It's easier to change software than to change people.

You know whats also great? This new BEAR single - open.spotify.com/track/426nNp... 886 monthly listeners is a crime. Some excellent brutality.

COACHELLA WEEKEND ONE PHOTOS: kraw, karel chladek NINE INCH NOIZE ALBUM OUT TOMORROW nineinchnails.lnk.to/NineInchNoize WATCH NINE INCH NOIZE AT COACHELLA WEEKEND TWO SATURDAY 8PM PT

No sleep until the end of the album.

I am struggling for the correct words to convey to you just how hard the new Nine Inch Nails album goes. It's a remix collaboration with Boys Noize, and it's a dance-oriented blend of 'studio' recording and the live Coachella performance from Saturday. The singing is strong, the music is slammin'

Nine Inch Fucking Noise.

Is there anything more funny than being "invited" to apply for an "exclusive" credit card, but the fancy letter coming through the door with insufficient postage paid. The irony can take me instead.

David Bowie would be so proud of Trent Reznor right now I swear. This Nine Inch Noize show is incredible.

Wrote up some thoughts on Anthropic's Project Glassing, where their latest Opus-beating model is available to partnered security research organizations only. Given the recent alarm bells raised by credible security voices I think this is a justified decision. simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/7/p...

ItsHappening - devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/cshar... - I like this implementation, and especially the Attribute driven bridge for existing libraries.

Demolition Man is an Austin Powers sequel, clearly.

The Claude source *maps* leaks are the biggest confluence of irony I've seen in awhile on about 6 different axis. Simultaneously funny at the expense of: - Those who think that's the source - Those who think there is no value in implementation - The auto-cannibalism of the "AI community - Claude

Old man yearns for the internet of yore

This is very sad, always got the impression that Eidos Montreal were some of the best in the business.

Hey, ready for the new toxic engineering measurement number? Output measured in tokens/second. I'm sorry / you're welcome / you're doomed.

My weirdest programming ick in C-like languages is braceless single returns in conditionals. So easy to make formatting related typo-mistakes. So easy to not read.

monsters

monsters

Trying out the top end TV streamers in a rage at the general performance bullshittery of smart TVs in 2026. How is Google TV so full of ads it slows the UI? How is Apple TV incapable of making a functioning keyboard UI? Feels like these are both great products almost ruined by basics.

Sad to be missing MVP summit this week - have some stuff happening that made it impractical to travel in the end. Have a shot or ten for me 🖤

We've spent the last three decades introducing seams into our software systems that mostly just damage them, driven by the insatiable business urge to parallelise work. A few thoughts on how we end up with extreme dissonance in our software: davidwhitney.co.uk/blog/2026/03...

That new Muse single is drab as fuck

This is kinda bad, but also very funny because it basically captures every interaction with auditing people I've ever had in one story. www.propublica.org/article/micr...

There is no more creative technical person that you could have on your team. Get in touch with Jo! (or me, and I'll make introductions if you'd prefer)

Today is my last day with the Deno team 🦕💖💔 I know they're gonna keep making awesome things. But now *I* need to make awesome things for someone else! If you're looking for a DevRel with a JS focus and extra sparkle, get in touch!

But seriously, what if the best Type system (TypeScript) had the best runtime (the CLR). Computer go brrr.

I did it, I finally found a way to make two entire communities hate me. Never JavasScript .NET people 🤝 People that Hate Microsoft And it's beautiful.

The response to this shows how much gamers absolutely do not understand what they're seeing, combined hard with how zeitgeist AI discourse isn't based in reality. It changes the image, as does path tracing. Same genre. You can not like it, but people seem to think this is doing texture replacement.

This is the dumbest shit I ever heard.

Because I've been running analysis over entire GitHub orgs with models recently I've found myself having to mirror lots of them to local disks, so I chucked together a very, very, simple tool to do that automation here: www.npmjs.com/package/gh-m... Uses the GH API to list / exclude, clones all.

Models trained on publicly harvested data should be legislated into the open, and forced into the public domain. Organisations are free to monetise their operation, but extractavist behaviour should be punished at all costs.

I've been working on diagramming tools to map large systems. The visualisations are for exploration, and the machine readable variant is to help large scale change. I asked an agent to reverse engineer a spec that works in my ecosystem so it might work in yours. gist.github.com/davidwhitney...

My promo with @davidwhitney.co.uk for the @cityjsconf.bsky.social upcoming London event! We'll be discussing the current state of AI - the bubble, the BS, the fears and the finance... 14-17 Apr, Kensington Town Hall. Use my speaker discount code for 20% off your ticket: ti.to/cityjsconf-l...

I put together a piece on how I'm doing co-design with agents in some of my dev work at the moment, and how there's a very specific through line from XP and the sort of software design and intentionality I talk about often. Trying to capture my working patterns. davidwhitney.co.uk/blog/2026/03...

Vibes open.spotify.com/track/2StHGD...

If you're as Birmingham local, I'm doing what is currently the last UK version of my Meditations on Code as Art talk tonight here - www.meetup.com/birmingham-d... Come along.

Very not metal, but this Saul Williams + District Five track is also very excellent - open.spotify.com/track/7F9O0B...

"But we have Mastodon at home!" open.spotify.com/track/3zW1ta... Still slaps.

Models are not reality. The map is not the territory.

TypeScript 6.0 RC is out 🎉 🔶 Temporal 🔶 Map#getOrInsert 🔶 RegExp.escape 🔶 #/ prefix for Package Imports New defaults! 🔶 --target=ES2025 🔶 "use strict" 🔷 --strict Deprecations! 🗑️ baseUrl, outFile 🗑️ import assertions 🗑️ `module` namespaces 🗑️ module: amd 🗑️ moduleResolution: node 🗑️ target: ES5

Andrew Tate working on that Spec Ops: The Line sequel we didn't realise was coming.

Been ill in bed for two days, but just about got the energy to give a glow-up to my silly Vampire Survivors X Conways Game of Life rip-off. It now... also rips off geometry wars! gameofdeath.dejw.co.uk (I'm experimenting with some game engine stuff for another, more real, thing :) )

I literally cannot believe @npmjs.bsky.social haven't disabled post-install hooks yet by default. I honestly don't give a crap if it's a breaking change. It's obviously rotting the supply chain. GitHub / Microsoft / whichever two people have been left carrying the npm cli tooling need to jfdi.

Cancelled my gippity sub because of the military thing. Drop in the ocean, but hey, do what we can.

Crammed a low rent Vampire Survivors clone into Conway's Game of Life because it amused me. May I present - Conway's Game of Death. gameofdeath.dejw.co.uk

Microsoft hedging against the US government with this one.

No strong opinions about the xbox thing tbh, though very funny watching everyone talk about the new head as an "AI person" when.... CoreAI was just the renamed DevDiv et al with a bad name.

New At The Gates single absolute goes. RIP Tompa. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvlf...

Reconciling that "solving programming" is a good outcome for "tech", at the same time it being at it's core extractavist technology that levels the last tool of social mobility we had that swings the power back to the billionaire class has been one of the most disorienting moments of my career.