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Mike Jeffery

@fellaroonie.bsky.social

Front-end dev. Bass player. Into loud music, clean code, and building better systems. Leftist, pro-labor, and deeply skeptical of anyone hoarding power.

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Mike Jeffery @fellaroonie.bsky.social · 2w ago

I get to visit Montreal today. Gonna wear my Expos cap. Where's the real good poutine?

Mike Jeffery @fellaroonie.bsky.social · 4w ago

I wish there was a way to unfollow a whole-ass starter pack... Wait. Is there? Does anybody know how to unfollow a whole starter pack? I'll be your best friend!

Steve Martin: If I Had One Wish (SNL)

ALT: Steve Martin: If I Had One Wish (SNL)

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · last mo.

Ford has rehired hundreds of senior engineers after replacing them with AI backfired and has cost the company billions of dollars. AI adoption is blamed for Ford being the most recalled automaker in the U.S. with 51 recalls covering over 11 million vehicles in the first half of 2026 alone.

Mike Jeffery @fellaroonie.bsky.social · last mo.

Who wants to start a band?

Large Heydon Collider@heydonworks.com · last mo.

The HTML cat is out of the Web Audio bag. I've finally released HYPERBLAM. It’s my system for sampling, processing, and sequencing sound and music directly in HTML. hyperblam.how

Large Heydon Collider @heydonworks.com · last mo.

The HTML cat is out of the Web Audio bag. I've finally released HYPERBLAM. It’s my system for sampling, processing, and sequencing sound and music directly in HTML. hyperblam.how

Hyperblam Docs Home

Documentation for HyperBlam. Make HTML make music.

hyperblam.how

Emmie Päivärinta @about1em.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Protip: make overly pessimistic predictions and people will be happily surprised.

Mike Jeffery @fellaroonie.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Sucks that every tech podcast has turned their focus almost solely on AI. Drop me a recommendation for something tech and/or web dev/design focused that doesn't care about AI.

Mike Jeffery @fellaroonie.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Indie game idea: 8-bit Megaman style platformer with soundtrack performed by John Frusciante.

Firefox for Web Developers @webdevs.firefox.com · 2mo ago

Ever struggled to get heading tags right in includes/components? headingoffset could be the answer…

Bruce Lawson @brucel.bsky.social · 2mo ago

All Chromium browsers are the same? O RLY ?!?!? Take a look at Google and Vivaldi's roadmaps.

Mike Jeffery @fellaroonie.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The energy here lately is truly energizing, as bleak as it feels sometimes. Some actions I've taken in the past week: 1. Bought a course made by real humans. 2. Downloaded a more private browser 3. Signed up for more private, secure email. Remember that small actions add up!

A still from "South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut." The main kids, Cartman, Stan, and Kyle along with many of the supporting cast of school aged kids stand in solidarity around a flag. They are standing on a snowy landscape with hills and pine trees in the background. The black and red flag features doodles of Terrance and Phillip and the words "La Resistance" in white lettering.

Mike Jeffery @fellaroonie.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Is #cssday being offered online this year? I couldn't find the option for online tickets on the website yesterday. CC: @cssday.nl

Mike Jeffery @fellaroonie.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Name your top 15 TV shows ever, gut instincts only: Lost Breaking Bad Mad Men Seinfeld The Office HIMYM GoT Andor Star Wars: Rebels Sons of Anarchy Walking Dead Peacemaker Star Trek: Enterprise ER Myth Busters

Tilly Bridges@tillybridges.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Name your top 15 TV shows ever, gut instincts only (i’m leaving all Star Trek out so you get more variety): The Good Place Over the Garden Wall Pluribus Severance Silo The Twilight Zone (og) Deadwood Quantum Leap Heartstopper The Expanse Haunting of Hill House Deadloch Kaos Hazbin Hotel The Pitt

zeldman @zeldman.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The first nine tracks of my LP-in-progress are available for free streaming and downloading. Likes and reposts appreciated. sonica.music/8yxbzc5igk8j #soundtrack #electronic #triphop #acidjazz #funk #hiphop #beats #chords #melodies #albums #composinginpublic

Zeldman One — sonica

Sonica

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 4mo ago

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AI Isn’t Too Big To Fail, And Saying It Is Only Exists To Endorse Bad Behavior
That term “moral hazard” is important because (as discussed earlier) it’s the reason why the Bear Stearns bailout was likely an accelerant of the great financial crisis. Big banks correctly assumed they’d get bailed out, and acted as such.

The 2008 bailout existed to stabilize the financial system, and succeeded in doing so by actually targeting the sources of the instability - liquidity, toxic assets, massive job-creators and so on and so forth. While we can (reasonably!) debate about how necessary it was in certain aspects (and the idea that a billion dollars of bonuses went to executives is fucking vile and everybody involved should be in prison, and no, they weren’t returned), it at least had an end point and eventually ended up with a narrow profit of $1 billion, per ProPublica.

Put another way, the assets in question gained value, and entities borrowing from the Fed actually had to pay it back.

If we assume that the AI bailout would be for OpenAI and Anthropic, it’s unclear what it is we’d be bailing out. Both of these companies lose billions of dollars a year and have no path to profitability, meaning that the money invested would have no real path to a return on investment.

And let’s be really frank for a second: there is nothing “systemic” or even essential about generative AI. It does not have the returns or the efficacy or the outputs that mean that common jobs - other than “jobs at AI startups” - are now existentially tied to its existence.

The collapse in value of AI startups wouldn’t be changed by a bailout unless the US government literally invested in worthless startups as a means of propping up venture capital, and said “bailout” would number in the hundreds of billions of dollars, and while I know you’re gonna say “ohhhh Trump is so corrupt oooh Trump will do this Trump will do that,” this is not a rational or logical or even historically-accurate thing to say. Tr…

Saying AI Is “Too Big To Fail” Is A Crutch To Avoid Thinking About Bad Things

While I think a level of doomerism and depression drives the feeling that AI is “too big to fail,” I think an alarming amount of people use this logic as a means of avoiding thinking about bad things happening at all.

If OpenAI isn’t too big to fail, that means that it either has to work out how to become profitable, or default on hundreds of billions of dollars of contracts with Oracle, Microsoft and Amazon. As a result, it’s convenient to just say “oh the government will bail them out,” because otherwise you have to accept that a company can grow very large, very quickly, mostly through outright deceit and overstatements of revenue and efficacy of its products.

It also means that Anthropic and virtually every other AI startup are headed for the woodshed. There are no signs that these companies are becoming more profitable, and far more that they’re burning more every year rather than less, which again is deflected by saying “they’re in growth mode, and they’ll just “hit the profit lever” to work it out.”

I also want to be clear that I’m not minimizing the carnage that will happen as a result of either or both of these companies collapsing. Hundreds of billions of dollars of equity investment have gone into AI startups, and those investments are likely to be somewhere between 0% and 10% of their current value by the time everything is done. Venture firms heavily-levered in these assets will face furious Limited Partners, something I warned about in the Enshittifinancial Crisis, who believed their funds were worth far more than they were thanks to the inflated investments in doomed LLM wrappers and associated startups.

The toxic assets in the Great Financial Crisis were very, very different to equity investments in startups, and the only reason they were purchased was because the banks would’ve run out of money. A venture capital firm running out of money is a tragedy for its partner…

Without real, measurable productivity gains (outside of people saying “IT’S WRITING ALL MY CODE,” which doesn’t actually seem to be doing anything, economically speaking?)AI's economic effects are incredibly siloed - a process of banks and financial institutions sending money to NVIDIA or construction companies, or venture capitalists, in a roundabout way, sending money to Microsoft, Amazon, Google or Oracle. People aren’t making more money because of AI, new jobs aren’t being created because of AI, and the only people that seem to get “the benefits” are the already-rich or those co-opted to serve their needs.

Eventually, I see Large Language Models as a forgotten category somewhere deep within Google Cloud, AWS and Microsoft Azure, or an on-device doohickey that particularly-dedicated software engineers play with. This feels unthinkable given the prominence of AI today - and by “prominence” I mean everybody talking about it and shoving it in your face rather than anything about efficacy or usefulness.

Everything you see about AI today is a direct result of infinite resources and gullible investors, much like the Great Financial Crisis. The difference is that the only people that are truly gambling their futures on it are venture capitalists, private creditors and Business Development Companies like Blue Owl, and even then, the risk of an AI bubble bursting is horrible for them but not one that triggers a global financial crisis.

What people aren’t really talking about is how bad this will be for the tech industry’s reputation. Silicon Valley and its associated tendrils have made one of the most horrible, ugly, upsetting and demoralizing plays in the history of capitalism - a violative, forced intrusion of Large Language Models sold through outright lies about “agents,” laundered through a captured media, pumping a stock market that feels more and more disconnected from real life every day.

The tech industry likely doesn’t think about the outcomes of the bubbl…

When this collapses, I believe people will be joyous. I believe they will be ecstatic. And when they’re finished celebrating, they’ll see their 401Ks and the stock market bathed in blood.

And they’ll blame Sam Altman, Satya Nadella, Dario Amodei, Andy Jassy, and every other rotten executive that lied their way through the AI bubble.

I think this might genuinely be what turns society against the tech industry, and I think that’s entirely fucking deserved considering the wretched state of our so-called innovators.

Fuck these people.

Mike Jeffery @fellaroonie.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Really feeling the #enshitification of the internet these past few days. The #AI bots should be the ones jumping through hoops, not humans. If I have to "identify the pictures of bikes" every time I want to order tacos, I'll just go back to speaking to other humans.

Michael Warren @michaelwarren.dev · 5mo ago

repost if you think that designers and devs forming an integrated partnership ends up resulting in a better product than the typical “hand it off to the devs” approach

Mike Jeffery @fellaroonie.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Gas is so expensive that the pump counts cents by 3's.

zeldman @zeldman.bsky.social · 5mo ago

This article by @anneapplebaum.bsky.social may be the most important news piece you read this week.

Anne Applebaum@anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 5mo ago

Trump does not think strategically, historically, geographically, or even rationally. He does not connect actions he takes on one day to events that occur weeks later. Allied leaders know that if they help him in the Gulf, he won't be grateful, or even remember www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Mike Jeffery @fellaroonie.bsky.social · 5mo ago

This polarizing post led to many interesting takes. The whole thread is worth a read.

Laurie Voss@seldo.com · 5mo ago

I have always been the kind of developer who only cared about outcomes. Give me the tool, the framework, the head start. I just want my website. A totally different kind of developer exists who cares about the *craft*. Getting that function just right. Those devs are in pain right now.

Sara Joy ☠️@sjoy.lol · 5mo ago

This feels like a good way for the AI bubble to burst - people get to keep their useful pet oracles and stop paying and giving their data to the oligarchs: youtu.be/YTLnnoZPALI

How AI Will Fail Like The Music Industry

YouTube video by Rick Beato

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Mike Jeffery @fellaroonie.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Lately, each update to @microsoft.com Edge seems to break something in Linux. A previous update broke the ability to inherit OS theme (dark/light mode.) the latest seems to have a bug in the theme emulation in dev tools.

Mike Jeffery @fellaroonie.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Today I learned that you can curate your own lists of people on Blue Sky. This is great because I've been missing all my faves on the wash of bullshit going on in America. Now, I have a less active feed that I love right next to the chaotic nightmarish feed that I need. 10/10 highly recommend.

Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 6mo ago

RIP Vine

852dude@852dude.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Ive watched this about 100 times. This is why the internet was invented. Right here. Peak content.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 6mo ago

❤️

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 6mo ago

“Imagine how they lie when there’s no evidence to contradict them.” Watch this powerful message from Jon Stewart.

Dave Rupert @davatron5000.bsky.social · 7mo ago

The news is appalling. I believe what we're seeing today in Minneapolis on full display is what Dr. King called "The Three Evils of Society"; a sickness of Racism, Excessive Materialism, and Militarism.

David Burbach 🇺🇸@dburbach.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Non-protesting dad just trying to hustle his kids, as young as 6mo, out of the neighborhood. ICE threw a flash-bang INTO HIS car, all 6 kids in the hospital now. If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.

Mike Jeffery @fellaroonie.bsky.social · 8mo ago

We've been peeling his name offa shit for years. We're gonna get over this hump someday. Stay strong.

Jason Lengstorf @jason.energy · 8mo ago

a mistake I see constantly: leaders go quiet when something went wrong in the absence of the real story, people will try to piece the story together from incomplete information a story always gets told. rumors are usually worse than the truth. be vulnerable: own it so you have a chance to recover

Mike Jeffery @fellaroonie.bsky.social · 8mo ago

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