A lot of these randomized user agent bots have user agents so old (10-15 year old browsers) that you can probably shave 50% of them off with an Apache config, e.g. gist.github.com/ewg118/fc8b0...

Here's your mystery of the week: A blog about a small island off the coast of Canada, personal portfolio websites, weather forecast platforms, Shopify sites, and the US federal gov—a wide range of websites have reported being hit by a massive influx of bots tied to China and Singapore since 2025.

I've created an Arena channel of artists engaging in or inspired by foraging and gleaning — Yuji Agematsu, Mary Mattingly, Sarah Nicholls, Candace Thompson, Agnès Varda, Rachel Wolf — and I'd appreciate other recommendations! www.are.na/shannon-matt...

hey folks, i’m a rails / ruby dev with a bit over 10 years of experience professionally and i was just hit with my second layoff. looking for a new role would love to chat! #rails #ruby.

Got three job rejections in one day so: I am asking for help finding a new full-stack web development job. My website/portfolio is available at casey.kolderup.org. I'm a great team member and I've worked at small startups and medium-sized companies with success working across teams and disciplines.

📝 Part 2 is up! This time we're exploring how to use YOUR design system colors with contrast-color() and if() instead of just black and white. daverupert.com/2026/01/cont...

Cool job alert for Bay Area: Work at Eames Institute doing Astro. You probably also get to learn from @piperhaywood.bsky.social and that would be worth the experience in and of itself. job-boards.greenhouse.io/eamesinstitu...

Drop your RSS feeds in the replies so people (including me) can find them 👇

Along the lines of “most ‘tech’ isn’t tech”: The eamesinstitute.org is hiring right now! Anyone who sees this post, please check out our Full-Stack Engineer and Digital Analytics Manager roles. If you’re tired of tech but want an innovative team working on something important, we’re looking for you!

just 8 days until HTML Day

We have some news to share with you. 🥄 Today we took legal action to challenge our termination, filing an appeal with the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board. We did this because we believe the elimination of 18F violated safeguards that exist to protect a nonpartisan civil service.

Who's behind our new microfiche scanning livestream? None other than Sophia Tung @sof.is, the creative mind behind the viral robotaxi depot livestream! 🚕 Check out how Sophia pulled it all together, and why the work is so important at this moment in time ⬇️

Hey all! Come work with me? piperhaywood.com/come-work-wi...

Mike Monteiro on how to survive being online. “The first four years of Donald Trump was a continuous panic attack. I’m not going through that again. You don’t have to either. They’re on stage, but you don’t have to be their audience.” [buttondown.com]

My Achilles heel is the Uline catalog

Does anyone know of orgs or even anyone personally affected by the fires that could use supplies related to early babyhood? Thinking breast pumps, milk bags, teeny tiny clothes. (Could also be people not affected by the LA fires, just aware of the need there)

What a gorgeous task… My librarian heart has grown seven sizes.

💌 a message in a bottle, collaged from correspondences that embodied the heart of my time as a charge of my teachers, from secondary school to college kayserifserif.place/teachings

I don’t think people understand how devastating the end of net neutrality, and consumer protections around internet connectivity, are going to be. Imagine the situation where you pay for 4 or 5 different streaming services, each with different “exclusives” — but for the Internet itself.

I think everyone who has an opnion, good or bad, about LLMs, should read how @simonwillison.net has summer up what’s happened in the space this year. He’s the most credible, most independent, most honest, and most technically fluent person watching the space. simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/31/...

I was able to do some important cookie research yesterday, thanks to two great @archive.org projects: the IA Lending Library and Bookreader Search. It all started when we went to my parents' house yesterday for Christmas dinner, and my mom pulled out this handwritten recipe for Shape Cookies:

"[Overreliance on #JavaScript frameworks to build web contents] can leave developers confused, [accessibility] consultants struggling to help, and people with disabilities still having to deal with inaccessible websites daily." www.tpgi.com/mind-the-rem... #a11y

A frustrated letter from the Library of Congress asking Norbert Weiner what section of a library his book is supposed to be in (1949).

I've been browsing lots of gift guides this week (love em!) & wanted to share one I made with @leaflet.pub! "Brendan's Perpetual Gift Guide" ↪ a collection of non-trendy gifts, basics that could be great for almost anyone 🎁 I think a nice example of Leaflet canvas pages for visual collections ✨

Actual things my parents said while watching my son’s swimming lesson. “MOM: He’s so beautiful. The teacher must be beside herself. DAD: She’s barely controlling herself. She’s trying not to cry. [HE IS CRYING A BIT]” [besskalb.substack.com]

If you want to piss a toddler off, just have your natural stress response involve involuntary laughter. Really gets them fired up when they’re upset about having bumped their head. 👍

19 follows today… hello! Am I on a list or something?

Is anyone talking about regulating internet access as a utility? I saw the W3C Statement on Ethical Web Principles, and I’m all for it 100%. But even if everyone adopted it, it has little impact without access. Would like to start actively advocating for it possible but am not sure where to start.

📝 New post! `aria-label` and `aria-labelledby` aren't allowed on divs, spans, and other static text elements out of the box, and *most* screenreaders won't announce them. #accessibility #a11y

Remember Your Memories Nephi, UT

Heard from guy that teaches coding bootcamps. He has to teach them what a folder is. I'm gonna have a job forever.

With every passing day I better understand the mothers in Victorian novels who stay in their bedrooms with the curtains closed and complain vaguely about their “nerves.”

And, in the wider world, see, inter alia: Cookbooks Arranged by Time - Community Cookbooks: An Online Collection - Research Guides at Library of Congress guides.loc.gov/community-co...

*Enya voice*

Before we launched 404 Media, "allegedly very smart people" (as Emanuel calls them) told us to our faces it would take us years to build to one million views a month. We just crossed that. That's still relatively small, but independent media can work. Go do it.

This article by @ericwbailey.website on @piccalil.li is incredibly useful. It’s exactly how I prefer CSS articles to be written: starting with a problem, including clear illustrations, and offers a practical solution. Highly recommended 💯 piccalil.li/blog/making-...

interesting to dig more into react / component libraries after years of building homegrown design systems at MoMA/Eames — @piperhaywood.bsky.social shared radix.ui but curious if any other ones out there!

We’re all hurting. I don’t have all the answers. But I know that things won’t be this bleak forever. I ran against a MAGA incumbent in a “safe red” district in KY as a progressive, openly queer, 28-year-old trans woman. And I won. Please, don’t let your heartbreak turn into apathy or cynicism 💙

lol, just realized my name was still in spooky mode

The Florentine Codex, the oldest Indigenous encyclopedia, a manuscript that documents the language, culture, politics, natural science, and the History of the Mexica and other Indigenous People of Mesoamérica is online, after seven years of work! Start exploring: florentinecodex.getty.edu

[confidently] T…I…G…E…R