You will guess what this person looks like and you'd be wrong.

the final reckoning between AI hype and reality is upon us. buckle up.

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got frustrated recently at work about people writing using AI instead of using their brains! here's my take on it: sophiebits.com/2026/06/25/t...

Hi BlueSky pals 📣 Having just completed a fun project with the folks at Clearleft, I’m on the lookout for my next project. I’m open to part-time or full-time contracts outside IR35 and I can help you with: - design systems consultancy & management - content design - design systems documentation

CSS functions. CSS... functions? CSS functions! frontendmasters.com/blog/the-fun... by @janeori.propjockey.io

watching the tech industry burn out all the people i know who actually care about delivering things that aren’t perpetually broken, all at the altar of infinite velocity, is making me utterly utterly furious.

New overcommitted is out 🎧 Adam Argyle (@nerdy.dev) on going from seven years at google chrome to staff design engineer at shopify, why llms suck at css, and why he thinks "the finishers", design engineers, are one of the most ai-proof roles in tech right now overcommitted.dev/design-engin...

Just read "MCPs are dead," and I think we need to reflect on why we, as an industry, are so obsessed with things dying right now. Like, seriously. Psychologically. Are we okay? (No.)

This is peak AI mania: identify a task that has long been well- and cheaply-handled by human beings, pay to use an LLM (which is ill-suited for the task), and be completely shocked when it goes disastrously.

New comic: Beware of CSS! comicss.art/comics/248/ Best practices don't actually work, so use our library with new best practices that don't actually work either… so use our extension with even newer best practices that also don’t actually work... so use our... #css #comic #webdev

🎉 Registration is now open for my latest course, Whimsical Animations! This course will teach you everything you need to know to design and build stunning, creative animations and interactions. It’s time to make the web less generic and boring! 😄

I think I finally fully understood the Monty hall problem and have a simple way of explaining it now.

slop is something that takes more human effort to consume than it took to produce. When my coworker sends me raw Gemini output he’s not expressing his freedom to create, he’s disrespecting the value of my time

"here I asked AI to generate a doc for you to read and review" Can we please stop doing this.

Congratulations to the @npmx.dev team on their launch day! 🎉❤️ Here's @vlad.website on how npmx's success shows us why Open Source collaboration itself is so special.

"Does 200 lines of Python code understand anything? My siblings in Christ I hope it’s clear how utterly bizarre this question is."

when you have 16,000 new lines of code which must be maintained indefinitely, and neither the author (who used AI) nor the reviewers (who used AI) has any knowledge about what that code *actually* does… that’s a perfect recipe for the erosion of institutional knowledge

The violent occupation of Minneapolis started with a vlog. I've wanted to find a framework to describe Nick Shirley & others like him: "Influencer" is too quaint. "Journalist" is obviously wrong. I landed on "slopagandist." Gift link (open in a web browser) www.theverge.com/news/869824/...

Ok but why does this lego tiger have a butthole? My family thinks I'm crazy for questioning this

A lot of parenting is just saying "wow" to things that definitely aren't "wow"

I have a pretty sweet design engineer/technologist role that just opened: careers.snowflake.com/us/en/job/SN...

Have kids so you can have a 6yo punch you in the stomach because they're angry they had to stop doing something after you tell them it's time to stop. Then 30 minutes later say mother's and father's day is their favorite holiday because it celebrates mommy and daddy.

HEY HEY, the Design Tokens Specification is stable! This is absolutely phenomenal news for the design system community and the technology industry in general. www.w3.org/community/de...

The two most effective ways your company can support open source: 1. Let your developers have time for open source work. 2. Give each of your developers an annual budget to allocate to whatever OSS projects they think are important.

Today is the 30th anniversary of Hackers

I am not like a sudoku person (I do them sometimes), but I heard about this video on @theverge.com and I had to watch it. It is brilliant www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKf9...

I got kneed in my penis by my 3yo and then slapped there by my 5yo as he ran through the house. In case anyone was wondering what having kids is like

📙 📗 📘 📕 The History of Themeable User Interfaces: bradfrost.com/blog/post/th... It was an incredible experience to write this piece. It blurs together the history of computers, video games, the web, design systems, and my own existence on this planet.

What a fucking week huh?

📣 Save the Date! 10th Annual Clarity: A Design Systems Retreat December 2nd–4th, 2025 Palm Springs, California www.clarityconf.com Early bird tickets will be available this Friday, August 22nd.

Giving designtokenscourse.com a re-watch and other than being an awesome course, which I can't recommend highly enough, I forgot how soothing @bradfrost.com's voice is

The SPEAKER implies. The LISTENER infers. The DUDE abides.

Have we pointed out yet that open source is inherently political? And not even in the way that everything is political. In the way that it is a direct political action to reject artificial scarcity and undermine technocratic power.

Slightly diminish a band: Mild chili peppers

I just published a new blog post about two of my absolute favourite CSS tricks. ✨ www.joshwcomeau.com/animation/pa...

The infinite consumes us all.

Our 5yo is starting kindergarten tomorrow and the first 7 days they have to bring snacks in disposable bags and he loves Pokemon, so I decorated them

[first date] Him: So what do you do? Her: I’m an oncologist. Him: So you’re always on call?

A helpful graph made by @stevekrouse.com on the inverse relationship between vibes and understanding in AI assisted code. Put a few thoughts down here: maggieappleton.com/2025-08-vibe... Original article: blog.val.town/vibe-code

The GOAT

As vibe-coded apps and self-creating websites become the norm, luxe companies will pay large dollars for bespoke, hand-crafted HTML and CSS.

I don't know how to describe it, but every member of Weezer looks like they are actually in very different bands.

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Partner and I went to a fancy omakase. I felt like we won the best customer of that sitting, which is a very normal thing to want.

I love CSS folks. They are soldiers of joy and delight. The world is burning and AI debates have people at each others throats and CSS peeps keep being like “check out this dancing turtle I made out of divs 🥰”

Partner and I are going on a work trip for the rest of the week (grandma is watching them). This morning: 3yo: I want you to leave already. When are you leaving? 5yo: I don't want you to leave 😭

Oh no I think we are entering a new stage of parenthood. 5yo made signs that warn us not to enter their room