bitter lesson of software metas is that things with “looseness” - separation of concerns - alternate syntaxes - dynamic typing - XML - NoSQL usually lost to things that provided more firm and coupled experiences

new year new Spaces

joodaforum

learning from observation first involves learning how to make things observable

my gut says that in practice Bluesky will go the way of a closed ecosystem anyway but this is fine if: - the feee can be user-controlled - multi-client and firehouse is free - the simcluster grows

started working on a sidebar extension to view bluesky posts as you browse the web!

i’m getting more likes on bluesky than twitter, feels optimistic

in the future all jobs will be public sector work

part of me isn’t in love with the idea of always-public posts, likes, accounts etc. but if that is the price of not being Twitter, so be it

ok my new mission is moving off of posting platforms as a marketing channel

first of all, i hate all you millennial misery hags on here trying to earn a spot on r/murderedbywords and i hate what you’ve done to this place and hope it’s reversed this year so the exodus finally happens

ceding AI to the right is a generational poltical mistake and bullying LLM researchers off bluesky to cook their brains in twitter racism is a self defeating and foolish act from well meaning people deluding themselves into thinking intentional ignorance is a valid form of critique and resistance

tbh i don’t really have a career plan i just have enough money to raise kids and see many problems in the world i can fix

i am going to try and get my screentime to <10 hours a day

what is left to do in software, other than self-ownership?

slowly crawling my way back to work again

i’m going to make music and do it only on garageband

i have achieved the visual control i should have been aiming for from the start (just write CSS)

i am unreasonably proud of this one i have successfully distilled the essence of flexbox into two variables

Globally unique identifier rundown: DNS: Centralized coordination (ICANN) but fast ENS: Decentralized consensus (blockchain) but slow Local-first: No coordination (UUIDs) but ugly

one thing that worries me with browsers is that they do need to be adding new features to compete with the native platform but the selection those new features has so often been mid to say the least

type-safe mutator API design inspired by @livestore.dev's event system

Oh so you hate dogs, huh.

waffles

renewed hope in the blueksy devs, didn’t think it was possible 🫡

millennials love to brag about being able to use computers but they fall so hard for the “here’s some information designed to validate your biases, now go be emotional about it” trap completely defenceless

contrarian bet: single-purpose sync engines

i think the root of this is that at some point ppl forgot that copyright is a _policy choice_ in order to achieve outcomes that are agreed upon as “morally good”, not a moral good in of itself!

Me: it didn’t taste very good and my tummy feels weird ChatGPT: You’re right to call that out — suggesting that you drink the fluid from a glowstick was a misstep on my part

we are still catching up to the reality of powerful clients

i recommend getting better at stating your preferences

the smartphone was successful because it was anchored in a very concrete purpose of communication between people this device would be successful if it was anchored in a very concrete purpose to be a *answer* machine, but we know that the core machine can't be that, so they have to sell it like this

if you think you are a leftist and u also think that jay graeber is the most important political target of this moment, or indeed, even that she's wrong on the object level, you are genuinely not serious and you deserve to lose. sorry.

Fuck you *git commits your .DS_Store file*

Who is the unapologetic Oscar Wilde of computing? The one that says that computing is mostly useless and that’s its value?

who would win: a field of expert researchers or an overconfident bluesky user

once the strippers leave is when the normal people can step in so by all means, off to mastodon with you

“Nobody cares about decentralization. I am very intelligent.” Single Point Of Failure: *fails* “How could this have happened?? Who could have predicted it??”

she is a brave woman

hey i made a thing to help me make websites maybe it will help you too hugo.joodaloop.com

Haven't read it, let's see if it's a paper that disproves the existence of humans, or one that makes assumptions about arcitecture that won't necessarily hold in six months.

deeply learn CSS until it flows like water

css is cool now lyra.horse/blog/2025/08...

decided to create a live-updated public prototype of the what will eventually be Scatterpad’s text editor scatterpad-solid.d4js2468.workers.dev/text

AI has graduated from PhD student to advisor

context-aware typography, anyone?

once more into the breach dear friends

the only thing i’m worried about after doing this is like…what happens if @ryansolid.bsky.social is hit by a bus?