It's not fun to make tech content as much anymore, too. I'm doing some because I actually like it, but it feels like I'm shouting into a slop-driven void nearly everywhere. It's really tiring. I get so much joy reading individual blogs and newsletters still (like yours!), at least.

>I desire to connect with people. I long for the days where I was vulnerable and shared my struggles with engineers who charitably stepped up to support me. I miss taking what I learned from those struggles and sharing them back out as a blog post or presentation All of this.

Welp it's official, I'm on the hunt for my next role. I learned a lot in the past 8 months, and I'm ready to get back out there for my next role. If you're looking for someone for devrel/devrel-adjacent roles, I got over a decade of experience in developer relations and ready help your team!

NEW SERIES DROPS TOMORROW — join the watch party tomorrow at 3pm Pacific @itsthatladydev.bsky.social hosts a new series that explores just how much AI has impacted "build vs. buy" conversations around SaaS by putting devs to the test to build popular SaaS tools, presented by @replay-io.bsky.social

If you have a developer education budget at work, I would really encourage you to use it on your favourite developer educators. A lot of us are deciding whether or not to keep doing this stuff, and that support would help send a signal that we should keep going. ❤️

It's the best.

What do you all use to track your book reading? I've been using literal.club off and on for a couple years, but haven't really stuck with it. Trying to get back into reading atm and figure I'll give it another try. literal.club/trostcodes

Someday soon I'll likely tell someone that I'm a pretty big fan of InfoWars. Didn't have that on my bingo card.

Watched Hoppers last night. It's funny how all children's movies feel like wOkE pRoPaGaNdA because of extreme messages like "we're all in this together" and "humans are animals." Good movie.

Introducing Cursor Camp, a website to hang out with other cursors. Out now :) > neal.fun/cursor-camp/

I wrote about why I quit my job, and how weird and tiring tech feels these days.

🎉 Registration is now open for my latest course, Whimsical Animations! This course will teach you everything you need to know to design and build stunning, creative animations and interactions. It’s time to make the web less generic and boring! 😄

I personally almost immediately click away. I rarely—if ever—read through the post. And I do take note of the author, unsubscribe from their RSS feeds, and stop reading their content. This may sound drastic but if the author is using AI to write their posts they're likely to continue doing it.

It’s finally happened. After 18 months. Finally, a media merger you can root for.

Allbirds is pivoting from making shoes to... AI? Further proof that all you need to do is say AI and investors will lose their minds. www.cnbc.com/2026/04/15/a...

✨ Have you ever heard of Disney’s 12 Basic Principles of Animation? The very first rule, “Squash and Stretch”, can make motion feel *way* more satisfying. I just dropped a brand-new blog post that shows how I’ve been using this technique in my own work: www.joshwcomeau.com/animation/sq...

I've just relaunched CSS Demystified! Rebuilt from the ground up, on my own custom platform, and here to help you start writing CSS with confidence 😊 thecascade.dev/courses/css-...

do the people getting bent out of shape over this, despite apparently having no clue what it is or does, also fly into a vicious rage over, idk, spam filters? i must have missed the seminar on differentiating Good Linear Algebra from Bad Linear Algebra

I spent 2 months learning about quantization and am extremely proud of the post I've written about it. I think these are some of the nicest visuals I've ever made, and I love how this compression technique invented in 1898 is being used on the bleeding edge in 2026. ngrok.com/blog/quantiz...

important if you use Vercel for web projects they've updated their ToS to allow using your data to train AI models, and free plans are opted in to that by default you can opt out under Settings > General > Data Preferences

Yesterday was my last day at Deno. From today, I'll be cheering the talented team on from outside the org. This also means that I'm now considering my next move in the DX/DevRel/Technical marketing space.

DOOM fully rendered in CSS. Every surface is a <div> that has a background image, with a clipping path with 3D transforms applied. Of course CSS does not have a movable camera, so we rotate and translate the scene around the user.

8/8 so far

hire willow

Lots here to resonate with, as always from Salma.

I wrote about some things I'm struggling with in the technology industry, preceded by an appreciation for folk music.

When you like an article, I like to make it in video form. Here it is, including excerpts of the songs mentioned which will (hopefully) immerse you deeper in the story. Love to you all.

I'm trying to quit caffeine to help with anxiety, but man now I'm just so sleepy all the time. Any tips?

Ah yes, Sunday anxiety. Can't relax because I should be doing chores. Can't do chores because I should be relaxing. So I'll do neither until Monday comes.

Congrats, @kevinpowell.co! Huge achievement 💯

Huge congrats to the CodePen team, I'm so excited to see what people make with this!

You probably missed it! Yesterday I put out a great episode of my comedy web dev news show. It only has ~300 views, so sharing it with friends is SUPER appreciated.

Learned how to solder on my lunch break. It’s not pretty but I think it’ll hold.

4/4 coming out of the first round. madcss.com/bracket/a-tr...

This week on The Callback: - Cloudflare clones Next.js out of spite - Anthropic's plunder gets plundered - Chrome gets its fonts hacked - And more! Watch and laugh along on YouTube: youtu.be/R34ifge0v-U

I hate coming back to video games months later only to forget what buttons to press. And I’m too deep into the game for tutorials or to start over.

This week on The Callback: - Cloudflare clones Next.js out of spite - Anthropic's plunder gets plundered - Chrome gets its fonts hacked - And more! Watch and laugh along on YouTube: youtu.be/R34ifge0v-U

I upgraded my home WiFi and now have these three old google mesh routers. Any idea what I should do with them? Would someone on Facebook marketplace take these? Also do I need to “wipe” them before handing them over?

i saw the interactive xkcd on hackernews and decided to make it render a real npm graph it uses webcontainers to `npm i {pkg}`, then renders the bricks based on the dep tree scaled by disk size

Here’s how I’ve been thinking about AI-assisted engineering / vibe coding: its pros and cons, the underlying power dynamics, and its implications. Please enjoy. Or please enjoy flaming me. One of the two. werd.io/good-vibes-b...

Okay this is definitely the more urgent matter.

Can we all agree that this named CSS color is a poor representation of the color brown? More like a BrickRed than a Brown.

Does npmx have a way to bookmark certain packages? For example, I'd love to keep an eye on all of the Prismic packages without needing to search them up each time.

11ty is now Build Awesome 🤩 www.kickstarter.com/projects/fon...

I’m guilty of spreading the hoax but I’m not sure I’m sorry for it!

Sunday my feed was 100% state of the browser posts. I think today it’s going to be nothing but @npmx.dev content.

Untitled I like how Nolan paints this two-sided picture of AI coding. The worst fact about these tools is that they work. They can write code better than you or I can, and if you don’t believe me, wait six months. You could abstain out of moral principle. And that’s fine, especially if you’re at…

Vim is the code editor you'll use for the rest of your life.

I'm going to code and build my godson a custom birthday present. Any guesses as to what I'm making?

Finally finished something and my first finished prismic site too. @trost.codes now to convince my work to let me use it too. exerciseinfutility.net