As I work on my big spaceship game (thoriumsim.com), I have the feeling that when play testing happens, I'll either - Discover that my instincts were right and the game is fun and intuitive - Fail miserably and give up - Find flaws and get solid suggestions for improvement Most likely the third.

This is literally the last thing keeping me on AWS for my personal projects. So long SES, hello Cloudflare Email Service. blog.cloudflare.com/email-for-ag...

Currently dealing with a tricky problem in React. Components can both fetch data and subscribe to changes to that data using a single hook. Loading fallback is handled with Suspense. If an error is thrown when fetching data, it shows an error boundary. But, I still want the subscription!

Gonna do some napkin math. My EV's battery: 65kwh Home electricity cost: $0.11/kwh Cost to charge 0-100%: $7.15 Average fast charger cost: $0.55/kwh Cost to charge: $35.75 EV efficiency: 4.2 mi/kwh Max range: 273 mi

Oh snap, it works with SVGs too! codepen.io/alexanderson...

So, I love shopping at Costco and am happy to pay the yearly membership. But I hate how they always try to upsell me to their Executive Membership™, which basically means I pay $65 to get 2% cash back. Which means I would have to spend $3250 a year to break even. Which I don't. Stop upselling me!

Ngl, the democrats running Mitt Romney would be a better choice (in terms of policies and electability) than about half the current nomination hopefuls.

I wrote and posted this to Instagram a couple of days ago and it became my most-read poem ever. I’m honored I get to feel big feelings alongside you all. I’m posting it here too and want to use this space more consistently. Hello friends ❤️

Okay, NASA did a better job than I did.

I like how the list of ways to use LLMs in this blog post frames it as avoiding offloading thinking while still getting good use out of LLMs. htmx.org/essays/yes-a...

Feeling grateful to live another day with my loved ones. 🤗

What are you working on? Send me your project. OSS, Paid, whatever. We're doing a @syntax.fm Syntax Highlight and we will review and/or roast your projects

Frickin' finally turning on Apple Intelligence on my M1 MacBook Pro just so I can try out this guy. apfel.franzai.com Gonna see how well it works with the kinds of things I want to do in my spaceship game.

Been thinking about how much JavaScript we ship for basic UI patterns. Wrote it up. Anchor positioning, Popover API, Scroll-Driven Animations and more — what they replace and what's still missing 👉 blog.gitbutler.com/the-great-cs...

More context on this #Artemis II image: * This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right * The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon: ☀️🌍🚀🌕

Star Trek figured this out thirty years ago. It's not hard. Even an old, drunk Klingon got it.

Moon’s haunted

Stay-at-home parenting is a lot of work, but also kinda zen. Like, if my kids are fed, bathed, and well rested, it kinda doesn’t matter what we do. Park? Cool. Board games? Rad. Gardening in the backyard? Love it. How else am I gonna use my time? Being with my kids _is_ the productive thing.

I just watched “Singin’ in the Rain” with the kids and near the beginning there’s a movie premier and a woman in the audience sees the leading lady on screen and says “She’s so refined. I think I’ll kill myself.” Which, you know, sounds just like a Bluesky post. Nothing has changed in 70 years. 😅

Haven't written on this blog for a while, but that doesn't mean I haven't been writing. Designing the narrative and dialogue parts of my spaceship game is proving to be a fun and exciting challenge.

Whew. Took a while to get another perfect solve. I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Mar 20th 2026 (Hard), in less than 7 minutes 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

When I role played as the computer at my starship bridge simulator job (we did Star Trek simulations for 5th and 6th graders), I would never use pronouns. “That is not a function of this computer.” “This vessel is under attack.” Etc. It helps keep the players as the main characters.

Giving into the suppression and not voting is what they want, so resigning yourself to doing that would be complying in advance in this case. The act of rebellion here is to do whatever it takes to vote anyway.

Inspired by a brief conversation with my sister — what is the best strategy for visiting an art museum?

I feel like I’m turning into the Joker. And by “the Joker” I mean Alex Russell. JS frameworks solved lots of problems, but created so many at the same time. I feel like AI is the same way. (anonymizing this screenshot because I respect this person and don’t want to make it personal)

View transitions, anchor positioning, ​@scope, focusgroup, invokers, popovers, container queries, grid, relative colors, style-able selects, and more. The web feels like it’s getting so good at exactly the moment our collective worst practices are getting calcified as the default.

I know it's en vogue to say every outage or bug in modern software is because of AI generated code — I'm not weighing in one way or another since correlation != causation. I will say it's given me a greater appreciation for software that just works, and works well. So much we've taken for granted.

As humans cede more of our creativity to machines, it's more important than ever that we make art of any kind — painting, music, sculpture, dance, sport, and yes, code. How else are we going to process our grief at what we've lost? h/t to @whitep4nth3r.com and @lindsaykwardell.com

Hmm... lots of problems with this image: - Missionaries from my church are always in pairs - Missionaries are always clean-shaven. - This missionary wears a wedding ring — younger missionaries are always single. Fun fact: Matz, the creator of Ruby, is a member of my church and served a mission!

One big change with retiring to take care of kids full time — I am listening to way less music than I did before. RIP my Apple Music Replay.

I don't think I'll ever reach a satisfying conclusion about how I feel about LLMs and AI. But I do know it is eating software development — more lines of code written than ever before. But who said that more lines of code is a good thing?

Ooh, I love this. Some fun observations: - EVs are so incredibly efficient compared to ICE vehicles (or ICE vehicles are so darn inefficient) - e-bikes are GOAT-ed when it comes to transportation efficiency. - Air Fryers are surprisingly efficient compared to conventional ovens

This actually really nagged at me, not so much on its own, but in concert with something that's started happening to my son at school. I started to write up my feelings as a thread, but then it turned into a full-fledged blog post. joshcollinsworth.com/blog/man-cer...

Anybody remember MacHeist? That was awesome. Not sure how you’d pull it off these days.

Just wiped my computer after about 4 years to get a fresh start and whew, does this feel nice. Amazing all of the cruft that accumulates over time.

This is what I'm talking about! Solar and wind powering an iron-air battery, which rusts and un-rusts iron to store and release energy. It's inefficient (a lot of energy lost) and is heavy and takes up a good bit of space, but it's cheap and safe, and if you have energy surplus, why not?

Check out this very Shakespearian frog that my sister crocheted. She's an author. You should buy her books: www.nataliebrianne.com Also you should meme the heck out of the frog.

I hope this is more uplifting than depressing, but it is written from a place of grief.

picking up something new in your 30s is actually awesome because you know how you learn and can be direct about what works for you and what you want

I'm leaving the professional tech industry — a reflection on the last 3+ years at Echobind, and what the future looks like for me. (spoiler: it's pretty bright)

Tapping the sign... bsky.app/profile/rale...

Okay, everyone. Wrap it up. We have all the software we need now. (Though you can bake some bread. We'll never be without the need for good bread.)

Wouldn't it be nice if you could choose for your taxes to go towards kindness, generosity, and helping people live better lives instead of, you know, killing people and spreading cruelty? Yeah, I do. I really do.

This post is about Minecraft and Factorio. That's it. It's absolutely not about all the other ways that we do things that feel productive but don't actually make a meaningful difference.

Printer says it's almost out of toner. I need to print a bajillion documents for taxes, so I go get some more toner. It's like $200 for a two-pack. Absolutely insane. Feel like I got robbed. I get home, start printing on the old toner. Everything comes out sharp. Feel like I got double-robbed.

Drawing lines between self-checkout, figure skating, and spaceship games.

Yessssssss #CluesBySam - Feb 21st 2026 (Hard) Less than 12 minutes 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩

This post is more about intentionally choosing how and what to consume, but it's framed around how I choose to eat meat.

Blah. Butterfingers. #CluesBySam - Feb 19th 2026 (Tricky) 05:43 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩