Study: AI advice dropped people's accuracy from 27% to 9%, and cut "I don't know" answers from 44% to 3%. More wrong, more confident, less willing to admit doubt. https://thenextweb.com/n... #ai #criticalthinking

Astro 7.1 is about giving you more control: finer-grained CSP for scripts and styles, custom pagination URLs, plus multiple dev servers and lower memory content collections. astro.build/blog/astro-7...

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Astro 7.1 is about more control: CSP, pagination, dev server, and content collections.

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OSV is useful security plumbing: a distributed vulnerability database for open source, with search, an API, scanners, remediation tools, and GitHub workflows in one place. Less magic, more boring infrastructure that actually helps. https://osv.dev #opensource #security

Footer.design is a gallery for the part of websites people usually design five minutes before launch. Useful footer inspiration, plus one awful admission: yes, this is basically a foot fetish for interface designers. I know. Bad pun. https://www.footer.design #webdesign #uidesign

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I always like when a science research paper undersigns it scientificality by using American measurement scales like "squirts" or "football fields". But alas, the idea behind it seems valid. arstechnica.com/science/2026...

Electrical current might be the key to a better cup of coffee

University of Oregon scientists repurposed battery-testing tool to better measure coffee's flavor profile...

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Happy World Malaria Day! If you didn't have it yet, now is the best time... to prevent ever getting it.

Niels Leenheer rendered DOOM entirely in CSS. Each wall and imp is a <div>. JS feeds coordinates; CSS does all the math and rendering. Actually playable. https://nielsleenheer.co...

This cat is judging you! (Testing image upload... sorry ;)

Ubuntu ships Firefox as a Snap and makes it hard to avoid. Complaining about it won’t change that. Controlling your system will. If Snap gets in your way, this is the clean workaround: kollitsch.dev/blog/2026/in...

Installing Firefox on Ubuntu without Snap | kollitsch.dev

A practical guide to removing the Snap version of Firefox and installing it from the Mozilla Team PPA on Ubuntu.

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I am in a conversation with my #LLM about its name (something I just ignored for the past 3 years) and it referred to itself with "I" for the first time today. I opened Pandora's box apparently. Its selections are great and it somehow gets the task...

AI is a tool, not an author. Own your contribution. If your name is on it, you’re responsible. That’s it. kollitsch.dev/blog/2026/ai...

The new Web Weekly is just about to hit all the inboxes! 🫣 If you're into web dev news close to the fundamentals (you know, browser features, specs, and all the good stuff), you should check it out! webweekly.email/archive/web-...

#jQuery (the #JavaScript library we all used 10 years ago) has a new release and reached the big 4.0.0 now. blog.jquery.com/2026/01/17/j...

Filesize matters. blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-...

Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025

Cloudflare suffered a service outage on November 18, 2025. The outage was triggered by a bug in generation logic for a Bot Management feature file causing many Cloudflare services to be affected.

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Just in case you live under a hill, here is a task for you to do soon: Go to #LinkedIn, then your account settings, select "Settings & Privacy", then "Data #privacy", and disable the "Data for Generative AI Improvement". This is about *training* the models on your data, not *using* your data with AI

This feels useful - a MCP server for Chrome's DevTools. https://developer.chrome...

I am a big supporter of learning via examples. Today: #Buddhism. https://www.smbc-comics....

This is most certainly the best and _only_ way to reboot the #Anaconda #movie franchise. https://www.youtube.com/...

In my #ChatGPT instructions I have a 'no yapping' rule. Now she responds every three answers with 'No yapping :)' in the beginning. Which in itself is yapping in my understanding, even if the rest always doesn't yapp. The smiley makes me think there is some passive aggressiveness going on.

I wrote a blog post about my solution to Astro's problems with my OCD of adding and removing content while the dev server was running. Read it. Or not... It's your life... ;] #astro #vite -- kollitsch.dev/blog/2025/re...

Well, everything seems to be going away these days... The latest victim: Nova Launcher, my go-to Android launcher for the past 13 or so years. teslacoilapps.com/nova/solong....

Netlify and chill? Astro 5.12 has a new Netlify dev experience that's sure to get you in the right mood. 🕯️ astro.build/blog/astro-5...

Astro 5.12 | Astro

Astro 5.12 ships TOML support for content loaders, experimental raw environment values, and improved Netlify adapter development experience!

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That bear survived something...

Astro 5.11 is all about experimenting with new things 🧑‍🔬 - CSP static headers for static pages in Node.js, Netlify and Vercel adapters - Disable HTML streaming in Node.js astro.build/blog/astro-5...

Astro 5.11 | Astro

Astro 5.11 ships more Content Security Policy (CSP) features, the ability to disable streaming in the Node.js adapter, and more!

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Just watched Randy Writes a Novel - stand-up, puppetry, and existential crisis. Randy tries to write a novel and ends up unraveling into hilariously tangents. Worth my while. Watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4pk...

Randy Feltface - Randy Writes a Novel

YouTube video by Randy Feltface

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I mean, how could they ever choose anything else?

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NASA needed a new site that was out of this world Houston, we have a solution kennedyspacecenter.com, built with Astro + WordPress

I always say "Thanks. Perfect." at the end of my ChatGPT conversations, as I've learned that idle conversations cost them money. They are financed with billions of dollars, so it's no big deal.

Today, we mourn the passing of Skype, a once-vibrant bridge between friends and families, long forgotten. As we bid farewell to the familiar chime of incoming calls, we, with heavy hearts, are putting to its grave a chapter of our digital lives that shaped so many moments of connection.