Ryan Swaney
@ryanswaney.dev
In the late 90s I read a grimly bound tome about HTML and began my journey wandering this abyssal plane. Otherwise found offline in Brooklyn. https://www.ryanswaney.dev/
I know folks get real mad when I say this but in times of widespread security crisis, static sites sure are nice
Aaron Swartz, coding prodigy and hacktivist who helped develop RSS and was a co-founder of Reddit, died by suicide after facing $1 million in fines and 35 years in prison for felony charges, just for downloading pdfs of research papers with the intention of making them accessible to the public.
Julie S. Lalonde@julieslalonde.bsky.social · 2w agoBeing GenX/Millennial is such a trip. In our lifetimes, we saw people our age getting wild criminal penalties for pirating music and now have to sit and watch as companies gobble up our work with impunity.
cool. but now I want an apology from all my enemies and everyone who said I was too "front-end" and not enough "full-stack".
GitHub@github.com · 3w agoGitHub.com has fully moved off CSS-in-JS to CSS Modules, resulting in 55% less server-side render time and 25% faster component init. https://github.blog/engineering/architecture-optimization/improving-site-performance-by-shipping-more-css/
it's a new season for technology & for technologists, and our labor and its impact to the world are both more greater and more dangerous than ever. how do we make sense of work in an industry many of us no longer recognize?
Dark Forestry
henry.codes
AI makes it easier to write software, and that's bad
Once again, I absolutely ADORE tying my work and livelihood to commercial applications that insist on hiking up their prices to cover their own 'investments' in generative AI features and infrastructure that I will never, ever use!!!
📢 New Essay: The Boring Internet The internet you grew up on isn’t dying. A commercial veneer glued on top of it is. www.terrygodier.com/the-borin…
The Boring Internet
The internet you grew up on isn't dying. A commercial veneer glued on top of it is. A visual essay about what actually persists.
terrygodier.com
working on my web site will solve my problems working on my web site will solve my problems working on my web site will solve my problems
There's a meta-point here, which is key: Commercial AI tools are built for bosses. It's very obvious, and very simple. This manifests in every part of their design and implementation and use, and it's no wonder they cause burnout.
Simon Willison@simonwillison.net · 9mo agoInteresting research in HBR today about how the productivity boost you can get from AI tools can lead to burnout or general metal exhaustion, something I've noticed in my own work simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/9/a...