Is this fucking real?

The only thing I think Dems are doing in this moment is sending emails begging for money. People who don’t do their jobs don’t get paid. Get something done first ffs.

No one is expecting you to be an illustrator or to hire an artist for that article cover image. A stock photo, a bunch of shapes, or even ✨nothing at all✨ would have been better than that piss tinted AI slop.

I live on the West Coast, work for an East Coast company, and I’m about to open my laptop for the first time today and start work. I always have to brace myself for what onslaught of messages might be waiting for me. Anyone else get this same feeling before they start the work day?

What would be the opposite of Don Quixote? He was fighting windmills he thought were monsters, but what if you’re really fighting monsters that everyone else thinks are windmills? That’s basically how every day leaves me feeling.

Vue templates need a second comment type that won't get rendered in the DOM. Sometimes you just want to leave context, and you don't need that making it to your HTML.

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara told his officers that they have a duty to intervene if they see ICE committing crimes and will be fired if they don't. We need a lot more of this. www.ms.now/news/minneap...

at the shipyard in Tacoma today

My book, Accessibility For Everyone, is now free and online as a website. accessibilityforeveryone.site The book was first published by A Book Apart in 2017 but it holds up! It covers web accessibility for designers, developers, content folks, and really everyone who works in tech.

Tough time to be a ruminator right now.

One of the things keeping me from full crash out is seeing all the people building shelters for or taking in stray cats during this winter storm. Wish I could thank all of them personally.

Went for a walk today, tried to listen to a podcast, but all I could do was ruminate about what I might do if a van of 🧊 agents pulled up on me. Literally the whole time. The next thing I knew, I had finished the 20 minute circuit and I was still stewing about this fucked up situation.

Sad day when even the catfishers and bots don’t get my name right.

I have a 5 minute talk tomorrow and I’ve literally spent all day on the deck. It’s not even an important talk. I hate making decks.

It doesn’t have much form, but it functions. Whipped up a French cleat holder for my extra filaments.* *I know they should ideally be stored somewhere that keeps them dry. I’ll look into that eventually.

this may not be much, but if anyone needs a website or help updating one for their immigration-related group or cause, especially if you’re in the Midwest, please let me know. I do this for a living. DMs are open

Tired of trying to manage my rage from such evil and wrongdoing with likes and fucking reposts.

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

Don’t think this is supposed to happen

I basically do the Ship of Theseus with code for a living. Except it’s some quantum version where I can’t tell where the ship is in space and time to guarantee I’m modifying a part of the ship that won’t result in catastrophe at any given moment.

Revenge sleep procrastination really procrastinating tonight.

Meetings are a neurotypical invention to drive the neurodivergent insane.

At a certain point in your coding career, having an MBA might be more useful than a CS degree. I have neither, for what that's worth.

3d printing custom tools, no matter how small, is cool Also, if you listen closely, you can hear my wife and a friend screaming at Heated Rivalry upstairs.

The problem with being a capable person, someone who can learn practically anything, is that it makes it less clear when you should have someone else do that work for you.

Sanding drywall fucking sucks.

Genuine question, I intend no discouragement to anyone with this: Is there a point to developing, or even learning, new programming languages anymore, given the current (and reasonably forecasted) landscape of AI in programming? What do you think?

I don’t think it’ll get old needing a specific part and being able to model and print it real quick. Needed a vacuum hose adapter to go from my shop vac to the drywall sander I bought. 10 minutes modeling. + 50 mins printing and I have a perfect adapter.

When you first get into 3D printing, there are primarily 3 potential categories of things you print: 1. Frivolity - maybe you bought a 3d printer just for articulated dragons. Good on ya. 2. Organization - game changer, honestly And lastly… 3. Prints to improve your 3D printing experience 😅

Others disregard of the open/closed principle is probably going to give me an aneurysm.

In case you didn't know, eye floaters really suck. I started getting them last year. Docs say I'm ok, it's normal for my age, but I can have some really bad days where they're just floating in a bothersome spot in my vision. Imagine having permanent fruit flies flying around one of your eyes.

Hard being deontologically motivated in a utilitarian world.

I forgot to post this the other day, but I paid off my HELOC. Best thing to happen to me in 2026 so far.

Hey y'all. Propel is hiring some engineers this year. If you like Vue (or aren't afraid to learn) and you want to help improve the lives of low-income Americans, check the roles out: job-boards.greenhouse.io/propel If you have a question, ask in a reply so everyone benefits.

Leftists address this constantly. We advocate for universal health care and child care, guaranteed pensions, decommodified housing, and all kinds of other things that would directly address these issues. What we don't do is say "more white babies" which is what is really being asked here

A few weeks ago, I spent a lot of time studying the Boxed lib (link in the next post), and came across `AsyncData`, which I think might be a functor worth knowing about, so I wrote up why. kyleshevlin.com/async-data/

Goodhart’s Law is always gonna get you.

After I write a blog post and publish it, I always like to give it between 7 to 11 likes (beard strokes, rather). I think of it like how you never want an empty tip jar. Sometimes you gotta put a few of your own in the pot to motivate others. Plus, I did the work. Might as well reward myself.

Working on a blog post about Thing, but in order for you to understand why I think Thing is cool, you really need to know This, That, and the Other Thing. Do you write a super long post and provide the context? Or do you only write about Thing? Maybe cover This, That and the Other Thing elsewhere?

Sometimes I wish I had fewer ideas. Execution of an idea is way more important than the quantity of ideas you have; and as someone who struggles with executive function, I get sad when I look at my unmerged branches on my blog.

3D printing is cool. I printed this featherboard for about $3 of filament and $1.50 of hardware. It’s sick!

We need to stop saying “AI is coming for our jobs” AI doesn’t have a vendetta against the middle class. It’s not sentient, it can’t choose to harm us. It’s a tool for those who can. We need to identify the right party at fault. “Billionaires are coming for our jobs”

The hardest part of all of this *gestures at everything*, at least for me, is that all of this is made up. It's fiction. It's not a law of nature. We designed it, we can redesign it. Except the vast majority of us are powerless to do so. There's no obvious course of action to make tomorrow better.

Tired of being a broken record about composition. “Hey, how do I do this?” Compose these things. “I need the flexibility to do this new thing” Break apart the current thing. Recompose it to do current and new thing. “I need…” It’s composition. The answer is composition. Every time.

As much as I like the For You feed, with the world being overwhelming, it has become overwhelming. Thankful I can change feeds, and no, I'm not suggesting people ignore what's happening. But I can literally feel my pulse rise and my blood pressure increase being aware of so much.

the discourse on what jobs are acceptable to replace with generative AI reveals a lot about what we think of other people's jobs

This tracks with my own usage of AI: it seems to work best when I don’t know enough to understand that it didn’t work very thoroughly.

Apparently federal agents shot people in Portland today. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8fegbb4/

Love discovering that some asshole dumped concrete blocks on my property. Now it’s my problem til I figure out what to do with them. I’d like to smash the blocks over their head if I could.

One of the things I find challenging/frustrating about yearly performance reviews is the implication/meta-aspect of _your_ yearly performance being colored and biased by your abilities to _write_ yearly performance reviews.