I've been microdosing "thinking" lately. Every hour for one minute I "use my brain to think about stuff.". I believe this will put me at a competitive edge over 99.6% of the human population, if my calculations are correct.

This is a HUGE win, you know how many engineers I know who accept on-call as just “part of the job”? This is massive

People who’ve been laid off aren’t victims of a natural disaster. Their story has a villain. They don’t need your pity, they need your help plotting revenge.

Firefox 151 is out now, and brings with it some tasty new web platform features: 🎉 Container style() queries 🎉 Web Serial API 🎉 Document Picture-in-Picture API 🎉 keyboardLock on requestFullscreen …and more! developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/M...

🤯 TIL you can "crop" SVGs using fragment URLs. <img src="diagram.svg#svgView(viewBox(680,130,260,160))" />

This is all as mystifying as when I learned about people who cheat at amateur marathons. The medal is for doing the thing. Doing the thing is totally optional, but you have to do the thing to get the medal. Just buy yourself a medal on eBay if that's what you want.

One thing I find super strange is as industry most of us just seem to gloss over the fact we had to steal everyone’s work for these AI tools to exist. Regardless if these tools are useful we can’t just be ok with this right?

Apparently the answer is "a whole-ass VM". github.com/anthropics/c...

What do they put in the Claude desktop app??

Although there is one upside to this, which is that some people will log in and it will say "yeah I used enough electricity to power a small country and evaporated a minor sea to calculate that not a single person is a good match for you, you are just that big of a loser". Which is pretty funny.

Europe's grid operator warns that if data centre growth isn't well regulated, it would result in hard limits to renewable energy output in constrained areas. Now let's take a huge sip of coffee and check whether data centre growth is being well regulated ☕️ www.pv-magazine.com/2026/05/09/e...

"We blame the authors we stole from"

Doctors say that fluoride helps build strong teeth. A guy who snorts cocaine off toilet seats and takes raccoon penises home for “further study” says it causes autism. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.

Relies on a continuous flow of high-quality human-generated inputs to function while simultaneously emitting garbage and disincentivizing the production and open sharing of novel high-quality material. Cool.

"Design user experiences in minutes, not days" Wow. The users you're working with must talk really fast.

Happy 23rd Birthday CSS Zen Garden! In May 2003 the Canadian web designer Dave Shea launched a community gallery of websites called CSS Zen Garden. #WebDesignHistory

Free newsletter: Microsoft, Amazon and Google's $2 Trillion in AI investments are almost entirely circular, with OpenAI and Anthropic making up 75%+ of AI revenues and $748bn in revenue backlogs. The majority of AI demand is hyperscalers feeding themselves money. www.wheresyoured.at/am-i-meant-t...

The rest of Bsky: wide-scale outrage at a browser 🔥 (for good reasons) Me: here's a happy little article about adding more craft and care into your work. 🤗

Listen; contrary to what many people will try to sell you, craft will endure. Even if you believe AI is raising the floor, there's no ceiling for craft work on the web. Don't let your skills atrophy.

Man, that sounds terrible. Killed with impunity by agents of the state for just being on the street and protesting? Hard to see how regimes like that can continue to claim a popular mandate.

The brave gallant handsome tech CEOs are finally standing up against their persecutors, the evil, greedy workers who want to afford food and rent

Hey, the quote in front of The Mac is Not a Typewriter is from the guy who started the first agency I worked at. And it's a good quote for these times.

It pisses me off when even AI skeptics like Gary Marcus keep repeating the industry talking point that "AI has clear value in coding". The best available evidence shows that the value is far from clear. In fact, the best available evidence shows that the median outcome is net-negative.

Bring back the ancient knowledge

Most stories of autistic/AuDHD unmasking also involve radically changing one’s relationship with achievement and work. Sometimes this process involves rude awakenings, like losing a job (or multiple jobs) or suffering a mental health crisis. Let’s have more #actuallyautistic content about that?

Edge's experience is similar, and the benefits accumulate all through the stack. Moving to WC from React delivers more than 40% faster LCP at P75 for us, but also dramatically better memory use and interactivity all the way down the device performance curve.

Good news everyone, I've created an advanced AI that can replace 90% of the managers in tech companies: #! /bin/bash echo "have more meetings where all the engineers stop working and say out loud the status of their Jira tickets.\n" exit 0;

Vercel got pwned, so here is another prompt to stop using them. Entirely unrelated, but here is a picture of Vercel's CEO with Netanyahu, the man responsible for the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

JavaScript addition using the new and upcoming Math.sumPrecise(): ❌ 1 + 0.1 - 1 = 0.10000000000000009 ✅ Math.sumPrecise([1,.1,-1]) = 0.1 ❌ 1e20 + 0.1 - 1e20 = 0 ✅ Math.sumPrecise([1e20,.1,-1e20]) = 0.1 ❌ 0.1 + 0.2 = 0.30000000000000004 ❌ Math.sumPrecise([.1,.2]) = 0.30000000000000004

Allow me to explain... codemanship.wordpress.com/2026/04/04/t...

D1 is awesome but its API a bit "outdated" to me ... so I've written and tested template literals tags for it and I am pretty pleased with the result (and ergonomics). github.com/WebReflectio...

Small step into indie computing. Future hckr rpi cluster is ready to be spawned. #indieweb #swarm #rpi #selfhosted #sovereignty

Look, you're never going to make me support this immoral, illegal war. But between Iran putting a carbon tax on oil through Hormuz and now this, it's nice to see some of the meanest, most short-sighted people in the world feel a tiny bit of the pain they're causing others.

Businesses and users are going to pissed off when they find out that delivering more reliable software sooner is actually the easy way.

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

I believe in the web, I believe in craft, and I believe in the things we can build by supporting each other — never has that spirit felt more threatened by the _industry_. If you feel the same way: support independent publishers. Keep building, keep improving, and keep sharing, in your own voice.

Anthropic helpfully leaked the source code for Claude Code, and I suspect this could finish them. * Puts CC users at considerable security risk * Reveals their proprietary (but pretty predictable) context and "memory" mgmt * Reveals model development has hit a wall, with accuracy getting *worse*

CircleCI's analysis of 28 million CI workflows confirms the same picture the DORA data shows. While feature branch activity's up significantly, the median impact on *main* (i.e. release) branch activity's net-negative 7%. Only the top 5% of teams saw significant gains. The top 10% flatlined at 1%.

As a neurodivergent person in tech let me make one point here: Alex Karp is a fascist and misogynist who wants you to be comfortable with the same thinking Nazis had about neurodivergence. He can fuck right off. fortune.com/2026/03/24/p...

Have you ever heard about Compaq?

Wikipedia now has higher standards than all universities

Spec proposal merged. HTML video and audio lazy loading is now a web standard. github.com/whatwg/html/... html.spec.whatwg.org#the-video-el... html.spec.whatwg.org#the-audio-el...

What's that you say? I can pay for AI code reviews now? From a company who have > 6,000 open issues on their flagship AI coding tool and only managed one-9's reliability on their main platform last month?

I keep seeing the claim that "AI" multiplies the productivity of senior developers repeated as justification for FOMO. The best available data clearly shows that, in terms of *outcomes* at the *team* level, that multiplier is - at best - about 1.1x. And for the majority, it's more like 0.9x.

#CSS trick not enough folks know about: painting into the sub boxes of an element - border - padding - content you can paint into one, or all of them differently! here's a gradient border, a solid padding fill, and a gradient content (inner) box see fur yerself codepen.io/argyleink/pe...

If you write better css, you will get better outcomes on other devices you never thought to test. same with html. I'm not worried people care too much about outcomes over craft, I'm worried that when we say "outcome" we mean All My Biases Are Fine Actually, Stop Nagging.

that's part of it. but there are also core aspects of the web (esp html & css) that were already too invisible: cross-browser/device support & a11y. It's not enough to care about "outcomes" when you think everyone has the same experience as you. Many care about craft **because of the outcomes**