Jay Hoffmann @jayhoffmann.bsky.social · 21/05/2026If I can just get another .io domain I know that’ll fix everything 040
Reposted by Jay HoffmannVincent Driessen @nvie.com · 18/02/2026I wrote a few words last night. nvie.com/posts/15-yea...nvie.com15+ years later, Microsoft morged my diagramHow Microsoft continvoucly morged my Git branching diagram. 515150
Reposted by Jay HoffmannIgalia @igalia.com · 02/12/2025🎙️ New Episode of Igalia Chats - Web Backstories: Shadow DOM @meyerweb.com and @bkardell.com chat with @jayhoffmann.bsky.social and @adactio.com about Shadow DOM's backstory and long origins www.igalia.com/chats/shadow... 2124
Reposted by Jay HoffmannDerek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 03/10/2025Fuck apps - build websites. 7455118
Jay Hoffmann @jayhoffmann.bsky.social · 13/09/2025Seems like we got ourselves a quorum. What should we tackle first? 140
Reposted by Jay HoffmannJeff Bridgforth @jeffbridgforth.com · 12/09/2025Today in Web development history. The responsive design of The Boston Globe launched in 2012. It was the first major site to use RWD and was a showcase of the techniques @ethanmarcotte.com had written and spoke about. FED by Filament Group + Ethan. www.filamentgroup.com/lab/introduc...filamentgroup.comIntroducing the new responsive-designed BostonGlobe.com | Filament Group, Inc., Boston, MARead this page on the Filament Group website 123
Jay Hoffmann @jayhoffmann.bsky.social · 13/09/2025Hmmm, new podcast idea though? That could be fun to work on. 130
Reposted by Jay HoffmannMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 11/09/2025i do not think ezra klein genuinely grieves for charlie kirk. i think ezra klein thinks it’s professionally advantageous to perform grief. 602280217
Reposted by Jay Hoffmannzeldman @zeldman.bsky.social · 08/09/2025The History of the Web: Year of A List Apart thehistoryoftheweb.com/year-list-ap...thehistoryoftheweb.comYear of A List Apart - The History of the WebI’d really recommend reading a thread on Eric Meyer’s blog from early 2007. In it, he poses a pretty simple […] 0176
Reposted by Jay Hoffmannzeldman @zeldman.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Is blogging a lonely activity? Does it have to be? thehistoryoftheweb.com/do-blogs-nee...thehistoryoftheweb.comDo blogs need to be so lonely? - The History of the WebIf the web is participatory, and I really think it is, then how come blogging can feel so lonely? 265
Reposted by Jay HoffmannDerek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 25/05/2025I will probably spend the rest of my life thinking about how, in the first decade of the web, we all spontaneously decided to use it to be our true unmasked honest selves and it was fucking amazing, and then the rest of the world got online and decided to use it as an angry toilet. 2276
Reposted by Jay HoffmannAmanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 11/05/2025The idea that personal ideology is a continuum from right to left and that people who cannot reliably be expected to vote for one party or another must be in the center is the kind of thing you can only believe if you don’t know anyone who didn’t go to grad school 211638194
Reposted by Jay HoffmannJen Simmons @jensimmons.bsky.social · 30/04/2025To me, this is when the web began. Not the memo of an idea, asking for permission to work on it. Ideas are everywhere. An idea is not A Real Product. The day something ships is the day it’s in the hands of customers. Which, for the web, was April 30, 1993: yes webmasters, now you can make websites! 210218
Reposted by Jay HoffmannErin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 23/04/2025we're doing the thing unbreaking.orgunbreaking.orgUnbreaking — How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.Unbreaking — How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us. 20558207
Reposted by Jay HoffmannMatt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 03/04/2025Excited to see how the unforced economic crash is worsened by the (spins wheel) peruvian iguana foot virus in (rolls dice) three months as a result of medical misinformation spread by (pulls lever) robert f kennedy jr’s elle magazine girlfriend at (guides ouija board) gayle king’s bastille day party 602677418
Reposted by Jay HoffmannAlex K @alex.hosakka.studio · 26/03/2025Another great piece by @jayhoffmann.bsky.social : thehistoryoftheweb.com/our-online-h... "Slowly, slowly, the web was taken over by platforms..." Thanks to AI coding tools and open source software, I'm back at building my own infrastructure to run my homepage, podcast feed, newsletter, courses.thehistoryoftheweb.comOur Online Homes Need Infastructure - The History of the WebA home online is about as essential as it gets. But we need to make that easier. Where are we heading to build this new web together? 131
Jay Hoffmann @jayhoffmann.bsky.social · 22/03/2025This is the only correct way to cross the street. 010
Reposted by Jay HoffmannJason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 22/03/2025My favorite NYers are the ones that still go ahead and cross the street in front of an oncoming ambulance— but they speed up their ambling walk to a slight jog, so everyone sees they’re AWARE and CONSIDERATE 1131
Jay Hoffmann @jayhoffmann.bsky.social · 17/03/2025If you haven't had a chance to pick up Ethan's book yet, this lovely new design seems like a perfect excuse. 140
Reposted by Jay HoffmannEthan Marcotte @ethanmarcotte.com · 17/03/2025🦊 I am downright delighted to announce that my latest book, YOU DESERVE A TECH UNION, has a brand new look. I really love it, and I hope you do too. Here’s a look at what’s changed and—maybe more importantly—what’s stayed the same: ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/refres... #YDATUbook #books #unions #1uethanmarcotte.comRefresh. — ethanmarcotte.comIn 2023, I wrote a book. Several months later, my publisher closed its doors. And now? We’re back, and better than ever. 1821269
Jay Hoffmann @jayhoffmann.bsky.social · 05/03/2025I have a couple of angles I want to come at this from, but here's my first post on the history of online shopping and what we now call ecommerce. thehistoryoftheweb.com/expanding-ac...thehistoryoftheweb.comExpanding Access: The History of Ecommerce Part 1 - The History of the WebThe earliest work with selling things online was all about reaching a shopping public ready to log on and start. But along the way, they found a whole new audience for shopping, which changed the way ... 050
Reposted by Jay HoffmannEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 04/03/2025Ezra Klein may be the single most credulous dope in the world. Deep Research is total crap, and a "former AI expert to the Biden white house" spouting fan fiction about AGI is useless, wasteful and only seeks to help valuations of AI companies. Despicable. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/o... 4377798
Jay Hoffmann @jayhoffmann.bsky.social · 02/03/2025+ you don’t even need the “large” in LLM to do a pretty solid job here. SLMs have proven pretty effective. It’s building a sand castle with a bulldozer, except the bulldozer is plowing down rainforests. 010
Reposted by Jay Hoffmanndaniel sieradski @self.agency · 02/03/2025your reminder that i'm currently tracking changes to the homepages of 1,373 federal domains since february 4 and if you need any historical data about changes made to a particular domain since that date, i'm happy to provide it. 7424107
Reposted by Jay HoffmannAlt18F @alt18f.bsky.social · 01/03/202518F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people: 18f.org18f.orgWe're not done yet | 18F 697187416805
Reposted by Jay HoffmannSarah Giffrow @sarahgiffrow.bsky.social · 23/02/2025If anyone would like to send multiple in-depth reports about your week to our pals in the federal government, here you go 3227
Reposted by Jay HoffmannKarly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 15/02/2025Correct. If the birthdate field contains corrupt or mismatched data, it defaults to 1875-05-20, which serves as a flag. May 20, 1875, is the day the international standards and metrics treaty was signed. Everything is a conspiracy when you don’t know how anything works. 254127393991
Jay Hoffmann @jayhoffmann.bsky.social · 14/02/2025media.tenor.comthe joker is standing in front of a pool table holding a bat .ALT: the joker is standing in front of a pool table holding a bat . 020
Reposted by Jay HoffmannHarry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 14/02/2025Strong rumor with credible sourcing: DOJ has put all of public integrity line attorneys in a room and told them they have an hour for someone to choose who will sign motion to dismiss and if nobody does, they will all be fired. The nastiest strong-arming in DOJ history by a long shot. 57481302810
Jay Hoffmann @jayhoffmann.bsky.social · 13/02/2025This @cssday.bsky.social lineup has me really wishing I could make it out to Amsterdam this summer. cssday.nl/speakers.htmlcssday.nlCSS Day 2025, 5th & 6th of June, AmsterdamCSS Day is the conference for CSS designers, developers, spec writers, and browser vendors. 010
Jay Hoffmann @jayhoffmann.bsky.social · 11/02/2025This future AI is generating is risking not just the slop it spits out, but what's already been created. thehistoryoftheweb.com/what-happens...thehistoryoftheweb.comWhat happens to what we’ve already created? - The History of the WebWhen we think about AI, we can't only think of what it has generated. We need to think about what it does to what the world has already created. 000
Reposted by Jay HoffmannRachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 10/02/2025A swastika t-shirt is the only item on the Yeezy website. Powered by Shopify. It's not the first time Shopify has powered stores selling items with Swastikas. I've reached out to them about this before, and they kept powering the stores. The only thing they changed, eventually, was their rules. 641373426
Jay Hoffmann @jayhoffmann.bsky.social · 10/02/2025Anyone having a word with Shopify about this one? 020
Jay Hoffmann @jayhoffmann.bsky.social · 08/02/2025What about a preflight tool that can commune content from any source (RSS, GraphQL) and turn into any output (newsletter, Bluesky post, Raindrop bookmark) 100
Reposted by Jay HoffmannBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 01/02/2025There appear to be at least three separately operating heel factions breaking things within the government in wholly different ways right now. There's the Miller-headed immigration one, the DOGE/Elon one, and a Project 2025 OMB one. This dynamic hasn't showed up in mainstream reporting at all. 776283948540
Reposted by Jay HoffmannJohn Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 31/01/2025If I’m not seeing Congressional pages place a coat around the shoulders of a visibly exhausted and trembling Ron Wyden after a three hour stall speech over a nominee and led off like James Brown then you *fucked up*. 674593
Reposted by Jay HoffmannBrad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 30/01/2025The major media is utterly failing to simply state that Trump is a vicious racist, who blames everything on presumed racial or ethnic minorities. How hard can it be to just say “In shockingly racist remarks Trump refuses to accept responsibility and blames deadly plane crash on minorities” 893462905
Reposted by Jay HoffmannRob Whiting 📓 @whitingx.bsky.social · 29/01/2025On The History of the Web, @jayhoffmann.bsky.social considers ‘Would the #Internet exist today if the #PrintingPress didn’t come before it?’ thehistoryoftheweb.com/would-the-in...thehistoryoftheweb.comWould the internet exist today if the printing press didn't come before it? - The History of the WebThe breakthroughs of the web are often compared to the printing press. But could the former exist without the latter? 021
Jay Hoffmann @jayhoffmann.bsky.social · 29/01/2025Please, anybody, run against this guy in the primary so I can vote for you. 010
Reposted by Jay HoffmannAnnie Sexton @anniesexton.com · 26/01/2025It’s done. 153 pages. I drew a whole graphic novel. Wow. 71415