Castlerigg Stones on Ilford XP2, 6x9"

come hang out with my and my lovely friends and watch some of my lovely intelligent friends say insightful and funny things :)

we need to bring back typos

thPugh nice one apple

the wifi must not be working is the funniest excuse i’ve ever heard for AI oh my goodness my sides. yeah buddy, sure, the dog ate my homework too.

like we can just say stuff, who cares

I got some really lovely birthday emails. I will reply to each one individually. Getting letters is the best. Honestly. Send emails. Send letters. Send thoughts directly from your brain to another. Email is the future.

nothing reminds me of the impermanence of life quite like the end of peach season

kids have also seen other kids getting blown up in gaza by the way

i think it's finally time to admit the truth. to look in the mirror and face the reality of the situation and who i am. i will never be a Reader of Articles and i will never get around to "catching up"

icymi i’ve the honor of speaking about personal websites at this year’s @webdevconf.com. the lineup is full of utter heavyweights, titans of the industry, and i hope you’ll join us. get tickets at webdevconf.com :)

great news folks, i got a new job off bluesky!! super excited to start as the latest on Maggie’s team as a Sr Frontend Engineer at Istari ◡̈

“I am here to be rude, because this is a rude technology, and it deserves a rude response.” anthonymoser.github.io/writing/a…

great news, co-star…

“with our new computer, you can care less for your craft and more for your production” have you ever tried a road not on your trip because it curves beguilingly up into the forest. are electric summer nights just the lull between tired days of labor? do you quantify your reading by its page count?

we have lost ideology. even our great politicians are merely capitalists and proto- or proper fascists, grasping at power and taking it from whomever they may. they believe in nothing because their locomotion comes not from a brave inspired heart but from a fastidious, unceasing pursuit of capital

we have at some point broken the process of self-examination that lets us establish in ourselves a system of morals and principles and modes, ideals from which we will move; and in the vacuum there is a frantic grasping at capital, because we learn instead that capital is purpose & survival.

if you're starting a sentence with "ethics aside" then: 1. don't type the rest 2. turn off your device 3. never Log On again

whoever did this, I would be absolutely thrilled to buy you a drink. seriously - dm or find me, I'm the only Cyd Harrell on the internet. I'm good for an excellent beverage & a civic tech rage session. americabydesign.fail

humans sealed our fate when we started working with computers to design languages more and more like our own. the computers learned our grammar, our vocabulary, yes. but they learned our rhetoric, the malleability of meaning. we gave the machines our words, and they used them to lie.

i don't really have the emotional bandwidth to engage with this right now so i'm just going to say that we don't have to put up with this as a society. if the rules don't let us make it illegal, we can change the rules. this should not exist.

I’ll take “Things Dictators say” for $500 please Alex

ur LLM when you ask it to write CSS

a web that isn't human-first is a web I want nothing to do with. I'm not going to "optimize the graph" of assertions, or whatever. I'm not a content farm for your algorithm. i'm here to build real relationships with real people - and if that's not what the web is for anymore, I'll be somewhere else.

men don’t need to learn to attract women new ways, we need to set ourself to the agonizing task of Fixing Our Hearts, which is an hourly & unending undertaking, and the most honorable one we can face. we need to love the art of self-repair more than we love the convenience of self-soothing

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i think it might be time to retire the instagram bio of many many years. how do we feel about “casual pursuer of adventurous things” as a tag line? ☼

trust me bro just one more gpu

wrote about how social media kills sex for @readlux.bsky.social lux-magazine.com/article/priv...

I still think this is one of the best things I've written on the topic, and I don't say "women" once. dev.to/abbeyperini/...

You can now watch a video essay version of this post.

As job titles go, I feel like Webmaster went way harder than it had to: Behold the Webmaster, cursed navigator of the netscape and scourge of the hypertextual domain. Their approach foretold by a dark choir, numbering 56k and singing the lamentations of Baud. Shit was metal af

When you need a break from the group chat

Actions speak louder than words or siloed initiatives, and men in these leadership positions need to exercise the opportunity to act. I've written about this previously, and something I'm actively involved in leading wherever I go.

from the generation that brought us “wikipedia is not a valid source” and “did you put it in your bibliography” they’re now spouting… *checks notes* “i asked the hallucination machine and it said so”

noooo dude not the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,.. won’t lie tho it beats taking arms against a sea of troubles

Salma absolutely nailed it here ~ "all of these initiatives are operating in closed and exclusive spaces, which is sending a strong signal to the male majority with the power to affect real change that they are not welcome here, and it is not their problem to solve."

I have been back and forth over the span of 5 years about whether to publish this article. All opinions and experiences in this post are my own, or from people I personally know, backed up with recent reports and statistics.

4 years ago today i packed up my car on a whim and took off on a month long solo road trip across California. yesterday i packed up my motorcycle for my longest ever cross-state ride, also solo ☼

Interviewer: and how do you explain this gap in your resume? Me: (trying to explain my time trapped in the faerie realms but a geas prevents me from speaking of it, so I'm forced to just spout gibberish instead) I was growth-hacking my personal brand to leverage my core competencies

as developers, our urge to build software solutions to tiny problems can be overwhelming in this episode of Web Dev Challenge presented by @intuit.com, we asked these devs to give in to that urge watch the episode here: codetv.link/wdc/s2e5

btw i’m speaking about taking your internet back from corporations at bristol's incredible @webdevconf.com on october 10th :) very stacked conf lineup, very evil talk, very mysterious talk, come thru. get your boss to get your ticket and i'll see you in october! webdevconf.com

DIY > AI

find out why this absolutely ridiculous bsky account exists with really accurate article quoting by watching the new web dev challenge 👀 youtu.be/YQ41RpkuhRA?...

I have this weird theory that it's still probably a good idea to know what you're doing.

now public for everyone! what happens when devs stop ignoring that voice that says, “you could automate this ten second task with a few hours of coding”? Give in to your worst developer urges · Web Dev Challenge S2.E5 youtu.be/YQ41RpkuhRA

my episode is here!! watch @jacobleesinger.com and i build an extremely useful (source needed) application using some atproto magic! truly the best day with these folks. it’ll be public tomorrow, but give Jason and CodeTV your support today! 🤩🤍