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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026

Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

Katie Sylor-Miller @ksylor.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

I just need everyone to know that my 15 y.o. Daughter just beat Elden Ring, a game that I would never even attempt to play because it looks way too hard.

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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 04/06/2026

This is becoming a common but not enough interrogated buzzphrase for a very real problem - LLM output is verification and technical debt. One person can generate plausible enough looking results that they can pass through several hands before a close enough reading shows it's full of shit.

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Jason Lengstorf @jason.energy · 01/06/2026

looking forward to the near future when these 7-day workweek dorks burn out and invent weekends + 8 hours of sleep but call it something goofy like "REM-maxxing" and start ridiculing each other like "bro you don't let your subconscious cook on problems 8 hours a day bro you're ngmi"

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Patrick Meenan @patmeenan.com · 23/04/2026

I say it every year - if you're even the least bit interested or involved in web performance, this is THE place to be every year. It's the one trip I prioritize my travel budget for. The talks are awesome, but the hallway track is unbeatable. The concentration of experts in one place is insane.

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Katie Sylor-Miller @ksylor.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

At some point soon (if not already) businesses are going to lose customers from the degraded experiences that no-human-has-reviewed-LLM-generated code spits out. And then what?

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Chris Gibbons @gbbns.co · 23/03/2026

Same pattern, every team. Designer annotates everything. Design system specifies focus states, heading structure, the lot. Engineering ships something broken anyway. Not an awareness problem. A skills gap the industry built deliberately. Rant here - gbbns.co/journal/acce... #Accessibility

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The Accessibility Problem Isn't Design. It's Engineering. | gbbns.co

Accessibility failures aren't design oversights — they're engineering failures. The full-stack hiring trend, AI-generated code with no context, and a compliance-first mentality have combined to create...

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Andromeda Yelton @thatandromeda.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

OK so this young trans gentleman was cut off by his parents, has been unable to get MIT to up his financial aid, has been working multiple jobs while maintaining an A- average AT MIT (no one does this), but he is gonna need to actually pay his tuition to graduate: www.gofundme.com/f/help-matth...

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Donate to Help Matthew Graduate From MIT, organized by Irene Dong

Hello everyone, my name is Irene. I'm writing this on behalf of my friend, fellow MIT studen… Irene Dong needs your support for Help Matthew Graduate From MIT

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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

The most disturbing aspect of the AI era is realizing how many people have only ever valued others for their labor and not their humanity.

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Katie Sylor-Miller @ksylor.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

The paralympics have been so fun to watch, just amazing athleticism on display

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bryson @brysonm.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

holy shit

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dan @danabra.mov · 07/03/2026

having used claude extensively for the past couple of months, i think there is still a lot of value to understanding your code and steering it intentionally. the amount of incidental complexity claude accumulates otherwise (which mostly results in bugs that it can't ever fix reliably) is staggering.

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 04/03/2026

I started a new chapter of my Agentic Engineering Patternw guide about anti-patterns - things NOT to do So far I only have one: Inflicting unreviewed code on collaborators, aka dumping a thousand line PR without even making sure it works first simonwillison.net/guides/agent...

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Anti-patterns: things to avoid - Agentic Engineering Patterns

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Katie Sylor-Miller @ksylor.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Now I know how I’ll be spending my funemployment!

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Brian Sinclair @brianarn.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Block was a really great place to work for the past four months. Unfortunately, I’m part of today’s 40% layoff. If you need an old hand at web stuff, who has staff software engineering experience at multiple international corporations, hit me up. ❤️

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Katie Sylor-Miller @ksylor.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Getting laid off sucks, but I just realized that I have never taken more than 2 weeks off between jobs before, and I’ve always juggled interviews with actually working. So, silver lining, I’ll get a nice long break for the first time ever, and I’ll be able to focus on studying for interviews

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Katie Sylor-Miller @ksylor.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Hi friends I just got laid off along with 40% of Block. No idea what comes next, but if you have need for a Principal Frontend Engineer hit me up!

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Katie Sylor-Miller @ksylor.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS. not just in communities, but companies too. I have never in my long career worked with anyone who deliberately *made the choice* to be a “low performer” without curiosity/discipline/agency, it’s always been beaten out of them

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Props to @scott.hanselman.com for naming the elephant in the room in big tech. AI coding tools boost senior engineers but create challenges for juniors who lack context to judge outputs. Cutting junior hiring for near-term gains weakens the future pipeline. We’ll need apprenticeship-style paths.

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Redefining the Software Engineering Profession for AI | Communications of the ACM

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Katie Sylor-Miller @ksylor.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Oooh this is super exciting to see Container Timing come to life! This will be so helpful for measuring user-triggered page updates!

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Stef Walter @stephaniewalter.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

I won't have time to debunk the old "yellow is not accessible" myth in my axe-con talk. But, you are lucky: I already wrote a whole article on how accessibility does NOT limit color choices. stephaniewalter.design/blog/yellow-... #Accessibility #AccessibleColors #YellowColor

Accessibility: Yellow, Purple and the Myth of “Accessibility Limits Color Palettes”

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WEATHER IS HAPPENING @weatherishappening.com · 23/02/2026

BOMBOGENESIS BOMBOGENESIS BOMBOGENESIS BOMBOGENESIS

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WEATHER IS HAPPENING @weatherishappening.com · 21/02/2026

/ FOLKS / THIS IS IT / THE BLIZZARD OF 2026 / READY 2 BLOB U UP / READY 2 BLOB U DOWN / UR GONNA GET ALL BLOBBED UP / STARTING SUMTIME AFTER 6 PM SUNEVE / & LASTING IN2 MONNITE / THIS WILL BE THICC HEAVY WET SNOWBLOBS / CHARGE UR BATTERIES AS POWER OUTAGES R LIKELY

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MAP SHOWS MOST OF EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS & CONNECTICUT & ALL OF RHODE ISLAND IN A PINK 18-24" ZONE

A RED STRIPE 2 THE WEST IS A 10-20" ZONE

THEN IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS A ORANGE 6-12" ZONE

REPENT
REPENT 2 UR WEATHER LORDS
SUMTHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES

OH NO

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Tim Holman @aussie.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

A sad day for rectangles

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Cate @catehstn.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Really interesting - lately I've been wondering what it looks like to retrofit the software factory model onto an existing engineering team and this starts to answer that question - The Era of the Software Factory 🏭 refactoring.fm/p/the-era-of...

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The Era of the Software Factory 🏭

A reflection based on the latest State of Software Delivery report

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Jesse Wilson @swank.ca · 19/02/2026

Arguing about unit tests vs. integration tests sucks. It's dogma and I feel like a heretic. This post discusses a different way to think about a test’s scope. I love it.

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testing, one two - Chris Dickinson

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Sérgio Gomes @sgomes.com · 13/02/2026

It's been a while since my last blog post, so I made up for it with a wall of text 😅 This article looks at why JS-heavy web apps tend to miss their performance goals over time, what you can do to somewhat mitigate that, and ends with a plea for us to move back to the server, as an industry.

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JS-heavy approaches are not compatible with long-term performance goals

I’m Sérgio, and I work with Web frontend code. Sometimes I write about it here.

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Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 14/02/2026

It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

This is the same tech that all the software engineering influencers on X are telling you to use to open PRs to your codebase without reviewing the diffs.

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Katie Sylor-Miller @ksylor.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Fascinating overview of the symbolism and meaning from Bad Bunny’s halftime show

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Katie Sylor-Miller @ksylor.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

We had really been hoping the plant people were gonna dance but alas, they were there in lieu of trucks

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ceej @ceej.online · 07/02/2026

production of The Muppet Show should not be dependent on petty vulgarities like “ratings” or “revenue.” it should be preserved as a vital function of american culture. it should have a taxpayer-funded budget rivaling the CIA

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Katie Sylor-Miller @ksylor.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Had a shower thought yesterday that c-suite ai true believers / magical thinkers have convinced themselves that AI will somehow allow them to pick all three from the adage “pick two: good, fast, or cheap“

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Eric Bailey @ericwbailey.website · 28/01/2026

It is a lot more complicated to add keyboard shortcuts to your web app than you might initially think, featuring a big honkin' table. #a11ty ericwbailey.website/published/ho...

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How an accessibility designer adds keyboard shortcuts to a web app

Keyboard shortcuts occupy a strange area for web design.

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Katie Sylor-Miller @ksylor.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Highly recommend Laura’s book as a primer on accessibility. it’s free so you have no excuse *not* to read it

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Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 25/01/2026

w/ alt-txt

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WEATHER IS HAPPENING @weatherishappening.com · 25/01/2026

/ THESE SNOWBLOBS R IMMINENT / SHULD BE FLOATED OVER BOSTON SOON / 2 WICH THEY WILL STAY THRU IN2 MONNITE / & MAYBS EVEN EARL TUESMORN / PREPENT URSELVES / THE SNOWBLOBS R NEARLY UPON U

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WEATHER IS HAPPENING @weatherishappening.com · 23/01/2026

/ A *PRELIMINARY* SNOWTOTES MAP / 4 SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND BTWIXT SUN 1/25 & MON 1/26 / THESE VALUES WILL ALMOST CERTAINLY CHANGE / & ITS BEEN DIFFICULT / 1 FEVERISH VIZION SAYS 2 THING / & THE NEXT SAYS ANOTHER / HARD 2 MAKE SENSE OF THESE V RAW, V POWERFUL VIZIONS

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kate conger @kateconger.com · 22/01/2026

In our conservative estimate, 41 percent of Grok’s images — or 1.8 million — were sexualized depictions of women. Separately, CCDH analyzed how many were sexualized images across genders and ages. Their findings: an estimated 3 million images, including more than 23,000 of children.

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Katie Sylor-Miller @ksylor.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

I haven’t been posting a ton about tech & coding lately because I’ve been working on spending more time offline, practicing painting. Here are a few recent gouache studies I’m feeling proud of!

A brightly colored painting of the early morning alpenglow light on Mount Washington in NH, as seen from a ski trail on Wildcat mountain. The mountain fades from bright yellow to orange to red to purple to blue as you reach the tree line.

A view of sunset from Ko Olina beach in Hawaii. In the distance the clouds are yellow, purple and pink. The sun sets behind a stand of palm trees and reflects from the turquoise water, the wet sand glows in purples and blues.

A painting of the view across Waikiki beach with Diamond Head hill in the distance. The light glows on the hotel buildings in the background and the turquoise water. In the foreground waves lap against the beach in shades of blue and purple.

A brightly colored gouache painting of Hanalei Bay in Hawaii. In the background are sharply ridged blue and green mountains, with turquoise water and a sandy tan and pinkish beach with green waves.

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Lars @webpro.nl · 21/01/2026

🆕 npx unbarrelify At last, an easy way get rid of barrel files! Rewrites consumers to import directly from source, then deletes the barrels. Safe and fully automated, read all about it at github.com/webpro/unbar...

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Memento (artemis) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

museums are cool because the people who work there are like look at this neat thing and you're like wow that is neat and you just do it over and over again until it is time to go

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 17/01/2026

neolithic guys get pissed if you tell them their cultures are organized by the type of pots and jewelry they made. "we called ourselves the blood hunters" "we conquered villages far beyond this horizon" sorry bud you're the western linear pottery culture now

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jgoulah @jgoulah.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

thinking a lot lately about the very broken state of technical interviewing and it strikes me that reading code is a lot more valuable than writing code especially in the age of AI, so if you have any influence please try to push the scale that direction

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Adam Kuhn @cobrawinfrey.dev · 09/01/2026

at this juncture if you still actively use Twitter I assume you either a) are a pedophile or b) are cool with pedophilia

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

living through 2025 and having to wake up, go to work, handle responsibilities etc feels like this

a clip of James Acaster on the Great British Back off saying, "Started making it. Had a breakdown. Bon appetite." as he presents a dish to the judges.

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