I'm starting to reconsider my decision to leave X. I'm not sure the current situation where the rather large subset of the tech community with toxic opinions are left to propagate them among themselves is such a great outcome…

Yeah yeah AI sucks etc. end of the world blah blah but in the meantime there are now 81 (!) custom firmwares for the M-Vave FM-1 synth. thefirmwarehub.com

Make Firmware, Not War – The FM-1 Firmware Hub

A collection of open-source firmwares for the M-VAVE FM-1 on one page, always the newest release. No need to pick a side: one click each, and back.

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"White" papers indeed…

Claude just told me "I’ll read through the data myself first, without using the LLM". Wait… I thought YOU were the LLM…?

Did you know the State of HTML 2026 survey is currently open? Go take it and brush up on new (and old) browser APIs! survey.devographics.com/en-US/survey...

State of HTML 2026

Take the State of HTML survey

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More range sliders with fancy shapes? Let's go! This time with a tooltip showing the value. curve, wave, zig-zag, arc ... Which one do you prefer? css-tip.com/shaped-range... 0% JavaScript and 100% CSS magic (border-shape, shape(), scroll-driven animations, and more!)

CSS by T. Afif@css-only.dev · 4mo ago

Who said range sliders need to be straight and boring?! Hey CSS, distort the line! 〰️ css-tip.com/wiggly-range... Another funny demo powered by border-shape, scroll-driven animations, and more The HTML code? Only an input element (no extra code is needed)

the flying car changed my mind, I guess capitalism *is* the solution to all of humanity's ills

Around 70% of open source maintainers work alone or in small teams, and most are unpaid. @mirandaheath.website, Director and psychologist at the @stewardshiplab.org on the four drivers of burnout and what AI does to each. @viteconf.org 2026, 15 oct (TODAY) 2pm UTC. Free and online. viteconf.org

I've been doing "State of…" surveys for 10 years now, and it really feels like it somehow coincided with an era of web development, from the rise of React and Vite to the adoption of TypeScript. In 2026, it feels like we're now at the beginning of something entirely new and different altogether…

At an individual level, AI coding makes many things way faster and easier. Yet many are skeptical that it actually makes companies more productive. Are they wrong? Or are they right, and maybe AI is being misused by large companies?

I just want to get acquired by Cloudflare too. Is that too much to ask?

Welcome to the future of thinking. NERVE CENTER premieres next Thursday on InfoWars.

I have to say, these AI music videos are impressive. It would take a team of animators many weeks (months?) to create this kind of output, to say nothing of actually producing the music. Also, very fitting subject matter… www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKrV...

Claude Opus 5.5 Made a Music Video About AI Taking Over | The End Of The Show

YouTube video by Imaginative Prompting

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@jeffcannata.bsky.social I heard you were coming to Japan, if you ever happen to be in Kyoto I would love to say hello!

Randomly stumbed on @futurism.com and it reads like if pro-AI people wanted to parody anti-AI views, except it's real, if that makes sense futurism.com/future-socie...

Particularly Weak-Minded Americans Are Asking ChatGPT Which Candidate to Vote For, Which Sounds a Bit Like AI Is Just Voting Now Via Meat Proxies

Voters in the upcoming midterm elections are using ChatGPT to research candidates and figure out who to vote for.

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I am seriously reconsidering the role online surveys have to play in the era of AI.

As a solo entrepreneur, AI-assisted coding has been great, letting me outsource the parts of the stack I'd rather not deal with (back-end, etc.). Out there in the real world though, it seems like managers are doing a horrible job of setting sane boundaries. www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/05-soft...

Software developers are not okay

Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland

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I'm now at the point in my inevitable cognitive decline journey where I can stare at a new AI startup's homepage for 5 minutes straight and still have no idea what they do

An AI downside I don't see discussed much is how it devalues *non-AI* work. Things that would take weeks such as writing a report, coding an app, or drawing a detailed illustration now seem less impressive because of the possibility they might all be AI-generated–even when they aren't.

If you’re in the Osaka area come check out the OKTech mini-hackathon this Friday! oktech.jp/events/31663...

Osaka Fasthacks #1 - Events - OKTech - Technology Meetup Group in Osaka, Kyoto, Kansai

Topics: Entrepreneurship, Software Development, Web Technology, Hackathons, Internet Professionals. Join us for this tech meetup event!

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The State of Devs survey confirms it: we’re tired. 😩 Meanwhile, EmDash, Vinext & Vite+ hit 1.0, OpenAI dropped 30+ things at Dev Day, and AI agents still have a prompt-injection problem. Show link: front-end-fire.com/episodes/164/

A few years back we were all amazed at AI-generated art; whereas today the vast majority of it feels cheap, generic, and uncool. And we detect it pretty easily. I wonder if AI coding will follow a similar trajectory. Will we look back at over-complicated mid-2026 AI slop apps the same way?

@tolin.ski just a heads up that the State of Devs survey results are now available 2026.stateofdevs.com/en-US/ some of the questions were directly inspired by your own work on the topic of AI & developer mental state!

State of Devs 2026

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so apparently YouTube Music has decided that I'm really into rappers who hate vowels and push the distortion slider to 11, and I'm not sure how I feel about it…

Introducing the State of Devs Correlation Spectrum Here we can see that having no interest in joining a union is moderately correlated with: - Being worried about the erosion of traditional values - Being straight - Feeling curious about tech. Explore the data: 2026.stateofdevs.com/en-US/

The State of Devs 2026 survey results are out! 2026.stateofdevs.com/en-US/ Here's a quick recap 🧵

State of Devs 2026

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The State of Devs 2026 survey results are out! 2026.stateofdevs.com/en-US/ Here's a quick recap 🧵

State of Devs 2026

2026.stateofdevs.com

With help from the amazing @mirandaheath.website, the 2026 State of Devs survey results are now available! 2026.stateofdevs.com/en-US/ This already took a ton of work, and I feel like I've barely scratched the surface of what the dataset could teach us.

State of Devs 2026

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🎉 Introducing npmchart.com Analyze npm packages (downloads, releases), Github activity (releases, stars, commits, issues, PRs), compare packages, user pages, download or copy any charts, and more!

Where are you on the AI dev lifecycle? "I don't need AI to do my job" ↓ "I'll just use AI to code a few things" ↓ "It's fine as long as I review everything" ↓ "Actually, the AI's code is better" ← I'm here ↓ "I should never have to look at code anyway" ↓ "Programming languages are obsolete"