I just need everyone to know that my 15 y.o. Daughter just beat Elden Ring, a game that I would never even attempt to play because it looks way too hard.

This is becoming a common but not enough interrogated buzzphrase for a very real problem - LLM output is verification and technical debt. One person can generate plausible enough looking results that they can pass through several hands before a close enough reading shows it's full of shit.

Kat Steiner🔸@kastrel.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This! Someone sent me a plan for a research project that they'd got chatgpt to write, and it was 3x longer than what I usually get and honestly I was like "why should I spend my time reading this when you haven't spent yours writing it, you may not even have read it yourself"?

looking forward to the near future when these 7-day workweek dorks burn out and invent weekends + 8 hours of sleep but call it something goofy like "REM-maxxing" and start ridiculing each other like "bro you don't let your subconscious cook on problems 8 hours a day bro you're ngmi"

I say it every year - if you're even the least bit interested or involved in web performance, this is THE place to be every year. It's the one trip I prioritize my travel budget for. The talks are awesome, but the hallway track is unbeatable. The concentration of experts in one place is insane.

performance.now() conference@perfnow.nl · 3mo ago

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At some point soon (if not already) businesses are going to lose customers from the degraded experiences that no-human-has-reviewed-LLM-generated code spits out. And then what?

Tim Kadlec@tkadlec.bsky.social · 4mo ago

p75 and p90 JavaScript bytes on the web have exploded since May, 2025—easily the largest 10 month period based on HTTP Archive data since 2023. The long-tail is getting worse, very quickly. Gemini, what happened in May 2025?

Same pattern, every team. Designer annotates everything. Design system specifies focus states, heading structure, the lot. Engineering ships something broken anyway. Not an awareness problem. A skills gap the industry built deliberately. Rant here - gbbns.co/journal/acce... #Accessibility

OK so this young trans gentleman was cut off by his parents, has been unable to get MIT to up his financial aid, has been working multiple jobs while maintaining an A- average AT MIT (no one does this), but he is gonna need to actually pay his tuition to graduate: www.gofundme.com/f/help-matth...

Donate to Help Matthew Graduate From MIT, organized by Irene Dong

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The most disturbing aspect of the AI era is realizing how many people have only ever valued others for their labor and not their humanity.

:nod-crying-bufo:

The Onion@theonion.com · 5mo ago

Company Lacks Manpower To Complete Newest Round Of Layoffs https://theonion.com/company-lacks-manpower-to-complete-newest-round-of-layo-1819574660/

The paralympics have been so fun to watch, just amazing athleticism on display

bryson@brysonm.bsky.social · 5mo ago

holy shit

holy shit

having used claude extensively for the past couple of months, i think there is still a lot of value to understanding your code and steering it intentionally. the amount of incidental complexity claude accumulates otherwise (which mostly results in bugs that it can't ever fix reliably) is staggering.

I started a new chapter of my Agentic Engineering Patternw guide about anti-patterns - things NOT to do So far I only have one: Inflicting unreviewed code on collaborators, aka dumping a thousand line PR without even making sure it works first simonwillison.net/guides/agent...

Now I know how I’ll be spending my funemployment!

Lev Parikian@levparikian.bsky.social · 5mo ago

*bursts in, sweating, out of breath* “Drop everything, fish doorbell’s back” visdeurbel.nl/en/

Block was a really great place to work for the past four months. Unfortunately, I’m part of today’s 40% layoff. If you need an old hand at web stuff, who has staff software engineering experience at multiple international corporations, hit me up. ❤️

Getting laid off sucks, but I just realized that I have never taken more than 2 weeks off between jobs before, and I’ve always juggled interviews with actually working. So, silver lining, I’ll get a nice long break for the first time ever, and I’ll be able to focus on studying for interviews

Hi friends I just got laid off along with 40% of Block. No idea what comes next, but if you have need for a Principal Frontend Engineer hit me up!

THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS. not just in communities, but companies too. I have never in my long career worked with anyone who deliberately *made the choice* to be a “low performer” without curiosity/discipline/agency, it’s always been beaten out of them

Hazel Weakly@hazelweakly.me · 5mo ago

I would echo this. I *have* found people "without" discipline and curiosity, but usually this is correlated with: 1. They've been shut down and shut out 2. They don't feel valued 3. They've been stripped of self efficacy 4. They don't feel safe in their environment So, y'know... I can't blame them

Props to @scott.hanselman.com for naming the elephant in the room in big tech. AI coding tools boost senior engineers but create challenges for juniors who lack context to judge outputs. Cutting junior hiring for near-term gains weakens the future pipeline. We’ll need apprenticeship-style paths.

Oooh this is super exciting to see Container Timing come to life! This will be so helpful for measuring user-triggered page updates!

José Dapena Paz@jdapena.bsky.social · 6mo ago

How do you measure when a component is “ready”? ⏱️ LCP is too global; Element Timing is too specific. 🛠️ I’ve been working with Bloomberg on a new #webperf API: Container Timing. Think of it as “LCP for a web component”, providing aggregated paint timing for a subtree.

I won't have time to debunk the old "yellow is not accessible" myth in my axe-con talk. But, you are lucky: I already wrote a whole article on how accessibility does NOT limit color choices. stephaniewalter.design/blog/yellow-... #Accessibility #AccessibleColors #YellowColor

BOMBOGENESIS BOMBOGENESIS BOMBOGENESIS BOMBOGENESIS

/ FOLKS / THIS IS IT / THE BLIZZARD OF 2026 / READY 2 BLOB U UP / READY 2 BLOB U DOWN / UR GONNA GET ALL BLOBBED UP / STARTING SUMTIME AFTER 6 PM SUNEVE / & LASTING IN2 MONNITE / THIS WILL BE THICC HEAVY WET SNOWBLOBS / CHARGE UR BATTERIES AS POWER OUTAGES R LIKELY

A sad day for rectangles

Una Kravets@una.im · 6mo ago

I've been experimenting with an upcoming CSS feature called border-shape lately. It's really cool what you can do with it: lots of practical applications + it opens a lot of doors for non-rectangular UIs! Try it in Canary w/experimental web platform features on, & read more: una.im/border-shape

Really interesting - lately I've been wondering what it looks like to retrofit the software factory model onto an existing engineering team and this starts to answer that question - The Era of the Software Factory 🏭 refactoring.fm/p/the-era-of...

The Era of the Software Factory 🏭

A reflection based on the latest State of Software Delivery report

refactoring.fm

Arguing about unit tests vs. integration tests sucks. It's dogma and I feel like a heretic. This post discusses a different way to think about a test’s scope. I love it.

It's been a while since my last blog post, so I made up for it with a wall of text 😅 This article looks at why JS-heavy web apps tend to miss their performance goals over time, what you can do to somewhat mitigate that, and ends with a plea for us to move back to the server, as an industry.

It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this

This is the same tech that all the software engineering influencers on X are telling you to use to open PRs to your codebase without reviewing the diffs.

Fascinating overview of the symbolism and meaning from Bad Bunny’s halftime show

Becky Hammer@beckyhammer.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Disturbingly detailed analysis of my first rewatch incoming