The sad thing is that Next.js/React is completely unnecessary for this type of website. Static page, optimized images and assets are a part of every modern static site builder. If you don't understand the value of accessibility and performance, your design system isn't going to get very far.

424-word hot take: “You Can’t Make Something Accessible to Everyone” adrianroselli.com/2025/12/you-... #accessibility #a11y

Basically, less "well, I think some parents have some good points about trans students" and more "shut the fuck up about children's genitals, you creep."

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Harvard Law Library has created a brilliant website for their Data.gov archive—there's a static S3-style data store, and the front-end is a DuckDB-Wasm in-browser database using HTTP range requests to retrieve the needed data. In short, there's...no website? Kind of?

Some exciting things coming soon! 🇺🇸

show this to anyone else you know who also assumed DHH was just a normal conservative dude rather than a raging white supremacist lunatic

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

There is always an argument against shipping. Be the person always arguing to ship.

It’s going to break your heart how many people you know, love, and respect will turn out to be cowards. Prepare yourself as best you can. You are not alone, but you are your own center. Be a strong center.

We all have a choice. The Internet is ours.

I'm trying to build a "Maine software engineer" Bluesky starter pack! If you you're a software engineer in Maine, send me a message.

I think I have to call it here... I tried to justify that I'm using resources without handing over my credit card, but I can't, in good conscience, continue to support this organization in any way. Quite frankly, on top of it all, I find the bootlicking utterly pathetic

If "punch a Nazi" feels like a threat to you personally, maybe it's time for some soul searching. How come the anti-woke, free speech purists are the first ones to cry when they get called out? Somehow they're both toughest and loudest, whiny victims 🎻

"We will build it ourselves so we won't have any dependencies" I've seen that costly mistake way too often. Building it yourself maybe doesn't add to the dependencies array but it's a dependency nonetheless! And no-one but your team to rely on for maintenance and expertise.

Personally I've moved on to using @tanstack.com and @astro.build I find the support of these tools, in the situations they're used, by the maintainers sickening. Folks like @natemoo.re and the Astro community are inspiring and empathetic. Having basic human decency shouldnt be hard to come by...

Are there any examples from gov.uk demonstrating something like API documentation or otherwise geared toward a technical audience? Looking for examples of things like code snippets, API responses, stepped instructions, etc...

If you cannot make meaningful progress in six months—delivering results to end users—then you're just wasting money. If you can't break a huge project up into smaller pieces that will be put into production as you go, then you're almost certainly going to fail. It's that simple.

IRS’s Direct File wasn't open source while it was being developed. But somebody just made it public!

Built my first from-scratch Zag.js component today 🎉 Feels good! I'm very bullish on Zag. Some exciting things to come!

EZ

Not sure I agree that this is the dunk people think it is. Working with fed govt, implementing Drupal was an absolute lowlight of my career. Content in Git has a lot of practical benefits: markdown is easily made accessible, git is auditable, requires authentication, branches for content approvals

"You’re burned out because you’ve been relevant, valuable, over-functioning for too long—inside systems that reward your ability to endure dysfunction and call it leadership." Holy shit. I haven't read a sentence that hit me that hard in a little while.

Tomorrow is our monthly Maine JS Meetup! Join us for an evening of brief, informative lightning talks at Portland Webworks. #javascript www.meetup.com/mainejs/even...

🍺 Tomorrow is our monthly Maine JS Meetup! Join us in Portland, Maine, for an evening of networking and lively technical discussion by the fire at Novare Res. www.meetup.com/mainejs/even...

It’s a misconception that eagerly satisfying user requests is best for users. Users are experts on problems they face, but they are not product designers. To best serve them, you need to dig deeper, and figure out what their *actual* goals are, then design a good solution for those.

And with that, my transition to BlueSky is complete

Tell me I'm not the only one who's noticed the active support and defense of discrimination and intolerance by core Remix maintainers and the drift of the core Nextjs team. Looking for tools and frameworks developed by people strongly opposed to fascism and oligarchic bootlicking.

1 week to go till MaineJS meetup, Portland ME "Writing Tests Using GitHub Copilot" see you there on Dec 10th www.meetup.com/mainejs/even...