sans-slop software it's so easy to impress me now, literally the only thing I look for is lack of "AI" features

working on a legacy Sass/SCSS + Gulp setup and oh boy has that not aged well One does not simply "npm install" an old project. One hour to fix compile errors, another two to reproduce the correct CSS, and I still have 100 deprecation warnings this is why I "no build" and just write CSS today

did you know Chromium default stylesheet applies `opacity: 0.7` to `select:disabled` ...how did I never notice before! codepen.io/dbushell/pen... github.com/chromium/chr...

guess I should finish that CSS refactor this week 😬 bsky.app/profile/dbus...

reading: It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-i... I don't like Apple's new icon fetish, but I never realised how poorly implemented they were! #neverUpdating

I am back! hello 2026 30 minutes reclamping my monitor arm to jury-rig it one inch lower now I realise if I pushed at the right angle it was way more adjustable than I thought 🤦

logging out to stop me doom scrolling by default

The Irishman is a fantastic movie until Al Pacino shows up and I remember it's that Jimmy Hoffa movie gets me every time! I must block out the memory or something

🎄 blogged: I Survived 2025 dbushell.com/2025/12/18/y... — What an eventful year. See you in 2026! Have a lovely Christmas and New Year! 🥳

lol "postponing" resources.github.com/actions/2026...

reading: "You Can't Opt-Out of Accessibility" vale.rocks/posts/access... > "Unfortunately, companies have adopted these baselines as the ceiling, not the floor." great quote from @vale.rocks

You can't win, Apple.

Tuesday status: Safari is worse than IE ever was.

Happy Monday!

🎄 blogged: Wrapping up Advent of Code 2025 dbushell.com/2025/12/12/a... — nothing like waking up at 5am every morning for two weeks of coffee and code!

Advent of Code day 12 status: done ★★ dbushell.com/notes/2025-1... — full blog write up later today :)

Time for your weekly React critical vulnerability patch! react.dev/blog/2025/12... Two different CVEs this time.

"Welcome to the world of React Forever" johan.hal.se/wrote/2025/1...

Advent of Code day 11 status: done ★★ dbushell.com/notes/2025-1... — big success today following yesterday's failure 🎄

Advent of Code day 10 status: partial ★ dbushell.com/notes/2025-1... — failure strikes! I'm stuck on part two today :(

yo Zed editor is kinda good, why didn't anyone tell me! I have free RAM again :)

Advent of Code day 9 status: done ★★ dbushell.com/notes/2025-1... — talking a walk outside for fresh air is helps reset the brain!

Advent of Code day 8 status: done ★★ dbushell.com/notes/2025-1... — performance is starting to matter 😬 refactored 20 mins down to 300ms today

Well Advent of Code day 8 is done... but it took my M4 ~20 minutes to grind out an answer 😅 I can't leave that unoptimised, can I?

Down with icons! blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/icons-i... I wonder if it's possible to write a macOS app that can remove/hide icons from system UI? 🤔

Advent of Code day 7 status: done ★★ dbushell.com/notes/2025-1... AoC is heating up! I'll have to start waking up at 5:30am to find time next week.

Advent of Code day 6 status: done ★★ dbushell.com/notes/2025-1... — there's got to be a better way but I'm taking the win and enjoying my Saturday 😏

new Cloudflare weekly outage recap just dropped blog.cloudflare.com/5-december-2...

the real React 10.0 CVE proof of concept (not the "AI" proof of slop) github.com/lachlan2k/Re...

Advent of Code day 5 status: done ★★ dbushell.com/notes/2025-1... — fun one today, if you can disengage the bruce force brain!

is this white labelled Cloudflare Turnstile, or are Porkbun rolling their own CAPTCHA? 🤔

lmao, here's bunny.net informing me my deploy script is so bad I've ruined it for everyone. my bad, sorry!

Advent of Code day 4 status: done ★★ dbushell.com/notes/2025-1... — this Rust code is starting to heat up! I may be on this full-time next week 😬

congrats to the React Team or landing a perfect 10.0 on the CVE scale! 👏 jsx.lol

index.php is so fucking back

Critical support to all the worst companies in tech somehow willingly choosing to merge into one big cursed katamari with a life expectancy of about 18 months

noted: Advent of Code day 3 status: done ★★ dbushell.com/notes/2025-1... — quick one today!

well at least we have a good bookmark to reference now! not sure how anyone was supposed to figure this out (I can barely comprehend it 😰) www.bram.us/2025/12/02/a...

me: laughing at Cloudflare's bug also me: how tf do you write Rust without unwrapping everything?

noted: Advent of Code day two status: done ★★ dbushell.com/notes/2025-1... — avoiding regular expressions resulted in a better solution, who'd thunk it!

reading: Web Design / Dev Advent Calendars for 2025 adrianroselli.com/2025/12/web-...

noted: Advent of Code day one status: done ★★ dbushell.com/notes/2025-1... — but I'll need to up my game!

It's December 1st, which means that throughout the entire month you should reserve 5-10 minutes every day to read a fantastic article about HTML. ❤️‍🔥 Check out what's hidden behind the first door. htmhell.dev/adventcalendar

It's time for Advent of WHAM! The rules: 1. Play Wham's "Last Christmas" EVERY DAY because it's an absolute banger.

Advent of Code begins tomorrow! adventofcode.com I'll be attempting it in TypeScript, Zig, and Rust!

"give me 1500 words on a tired stereotype" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... quality stuff from the Beeb here

new visual regression tester just dropped onemillionscreenshots.com/dbushell.com...

"Your parcel has been delivered." — you've got some nerve UPS, I just walked three miles in heavy rain to find where you abandoned it 😐

I'm led to believe it's "Thanksgiving", so happy that if you're into it! 🫡