Yeah, this is the key point: These bedrock principles -- free speech, reflexive aversion to sniveling authoritarian censorship -- still carry tremendous force deep in the culture, and Trump can't make that disappear with his Sharpie and its magical reality-bending powers.

Stephen Miran has outlined his case for massive rate cuts. The logic is utterly tortured—and bizarre. One explanation: He’s the president’s messenger. Another: He thinks his career benefits from flattering power. A third: He’s inhaled too many White House talking points. None inspire confidence.

If you speak Dutch and English and are in NL, my friend and collaborator Roderick Gadellaa's company is hiring a senior frontend engineer. Honestly this sounds like an incredible gig: decorrespondent.homerun.co/senior-front...

The features of WebKit matter to the health and competitiveness of the web because Apple prevents users from accessing less buggy, more secure, and more capable browsers. Cupertino *seems* to claim it wants to solve developer problems. But does it?: infrequently.org/2025/09/cupe...

@pimlicat.bsky.social, CEO of B4B: "By undermining the UN, he makes the world more dangerous and unpredictable. Putin couldn’t ask for a better gift. World leaders must reject Trump's reckless attempt to rewrite the rules." https://bit.ly/3Kfqyxa

My memory isn't the best, so when I kept hearing that Apple was happy to engage in re-designing challenging APIs in areas it had previously poured cold water on, I had more than a moment of self-doubt. Had I missed something fundamental? A look at the evidence: infrequently.org/2025/09/cupe...

Trump just said "inflation has been defeated" in the U.S. Problem is, Trump isn't talking to his cult. He's talking to the UN General Assembly, and they know he's full of shit.

once again, if tylenol caused autism, america would have a better rail system

"history is also going to remember the cowards who definitely knew better but still let things happen—whether it was for money, convenience, or just comfort. Use ... the only phrase that can genuinely make a weak bully go away: F**k you. Make me.”" www.pajiba.com/news/john-ol...

I slam the NYT when it normalizes Trump and reaches for neutral language to characterize his batshit craziness. But here they got it right.

A lot of folks think ideas for web platform features need the blessing of Working Groups. Thankfully, nothing could be further from the truth. The only spark we ever needed was web developers and browser engineers talking in a space where they can hear each other: infrequently.org/2025/09/stan...

📣My analytical op-ed in @ForeignPolicy on AI-powered information warfare. Is the window for combating AI-driven propaganda is closing? Local, open-weight models let State, non-state and micro-operators run industrial-scale influence ops with no central points. foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/18/a...

we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there

Bootlicker.js leaves a bad taste in the mouth, no matter how you look at it: webpagetest.org/video/compare.ph…

(Oh and Trans Rights are Human Rights, let's get that one in there too)

To be very clear, this isn't to say that those features don't deserve critique. All designs need input! But substantive analysis is very different from venue posturing and blanket disengagement. We have to learn to peer through these smoke-screens to sort constructive input from noise.

A very good explainer on the officialness, if you will, of web standards, and how they get made, and why. This stuff is my day job: #WebGPU, and more narrowly its accompanying shader language.

Tom Homan took a bag of cash from an undercover FBI agent the right way. by Ezra Klein

I beg of you, please, do not make me have to defend Bill Maher from government censorship

It's common for folks who should know better — including people who work on browsers — to claim some vendors "don't follow standards" when attacking certain designs. This isn't just wrong, it hurts our ability to think clearly about how make a better web: infrequently.org/2025/09/stan...

Cas and I were talking yesterday about one thing we loved about Twitter was the smart people who would correct you or engage with you. That was valuable feedback we used in forming ideas. If you are still on X you are no longer getting that feedback so your worst ideas are getting locked in

If you've ever wondered if there's anything to the critique that some browsers "ship whatever they want" or "don't follow standandards", here's the long-form explanation of why those arguments fail on their own terms: infrequently.org/2025/09/stan...

There is a constitutional remedy for this sort of corrupt behavior, and it doesn't have a statute of limitations, Judge Bove.

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

this user is a professor, which makes this the bravest post I’ve ever seen on this website

UPDATE: DHS has an official follow-up statement.

Have a client (large computer manufacturer) who were using large images as background textures and I got them to swap for CSS gradients Took a bit of persuading but eventually got there — client and their design agency kept looking at on desktop, 80%+ of the visitors were on mobile

When Nate Silver is dragged off to the same camps as the rest of us for being insufficiently MAGA he will be cursing BlueSky every step of the way for doing it to him.

One thing people who aren't foreign nationals considering whether to come to / stay in America don't appreciate: More than ever, talented people have *options* that simply didn't exist a decade ago. And to many of them, compared to the U.S., their home countries are looking better than ever.

The prevalence of transpilers on top of a language's syntax, particularly if concentrated, is a measure of the irrelevance of its standards bodies.

@katz.theracket.news on CK: “This, again, is the point of the secular martyrization of Charlie Kirk — to convince a large enough proportion of Americans that their lives and culture are under threat that they have no choice but to hand over the last of our rights.” theracket.news/p/has-trump-...

But…broadcast is where the FCC has jurisdiction. You’re just a hypocrite.

With the news cycle focused on ABC's suspension of Jimmy Kimmel, a journalist with a valid US work permit and pending green card application is about to be deported for the crime of reporting www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

ICYMI, I keep updated recommendations for low-spec testing devices here: infrequently.org/links/#hardw...

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Donate to my campaign to make Laura Loomer’s day worse: secure.actblue.com/donate/abu-bluesky

Look at photos of US troops in Fallujah. (eg here: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol... ) They're armed like these ICE agents in Chicago. But none of them are wearing the cowardly face masks of today's ICE thugs. Like the one throwing a young, female Congressional candidate to the ground.

OMG - the judge in Florida just sua sponte struck the complaint in the Trump v NYT case for -wait for it - violating Rule 8. Lawyers, tell the folks at home how hard it is to get the complaint struck outright for something like that in fed eral court. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Frameworkists are eager to tell you about the name-brand tech they're using on the project, then put a Miele oven in the bathroom. Do not be a frameworkist. Do not _hire_ frameworkists. Be someone who is agnostic to tools but laser focused on goals. infrequently.org/2024/11/if-n...

Back in 2005, when I would hear phrases like "user-centered design", I would think "who else would we be designing for?" I was so naive. The principal/agent problem is now measured in megabytes of JavaScript.

I’ve kept a running log of the BBC News front page for 10–15 years: dracos.co.uk/made/bbc-new... In 2005, the HTML on its own was 54K. In 2015, the HTML was 208KB. In 2025, the HTML alone is 939KB.

This felt like a "too accurate too be real" sort of thing, so I when to find out if it was true. Gift link: nytimes.com/1939/02/04/archi…

Luckily, Sinclair has a helpful database of all their stations, so you can see if they're operating in your area and respond accordingly. sbgi.net/tv-stations/

and a retired meteorologist shall lead us

It's not a big thing, but relatively frequent travel back and forth from the UK has reminded me just how utterly the BBC broke their site with JavaScript for most of the world. This is BONKERS: www.webpagetest.org/video/compar...

When you meet someone who wants you to be institutionalized, prosecuted, or killed, you should be asking yourself: what do I have in common with this person? Tomorrow from Ezra Klein

Even after abusing his power to get Kimmel fired, Trump is still seething with resentment. Hopefully to the point of ill health. KEEP RIDICULING THEM, THEY CAN’T HANDLE IT.

Incredible bullet list. No notes.

Guess who's got two thumbs and, as of today, an Onion subscription? membership.theonion.com

The same week he sues the NY Times for $15 billion... *this* is the headline the NY Times goes with?