of web browsers, APIs or HCI.

"Variable font - 500 infernal error" by Andros Guiradó codepen.io/Grooo/pen/ZM...

Wasted half a weekend trying to upgrade Ubuntu, because my webcam wasn’t working. After upgrade, audio was also not working. In this year of 2025, it’s hard to believe this is still the typical Linux desktop experience. The saga continued with trying to downgrade, which is basically a reinstall.

Dog back