This year, I (finally) redesigned my #PersonalWebsite: sidney.me 🎉 It’s based on postcards: a design constraint that helped me make more thoughtful decisions about what I want to say, how to stay succinct, and how to do it graphically. They also focus attention and scale well to mobile #WebDev

I’d been using the Arc browser daily since it was invite-only, so The Browser Company confirming it’s effectively dead still stings. I really admired Arc for how much thought and craft went into it. So I wrote an obituary for my favourite browser: sidney.me/writing/arc-... #ArcBrowser

applying for jobs again

it’s possible to not care if people (humans, readers) pirate my book—or even feel pleased they do, if anything; and, at the same time, express fury when corporations grab and grind the text up like scrap metal for their word-garbage generators

I’ve had so many thoughts swirling in my head this year about #AI, especially how it affects #art. Now I’ve finally written a blog post about it! sidney.me/writing/ai-a...

now THIS is craft bauhausclock.com

mmmm pretty button

I just got an email from an *airline* that they now have AI to generate a wall of text … pero en español

i saw a response to this saying spotify silently inserting AI-generated music is no different to the industrial revolution displacing furniture artisans for mass production and how i feel about that can be described by the florence pugh frown emoji ☹️ alexeystar.com/blog/slopify/

tired: fearing that robots will become so smart they take your job wired: fearing that robots will still be dumb but take your job anyway

youtube really gave me one (1) recommendation for a mini motorways video and now I bought the game and can’t stop playing shoutout @dinopoloclub.bsky.social, I also love mini metro

protect your prized possessions! (bulk pack of antihistamines) (you’re waiting to get the $10 cashback)

why yes i am a southerner (south newtown resident) (please don’t hike my rent next year)

if you are reading this, yes it is time to watch an episode of The X-Files

i’m in queer media (luigi mangione updates)

the old man sitting at the front of the bus just offered the driver a snake lolly 💖

I love Mad Magazine

this is what it must have felt like to hear Robin Hood stories in 1370

jpeg is the working class image format. png is for coastal elites. tif belongs to the ivory tower intelligentsia. gif is libertarian borderline sovcit and webp is the DNC

the absolute chokehold #brat has had on me this year #SpotifyWrapped

where all the sydney people at? i want to post hyperlocal inner west things and get attention

shoutout to clairo

chat is this real

finally saturday! i can go from my online job to my favourite pastime: online

marrickville metro is the centre of the universe

I’ve said this before, but at a certain level of engineering your ability to write a doc is likely to have more impact than your ability to write code. Not because you won’t write code, but because your ability to convey an architecture, idea, or approach and get folks buy in is essential.

is there a german word for peeking under the hood of the abstraction and realizing it’s neither as good as you thought of it when it was at its best nor as bad as you feared it would be at its lowest moments

As of Chrome 131 you have more options to style `<details>` and `<summary>`. You can now use of the `display` property on these elements, and also use a `::details-content` pseudo-element to style the part that expands and collapses. developer.chrome.com/blog/styling...

despite the world becoming scary i still have a perhaps niave but unwaivering belief that a better world is possible

ah shit yeah about to do some real dramatic shit at work (make button appear conditionally)

my current opp is whomever keeps changing the name of Woolworths at Marrickville Metro on Google Maps to Woolworths Metro Marrickville it’s not a woolies metro!! it’s a regular woolies! at marrickville metro!!!! what happens if they open a woolies metro somewhere in marrickville huh ??

Bluesky is proof that cryptocurrency isn't a core tenant of decentralization. The team demonstrated extreme levels of pragmatism by leveraging new and existing technologies to produce something people actually use.

We love links because we love the open web

My kingdom for an edit button

whenever i see people on boat i think of jennifer coolidge in the white lotus season 2

i know many have said it already but since I have new faces following me, I'll say it again: ‼️please please please consider using alt text‼️ it's great for accessibility and super useful when the app goes slow. also, many of us won't rt stuff without it! #twittermigration

this is my favourite line in all of megalopolis

if i followed u congrats you’re on a popular starter pack

I finally set up an account and haven’t even posted anything who are y’all who are following me