sitemaptorss: www.jmduke.com/posts/sitema...

on the off chance that you are debugging the same thing I am: 1password's chrome extension now ships a version of Prism.js that conflicts with other syntax highlighters. Not Great! www.1password.community/discussions/...

on the first day of code freeze 🎶 disposables.app

Notes on SLEUTH (1972): www.jmduke.com/posts/sleuth...

number of words written into our support tool (I am in last place amongst the team)

a not-insignificant reason we invest in social media analytics/automations is because literally every single other tool we've tried is not particularly good for our use case bsky.app/profile/butt...

Wrote about Paris, Texas. www.jmduke.com/posts/paris-...

CONCLAVE (2024). www.jmduke.com/posts/concla...

blogroll.org This site by Manuel Moreale is not just lovely in the abstract, it might be the _calmest_ and most pleasant design I've seen in quite some time.

Playing around with my media section on the new personal site has been fun. Here's a variant (live right now but likely not for long) where its sorted by luminosity:

the industry is abound with "don't roll your own X" and analytics in particular is one of the things I like reaching to as a counterexample. finally wrote about it! bsky.app/profile/butt...

reviews are rolling in

doing two things a little different for this end-of-year, buttondown wise. one is an airbnb-style buildout of all the stuff we shipped. the other is a "raise-the-garage-door"-style series of posts about next year: bsky.app/profile/jmdu...

one of my goals this year has been to open source more of buttondown's internal sawdust. a little bit under the wire, but this is the first of a few end-of-year goodies bsky.app/profile/butt...

the SEO spammers are evolving

There are many very cogent arguments against LLMs, but I do think that some people end up arguing that all productivity-increasing technology is immoral because the benefits do not solely accrue to labor bsky.app/profile/tant...

Really proud of how often people write in about this little affordance for showing CSS selectors in the preview pane. Built it for myself because I was getting annoyed whilst dogfooding (which is why you should dogfood constantly.)

It took an embarrassing amount of dithering but I finally settled on a Starship format that I like.

Zach Lowe doing his first and probably only live show in Minneapolis is both incredibly on brand and deeply powerful

somehow this didn't make the cut but @kierongillen.bsky.social also was patient enough to put up with me asking questions about the difference between docx and odt on a support thread recently bsky.app/profile/butt...

one of my favorite @buttondown.com ships this year buttondown.com/blog/inbox

New post: October 2025.

New post: October, 2025.

we have been deep in the skunkworks about this, so to speak, but a fun fact is that the above screenshots are a ten-line CSS theme applied atop our "real" new theme, which I've taken to call "Operation CSS Zen Garden" bsky.app/profile/did:...

Some WIP from today.

New post: Eucharist.

New post: Picnic.

huge discovery for "everything should be gofmt" boosters like myself bsky.app/profile/davi...

New post: Cheetah II.

Feel like I've gotten worse at incorporating new tools over time, and not sure if this is because I care less about tools or because I'm more susceptible to the clarion call of muscle memory

WIP.

Very happy with how this turned out. demo.buttondown.com/settings/des...

Am I missing something obvious, or is there still no great solution for "pipe every social mention from every social network into a Slack channel"

New post: Vercel's abstractions.

New post: Business as authorship.

WIP.

Columnar re-arrangement: only five people will ever use this because it's impossible to make discoverable, but those five people will love it!

This week's weeknotes: dogfooding the API, Anki, public postmortems, and Mise. weeknotes.buttondown.email/archive/mise...

New post: Someone built it; someone has to build it.

New post: .

New post: Cheetah.

New post: Adding imports to the Django shell.

❤️ “Django nails doing the hard stuff both at an API level (user modeling and everything therein; ORM; routing and middlewares) and an existential level (friendliness and commitment to politesse; extremely good documentation).” #Django

Some WIP from today.

Always particularly satisfying when the commit also works as a blog post.

Oranges, John McPhee