"You're so arrogant to think AI-assisted writing is beneath you, it helps so many people write better". No. YOU are arrogant for assuming that *my time* isn't worth *your effort* of putting your own thoughts into words.

Even if you don't know or care about the Zig programming language, I'd still recommend you watch this interview with its creator, super inspiring. More than ever, I want to port STRICH to Zig. It looks like a great match for my domain. youtu.be/iqddnwKF8HQ?...

I am so, so tired of reading LLM-generated or LLM-assisted articles. Just say what you want to say, in your _own_ voice. It’s *always* better.

I am attempting to launch a new No Build W3C Community Group. Sign up if you are interested in under-engineering on the web. www.w3.org/community/bl...

Whhhhhhhhhhhyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

AI is revolutionizing software and surely anytime now will bring an explosion of quality and productivity. Meanwhile, in a Google Doc far, far away...

Slowly preparing to move to a new office, closer to my home. I’m going to miss the 🌊 😩

Migrated STRICH's NPM deployment pipeline to staged publishing today. Doing my part! 🫡

The silver lining here is that Safari alternatives on iOS are actively being worked on (status described as “research prototype”). I’m not sure I’ve seen any official confirmation of that up until now.

It's the "Let's go, Justin!" that gets me every time www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzS9...

Hearbreaking. It’s all so f***ing depressing.

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.

🚨 Cool Job Alert! Are you: - a front-end dev (Sass, Vanilla JS, React) - based in Austria / Vienna - ideally with some backend knowledge (Python, Django, APIs) - looking for work in a small, dedicated, remote team? Let's talk! (reposts for reach appreciated)

I am so looking forward to my first flight on an AI-built airplane. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/t... 😱🫠

Huh, #GitLab down for me this morning. Well, I wanted to go for a walk anyway. 🌳

One can hope!

🗡️ I am way more excited about the remake of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (announced today) than I am for Anthropic’s new Fable model. Am I even a productive member of society anymore…?

there is something so spiritually depressing about the assumed desire for these "cleaning up" photos to all have symmetrical framing and no distracting elements where everything is perfect and shiny all the time. anti-human

Some people are so incredibly opinionated, it's basically impossible to talk to them. Me: "you know, I kinda disagree on something you said earlier, and I'd like to ..." Him: "YOU CANNOT BUILD SERIOUS APPLICATIONS IN PYTHON!!!!1111!!!"

God-fucking damnit, if I hear the term "load-bearing" one more time... 😡

🖐️ Raise your hand if you had a modded PS2! I distinctly remember begging a friend, who was much more skilled with a soldering iron than I was, to install the modchip. I assisted with a razor to prevent soldering to the wrong pins.

No accounts. No logins. No day-one patch. No battle pass. No roadmap. Just the disc, the controller, and the game. We didn’t realize how good we had it.

I really enjoyed this one. shawnsmucker.substack.com/p/please-use...

“As the digital scan forms of many of those works enter the repositories of AI, the works, ideas and facts become plagiarized and misrepresented. As AI-generated plagiarized text and images expand across the internet’s digital world, the actual voice of human-generated content diminishes.” 😩

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I never type Alistair, but Alex... oh well! This technology is going to replace us.

In Cixin Liu's epic sci-fi book "3 Body Problem" aliens send futuristic computers ("sophons") to Earth to halt the advancement of human civilization. Sophons scramble physics to a point were deterministic science is no longer possible, and practitioners kill themselves out of despair. AI=Sophons...?

Currently being targeted by a phishing campaign, and sent out an email to some customers who might be affected. Wanted to verify the outgoing DKIM/SPF setup first, and came across this handy tool: www.learndmarc.com You send an email to it and it does a step-by-step verification - neat!

Google I/O for those that didn't watch.

"At the end of a day, I feel drained, not happy, not full of energy... I feel bad. Which is not how I felt when I used to just code all day. I felt energized like I didn't want to stop." - @asmartbear.com on using AI to code in the Indie Board Sessions podcast: podcasts.apple.com/ch/podcast/s...

if search engines stop directing people to other websites then there will be barely any incentive for people to write anything on the web, unless we go back to a pre-1998 blogroll/webring mode of discovery bsky.app/profile/tech...

I feel that one way of expressing the combined effect of growing up, becoming socialized, getting an education, and having a personality is: not needing “all-day help… spoken into your ear privately” by Google

Other search engines are available. Other browsers are available. (Ask me!) Other office suites are available. Other clown services are available. Your choice matters. european-alternatives.eu

Working on an upcoming presentation for a local meetup (working title: "Monetizing JavaScript – Building Profitable Products as a Solo Dev"). Slides are a bit over the top. 😂

Is “this resonates with me” an LLM-ism? I don’t remember hearing the term that often in the past; now it seems all over the place, along with “it’s wild that…”.

"I mourn the death of an art form" - This HN comment sounds cheesy, but it encapsulates perfectly how I feel about most stuff coming out now. If it's zero effort to do <thing>, then <thing> becomes worthless and uninteresting to me. Source: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4808...

Uh, Cloudflare laying off 1100 emplyees (out of ~5000!) This sucks. Truly hope not too many of the great Astro folks are affected! Highlights the importance of lean open source frameworks like Mastro, that have little or no dependencies, and can be maintained by a tiny team!

Can we start admitting that customer support chatbots, no matter how "smart", are a failed experiment that should be filed under "Kill it with Fire"? It's so annoying to have to "insist" on a human to solve a problem that a chatbot claims there's no way to fix.

Huh, TIL that you can associate form controls like <button> to a form that does not enclose the control itself, through the form attribute (developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...).

hooooo boy www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

It does not matter how fast you can code. What matters is how well your code serves you and the people you wrote it for. The amount of revenue it makes. The amount of maintenance that it costs. Old code is profitable code. That’s what you want.

THE PEOPLE DO NOT YEARN FOR AUTOMATION

Deleted my Atlassian account today and moved my Confluence and Trello stuff to Nuclino, and so far it’s been a delight to use! Built in Germany, bootstrapped, profitable. nuclino.com (not affiliated)

*shocked face emoji*

I don’t get excited about new tech/software anymore. AI has killed that for me, and I don’t fully understand why. People talk about feeling “empowered” by AI. I feel almost the opposite, it’s draining my energy, to the point where I won’t start something new because it might not matter anyway.

It's really sad to see the @developer.chrome.com account pumping out AI-style replies that don't really make sense. These accounts used to be run by DevRel. Now they're run by marketing. bsky.app/profile/deve... bsky.app/profile/deve... bsky.app/profile/deve...

I've had three months time to prepare this presentation, of course I only start working on it for real 2 days before the date... why does it always have to be like this. 😫

Got an Earthquake warning on iOS last night, but the warning was suppressed by Do Not Disturb mode. I think that might be taking it a bit too far 🙂. The shaking woke me up (magnitude 5.4, all good).