oh hey last.fm playback 2025 came out (my *true* 2025 year in music) www.last.fm/user/mlingoj...

the problem with changing data on the backend without pushing it to clients is that you can decide "i'm not in a heavy music mood right now" and click the big green play button on the pop star women playlist, and hear counterparts anyway

i love the beginning of the year because everyone starts blogging. and if you (yes you) were thinking about starting, this is your sign

an unfortunate facet of most "LLMs write bad code" critiques i've seen is that they propagate the idea that all software should be made to scale up

It is sad because there are a hundred better reasons to leave X right now, but I still think that Bluesky adding code blocks could be the trigger for some dev communities to do the jump.

Sorry, but triumphant claims about autonomous vehicle safety are wildly exaggerated. It's an open question whether today’s self-driving cars are any safer than those driven by humans. And if reducing crashes is the goal, that isn’t even the right question. My deep dive, in Bloomberg 🧵

post a fox

It is not enough that X bad. We also need Bluesky good

This might seem like it doesn't matter but having all the people involved with an emerging technology, even one you dislike, stewing in the fascist ideology soup that is X is extremely bad for the world.

This has been in the making for over a year, and I'm super excited about the new Web Weekly site! Check it out if you're into Frontend news about browser APIs, CSS features, and web standards. 🥰 webweekly.email There are still some rough edges here and there, but it's about time to get it out. 🫣

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

Me, logging on to work after the long weekend

Remember software UIs before minimalism?

or, hear me out: the reason that we have code standards today is because merging slop *reduces* your shipping velocity

Paid parking has its place in the city's transportation ecosystem, but it's far better to just get rid of as much on-street parking as possible. This is what the best cities in the world are doing and there's no reason New York City shouldn't follow suit.

some of the most valuable real estate in the world, given away to drivers at everyone else's expense

this is fantastic

Happy holidays! I thought I would sneak in a little gift for everyone with the #WebComponents Language Server for @zed.dev! Enjoy! wc-toolkit.com/integrations...

Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan… * Vehicle traffic: -11% * Foot traffic: +3.4% * Storefront vacancy: -0.9% * Pollution: -22% * Revenue for mass transit: $548M So YES this has been a huge success.

what exactly are we doing here? claude doesn't "deserve" anything; we are talking about an inanimate tool. it's like saying that i need to respectfully engage with my toothbrush.

I imagine this is going to down like the "I can't believe you used to smoke inside bars" reactions from the young ones. "I can't believe you used to let every car into the city for free? Didn't you have gridlock, pollution, and dead pedestrians?"

local first vs atproto!! what should the source of truth for group data be?

Anyone a part of a “divitis” webring? Is the `<section>` element your best friend? Do you use semantic HTML, but have never looked up the definitions for the elements you use? I wrote this for you. htmhell.dev/adventcalend...

I think everyone has approximately the same amount of conspiracy energy, and if you don’t dissipate it decoding taylor swift lyrics or debugging linux drivers, it inevitably comes out as beliefs about faked moon landings

Nice! I love animation experiments that react to the mouse position. Here’s something I made a few months ago that I really like. codepen.io/amit_sheen/f...

ffo turnover

I feel like I'm seeing more design systems adopt web components now? Is that accurate? I wish there was a solid web component alternative to projects like base-ui.com or shadcn.

it's worth pointing out that *even if yglesias and jeffries had been correct*, arguing that we should let an illegally-deported citizen rot in a foreign gulag just because it's politically expedient is fucking depraved

I just want to once again congratulate every business and media outlet who tripped over their own dicks to take right-wing outrage in uncritical good faith and ruin peoples’ careers over extremely tame internet comments about Charlie Kirk 48 hours before immediately forgetting he ever existed.

oso oso joined my 2000 scrobble club

ditto for speed limiters. there are zero reasons that a motor vehicle should be able to drive faster than the posted speed limit.

i know a lot of the javascript community thinks that people who complain about frontend complexity are just being cynical but it turns out that caking on layer upon layer of abstractions can have real-world consequences

'"The Printing Press Democratized Knowledge": When Slogans Masquerade as History' by Sonja Drimmer (2025) sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/...

it was a daoboys year for sure

Gecko: Intent to ship: CSS Anchor Positioning

I was dealing with client-side cookies the other day and, of course, I used `document.cookie`. This API is "something", isn't it? But then I remembered that `cookieStore` is a thing today, and it makes cookie handling way easier! 👇 developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...

yes! my roving-tabindex web component would be better as a custom attribute

more evidence that "learning how to ask AI models the right questions" is just an oblique way to say "developing expertise"

absolutely cursed idea: implement CSS mixins today using animations

last week i remembered that macOS lets you set your own icons and that *I* have the power to delegitimize the professionalism of the software that runs on my machine, so here's a thread of the 16 new icons i've made so far i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')

@profanity.accountant hello

Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen Bamboozle festival Nada Surf American Football Adventure Club Polyphia

sigh just had claude use grokipedia as a source. poisoning the well is working

Mozilla, Microsoft, Google, Intel, Apple all came together to celebrate this great milestone: WebGPU is now supported in major browsers! Check out our post.

shame i was a few years too young for this band as a kid because this goes insanely hard

i loved to draw as a little kid. i thought i'd illustrate comics. but when i got my first computer i started drawing pictures of programs. eventually i started trying to make my program pictures real

you're telling me a duck typed this code?