I wrote about how the incessant pressure for qualitative metrics, coupled with both a lack of concern for irresponsible adoption of LLM tooling and the immediacy of the European Accessibility Act will lead to outcomes where actual usability not only suffers, but also deemed irrelevant.

This performative dance will ultimately regress advocacy progress, impede people in the actual, and also shift the window about where and how we can discuss and take action on this in a constructive fashion.

Oh, and I also made a tiny web extension because I'm sick of manually closing Zoom tabs.

Rejoice! Carmakers Are Embracing Physical Buttons Again
Fuckin' finally.

The Rime of the Ancient Maintainer
"We act as if working on old code is a punishment, a career dead-end, when in fact it may be the most consequential work in the entire organization." (h/t Jan)

AI Chatbots Linked to Psychosis, Say Doctors
I am becoming more and more convinced unregulated LLM technology is a Great Filter-grade danger.

Google AI Overviews put people at risk of harm with misleading health advice
Speaking of.

Aqua Teen Hunger Force Toilet Set Adult Swim EXTREMELY RARE
Delivers what it promises.

Features missing in just one browser engine
Safari, Safari, Safari, Safari, Safari, Safari

The hidden cost of shipping too fast
"The fastest teams are not the ones shipping the most. They are the ones who understand why they are shipping. That is the difference between moving for the sake of movement and moving with purpose."

Public design systems are worth it
Throw some love at Primer, because things ain't looking too great, folks.

What about “Nothing about us without us?”
"What’s striking to me now, listening to that conversation six years later, is how little has changed from the perspective of the technology world, but also how much my own lived experience has come to reflect so much of what I learned in those conversations."

AI browsers are straight out of the enshittification playbook
I hate that the web is turning into buying carnival tickets.

InkPoster Tela 28.5"
Oh my god, I want this so bad.

always bet on text
YUP!

Meet Oyen, Zoo Negara’s famed capybara cat
Of course it's an orange boi.

Alzheimer’s Fully Reversed in Mice, Scientists Say
Yoooooooo

We need to reassess our relationship to digital tech
I really need to buckle down and get off US tech.

The Curious Case of the Shallow Session SPAs
Protip: Most sites don't need to be SPAs!

Martha Wash: The Once-Hidden Woman Who Made “Everybody” Famous
I really appreciated being able to learn about this hidden figure, as someone who loves 90s house music.

WARIO SYNTH
Waaaaaaaaah

CSS-only Mario World (with keyboard!)
Holy freaking crap.

'A Directive From Above': Former NYT Editor Lays Out How The Paper Pushes Anti-Trans Bigotry
There are Wordle clones everywhere, and recipe sites are a dime a dozen. Stop giving these monsters money.

'Fish Mouth' Filter Removes 99% of Microplastics From Laundry Waste
More evidence for the "only a itty-bitty, infinitesimal percentage of our technologies don't do what nature already does" concept.

Please Seek Help Immediately
lol

It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons
This has been making the rounds, but I want to point out that the IC designers and engineers who got tasked with doing this will be the ones punished, while the siloed managers who dictated it to meet Alan Dye's rushed deadline will fail upwards.

Dolly Parton Secretly Produced This TV Classic and Fans Are Freaking Out
I'm sorry, what.

okstupid.lol
🤌

Shelves for Life
Grim, but practical.

Fun with the web
"The web is still magic, and it still matters."

Parrots Will Share Currency to Help Their Pals Purchase Food
I'M NOT CRYING YOU'RE CRYING

The final nail in the HTML5 document outline coffin
Good fucking riddance.

MTV Rewind
Immaculate.

Who’s who at X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter
🤡

A History of Flavoring Food With Beaver Butt Juice
"But the biggest problem with castoreum was not its price, nor its anal-adjacent origins. It’s that beaver butt is not kosher."