maybe a little website redesign will fix me

there should be a thing that reads your package.json and charges you $5/month per dependency - you don’t /have/ to! you could set the price to $1 per employee! - and then holds the funds and sends it to the people who made the code you use to do business how is not doing this more sustainable

Built a palette extractor that thinks like a curator, not a pixel counter. – Physics-based color repulsion – Auto-detects muted vs vibrant bias – Adaptive spacing to hit target count – OKLCh color space (perceptually uniform) Early Access: please break it! chipper-otter-d6c600.netlify.app

And honestly, the milk hasn’t tasted the same since they migrated off of MooTools at 2.0.

They say products need to be launched again, and again, and again. I built Broadcast back in October 2024 (hand coded). It's an email marketing platform, and it's matured quite a bit.

We’re entering the age of AI slop that people believe en masse. This post is 100% fake and probably AI generated. All made up. Yet massive number of upvotes, views and shares. Journalist @caseynewton.bsky.social got in touch with the “whistleblower.” The guy faked all “evidence” with AI…

Bird Hunted To Near Extinction Due To Infuriating 'Fuck You' Call

Introducing Design OS—the missing design process between your idea and your codebase. Step 1: Define your product's vision Step 2: Design your screens Step 3: Export production-ready components Not mockups. Real components. Ready to implement. Free and open source: buildermethods.com/design-os

I just realized the Winter Olympics are happening February 6th to 22nd, 2 months from now. Looks like Peacock is the US streaming app and the full no ads package is $17 for a month. Really not bad when you compare it to any other sports streaming cost. www.peacocktv.com/sports/olymp...

Awesome update. Def the cleanest editor out there.

Hey, random question, but…what are you doing April 30 and May 1? 👀

I put together a detailed collection of useful patterns I've collected after vibe-coding 150 different single-file HTML tools over the past couple of years https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/10/html-tools/

Hey Ruby friends! 👋 Keep an eye out, we are hoping to make an announcement here in the next couple days. 🫢😊

i did not know this was a thing but it is, browsers can now handle sanitizing HTML without a library 🤯 keith.is/post/html-sa...

Today is the 20th anniversary of the time in college when my friend Jeff gave me some free shared web hosting, and I decided to build a music blog with something called "WordPress." It would have been on version 1.5 I believe, since this was a few weeks before WordPress 2.0 was released.

I like to tell myself that when the robots take over they'll keep me around because I have a fun energy.

Fascinating - Seattle waterfront Aquarium building is wood-clad and they engineered it to “go gray” like you’d expect from a cedar fence. www.axios.com/local/seattl...

Wasn't happy with the 'logo' on my personal site so generated a signature version that I like the look of. Not giving away my actual handwriting seems like a nice use case for AI 🤔

Makes it sound like the JS got dizzy or something.

Understated upside to Claude Code and AI in programming - projects I have put off for years due to tediousness become way less of a headache.

My playlist for "the family hanging out at Thanksgiving" is Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers radio - open.spotify.com/playlist/37i...

The diversity of horizontal navigation in 2004 #WebDesignHistory

I'd buy a sub-$1,000 Apple Vision Pro but I probably wouldn't buy a Meta Quest at any price. Just cannot fathom trusting Meta with my fingerprints or a retina scan. The device model seems useful for remote office work type of setting. But not wearing it around the house w/ your family next to you.

every time

I restarted Zed and started getting the worst linting effect possible on ERB. I hope it's not HERB doing this but I have disabled erb_lint and html_beautifier that I was using and it's still happening...

🪩⚠️ Alert: @sfruby.com is in 10 days ! ! ! What's inside: 💎 two dozen new and hot Ruby startups like @bolt.new 💎 authors of RubyLLM, Herb, Active Agent, Inertia Rails, ZJIT, and more 💎engineers scaling Ruby and Rails at Chime, Cisco, Intercom, Shopify 💎afterparty by GitButler 🪩 (see part 2)

Hey, if you're going to SF Ruby, you should come biking with me and @kanejamison.com (he's hosting) on Day 3! luma.com/n1reh5hj

Started working on my first Ruby gem this weekend. It is probably overly ambitious and is absolutely stretching my programming skills, but I need a re-usable CMS pattern for setting up content collections consistently across different websites that is editor/front-end agnostic.

websites in 2025

Ruby & Rails folks going to @sfruby.com: On Friday I'm organizing a Golden Gate Bike Tour + Alcatraz Ferry Ride from ~9:30am to 1pm: Registration at luma.com/n1reh5hj

Me getting an email from Dependabot that a dependency just jumped from version 9 to version 43.

We often hear that folks want "wrap detection" in CSS (i.e. when a flex item shifts into a position where it wraps over to the next line) What is a real-world example of a use-case you would need this for?

I sort of understand why Ruby Gem authors set an upper bound on a dependency in a gemspec... "hey I have only tested this up to Rails 8.0, not promising it works with 8.1" But my immediate reaction is to fork / remove the gem if it's going to be extra drag weight on keeping my app up to date.

How would you build this kind of UI element in a modern Rails app?

@andrewaskins.com welcome back!

Just caught Claude Code making up a fake @tailwindcss.com class, but in Claude's defense, this would be an awesome class to have =)

I got Herb working in CI last night. The new Herb Linter flagged many more 'offenses' (214) than the `herb analyze .` command (14 files). Feel more like Standardrb. I had Claude parse the entire lint output and file it into Github Issues to address in separate PRs. Amazing work @marcoroth.dev 🙏

So I was doing a practice coding assessment today and there is a "Practice Interview with AI" option. So I gave it a shot, and had a good code solution in 10 minutes (out of 60) and then had a test failure due to timeout. Good so far...

So I was doing a practice coding assessment today and there is a "Practice Interview with AI" option. So I gave it a shot, and had a good code solution in 10 minutes (out of 60) and then had a test failure due to timeout. Good so far...

Am I crazy or is ZipRecruiter an elaborate scheme to hire people to work at ZipRecruiter?

The way to understand the importance of cancelling Disney+ is that it is an opportunity not just to exert power, but to pop the Twitter bubble execs have lived in for the past half decade, and show them their insular information environment has put their bottom line at risk.

Fascinating to see the differences in engineering hiring processes right now. I'm seeing teams that are asking their engineers to use AI in the role description but simultaneously trying to pretend AI doesn't exist during the interview and coding assessment.

person with their hand on the ”POUR MICROPLASTICS DIRECTLY INTO THE RESERVOIR“ lever is shocked, SHOCKED at what’s happened to all the drinking water

Hey Rails friends. I'm trying an experiment. Can you help me send this out to our industry friends? "A week of Hotwire Office Hours, so you can finally tweak your Hotwire-based app." Part group training, part accountability, part hangout with friends. Details soon👇 hotwiresupport.pascal.works

I dare you to guess where this video ends. Truly spectacular.

We're approaching 400 Rails database migrations in @contentharmony.com which is a little unwieldy in my editor sidebar. So I wrote a variation of @geetfun.com's database migration rake task that archives database migrations by year. Simon's version is at codewithrails.com/clean-up-db-...

Interesting pricing quirk on AI costs... if you have a medium length prompt, eg 400 tokens, it's more cost effective to add more boilerplate guidance to the model to qualify for cached inputs, which are eligible for prompts over 1024 tokens. 1200 cached input tokens is cheaper than 400 uncached.

This is an identical prompt getting sent to gpt-4.1-nano and gpt-5-nano. Based upon the -nano designation you might expect similar behavior. 5-nano is actually *half* the price on input tokens & same price on output, so it's surely a better deal, right? But the output behavior is way different:

Things I've learned the hard way about web development: * automated testing is always worth it in the long-run * limit your dependencies where possible, and keep up with dependency upgrades * don't write code in anticipation of future needs * integrate code changes often, no long feature branches

Everybody makes a fuss about refried beans but man, refried potatoes is where it’s at. Chopping up leftover French fries and refrying them for a breakfast bowl? So awesome.