David Bushell 🪿
@dbushell.com
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https://dbushell.com
Freelance, Web Developer, Designer, Blogger, UK – no AI
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Kevin Powell
6 days ago
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...
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"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
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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!
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On Google declaring war on the Web
In Yesterday’s IO Keynote Google declared war on the remnants of the Web. (See longer description on their website.) TL;DR: They are pushing Search more into the “here’s your processed answer” directi...
https://tante.cc/2026/05/20/on-google-declaring-war-on-the-web/
6 days ago
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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...
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Google's AI is being manipulated. The search giant is quietly fighting back
A BBC investigation revealed a simple way to get AI chatbots to spit out misinformation. Google and other AI companies are now trying to fix the problem.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20260519-google-tackles-attempts-to-hack-its-ai-results
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blogged: Google just spat in my face
dbushell.com/2026/05/20/g...
— go on then, one last blog before my holiday
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Google just spat in my face
The one where I get rage baited
https://dbushell.com/2026/05/20/google-just-spat-in-my-face/
7 days ago
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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 🥺
7 days ago
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blogged: Google just spat in my face
dbushell.com/2026/05/20/g...
— go on then, one last blog before my holiday
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Google just spat in my face
The one where I get rage baited
https://dbushell.com/2026/05/20/google-just-spat-in-my-face/
7 days ago
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remember when "skill" meant something? this is deskilling and dehumanising
bsky.app/profile/sara...
add a skeleton here at some point
7 days ago
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im gonna have to do a Figma presentation on Thursday and that is heartbreaking for a guy like me
8 days ago
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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
8 days ago
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Anna E. Cook is traveling
8 days ago
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.
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i'm just never updating software again
blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/rotten-...
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Something’s Rotten in the State of macOS Icon Design
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.
https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/rotten-macos-icon-design/
8 days ago
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blogged: Web whetstones
dbushell.com/2026/05/18/w...
how to stay sharp as a web developer?
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Web whetstones
The one where I go back to basics
https://dbushell.com/2026/05/18/web-whetstone/
9 days ago
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AI grifters being fiercely booed by college graduates gives me hope for the future
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwWa...
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Multiple commencement speakers booed for AI comments during graduation speeches
YouTube video by NBC News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwWaoyIy5e8
9 days ago
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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...
add a skeleton here at some point
10 days ago
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this is the way
jvns.ca/blog/2026/05...
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Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS
Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS
https://jvns.ca/blog/2026/05/15/moving-away-from-tailwind--and-learning-to-structure-my-css-/
10 days ago
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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
11 days ago
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blogged: Surveys will continue until diversity improves
dbushell.com/2026/05/15/s...
— blah idk i got no answers only observations 🫠
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Surveys will continue until diversity improves
The one where I look at the worrying numbers
https://dbushell.com/2026/05/15/surveys-will-continue-until-diversity-improves/
12 days ago
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we asked a bunch of white guys their favourite toy, our survey said...
bsky.app/profile/sach...
add a skeleton here at some point
12 days ago
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"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/
😔
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It's 2026 and women are still asked to teach others to think a little bit and not be a prick
A while back I went to a tech meet-up and one of the talks was about being a woman in tech and I am finally ready to put into words why I sat through it so uncomfortably.
https://ohhelloana.blog/woman-in-tech/
12 days ago
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devastating defeat at ascension 10! I hear they've removed this boss in the latest beta 👀
13 days ago
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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 🙄
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'It's like we don't exist': Nearly 50,000 Lake Tahoe residents face power loss as utility redirects lines to data centers | Fortune
Roughly 49,000 Lake Tahoe residents could lose 75% of their power after their energy provider said it's directing energy to neighboring data centers.
https://fortune.com/2026/05/12/lake-tahoe-data-center-49000-residents-power-source/
13 days ago
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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
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Browsers Treat Big Sites Differently
Safari and Firefox change how big sites render based on the domain. TikTok, Netflix, Instagram… even SeatGuru. Chrome doesn’t. Why is that?
https://denodell.com/blog/browsers-treat-big-sites-differently
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new web podcast? yes please!
jamesg.blog/2026/05/12/a...
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Announcing Wonders of Web Weaving - James' Coffee Blog
https://jamesg.blog/2026/05/12/announcing-wonders-of-web-weaving
13 days ago
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please software devs, not everyone has a 72 inch Apple maxipad monitor my life is ⌘ + 0
14 days ago
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The Odyssey looks boring
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two notes: "Role right-sizing"
dbushell.com/notes/2026-0...
and a dog named Kubernetes
dbushell.com/notes/2026-0...
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Notes – 05:14 Tue 12 May 2026
Notes – 05:14 Tue 12 May 2026
https://dbushell.com/notes/2026-05-12T05:14Z/
15 days ago
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this is the way
bsky.app/profile/vale...
add a skeleton here at some point
16 days ago
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if you need me i'll be in the crypt
store.steampowered.com/app/3265700/...
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Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard from Vampire Survivors on Steam
From the creators of Vampire Survivors comes a turbo-charged, turn-based roguelite deckbuilder! Deal world-ending combos, blitz through infested dungeons, and master the Turboturn to obliterate hordes...
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3265700/Vampire_Crawlers_The_Turbo_Wildcard_from_Vampire_Survivors/
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Prof Deborah Lupton, MPH PhD
19 days ago
Why I object to and reject generative AI
simplysociology.wordpress.com/2026/05/08/w...
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Why I object to and reject generative AI
Why I object to and reject generative AI*: the enshittification of learning, educating, thinking, writing and researching, and the loss of cognitive skills and development in those who use these te…
https://simplysociology.wordpress.com/2026/05/08/why-i-object-to-and-reject-generative-ai/
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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...
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Better Browser Caching with No-Vary-Search – CSS Wizardry
No-Vary-Search lets HTTP caches ignore irrelevant query parameters such as UTM tags, while still keeping meaningful ones like product variants in the cache key.
https://csswizardry.com/2026/05/better-browser-caching-with-no-vary-search/
19 days ago
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remember Pogs?
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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
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Unscrewing lightbulbs
The one where I unscrew lightbulbs
https://dbushell.com/2026/05/08/self-hosted-update-spring-2026/
19 days ago
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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...
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Building For The Future
This afternoon, we sent the following email to our global team. One of our core values at Cloudflare is transparency, and we believe it's important that you hear this directly from us because it’s a m...
https://blog.cloudflare.com/building-for-the-future/
19 days ago
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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
20 days ago
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"there's thousands of those, but this one is mine" — love it, best way to learn IMO
thatalexguy.dev/building-wit...
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Building With Intent - Alex White
Just a guy in Ohio.
https://thatalexguy.dev/building-with-intent
20 days ago
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*screams into the void*
20 days ago
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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...
add a skeleton here at some point
20 days ago
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Mat “Wilto” Marquis
20 days ago
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...
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Google’s Prompt API
No web standard should require you to agree to an advertising company’s “terms of use.”
https://wil.to/posts/googles-prompt-api/
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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
21 days ago
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just dropped in Chrome Canary
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hey look! that thing Google wants to standardise as a web platform API made the news!
www.theguardian.com/music/2026/m...
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Canadian fiddler sues Google after AI Overview wrongly claimed he was a sex offender
Ashley MacIsaac, who is seeking $1.5m in civil lawsuit, says inaccurate information led to concert cancellation
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/may/05/canadian-ashley-macisaac-fiddler-musician-singer-songwriter-sues-google-ai-sex-offender-ntwnfb
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I'm literally unscrewing lightbulbs to renew their DHCP lease smart home was a mistake
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noted: how the Prompt API will transpire:
dbushell.com/notes/2026-0...
sigh, can we not?
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Notes – 05:42 Mon 4 May 2026
Notes – 05:42 Mon 4 May 2026
https://dbushell.com/notes/2026-05-04T05:42Z/
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reading: NHS Goes To War Against Open Source
shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05...
Sigh.
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NHS Goes To War Against Open Source
The NHS is preparing to close nearly all of its Open Source repositories. Throughout my time working for the UK Government - in GDS, NHSX, i.AI, and others - I championed Open Source. I spoke to doze...
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/nhs-goes-to-war-against-open-source/
26 days ago
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ok i promise, no more slop talk from me!
26 days ago
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noted: performative slop and the token measuring contest
dbushell.com/notes/2026-0...
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Notes – 08:05 Fri 1 May 2026
Notes – 08:05 Fri 1 May 2026
https://dbushell.com/notes/2026-05-01T08:05Z/
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unpopular opinion: tabbed browsing was a mistake
27 days ago
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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
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