millennials love Deep Space Nine because it's set at the mall
Happy 35th Birthday HTML tags! On October 29, 1991, the internet pioneer, Tim Berners-Lee, published a document entitled HTML Tags. The document contained a description of the first 18 HTML tags: <title>, <nextid>, <a>, <isindex>, <plaintext>, <listing>, <p>, <h1>…, <address>, <hp1>…
“I don’t need accessibility,” says the tech bro, dictating instructions to his agent by voice. “We can’t prioritize accessibility right now,” says another, while his agent completes his tasks by reading the accessibility tree.
why does every political test I take give me an autism diagnosis
My thoughts on the current state of AI driven software development, why I'm no longer concerned about a runaway intelligence explosion, and what I think is a far worse outcome we could be walking into maevyn.codes/decoherence
The Decoherence Trap: When AI slop drowns out the signal in an endless sea of noise
Of all the forms of tech debt, decoherence is the worst. It compounds exponentially with a system's rate of change, and AI is now producing it faster than ever, leading us deeper and deeper into the a...
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No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads
The NHS is already one of the biggest perpetrators of anti-trans violence in the UK. This new guidance, which refers to trans people using slurs, demands that we be segregated and abused. I’ve said it before: senior NHS managers must be sacked and punished for what they’ve done to us.
Ethel Weapon@lousadzak.bsky.social · 3w agoThis will kill people
ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
When "white sauce" in fish pie Contains cheese, it’s a lie. That’s a mornay.
Anon Opin@anonopin.bsky.social · 2mo agoI hate it when food presenters describe a white sauce with cheese in it as a béchamel. It's not. A béchamel is a simple white sauce. Add cheese and it's a mornay. But let's not using the French words and just call one a plain white sauce and the other a cheese sauce.
Digital Ocean ended their $50/month sponsorship of GNOME and FlatHub and went radio silent on CSS-Tricks right around the time they found a spare three million dollars to burn on “sponsoring” a high-profile racist’s dotfiles repo. Impossible to see this as anything but a statement of their values.
Why CSS-Tricks Has Been Quiet Lately - Geoff Graham
Because I haven't published anything to it since August 31. And no one else has either. That's not a super long time to go silent but it is for a site that
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> The mechanism should pay people for being useful, not for being good at asking
Laurie Voss@seldo.com · 2mo agoI have been writing this post about the economics of open source, on and off, for 13 years. I wasn't expecting to end up at "Microsoft should send corporations a huge bill" but nothing else we've tried has worked. https://seldo.com/posts/nobody-pays-for-open-source-we-can-force-them-to/
"Omarchy should not matter. But sadly it does. As a power grab." I wrote about why we have to care about Omarchy. As a fascist power grab within the FLOSS ecosystem.
Power grab
Omarchy should not matter. But sadly it does. As a power grab. If you don’t know what Omarchy is here’s the short summary. David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of RubyOnRails, owner of a software business and millionaire, decided a few months ago to go all in on Linux and – because that’s just his MO – […]
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NHS cancelling surgeries for adults even after they’ve already paid for travel + accommodation and waited years to get there. Some were about to be wheeled into theatre! Every manager responsible for this decision must be sacked and every patient paid compensation.
QueerAF@wearequeeraf.com · 2mo ago🚨🆕 @wearequeeraf.com and @whatthetrans.com can reveal that the NHS has cancelled all gender-affirming surgeries for adult patients of the Welsh Gender Service Some trans patients received the news just days or even hours before they were due to take place 👇 www.wearequeeraf.com/nhs-cancels-...
MANAGEMENT: We're going to eliminate skilled worker roles and replace them with lower paid jobs supervising the machine. Although productivity and quality will suffer, it'll be worth it to ensure you're that little bit more disposable. PROGRAMMER: Good thing i'm an expert on talking to the machine
That is the world these sons of bitches want to take us back to with their "it's all overdiagnosis and fakery" gaslighting.
if they're drinking nounwine it's fantasy. if they're snorting a verb it's sci fi
Just in case you still use any Basecamp products, DHH is crashing out about his AI product gently pointing out that it’s bad for him to have extermination fantasies about the Roma people.
every successful consumer technology owes its success to a dedicated user base of insane perverts who the product managers in silicon valley view as their ancient and intractable enemy
late to the party but I’ve been powering through “She-Ra and the Princesses of Power” and it’s consumed my entire braaain, I LOOOOVE toxic yuri catgirl Star Wars 🧠⚡️😻
I’ll take “extremely niche groups you did not expect to see on a pride march but makes sense when you think about it” for 10, please
LLM's are helpful because they're trained on years of high quality educational material and forums where people helped each other. People aren't visiting forums or paying for educational content anymore because of LLM's. The well isn't going to magically fill itself in perpetuity.
There are two ways to resolve the cognitive dissonance of being on Twitter while also caring about all the awful shit happening because of Twitter 1. Leave Twitter 2. Stop caring Profoundly disappointing how many people I like seem to have chosen the latter
Sneaking a giant screen into the flagshagger march is one of the funniest things @ledbydonkeys.org have ever done. "STAY HYDRATED" 😂🤣😂
Favorite species from @aptshadow.bsky.social’s Final Architecture series, in no particular order: -Francophone Lesbian Clone Troopers -Hustle Culture Businesscrabs -What If An Ant Farm Was Also A Robot Was Also A Person -Space Clam Theocracy (With Bonus Space Clam Mafia!).
Been thinking about how much JavaScript we ship for basic UI patterns. Wrote it up. Anchor positioning, Popover API, Scroll-Driven Animations and more — what they replace and what's still missing 👉 blog.gitbutler.com/the-great-cs...
The Great CSS Expansion
CSS now does what Floating UI, GSAP ScrollTrigger, Framer Motion, and react-select used to require JavaScript for. Here is exactly how much that saves, why these libraries were painful beyond their si...
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I am not looking for a politician to explain why blowing up 100 little girls is good