be kind. the dorks pushing AI at microsoft won't see your mean tweets but your friends who are continvouclous will

I think the most pragmatic thing people can do, if they're being mandated to use LLMs, is to unionise. If by some miracle the bubble doesn't burst, there will still likely be lots of layoffs so get protecting yourself and your colleagues. @ethanmarcotte.com has got the blueprint for you here.

happy new year of the morge

git config --global alias.morge merge

here‘s a website that tells a story about an ill-starred and foolhardy road trip :) henry.codes/writing/the-...

So uh Ring just up and said they've got a huge centralized private surveillance network they can leverage all at once huh

in modern times, there are mystic routers worldwide to extend access to the veiled glade — however, the first devices used for interfacing with the mystic spring were heavily-inspired by more ancient divination techniques, including wooden dowsing rods, which is why today we "log" on to the Internet

fwiw I don't think it is possible to build genAI in such a way that it benefits workers rather than capital because it is fundamentally based on non consensual extraction of labour to get going. what would it actually mean for the workers to own the means of production here

i'll go one further, man. i don't care about how my neighbors got here, and frankly neither do you. they work & struggle & make do same as all of us. ICE & DHS & immigration laws are the natural convulsions of a beast that understands that borders are violent threats. old friend, we need them not

There are more of you than them, American pals. Sending love and strength from the UK 💛 Fuck these fascist goons and specifically *everyone* who has enabled them to do what they’re doing.

“Safety experts and tech critics have long condemned the Ring devices for security risks and privacy violations, not to mention their role in building the largest civilian surveillance network in US history.”

I’m really honoured to guest the inimitable @robbowen.digital on Strangers by Spring this morning. It’s been such a joy to make this project with people who are so perceptive, and creative and thoughtful. It might be my favourite yet. strangersbyspring.com/2026-01-20

"I write to you haunted. Or, perhaps, I am doing the haunting. These days I'm scarcely able to tell the difference" I've been so taken with this project that I was truly moved when @likethecolour.red & @strange.website asked if I might like to contribute. An absolute pleasure to write with them

in short: framework-free is great. web components are sick. saving locally is a viable option even for 'finished' products. starting a project thinking about your backend provider before anything else is fucking lame. react is for babies. web technology doesn't have to be complicated.

I made a new thing! Introducing DRUMSAUCE. DRUMSAUCE is catalogue of free PDF drum transcriptions, created by my own human ears and hands.

greatest steam update of all time, because of one unnecessary detail

Everybody thinks 'https://' stands for 'hypertext transfer protocol secure' but it actually stands for 'head to this place, sucka' followed by a colon and two laser sounds

I don't want better training for ice, I want ice to go away forever, and I want us all to feel ashamed about the concept of immigration enforcement. what a terrible fucking way to build a society. what a fundamentally violent idea. abolish the whole thing.

bring back stumbleupon

I was reminded recently that I redesigned jason.energy and... I think I just forgot to mention it anywhere? I'm pretty proud of the way this one came out. here's a lil thread of some of the specifics if you're interested ↓

Hello friends. In a world where 5 websites control everything we see and hear, Emily and I have decided to carve out our own section of the Weird Wide Web for a little creative writing project. We’d love you to join us. vonkirschnell.haus/1st-edition

"Claude ate my homework", coming to a stand-up near you in 2026

new on strangersbyspring.com, @likethecolour.red writes about where the little luminescent ghosts of every love you've had go

New year, new website. Here's a little (big) write up about the evolution of my website, and some of the new fun things I built in the redesign. p.s. please don't find any bugs, thank you

new on strangersbyspring.com "If you still think that love dies with the body, I think you need to live longer. You'll see." strangersbyspring.com/2026-01-09

🙋🏼‍♀️ hi it’s me the bestie and dear friend that had the gift of henry’s friendship and time for another magical year ♡

scientists ought to invent a way out that isn’t through

you’re right! it feels mostly awful to Go Online™, these days. the internet in a sad state, for reason after reason after reason. but there is a way to fix it; to trade the voidful howling for a quiet & joyful song. here’s how to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want.

new on Strangers, By Spring 🤍 “I remember feeling like demigods as we paraded up Dean St ... and I remember envy deep in my muscles at the infinite life that flowed out of you and your glamorous lover. I remember your laughter and ours echoing like gunfire percussion through the city.”

this one holds an extra special place in my heart 🥹🤍 the poetic nature of jazz clubs and strolling soho with strangers who inspired one enough to reach out

Friends fear he has once again made The Computer do his bidding. I built a little site for all my photos away from any social media. Had a little fun with it, yanno? konnai.re/leisuredome

"If you are in sight of Bar Italia in these manic hours you are trying to escape something and I only know that because I am trying to escape something too. We are trying to escape something together which is incidentally also the best way I can describe being madly, desperately in love."

“I will not allow you to be another story of a gift I leave in the past. It was an astonishing and delusional act of self-grandeur that I ever tried to resist. I am coming to find you the moment that the storm is through with me.” create on the internet again. art is the way. this is the way. ♡

a project from two of my favorite people on this planet. as lovely and inspiring as they are ♡ “Like a houseplant, like the inumerable shamel ash trees that line the streets from here to Roma Norte, I do the most growing when there is more soil to be enjoyed.”

I've just realised that reading more fiction books for fun has really helped with me being able to focus properly on reading other stuff. I was just reading something that usually I would skim. Instead I noticed I was taking time to understand it, sometimes, re-reading sentences. Read fiction.

smack barm, pea wet

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A bit of a vulnerable post by me but we need your help to get us through what has been a more difficult period than 2020. It would be really appreciated if you could read and share in your networks too 💛 bell.bz/its-been-a-v...

dotting the i's and crossing the t's on mindful design

hi internet! do i know anyone looking for some freelance work through the end of the year? the project is a tiny bit of web dev but mostly design, animation, and graphic design in a webflow site!

there are two types. of git authors. it would seem

🚨 Announcing All Day Hey! 2026. Celebrating ten years of the conference. The final one. Let's go! A curated conference for curious developers, designers, and technology leaders.

This person took this when they called the race

DEI stands for Dudes Enjoying saying Inshallah

i will say this result is amazing news for me and the entire White Dudes That Can't Stop Saying Inshallah community

i hope this election cycle empowers everyone the next time a centrist liberal says to drop pro-trans and pro-immigrant rhetoric to enthusiastically tell them to shut the fuck up

This is what you say when it’s obvious that something is real and there’s productivity coming out of it

as such, i shall not ‘hop on a call’, nor will i ‘push my latest branch’. i cannot see past what i must create now, chum. the snow falls soft on these balcony rails, like some wild flower, a dream of a Paris meant to be. i will never ask ‘can everybody see my screen’ again. you understand. be well

i write to you with solemn news. i am in paris, writing my life’s only masterwork. i spend my days drinking good espresso and smoking inexpensive cigarettes, writing clear and hard about what hurts. as such, i cannot ‘Log On’ - and friend - i will not attend your ‘laser-focused mesh network webinar’