If I can come up with a pun name for a tool then it's almost certain I'll prioritise building it.

Playing Outer Wilds for the first time and wow it really is something special.

Over twenty years later I have finally got past the goat puzzle in Broken Sword.

No Mow May is horrendous for hay fever sufferers each year. I'm glad it's almost over.

I know what I'm loading into my sampler later.

My mind is always on what I'll do when I get some free time. When I get some free time I fritter and procrastinate the time away instead. 🫣

Three independent sources said the same thing: the GEO playbook doesn't work. The frameworks keep selling. New on The Inference: Mt Stupid has a pricing page. 🔗👇🏻 open.substack.com/pub/theinfer...

Screaming into the void some thoughts on AI coding. androidessence.com/leave-me-beh...

Well, that was a fun distraction.

Message logging should be a native part of DevTools @developer.chrome.com. I ended up having to build it myself.

Just been trolled by AI. I was given a list of options with the recommendation being "Option 1 + 2". I asked it to proceed and it responded 3 and closed the task. 🙃

"If you're feeling burned out at all. Especially with all this stupid AI stuff that we won't stop talking about… Build something. Build something fun. Build something silly… And oops you accidentally learned something along the way… We need more of this on the internet." ❤️❤️❤️ www.sillysoftware.club

Engineer doesn't mean "someone who knows how to use AI tools". 😡

Hello.. is this thing on? *tap*

Those mad lads at Teenage Engineering added an undo button to the OP1F. 🥰 Probably the most requested feature.

Introducing Cursor Camp, a website to hang out with other cursors. Out now :) > neal.fun/cursor-camp/

As a side note I'm really impressed with how Arcane runs on a Pi. Portainer was taking much far too much resources and Coolify wouldn't even attempt to install on a Pi3.

Since Terry Pratchett died I've been slowly rationing out his remaining unread books. I'm now onto my last unread book of his (the final book in the Discworld series). 😭

I had a bit of motivation to refactor away from paid services and I'm slowly bringing the different parts of TAPEFEAR.com back online after a hiatus due to funds. It's now crawling and updating again *fingers crossed* but still needs an overhaul of many of the other backend systems.

After spending quite a bit of time playing with the new and amazing HTML-in-Canvas API, I’ve pulled together all the experiments, code, and examples into one long, comprehensive article. 🔗 On @frontendmasters.com: frontendmasters.com/blog/the-web... * Best viewed in supported browsers.

Just published a new version of gsap-video-export (2.1.1) that has some minor housekeeping and adds an option to export the png frames skipping the video encoding step. @gsap-greensock.bsky.social github.com/workeffortwa...

So ignore the fact the puzzle is completely unsolvable (it's just generating random numbers for now) this was my first attempt at creating something (a Slitherlink game) with #pico8.

Well this seems like a terrible idea. 😬

Anyone seen this before in a user agent? "Google-Macaron-Detection-Automation"

New Boards of Canada!!!! 🤯 youtu.be/6bghDcbzfEU

62 hours in and I'm running out of things to do in Clair Obscur. 😭

✨ Have you ever heard of Disney’s 12 Basic Principles of Animation? The very first rule, “Squash and Stretch”, can make motion feel *way* more satisfying. I just dropped a brand-new blog post that shows how I’ve been using this technique in my own work: www.joshwcomeau.com/animation/sq...

Data Studio formerly known as Looker Studio formerly known as Data Studio

Another day, another offer to buy my Chrome Extensions. Today's offer is $0.20 per user. Note: My Chrome Extensions are not for sale as I'm not going to sell out my users to inevitable tracking injection and malware.

Lmao

Turns our the most popular JSON viewer extension is injecting tracking scripts into every page, sooo... 📣 Announcing JSON Alexander A really good JSON viewer browser extension. → Easily open/collapse objects → Copy property path → Access JSON in dev tools console → Funny hairy finger cursor

RIP, the json formatter extension I had went closed source a month or so back, today I found it was injecting random shopping trackers. chromewebstore.google.com/detail/json-...

Managed to get pneumonia, at least it explains why the last three weeks have been hellish. 😭

The WebAIM Million 2026 report is out, it reports on overall accessibility across the web: 1. The number of failures increased 10.1% YOY 2. The average number of page elements increased 22.5%YOY Meaning accessibility progress is backsliding. Personally, I am quite certain this is related to AI.

Ok I have seen a GOOD APRIL FOOLS JOKE in the wild. My kids comic (Phoenix - home if @jamiesmart.bsky.social) comes in an envelope every week, we open it, had a fake cover for a soup review mag like we’d been sent the wrong thing. Genius!

I made my first Pico8 game, then was instantly disappointed when it didn't have all the particle effects and screen shake magic that all the other Pico8 games have. How are you wizards even doing that?!

Why is the assumption with DLSS5 that games are striving to mirror "real life" visuals. From all the clips I've seen it looks like it strips artistic direction and intent to make environments and characters look "real".

Just released heerich.js, a tiny voxel engine that renders 3D scenes to SVG ╬ Boolean ops ◮ Oblique & perspective 𝑥 Zero dependencies ◌ Pure vector output, infinite scaling Named after Erwin Heerich's geometric cardboard sculptures. meodai.github.io/heerich/ www.youtube.com/watch?v=jndl...

Wikipedia does what is essentially a full ban on AI content: www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

Bamboo Nine will be exhibiting at @brightonseo.com this year! I'll be on holiday so will be missing BrightonSEO this time around, but be sure to stop by to say hello to the team.

For everyone asking about the GitHub Universe badge, yes it does...

Anyone going to Web Day Out tomorrow?

Are those mini battery powered chainsaws actually any good? I have a laurel that needs cutting back a little every year and they seem perfect for that.

Life goals.

I think... *touch wood* I have finished the software for my MIDI project. * No more weird USB packet issues. * Rock solid timing for both following a clock and leading a clock. Just one remaining thing to check off my list, and on to building the case and wiring things.

OK, but *how* can you tell if something is AI generated?

This week on The Callback: - Cloudflare clones Next.js out of spite - Anthropic's plunder gets plundered - Chrome gets its fonts hacked - And more! Watch and laugh along on YouTube: youtu.be/R34ifge0v-U