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@jezdriver.com
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Chronic builder of websites, frequent taker of photos, and occasional writer of blog posts. 🌐 jezdriver.com

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no. @joles.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
applying for jobs again
screenshot from an online job application form. the question reads "Can you describe specific ways you have integrated AI tools into your development workflow? Please include any custom setups, automations, or use cases beyond single prompt usage" (a red asterisk indicates that this is a required question).

an answer has been typed in the textbox below the question:

"there is a monster in the forest and it speaks with a thousand voices. it will answer any question you pose it, it will offer insight to any idea. it will help you, it will thank you, it will never bid you leave. it will even tell you of the darkest arts, if you know precisely how to ask.

it feels no joy and no sorrow, it knows no right and no wrong. it knows not truth from lie, though it speaks them all the same.
 
it offers its services freely to any passerby, and many will tell you they find great value in its conversation. “you simply must visit the monster—i always just ask the monster.”

there are those who know these forests well; they will tell you that freely offered doesn’t mean it has no price

for when the next traveler passes by, the monster speaks with a thousand and one voices. and when you dream you see the monster; the monster wears your face."
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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This week’s newsletter is for people who are tempted to use LLMs to do their writing. Please enjoy. I wrote every word. buttondown.com/monteiro/arc...
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How to write it like you told it
What do you say to someone who wants to write but struggles with writing and is tempted to use an LLM-based chatbot?
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3cats @rachel.supply · 06/09/2026
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Vale @vale.rocks · 21/08/2026
I was really happy with the new loading behaviour I implemented so I've been eagerly showing everyone my beautiful new throbber and now HR has scheduled a meeting with me. I can only assume they want to see it too.
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Jez @jezdriver.com · 07/08/2026
My friend I have a real treat for you typewritten.org/Media/ (via @tinarotheisenberg.bsky.social)
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Retrotechnology Media - Typewritten Software
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Adam McNeilly @adammc.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Screaming into the void some thoughts on AI coding. androidessence.com/leave-me-beh...
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Leave Me Behind | Android Essence
Simplified Android Development
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Jez @jezdriver.com · 06/05/2026
I wrote about how I put my film photos on my website!
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Building a home for my film photos on my own website
I got sick of other platforms, so I built something myself
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Neal Agarwal @neal.fun · 29/04/2026
Introducing Cursor Camp, a website to hang out with other cursors. Out now :) > neal.fun/cursor-camp/
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Ky @ky.fyi · 24/04/2026
I wrote about why I quit my job, and how weird and tiring tech feels these days.
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Do I belong in tech anymore?
On quitting, the spread of AI, and the loss of an ideal.
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Rachel Andrew @rachelandrew.co.uk · 21/04/2026
Gordon Ramsey, technical writing, and the importance of people who care rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/202...
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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 14/03/2026
Have a Fucking Website www.otherstrangeness.com/2026/03/14/h...
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Have a Fucking Website - Other Strangeness — merritt k
For fuck's sake
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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 11/02/2026
over a year ago, i gave a talk at the xoxo conference about a mural, a mcdonald’s, and a man. (but it was also secretly about life, and legacy, and meaning.) finally, i’m blogging the full story, with behind-the-scenes details, and a video of the talk. enjoy. cabel.com/wes-cook-and...
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Wes Cook and the Centralia McDonald's Mural
A personal story about discovering a mural in a McDonald's, an unknown artist named Wes Cook, saving the mural, and a conference talk about the whole thing.
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Sophie @localghost.dev · 08/02/2026
I've been on a bit of a social media hiatus, but I've written a new post about something that's been on my mind a lot lately localghost.dev/blog/stop-ge...
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Stop generating, start thinking - localghost
Instead of wanting to learn and improve as humans, and build better software, we’ve outsourced our mistakes to an unthinking algorithm.
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Daniel Benneworth-Gray @danielgray.com · 19/01/2026
COW TOOLS COW TOOLS COW TOOLS
theguardian.com
Back-scratching bovine leads scientists to reassess intelligence of cows
Brown Swiss in Austria has been discovered using tools in multiple ways – something only ever seen in humans and chimpanzees
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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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Jez @jezdriver.com · 12/01/2026
Happy to inspire! 🫡 Fetching new data based on the track's playtime is a clever idea
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November Kelly @postoctobrist.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
magical
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henry ✷ @strange.website · 01/01/2026
you’re right! it feels mostly awful to Go Online™, these days. the internet in a sad state, for reason after reason after reason. but there is a way to fix it; to trade the voidful howling for a quiet & joyful song. here’s how to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want.
henry.codes
A Website To End All Websites | Henry From Online
How to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want.
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ceej @ceej.online · 17/02/2025
“Serving Size: About 12 chips” please get fucking real
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Vale @vale.rocks · 18/12/2025
A rant in the face of the industry's continued neglect and outright hostility towards digital accessibility and care for users. vale.rocks/posts/access... #WebDev #Accessibility #a11y #FrontEndDevelopment
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You Can't Opt-Out of Accessibility
Shiny exclusion all the way down.
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The A11y Collective @a11y-collective.com · 30/10/2025
Daniela Kubesch wrote her Master's Thesis on "The Impact of Web Accessibility Overlays on the Usability and User Experience for People with Permanent Visual Impairments". Now we can say "Scientific research has shown that accessibility overlays are ineffective." overlays.dnikub.dev
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The Impact of Web Accessibility Overlays | Master's Thesis by Daniela Kubesch
This thesis, published in 2024, investigates the impact of accessibility overlays on the usability and user experience (UX) for individuals with permanent visual impairments. The conducted research…
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Jez @jezdriver.com · 27/09/2025
I wrote a blog post about how I used scripts and APIs to show my latest media on my website!
jezdriver.com
Dynamically displaying my media consumption on my website
Using APIs and scripts to share what I've been up to
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Kevin Powell @kevinpowell.co · 18/09/2025
Had a great conversation with @sjoy.lol today. We both toyed around with the web as a hobby starting in the late 90s, before eventually turning it into a career much later on. We talked a lot about that, but then got into accessibility and I just loved how she referred to it as "a heart thing" 😊
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 27/08/2025
I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
anthonymoser.github.io
I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
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Josh W. Comeau @joshwcomeau.com · 18/08/2025
✨ I just published a brand-new post! It’s about the notorious SVG <path> element. With its compact Regex-style syntax, <path> can be super intimidating. But they’re also *incredibly* powerful, letting us draw (and animate!) curved lines. You can read it here, and I’ll share more info in thread. 🧵
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An Interactive Guide to SVG Paths • Josh W. Comeau
SVG gives us many different primitives to work with, but by far the most powerful is the <path> element. Unfortunately, it’s also the most inscrutable, with its compact Regex-style syntax. In this tut...
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Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · 31/07/2025
Two of my favorite and most frequently used #SVG tools: SVG/URL encoder yoksel.github.io/url-encoder/ SVG crop svgcrop.com — I have certainly shared these tools before throughout the years, especially during the period I focused a lot on SVG. I love them and use them so much I wanted to reshare.
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URL-encoder for SVG
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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...
What’s a technology that you think is overhyped?

I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry.

Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto.

It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.
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Jez @jezdriver.com · 22/07/2025
I got a 300 points knowledge score on this year’s #StateOfHTML survey! I have used 17 features, and knew 26 more, placing me in the top 100% of all respondents. Can you beat my score? survey.devographics.com/survey/state...
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State of HTML 2025
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eli yudin @eliyudin.com · 19/07/2025
When you throw a dead fly in the trash you’re laying it to rest amongst a great fortune like a pharaoh
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Jez @jezdriver.com · 03/07/2025
dark mode version?? 👀
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JA Westenberg @joanwestenberg.com · 28/06/2025
I Deleted My Second Brain Why I Erased 10,000 Notes, 7 Years of Ideas, and Every Thought I Tried to Save
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I Deleted My Second Brain
Why I Erased 10,000 Notes, 7 Years of Ideas, and Every Thought I Tried to Save
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henry ✷ @strange.website · 28/05/2025
*looking both ways suspiciously, coast seems to be clear* *binding a click event to a div* *deafening, seismically loud incorrect buzzer knocks me out of my chair and i go sliding across the floor*
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henry ✷ @strange.website · 27/06/2025
"the ai agent in my ide helps me ship faster" i have seen your git hygiene and stewardship. you actually need to ship far slower
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Jono Alderson @jono.id · 19/06/2025
We used to build websites. Now we build pipelines, frameworks, and hydration strategies - just to publish text. This isn’t progress. It’s complexity, by design. We need to escape the JavaScript framework trap. www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/j...
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JavaScript broke the web (and called it progress)
We replaced simple websites with complex apps nobody asked for. Now it takes a complex build pipeline just to change a headline.
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Jez @jezdriver.com · 19/06/2025
"In a moment where machines churn out mediocrity, make something yourself. Make it imperfect. Make it rough. Just make it." dansinker.com/posts/2025-0...
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Jez @jezdriver.com · 12/06/2025
I got a 405 points knowledge score on this year’s #StateOfCSS survey! I have used 21 features, and knew 39 more, placing me in the top 100% of all respondents. Can you beat my score? survey.devographics.com/survey/state...
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State of CSS 2025
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Jez @jezdriver.com · 11/06/2025
This is so cool!! I can imagine doing some fun stuff with mixing transforms. I totally had the same realisation about using CSS vars. gist.github.com/JezDriver/dc... I have a few anims I can reuse wherever, like `move-in-x` which animates from `transform: translateX(var(--move-x-dist, 1rem));`
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A versatile keyframe animation configured using css variables #css
A versatile keyframe animation configured using css variables #css - configurable-keyframe-anim.css
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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
if you know a lot of stuff i think it is your moral duty to be kind and excited when people learn stuff for the first time. the world is full of stuff we don't know about, don't be mean
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