A tip for getting buy-in on frontend work: instead of “UI inconsistency,” try “inconsistent UI patterns increase support tickets by 15%.” Framing it in business metrics helps. maecapozzi.com/blog/fronten...

Who the FUCK are these refs??? #unrivaled

“Is there a technology the left is excited about?” High-speed rail! MRNA vaccines! New cancer treatments! Solar and wind energy collection! Better and longer-range EVs! That wood that's harder than steel! New apples! Fibermaxxing! Buldak Swicy ramen! Muppets! Muppets are too a technology, shut up!

Claude has made prototyping code fun enough that I want to do work coding on my days off and I have to (slightly) hold myself back from doing that extra work, or at least make sure that I take time off to make up for the time when inspiration strikes...

Conductor is changing the game for me in terms of running multiple agents simultaneously. www.conductor.build

I might need to spend an hour per week actually writing code by hand just to make sure I remember how to do it.

can you believe it's been _ten years_ since @cyen.bsky.social and i started honeycomb?? jfc. @honeycomb.io was founded to solve the hardest problems in software. in 2016, that was cloud; in 2026, that's AI. the problems have gotten worse; the stakes got higher. www.honeycomb.io/blog/honeyco...

Sharing some vacation updates... 1. Got engaged to the loml in Mexico City 2. Wrote two blog posts that I'm extremely pleased with 3. Almost completed the MVP of the app that my fiancée and I have been working on 4. My brother got engaged to his fiancée It's been a wonderful and not relaxing time.

I've been using AI agents to facilitate my work for a year. As a staff engineer, my work mostly revolves around coding, writing proposals, and driving technical strategy. #platform #infrastructure #ai

‘The deployment of Claude occurred through Anthropic’s partnership with data company Palantir’ (gift) www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

please give us more personal data please please please please c’mon you’re being so mean dude. we only got breached like three times. we’re NOT going to sell it man please please please plus its for like safety? so you’re the one who looks stupid right now come on pleaaaaaase just one data point bro

I’m on vacation for one week. during that week two new models drop that apparently are changing the game…trying to wait until I’m home to try it!

Today's Frontend Infrastructure newsletter issue was about driving impact as a designer or an engineer, code-splitting your webpack bundle for performance gains, and height in CSS. Give it a read and let me know what you think :) maecapozzi.com/newsletter/86 #frontend #engineering #webpack

Ever since Twitter was sold, it's been really hard for me to grow my newsletter. I can't seem to reach the same people with the same level of interest. Is Bluesky the place?

This week's newsletter touched on debugging the TypeScript compiler, pnpm catalog, sharing assertions instead of suggestions, and more! maecapozzi.com/newsletter/85

The Lucy Dacus concert was fucking fantastic.

Using a cursor a whole lot these days and yes...it can be very fast. But also I think my brain is dying??

When it comes to CSS architecture in complex projects, maintaining control over the cascade is crucial. If you've ever battled with unpredictable CSS loading orders due to bundlers like Vite or Webpack, this week's deep dive is for you. #css #cssarchitecture #frontendplatform #@layer

🚨 IMPORTANT: In-person absentee voting starts TOMORROW here in Wisconsin. Election Day is April 1. 🚨 The balance of power in our Supreme Court is at stake. 🚨The despicable Elon Musk and his anti-American Orcs are trying to buy our Court here. 🚨 DO NOT LET THEM. 🚨 Support Judge Susan Crawford!

Remember to never again vote for Gavin Newsom for anything unless it’s to be Governor of the Bottom of The Sea

Visiting friends in New York

Spent some time this weekend redesigning my website using Cursor. I’ve been holding off because I thought it’d take me a long time to code it. With Cursor it probably took about ~4 hours.

Not the british royal saying this lol

Rep. Zooey Zephyr - My Wife - just gave an incredible speech against a drag ban in Montana. It was so strong that a Republican rose to speak passionately against the bill, chastising the sponsor. The drag ban dies in Montana, flips 10+ Republican votes! This is the power of representation.

When people spend time learning to write they’re told they’ll never get a job; but if people think a computer system has learned how to write, they act like it can do anybody’s job

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

Being able to drop a quarterly US GDP prediction by 5.1% from +2.3% to -2.8% in a single week is one of the most impressive economic developments in the history of the world.

is AI good at the arts? no is it at least good at the boring, mundane work that could free us up to do more arts? also no

I started my career as a frontend engineer, then shifted into the design systems niche. Over the past 3 years, my role has significantly expanded to encompass what I've taken to calling Frontend Platform. I attempted to define the role in my newsletter this morning: maecapozzi.com/newsletter/79

There is no such thing as AI art. It’s all spam.

It’s hard to take advancements in AI models seriously when articles about them use hideous AI generated imagery.

I wish it were easier. But it is so so so much better than plain javascript for maintaining enterprise-level software.

Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality

In my few experiments I have been able to get it to generate decent code but I had to feed it a ton of code that I had already written by hand and still had to make changes to it. And it was a tiny use case of building a design systems component.

this is how you can tell somebody doesn't know what they're doing LLMs produce unusable, wrong "answers" a significant chunk of the time. even highly educated people are painfully gullible. all you gotta do is animate the text like it's typing and these suckers slurp it down like mommy's milk

I use recursion so infrequently in my ~10 year professional career that I remember every single time I have used it. 1. Last week to build a dropdown with nested subpanels 2. Last May to highlight the selected index in a sidebar

I have hardly found AI tools helpful for writing code. And have noticed junior engineers reaching for it and being unable to discern whether what it spits out is correct. I struggle to understand all of the hype.

Has anyone successfully used downshift for keyboard handling in select components with nested subpanels?

Today's newsletter was about how frontend infrastructure teams can manage dependencies with dependabot: maecapozzi.com/newsletter/78 It's got all kinds of tips about tracking metrics, SLAs, and a process to follow w/ dependabot. #frontend #github #frontendinfrastructure #designsystems

I made a gingerbread panopticon

As European Accessibility Act & ADA Title II deadlines near, orgs will suddenly panic about #accessibility, leading to crunch time. Devs'll be frustrated; op-eds'll be penned. Remember, these laws have been on the books for a while. #a11y isn't the villain; your org let you down by failing to plan.

yes queen give us nothing

having exactly (1) day out of the year where every amateur chef in America attempts to cook a giant bird and not fuck it up is, honestly, a wonderful and hilarious tradition

how to filter out baking recipes published march 2020

This blog post by Gabe Scholz is absolutely filled with gems: gabe.pizza/notes-on-com...

I wrote a newsletter post about a design systems architectural pattern I’m calling the “Primitives and Core pattern.” I’d love to hear what you think about this approach! maecapozzi.com/newsletter/77