two fish -- not species, two actual fish -- were found in the Cuyahoga back then. today, we have 70+ SPECIES in our river.

Hey everyone! I'm back from the rapture and it was cool and all, but there was a gnarly pay wall after the first 30 minutes.

Frameworkists are eager to tell you about the name-brand tech they're using on the project, then put a Miele oven in the bathroom. Do not be a frameworkist. Do not _hire_ frameworkists. Be someone who is agnostic to tools but laser focused on goals. infrequently.org/2024/11/if-n...

I’m Not a Robot, a game about solving CAPTCHAs, is out now! good luck :) > neal.fun/not-a-robot/

It’s funny seeing all the right wing talking heads try and condemn violence, only to be reposted with screenshots of their own calls to violence. Your ethos means nothing if your praxis contradicts it.

🥵 bugsrock.online/shop

In the endless onslaught of terrible news I’d like to share something I'm proud of my state for! My dad always pointed out nests to me growing up.

Tom Clancy’s Definitive Guide to CSS

I'll tap the sign again.

I got into tech because it’s fun to take things apart, see how they work, and put them back together — or rearrange the parts into something brand new. it definitely feels like the new ethos is “bro why bother to learn? caring about that stuff is cringe, just go FAST bro” and that bums me out

“My family vacation was ruined because I saw a homeless person” Grow up. Why are you afraid of everything? What happened to being a man?

One of the most powerful tools in my toolbox is SVG. When combined with CSS and JavaScript, we can do some truly remarkable things. ✨ 📝 I’ve just published a brand-new blog post that covers the most critical fundamentals. It’s chock full of interactive demos. 😄 Check it out:

daydreaming about the studio arditi prismar lamp. another astonishing day wading through 1stDibs; the thrills and chills of vintage italian designer lighting

This industry gives me a headache sometimes.

Every time someone in a conversation whips out ChatGPT to explore a thought it sends me down a spiral of why can't we just use our own brains. This shit is driving me crazy!!!

Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

More of this from Democrats, please. Education is a winning issue for Democrats as long as we fight for public schools.

enjoy this new problem

Ok, I've had whiskey and my flight is delayed, so... time for some unadvised unadulterated software eng and management advice (thread)

Sure. Let's take everything we know about how learning works and what learners need to thrive, and say "fuck it" because the most famous edtech charlatan think chatbots are super neat

I think this pretty much destroys the "no experience" narrative

Stop Saying Democratize When You Mean Dumb Down! Ever notice how every new tech tool promises to "democratize" something? Is making our tools simpler really a kind of liberation, or a new form of control? blog.nordcraft.com/stop-saying-...

Exhausted and cant sleep might just be the worst combo

the jolt of lightning i felt realizing China has independently invented Louisiana from first principles

anyways please watch this edit that sent me into hysterics and now I need to redo my makeup

The bleach community (no, not the anime, but literal bleach) is really, really happy for RFK Jr. to be in a position of power. They think he can make their dreams of using toxic bleach as a solution to treat everything—from cancer to autism—come true. wrd.cm/3TnpMzb

“Platform economies have collapsed the distance between self-expression and market participation” what a great quote by @kyla.bsky.social from her newsletter

"I wondered why there wasn't a centralized DOGE software engineering playbook with all of our learnings; overall, I was surprised by the lack of knowledge-sharing within DOGE. It seemed like every engineer started from scratch." THEY LITERALLY DELETED THE 18F WEBSITE

If you replace KPI with “secret sauce” the corporate cringe factor is solved

Layered — Visual study

✨ In my upcoming animations course, we build an intuition for Bézier curves with a mini-game: your job is to get your green ball to have the same easing as the pink ball, by dragging and adjusting the curve:

i'm losing it

Automakers should start publishing their charging curves. Don’t make me have to learn the vehicle I’m so tired just tell me

The problem with most machine-based random number generators is that they’re not TRULY random, so if you need genuine randomness it is sometimes necessary to link your code to an external random process like a physical noise source or the current rate of US tariffs on a given country.

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

Basil and I looking at the markets today

Does T-Dawg know how to play rock paper scissors? I would not be surprised if he doesn’t.

A strange glimmer of hope for people: I have family members who used to be Republican, but are not MAGA, hate Trump. They love AOC. “She tells it like it is. She has a backbone” Turns out that no, we don’t have to bend to them. As most of us thought, we need courage in leadership.

I baked a cake

T-Dawg needs to go golfing and stop fucking the markets

✎ Like all of us, I've had countless conversations over the past few months about The Situation. I'm sharing my thoughts as a series of essays, starting with Part 1: The Shitball bradfrost.com/blog/post/pa...

Reminder: if you predicted half the things happening now (threatening to take Canada, Greenland, and the Panama Canal; lawless mass firings; complete defiance of Congressional prerogatives; mass pardons of violent supporters) even a couple of years ago, Serious Thinkers would have dismissed you. /1

Doctors will say that this is ADHD, I say that this is magical whimsy.

That @miriam.codes shared why being “in tech” in 2025 is depressing, and if we’re going to stick around, we need to remember why we’re here. This all resonates with me so much and I want to basically quote the whole article. Worth your time: www.miriamsuzanne.com/2025/02/12/t...

This seems super cool!

This is so sad to hear. The Ukrainian population is amazing in Cleveland. The only reason they should leave is when it’s safe to go back to their homeland. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...