React Server Components: do they improve performance or make it worse? If your answer is “I’ve no idea 😅,” I wrote a deep-dive to answer that! Experiments and real numbers, CSR vs SSR vs RSC, same app + test setup. Focus: initial load + data fetching. www.developerway.com/posts/react-...

Ow yeah! 😎 FYI: you can start using customizable select *TODAY* because it is the perfect progressive enhancement: in browser with no support you get the status quo which is just a regular select (which you can also style up to a certain extent).

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software. Just fuck you. Fuck you all. I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

It's 2026 and we're still in the exploration phase of augmented coding. The one thing that we'll not nail down is "getting it to behave consistently". It's not an agent acting on your behalf. It's a genie, as coined by Kent Beck. It'll grant you wishes but it might not be what you actually wanted.

> The Java runtime isn’t available inside the sandbox. Let me try with the sandbox disabled: Yeah, your sandbox is kind of pointless Claude ain’t it?

People try to tell us the Internet must be regulated because child porn and copyright - while AI breaks every rule in those regards. www.readtpa.com/p/grok-cant-...

Are you an AI-driven developer. Better stop. AI should not drive you. You should use your LLM where it makes sense, discover where it doesn’t and drive the AI to your goals. Don’t let the dog wag you, be the dog that wags the tail.

2026 won’t be the year of agents. It’ll be the year of ads. Somehow OpenAi needs to turn their billions of gross into trillions of revenue. Well there is one gift horse that funds two of the „magnificent seven“: advertising. If it works for Alphabet and Meta, why not OpenAi?

People like to say “once the single page app is booted, it’s faster”, but they’re wrong — stats show few subsequent navigations occur. React simply isn’t worth the cost for most websites.

Rich Hickey with the best #AI take of 2026 so far - gist.github.com/richhickey/e...

Have you been wishing masonry layouts would just hurry up and arrive in CSS?? Well, happy holidays! webkit.org/blog/17660/i...

Durchbruch des Jahres 2025: „Es war das erste Jahr, in dem weltweit mehr Strom aus Erneuerbaren erzeugt wurde als aus Kohle“, schreibt der Chefredakteur der „Science“-Journale. ♥️ www.heise.de/news/Boom-er...

The one very fun thing about creating your own AGENTS.md, skills, etc. Is that it becomes a document not for the agent (which‘ll follow the rules more and less), but as a collaboration exercise with the team.

When men refer to themselves as "alpha males", I hear that in the context of software, where alpha versions are unstable, missing important features, filled with flaws, and not fit for the public.

It took a while (mainly due to the huge quantity of data collected on some questions!), but the #StateOfHTML 2025 survey results are now live! 2025.stateofhtml.com/en-US/ Big thanks to @lea.verou.me who not only designed the original survey back in 2023, but then came back this year to update it.

Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.

WordPress wants to force AI onto 43% of all websites in the world no way to de-slop it, it’s totally Automattic www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEaB... - video pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251215-wor... - podcast time: 9 min 03 sec

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

Invoker commands and `hidden=until-found` just became Baseline newly available. 🎉

Safari has invokers! Firefox has Invokers. Chrome/Edge has invokers! Your html buttons can now open dialogs, dismiss popups and even custom actions. All without a single line of JS. What other browser engines are we now missing? *checks notes*, Servo, Ladybird, hrmmm.. was there another?

Besser kann man es nicht sagen: Staatliche Institutionen in Deutschland haben nichts auf X verloren. Bitte zeichnet die Petition von @campact.de: https://weact.campact.de/petitions/keine-macht-fur-oligarchen-bundesregierung-endlich-runter-von-x

CDU: nur Links zu Meta, Twitter, Tik Tok, YouTube auf der Homepage SPD: desgleichen Grüne: + BlueSky des Vorsitzenden Linke: + Telegram, Mastodon, BlueSky, Flickr Digitale Souveranität anyone?

Reminder that I'm still looking fulltime or contract work as a senior writer or narrative designer. If you need someone who can write sharp characters, poetic prose, and emotional stories, I'm available! You can find my portfolio here: www.hazelmonforton.com

I had a very sad, then uplifting moment in the train yesterday. You probably know that German trains do not run on time, well they also do not have good internet. So I sat in my train yesterday and could not ask Claude to implement a feature for me. Aaaaaaaah. Help.

Gecko: Intent to ship: CSS Anchor Positioning

It’s amazing how quickly the Go version of TypeScript was created. The key “trick” of the TS team was to port, not to rewrite: 2ality.com/2025/03/type...

Anyone know if a feature is in the works for declarative fetching of custom elements? The browser loads <my-element> only when it discovers it in the dom. Eliminate all the custom-built loaders with web standards. Maybe /w importmap 'my-element': 'http://' or /w new script attribute 'on-demand'?

Oh shit waddup

Kotlin kontra Java - Do we still need Kotlin in 2026?https://www.ittage.informatik-aktuell.de/programm/2025/kotlin-vs-java-braucht-man-2025-ueberhaupt-noch-kotlin.html

Compose Hot Reload is now stable. 🔥

> Programming is the act of turning an inexact description of something (the specification) into an exact description of the thing (the program) > --Joe Armstrong or: > The act of describing a program in unambiguous detail and the act of programming are one and the same. > [email protected]

Hilarious and terrifying: jailbreak LLMs using poetry "These findings demonstrate that stylistic variation alone can circumvent contemporary safety mechanisms, suggesting fundamental limitations in current alignment methods and evaluation protocols." arxiv.org/html/2511.15...

When the API is natural language, so are the exploits!

Waitaminute. Temporal went Stage 3 March 2021? Firefox is the only one to have implemented it (community patch methinks) and that was May 2025. I’m sorry, I love all the cool stuff the Chrome team is pushing (invokers ftw) but they are aware that jsdate.wtf exists right? And that it’s not a joke…

"Baseline doesn’t tell web developers if it is OK to use a feature that’s not Baseline yet, perhaps as a progressive enhancement, or by using a polyfill" Yes, exactly. I'm glad they are thinking about this. piccalil.li/blog/perfect...

The weird thing about augmented coding: we spent an annoying amount of time getting the genie to conform. A lot of focus is on our tooling and less on the actual business problem.

There are many goodies that are newly and widely available in Baseline. backdrop-filter is so much fun to work with and I am obsessed with AVIF images and the ability to animate from display: none with @starting-style. And how easy is it to lazy load images now? web.dev/articles/bas...

Running Java on iOS OpenJDK is now able to build and run on iOS (and Android) as a native binary, opening the way to run unmodified Java code on mobile. By Ben Evans Interest | Match | Feed

Be very wary of AI suggestions in (legacy) code. Don't offload your thinking. Suppose you have a legacy code base and you want to quickly understand what to focus on. An easy idea is to ask Claude: > What are the biggest issues of this codebase and in what priority should I fix them?

How Catastrophic Is It If the AI Bubble Bursts? An FAQ www.theringer.com/2025/11/04/t...

> GitHub no longer uses toasts because of their accessibility and usability issues. primer.style/accessibilit...

htmx is great

590 words today and I am happy with #NaNoWriMo. Been doing this for three days now and I am making progress. Actual progress. A very nice feeling. I'll post an update again when I reach a new milestone. :)

A long, but good, well researched and balanced article

I wrote up some notes on two new papers on prompt injection: Agents Rule of Two (from Meta AI) and The Attacker Moves Second (from Anthropic + OpenAI = DeepMind + others) simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/2/n...

Day two of #NaNoWriMo. 652 words... Tomorrow I'll try "eating the frog" early in the day, so to speak.

Day one of #NaNoWriMo. ~1300 words, a bit less the the average 1667 I need. It feels gps to have started though. Let’s see if I can increase the pace.

The next time someone tells you AI has resulted in massive job losses, share this article with them. "If the question is whether we are seeing widespread AI-driven displacement of roles across a range of sectors and countries, then the answer is no."