This is a very good, in-depth post that aligns very well with what I also observe in Software currently! Also chuffed that the Borges I suggested made it in, very cool!

DON DRAPER, wearing a Changshan: if we want to sell this revolution as being truly universal under Heaven, we need to make inroads with the fairer sex… how about “women hold up half the sky” MAO, sucking on his teeth: god damn it gweilo you’ve done it again.

Yes, hello, is that God? Yeah, hi. I have a complaint. You gave me this brain that’s designed for finding berries and avoiding lions and now people are ‘just circling back’ to see if we can ‘move the needle’ on ‘key initiatives’? NONE of those things are berries.

Evergreen

Fucked up a perfectly good transformer-based translation engine, look at him, he's got anxiety

"It’s been a while, so quote this skeet with your favourite $20 dollar word." autochtone

Important to note that the difference between a design prototype crafted by hand with HTML, CSS (what I aim for and like I believe @set.studio offers) and a vibe coded prototype is that you can actually use the code from the first one for the final product.

I am currently writing down my thoughts on coding with agents, and yeah that feels like a great one-sentence summary of the first 1000 words

From a discussion in RISF based on the old IBM adage, an updated version for the modern era:

Well sometimes I use this to be polite when I really want to say "I don't want to build this because it is bad design qua design and will make the product worse" (such is my arrogance) but point taken that I should find a better way to say this

This is fantastic by @amitsheen.bsky.social: "True perfection means a site that works for everyone. [...] 'Pixel perfect' often prioritizes visual aesthetics over functional accessibility [...]" 🔥 www.smashingmagazine.com/2026/01/reth...

Trying to roughly collect and categorise ways that LLMs could be considered actually useful and one major category emerging is just bandaids for broken stuff

For what it's worth, "Tailwind solves problems that are made worse by our current organisation of labor and its gender aspects" is 1) true 2) not a difficult synthesis to make since all participants in this discussion are 90% of the way there

I'm not joking and this isn't funny. We have been trying to orchestrate the Weltgeist for more than 5,000 years. There are various options, not everyone is aligned. This team goes and does it overnight.

claude code is fucking insane i know literally NOTHING about Hegel. ZERO. and it just built me a complete system of German idealism

Hegelly Blonde

Let's goooooo #googleballs

Rewrote marinaeschba.ch to Astro. I made the site when I too deep into combining frameworks, but now I tossed out a lot of guff and replacing it with vanilla CSS. Really the best technical solution if you are comfortable with the cascade and know the new features!

Love Young Frankenstein and this is a great shout but the boring (but true) answer is that Kubrick did Strangelove, Space Odyssey, Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon and Shining back to back

Straying out of my lane a little bit here but I think one of the biggest disservices designers do to themselves in the web world these days is going all in on whatever new features Figma or [x] design tool comes out with and not putting that energy into learning HTML and CSS.

Uhoh, sites sitting behind Cloudflare are spitting out HTTP 500 errors again 💥

@profanity.accountant clean as heck because I don't post!

Mixed feelings that the official recommendation to handle Next.js v16 breaking changes is basically “just install the MCP we’re shipping, it has a prompt specifically for rewriting stuff”: nextjs.org/docs/app/gui...

The insistence on making these robots bipedal is probably the most obvious giveaway that it's all a big carny gimmick

Computer got me with this classic philosophy joke

The entire "free speech on campus" moral panic was manufactured to blackmail us into making space in intellectual life for bigots and charlatans who couldn't get there on their own merits. Its a DEI scheme for fascism. Congratulations to everyone who took it at face value.

idk man I feel like it shouldn't take explaining why I don't want to live in a world where most people's worldview and ideas are shaped and mediated by a coarse statistical average of a sample of all the writing on the internet circa 2019

Okay, but: 1. given that outside of the source data itself, the weights used to represent it in the model are essentially arbitrary - it's not calculating the 'essential value' of it, it's just trying to find a way to fit it in with the other pieces of source data - this is a stupid rationale

Every time I see Guillermo Rauch I think about the "ET with hammers" tweet

So astro.build is basically a Static Site Generator using Components written in JSX? I am glad that someone else figured out the actually, truly, and objectively best way to make a website 👍

I got really fed up with the old formwerdung.ch so I put together a really minimal replacement I can iterate on later. First site I built with astro.build, very nice experience overall.

Liberals are doing the right’s job for it. By lionizing Charlie Kirk and refusing to acknowledge his real political project, they’re giving power to the right’s completely predictable effort to use his death to forward their goal of an authoritarian, fascist state.

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

It’s an absolute shame that DC fired Gretchen Felker- Martin for exercising free speech and then @bsky.app suspended her account. Every writer here should be decrying this because we have to stand up for each other! This is ridiculous.

I've always hated "Agile" ideology's use of the term "sprint". You know what actual sprinters do at a track meet? They run as fast as they can for a very short time, and then they _don't run_ for a _much longer time_. They definitely don't run another sprint immediately after a five-second break!

I think David Graeber was onto something when he diagnosed the scarcity of jobs with meaning. (I think he was mostly wrong about the analysis, but he was always wrong in a fruitful way!) And so, people are looking for that. But they don't realize that it's precisely the use of technology 1/n

I will say the thing that AI does really well is emulate that precise feeling of meeting someone new, and they seem amiable and pretty verbose, but over the course of the conversation you start to realize that they’re very stupid.

Even if it were true, overcoming its grecophilia would be a net positive for philosophy especially

Interesting example of what it means that LLMs do not really 'have' a representation of reality that can track or diverge in any sense of the word zed.dev/blog/why-llm...

Phlogiston didn't fail, it was failed.

Helen De Cruz was a person of exceptional kindness and an exemplar of how to be a great philosopher—passionate, creative, intellectually honest, unendingly curious, and an advocate of flourishing for all. I will miss our discussions about music, philosophy, and spirituality. rest in peace.

I suspect that fact that the vast majority of LLM users don’t seem to have received this (really very simple!) message is because the AI companies have a vested interest in us not understanding it. “ChatGPT is smart, it just makes mistakes sometimes” is much more marketable than the truth.

I agree that "design systems" are the thing du jour rn just as "design thinking" was a couple years back, but in case ppl are not aware it's worth saying that both got co-opted into selling the same old shit with a new sticker in much the same way

"responsive web design is only 14 years old" is crazy when you think about it. it's hard to imagine a world doing anything else now.

Alright, we're actually doing this open working thing. We're going to work on projects, for real clients who are set up to make people's lives tangibly better. We can only do that if it works financially though because we've got mortgages etc. Your support will make this happen.

It'd be quite funny if, a couple of years from now, "handcrafted" software became something people would pay extra for.

This is such a strange read, the authors admit that there is no reason why a chain-of-thought should be a faithful representation of the inner workings of the model, but then seem to constantly forget that fact www.anthropic.com/research/rea...

Fuck you Heidegger. You can't just verb every noun and make like it's a profound point

TIL there's an Italian version of Shakshouka and it's called "Uova in Purgatorio"

Started reading Eilenbergers book about post-war philosophy and, uh, sure seems ominous that this place I first heard of two weeks ago is mentioned in the context of Adorno and the "totalizing nature" of American Consumerism