don't use discord, twitter, bluesky, or any other social media exclusively to update your customers of anything... the updates should always *at least* be available on your website. no one should be required to accept another company's TOS because you're lazy

LMAAAAAO

SOUND THE MARMITE KLAXON!

This Hackernoon post is from 2016. And yet, the experience today in 2026 is largely the same - albeit, now with added NPM supply chain attacks. The names have changed but the overwrought complexity is still there. hackernoon.com/how-it-feels...

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed throughout this commencement speech at the University of Arizona for his praise of AI. This comes just a week after another commencement speaker who mentioned AI was booed at a school in Florida. Read more: www.404media.co/ucf-ai-comme...

Shocked and ashamed that only 8,000 non-Māori have so far chosen to be part of history by adding their name to the Claim that Tania's talking about. Deadline is Monday. "Worse than the Treaty Principles Bill!" @taniawaikatolawyer.bsky.social #ToitūTeTiriti #nzpol 📝 forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

I reckon if any immigrant could answer these, they’d be more “kiwi” than many.

This is some dark pattern stuff. The “important information” was to tell me there was a bunch of content I was missing on Neon because I’m no longer subscribed.

What if you think of your LLM as a proxy crowd-sourcer playing Family Fortunes? It makes a _lot_ more sense. You ask: > How can I get this image to sit in the middle of the page as I scroll? Claude's training data says: > We asked 100 web developers how they would centre an image...

npm needs to change their logo

why would i want to watch a podcast. podcasts are for when you are doing something else

I still love the theory a Year 6 child proposed to me that David Attenborough is actually God and he got fed up with people not noticing the amazing things he'd created, so he made documentaries to show off.

Sound the enshittification klaxon!

Just had a new garage built and now I’m thinking of putting a home lab in it. What have I become?

I want David Seymour to bullet point what “New Zealand values and the Kiwi character” look like. Because I’m a multi-generational Kiwi and I couldn’t define it. I’m pretty certain he can’t either.

Man, the TVNZ app is a hot mess.

I gave this a go today and VS Code really is pretty great with ReSharper. #vscode #jetbrains #resharper

Introducing Tab Snitch Liven up your screenshots and make co-workers uncomfortable with errant open tabs. tab.wesbos.com

here come old laptop he come bootin up slowly he got broken touchpad he need one more update he got no space on this pc one thing i can tell you its got no warranty

I really like DbUp for managing database migrations because it's simple and just works. I've long wished there was a simple way to apply configuration migrations in Azure App Configuration. Now there is! AcUp. github.com/robodobdob/A...

A few days after disabling “character preview” on my iOS keyboard and the experience is night and day better. #ios

Saw this tip on Reddit for fixing the accuracy of iOS keyboard and it seems to really work. Turn off “character preview”.

I’d like to formally announce that I am pivoting to AI. Now, show me the money!

A while ago I blogged about HTMX and modals. This is the second in what I plan will be a series of patterns and practices for HTMX. First up, how to add theme switching to your HTMX applications. #htmx #web #css #solvingwithhtmx dev.to/robodobdob/s...

Wait… what were they doing before?

I feel like Spotify is symptomatic of a common SaaS disease of conflicting priorities. One team builds X to keep "adding value" while another team fixes Y bug to satisfy existing users. But it's all trampled on by Z cooked up by some vibe-coding on the morning commute.

TradeMe are using the email address of buyers as the Reply To address on emails they send. I kinda get why they’ve done it but at first glance it looks unintentionally scammy.

TradeMe: we’ve dropped sellers fees! Also TradeMe: you now have to use Ping which clips the ticket. Oh, and the buyer now pays too.

very happy to announce htmx 4.0 beta 1 is available: github.com/bigskysoftwa... Mostly polish but include the htmax.js distribution, with some of the most useful core extensions: hx-sse, hx-ws, hx-preload, hx-browser-indicator, hx-download, hx-optimistic, hx-targets enjoy!

In what is fast becoming an Easter tradition in our household, we watched the Jesus Christ Superstar film - the one filmed in the desert. Not gonna lie, it’s growing on me.

So, by pure dumb chance, Trump is inadvertently helping the world’s governments prepare for a time where oil is no longer in large supply. www.cnbc.com/2026/03/24/i...

On a whim, I paired Vogel extra thick fruit toast with Barkers lemon curd. I have achieved nirvana.

CSS nesting is now Baseline 🎉 Write nested selectors directly in CSS — just like Sass, but natively. .card { color: black; &:hover { color: blue; } .title { font-weight: bold; } } No preprocessor needed. Learn more 👇 developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/...

What is Jason Walls’ accent? It’s NZ mixed with something else we can’t place.

Let it be known that at 8:14am on this day, my wife said I was right about something.

Every single day, Spotify just gets less and less stable.

They canceled the ferries which would have given us better ferries. They canceled Three Waters which would have given us better water. They canceled the centralisation of Health NZ which would have given us better healthcare. I’m starting to think they haven’t got a clue what they’re doing…

Do they mean gas or petrol because they are two different things.

A 20% increase in cost from following a best practice seems like a big deal > Meanwhile, the context files increase the # steps in every setting on average by 2.45 and 3.92 steps, respectively, which leads to a cost increase of 20% and 23% on average, respectively

What do they say about the definition of madness?

Seven Sharp is just advertising in human interest clothing. This evening’s puff piece on the old dears who met at school, was clearly an Arvida advertorial. B-roll of the grounds and the conspicuous logo sign on the wall in camera shot.

We’ve got a government rationing dialysis to afford tax cuts for the rich. A comprehensive school lunch program is going to be so far away, you’d need the James Webb telescope to see it.

I will believe Microsoft has moved to a full agent based coding style with insane claimed productivity if they fix .NET Hot Reload and dotnet watch overnight.

$170 for a basic ticket to Split Enz. That’s gonna be a no from me.

To my mind, everybody who works for OpenAI is complicit. Sorry. People with AI skills at that level are not the ones having a hard time finding jobs. 7/7

Hey @masnick.com - Please tell me you've seen this. 🤣🤣🤣 youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up...

I think more devs should read this - especially the AI skeptics. htmx.org/essays/yes-a...

Pakistan warplanes bomb Kabul; Islamabad declares ‘open war’ on Afghanistan https://aje.news/aozifo