And folks are still buying tickets! Think about it, you could have a really fun week next week! ☺️

I'm pleased to announce I'm now using version 43 in production.

border-shape is going to be a lot of fun! 👀 Stay tuned ...

I made a little Instagram reel about this image because it’s just so frickin’ cool

Why are HTML <==> Markdown libraries always one-way? Seems like they either render Markdown as HTML, or they convert HTML to Markdown, but they never do both.

I heard there was a secret cord that David kept in his cable hoard but he can never find it when he needs it

New study of 15K URLs shows articles receiving Major Rewrites (30-100% of content) vastly outperform minor/moderate updates Interestingly, even "minor" rewrites, defined as 0-30% of content, still saw decay Is this a cutoff for "lastSignificantUpdate" per Google? republishai.com/content-opti...

Don’t talk about my dog like that.

...horrifying message without context, thank you

Bluesky really started to hum for me when I got these settings dialed in.

Just over 7 hours left to submit to @blueridgeruby.com! I want to read your talk proposal this week! 📖👀 blueridgeruby.com/cfp/

The suggested prompts in the Claude <> Google Calendar connector are coming at me way too hard today. Just trying to get a little personal organization work done here, ease up.

i have questions about saturday's scheduled activities at my grandmother's nursing home

Twitter died a long time ago and X isn't worth it. Before I made the jump, my ego was holding me back. I was too concerned with vanity metrics. I finally realized if you're posting stuff people want to follow, then they'll follow you, even when you leave. www.siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/k...

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!