I weep for humanity www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Ames expressed the popular security more wisely: "that [an autocracy] is a merchantman, which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock, and go to the bottom; whilst a republic is a raft, which would never sink, but then your feet are always in water." Emerson, 1844, quoting Fisher Ames, 1795

"We may not always succeed. But never will we be accused of lacking the courage to try." — Zohran Kwame Mamdani Absolute 🔥 This is right up there with "We choose to [...] do [these] things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard" — John Fitzgerald Kennedy

New paper in Science: In a platform-independent field experiment, we show that reranking content expressing antidemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity in social media feeds alters affective polarization. 🧵

invisalgo is the anti-zalgo – the unicode code points the light forward but the truth lurks through the zalgo! slash u two zero zero slash u two zero six hallow be thy prefixes

dear past me: the future is weird we have robot interns now github.com/indexzero/er...

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I am one of the first 5,000 GitHub users, and I am disappoint 15 ago I submitted a change on M$FT Codeplex to the Prism project after using the framework at a large financial institution I was told that contributions were only accepted from M$FT employees. I never went to that website again ⬇️

Thanks to Ken Burns TOL Boston was basically an island during the American Revolution

What a long strange trip it's been 🐢🚀 Excited for what's cooking for 2027 🗽It won't be what's come before — and that's the point

The Onion headlines are real life now, what a time to be alive www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...

The truth is always more interesting than a movie plot. What a fascinating relic of European History to come to light. I can't wait to go see it when it goes on display in Canada! www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/a...

For me, it's been New York or nowhere since Day 1 👶 and it always will be 🗽I always knew the people of New York would not bend the knee ✊ no matter what the fascist Oompa-Loompa-in-Chief lied to the contrary 🤡 and Mamdani's resounding victory backed by historic voter turnout is just the beginning 🇺🇸

> Some people, when confronted with a problem, think, “I know, I’ll use regexp", now you have two problems It's amazing how even after all that time, the Internet I have known & loved is there. And the most recent comment is the most perfect book end imaginable 🤓 regex.info/blog/2006-09...

I knew speaking at @jsconf.bsky.social 2025 would be hard, because so much of what I had to talk about I learned from Mikeal Rogers – and am still learning even now. The goal of the talk was to tell part of that story, a story about how the web isn't finished, yet 💡 all-docs.talks.charlie.dev

24 years ago I shipped my first piece of software from this building. Reflecting on that now the world and my life were set in motion in those weeks You see, two weeks later a pair of commercial airplanes crashed into the World Trade Center a few blocks away NY Forever 🗽

Looked at my data collections for state-backed activity. If the report were a picture:

Wait, does this mean that Captain Kirk is never born now?

If humanity survives the next 200 years what we will be capable of is going to be absolutely jaw dropping scitechdaily.com/blood-vessel...

Truly you know it's bad when you think "yes, the lawyers will save us!" www.cnn.com/2025/08/04/p...

A long but important read. It turns out—unsurprisingly—the algorithms are to blame www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

"It is really a passing of the era, not just a man" 💔 I cannot imagine my life had I not met Mikeal Rogers. I've said before that "JSConf changed my life" but behind the scenes there was always Mikeal.

Life is chaos. Be kind 💔

After 20 years of software engineering I am proud to announce I can sort of use awk without StackOverflow

You know.. life is funny.. If you don’t repeat the actions of your own success You won’t be successful You gotta know your own formula, your own ingredients What made you, YOU.. — KRS-One

Scream Cipher xkcd.com/3054

In these times of strife, our anger is a gift ✊ Not a gift for ourselves, but a gift to the future 🚼 "We the people" must stand justly united when the courts and the rule of law are tossed aside ⚖️

Interop 2025 is launched! This is the culmination of months of work to find focus areas that really matter to developers. I’m gonna plan a vacation now 😅 webkit.org/blog/16458/a...

I see your "stupid Watergate" and raise you "stupid thermonuclear war" 💀 fortune.com/2025/02/14/d...

Wow, style-observer is featured very prominently on today’s issue of #JavascriptWeekly! javascriptweekly.com/issues/723 Thanks for the shoutout folks (for Color.js too!), @d12n.me and I are very humbled!

Judge Ho should refuse to dismiss the Adams case and appoint a prosecution team from outside of the corrupt DOJ. There will be no shortage of former federal prosecutors who would accept the case, even on a pro bono basis and the court could allocate CJA or other court funds for all expenses.

✊⚖️No one is above the law ⚖️✊ The US Attorneys of the SDNY are showing the heroism we need from our judiciary today Scotten was already a hero: he received two bronze stars in Iraq. He's also a staunch Conservative who clerked for the Hon John Roberts Wake up, Congress!

🛋️ Relax 📦🐢🚀

fish or zsh?

🚀 🆕 style-observer: A robust solution for observing CSS property changes in JS. Developed with @d12n.me’s help over the last month. Made possible by the pioneering work of @bram.us, Artem Godin, @janeori.propjockey.io and many others! Blog post: lea.verou.me/blog/2025/st... Docs: observe.style

✊✊✊ Unions solve problems for workers ✊✊✊ 🇺🇸🖕If you have zero experience in collective bargaining negotiations you are going to fail reforming the largest unionized workforce in America 🫳🎤 www.cnn.com/2025/02/01/p...

De-Nazify shit.

It's a big week for voting technology. We're launching VotingWorks, the voting system we've been hard at work on for six years. Transparent, secure, and easy to use. So every American can trust their ballots are counted correctly. voting.works/machines

It's Turing Machines all the way down 💾 If you think that AI agents are going to FULLY replace humans go see what they say about the decidability of the Halting Problem for an "agentic LLM-based system" 🤔

Who's up for a fun JavaScript data visualization challenge? annas-archive.org/blog/all-isb...

Amazing news! 🤩

Why would anyone in a country with nationalized health care want to become part of America, the one country without it? For better or for worse, people vote with their wallets not their ideals www.nytimes.com/2025/01/11/o...

Isn't it nice to see that the Hitler Youth are alive & well in Germany? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

No one: "I'm a Typescript influencer, and today ..." Me: "Excuse me, I just threw up in my mouth a little bit and need to step away ..."

I think I'm in love

Gall's Law is truly universal wisdom 💡 "When building applications with LLMs, we recommend finding the simplest solution possible, and only increasing complexity when needed." www.anthropic.com/research/bui...

It me 😅

The Third Reich retold the Great Lie — that Germany had not lost WWI and therefore owed no reparations — for 10 years before it took hold. Remember that now more than ever 🫡 www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

TIL that there is a set of Liquid template delimiters that allows templates to not conflict with LaTeK syntax highlighters The [[insert]] you know! 🌈

Who should I follow on this thing? What am I missing and why?