I am in San Francisco this week, and it got me reflecting on grief.

Grief is change. Twitter is dead, as is the platform in its current state. But also because of it existing: I met up with multiple friends who I met on that platform. I can also draw a straight line being employed at GitHub.

I am speaking at GitHub Universe about the accessibility agent I built there. There are a lot of deaths tied up in this: An amazing, career-defining job killed by Microsoft's misguided ambition, the value of craft, the replacement of labor with automation, a manager who was subsumed by ambition and AI psychosis, etc.

There has also been the death of identity. I think we're all feeling it, and are all currently in different stages in grief. Sometimes multiple overlapping stages for different deaths, large and small.

I can carry forward the friendships and relationships I want to preserve. That's change. I have a new set of challenges to work through, and those opportunities are also change. I have a manager who listens to me and understands what I'm saying. That too is change.

It is tricky—but valuable—to not chose to wallow in grief and instead embrace, and use it. That said: I'm a sad sack who over-intellectualizes their feelings, and you're probably here for links.

CSS-Tricks has a new owner!
Related to the intro, grief can change into joy! CSS-Tricks is back and in the right hands. Want some joy? Read the comments. Want to know how I really feel about Digital Ocean's "stewardship"? Read this post by Mat that is straight from the heart.

Maybe There Was an Egg Cartel After All
Oh-ho!

Celebrating overlooked pages
"Some of these pages are dying out for one reason or another. […] But every time I encounter one of these pages, they never fail to bring a smile to my face."

Big Tech’s thirst for water is sparking a global resistance
"Tapping into public drinking water is both easier and cheaper than paying the cost of treatment themselves."

Physicists trap a single antimatter particle for a month
I chose to anthropomorphize this particle and imagine it having its version of an alien abduction experience.

**The future of the internet **
"The advent of LLMs gave us even more mass-produced content, polluting the already declining search engine results to the degree that ancient forum threads from 2006 feels more trustworthy than most websites simply for being human-written without any incentive of gathering clicks from internet surfers."

Bunkering down
Related.

Walkapedia
I found a bunch of stuff near me that I didn't know existed!

Europe's heat claims 50,000 lives. Climate change blamed for two-thirds of deaths
Climate change is real, and it has a body count.

Climate change is literally altering the shape of our planet
It's also doing this, apparently.

Crows can evaluate visual info twice as fast as mammals
Go crows!

Google Says Gmail and Photos Data Shared With AI Search Could Be Used for Targeted Ads
Man, I gotta get off Gsuite.

An Ancient Virus Explains Why the Human Brain Is Special
YOU HAD ONE JOB, VIRUS

Religious Studies In Software Engineering
"Programming isn’t just something we do to computers, it’s something we do to humans and society as well."

Number go up
Well, this is a clever idea.

11 Things DC Comics Taught Us About KFC's Multidimensional Colonel Sanders
Colonel Sanders is canonically part of the DC comics universe, a thing I keep forgetting and re-remembering.

The Hottest New Side Hustle Is Stripping Copper Wire and Posting About It
This is our version of selling the shovels in a gold rush, I guess.

First personalised cancer vaccine cuts risk of disease returning in major trial
Yooooooooo

No Signs of AI Payoff Outside the Tech Sector
Funny, that.

In China, the AI bubble has already burst
Funny, that++

the slurptop
Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.

Casper Residents Divided Over Skeleton Sex Orgy On SUV
I played bass for Skeleton SUV Sex Orgy.

Why big tech stopped building useful stuff
"This shows in what they prioritise and develop, and is why it feels like everything is getting worse."

Please Seek Help Immediately
This is very much an inside thought that I thought I'd never voice out loud, but it is a thought that's thematically appropriate to the intro so fuck it: This man closed his heart to accessibility in his grief, and was then changed by LLMs.

Windows 95, arguably the first PC gaming OS, is still being used... to sort eggs in Germany
Hey, if it works it works.

THROBAC
Clever name for what it does.

Food Delivery App Apologizes for AI-Generated Menu Photos Showing Bacon Floating in Soda
I am all for letting this robot dream if it leads to things like this.

Atomic Accessibility Model
"A centralized model isn’t failing because the people in it are bad at their jobs. It’s failing because the workload scales linearly with the size of the estate while the team doesn’t scale at all."

US designates helium as a critical material, citing its importance for semiconductors
I've always felt it was wild we used helium for party balloons, given what it does and how much of it there is.

Who is an accessibility file for?
Finding this made my day, so I'm sharing it with you. He gets it!

'It's offensively cheap': How solar power is quietly becoming bigger than nuclear
😎

Your TV, minus the ads.
Honestly, I'm here for making it easy for people to clean all the shit out of their TVs.

Google AI gets cagey when asked who won the 2020 elections
Fluke or not, a rock-solid example of what happens when you gate knowledge.

Highway thieves are spoofing GPS to steal millions in data center-bound cargo
This is cyberpunk as fuck.

Ed Emberley's Little Drawing Book of Weirdos (1973)
I love them.