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David Fitzgibbon

@davidfitz.dev
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Creative Coding, ThreeJS, p5, SVG, CSS. davidfitz.dev

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Garry @thegmcconnachie.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is why Dolly Parton will be remembered and loved ❤️📚
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David Fitzgibbon @davidfitz.dev · 13/08/2026
Didn’t have a great view of the eclipse, but did see lots of asteroids in the shower. Took this pretty cool photo of the stars too. You can zoom in so far and even see different coloured ones! Hope compression doesn’t ruin it! It looks black, but zoom in!
A seemingly blank picture, but as you zoom in anywhere a plethora of stars of different sizes and shapes reveal themselves
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Kwasi B. @nonstndrd.com · 07/08/2026
The automation of discovery has destroyed the satisfaction of finding valuable things.
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Josh Collinsworth @collinsworth.dev · 08/08/2026
I honestly think AI would be like 50–80% less popular if men already gave compliments to each other and didn't need a machine to do it.
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Stuart Robson @sturobson.com · 06/08/2026
🎉 new post! Dynamic Colour Schemes With Modern CSS What magical CSS can we use to create not just a quick and dirty colour palette, but a whole colour scheme? Anogulous? Complementary? Triadic? It's all here! www.alwaystwisted.com/articles/dyna… 🙏🖤
alwaystwisted.com
Dynamic Colour Schemes With Modern CSS
A practical walkthrough of building dynamic, theme-aware colour schemes in CSS with custom properties, OKLCH, color-mix(), and contrast-color().
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DuckDuckGo @duckduckgo.com · 30/07/2026
No camera. No AI. Just Normal Sunglasses. From DuckDuckGo x @Knockaround. (Yes, these are actually real. Get a pair here: knockaround.com/products/duc...)
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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 01/08/2026
People love RSS for the same reasons hikers love a good path. It isn't the packed dirt or gravel they're fond of, but the view it takes them through.
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DanLeChambre @danlechambre.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
If I’m keeping score correctly, so far the AI revolution has given me: - considerably worse software than before - considerably more expensive devices to run that software - considerably less opportunity to make the money needed to buy those devices
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 13/07/2026
Sam Neill
@TwoPaddocks

Yes, I know things can look a little glum at present. But, for now cheer up. From us.

5:31 PM - 4 Jan 2018
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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
It is man work to call out other men about their shitty behavior. More men need to be doing their man work.
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David Fitzgibbon @davidfitz.dev · 09/07/2026
Wanna get freaky with some CSS? @kilianvalkhof.com shows you the bones of getting creative coding going just with CSS!
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Josh Collinsworth @collinsworth.dev · 03/07/2026
It seems to me AI is loved mostly by people who have never had any idea how to truly love anything else.
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David Fitzgibbon @davidfitz.dev · 04/07/2026
I’m off to teach English in Japan for a year. @cassiecodes.bsky.social and @whitep4nth3r.com are going offline to different degrees. It’s so sad to see what AI has done to the industry. I loved it. I had the best, most creative job. And in an industry that cares and shares. RIP the internet. 💔
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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 11/06/2026
Horror story in five short posts
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 03/06/2026
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Google ordered to put clearer links in AI search and let UK publishers opt out
Google must change AI Overviews after claiming users don't want "lots of sources."
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David Fitzgibbon @davidfitz.dev · 24/05/2026
Introduce yourself with ten bands you’ve seen live: Al Green James Brown Prince Red Hot Chili Peppers Foo Fighters Queens of the Stone Age Metallica Las Ketchup Muse U2
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David Fitzgibbon @davidfitz.dev · 21/05/2026
This lady made herself wings from scratch, this is the joy AI is robbing us of vm.tiktok.com/ZNRtK4qep/
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TikTok - Make Your Day
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Eric Bailey @ericwbailey.website · 20/05/2026
Suddenly remembering when I got blocked on Twitter for telling someone at Google that deprecating alert() from the platform was magical thinking.
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sarcastic parrot @monkchips.com · 20/05/2026
I fucking love this. The intersectional value of riding a bike. Thanks for your work @cathytuttle.bsky.social.
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David Fitzgibbon @davidfitz.dev · 21/05/2026
navigator.modelContext.registerTool({ name: "Google", title: "Google are a bunch of tools", description: "They’re plotting to destroy the culture of your internet", execute: async (input, client) => { return “Just fucking stop”; } });
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David Fitzgibbon @davidfitz.dev · 21/05/2026
Totally agree. They’re going to sell making your website ready for agents as the new SEO. But then no one will have to visit your site. I used to love the web. It was useful, exciting, creative, a community, and I could get paid for joining in. That’s feeling impossible now. Fuck Google. Fuck AI.
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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 20/05/2026
“On Google declaring war on the Web” tante.cc/2026/05/20/on-google-decla… > This is a literal revolution but one against the participatory web, against us: The goal is to take away the web and guide people into Google’s abstraction on top of it.
tante.cc
On Google declaring war on the Web
In Yesterday’s IO Keynote Google declared war on the remnants of the Web. (See longer description on their website.) TL;DR: They are pushing Search more into the “here’s your processed answer” directi...
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Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · 21/05/2026
There's been a quiet discourse among creators about this for quite some time, but it's no longer that quiet. I hate what AI is doing to the internet. Yes, it has its upsides. But the downsides outweigh those IMO. I have my own thoughts and feelings about the state of things that are still brewing.😞
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Fons Mans @fonsmans.com · 15/05/2026
Everyone talks about craft and opinionated design, but as soon as Spotify drops a fun app icon, those same people freak out. The temporary icon is great. You know you’ve made something great when people have extreme reactions to it. Never aim to please everyone.
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patak @patak.cat · 16/05/2026
Heartbreaking. And a wake-up call. It is no longer about being difficult to find a way to sustain yourself through your work online. It is no longer sustainable to keep a website up now. Axel has done so much for the web and all of us. Buy one of his books if you can. We've learned so much from him.
2ality blog: temporarily offline

Dear visitor! Two things happened recently:

- The income from my book sales went from being enough for me to live off (2024) to zero (2026).
- The traffic to my blog and my books (which were free to read online) increased beyond what I can currently afford. Virtually all of it comes from AI crawlers, so there is no ad income.

Therefore, I’m taking my blog and my books offline so that I can decide what to do next – especially w.r.t. AI companies stealing my work. This may take a while (think months): I don’t have any energy to deal with this right now.

I apologize for this (hopefully temporary) inconvenience to my human readers! You can still buy my books at Payhip.

Axel Rauschmayer
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Andy Bell @bell.bz · 15/05/2026
what are we doing man
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'It's like we don't exist': Nearly 50,000 Lake Tahoe residents face power loss as utility redirects lines to data centers | Fortune
Roughly 49,000 Lake Tahoe residents could lose 75% of their power after their energy provider said it's directing energy to neighboring data centers.
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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them
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David Fitzgibbon @davidfitz.dev · 12/05/2026
Scientific papers are getting harder to read, because people are using AI to help write them: calnewport.com/easy-is-over...
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Easy is Overrated - Cal Newport
“Something is up in academic research,” ​write​ the members of an AI Task Force convened by the journal Organization Science. As they go on to ... Read more
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David Fitzgibbon @davidfitz.dev · 12/05/2026
A lovely post by @ryantrimble.com reminding himself what he DOES like about web development. And a good reminder for us all these days. ryantrimble.com/blog/things-...
ryantrimble.com
Things I Like | Ryan Trimble, UX/UI Developer
I like a lot about web development, even if its hard to remember sometimes.
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David Fitzgibbon @davidfitz.dev · 07/05/2026
Genuine question: is AI making the web more insular? Hearing from various education content creators, and people who run communities, that numbers are down. Is AI giving answers so easily that people aren’t visiting sites, and therefore not interacting with the community?
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 06/05/2026
Trevor Project released its annual LGBTQ youth mental health report. The results are shocking. 40% of trans youth seriously considered attempting suicide in the past year. Trans youth who wanted hormones but couldn’t access them were nearly twice as likely to attempt suicide than those who could.
Key findings from The 2025 U.S. National Survey on the Mental Health of LGBTQ+ Young People include:

36% of LGBTQ+ young people seriously considered attempting suicide in the past year, including 40% of transgender and nonbinary young people. 
1 in 10 LGBTQ+ young people attempted suicide in the past year.
44% of LGBTQ+ young people who wanted mental health care in the past year were not able to get it.
90% of LGBTQ+ young people said recent anti-LGBTQ+ laws, policies and debates caused them stress or anxiety.
LGBTQ+ young people of color attempted suicide at higher rates than their White peers, and nearly a third (32%) also experienced racial or ethnic discrimination, in addition to anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination.
Transgender and nonbinary young people who wanted hormones but couldn’t access them were nearly twice as likely to attempt suicide than those who could.
Over half (59%) of LGBTQ+ young people ages 13-17 experienced bullying in the past year, and those who did reported significantly higher rates of attempting suicide in the past year than their peers.
LGBTQ+ young people who reported living in very accepting communities attempted suicide at less than a third of the rate of those who reported living in very unaccepting communities.
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Sam Rose @samwho.dev · 06/05/2026
Who decided to call them “hallucinations” and not “Phantoms of the Slopera.”
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Jake Archibald @jakearchibald.com · 06/05/2026
We now have an 'open web API' that requires you to comply with Google's "terms of use". I know many at Chrome disagree with this, but feel they can't say anything publicly out of fear of internal retribution. github.com/mozilla/stan...
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Prompt API · Issue #1213 · mozilla/standards-positions
Specification title Prompt API Specification or proposal URL (if available) No response Explainer URL (if available) https://github.com/webmachinelearning/prompt-api/blob/main/README.md Proposal au...
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David Fitzgibbon @davidfitz.dev · 03/05/2026
Might be as good a game as I’ll ever play.
Balatro end game screen. Highest hand at e66. Ante 19. Round 58. Three mimes, three barons, and random sock because I’d only just gotten antimatter
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Lea Verou, PhD @lea.verou.me · 02/05/2026
TIL crows only *look* black to us — they’re actually very colorful in ways human eyes are unable to perceive. 🤯 Remember that next time people can’t see your “colors”. Some colors just require different eyes.
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nataliemac7.bsky.social @nataliemac7.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Years ago a backend dev pulled me aside after my code review meeting and warned: "If management knew you were focusing this hard on accessibility, they'd tell you to stop." I said: "I'm not gonna tell them. Are you?" He didn't. We kept going. You don't always need permission. #a11y
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Aaron Gustafson @aaron-gustafson.com · 29/04/2026
This is a tough read, but an important one: the attacks on the open web are not abstract anymore.
anildash.com
Endgame for the Open Web - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Karma is a betch, Alex Jones.
Screenshot of a tweet by Pop Base (@PopBase) reporting that The Onion has successfully acquired Alex Jones' Infowars after 17 months of legal battles, with plans to turn it into a parody of itself with support from Sandy Hook families. The post includes a photo of a visibly distressed Alex Jones and the new rainbow-colored Infowars logo.
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Pixel Ink @pixelink.club · 16/04/2026
We’re getting ready!
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David Fitzgibbon @davidfitz.dev · 14/04/2026
Is there a way to block terms on here? Some stuff is so bleak, and it’s most of my feed, but I don’t want to block most people.
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David Fitzgibbon @davidfitz.dev · 14/04/2026
Looking forward to the data-vis workshop in Dublin, hosted by @rudi-data.bsky.social ! Still some spots left if you want to join in! www.meetup.com/dublin-datav...
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Dataviz Workshop for Dublin Tech Week, Wed, May 27, 2026, 6:30 PM | Meetup
As part of Dublin Tech Week you are invited to a special edition of Dublin Dataviz! Instead of our usual speaker events, this evening will be a data visualisation workshop
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David Fitzgibbon @davidfitz.dev · 14/04/2026
We definitely predicted some of the impacts already.
Two headlines, one after the other, from the RTE news site. “Cybersecurity chief to warn of ‘unpredictable’ AI impact”, “Irish electricity prices 8th highest in Europe 2024”.
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Nolan Void @wolter.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Oh so now copyright matters.
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David Fitzgibbon @davidfitz.dev · 28/03/2026
My second blender render trying to take it seriously
A red Camaro like sports car with snazzy LED headlights, alloy wheels and an analog radio antenna
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phae @phae.status.fberriman.com.ap.brid.gy · 27/03/2026
TiL you are opted-in by default to Copilot training on your data in GH. The toggle to turn that off is here: github.com/settings/copilot/features
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Virginia voters: it's your time to shine! Stop Trump and help us flip the House.
Screenshot of a tweet by Abigail Spanberger discussing a Virginia redistricting referendum and urging a “yes” vote. The image below features a black-and-white photo of Donald Trump with bold text reading “ENTITLED TO MORE REPUBLICAN SEATS.”
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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
just this week: -- OpenAI killed Sora -- Disney subsequently cancelled its investment in OpenAI -- Wikipedia is now banning LLM-generated content ...tell me again how this is all "inevitable" and you have to "get on board or get left behind"?
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Heather Hogan @heatherhogan.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Came out of the post office, saw that a guy had cut my saddle bag off my bike and was about to take off with it. I yelled "Please wait my cat's medicine is in there!" He started to run, and this grandma-age lady goes "SHE SAID HER CAT'S MEDICINE IS IN THERE" and WALLOPED him with her grocery bag.
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Ben Evans @ivorjetski.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
To celebrate something-or-other, I created a retro CRT using only vanilla CSS! 📺 codepen.io/ivorjetski/p... No images. No JavaScript. No SASS. Fully turn-off-and-on-able! Also a documentary about the making of it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdNH... @CodePen #css #cssart #cssonly #frontend
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CodePen TV 📺 100% Pure CSS
📺📺📺📺📺📺📺📺📺📺📺📺📺📺 🚫 - 100% No Images ☕ - Definitely no JavaScript 🤖 - Absolutely no AI 😇 - Only the purest HTML and completely vanilla fresh CSS!! 📺...
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Shaw @shaw.city · 12/03/2026
The @codepen.io Compiler is the real key to making 2.0 so awesome. Because of how smart it is, using Tailwind is as simple as `@import "tailwindcss"`, and using most JS Libraries is as simple as `import gsap from "gsap"`! No additional work required on your part. codepen.io/editor/shsha...
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GSAP and Tailwind
Simple example showing how to use Tailwind and GSAP in the 2.0 Editor
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