GLSL Web CRT Shader I’m releasing my GLSL Web CRT Shader as open source. blog.gingerbeardman.com/2026/01/04/g... Have fun with it! 😎

After reading this I gave exe.dev a shot and the combination of cheap VMs, the HTTPS proxy with passkey auth and link sharing, and the built-in LLM agent is... incredible. Like, I know how to use each of these things individually, but combining them feels like when I first learned to script things.

ssh tiny.christmas a global christmas carol in the terminal :)

My Ubuntu Summit talk is up! Where I talk about: 1. How Desktop UX is effectively dead 2. Why I hate the term UX/UI with the heat of 1000 suns 3. How OSS can actually innovate in #ux www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fZT...

New zoom warning. Because you can't zoom out once your "scale" gets to "NaN". #automat #gamedev #motiondesign

The fact that coding agents need a lot of context to work well and chew through 10x the number of tokens (compared to regular chat) should be concrete evidence to non-coders that programmers have to hold a lot of context in their heads to be effective on production code bases.

last week i remembered that macOS lets you set your own icons and that *I* have the power to delegitimize the professionalism of the software that runs on my machine, so here's a thread of the 16 new icons i've made so far i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')

One of the best, up for air!

What publications offer PDF subscription? The web has gotten so bad over the past decade. PDF seems like the perfect media. To work around screen-size issues, just publish (generate) three sizes: A7 “pocket”, A5 “book”, A4 “magazine”

Surprise! I made the built-in game for @perplexitycomet.bsky.social it was so much fun working with such a dream team at Perplexity.

Today's newsletter: - a game for you to try! - a sappy interlude! - too many sports metaphors! - too many exclamation marks! (as usual!) buttondown.com/ashsmash/arc...

WIP

Sometimes I play with the idea of starting a company which makes really nice electronics that feels as little “tech” as possible. Ie where the user only have to interface with “tech” when absolutely necessary.

🐸 my froggy desk setup is my pride and joy 🐸 ✿ frog computer by me ✿ kerokerokeys keycaps by me (available at bubblesort.io) ✿ kerokerokeys deskmat by @mogumu.bsky.social ✿ frog chair by byalicelee.com ✿ frog planter is a collab with alice lee ✿ frog hoodie by @maobabie.com

So good!

amtrak’s marketing team gets it

When an eel bites your thigh and you’re ready to cry that’s a moray

The Phillips TV Test Screen, and what each section means. Images from Wiki

New longform @inkandswitch.com essay! 📜 Malleable Software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps by me, @joshuahhh.com, @pvh.ca and @seaofclouds.com inkandswitch.com/essay/mallea... It's about why people need agency over their software tools, and how to make that happen.

The talks from Day One have been published. To kick off the conference, @rsms.me is talking about Playbit Sync. youtu.be/KMcmMm8v5_E?...

Blippo was handmade with vintage analog broadcast equipment, and it features an intergenerational cast of over 100 actors, comedians, performers, and artists. As an MST3K kid, I am constitutionally optimized for hijinks of this sort. It's pure, undiluted creativity. It's Hundreds of Beavers ❤️

@akkartik.name This is so cool! akkartik.name/freewheeling...

Fixed

“If a system is to serve the creative spirit, it must be entirely comprehensible to a single individual.” https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/smalltalk.html

A 'Thomasson' is an architectural relic which is useless yet still maintained. www.instagram.com/explore/sear... www.reddit.com/r/Thomassons/ hyperartthomasson.tumblr.com

A blog of microchips boiled in acid. zeptobars.com You’re welcome.

"Local-first OS" Seph Gentle @seph.bsky.social with an incredible talk on how we should create an ecosystem that breaks down data silos via a local first operating system.

“In the Who Cares Era, the most radical thing you can do is care”

Rasmus Andersson @rsms.me gave an awesome key note introducing Playbit - a new operating system & development environment which encourages playful learning, building & sharing of local-first software on a personal scale.

I want to like the Bluesky iOS app but wow it’s a bit janky. If I launch it at a moment when I have no internet connection, it logs me out (lol what) and there are these little details that subconsciously makes it feel like a web app. I can’t quite spot what it is…

Do I have any georgian friends here? I need a native eye for my first georgian alphabet design:

Important reminder that Sandwich Week commences today www.instagram.com/virgin_honey/

This is interesting — a recent study of mode share (the % share of transportation trips by car, transit, walking, biking etc) relative to city size and income levels in almost 800 cities in 61 countries. Interesting results. HT @davidzipper.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Happy Mother’s Day to all the techie moms out there. And thanks to my mom for letting me install StarCraft on her HP running Windows 98. I dragged that desktop to my first LAN party.

My iPhone screen time daily average is down to two hours a day over the last few months. About 1:30 if I exclude playing music. I used to use my iPhone a lot. Interesting how it changed.

What is the lifespan of software? What if you make software that's silly and full of whimsy? Will people remember it? Anyway, here's a video someone recently posted of “Good Luck, Babe!” by Chappell Roan performed through the composer feature in Mario Paint, a game released on Super Nintendo in 1992

Fun interview with @jackrusher.com on creativity & programming thecreativeindependent.com/people/multi...

Incredible work by Jonathan Alland, keeping Mac OS X alive jonathanalland.com/old-osx-proj...

Why I launched a new, different kind of survey: dev.to/sachagreif/l... (take the survey here! survey.devographics.com/en-US/survey... )

Original: youtu.be/O7BrA6mvvPk?...

Banger of a tune (h/t @matt.godbolt.org) www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaif... but I have bad news.... ....it's a scanner.

If you like both the EU and typography, you’ll be interested to know the Commission’s sprawling website is this week starting to move our typography to Inter by @rsms.me. It’s all still work in progress but I already love the look. Check it out ➡️ commission.europa.eu/priorities-2...

Our new research track is called Universal Version Control and it's about exploring how to bring the power of version control to every person, on every kind of document and every kind of collaboration. www.inkandswitch.com/universal-ve...

Good “off by one” joke in bluesky today ( ◠‿◠ )

I’ve announced my departure from Evil Martians. I can’t express how grateful I am for 11 incredible years ❤️ But I’m excited for the next adventure. I’m open to roles in product ownership, design engineering, or design leadership. Let’s chat if something comes to mind!

Some relaxing photos. First up: Ocean Beach, SF

Orion has made a bunch of progress on various methods to create P2P connections that can be dropped into any web page! 👀

Czech record company Supraphon had some remarkably good sleeve graphics. Enjoy many more www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/s... Founded in 1969, still running today.

We're hiring an Office & Operations Assistant! It's a full-time, onsite role in Brooklyn with good benefits, great colleagues, and positive impact. Please retweet and share with anyone you think might be a fit! recurse.notion.site/Office-Opera...

i've been sick lately but i made some inefficient (non-derogatory) updates to my homepage like inlining my js on the front page and converting my author photo into a high density ascii composition ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ellesho.me/page/ read about it in my blog post: ellesho.me/page/website...