@npmx.dev is not just a browser for packages, it's mostly a reminder that we can take internet back in our hands. You want it, you build it.
Oh god the discussion in Vancouver is going to be so stupid from all sides. “11 AI agents” is meaningless as a phrase. If I said “I have 11 spreadsheets” or “I have 11 browser tabs” to do my work, it means about the same thing.
Justin McElroy 🇨🇦@jmcelroy.bsky.social · 3mo agoIf you thought "I bet Ken Sim is all in on AI", you would be correct
As a software developer who spends his days building a link-saving app and his nights telling everyone that in the very near future people will be able to easily build their own software to solve their personal problems — this is my existential crisis coming to life.
The reality of offering “unlimited” plans for any service where the provider has costs based on usage. There will always be users who abuse it in ways the provider doesn’t expect it (at least at first). For AI, generating tokens costs $$. So “unlimited” is either subsidized or removed:
I like to read tech articles on my Kindle. I recently simplified my blog-to-kindle pipeline. All I need is a browser extension, a command, and a desktop app. All free and open source.
People on this app get really angry every time I point out that social media manipulation is a real phenomenon that we are all stewing in and that’s having real world consequences and I’m sure part of that is engagement farmers who do that manipulation not liking people talking about it
Can't recommend this enough - algorithms were always pitched as a means of giving us a personalised, customized and "curated" feed but have quickly become a way to take away any control over experiences that the algorithm now hyper-monetizes
Matthew Hughes@matthewhughes.bsky.social · last yr.My latest newsletter is about the tech industry's desire for control over their customers, and how that, in turn, leads into worse products that are harder to understand. whatwelost.substack.com/p/losing-con...
I don't have much skin in this game (heh), but it seems like Stop Killing Games would be a good initiative to back if you're in the EU (see youtube.com/watch?v=6sJp...).
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The next big step I think all of us have to start considering... is a shift back to forums as a community hub there's a few right now that are going that I'm a part of, but they aren't really the art/design community I wish I had. With the resurgence of geocities web 1.0 type stuff, maybe??
Most of the time, boolean props on react components are a bad idea. They don't evolve well. More boolean props create impossible states and the component becomes a "thing" that does way too much. Go for string literal union types and slot props (composition) more often than not.
Bluesky CEO @jay.bsky.team is right, we need to stop thinking of social media as a zero-sum game that platforms are “winning” or “losing.” Why not measure friendships, or genuine connection? We need to rethink what we value in our online tools for socializing.
Bluesky is most definitely alive and kicking
CEO Jay Graber says the days of winner-take-all social networking are over. Thank heavens she’s right.
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Amusing how X is dying a long and prolonged death 2.5 years after letting go 80%+ of the team and parts of the site die without devs even noticing And how Bluesky keeps working… with a tiny but focused eng team. Bullish on Bluesky, bearish on X (where my DMs no longer work ha)
After 15 straight years of being the prime minister of Hungary, Orban's popularity has nosedived thanks to the economy tanking. He is looking to lose power in 2026. His solution: a Russia-style crackdown to ban the remainder of the free press and the most popular political party
why pay $30/month for streaming services when you can just buy $500 of hardware and maintain a media server at home
With regard to LLMs and what they can actually do I recommend literally two people - @simonwillison.net and @minimaxir.bsky.social. Real ones that know their stuff about the actual things these models can do and not hype focused at all
I’m tired of hearing the “AI is killing tech jobs” narrative. Here is data on “top” tech companies and startups hiring. The last 2 years (since GenAI went mainstream and AI coding tools evolved greatly) we’re seeing more hiring from them. Below the pandemic peak ofc
A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
This unprecedented concentration of power - through politics, capital, and platforms too - creates ripple effects that once took institutions decades to achieve, turning what was once progressive, constructive change into tidal waves of chaos. The decisions of a few now shape the future for all. 1/7
Most of what we call "tech" is about getting the right information into a database and trying to prevent the wrong person from reading or updating it.
I got fed up of posting the same comment every time the topic of LLM hallucinations in code comes up (short version: they don't matter because you'll spot them the second you try to run the code) - so I've turned that comment into a longer form blog post simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/2/h...
Hallucinations in code are the least dangerous form of LLM mistakes
A surprisingly common complaint I see from developers who have tried using LLMs for code is that they encountered a hallucination—usually the LLM inventing a method or even a full …
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You: Oh my god the house is on fire! Me (wise, has read books): And you're surprised? Houses have been on fire before [as the flames consume us both] Furthermore,
The Keystone Entity It’s the god-tier object at the core of the business. Too big to refactor, too important to fail. Uber --> Ride 🚗 ZenDesk --> Ticket 🎫 Airbnb --> Listing 🏡 At @colossyan.bsky.social the Draft 🎬—where AI video magic happens. Everyone touches it. No one fully understands it.
Because this platform is moderated. This is not Twitter. There is no Elon Musk dominating an algorithm that drags down the platform Bluesky is unique. We need it to grow.
NathKovich@nathkovich.bsky.social · last yr.The problem with calls for “discourse,” is that MAGA isn’t interested in an exchange of ideas. It wants to leverage the rules of polite to destroy discourse. It wants to walk in, shout us all down, spit lies, and thumb their noses at us. Shout “if you’re so tolerant why don’t you tolerate my hate?”
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Unpopular opinion: Developers are some of the most demanding customers to please with developer tools, and are one of the hardest business to make a profit in. When we feel something is a ripoff... we'll build ourselves/migrate/adopt a new tool. Often out of spite!