The California jungle primary system is fucking stupid.

california is gonna have so many mail in ballots that don’t get counted because people don’t know the new USPS rules that are impacting mail in voting. tl;dr don’t put your ballot in the mail today, find a ballot drop box. www.kqed.org/news/1208537...

TIM WALZ: Abolish the electoral college, abolish the senate, do gerrymandering, pack the court

Instead of repealing its top-two primaries, “California should continue its history of pro-voter reform and build on the top-two system – by adding ranked choice voting to its elections.” – Meredith Sumpter & @calrcv.bsky.social's Marcela Miranda-Prieto on solving CA's "lockout" problem

I still say that the best use of the Coliseum land is as a large urban park. Oakland's never going to have a chance at that again.

trying to remember the last time I saw someone fuck up this bad 4 weeks before a festival

Reporting on this survey seems to have misrepresented it- the question asks about “if you had a $1000 emergency expense how would you pay for it” and most don’t choose “savings” www.bankrate.com/banking/savi...

😍 I finally took time to finish a project I started during COVID 🎹 Web Components to display piano keys, chords and scales 🎸 And this time I also did a fretboard for guitars, ukuleles... 🧪 This is still alpha as I haven't used them yet for a real projet yet but enjoy hsablonniere.github.io/musiq/

My current summary of the JavaScript types-as-comments proposal:

Man, they really wrecked The Buttery in Santa Cruz with a completely soulless remodel. The atmosphere is crap in there now.

Firefox now supports Web Serial on desktop 🦊 This means web apps can connect to compatible hardware devices such as microcontrollers, development boards, 3D printers, power meters, and other serial-connected hardware. Allowing the Web to do even more! 📖Read more: 🧵👇️ (1/11)

I see people On Here™ hoping that today is the day, and no... you don't. You do not actually want the day to be like this.

Experiment of the day: Wiring up Web Awesome + Lit SSR in Phoenix using Extism WASM. Status: Success

I just realized my kid's going to be high school class of 2033, and now I'm extremely mad at them.

What the hell happened to Antigravity today???

any realistic discussion has to start from the ground truth that america is a *very* low-tax society compared to similar nations we collect about 25% of GDP as tax revenue. germany? 38%. denmark? 45%. we are already a turbo low tax society!

The buried lede here is that this action drastically reduces the risk the public will be subsidizing the cost of rebuilding expensive homes in Malibu and Orinda and discourages future construction in high hazard fire zones. Good news for most of us www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...

Woooo yeaaah! The missing piece 🎉 everything is about to get a lot more secure

Ezra Klein explains why he supports proportional representation: With #ProportionalRepresentation, “it matters whether you appeal to people who are skeptical. It creates competition for voters who are currently disenfranchised," like California Republicans or Texas Dems.

Heads up maintainers of packages, this is a big deal: github.com/orgs/communi...

We made it easier for you to find exactly the component you need on our new components page.

A girl in the coffee shop asked me to watch her computer. I said "I'll try". But it's Oakland and I've seen people just walk up and snatch even open computers and keep on going. I'm not tackling some dude for a 2015 MacBook Air. She looked like I rejected a marriage proposal, packed up, and left.

This ain't it. It's not time for kind words to Trump supporters. Call them out. You can still invite them to the side of good, but clearly tell them they're currently supporting the most corrupt and evil administration the US has even seen. They can do better.

I got an actually personal recruitment email from Cursor: mentioned my previous work, even old stuff, that is directly relevant to them; said members of their eng team mentioned me... pretty nice, really. But do I tell them that the SpaceX deal rules them out for me forever, or just not reply?

My number 1, 2, and 3 criteria for Democratic candidates in the new few years is: Will they arrest the motherfuckers?

The most corrupt administration of all time. They’re using your tax dollars to reward insurrectionists.  Insanity.

I say without hyperbole that this is the most brazenly corrupt action in US Presidential history. That it does not immediately lead to impeachment is a dangerous sign of how far the rule of law has declined.

I've really been debating with myself about records and tuples in Zena - should they have value or reference semantics? Balancing perf, code size, ad-hoc programming, and familiarity to TypeScript devs is tough. Big Q: Are records in Zena a performance or convenience feature?

Reposting this even though Keith's shift key is apparently mostly broken.

Gecko: Intent to prototype: Advanced CSS attr() function

I'm going to vote for @tomsteyerhq.bsky.social but if you're not a Republican, you need to either vote for him or Becerra. Keep Republicans mad and unemployed as God intended for them to be.

Oh, I see, these aren't first-party devices, so Pixelbook might still be in the cards for Google's own hardware. Still, Googlebook is terrible. Droidbook? Gbook? Nexusbook for us old-timers?

Why the hell didn't they resurrect the Pixelbook name? "Googlebook"??

I sat right in front of Weird Al at the Flight of the Conchords show last night. Very cool to see the king of comedy music show up to support the fourth most popular folk parody duo in New Zealand.

Oh, so this is how it starts...

Parked in front of a very normal building last night.

For some reason I thought LA smog was kind of a thing of the past, but you can barely see downtown from Hollywood today. Maybe it's just general haze, but it looked brown yesterday.

🎉😱

Let's go Wiz!

Dear Matt Mahan: Suspending the gas tax is a horrible idea. It's just a big cash gift to the oil industry with little consumer benefit and no public benefit.

being a Republican has gotta be so embarrassing, man. the entire party is a cult devoted to an antichrist like figure and is basically just full of people you wouldn’t let babysit your kids. how the fuck are these freaks controlling our country

Jealous that LA is inaugurating new subway projects they worked on for decades, meanwhile Oakland and the surround areas haven't even considered rapid transit expansion since 1972.

We’re in the “break glass in case of emergency” moment for American democracy. Democrats can create 22 new blue US House seats by 2028 by redrawing maps in: – New York – Colorado – Maryland – Oregon – Wisconsin – Minnesota – Pennsylvania Time to take action.

This is one of the dumbest things I've ever seen. Bad teams should have a chance to get better. This destroys the pre-lotto value of picks, so the only thing bad teams have left is the ability to take on bad contracts - but that was usually done for picks! How are teams supposed to get better?

My kid's getting interested in hip-hop and so far it's things like Tribe and The Grey Album that resonate. I'm going to savor this brief moment while it lasts 😂

There are so many different views on and usage of AI that I keep seeing people really step in it without knowing. Like posting what they think is an mild, innocuous use of AI in some place with people who are vehemently anti-AI. Things require a lot of awareness of self and others right now...

15 minutes into tonight's California gubernatorial debate: it's clear Becerra is totally unprepared to handle the state's two biggest challenges. Freezing insurance rates will destroy the market. Downpayment assistance (subsidizing demand) will never solve the housing crisis.

We migrated an @astro.build site from React and Ark UI to native Web Components: 100 KB less JavaScript, no functionality lost, and a tiny library called nanotags that makes Custom Elements enjoyable to write. Here's how we did it: evilmartians.com/chronicles/f...

In many ways I'm trying to build the language that I wish the TypeScript compiler had been ported to 😂