Stop me if you've heard this before: If the NYT still had a public editor, that person would have official standing to ask, WTF??? They axed the public editor. So it's up to the rest of us to ask, unofficially, WTF???

Seems like a full court press by Apple to get developers to adopt Liquid Glass and trying to teach how to do it well. Multiple emails about it recently. A design gallery. I suspect there is a lot of resistance to adopting it fully. But Apple is pot committed at this point.

I’ve seen one-time passcode (“OTP”) interfaces cause undue stress in otherwise level-headed #WebDev teams. Thankfully, it doesn’t have to be complicated: cloudfour.com/thinks/simpl... #HTML #CSS #JavaScript

Same take here, and also had Coffey in my *MVP* Top 5.

#NWSL awards season shenanigans is an annual tradition, and the Midfielder of the Year shortlist having NEITHER Taylor Flint NOR Sam Coffey is egregious, baffling stuff.

There must be thousands of companies offering AI sales and lead generation services. Either that or someone who hates me put me on the worst email list ever. Every day it’s another company trying to convince us that they can use AI to generate leads.

Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"

Cortez Masto Durbin Hassan Kaine King Rosen Shaheen Fetterman Those are the Democrats selling out the people and the party

Wow. Powerful. Must watch.

OpenAI and Nvidia are starting to gin up fears that China will win the “AI battle.” Soon they will argue that the US government should bail them out. Eff that. Let China win the imaginary race to AGI. Let OpenAI fail. We can’t reward companies for losing billions every quarter. Sooner the better.

One of the things that must happen now is a reckoning for how clearly batshit crazy Trump is, and how little of what he says is true or connected to the world we all live in.

Summarizes what I’ve been trying to pull together in my head. Democrats basically won everywhere, high profile and low profile, usually by more than optimistic predictions

—NY Dems flip Onondaga County & Dutchess County legislature, first in decades —Dem mayors in Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Cincy... —Seattle GOP city attorney trails big —MN Dems defend state Senate —Dems flip legislative seats in MS —Dems defend swing legislative seats in NY, WA

—Coloradoans fund free school meals —JD's half-brother loses —PA Dems flip Erie County exec, Bucks DA + sheriff —PA Dems oust all GOPers from Bucks school boards once ground 0 of conservative takeover —Charlotte approves transit tax —Dems flip CT towns like New Britain. (And that's not all!)

What we know, 12:10am [Now in 2 parts] —Prop 50 wins —VA Dems flip Gov, LG, AG —Dems flip ≈13 seats in VA House —Dems defend NJ-Gov + Assembly —Dems win NJ+VA trifectas —Mamdani wins —PA Dems win supreme court —ME vote-restricting measure loses —GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices —Krasner & Bragg win

I mean, what?

Georgia Democrats had not won a statewide race that wasn't for a federal office since 2006. They won two races tonight, both against GOP incumbents. The margins? 62% to 38% in both.

There's a lotta silliness and falsehoods in this statement, but I'm going to focus on the bigger issue: It is immoral to make low-income folks and their hungry children political pawns. Need is need.

689: Tyler Sticka on Colorpeek 2 and Awesome CSS In this episode we sit down with Tyler Sticka to discuss upgrading his project, Colorpeek. We explore the practical applications of web components and CSS, and how they are shaping the future of web development. Tyler shares his experiences with…

I make a point of recording praise and positive feedback I receive, to remind me in moments of difficulty or self-doubt. This post by @cferdinandi.bsky.social about working with @cloudfour.com *absolutely* makes the cut 😭 gomakethings.com/cloud4eva/

you can convincingly portray this whole financialized AI edifice as a mortgage crisis-style house of cards without even mentioning that the fundamental product is unreliable, based on outright theft, and people don’t like it.

We had the tremendous pleasure of working with @cferdinandi.bsky.social on a recent project. Chris wrote about his experience working with Cloud Four, and I want to say that the admiration and affection is mutual. Chris is amazing! gomakethings.com/cloud4eva/

Per Danny Kemp via press pool Trump is at the Halloween party at MAL “Official theme is Gatsby and ‘a little party never killed nobody’, we’re told.”

Trump is holding a Great Gatsby/Roaring 20s-themed party at his private club in Palm Beach tonight as he tries to withhold SNAP and health care subsidies from millions of Americans. (via Kellie Meyer)

The orange cretin appears intent on making sure next week is not about people going hungry or his party getting their ass kicked in the election.

Finally telling the story of what happened when some rando turned me into a meme coin and the Twitter community full of AI-generated art featuring me that sprang up to promote it. cloudfour.com/thinks/that-...

AI Browsers: Living on the Frontier of Security by @jim-nielsen.com /ht @tylersticka.com blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/ai-brow...

What really sucks was I was going to try to sneak in a last few tests before I was forced to switch to the new WebPageTest interface, but I decided to check to see if they fixed experiments in the new UI (they haven’t). Now there is no option to switch back to the old UI so I’m stuck. So dumb.

Tomorrow we lose access to the current version of WebPageTest and will be forced into the new version. I’m dreading the switch. Experiments are a HUGE step backwards and I use them all the time. The interface may be consistent with Catchpoint UI, but it is boring and confusing if all you use is WPT.

“Even though AI has been the most-talked-about topic in tech for a few years now, we’re in an unusual situation where the most common opinion about AI within the tech industry is barely ever mentioned.” Spot on by @[email protected] www.anildash.com/2025/10/1…

Judge Graber went hard and I cannot stress enough that Judge Graber *does not go hard*

Divided Ninth Circuit panel stays injunction against President Trump’s federalization of National Guard troops in Portland: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... Judge Graber, who is no firebrand, wrote quite a dissent—encouraging en banc review and some patience on the part of the public:

Absolutely fucking absurd. There is no need for military in our city.

Our former colleague @[email protected] launched a new daily word puzzle game with a twist. It is a lot of fun and a beautiful, well-built web app. Definitely worth checking out! tiledwords.com

Portland. (Photo: Vickie Connor) www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

Incredible. What a true patriot sounds like.

#NoKings was so much fun!! Can we do it again tomorrow? 😃

#nokings Portland frog brigade

Oregonians: tag me in your photos of no kings rallies across our state today so I can show the country how Oregon shows up to say “hell no” to kings.

This echoes a lot of my thinking. Far too much emphasis on Gen AI and too little on other forms of AI. Gen AI companies often talk about the advances made by tools like AlphaFold without acknowledging the significant differences in AI approach. 🎁 link www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/o...

The frogs have spawned! Dublin represent! #NoKings

Take a picture of yourself at the No Kings rally. Print it. Put it in a frame. Your grandchildren will speak about you for generations to come. You took a stand against fascism. You stood up for democracy. 

Hank Green digs into why he thinks the anti-bubble in AI arguments make no sense. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0Tp...

1) Very good and alarming story. 2) Need to keep using the term "Kavanaugh stop." That's what these are, and it is lastingly on him.

Wow. This is exceptional. There is so much history in this video that I didn't know. I *highly recommend* watching it.

Threatening paramedics. They’re out of control. www.oregonlive.com/portland/…

Everyone agrees that we're currently in a dotcom era-like AI bubble. People disagree what sort of bubble it is. There are 3 stories one can tell about the dotcom crash: a startup story, a telecom story, and an accounting fraud story. My take: it's giving Enron open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...

A gorgeous fall day here in the burning hellscape of Portland.