🦊 Wrote down some rambling thoughts on “AI”: as generational damage, on what repair might look like, and on asking what happens next. ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/all-to...

Hot take: AI is just a less cool version of Conky from Peewee's Playhouse.

For a recent project, I tried something different: running two themes side-by-side on the same #WordPress site using #ThemeSwitcher Pro. The unusual part is that both themes shared a single header. Read on to learn about the architecture and some "gotchas". carriedils.com/one-header-t...

So soothing...

We did a thing today: Sold our house in TX! 🤝 I’m sad to leave a truly amazing and supportive community of friends, but I’m also so freaking excited for a change of scenery (and weather). The mountains are calling!

I think this is my favorite episode so far. 💖

Brandi Carlile's new single coincides with the launch of a partnership between Carlile and the National Park Foundation—which she calls the nation’s most trusted way for people to support national parks—to raise critical funds to preserve and protect them. Fine song written with Aaron Dessner

Claude now says things to me like "Holler if you want...xyz" I feel seen.

Calendar invites are my love language.

Heads up maintainers of packages, this is a big deal: github.com/orgs/communi...

Umm, @ipstenu.org did you target my insta account with these ads?

Cool!

I changed out a leaky p-trap and now the house smells like an unrelenting fart.

I got an AlertMouse (kind of like a Google alert) of my name used in an article for self-employed folks. It was weird because…

A for sale sign went up in our yard today. Our Texas exodus is officially in the works.

🙌 Huge shout-out to @joedolson.bsky.social and @rianrietveld.bsky.social for supporting my efforts on this and pushing it over the finish line. Also, thank you ❤️ to InstaWP for donating the testing environments when we determined that using Playground wouldn't work. Read the official announcement:

Trump just sent letters to Congress claiming he doesn’t need authorization for the Iran war because there’s a ceasefire. The 60-day clock under the War Powers Resolution? He says it stopped when the shooting stopped. That’s not how the law works.

The pilot on my flight just made an A-Team pun: I love it when a plane comes together. I think I’m in good hands. ✈️

If you’ve been impacted by GitHub blips, here’s an interesting look at why.

Every time I see “iykyk” my brain goes “ick-yick” and I have to think harder than should be necessary to remember what it means

Happy Earth Day! 🌎

I got tired of Substack platforming Nazis, white supremacists, and convicted rapists, so I made a browser extension. Kill Yr Substack intercepts every Substack link and redirects it to `archive.is`. They never see your traffic. You still get to read the thing tho. jasoncosper.com/kill-yr-subs...

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Random question: who owns a portable or home steamer for clothes. I’m looking for a recommendation.

I launched my first side project using Claude Code. It’s a tool that lets you pull in your to-read list and searches BookOutlet (currently supports US and CA) for deals. bargainbookfinder.com

Targeted ads are the worst. WTF, Wayfair

Well, Claude's down. Guess I can't work today.

These compliments for 37 seconds of fart noises is the best thing I’ve ever read

“Our talent is our floor but our character is our ceiling.” - Coach Close in a court-side interview after #UCLA won the #NCAAW 🏀 championship

Dying to know what Gino said to Staley. At any rate, great win South Carolina! #WFinalFour

Claude spilled its guts.

So fun seeing Texas BTHO Michigan in person! Now I’m back in purple watching my Frogs take on South Carolina. 2nd back to back Elite Eight appearance for this program. Would so love to see them make it to their first Final Four. #GoFrogs #NCAAW #TCUWomensBasketball 🏀

I’m normally in purple but tonight I’m sporting some burnt orange to cheer on #ut women take on Michigan in the #ncaaw #EliteEight game. Let’s go horns! #HookEm

I’ve taken my relationship with Claude to the next level. Now I’m on the $100/mo plan. At the moment, I’m loving it for speeding the process of auditing large/complex/legacy WordPress builds that are “new” to me. I can do everything Claude is doing but Claude can do it infinitely faster.

It’s technically still Winter and there’s enough growth that I’ve cut the grass twice this week. 🙄

TIL, the `:dir()` CSS selector is adopted across all major browsers. No more hoping that `<html dir>` was set. What a time to be alive! 🎉 developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...

It’s been a long time since I gave internal and public talks about living documentation. I was quite obsessed with it then. Now many of those principles are starting to be common thanks to the AI adoption for software development dev.to/magnusrodset...

New episode of The MenoPosse Show 🎙️ Let’s talk about menopausal morning stiffies (not *those* ones). You know… when you wake up and everything hurts for no clear reason. What’s helped you loosen up in the mornings? We wanna know! 🎧 Listen here -> themenoposse.show/ep24/

Voters in two major Texas counties were turned away at polling locations and directed to different precincts Tuesday, after a recent change in how the primary is conducted created confusion and frustration.

TIL that flautas not only look like flutes, but is Spanish for flutes. 🤯 #TheMoreYouKnow

The FAIR Package Manager works. We proved the model. But engineering isn’t the hardest part. Adoption is. I wrote about the experience, what didn’t happen in #WordPress, and what’s next: carriedils.com/building-fai...

Thank you @kevinpowell.co for including a link to easingwizard.com in your newsletter. Not only is this a really helpful tool for building #CSS easing functions, but it's pretty and fun to play with. :)

Ever forward: fair.pm/blog/2026/02... #OpenSource

This is terrible. www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...

Over a half mill raised for The Advocates For Human Rights so far during the Brandi Carlile live stream. Minnesota 🫶🏼 #HumanTour #BrandiCarlile #MinnesotaStrong

Dear developers, Please respect the reduced-motion preferences of your users. I'm tired of your websites making me nauseous. Motion is fun until it makes your users sick. Here you go: developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...

What are y'all using for cloud backups of your hard drive these days? I've been using BackBlaze. I haven't had problems, but I've also never had to use it to restore. I've heard it can be problematic. What do you like/use?

I’m getting a new MacBook for the first time in the post-COVID era. I love the clean slate of a new machine and am not going for a full disk migration. That said, have any pro tips for the switchover?

New Alexa update: re-enables Follow Up mode (even though I previously had this disabled) and now treats background chatter as a formal invitation. Apparently “user settings” now means “helpful suggestions.” If this is progress, I’d like the version that understands consent. Alexa must go.