“A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.” — Victor Hugo

Not even going to comment on how crypto people keep pushing the idea of “stablecoins as payments” use case: completely ignoring the reason anyone sensible won’t stop using credit cards: Because credit cards offer chargebacks, and pay perks. Crypto offers neither and is a risk

You guys see where this is going? Right?

This is one of the greatest things I’ve ever read in my entire life about any topic ever anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

I put together a whole page of resources and pointers on these topics, and cannot recommend "Life of a Pixel" often or highly enough: infrequently.org/links/#web-p...

New on the codebar youtube - "Nurturing the Designer and Developer Relationship" with Rob Otim 👀 In this talk, Rob shares his thoughts on how designers and developers can work better together ⬇️ youtu.be/Hs9jn1GQbTU

Did you guys notice how quickly we got to okaying discrimination against women, people of color and LGBTQA+ people, Christi-fascists in the government, erasure of public health, not being able to trust government statistics, autocratic use of power and undermining elections?

Transmisogyny is just this bizarre clusterfuck where people treat you like a woman, in that they talk over you, call you overly emotional, sexualise you, judge you harshly on how well you embody femininity, disbelieve you when you say you've been mistreated, all the while insisting that you're a man

a web that isn't human-first is a web I want nothing to do with. I'm not going to "optimize the graph" of assertions, or whatever. I'm not a content farm for your algorithm. i'm here to build real relationships with real people - and if that's not what the web is for anymore, I'll be somewhere else.

Journal: Progressive web apps If you’thinking of making a native app, think again. 🔗https://adactio.com/journal/22074

Aubrey isn't just a kick-ass developer. She's an amazingly kind, thoughtful human being. I cannot overstate how incredible of an asset she would be for your team!

Create a larger, invisible hit area around the element, making it easier to click without layout shift! How? Use a pseudo element with `position: absolute` + `inset: -{value}px` Demo to play with: codepen.io/una/pen/gbaWdmy (Tip from dmytro on X, who I can't find on Bsky: x.com/pqoqubbw/sta...)

Final alternativo de Idoru, do lendário @greatdismal.bsky.social

That weird feeling when one of your heroes from early on in your career follows you back…

DuckDuckGo has added a feature to filter out AI images from search results.

Three day weekend on the new moto 🏍️ to surprise my mum for her birthday celebration on Saturday at 11am. Fri: Berlin to Ry, ~600km Sat: Ry to Aalborg, ~140km Sun: Aalborg to Berlin, ~750km #tired

I would like this to be true. "Instead of reaching for frameworks by default, more teams are treating HTML and CSS as first-class citizens again, leaning on JavaScript only when it genuinely enhances the experience. This isn’t nostalgia—it’s a calculated correction." thenewstack.io/html-first-f...

This week, early bird tickets end *and* tickets close for the summer holidays, returning in September.

Has anyone done a fear of flying course that they’d recommend?

If you were alive in the 1980s, this is among the most wonderful & truly incredible things you have ever witnessed in your lifetime.

If you are hiring, we'd love for you to share your technical roles on our job board. We'll share them with our community of 20,000 underrepresented people in tech. buff.ly/OdtgUCd

2025.ffconf.org - 7 days left of the early bird pricing 🐣⌛️

Forget vibe coding. Enter vibe leadership.

every single day is just turning on your screen and yelling shut up!! shut up!!!! at it

Dear CSS overloads, this should be possible _without_ JavaScript: growfield.js.org Indeed, it was … sort of around 19 years ago remysharp.com/2006/11/27/a... (actually, this is the input element, I can't remember if it worked on textarea).

I think this is an interesting idea, though the horse has rather bolted from the stable already… blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-...

“See the person, not the disability” is not the statement of solidarity that some think it is. There’s nothing wrong with seeing disability. The problem is the default negative connotation that is placed on disability. The problem is ableism. #DisabilityPrideMonth

Very good work. Read it and act. www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-secret...

The entire tech-bro community is talking itself into getting even dumber.

it feels important to keep saying: SPA as an app framework default (and not an opt-in feature) was a mistake

My cartoon in this weeks @newyorker.com

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez refers to the "Genocide that is taking place in Gaza" "Israel is violating Article 2 with the EU and that the Association Agreement with Israel has to be suspended"

Went to two frontend conferences in as many days, and learned a lot; not all of it what the presenters hoped I'd take away: infrequently.org/2025/06/conf...

I thought this was a very interesting read on monorepos: blog.swgillespie.me/posts/monore...

2011: Donald Trump says a weak and ineffective President will start a war with Iran 2025: President Trump attacks Iran

Computer vision & HUDs are cool. AI augmented reality is fascinating. But this is a trojan horse for megacorp to get into *all* your interactions. Friends don't let friends bring Zuck in a backpack on their adventures.

Have you ever wished the browser would look at a background color and pick black or white for the text — whichever one provides more contrast? Now, the `constrast-color()` function in CSS does just that. webkit.org/blog/16929/c...

Ruby. We do meetups abooooout monthly if you count Copenhagen and Malmö Ruby Brigades both. If you're in the region, reach out, don't miss the meetups. #malmorb #ruby #copenhagenrb

When lawyers first started getting yelled at by judges for citing hallucinated case law 2 years ago I naively assumed word would get around and they would all learn not to This new DB has 116 cases from 12 countries where this happened, 20 from just this month! simonwillison.net/2025/May/25/...

Periodic reminder:Substack profits off Nazi pages bc they don't want to be "in the censorship business,"but they also won't host adult content,so they ARE in the "censorship business." They just think Nazis are better than pornographers. This is why I will never give Substack a single shiny nickel.

If you're curious how AI is redefining #accessibility, why not come to AI and Accessibility Day hosted by We Are Developers on 5 June: www.wearedevelopers.com/events/acces... You can use code A11YDAY_Leonie for 15% off too. #AI #a11y

Alison Gopnik describes AI as "Stone Soup" and anytime you can reference a vaguely socialist folktale from Eastern Europe and apply it to Silicon Valley technology I am here for it. buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com/p/ai-is-ston...

Because @zachleat.com and @aluhrs.com made me look, I'm sharing the pain. Behold the power of a fully operational Next.js + Tailwind web page! 3MB (11.4 unzipped) of critical-path JS to display 1.4KB (2.8 unzipped) of text, an image, and a below-the-fold video: www.webpagetest.org/video/compar...

Journal: Tools A large language model is as neutral as an AK-47. 🔗https://adactio.com/journal/21926