We’re live!! My brand-new course, “Whimsical Animations”, is now available. 🥳🎉 whimsy.joshwcomeau.com I’m so excited to share all of my animation tools and techniques with y’all. 😄

Kind reminder: if you have read and enjoyed COLOR TASTE TEXTURE, and you haven’t already, please leave a positive review with your retailer of choice. Good reviews are super helpful selling books (and help me fight the RSD demons 😭)!

Look at Toad. His edible is just starting to take hold and he needs to tell Frog that instead they should watch Big Trouble in Little China

what i find neat about this is i knew of other examples but in reverse an apron used to be a napron

We signed 200 copies of the #ProgressiveDelivery book! I didn't take pictures, but it was very orange! #ETLS2025

Presbyopia eye drops cannot come too soon.

Thank you, past Heidi, for putting migraine meds in the backpack. Please remember to replace them, that was the last one. Book signing in an hour!

I have been learning more about PDFs than I really wanted to for maybe the absolutely most funny reason possible - letting agency forgery: mjg59.dreamwidth.org/73317.html

I went to a protest and got a mini zine "Don't be an Imperial Feminist!" Freaking awesome little zine

Some apps take 0% of my phone’s battery and some apps take like 3% per minute and honestly I am the same way

WFH is an accommodation that lets me do really great work! Denying it as potentially disability accommodation will cheat you of great employees

They've lost the 9yos

If you're having a QA tester look at code, what you actually have is a test engineer and you should be paying them way more.

Backstage and ready to hit the keynote stage at IT Revolution’s ETLS. I’ll be sharing insights from DORA’s State of AI-assisted Software Development report. Gene Kim, Daniel Rock, and Matt Beane will join me as well. dora.dev/dora-report-... #AI #ETLS #GBGB

yeah ok google I'll prove I'm an adult - I remember when you killed Google Reader - I remember when you introduced Chrome (it sucked so I kept using Firefox) - I remember when you used to say "don't be evil" and then you quietly dropped it oops - I remember when I switched to DuckDuckGo (~2011)

Medical transition would be a lot easier if you could just vat-grow new immunologically compatible glands to slap in as wanted.

"This was not a neutral cleanup of “dangerous operators” — it was a well-targeted action aimed not at operators, but at set of maintainers (who happened to be also partly operators)." Yup, sure looked like that from the outside

Brick Immortar is like the Smoky Bear of OSHA. He has the kind of voice made for ghost stories, has the reading skills of a professional reporter (he generally records his voiceovers in one take), and instead of doing clickbait he uses it as a megaphone for workplace safety culture.

i challenge you to find cooler news today than “despite all odds against American scientific research rn, a CO researcher developed a temperature-stable, single dose rabies vaccine that works bc of particles coated in CANDY & SAPPHIRE, & it could help reduce rabies deaths in places w/o electricity”

The 2025 @dora.dev report is out! The key takeaway: AI is an amplifier: It enhances strong teams and magnifies the challenges of struggling ones. Download the State of AI-assisted Software Development now. dora.dev/dora-report-... #AI #SoftwareDevelopment #DORA #GBGB

The funny thing here is that this is the most amazing advertising someone selling curses on Etsy could hope for.

Wow... This speaker just said that loneliness is the long COVID of working life, and we need to get back in a room. Buddy, long COVID is the long COVID of working life, and getting in a room together is part of the problem.

An Update: I received an email canceling my contract as a columnist at @startribune.com after sharing this story publicly. (I had written columns past the one-year contract already + been asked to continue on in July).

researching a maritime disaster in 2025: Option A: 350 word article by someone from politics beat Option B: 60 min netflix docu with 45 min of unsubstantiated vibes Option C: some rando YTer called Brick Immortar who has a 4 hr breakdown with all court docs & interviews with every survivor

AI & DevOps Toolkit - Teaching AI Your Company Policies: Vector Search Enforcement - www.youtube.com/watc... #SuggestedRead #devopsish

Workers are calling it "quiet doing what my boss insisted against my advice."

Not just apps and software. I wasn’t joking when I said a year or so ago that I hoped everyone responsible for an important data set had a pre-2022 snapshot and a plan for how to cope with rolling back to it eventually.

This is *stunningly* disingenuous, and the fact that Singal continues to enjoy a career writing at the highest levels about a topic that he either unwilling or incapable of discussing honestly is such an indictment of the Anglo-American prestige media.

Tried to water the baby asparagus but the spout was blocked so I tried to shove the blockage down into the can but the thing inside shoved back. Computer…enhance. #garden #gardening #oopsfrog

Free Geek is not so free anymore, sounds like the new management is destroying the place. I’m posting this because I posted once about having a great experience there, sounds like it likely would not be the same now! www.reddit.com/r/TwinCities...

It would be great if we could go a year without a tech conference being planned on a high holiday.

CEOs be like: “AI is fantastic. The only things it appears to struggle with are things I am skilled at/knowledgeable about. It’s pretty bad at those. It’s great at all the stuff I’m not well-versed with, though.”

Hey, did you know I have a newsletter? Did you know I write about management? Did you know I have Strong Feelings about diversity and collaboration in software development? I do! Here, try this on for size: the-default-state-is-broken.ghost.io/stop-using-t...

And mage and sailor are not so far apart; both work with the powers of sky and sea, and bend great winds to the uses of their hands, bringing near what was remote.

"In a time when diversity is misunderstood, preachers can shine God’s light of love upon all people who might be feeling afraid of being targeted, stigmatized, and punished because of their neurodivergence." -Rev. Dr. Sarah Griffith Lund, UCC www.workingpreacher.org/culture/prea...

👀 Just put this on my TBR list! “weaving together a classic North American noir detective story, Irish mythology, gothic-style horror and frontier-town adventure, all against the backdrop of an early-20th-century mining town.“

Hey, hometown heroes SPS Commerce talking about architecture for AI! #ETLS25

Patients are more likely to die in the ER when private equity buys a hospital. That’s the price of corporate greed. This is why I will continue to fight for my Health Over Wealth Act—to protect patients, providers, and communities.

Happy Bi Visibility Day 2025! It's Bi Visibility Day, and we're celebrating as we do with books starring bi main characters! For even more recs, check out past years' posts! Young Adult Wish You Weren’t Here by Erin Baldwin All’s fair in love and Color War. Juliette doesn’t hate Priya Pendley. At…

Ironic: Gartner had my post ridiculing Gartner removed. The one that shared Gartner's Magic Quadrant about AI Code Assistants, which does not include Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, and ranks Amazon above Cursor. This one: github.blog/ai-and-ml/gi... Are they embarrassed to share their Magic Quadrant?

a cascade of unforced errors -> fucking over the entire ecosystem, and the people who are most dedicated to that ecosystem

Them: We need to add jira stories for the integration Me, quietly to myself: "integration" is an anagram of "taint region"

If you're in the twin cities you should 100% be subscribed to Racket. Essential reporting, great writing and a perfect tone throughout. This is a hell of a deal.

Appreciate these insights from @emollick.bsky.social. But the "wizard problem" isn't that AI is too opaque. It's that we're designing systems that hide their processes. We could build AI that shows its work, explains, and lets us intervene. Instead we're choosing black boxes and calling it magic.

One of my favorite fun facts is why the TMNT are named after artists (it’s because the type of turtle they are is a “painted turtle”). I told my nephew about this and he immediately replied that there should be a Bob Ross turtle. So rather than explain the renaissance movement to him, I-

DISNEY: "OK, we are putting Jimmy Kimmel back on the air. You can resubscribe now." ME: "I unsubscribed because you immorally bowed to fascism. I'm not going to resubscribe because you immorally bowed to finances."

"kristi noem and corey lewandowski, who we can confirm are not only dating but running DHS together" absolutely cursed sentence

This is your reminder from the glorious past that Lyndale Avenue had a major streetcar line, meaning there's plenty of ROW for @hennepin.bsky.social @hennepindebbie.bsky.social to do the right thing. The difference between the bad and good design is just 8 parking spaces along the entire corridor.

Imposter syndrome implies the existence of crewmate syndrome, where you try to do your little tasks without being eaten

The Costco-themed cat scratcher has seen visitors.