I love immigration. My wife was an immigrant, and now I am an immigrant. And if it wasn’t for immigration and a massive ton of luck my son wouldn’t be alive today.

meanwhile over on Twitter... what the fuck is this? "Stick to the facts" while claiming something demonstrably, clearly untrue. Where are the adults? Can we have the adults back please?

In Guy Ritchie-es que accent: Fucking sky is looking alright too

would you like to continue with your password that requires no further keypresses, or would you like to use a passcode where you need to go buy a new phone to take a photo of the QR code on this phone or set up a complex system of mirrors so you can take a photo of the front of this phone?

My current response to a load of midjourney images in my feed… Like, it looks kinda nice but so what?

“When I’m with you I feel like I can be my entire ass”

TomThought: showing a toast to a user for an error is a means to an end. What we're really doing is communicating the status to the user, and it just happens to be via a bouncy rectangle. why not this: reportError(error, friendlyMessage, fault: "system", notify: ["user", "system"])

ui is my passion

just added mipmapping support to text rendering in Felt. Saves more than 99% texture memory for drawing text on a map. i'm sure there's a saying like if you make something 10% better you did a good job, but if you make it 99% better it's because you fucked up.

My mum sent me two printed out AI generated stories for my kids with ai generated pictures of them in the story. I don’t like it.

Software that is reliable and simple to use requires a reliable and simple internal model. If you struggle to describe your internal state simply and reliably, that will leak out to your users, no matter how hard you try. If you can’t explain it to yourself, how can you explain it to your users?

hats off to the geniuses over on twitter.

Something that almost always causes unnecessary complexity in iterating designs (whether UX, UI, database, front-end architecture, etc.) is not getting the deeper understanding of WHY a thing is like it is now. Is it like this because it has to be? Or just happens to be? Is this THE one, or A one?

Having moved from England to Catalunya, it’s amazing to see the normalisation/glorification of alcoholism and binge drinking the point it’s a “funny” headline on the sport website. The UK as a whole has a drinking problem.

"no clear answers"

Good to see the BBC doing something to stamp out predatory once and for all

Accessibility is my passion

Ever wondered how a professional digital illustrator constructs their sketches? Watch this video of a pro doing their thing for our “wrapped” prompt! #artchallenge #digitalart

React Native app update submitted to App Store. Now to see what it looks like on Android 😬😬😬

purchasable what now?

they should replace "Do not ask again" with "Do not ask again unless the interaction to do this was like 3ms and an obvious accident". Also, what does "Do not ask me again" do if I select Cancel? Never let me move a file??

Hot take: the "minimal repro or I close the issue" behaviour of OSS maintainers is silly. As the maintainer, you have a much higher chance of being able to produce a minimal repro, or even deduce the problem without a minimal repro, or already have a bunch of places to test whatever is reported.

Here’s a CSS thing that annoys me daily and now hopefully it’ll annoy you too: text-wrap: pretty text-wrap: balance Why is one an adjective and the other a verb? Why not “balanced”?

fastlane, after 35 failed builds for various reasons hidden by its abstractions: 🎉 Fastlane just saved you 8 minutes!!

if you make a TypeScript library and you ship a breaking change where the behaviour changes but the API remains the same, you should probably actually change the API so consumers are forced to audit their usage.

My hot new UI design tip… Put a 1px FFFFFF19 border on dark mode rectangles to create a nice faux shine effect.

"I actually never saw the president in any type of massage setting” “I actually never saw the dog eating the cake”

a lot of the thought that goes into development is about dependencies, at many different levels. what data does this view depend on what features does this feature depend on what external services does this depend on what user expectations does this depend on what team members does this depend on

as application architectures mature... frontends migrate towards event emitters and dynamic registration backends migrate towards queues and asynchronous task completion they're both ways of decoupling and they both involve dependency direction inversion

Working on some webpack stuff and came across this: coffee-redux-loader It's like coming across a time capsule.

oh good i'm writing a build tool for a build tool

Happy 1st of the month to every developer fixing bugs because it's a new month.

I'll give you two guesses, and one of them isn't "Yes"

As a software developer, no other words make me internally wince as much as “can it just…” Can it? Yes if you really want. Can it “just”? Almost certainly not.

Here’s a very tricky question. See if you can take a wild guess at which social network this comment is from: “This is EXACTLY the type of business synergies I love to see”

If ever there was a time not to use the mercator projection, this is it

Say what you want about LLMs, and they’ll agree with you

Anyone have any preference for a 'home page' on this mobile app? Or other suggestions? Pink is the brand color, Songbook being the main piece. Want to tie colors to the other sections. Making with @expo.dev !

Been having an absolute hoot working on a new react native app today. @expo.dev has come such a long way. And the react native community in general. So quick to develop with. Although I haven’t run it on the dreaded android yet 😢

Top developer productivity tools for 2025 - walk - shower - sleep - read the documentation

I cannot think of a piece of software that irritates me more than @notion.com Like, Zoom is dreadful, but somehow not annoying, probably because you don't have to _interact_ with it much. But Notion is just... everything I do with it I get wrong and it does bizarro stuff all the time.

The main reason I decided to get a real human girlfriend is the PDF upload feature.

When a job interviewer asks one of those “tell me about a time when…” questions:

I cannot stop reading MCP as Most Contentful Paint

Royals using “how to behave like a normal human” lesson almost daily during sports tournaments

Was gonna build a website where you could upload a photo and it would tell you if it was someone called Roy or just some buffalo. I wanted royorbison.com but it's taken because someone else has obviously had the same idea.

If you have a bug and fix it, and you decide you need to try to prevent it from happening again, at no point is "we will have to remember to do/not to do X" an acceptable approach to that. You absolutely **will** forget to do/not to do that thing.

Who manages the IManagerFactoryBuilderProviderStrategyManager?

I was challenged to use comic sans as my IDE font so I found a monospaced version of it and I’ve kept it ever since.

Just when you thought MAGA couldn’t get any more ridiculous they’re now claiming batteries don’t exist??