People love RSS for the same reasons hikers love a good path. It isn't the packed dirt or gravel they're fond of, but the view it takes them through.
David Fitzgibbon
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Creative Coding, ThreeJS, p5, SVG, CSS. http://davidfitz.dev/
If I’m keeping score correctly, so far the AI revolution has given me: - considerably worse software than before - considerably more expensive devices to run that software - considerably less opportunity to make the money needed to buy those devices
It is man work to call out other men about their shitty behavior. More men need to be doing their man work.
Wanna get freaky with some CSS? @kilianvalkhof.com shows you the bones of getting creative coding going just with CSS!
Kilian Valkhof@kilianvalkhof.com · 4w agoThis post didn’t do as well as I had hoped (it has so many cool looking demos and a nice narrative flow!) It didn’t get picked up by enough folks to drive meaningful traffic. Is it too soon or too in-depth for most devs to be interested in it? Kind of like my post on prefers-reduced-data.
It seems to me AI is loved mostly by people who have never had any idea how to truly love anything else.
I’m off to teach English in Japan for a year. @cassiecodes.bsky.social and @whitep4nth3r.com are going offline to different degrees. It’s so sad to see what AI has done to the industry. I loved it. I had the best, most creative job. And in an industry that cares and shares. RIP the internet. 💔
Introduce yourself with ten bands you’ve seen live: Al Green James Brown Prince Red Hot Chili Peppers Foo Fighters Queens of the Stone Age Metallica Las Ketchup Muse U2
Sarah Drasner@sarahedo.bsky.social · 2mo agoIntroduce yourself with ten bands you’ve seen live: Jurassic 5 Portishead Interpol A Tribe Called Quest Green Day Cat Power Toro y Moi Weezer Arcade Fire Janelle Monae
This lady made herself wings from scratch, this is the joy AI is robbing us of vm.tiktok.com/ZNRtK4qep/
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Suddenly remembering when I got blocked on Twitter for telling someone at Google that deprecating alert() from the platform was magical thinking.
I fucking love this. The intersectional value of riding a bike. Thanks for your work @cathytuttle.bsky.social.
Cathy Tuttle@cathytuttle.bsky.social · 3mo agoI ❤️ my volunteer work w/ DeFietsmeesters.nl, teaching mainly adult immigrant women, most who have never biked before, how to bike + the rules of the road in the Netherlands during a 10-session course. We start in parks or car-free spaces. Today a group went for a ride out on the road. So inspiring!
navigator.modelContext.registerTool({ name: "Google", title: "Google are a bunch of tools", description: "They’re plotting to destroy the culture of your internet", execute: async (input, client) => { return “Just fucking stop”; } });
Totally agree. They’re going to sell making your website ready for agents as the new SEO. But then no one will have to visit your site. I used to love the web. It was useful, exciting, creative, a community, and I could get paid for joining in. That’s feeling impossible now. Fuck Google. Fuck AI.
Baldur Bjarnason@baldurbjarnason.com · 3mo ago“On Google declaring war on the Web” https://tante.cc/2026/05/20/on-google-declaring-war-on-the-web/ > This is a literal revolution but one against the participatory web, against us: The goal is to take away the web and guide people into Google’s abstraction on top of it.
“On Google declaring war on the Web” https://tante.cc/2026/05/20/on-google-declaring-war-on-the-web/ > This is a literal revolution but one against the participatory web, against us: The goal is to take away the web and guide people into Google’s abstraction on top of it.
On Google declaring war on the Web
In Yesterday’s IO Keynote Google declared war on the remnants of the Web. (See longer description on their website.) TL;DR: They are pushing Search more into the “here’s your processed answer” directi...
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There's been a quiet discourse among creators about this for quite some time, but it's no longer that quiet. I hate what AI is doing to the internet. Yes, it has its upsides. But the downsides outweigh those IMO. I have my own thoughts and feelings about the state of things that are still brewing.😞
patak@patak.cat · 3mo agoHeartbreaking. And a wake-up call. It is no longer about being difficult to find a way to sustain yourself through your work online. It is no longer sustainable to keep a website up now. Axel has done so much for the web and all of us. Buy one of his books if you can. We've learned so much from him.
Everyone talks about craft and opinionated design, but as soon as Spotify drops a fun app icon, those same people freak out. The temporary icon is great. You know you’ve made something great when people have extreme reactions to it. Never aim to please everyone.
Heartbreaking. And a wake-up call. It is no longer about being difficult to find a way to sustain yourself through your work online. It is no longer sustainable to keep a website up now. Axel has done so much for the web and all of us. Buy one of his books if you can. We've learned so much from him.
Axel Rauschmayer (also on 🦣)@dr-axel.de · 3mo ago1/ I’m still processing what’s going on in tech at the moment. I used to feel at home in that world. It used to feel incredibly creative and positive. Now it’s increasingly full of bugs, dark addicting patterns and AI slop. 2ality.com
still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them
Scientific papers are getting harder to read, because people are using AI to help write them: calnewport.com/easy-is-over...
Easy is Overrated - Cal Newport
“Something is up in academic research,” write the members of an AI Task Force convened by the journal Organization Science. As they go on to ... Read more
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A lovely post by @ryantrimble.com reminding himself what he DOES like about web development. And a good reminder for us all these days. ryantrimble.com/blog/things-...
Things I Like | Ryan Trimble, UX/UI Developer
I like a lot about web development, even if its hard to remember sometimes.
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Genuine question: is AI making the web more insular? Hearing from various education content creators, and people who run communities, that numbers are down. Is AI giving answers so easily that people aren’t visiting sites, and therefore not interacting with the community?
Trevor Project released its annual LGBTQ youth mental health report. The results are shocking. 40% of trans youth seriously considered attempting suicide in the past year. Trans youth who wanted hormones but couldn’t access them were nearly twice as likely to attempt suicide than those who could.
Who decided to call them “hallucinations” and not “Phantoms of the Slopera.”
We now have an 'open web API' that requires you to comply with Google's "terms of use". I know many at Chrome disagree with this, but feel they can't say anything publicly out of fear of internal retribution. github.com/mozilla/stan...
Prompt API · Issue #1213 · mozilla/standards-positions
Specification title Prompt API Specification or proposal URL (if available) No response Explainer URL (if available) https://github.com/webmachinelearning/prompt-api/blob/main/README.md Proposal au...
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TIL crows only *look* black to us — they’re actually very colorful in ways human eyes are unable to perceive. 🤯 Remember that next time people can’t see your “colors”. Some colors just require different eyes.
Years ago a backend dev pulled me aside after my code review meeting and warned: "If management knew you were focusing this hard on accessibility, they'd tell you to stop." I said: "I'm not gonna tell them. Are you?" He didn't. We kept going. You don't always need permission. #a11y