It's frustrating to to see political leaders in the EU undermine a recent no by the European Parliament to pursue a fever dream of mass surveillance. Opportunistic behaviour is incredibly toxic no matter if it's at local government, national government or EU level. And I see so much of it lately.

"The Chat Bots, with their sycophantic tone of voice, are deliberately engineered to erase our own personalities, hard work and craft entirely from the equation." This is brutal to read. And very relatable.

Great talk on the AI bubble, why it will probably pop, and what we can do about it. youtu.be/uWnUnMphmPM

My experience with agents is that it doesn't make my work "faster". In the end it costs roughly the same amount of time, if not longer But my role has shifted from "builder" to "sculptor", which is a completely different job. I hated it at the very beginning tbh, but I'm getting better at it slowly

I look at the temperatures all over Europe and realize that when your high is 34 C you live in a relatively cool area 😳 #ClimateCrisis

Hi everyone! Alongside my contributions to Skeleton, I operate as a freelancer. I've just learned my current contract will end suddenly this week, so I'm actively seeking new opportunities. If you or your team are hiring, you can find my details here: - endigodesign.com - Email: [email protected]

Recently, @pnpm.io v11.5.3 broke some of my deployments. In my post I explain the breaking change, why it was a good call by the PNPM team to mitigate yet another form of supply chain attack, and how I fixed my deployments. maier.tech/posts/why-pn...

Nobody has been getting more flak recently than @github.com for their continued outages. That's why I appreciate when they roll out small quality of life improvement like this little repository switcher.

Good humans, I wrote a book. Took me 10 yrs. Share it with anyone who wants to understand the minds they're designing for and the mind they're designing with. 40 chapters free to read. 📘 productdesignpsychology.com ❤️

If you are a Java backend developer, come work with me at ANP, the Dutch press agency, in The Hague. (fluency in Dutch required) www.anp.nl/vacatures/se...

Nobody has been getting more flak recently than @github.com for their continued outages. That's why I appreciate when they roll out small quality of life improvement like this little repository switcher.

First up: Fronteers Dark Mode in Dordrecht 🇳🇱 on October 2nd. With @cydstumpel.nl, @heydonworks.com, @csswizardry.com, @tunetheweb.com and @anjana.dev. And @jakearchibald.com as our MC. An amazing location and tickets only cost €99, and include dinner. Don't miss this! 🎟️ fronteersconf.org

We measured the LLM token cost of 5 frontend frameworks on identical components. Svelte wins, Angular costs 38% more — and your AI bill feels it. #webdevelopment

If you are a Java backend developer, come work with me at ANP, the Dutch press agency, in The Hague. (fluency in Dutch required) www.anp.nl/vacatures/se...

Double customer service anti-pattern: Step 1: Send me an unwanted customer satisfaction survey. Step 2: Tell me that my screen size is too small to see the unsubscribe page. It's wild what you can see in the wild.

That would give attackers time to use the vulnerability pnpm.io/blog/2026/06...

It looks like the latest @pnpm.io authentication settings changes have broken all my deploy pipelines both on GitHub and on Railway. I am all for hardening the dependency supply chain but I am also all for adding deprecation warnings while things are not broken yet. pnpm.io/npmrc

That's me uninstalling Cursor. www.bbc.com/news/article...

My go-to reply for combatting spam 😆😁

Drafted a collection of my current Svelte / SvelteKit essentials (skills, Oxlint, Knip, svelte-inspect-value, svelte-render-scan, dex etc) and links to my onboarding guide and the release / milestone chart. Mostly for myself / for work, but maybe helpful to to others. And I'm sure I forgot some.

I don't know how long this lasts, but OpenCode Go has temporarily increased MiniMax M3 usage limits. Great opportunity to test a non-mainstream LLM.

GitHub (or version control in general) may be the next legacy dev domino piece that will fall. @zed.dev is not the only company working on a replacement. Pierre (pierre.computer) is rethinking primitives and also working on a code storage solution.

There are two ways to resolve the cognitive dissonance of being on Twitter while also caring about all the awful shit happening because of Twitter 1. Leave Twitter 2. Stop caring Profoundly disappointing how many people I like seem to have chosen the latter

So, I'm trying OpenCode Zen with API pricing for my side project. I fire off a few short prompts with Zen/GPT-5.5 and it cost me 1.11$. For maybe 5 mins of coding. Which means a small feature that takes me 1 hour to build might cost me 10-15 $.

@zed.dev By default, the review diff can be sent to the last agent. But it starts a new conversation. Usually, I first want the agent to read the ticket into the context and then look at the diff. Is there a way to copy paste the branch diff into whatever agent session is currently open?

I asked my agent to give me a Svelte example for something it suggested. And it whipped up a Svelte playground and gave me the link to it. 😮

We’ve been working on a new site for Changesets with a lot of new docs! If changesets has been confusing before, hopefully some of these will help, or let us know what else could be improved. Check it out 👉 changesets.dev

"too much agentic coding led to code that smelled correct, but fell apart as soon as you started to build on it" An excellent article! Also a good reminder that the best time to start using Zed to develop software was yesterday. LLMs do a lot of typing for me, but very little of the "thinking".

I have moved to Zed 2 weeks ago. It was my third attempt to move away from VS Code. This time Zed clicked with me.

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It looks like selling AI code completion for an editor is not a great way to make money any longer.

His Holiness punches back hard 👊

PSA: Use @pnpm.io minimumReleaseAge. A simple way to make NPM supply chain attacks, like the one affecting the `axios` NPM package, more unlikely. maier.tech/notes/pnpm-m...

Not sharing the link but watched a YT video in which a known dev/creator normalized maintaining multiple 200$ per month AI subscriptions to get things done. The pressure is on to spend more than 10$ per month for AI 🤣

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If you have been wondering what agent skills are: this video is for you. Introduction to agent skills and I’m installing the official #svelte skills. youtu.be/YdULRvgNODg

I recently did a deep dive into European hosting alternatives to Big Tech players like Vercel and Cloudflare. I was excited to see many European players trying to take on their US counterparts. But is European hosting ready for your website? Find out in my video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbEY...

Sometimes, it's the smallest improvements that create the biggest excitement. maier.tech/notes/commen...

Uhm, @github.com, would you mind running some integration tests before updating your website?

New video coming to my YouTube channel on Monday. Subscribe to get notified when it's published: www.youtube.com/@maiertech

It's 2026 and Google happily sends out spam calendar invites with easy to catch fake invoice content and no option to report as spam 🤦‍♂️

Why is this still on the agenda? This has been democratically rejected only recently. Yet, European conservatives can't take a no for a no. Democracy is not a game in which you repeat a vote until you get the result you please.

SVG files are often the byproduct of vector-based graphic design. You design in some pro tool with proprietary file format and then export to SVG. The result is often a messy SVG file. This does not do justice to SVG. You can use SVG as your main design format. maier.tech/posts/svg-po...

The last time I installed a skill there was no lockfile. Now there is. Skills are now managed dependencies, which is wild. maier.tech/notes/a-lock...

One nugget in this episode was @wesbos.com saying that whoever will make the handoff between local and remote agents seamless (in both directions) will be the winner in this market. Once more, it's not AI but the tooling around that makes or breaks the experience. www.youtube.com/watch?v=S916...

In my latest video I'm trying to answer the question how feasible it is to move web applications to European hosting providers. Lot's of promising options but can they match what US Big Tech has to offer? youtu.be/BbEYnN-1c5Q

Europe is pushing back against its dependence on US Big Tech. But how realistic is it to actually host a web application with a European provider in 2026? I try to answer this question in a deep dive: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbEY...

Handy to have a shiny new dashboard that helps me navigate to the changelog of an NPM package super fast. Well done, @npmx.dev 👏

New blog post ✍️ How to track page visits in SvelteKit - without any external analytics provider scriptraccoon.dev/blog/track-p...

Dipping my toe in the waters of agent skills. The idea is to unclutter your context and let the agent decide when to pull more advanced stuff into the context. @vercel.com put together a site to discover skills: skills.sh Yet to be seen if skills improve my perceived agent experience.