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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
logging on to the earnest high-info neurotics website every day during the everything going wrong decade: 'you know, the vibes here could be better'
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
We are a broken nation. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians were living and working legally, paying taxes, and contributing. Haiti remains wholly unsafe. But Trump hates Haitians, and the White House wanted videos of Black people in chains, so they stripped them of status and turned on the cameras.
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Haiti TPS has been TERMINATED.
Those with terminated TPS are in our nation Illegally. They have two options: LEAVE IMMEDIATELY or be DEPORTED.
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Underneath is a screenshot of a video showing two Haitian men in chains being led to the aircraft. I didn’t post the video, but it’s vile.
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⌨️ @jasonwilkens.website · 26/08/2026
What is the purpose of software uxdesign.cc/what-is-the-...
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What is the purpose of software
Practical and existential questions for IT Design and Development.
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⌨️ @jasonwilkens.website · 22/08/2026
the way they buried 'search' on the Google Home Play Chromecast or whatever I have so you have to pass through all the Gemini shit to get to it is truly a crime against user experience
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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
News websites: I am aware you have an app. You tell me about the app every time I visit your site. If I wanted to read in the app, I would already have downloaded your app.
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Tucker Jones @tuckerjones.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Last year, after President Trump eliminated my wife's and my jobs, we moved to Germany. South Writ Large invited me to reflect on our move in their Summer 2026 issue, which came out yesterday. southwritlarge.com/articles/so-...
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So You’re in Exile | South Writ Large
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
from: harpers.org/archive/2026...
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Happy Fucking Birthday, by Christopher Hooks
An exhausted America turns two hundred and fifty
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Alistair Davidson @moh-kohn.eurosky.social · 10/06/2026
**succumbs to peer pressure** www.mohkohn.co.uk/writing/html...
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How building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight
My client was a utility company, and they had a big problem...
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Luke @lukewarlow.dev · 21/05/2026
Can't emphasise how much I feel these are exactly the sort of use cases and users the web was made for: "hobbyists, hackers, educators, makers and developers"! Not everything has to be about corporate bottom lines sometimes the web can just be for fun tinkering (but also lots of real world use too)!
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Speaking of absurd, this Mitch Marner goal to open the scoring ings in Anaheim
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kat @katbamkapow.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
heard a guy say "you have to access it through the portal" and i was momentarily struck by how sad it is that what he said is so boring :( "accessing it via the portal" should be wonderful. we deserve that at least. it should be cool to access it via the portal and instead it sucks shit
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WebDesignMuseum @webdesignmuseum.org · 14/04/2026
In April 1998, Macromedia released the Macromedia Fireworks 1.0 graphics program. The program was able to work with both vector and bitmap graphics and was designed specially for web designers. #WebDesignHistory
Macromedia Fireworks 1.0 in 1998
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⌨️ @jasonwilkens.website · 10/04/2026
lambdacurry.dev
Plumbing, Basketball, and Slop Cannons: Team Lessons From a Multi-Brand E-Commerce Migration
Team leadership lessons from a multi-brand e-commerce migration on flow, ownership, boundaries, and upfront planning.
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⌨️ @jasonwilkens.website · 09/04/2026
would you like to see one of my assists from last night? (we still lost)
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⌨️ @jasonwilkens.website · 04/04/2026
dads at the playground representing Illinois, Michigan, and Arizona (me), just need a UConn fan to complete the Final Four
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
HOLY SHIT UCONN
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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 28/03/2026
interesting www.bbc.com/future/artic...
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The ancient reason there are 60 minutes in an hour
A mysterious 5,000-year-old decision led directly to how we still count time today.
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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Wow. I try to avoid compliance-related work when possible because it makes people lose their minds, but I was not expecting this. substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Delve - Fake Compliance as a Service - Part I
How Delve managed to falsely convince hundreds of customers they were compliant and then lied about it when exposed and called out
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dorian @doriantaylor.com · 21/03/2026
i started this several weeks ago tl;dr is i think coding agents might actually be a real live use case for large language models but: a) that doesn't automatically entail a glide path to victory b) certainly not for the vendors of chatbots-as-a-service buttondown.com/dorian/archi...
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Slop-Machine Future
The arc of large language models is mediocre, and it bends toward “target procurement”.
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 27/02/2026
The entire Democratic strategy debate — "moderate" or move left? fight or compromise? — is based on a misreading of data. Voters don't think Dems are too progressive; they think Dems are weak. The actual math on what to do about this isn't even close! New: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d...
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𝕮 @chrisshank.com · 21/02/2026
”The distinction between programmer and user is reinforced and maintained by a tech industry that benefits from a population rendered computationally passive. If we accept and adopt the role of less agency, we then make it harder for ourselves to come into more agency.”
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always-already-programming.md
GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Only took me a few weeks but here is a list of books to introduce one to all things military. My latest⬇️
secretaryrofdefenserock.substack.com
So You Want to Know Military
A Readers Guide to Theory and Practice for Beginners and Enthusiasts
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Citizen Platano 🇵🇷 @daniloc.xyz · 17/01/2026
If you're a developer surrounded by people debating the utility of LLMs, you are being misled. The advent of agents decisively settles the conversation. The real question is: how do you ship software that leverages their power? I spent 2025 answering this question networkgames.fyi/the-year-eve...
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The year everything changed
Far from my best years being behind me, it feels as though everything in my life has been leading to this moment: building a completely new category of product where the most useful lessons come not f...
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konnaire @konnaire.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Everybody thinks 'https://' stands for 'hypertext transfer protocol secure' but it actually stands for 'head to this place, sucka' followed by a colon and two laser sounds
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UncleofJamiroquai @jessefarrar.com · 08/01/2026
you dont understand. i HAVE to work for the NYT. its where i work at!
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⌨️ @jasonwilkens.website · 08/12/2025
played a really good 🏒 game last night and was looking forward to pulling some clips (had a nice goal from the point) only to find the rink camera has been out the last few days 😭
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⌨️ @jasonwilkens.website · 04/12/2025
set a new PR for installing two car seats under three minutes
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⌨️ @jasonwilkens.website · 04/12/2025
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Padraig2112 @isomorphism.net · 26/11/2025
Okay I'm feeling like a damn fool today so I'll contribute to the Machine Learning Discourse, Pat's standard rule of false dichotomy* nonwithstanding:
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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
New, on Heat Death! Thrilled to run this absolute banger from @goldwagnathan.bsky.social, on the bizarre way that concepts from 20th century Golden Age sci-fi have lingered in the scientific imagination, despite never coming within spitting distance of becoming — what's the word? — real
heat-death.ghost.io
The Fatal Allure of Yesterday's Tomorrows
On the dangers of seeing science fiction as a template for the future.
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Samuel @samuel.fm · 13/11/2025
>ask if new browser is real or chromeslop >”it’s a good browser sir” >it’s chromeslop
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Juliet Turner @juliet-turner.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
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Andy Bell @bell.bz · 15/11/2025
posted this 6 years ago and it’s still relevant
A four cell image of a dude holding a dog like a baby with a sad looking cat in the background. The shot zooms in on the cat as the cells progress.

The first labels the person as developers and the dog as developer experience.

In the third cell, the cat is labelled as users trying to load the website you built.
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⌨️ @jasonwilkens.website · 10/11/2025
the flashlight I use to pick up my dog's poop at night finally ran out of battery after about five years. I will probably have to charge it one more time before he dies
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Jeff Horwitz @jeffhorwitz.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Meta earns $3.5 billion every six months from showing Faceboon and Instagram users 15 billion “higher legal risk” scam ad impressions a day, internal documents state. That haul vastly exceeds how much the company expects regulators To fine it for running scam ads. www.reuters.com/investigatio...
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⌨️ @jasonwilkens.website · 05/11/2025
"Thank you for your call. Please press 1 to be connected to the party you are calling." 🤔
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Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Bleeding to death in the trenches because my air support is vaporware made by a guy who spent his entire VC budget on "growth hacking" the beltway instead of building drones
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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
you know how i keep saying single stair buildings are workhorse of walkable urbanism the world over? here are 174 homes on a 2.2 acre block in seattle. (16) 4-5 story single stair buildings. what do you think FAR is? what about lot coverage? unit distribution?
screengrab of massing model with point access blocks
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amos @fasterthanli.me · 30/10/2025
it's such a joy to build software exclusively for yourself definitely a form of self-care
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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
This is a good piece but god almighty is it sad, sad, sad
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One app, 60 men, 26 dates: my adventures in alt-right dating
There’s no question that we’re living — and looking for love — in contentious times, where extreme political ideologies have all but divided parts of the dating pool. Or have they?
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Steve @extranapkins.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
I found a pair of special sunglasses which have enlightened me to the secret truth about our society, which is that everything is slightly too bright all the time
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Piccalilli @piccalil.li · 22/10/2025
This really is going to be a game-changer for global CSS styles. Heading styles are notorious for repetition and/or big selector blocks. alvaromontoro.com/tutorial/hea...
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CSS :heading
Interactive article about the :heading pseudo-class and function
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⌨️ @jasonwilkens.website · 21/10/2025
getting chilly, I need some hygge over here. remember hygge? would love to have some of that right about now
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⌨️ @jasonwilkens.website · 17/10/2025
Barkley the labradoodle sleeping in the pillows on the couch
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 14/10/2025
every young Republican staffer is a Nazi, it's that simple www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
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‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
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⌨️ @jasonwilkens.website · 14/10/2025
shooting has always been my weak suit, especially since my best shot (wrist), is not great for a defenseman who's often shooting from the blue line
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Great unpacking of the claim that the corporate restructuring of the past few decades has made the economy "more efficient." Only more efficient at shoveling money to the rich. cepr.net/publications...
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The “Free Market”: The Fatal Error of the Foundational Myth of Center-Left Politics
Corporate boards and weak labor institutions—not shareholder value—explain CEO pay, inequality, and why executives cave to Trump’s agenda.
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Erlend Sogge Heggen @erlend.sh · 05/10/2025
The web can be made personal again. blog.muni.town/personal-dat...
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Personal data storage is an idea whose time has come
Data Ownership as a conversation changes when data resides primarily with people-governed institutions rather than corporations.
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
1/ For this edition of the Polycrisis, we asked Shreyas Shende, who runs the fantastic Indialog newsletter, to analyse the momentous breakdown in India-US relations. indialog.substack.com Check it out --India in the new global order @phenomenalworld.bsky.social phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ind...
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