Every service: here's a wrap of your entire year! Check out what your year of data looked like! Me: what about December? Every service: nothing happens in December, years are 11 months long

Sometimes I think the annual Advent Of Code is just the January gym membership for programmers. Lots of great intentions, but most people don't make it through a month. (I'm aware it's only 12 days this year)

Have we coined "punching the monkey" for claiming to be revolutionising money, but actually just Sticking Ads On A Website? Anyway. Punch that monkey, Sam. www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/artific...

Like pretty much everything else in programming, using an LLM-backed coding tool well requires discipline and expertise. Which is annoying/frustrating to those who wanted/were told it would free them from needing those things.

> Returning to fundamentals is simply maturity and a normal shift towards practicality. It’s realizing that adding layers of abstraction to solve problems we created ourselves is not innovation. thenewstack.io/css-in-js-th...

Doing one-fix-a-day stuff, a la @derekfeatherstone.bsky.social Today it's re-setting the baffling "3M hook that managed to fall down a wall and re-affix itself in a different spot". We've no idea how that was even possible.

You will be visited by three spirits

> Thinking of AI as an instrument recenters the focus on practice. Instruments require a performance that relies on technique - Frank Chimero via www.densediscovery.com/issues/366

The Doom Scale seems highly appropriate.

Web Directions Dev Summit 2025, the Big Stonking Post™: weblog.200ok.com.au/2025/11/wdds... #webdirections #devsummit

I'm not surprised consumers don't realise this, but if investors claim *they* didn't know I'm going to have trouble believing it. pub.towardsai.net/i-reverse-en...

I almost envy people who haven't seen Dmitry speak before ;) Strap yourselves in... #WebDirections

<blink><marquee>Web Directions, fuck yeah!</marquee></blink> #webdirections

Watching Jono Alderson's opening talk at #WebDirections and having to stop myself actually cheering. I will however wryly tap the sign: noti.st/benbuchanan/...

For anyone in Sydney for Web Directions dev summit, if you are at a loose end I'm meeting some friends at the Glebe Hotel (www.theglebehotel.com.au) from about 6:30 and you are welcome to join us.

LLMs absolutely do not replace cognition, and humans absolutely do not learn from history.

We dreamed this, right? It can't possibly have been real.

Without instructions on how to pretend to be human, your despot will go into standby mode. You can reactivate your despot by offering it fried chicken.

Periodic temperature check - Mastodon feels like early Twitter (has its issues but probably good for a while yet) Bluesky feels like late Twitter (shorter half-life, is that smoke?) X feels like a post-Twitter dumpster fire (no change expected)

For the record and I'm sure to nobody's surprise: #NupToTheCup We should replace the whole thing with Canapes For Critters day. Everyone can still dress up and get munted in a marquee, and the "bookies" will be representatives of animal-related causes taking donations.

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE SECOND INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE OVER ZOOM TO MEET MORE OF THE TEAM UNFORTUNATELY, YOU HAVE NOT BEEN SUCCESSFUL ON THIS OCCASION, BUT WE HOPE YOU'LL APPLY FOR FUTURE POSITIONS WITH THE VAMPIRE

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

Found on LinkedIn #a11y #a11yween

📘 Debugging CSS book is $19.99. Get your copy and level up your CSS debugging skills, or tell a friend about it. debuggingcss.com

That thing where you shipped a feature in your own product that you really wanted *as a user* and using it is SO SATISFYING

Who's going to Web Directions Summit this year? I'm going, but for the first time in 20 years won't be a local...! Feels weird, NGL...

A tale of the old internet and a spark of light that *unshittification* can still be possible. At least enough to bring a dog home. www.patreon.com/posts/142111...

uh, that’s not “reimagining” the novel. that’s…the novel.

Of course the word "imagine" appears in that memo.

End all funding every single private employment services provider. Salt the earth so those in change of them never get any public money ever again - run them out of the country. Get rid of mutual obligations Bring back the CES Raise the fricken rate Ain’t hard.

Things that not every product needs: - push notifications - chat - a perky AI assistant Jus’ sayin

I'd love to see an actual surgeon comment on this one. www.geoffreylitt.com/2025/10/24/c...

I'll cautiously say I've noticed more skepticism about AI in the corporate world and it's mostly because people's coworkers are creating extra work for them. They don't have the vocabulary to describe it yet but it's basically the "Why should I read what you couldn't be bothered to write" thing

OpenAI releases a new browser, adding to the evergreen category "stories that reveal the average person has no clue just how many alternative browsers exist, or how many people thought they were going to 're-imagine' web browsers". en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

Behold, `agents.md` - evidence people could have written a decent repo onboarding guide all along.

Dead on. The better you are as a frontend engineer, the more you dish off to the underlying systems rather than keeping logic in your own code, which means that a big pile of JS landing on the main thread is generally a sign the org producing it is relatively unskilled.

Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!

The more competing JS ecosystem tools I see, the more strongly I recommend "just use NPM". If you have a really complex project you might need to add some shell scripts.

Just when I thought I couldn't like David Pocock more.

"PM says deposit scheme will only cause 'slight increase' in house prices" First home buyers would like to remind the PM the scheme will only cause a 'slight increase' in affordability. Stop rearranging the deck chairs and cap negative gearing already. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10... #auspol

Ahhh my people! Melbourne Web Accessibility & Inclusive Design meetup, at Culture Amp hq.

"Physicists call this decoherence. Economists call it a market crash. Sam Altman will call it Tuesday." jamesthomason.com/deus-ex-nihi...

i will never forgive the techbros for ruining computer computer was the only thing i liked

More third spaces of all kinds, for everyone. Maker spaces, workshops, gardens, sports clubs, hobby clubs, pubs, cafes, libraries, parks... You should be able to wander out into your suburb and find community activities.

the political policy cure for “male loneliness” is - more time to hang with the fellas (4 day work week) - more money to spend with the fellas (higher wages) - more things to do with the fellas (taxing the rich and building 3rd spaces)

"please rate your package delivery" i mean ill click the smiley face because i assume it impacts the poor bastard who delivered it but i must impress upon you that forcing both him and i into this situation is an act of utter inhumanity and furthermore that god frowns upon your deeds

People had a problem so they made an abstraction in YAML. Now they have "two" problems.