It's always struck me how little empirical evidence there is that AI actually saves time, given how widely accepted the idea seems to be. No company has more motivation to prove it than Anthropic—yet their own study confirms the speed gain is not only insignificant, but carries *steep* penalties.

Astonishing "using AI assistance led to a .. significant decrease in mastery. On a quiz [of] concepts used just a few minutes before, participants in the AI group scored 17% lower than those who coded by hand .. AI sped up the task slightly, but this didn’t reach .. statistical significance."

The Design Tokens spec includes an $extensions property for tool-specific metadata and more. Learn what it is and how to use it here. Understanding $extensions in the Design Tokens Specification www.alwaystwisted.com/articles/und... #DesignTokens #DesignSystems #FrontEnd #WebDev #WebDesign 🙏🖤

Still the greatest video ever made. Sorry. I don't make the rules...

So there's a new meta element arriving in town (Chrome Canary first)? 👏 www.joshtumath.uk/posts/2026-0...

This is what peak physical Media looks like.

To all fleeing from Firefox due to their tone-deaf AI fumblings, please don't move to a Chromium-based browser. Diversity in browser engines is critical for an open web. We must avoid a monopoly at all costs. #Browsers #Firefox #Mozilla

(This is the list, not sure why that didn’t come through.) The thing to keep in mind — Big Tech doesn’t define the internet. There is *still* a healthy, thriving independent internet of creators, just like there are stores beyond Walmart and restaurants beyond McDonald’s. Find them, support them.

Ah yes, one of the many “brexit benefits” was a trade deal with India because “it would never happen” in the EU

HMRC / GOV.uk developers are saints. Good ol' multi-page accessible HTML forms. No front-end bullshit. No "developer experience" blocking my progress. No design dribbbled with a 10px grey-on-grey font.

Yay! My site has been added to personalsit.es (thanks for accepting my PR @bell.bz!) If you've got a personal site, you should totally submit it there too! Go #IndieWeb, go!

Morning

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Between Musk's porn generator, Zuckerberg's trauma machine, and the suicide-encouraging bots that Google invested in - Big Tech is finding that child sacrifice is very, very profitable. I feel especially strongly about this one. New from me: buttondown.com/creativegood...

wrote some things I've been thinking about ai ... and it ended up feeling very personal roe.dev/blog/the-go...

the discourse on what jobs are acceptable to replace with generative AI reveals a lot about what we think of other people's jobs

I'm glad to see this pressure on Google and Apple. If any other company was running an active CSAM generator in public you better believe it would have been removed from their app stores by now www.wired.com/story/x-grok...

Now only paying subscribers can make violent non-consenual sexual imagery of women and children - Grok turns off image generator for most users after outcry over sexualised AI imagery www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

4 #CSS Features Every Front-End Developer Should Know In 2026 nerdy.dev/4-css-featur...

DELL EXEC: Consumers are “not buying based on AI. In fact I think AI probably confuses them more than it helps them understand a specific outcome." @pcgamer.com #CES www.pcgamer.com/hardware/del...

Getting increasingly pissed off with hardware that depends on the cloud to function. This morning my office didn't get heated because the Goolge Nest returned a 503 error, and today my Logi MX mouse doesn't work because a dev SSL cert is out of date. What. The actual. Fuck. I've gotta eject.

Drop your RSS feeds in the replies so people (including me) can find them 👇

Microslop

If Data on Star Trek ran on ChatGPT…

Who's ready for tomorrow?

I wonder if the big push toward requiring ID for all the centralized sites will be how we finally see people break out into their own spaces again? like, I'm not about to hand a tech company that's mandating all employees vibe code harder my government ID just so I can post jokes on the timeline

This is something I experience at least every week. Any fixed button or modal bigger than the viewport - button cannot be tapped in Safari as the first tap changes the browser chrome. Only way I could book this Drs appointment was to use VoiceOver and swipe to the button.

Feels like a metaphor for *something* or other.

post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, or alice in chains

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

Larry Ellison will own a part of TikTok alongside the Chinese. Great job @schumer.senate.gov and team, you really solved the social media propaganda and privacy threat

I still find it baffling that tech leaders are baffled about resistance to adopting AI. You told everyone it was going to replace them, why on earth would you expect people to adopt it with alacrity.

That nice @utilitybend.com of the Open UI group (that gave HTML new fancy <select>, not the AI snakeoil merchants) wants your use-cases for multi-handle range controls. github.com/openui/open-...

Even if you *could* "fix" the nazi platform — WHY WOULD YOU BUILD ECONOMIC VALUE FOR A WHITE SUPREMACIST. I swear people are goddamn fools. "Tell your progressive friends to go buy a Tesla so that other Tesla drivers might like us better?" Money is power. Don't give Musk power. Read a goddamn book.

lol it’s so genuinely fun seeing Cory take decades of fluency in how these systems are broken and serve it up for a mainstream audiences. Even if you know “enshittification” well, this is worth the watch. And love to @eff.org! youtu.be/d2e-c9SF5nE

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

I‘m like Robin Hood for introverted, neurodivergent and shy people. I take attention away from the loudest voices and give it to talented people who are often overlooked, too shy, or repeatedly rejected. This is my true passion and I received two awards for my work 💪🏆 Thank you!

Did you know that Firefox dev tools include a thing that tells you about power consumption? In the screenshot below you can see: Power: 131mW Energy used in the visible range: 4.8 μWh (0.002 mg CO_2e)

Why do so many "blogs" have no RSS feed? I just don't understand.

We have Custom Elements, but do we also need Custom Attributes? This was discussed at TPAC. Is it something you'd like on the platform? https://github.com/WICG/webcomponents/issues/1029

A bit of a vulnerable post by me but we need your help to get us through what has been a more difficult period than 2020. It would be really appreciated if you could read and share in your networks too 💛 bell.bz/its-been-a-v...

This is the best advertisement for the mobile Web ever! www.instagram.com/reel/DRZAR8e... This will bring a tear to the eye of @infrequently.org, and @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy

The #DesignToken Interfaces talk I gave at last week's #DesignSystems London meet-up is now online. Enjoy! (and be sure to also check out the other 2 talks from that night as they were excellent!) youtu.be/lcjc0oQZBIk?...

color: hotpink; was simply not hot enough

Big JavaScript doesn't want you to know this One Weird Trick™

This thing’s way less accurate than Google, uses 1000X the resources, has a monetization plan that will never work, and destroys the ability of the websites it uses as source material to cover their expenses. But hear me out.

Busy fleshing out the slides for my #DesignToken Interfaces talk at next week's #DesignSystems London meet-up. See you there? www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/design-sys...

What if LinkedIn had a warning when users are instant experts on areas where they have no way of having expertise (or serial hype boomers)? Another feature we need but will never get 😅 #FakeProductFeatures

Now that the @designtokens.org format specification has reached its first, *stable* version, I decided to have a look back at my own journey of getting involved in the DTCG and contributing to that spec... cirrus.twiddles.com/blog/2025/10... #DesignTokens #DesignSystems #standards

If you actually care about the web platform, the open web, and the way AI is degrading the whole experience...I don't think releasing a glorified ChatGPT wrapper is the way to show that care.