There reaches a certain point in a series of snowstorms where the accumulation stops being a measure and you just start defining your life as either Shoveling or Not Shoveling. Right now I am Not Shoveling.

Some Thoughts on the Open Web
"Having an Open Web available for humanity is not a guaranteed outcome; we may end up in a future where easily available information is greatly diminished or even absent."

Rejecting Reality in the Age of AI
"The entire world is not legible to the Internet, and thus, the entire world is not legible to LLMs."

Start the new year by running your sprint reviews with zoom and text scaling turned on
You do this for websites and will get dismissed as a problem-creator.

Stop building systems for agents
"When the scale grows 1000 times, our fragile foundation becomes the problem."

Semantic Service Naming 1.0.0
I just thought this was neat 👉👈

The irrationality of clinging to a sinking platform
I miss working with Damon.

Why Am I Doing the Thinking for You?
no hello, but for "thoughts?"

You're Gonna Need A Bigger Browser
"To conclude, the core problem isn't that browsers are bad — it's more that browsers are not browser enough."

Hallucinogen DMT an effective antidepressant in small clinical trial
Neat!

Making a font with 9,999 ligatures to display thirteenth-century monk numerals
If you're having glyph problems I feel bad for you, son. I've got 9,999 ligatures but the glyphs ain't one.

The Media Can't Stop Propping Up Elon Musk's Phony Supergenius Engineer Mythology
More of this, please.

‘Shut up and focus on the mission’: Tech workers are frustrated by their companies’ silence about ICE
yuuuuuup

How Involuntary Commitment Could Become Indefinite Detention
Oh cool, we're sliding back into asylums.

A raspberry flavoured galactic centre with a hint of rum
Yum!

The Left Doesn't Hate Technology, We Hate Being Exploited
Contemporary tech and exploitation are the same thing at this point, unfortunately.

15+ years later, Microsoft morged my diagram
Some insights from the source of the joke, and a reminder of what the less funny part of all this is.

The RAM shortage is coming for everything you care about
The industry is gonna try and push thin clients, then realize that our dogshit infrastructure will prevent that.

Rare gifted word-learner dogs like to share their toys
I'm not crying, you're crying!

"Made in EU" - it was harder than I thought.
"I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure. Here's the stack I landed on, what was harder than expected, and what you still can't avoid."

Mom of 7-year-old hospitalized with brain swelling from measles: ‘I still wouldn’t have given my son the vaccine’
Death cult.

Ep-listers - Chrome Web Store
Delivers what it promises.

Unsung heroes: Flickr’s URLs scheme
Once again sharing my love of URL design.

From chickens to humans, animals think “bouba” sounds round
Language gives shape to the hidden.

How I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard
I wanna be Joel when I grow up.

There’s a Grim New Expression: “AI;DR”
brb, spinning up a new work Slack emoji.

1990s game got a rave review thanks to LSD in office coffee pot
lol

I Taught My Dog to Vibe Code Games
Living in the future continues to be weird.

Walkman.land
A nice little reminder of what hardware design was like before everything was a black or white rectangle.

This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby
Niiiiiiiiice.