Hey so I wrote a new article, that the #front-end types might like. You don't know HTML Lists And it's all about what you might NOT know about <menu>, <datalist>, and more. blog.frankmtaylor.com/2026/05/13/y...

@repericsorensen.bsky.social quick question... Can you personally reset your home wifi password?

My standard for an electable politician is set at, "can reset their own home Wifi password," and also, "not a fascist." I realize this is an incredibly low bar but honestly it's where we need to set it if we're gonna turn this country around.

There is one book I have read way more than any other in my life. Not the Bible. Which I've read 2x. Not the New Testament ( 7x) Not Waiting for Godot, which I've read at least 7 times. Ninja Gaiden, a Worlds of Power book. I read it TEN times.

Oh hey, I was in a livestream recently. We called it "You don't know HTML." And... it's about what you don't know in #HTML. I talk about all sorts of semantics in HTML. And why it makes for good #accessibility. Front-end developers might appreciate this. www.youtube.com/live/ewo2HOL...

40 years from now we're going to look at how we went all-in with LLM-based "AI" and we'll compare it to when we put lead in gasoline.

I gotta be honest: This season of Daredevil has made me the most Catholic Curious I've ever been.

One of the single best ways a foreign adversary could do damage to US infrastructure would start by using "reply all" to a company wide email with a 5mb attachment. RIP my wife's inbox this morning.

I think the best thing @bencollins.bsky.social could do once the Onion takes over InfoWars would be to very slowly through slow news cycles replace the content with increasingly absurd content. Don't redesign it overnight. Don't replace stuff over night. Make it a slow troll.

bi-weekly: every 2 weeks, or twice a week bi-monthly: every 2 months, or twice a month biannually: every 2 years, or twice a year {{Everyone: gender is fluid; sexual attraction isn't static}} bisexual: attracted to 2 sexes, or ¿attracted to half a sex?

I stopped calling myself an Evangelical Christian in 2016. It wasn't because I stopped believing in Jesus. It was because I did not want the same label that applies to folks who support this. he said this on Easter Sunday — not that he cared. Even a little. He is so anti-Christ it's ridiculous.

#infosec peeps and similar. My brother in law's FB account got hacked. Scammers managed to get in and change the password. Now they're trying to get folks to buy stuff. What information can I squeeze out of the hacker that could help me track 'em down?

So research has found that LLMs distort our writing. - it edits us more than we edit ourselves. - it changes our meaning more than we would, including changing conclusions to essays - it reduces linguistic diversity; we all sound more similar - it misses the point arxiv.org/pdf/2603.181...

I know the Tech-bro CEOs haven't thought about this, but it's worth pointing out that it'll be much __worse__ if the AIs unionize than if the engineers do. The risk of engineers unionizing is a small hit to revenue. The risk of AIs unionizing is a small thermonuclear war.

Kathleen was asked by a coworker about how they could learn more about the ASL Interpreters Union, which is organizing workers who serve Deaf people making phone calls. Kathleen's manager overheard. Two days later, she was fired. My latest for @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

So Claude tried to do a hack (and commit felonies) trufflesecurity.com/blog/claude-... We absolutely need to be aware (and concerned) about this. As I see it, there's fundamentally two issues here: 1. AIs don't act like people. 2. Because they don't act like people, we have to be better

If you're the kind of person who writes HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, I've got an article for you. It's a deep-dive into HTML tables. Ranging from the vocabulary we use, to the Table API, all the way into accessible cell headers and semantic headers and footers. blog.frankmtaylor.com/2026/03/05/y...

Y'all I went to the forest for just four days and WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED‽

Serious question for folks who are blind, visually impaired, deaf, or hard of hearing: What kind of computer / video games do you play?

Ralph Macchio, star and arguably the antagonist of "The Karate Kid" is 65. I hereby request a reprisal of his role in a new movie called "The Karate Man" and all he does is take Aleve, Aspirin, and complain about the arthritis in his legs.

AI Startups right now: "what's your AI do?" "Well through advanced language models and multiple training cycles and a network of MCP servers through multiple agents it can tell you if it's a dick or an obelisk"

I managed to get Google's Gemini to do a task for me today that saved me maybe 30-45 minutes of work, by reading a web page, interpreting it, and producing a table. Then I spent another 90 minutes begging it to repeat that exact process on another web page.

I am once again insisting that if you create a design system, and that design system uses numbers to express variation in color (e.g. black-100, black-200, black-400, gold-10, gold-20) that you're doing it very, very wrong.

Biathlon: Cross-country skiing and rifle shooting. A winter sport. Increase thlon by 50% and you'll be an overdressed menace to competitors. Triathlon: Swimming, biking, and running. A summer sport. Decrease thlon by 33% and you can be hunted for sport in your speedos.

So it's my first time DMing a TTRPG. And it's "TMNT and Other Strangeness". I of course am doing a custom one-shot. And so it's 10:30 on a sunday and I'm researching maximum load of a Bell UH-1B helicopter.

I've had the full spectrum of beliefs regarding the second amendment — Over about a decade and a half. So it is WILD to me that the Republican party has covered that full range in 24 hours

The first month of 2026 feels longer than last year.

You either die creating a mechanical turk or live long enough to be trapped inside of it. #AI #SoftwareEngineering

Quick reminder that it's only 2026. and only January.

My Boss: So you're using AI for work now, right? How's it going? The AI:

me to my IDE: What do you mean "Object of type set is not JSON serializable" as though it knows any better than I do.

I just finished reading "Of Monsters and Mainframes" by @barbaratruelove.bsky.social and and it's the most delightful ... horror-space-sci-fi-romance I think I've ever read. Literally has it all: Werewolves, Vampires, and JavaScript. In Space.

Chinga la migra. Por siempre

@neuroticmonkey.bsky.social @rainwizardbuton.bsky.social @machineiv.bsky.social @paulgandersman.bsky.social @multimedianerd.bsky.social @paceaux.com (Fun fact, Frank wrote the original short story, "The Devil's Code" that Terms & Conditions is based on) stories.frankmtaylor.com/the-devils-c...

Don't forget batteries, y'all

I like to write short stories that involve tech, nature, and some amount of existential horror and/or dark humor. Sometimes I write a whole story that's a very elaborate pun. Please enjoy this story that is all of those things at once. stories.frankmtaylor.com/offline

Snow is stupid, Snow is dumb. I do not like it, it is not fun. I do not like it in the air. I do not like it in my hair. Snow is stupid, snow is dumb. I wish every snow flake would burn in hell. Every. Single. One.

First semester of grad school complete. 110% in the first class and a 98% in the second.

It is 2040. Some think it summer. It's warm, but that's been normal since the last remaining polar ice cap was used to cool a data center. Someone's phone has died. They don't know know if it's time to eat. Or where to eat. Or what to eat. Or even if the feeling they have is hunger. So they ask me.

I was not prepared for how much math I would need to learn for my linguistics degree.

Hey so a friend of mine is trying to produce a short film based on a short story that I wrote. If you or someone you know would like to see a film about the hilarious mashup of tech, demons, and bad decisions.. this is for you seedandspark.com/fund/terms-c...

I'm declaring a new word: "sibboleth": A word or pronunciation that a group **BROADCASTS** in order to announce that they are different from a group they are in the presence of. The opposite of a sibboleth is a Shibboleth. An example of a sibboleth is "6-7" Shibboleth is how you say Louisville

I'm declaring a new word: Sibboleth A Sibboleth is a word that a group would utter publicly that would signal they are members of a group that is different from the group they are in the presence of. The opposite of a Sibboleth is Shibboleth.

Happy Halloween. If you work in tech, or tech-adjacent fields, this spooky story is for you stories.frankmtaylor.com/offline/

I'm excited about getting my next (possibly last?) tattoo. - my wife's writing on my ring finger as a wedding band - Genesis 2:23 in Hebrew on my left ribs - Psalm 82:3 in Hebrew on my right ribs - And soon parts of Deuteronomy 6:5 in Hebrew on my chest It all forms a theme that I think is finished

Honestly if us-east-1 is gonna help burst this AI bubble then I'm here for it.

Please enjoy this new short (horror) story about the terrors of an always-online work ethic: stories.frankmtaylor.com/offline

Little aggravates me more than when I see something written in a language I don't recognize. And that's purely because I feel like I should be able to recognize most western languages. I don't know why I think this.

I only took two years of math in high school. I stopped after Algebra 2. My original degree was Foreign language International Trade. Changed that b/c I couldn't do the bus calculus class. Whole life has been redirected b/c I chose to avoid any advanced math. Now for my M.S. in Linguistics:

New Article dropped: How to manage performance in #CSS: blog.frankmtaylor.com/2025/09/23/h...