Taking inspiration from @carter.rabasa.com and preparing an annual letter to people I want to keep in my life

Every day feels like a small triumph. I have finally reached a space where I am happy and can decide what challenges to take on. Wish me luck! And if you need an assist figuring yours out, my DMs are open :)

"Waiting for agents to finish" is the new "waiting for code to compile"

I cancelled my Audible membership today because it turns out I can get all the same books through my Spotify membership. I love seeing these two compete. I rarely re-listened books so Spotify's subscription makes most sense for me

Spent NYE watching Money Ball and Margin Short. Here's to a 2026! May we all be foxes among wolves

Why, PostHog, did you put these feedback buttons into unstylable shadow DOM elements without offering a way to modify the colors?

Fuck productivity culture

I am a big believer that it's the things you decline to do that impact your future most, like rose buds nipped so another can bloom bigger. This year I declined to write a book on AI. Instead I began publishing to a blog (agenticweb.nearestnabors.com). Less commitment, more visible

A dev rel's guide to the different lengths of technical video/audio content and when people really use them: The super official and only mildly serious thread!

Can someone please make a minimal agent orchestration framework and just name it "Vanilla"? That namespace is just waiting for pollution (hey, OpenAI took "open" and "GPT"!)

Psst. You coding on all that extra Claude Code juice? I got a playlist for you.. open.spotify.com/playlist/1WK...

As part of parting with productivity theatre, I'm not doing a resolution this year. This post captures some things I've been thinking about, about the culmination of fantasy and the reality of choices substack.com/@museguided/...

Maison Ghibli recon mission: SUCCEED

I've been referring to the Luddite movement and the cruelty of Victorian workhouses throughout every Christmas Carol performance I've endured this holiday season. Folks, we've been here. If you read one doomsday AI missive for New Year's, choose this one: open.substack.com/pub/davefrie...

This smells like an LLM wrote it. "Repeats nice sounding comparisons without quoting any real people" and "salesman trying to get me to buy into something" are smells. thenewstack.io/web-componen...

Happy Christmas from your Nabors to all who celebrate 🥂

If you're hacking this holiday, check out these examples from Arcade I just pushed: docs.arcade.dev/en/home/exam... (Arcade is like Clerk for Agents)

Me on the train to family, wondering how AI IDEs change conventional debugging wisdom

I know a pretty awesome team hiring for infra eng in SF/NYC. DM if you're curious

This year we went to a cabaret instead of a pantomime: Nutcracker Noir

Sending out all my 2026 CFPs today. I have two talks covering serverside and clientside UX, may the best one win: - The Anti-Social Agent: A Case Study in MCP Auth and UI - The Headless Web Where would you like to see them?

I swear, if Claude Code didn't have me, it would just fall apart on the job.

My Christmas present to myself this year is an emergency trip to the ergonomic desk chair shop. I was using a Herman Miller chair at Arcade.dev for a week, and my back pain disappeared! Now it's back. I must go do the thing.

I used to have event FOMO. Now I have career FOMO. What's next, retirement FOMO?

When I go back and look at react.dev now, after having shipped a half dozen more developer education portals since launch, it feels half-finished

Things to keep you up at night: As a founder raising, interested parties will commission investigations into you that include paying ex-employees to share their experiences under your leadership. Get a coach. Don't wing this stuff. It's not the same as managing.

The holiday party invite said "wear something shiny," but I didn't have anything colorful

I'm not an investment banker or a venture scout, but I do keep a spreadsheet of companies I'm watching to validate my hypotheses about how the web and apps will change with agent adoption

need this in my life, manifesting

MCP Night in SF is happening now!

Sparkles in SF ✨

Waymo is surreal AF. Got my own personal rave here

Travel hack: a hotel bar can be a makeshift coworking space, even if you aren't staying in the hotel! It is like a cafe, but you won't be inconveniencing anyone for sticking around for quite some time. They are used to travelers lingering!

Tea up!

I've committed to giving a talk about "the headless web" which means I'll have built a social network built on MCP servers by June

I'm holding court at some tea houses in SF this weekend. Ping me for deets!

Still here ♥️ And by here, I mean in the Bay for a week

Back in the Bay, my fellow nerds

Me 20 years into a career that evolved from frontend eng to browser and framework development: "I don't know if I've still got it." Me after 1 week with Claude Code: "Yep, I've still got it."

Dec 3-11 only, for a limited time! I'm heading to SF for a week on Wednesday for work. Want to get matcha and talk agents and the future of social networks and browsers?

It was my life's dream to visit Jurassic World! Unfortunately, our anniversary surprise turned nightmare when there was a power failure during unplanned maintenance

New bevvy of web.dev resources en-route. I hope you like progressive enhancement and local models.

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen: NIN ALT BLK ERA Massive Attack Chemical Brothers Ladytron

the rally cry of a generation

I said I wasn't going to spend a lot of time making it pretty, but I did. AI for alt text generation and comment moderation! github.com/nearestnabor...

I feel like I'm telling Claude Code to use a lot of JS best practices it should "just know" in review (like stop sticking every global function on the window object!) How do you bring yours up to speed fast?

Who says you can't make fun 'lil web demos with AI like "in the old days?" I'm having a blast carving this demo into something cool :)

Rachel Reeves is billing the #Budget2025 as the long overdue tax rise on the rich — yet Spears Magazine, the glossy read “for ultra high net worths & their advisers”, is celebrating how little impact it’ll have. 🧵So what's spin and what's really in the Budget? 👇 1/13

These are not the numbers you are looking for. 'The provisional figures show 70,000 more EU nationals left than arrived, while 109,000 more British nationals left than arrived.' www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...

Reminder to add TOKYO GODFATHERS to your Christmas movie watchlist this season! Grateful to have given (English, dubbed) voice to the trans anime icon, our beloved Hana, in this Satoshi Kon holiday classic from @gkids.com! Watch it for free on Tubi or rent it on AppleTV!