More and more people I deeply respect and have learned a lot from over the years feel like they are speaking into a void, to the point where they are losing motivation to continue making content, which got me to write my first post on my site in over a year... www.kevinpowell.co/article/tell...

"skill" and "skillset" in the context of LLMs is absolute doublespeak, this is DESKILLING now I'm seeing (once) respected web folk, many considered educators, promote Google's "modern web" shite

reading: "On Google declaring war on the Web" tante.cc/2026/05/20/o... and what Google think you'll be willing suffer: "Ad Infini­tum" matthiasott.com/notes/ad-inf... never too late to degoog!

I know this is the commercial arm of the BBC but painting Google as the victim of manipulation is disgraceful journalism www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

blogged: Google just spat in my face dbushell.com/2026/05/20/g... — go on then, one last blog before my holiday 🫩

I reported a bug to @penpot.app and the response was: "I should mention that this is a community-maintained project rather than officially supported by Penpot" design.penpot.app is unofficial? one of us is very confused! I'm really trying to escape Figma 🥺

blogged: Google just spat in my face dbushell.com/2026/05/20/g... — go on then, one last blog before my holiday 🫩

remember when "skill" meant something? 🫩 this is deskilling and dehumanising bsky.app/profile/sara...

im gonna have to do a Figma presentation on Thursday and that is heartbreaking for a guy like me

is Penpot seriously glitchy for anyone else? whenever I move anything with the keyboard, e.g. Shift + Arrow keys the bounding box / rendering goes haywire

Replace AI with ANY other business and you’d STILL end up with the most self indulgent, completely meaningless speeches That’s the common thread I see in AI hype like this. It’s all just deeply devoid of humanity. Grads deserve so much better.

i'm just never updating software again blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/rotten-...

blogged: Web whetstones dbushell.com/2026/05/18/w... how to stay sharp as a web developer?

AI grifters being fiercely booed by college graduates gives me hope for the future www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwWa...

pfft why *scrolls down and sees the snap to line example* oh okay well now i have to rebuild my website again bsky.app/profile/isha...

this is the way jvns.ca/blog/2026/05...

it's sad that the football season is almost over all we have then is two weeks of more football, followed by a summer of big football, and then finally the next football season

blogged: Surveys will continue until diversity improves dbushell.com/2026/05/15/s... — blah idk i got no answers only observations 🫠

we asked a bunch of white guys their favourite toy, our survey said... bsky.app/profile/sach...

"It's 2026 and women are still asked to teach others to think a little bit and not be a prick" ohhelloana.blog/woman-in-tech/ 😔

devastating defeat at ascension 10! I hear they've removed this boss in the latest beta 👀

hey look, your new toy is ruining lives again! guess the Tahoe residents didn't get the "it's only a smidgeon per query" memo 🙄

hmm... yeah i don't like it 🙃 denodell.com/blog/browser... but also i think browsers should have enforced XHTML - we'd have flying cars by now

new web podcast? yes please! jamesg.blog/2026/05/12/a...

please software devs, not everyone has a 72 inch Apple maxipad monitor my life is ⌘ + 0

The Odyssey looks boring

two notes: "Role right-sizing" dbushell.com/notes/2026-0... and a dog named Kubernetes dbushell.com/notes/2026-0... 🫩

this is the way bsky.app/profile/vale...

if you need me i'll be in the crypt store.steampowered.com/app/3265700/...

Why I object to and reject generative AI simplysociology.wordpress.com/2026/05/08/w...

i'm so going to set-and-forget this and then a year from now spend an entire day debugging csswizardry.com/2026/05/bett...

remember Pogs?

blogged: Unscrewing lightbulbs dbushell.com/2026/05/08/s... I turned `apt upgrade` into a blog post, I must be running out of good topics

this is why we're seeing so much performative slop from those working at big tech if you ain't in, you're out blog.cloudflare.com/building-for...

new bio: all opinions are those of my own LLM and not those of my employer's LLM — I mean, I do use my employer's LLM 'cause hell if I'm paying for it — but I prompt for my own opinions — contractually they're owned by my employer but not endorsed — is what I'm trying to say

"there's thousands of those, but this one is mine" — love it, best way to learn IMO thatalexguy.dev/building-wit...

*screams into the void*

i bet these guys will cheer up after they play my awesome new web app "how many R's in strawberry!" (Chrome-only) www.404media.co/ai-is-africa... bsky.app/profile/dbus...

One or more person or persons may or may not have spoken, and in a voice funneled through a person whose professional success explicitly hinges on demand for this feature, cried out: “eight.” That’s web standards, baby! wil.to/posts/google...

it saddens me that general dissent is about process and implementation detail and not, ya know, the absolute moral bankruptcy that is ignoring the victims of this vile tech

just dropped in Chrome Canary

hey look! that thing Google wants to standardise as a web platform API made the news! www.theguardian.com/music/2026/m...

I'm literally unscrewing lightbulbs to renew their DHCP lease smart home was a mistake

noted: how the Prompt API will transpire: dbushell.com/notes/2026-0... sigh, can we not?

reading: NHS Goes To War Against Open Source shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05... Sigh.

ok i promise, no more slop talk from me!

noted: performative slop and the token measuring contest dbushell.com/notes/2026-0...

unpopular opinion: tabbed browsing was a mistake

me: [X] is kicking you in the groin and is mean to puppies, try [Y] or [Z] critic: but [Y] doesn't tuck me in at night and [Z] doesn't read me a bedtime story