the amount of "my work uses ai now and we are all miserable" posts on reddit is crazy y'all it's a dumpster fire out there

Turn the #virtualdom into a declarative event-bus! Superaction is now available for react on #npm ! npm install --save-dev @w-lfpup/react-superaction github.com/w-lfpup/reac...

Yes I'm a #react hater, but I'm also a react bad-ass and been in the game since react ripped off Elm in 2012! Here's a sneak peek of a #react port of superaction-js Notice there's no event listeners or callback hooks? Yah that stuff is moot now Working on a #redux example, then hooks go poof

I don't use #ai or #llms ever. Not for code, not for drawing, nothing Not because #llms are heinous or that their CEOs are intellectually disabled (and no one has the balls to say it to their shark-eyed moonfaces) #llms are non-deterministic / useless. They are, by design, an analytical tool

Companies post "frontend developer" but what they mean is "react developer" or toy-framework-advocate-that-will-dig-this-sunk-opportunity-cost-even-deeper developer Don't get me wrong react does 1 thing well, UI as a function of state, but that's about it. It's strongest contribution is a _concept_

W-lfpup/wctk-js is now tested in all major browsers. A #webcomponent toolkit without base-classes or decorators. Designed for declarative shadow dom and SSR. Lets developers pickup what #html throws down and start making interactive experiences. github.com/w-lfpup/wctk...

Turn your #html into a declarative eventbus with superaction! No more event bindings!! Now tested on all major browsers across MacOS and Linux With working examples of how to build little widgets like sketch with offscreen-canvas w-lfpup.github.io/superaction-... github.com/w-lfpup/supe...

So I'm getting emails for jobs that have nothing to do with AI. In fact they're specifically asking for frontend developers. I think it's over y'all. I'm glad I took a couple years off from the industry. I hope the rest of y'all are okay 💙

Oh dang, Supreme Court sanctioned infinite racist gerrymandering for republicans. Behold what 50 years of bi-partisan politics gives you ... a country run by republicans. I guess this is it, the south won. Blue states need to secede. Democrat reps will never be able to undo what they've done.

What are some self-hosted dns solutions y'all are using? I've already got cloudflare and dyndns2 covered. But I'm curious if there's anything other than duckdns that's popular? Adding more apis for a rust library that's been kicking tail on my home potato

Oh gawsh, the looney-toon-ification of UI is so ubiquitous. Bouncy squishy scroll too fast it springy boingy. Grow up, just gimme a list of buttons lets go

I miss forums. Reddit is such a waste. "Web development" threads are just #ai hell holes now.

We don't fully grasp how much chatgpt is used in modern electoral politics. I think #llms will be associated with republicans and trump and war and death. And ultimately that association with fascism and the stupidest worst kinds of people will be the demise of so-called #ai

hhmm is the DNC broke? Could grassroots actually dog walk neoliberal centrist democrats?

busy building docs and getting a fun project off the ground. maps. layers. friends. broadcasts. that kind of thing.

Self-hosting is the greenest coolest punkest tech thing you can do in 2026

Systemd is awesome. Amazing piece of software. 10/10.

Dang, running headless #browser tests make me think we really overshot it with nodejs. I just want a browser with some kind of curated file-access. Wouldn't even need to hack v8 or spider monkey. Grab a webdriver, a rest api, maybe a socket or two for real time transfers.

Three barriers / patterns blocking an #SSR friendly #framework in modern #javascript: - javascript only server resources - "server" components - binding state to server components Most component sets I know completely fail to facilitate the 90% servers powering the web that are not nodejs

I made jackrabbit run in the browser for a few reasons: - my last team had dog sh*t experiences running tests in saucelabs - playwright ships prepackaged browser binaries and a hacked headless webkit, doesn't feel "real" to me - web test runner needs SO many deps dude github.com/w-lfpup/jack...

Jackrabbit v0.3.2 is out today! Run #javascript #tests in a browser without dependencies! Click elements, send keys, take screenshots of your results! No installing a billion libraries just to run test frameworks from the 2000s in a prepackaged browser binary! github.com/w-lfpup/jack...

Resisting the urge to make a framework 😓☯️

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Little excited about the next jackrabbit test-runner release. I need to test a new #webcomponent library and now jackrabbit has webdriver commands: - take element screenshot - element click - get shadow root from element and more! Will post a release today or tomorrow :3 (still no dependencies)

I built coyote-rs to create #html with component functions in #rustlang I mainly use it for sever side rendering but lately I use it to send html from #wasm to the main thread, let view transitions handle the rest Kind of a solid pattern actually crates.io/crates/coyotes

Hmmm starting to look like #ai was just a pretext to fire 1/3 of the proletariat

Talked to some old coworkers about #ai at their job and I hear the same mourning from my writer friends I think my old tech coworkers are realizing they weren't paid to be "smart" they were paid to be CREATIVE Software is the last blue collar creative writing job that pays a living wage

I feel like starting a company to deliver explicitly ai-less experiences sounds a little crazy but also feels like the right move? I dunno I hope so ... lol

Working on a component set for the LLC that begins with theme-able #css components Why css? Well when you give a dev a base class ... they're gonna want an abstract factory ... CSS skips all the ARIA headaches from re-implementing ui primitives like checkboxes, switches, radios, and sliders in JS

The key difference the current trump presidency and the previous is chatgpt At every level of this administration you'll see a trail of chatgpt and grok, from the dodge boys to the secretary of war to vampire goebbels #ai and fascism are intertwined

give any 20yo dumbass white boi a salary and access to infrastructure and they will become a hate mongering fascist

Working on a #component set again has brought back some memories from google I think a good tale from the frontlines is component usage is entirely skewed! Even though you've designed several dozen components, 95% of downstream usage will be button and checkbox

Oh lord I'm writing a component library after all these years. I hope I don't accidentally dog walk my old team :/

Show me one app written by #ai that you actually use and enjoy and improves your life. You f**king can't. And that's why ai will go the way of crypto and VR: a ghost in the walls of corporate known only by a few disbanded teams, promoted fail-sons, and water-cooler rumors

Your test runner shouldn't care about browser versions. You have no control what browsers are available downstream Bundling browser binaries doesn't help (side eyes puppeteer). That doesn't reflect the reality of webdev Corporate equivalent of "works on my machine" github.com/w-lfpup/jack...

I think everyone should get food stamps. I think the 1/3 of produce that never makes it to the store should be publicly distributed in the nearest cities. Basically I think groceries should be nationalized. There's no reason for anyone to go hungry here. It's just stupid.

Added tests to an integrated timestep for the browser. And now thanks to w-lfpup/jackrabbit, this timestep is tested in firefox, safari, chrome, and edge; every browser on the ubuntu and macOS images in github actions github.com/w-lfpup/time... www.npmjs.com/package/@w-l...

Jackrabbit now runs tests IN THE BROWSER! 🖥️✅🐺💙 It currently tests itself on every #browser available in #linux and #macOS GitHub Actions So it tests against an actual instance of #safari! Still no dependencies or 3rd party requirements github.com/w-lfpup/jack... www.npmjs.com/package/@w-l...

The only thing you need to know about #ai is tech billionaires despise labor It's the one thing they'll never do and the only thing that generates value

Little visual preview of the #webbrowser support added to jackrabbit-js It now runs tests on any browser via any webdriver. I got so tired of heavy solutions like #selenium and puppeteer and cypress Does this code run in my local browsers, workflow browsers? Yes? Thanks Still no dependencies 💙

chromedriver in GitHub Actions is driving me bonkers >:| work damn you

Democracy is dying in America. ICE is a murderous secret police force. We’re about to bomb Iran for Israel. Your kids are shot at in school daily, and pedophiles run our government. There’s no healthcare, and your food is poisonous. We need real leaders - not career politicians.

We need to explore new web development patterns for a post #ai internet now Corporate is busy with their bullshit work machine generating bullshit code for engineers to use a bullshit work reader to verify said code is indeed bullshit. Quick, let's make cool things while they're distracted!

Microsoft AI? More like, Microsoft! HEY I need a functioning OS am I right?

I feel like if you use generative #ai at your job? You probably hate your job, or at least the craft required of the job. Sorry but if you willingly ask a barking mirror to "code" stuff at your coding job? You are someone who hates coding, despises expertise, and fetishizes helplessness.

Kind of sick of the Firefox hate out there It's the *bar* for web development. Is it the most fully featured? No. Does it follow spec almost pathologically? Yes. If there was no Firefox, there'd be NO STANDARDS. Just corporations balkanizing your internet experience (exactly like before Firefox)

webdrivers are awesome

Okay so working with the filesystem in #nodejs is one of the more painful programming experiences I've ever had

My favorite video game take on #ai is Tacoma And without spoilers the upshot is, you play an interplanetary insurance officer judging if a sentience should be held liable for harming their crew and their ship

I’ve been trying to structure better thoughts on ai but the upshot to me is: LLMs in their current use is a corporate compromise between big data AND the consolidation of media What should IPOs do when every product is a chat, a till, a camera? Surveil or not surveil? The microphone is ALWAYS on!