Reading up on the latest React exploit and holy shit this is really bad. Catastrophically bad. If you’re using React and RSC start by upgrading yesterday and then reconsider if this is a feature you want to immediately invest.

Not thrilled at Netflix buying Warner Bros. But it’s better than fucking Skydance.

Very exciting! I’ve seen Chad talk a few times. Always worthwhile and useful stuff.

If none of that floats your candle then there are now *120* albums and EPs of my songs at mitchbenn.bandcamp.com, many available for FREE/PWYW. Have a peruse…

I love this and I always enjoy when teams are permitted to bring some joy and silliness into their work.

Web folks! Does anyone know anything about ivi.cx ? It claims to be an official Apple site for making signed WebClips. But that domain smells dodgy.

One may be able to surmise the 15 reasons I have to disagree with Phil. 17 if you count Jo Martin and Peter Cushing.

Can I get a hotel booked for ffconf? Can I fairy cakes.

Another article from me in The Skeptic, looking at the longstanding assumption that the victims of Jack the Ripper were all engaged in sex work.

Skeptics with a K: Episode #442 Mike asks what is really happening when people report 'out of body experiences' and how we know. Meanwhile, Alice has to handle a job interview with a dislocated (ish) jaw. www.merseysideskeptics.org.uk/podcasts/ske...

Right. Time to play in the Green Cathedral.

Absolutely bananas. And still I find myself arguing with stakeholders who do not see bundle size as a priority

How broken is today's frontend culture? A friend points out that the median *mobile* page is now larger than a copy of DOOM (2.6 MiB vs. 2.48 MiB), the 75th percentile page is more than 2 DOOMs, and the P90 mobile page is 4.5x the size of DOOM: httparchive.org/reports/page...

A reminder to leave Twitter. badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/goodbye-tw...

Well. I would like to watch An Unearthly Child today. But Stef is a knob so I can’t.

Finally got around to watching Fantastic Four. Shocked—shocked, I tell you—that the plot involves Pedro Pascal protecting a child of special significance.

Everyone else debugs like this right?

A (horrible) alternate reality, inspired by yesterday. #Cloudflare #Teletext #TeletextArt #Art

Just over 3 hours until Early Birds End! And they are flying out today.

Why would you spin it off at TG Jones, which just looks like a knock off? You could have gone back to John Menzies, for example.

My train tickets are messed up. So I am STRESSED.

Any web software folk who are involved in that sort of thing, I’ve got a talk I’m itching to do about extreme optimisation, and the benefits of designing for super low end devices.

#ffconf Inspiring and uplifting talk to finish. I needed that.

#ffconf My favourite thing about fandoms is the unabashed love of something. At a time when it’s terminally uncool to genuinely love things, and things have to be liked ironically, or loved because it’s bad — there is something refreshing about just really loving stuff for its own sake.

#ffconf And my Withnail and I fan page led to me working (in very minor ways) on two different DVD releases in 2001 and 2006

#ffconf First website I ever made was a Doctor Who fan page, back in 1998.

#ffconf The code review process of some open source projects can be brutal, unforgiving, and disheartening. It’s perhaps an area we should try to improve.

#ffconf Really loving hearing Surya’s story with programming.

This is one of my biggest gripes with AI generated code. People don't understand what they're committing and that's so dangerous. #ffconf with @jesslynnrose.bsky.social & @edaeren.bsky.social

#ffconf This is Rory. Rory likes to eat soap bubbles out of the bath. Don’t be like Rory.

#ffconf Loved that talk on AI tooling diminishing the processes that drive learning. Genuinely fantastic stuff ❤️ and points I’m taking back to my team.

#ffconf “we learn best when we are not scared of being replaced”. Hell yes.

#ffconf "code you did not write is code you do not understand. You cannot maintain code you don't understand " great talk from @jesslynnrose.bsky.social and @rivea0.bsky.social

#ffconf I find I learn so much better when I am using a new tool to solve a real problem I have. That introduces a friction that a tutorial with known answers never satisfies

#ffconf “Weirdness for its own sake is pretty joyful”

#ffconf “AI abstracts away the friction which allows us to learn”. Never thought of that.

#ffconf It’s your own time you’re wasting …

#ffconf This is Big Chungus. Chungus was at the vet this week having a bad tooth removed. He is well on the mend though.

Absolutely phenomenal first half to #ffconf. All the love.

#ffconf 2020: Clap for carers. 2025: Clap for React.

#ffconf It’s a bad thing when you’re looking at Maslow’s hierarchy and you’re not sure you get out of the second and third layers, right? Asking for a friend.

#ffconf Is JavaScript a social experiment gone too far? Probably fair 😂

#ffconf Tragically I still see resistance to SSR from engineering teams today. The argument is almost always “yes SSR is great, but OUR product doesn’t need it”

#ffconf I was on a team once where I discovered a React wrapper around a custom element which itself was a wrapper around a React component (!)

#ffconf “React devs are loyal to their framework”. This is a big problem in my experience too. It takes a lot to shift people from a React-centric view of FE

#ffconf “React doesn’t play nice with web components”. Facebook strikes again!

#ffconf I don’t want to underestimate the impact closing Google Reader had on centralising power with big tech platforms.

#ffconf First two talks were genuinely excellent. Important stuff we perhaps don’t think about enough.

#ffconf Palate cleanser. This is Hubert Cumberdale.

#ffconf “Almost a fifth of Internet traffic is ad trackers”. Absolutely astonishing figure!