Dude wtf happened to affinity software, this is sad Worried the Oct release is gonna be another “online only experience” that goes straight into yet another AI pipeline

I love peer feedback on projects <3 Stuff you think important just isn’t, ideas you thought telegraphed didn’t, Mental models you liked didn’t land It’s tough but good! Reminds me that code and software is so much closer to creative writing than most ever acknowledge

The #1 rule in UX design is: do not use orange

Can't recommend "Arcade Game Typography" enough 💙 It shows us how the evergreen typography of the arcade era was heavily influenced by the monospaced Japanese syllabary which became a muse behind futuristic user interfaces in modern media #gaymer #typography tosche.net/non-fonts/ar...

Look man it’s a garbage platform with a garbage development scene that’s been sabotaged by hype beast grind culture, business majors, and YouTube charlatans. Just learn another language. Let JavaScript just be a browser thing. It’s okay dude. You need to let her go, this relationship is toxic bro

Did you know the npm cli can install JavaScript and typescript libraries directly from GitHub? Been doing it for years. No problems.

“Computers as theater” by Brenda Laurel continues to be my most reliable resource for user interface design

Y'all the new Metroid prime trailer broke my pup heart into a thousand pieces 🐺💔😭 It looks awful. Like Sonic Frontiers ending level awful. This has to be a joke. I'm just gonna replay Sable

Nerds used to do stuff like sail miniature boats in the park but now they’re all libertarians with ai mommy girlfriends I miss culture. The spectacle of sincere expression, the call and response of it all.

This game was like a best friend. I had a notebook of hand-drawn maps. Def noticed all the dragons are boys but still laid eggs 🌈🏳️‍⚧️ The remake might be the best translation from the ps1 era, full stop. Remarkable how they preserved the feeling of exploration, cartoonish bi-panic, and dragon daddies

I don't think glass is supposed to be a liquid. Even though technically it is a liquid. But it's not supposed to be.

View transitions are amazing! Here's movement between pages in cardinal directions. Makes for a text-roid-vania feel in a multi page app Very Net 1.0, heckin text adventure, much hypertext (will post the example code when stuffs more polished, learning is a process!) #html #css #viewtransitions

Heard the npm news today and got worried but then I remembered I don’t use npm (except to install typescript) because npm has always been a garbage platform that lets you deploy a gigabyte of anything to anywhere

Damn if I hadn’t built a website using any other language before 2010, I might fall for this JS component based SSR nonsense This is literally the N+1 query problem but for UI sold as a “service” BRO Get your app state, slap some strings together, return some html, stop making life difficult

A caveat to every major UX design system and component set is the fact that 95% of downstream usage stats boil down to four components: - button - checkbox - radio - text input The long tail, lists navigation bars combo boxes etc, ironically occupy the most development time for the least usage

Republicans be like: When I touch this hot stove I get burned This stove is a gay

Picked up a controller, booted Paper Mario and the 1000 year door, and 40 hours disappeared from my life in an instant Why do I love these ridiculous characters? Why do I bop every little guy with a hammer? Demon peach was amazing!

It’s the year 2000 You wake up and descend from your loft bed. You boot your ps2. You chug a half empty pina colada sobe. Your hypothalamus imprints Midnight club: street racing on your psyche. The music, the vibes, it’s too much. You will compare every racing game to midnight club forever now

I remember the 2010s were full of survivalist torture porn - bar house debates about end-times occupations - every Cormak McCarthy movie adaption - dreams of subsistence farming - the walking dead Then Covid hit and republicans went fckn nuts because they couldn’t get Applebees for a couple months

I think event delegation is the only way to dig ourselves out of metaphorical hole that is this jsx / tagged template / js centric era of templating and SSR The main challenge imho is event binding on sync. But what if we just didn’t? Event delegation lets us do that and most events bubble

I would genuinely love to know, from an engineering perspective, why a team would pick #nextjs for a long term project

Disheartened by the state of web dev after my last team So I built some rust stuff: - dynamic dns client - gateway server - file server - html-templating - snowflake ID printer And some browser tools: - test runner - html-templating - web component toolkit - fixed timestep - SSR friendly event bus

I self-host and built a rust alternative to ddclient (perl) called "update_dns_records" Currently supports: - cloudflare - dyndns2 Adding more services amounts to adding a rust feature, working on a contribution guide and better readmes 💙🐺 #rust #dns #selfhost github.com/w-lfpup/upda...

Pay your taxes, fund a genocide, find out you can’t afford healthcare BUT MAKE IT PRETTY Mmm yes heckin design Steal the Anthropic color palette, slap an intersection observer on every word, SF Pro everywhere Oh to be a 22yo fascist economics major turned coder americabydesign.gov

A good question is why do this? Why make declarative actions in html? And the short answer is templates / SSR / SSG HyperEvents skip event binding and cleanup!! UI events become something like elm / redux actions and separate state and UI in the same way And now your HTML and JS are decoupled 🐺💙

HyperEvents-js is a hypertext extension for the browser that enables html to: - dispatch user actions - lazy-load esmodules - query JSON apis - fetch HTML fragments It shortens the distance between UI and javascript-land by recycling DOM events into meaningful actions. github.com/w-lfpup/hype...

Oh gawsh I hope that streaming service doesn’t ruin that show I love in season two Begins season two A whole fkn Radiohead song plays over a montage NoooOOO

Fun fact the coffee riots in east Germany were a big factor in the collapse of the Berlin Wall Turns out the general public can put up being exploited as long as they have cheap coffee Brazil tariffs rose coffee prices by 50% this week

I’ve been spending time in #godot and there’s a surprising amount of overlap between nodes in a scene and nodes in a browser 🌳📄 Kinda cool how similar challenges have similar solutions in different spaces!

Finished the super mario rpg remake and it was just as weird as the original :3 Also one of those rare games that respects your time as an adult So if you wanna get back into #jrpg games but you’re scared of sinking 140 hours into Ni No Kuni 2 or something crazy? SMRPG is a very fun 12 hours 🐺💙

The Internet should be a public utility and they know it

Privatize social security? Yah sure buddy. Next you’ll be saying we should privatize food, or trains, or electricity, or bridges, or the internet, or highways, or housing, or education, or planes, or water, or …

Just watched the new #superman and I gotta say Steven Spielberg’s Munich sure hits different in 2025

This game is why I got into computers My dad was given a DOS PC for his government job and we learned how to use it together 💙 We were in a remote part of North Texas. Just cotton fields, farm dogs, and descent. Then we got a 28kb modem in 1997 and now I'm a furry 🐺

A surprising thing about #webcomponents post corporate is how _little_ you actually need tagged templates Imho it's simultaneously the most forefront and useless feature of almost every library Your component is most likely three elements and a slot. Event bindings? Attribtues? Grow up lol

Here's an example of server-side rendered web app using #webcomponents and #redux ⚒️💻🐺 Declarative shadow DOM renders the initial app without layout shifts. The wctk-js handles events and subscriptions. Redux is synced with server state using import attributes. w-lfpup.github.io/wctk-redux-s...

Absolute garbage people committing highway robbery at the #fcc They know how important the internet is for modern life and they want us to suffer for it Chattanooga TN runs a city owned public fiber optic service, free city-wide WiFi and 2.5gb up and down for 100$ We don’t need these criminals

This syntax turned into another project that actually has me excited about coding for the web again Declaratively - fetch html - fetch json - import es modules - dispatch actions A lot of “modern” web dx focuses on binding specific event listeners to specific elements But what if we didn’t?

20 far-right conservatives vs their browser history

20 centrists vs the Nuremberg trials

Any dumbass that torrented a Star Wars and got a cease and desist letter from Comcast understands AI is just a slot machine for pirated content Big tech has always favored two contradictory principals: - Anti-copyright - Kick the ladder economics Calling it out: Disney smashes AI into oblivion

I have 3 specific ex-coworkers that called me hysterical for saying futurists are fascists I expect hand written apologies in the gulag. Toilet paper and blood will suffice

Watch close and you’ll see republicans smile as they do everything they can to kill you

API? More like … GAY-PI

Signals are a mistake that reincarnates every couple years “State” becomes so abstract we forget it’s an actual memory reference and not “reactivity” And reading a memory reference from a chonker of an object is always faster and more deterministic than a daisy chain of functions #javascript

Really feel like the NYC mayor’s race shows that there is no such thing as a progressive establishment, and there is, in fact, an anti-progressive establishment that runs all the way from Murdoch to Clinton

Made superaction-js to skip all the overhead mainstream frameworks need to connect UI to local state with user actions It's a cute 1kb that works alongside the DOM to quickly build UIs with more descriptive user actions #html #javascript #webdev github.com/w-lfpup/supe...

Im too gay to read this and be serious …

I’m surprised people are sticking up for Waymo in LA If you don’t support destroying a lidar camera on wheels snitching to the cops? But you do support: Recording individuals on public roads without consent? Testing private algorithms on public roads? You’re in the pocket of techno-fascists

Scoped component registries seem like such a useless #webcomponent feature and imho hurts the web component ecosystem Oh you as a dev registered your component rather than letting the app builder register it? Tough Just corporate slop codified so they get #material branded in your app