Hey Anthropic when I paste an URL at a specific place in my text, do not then assume that should end up at the end of the entire text input. Absolutely infuriating.

Listening to Erik Bernhardsson, founder of Modal, simplifying software development into increasingly larger, and longer, nested feedback loops. Then using this as a point to lead us into his rabbit hole exploration of wanting to get the local development loop, but remotely, without compromising.

To who thought of this new UI/UX paradigm of being forced to step through a bunch of questions after downloading an app, or signing up with email, only to when done with clicking through several pages of non-skippable forms, throw a payment modal with a trial in the face of the user: Fuck you.

Hey @steveklabnik.com just noticed the updated website! And with a new suave logo at that, gave me a rama.works vibe - which is a really good thing! Just a kudos!

Read on a blog entry just now: ”… responsible for spawning and reaping children to handle connections and parallel workers, amongst other things.” I mean I get it, in the context of the post of course it makes sense. But uh, it just reads wrong to me.

So uh, is Europe ever going to step up and admit to the fact that a lot of our critical technological infrastructure is more or less contingent on a handful of very large, very American corporations?

I never real my spam/junk mail, it’s just incinerated at a completely arbitrary interval. I wonder how many actual interesting or genuinely useful emails have been lost to the ether.

All I want to do is have indefinite amounts of time to play with my daughter, hang out with my wife, fiddle with electronics, build more computers, program, redesign the kitchen, work out, cook wonderful food, make tremendous coffee - oh and travel andandandandand… Is that really too much to ask?

Taking my time listening to @oxide.computer’s excellent On the Metal podcast and am thoroughly enjoying myself. Currently on the episode with Ken Shrirriff (whom I secretly wish had the nickname ”the sheriff”) and Bryan mentions a video in which Ken mines bitcoin, by hand. Surely a joke I thought.

Oh dear me this is such an absolute treat. @samwho.dev you gorging on this yet? I sure am. 🤓

Well. It’s seems the fairytale is drawing towards an end.

For You-feed is down. I feel empty inside.

“Writing is an intimate transaction between two people, conducted on paper, and it will go well to the extent that it retains its humanity.” — On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction by William Zinsser

After almost 10 years, one of, if not the single most important library for web development has released its next stable version. This made me feel ancient and nostalgic at the same time. Good on you jQuery.

Attempting to wrap my head around me having to think about landing into my 40s by actively working on some emotional reflection, and for lack of a better phrase: ”cognitive reframing”.

This is like aloe vera in my eyeballs and on my brain. @samwho.dev I’m sure you noticed this already but it made me think of you.

Do I need a logic analyzer? Now Do I want one? Yes. Do I want the ”best” one? Yes of course I do. I’m such a guy. 🤦🏻‍♂️

Cannot wait to sink into this and procrastinate anything else I told myself I would get done.

FPGAs sounds like black magic, feels like black magic, and turns out - totally is black magic. 🪄

Preach! If we could kill this pattern and defaulting to using modals to solve contextual UI the world would be a slightly better place, at least in terms of UX.

After 15 years as a working professional - I have finally invested in a proper standup desk. I am very pleased so far. Now I need recommendations for good quality monitor arms, microphone arms, and camera boom arms, preferably in some nice system that allows for adding lighting as well.

-15 Celsius (5 Fahrenheit) this morning. What the hell?

Luke-warm boomer take of 2026: I still don’t particularly like how Tailwind makes my markup look. It feels a bit like inlined styles. There’s also something to be said for beautiful, semantic, handcrafted markup and classnames. But, I am getting gray hairs so am undoubtedly set in my ways.

Back at after the holidays. Nothing has changed, yet somehow everything has. Oh and what was super-ultra prioritized before the end of the year? Surprise, it’s not that urgent.

”Reduced to its essentials, a computer is a synthesis of Boolean algebra and electricity.” – Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software, Charles Petzold

So uh. Is anyone actually human on LinkedIn anymore? It’s wild reading what constitutes as ”commentary” on there.

One of my wishes for 2026 is for good writing to stop being on Substack. Seriously authors, own your content and run a basic blog somewhere else.

@thdxr.com opencode is really freaking neat! Any plans for a ”native” app? The web UI on mobile leaves a bit to be desired at the moment. Forgive the ignorance if you’re already planning this somewhere 😅. Not sure what happened to github.com/slopus/happy but they had a nice idea going.

Why is it that the iOS BlueSky app still can’t: - Handle video properly - Save scroll position

Please. Stop. Making. The Tin-Tin ”Captain, It’s only January!” joke. It’s not funny, it never was. You can do better.

This, I’ve used it in two relatively large projects to date. One helped identify a serious performance issue when it comes to barrel important and circular references. Other one where it helped cleaning up code rot in a neglected frontend. I enjoy removing code, therefore I enjoy Knip.

Happy New year and whatever. Now, drop whatever you are doing and marvel at the engineering of this machine:

In case you missed it - The Art of Dithering and Retro Shading for the Web by @maxime.bsky.social. This post goes so hard it's not even funny.

My brain hurts.

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Every year, we end up overdoing it for the holidays. ”Let’s just make something small and easy. No need for a full spread.” *Cooks a 4,7kg turkey with trimmings.*

I don’t need a framework desktop. I don’t need a framework desktop. *hits mediation bell*

Amos is a force of nature, and this article just made me smile throughout. Hoarding private syntax grammars made me imagine him as a connoisseur, browsing through shelves of printed grammars in LP-like sleeves.

Brilliant.

Don’t know what happened. But I don’t game anymore, not even on my phone to pass the time. I don’t take the time, don’t play with anyone. Not sure why that is. But I don’t like it.

I dream of making my own electronics lab at home. I feel like this is a hobby that would go well with graying hairs and isn’t another white dude picking up wood working. Incidentally, I could finally justify all the purchases I want to make for gear.

Even with good git usage, you still end up on occasion having to wrangle your way out of a lot of mess. Small, contained PRs for the win. Atomic commits for the epic win. To the engineers out there who don’t care about your commit messages, I don’t understand how you do it?

Oh yes. Back at it today - feeling really good. Healthy, rested and motivated.

Games, home computer, dial-up, building your own PC and LAN-parties were staples of my childhood. But I was never one of those kids that knew that this was going to be my field of study and a career. That came much later. Unfortunately.

Shared in a private discord channel by an old colleague. I personally abhor the look of Liquid Glass, but this post is insane.

This brightened up my day. Love a good bug hunt.

Tonsillitis. Again, 40+ degrees Celsius fever. Again. Feeling sorry for myself. Again.

To whomever is working at @cloudflare.social and is scrambling right now – remember to breathe.

I know I’m a massive fan boy and can’t shut up about @oxide.computer buuuut, you should really, really watch this talk by Bryan. It’s tremendous. ”Abstractions allow us to build software systems that do sophisticated things; they are the shoulders we stand upon - and provide to others”

To all the single parents out there - I don’t understand how you do it. You’re legends. That is all.