Reposted by Morgan Roderickzeldman @zeldman.bsky.social · 01/09/2025“A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.” — Victor Hugo 1253
Reposted by Morgan RoderickGergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 01/09/2025Not even going to comment on how crypto people keep pushing the idea of “stablecoins as payments” use case: completely ignoring the reason anyone sensible won’t stop using credit cards: Because credit cards offer chargebacks, and pay perks. Crypto offers neither and is a risk 5718
Reposted by Morgan RoderickMolly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 01/09/2025You guys see where this is going? Right? 1173134863778
Reposted by Morgan RoderickChris Ferdinandi @cferdinandi.bsky.social · 28/08/2025This is one of the greatest things I’ve ever read in my entire life about any topic ever anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...anthonymoser.github.ioI Am An AI HaterI am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater. 14520
Reposted by Morgan RoderickAlex Russell @infrequently.org · 19/08/2025I put together a whole page of resources and pointers on these topics, and cannot recommend "Life of a Pixel" often or highly enough: infrequently.org/links/#web-p... 36111
Reposted by Morgan Roderickcodebar @codebar.io · 14/08/2025New on the codebar youtube - "Nurturing the Designer and Developer Relationship" with Rob Otim 👀 In this talk, Rob shares his thoughts on how designers and developers can work better together ⬇️ youtu.be/Hs9jn1GQbTUyoutu.beNurturing the Designer and Developer Relationship with Rob Otim | codebar Festival 2025YouTube video by codebar 011
Reposted by Morgan RoderickTom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 10/08/2025Did you guys notice how quickly we got to okaying discrimination against women, people of color and LGBTQA+ people, Christi-fascists in the government, erasure of public health, not being able to trust government statistics, autocratic use of power and undermining elections? 2367
Reposted by Morgan Roderick🎃 Petanormal Activity 👻 🏳️⚧️ @petaispleasant.bsky.social · 06/08/2025Transmisogyny is just this bizarre clusterfuck where people treat you like a woman, in that they talk over you, call you overly emotional, sexualise you, judge you harshly on how well you embody femininity, disbelieve you when you say you've been mistreated, all the while insisting that you're a man 192208511
Reposted by Morgan RoderickMia [data-css=poetic] @miriam.codes · 08/08/2025a web that isn't human-first is a web I want nothing to do with. I'm not going to "optimize the graph" of assertions, or whatever. I'm not a content farm for your algorithm. i'm here to build real relationships with real people - and if that's not what the web is for anymore, I'll be somewhere else. 315832
Reposted by Morgan RoderickJeremy Keith @adactio.com · 07/08/2025Journal: Progressive web apps If you’thinking of making a native app, think again. 🔗https://adactio.com/journal/22074 042
Reposted by Morgan RoderickChris Ferdinandi @cferdinandi.bsky.social · 05/08/2025Aubrey isn't just a kick-ass developer. She's an amazingly kind, thoughtful human being. I cannot overstate how incredible of an asset she would be for your team! 053
Reposted by Morgan RoderickUna Kravets @una.im · 05/08/2025Create a larger, invisible hit area around the element, making it easier to click without layout shift! How? Use a pseudo element with `position: absolute` + `inset: -{value}px` Demo to play with: codepen.io/una/pen/gbaWdmy (Tip from dmytro on X, who I can't find on Bsky: x.com/pqoqubbw/sta...) 514124
Reposted by Morgan RoderickMuad'Dib dos Pampas @gustavoscosta.bsky.social · 05/08/2025Final alternativo de Idoru, do lendário @greatdismal.bsky.social 512936
Morgan Roderick @mroderick.bsky.social · 03/08/2025That weird feeling when one of your heroes from early on in your career follows you back… 000
Reposted by Morgan RoderickBarry Deutsch @barrydeutsch.bsky.social · 02/08/2025DuckDuckGo has added a feature to filter out AI images from search results. 156148295306
Morgan Roderick @mroderick.bsky.social · 03/08/2025Three day weekend on the new moto 🏍️ to surprise my mum for her birthday celebration on Saturday at 11am. Fri: Berlin to Ry, ~600km Sat: Ry to Aalborg, ~140km Sun: Aalborg to Berlin, ~750km #tired 010
Morgan Roderick @mroderick.bsky.social · 03/08/2025www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...theguardian.com‘He has trouble completing a thought’: bizarre public appearances again cast doubt on Trump’s mental acuityJoe Biden was hounded for his age-related gaffes, but Trump’s increasingly strange behavior has largely been ignored 000
Reposted by Morgan RoderickSimon St.Laurent @simonstl.com · 31/07/2025I would like this to be true. "Instead of reaching for frameworks by default, more teams are treating HTML and CSS as first-class citizens again, leaning on JavaScript only when it genuinely enhances the experience. This isn’t nostalgia—it’s a calculated correction." thenewstack.io/html-first-f...thenewstack.ioHTML-First, Framework-Second: Is JavaScript Finally Growing Up?Instead of starting with a framework, smart frontend developers now begin with HTML and enhance it progressively with JavaScript. 1134
Reposted by Morgan Roderickrem / Remy Sharp @remysharp.com · 28/07/2025This week, early bird tickets end *and* tickets close for the summer holidays, returning in September. 033
Reposted by Morgan RoderickAmy Hupe @amyhupe.bsky.social · 27/07/2025Has anyone done a fear of flying course that they’d recommend? 101
Reposted by Morgan RoderickMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 28/07/2025If you were alive in the 1980s, this is among the most wonderful & truly incredible things you have ever witnessed in your lifetime. 257157854386
Reposted by Morgan RoderickDiversify Tech @diversifytech.com · 25/07/2025If you are hiring, we'd love for you to share your technical roles on our job board. We'll share them with our community of 20,000 underrepresented people in tech. buff.ly/OdtgUCddiversifytech.comDiversify Tech - Connecting marginalized folks in tech with career opportunitiesGet events, scholarships and job opportunities from vetted companies in your inbox every week 065
Reposted by Morgan Roderickrem / Remy Sharp @remysharp.com · 24/07/20252025.ffconf.org - 7 days left of the early bird pricing 🐣⌛️ 011
Reposted by Morgan RoderickJohn Cutler @johncutle.fish · 19/07/2025Forget vibe coding. Enter vibe leadership. 2447
Reposted by Morgan RoderickChris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 18/07/2025every single day is just turning on your screen and yelling shut up!! shut up!!!! at it 22725142
Reposted by Morgan Roderickrem / Remy Sharp @remysharp.com · 18/07/2025Dear CSS overloads, this should be possible _without_ JavaScript: growfield.js.org Indeed, it was … sort of around 19 years ago remysharp.com/2006/11/27/a... (actually, this is the input element, I can't remember if it worked on textarea).growfield.js.orgGrowField — A tiny, dependency-free JavaScript module for making textarea elements grow with their contentA tiny, dependency-free JavaScript module for making textarea elements grow with their content 251
Reposted by Morgan Roderickrem / Remy Sharp @remysharp.com · 14/07/2025I think this is an interesting idea, though the horse has rather bolted from the stable already… blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-...blog.cloudflare.comIntroducing pay per crawl: Enabling content owners to charge AI crawlers for accessPay per crawl is a new feature to allow content creators to charge AI crawlers for access to their content. 041
Reposted by Morgan RoderickRebelwheels NYC (Michele Sommerstein) @rebelwheelsnyc.bsky.social · 07/07/2025“See the person, not the disability” is not the statement of solidarity that some think it is. There’s nothing wrong with seeing disability. The problem is the default negative connotation that is placed on disability. The problem is ableism. #DisabilityPrideMonth 312750
Reposted by Morgan RoderickTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 09/07/2025Very good work. Read it and act. www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-secret...notesfromthecircus.comThe Secret Police Are HereWhile the Professional Moderates Clutch Their Pearls 951875923
Reposted by Morgan RoderickDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 06/07/2025The entire tech-bro community is talking itself into getting even dumber. 2973794
Reposted by Morgan RoderickZach Leatherman @zachleat.com · 01/07/2025it feels important to keep saying: SPA as an app framework default (and not an opt-in feature) was a mistake 99623
Reposted by Morgan RoderickEllis Rosen @ellisjrosen.bsky.social · 30/06/2025My cartoon in this weeks @newyorker.com 86106402722
Reposted by Morgan RoderickFarrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 26/06/2025Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez refers to the "Genocide that is taking place in Gaza" "Israel is violating Article 2 with the EU and that the Association Agreement with Israel has to be suspended" 17592169
Reposted by Morgan RoderickAlex Russell @infrequently.org · 27/06/2025Went to two frontend conferences in as many days, and learned a lot; not all of it what the presenters hoped I'd take away: infrequently.org/2025/06/conf...infrequently.orgConferences, Clarity, and Smokescreens - Infrequently NotedAlex Russell on browsers, standards, and the process of progress. 44915
Morgan Roderick @mroderick.bsky.social · 27/06/2025I thought this was a very interesting read on monorepos: blog.swgillespie.me/posts/monore...blog.swgillespie.meThe Ingredients of a Productive Monorepo 000
Reposted by Morgan RoderickFarrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 22/06/20252011: Donald Trump says a weak and ineffective President will start a war with Iran 2025: President Trump attacks Iran 15368133
Reposted by Morgan RoderickJohn Scott-Railton @jsrailton.bsky.social · 21/06/2025Computer vision & HUDs are cool. AI augmented reality is fascinating. But this is a trojan horse for megacorp to get into *all* your interactions. Friends don't let friends bring Zuck in a backpack on their adventures. 28619
Reposted by Morgan RoderickJen Simmons @jensimmons.bsky.social · 13/05/2025Have you ever wished the browser would look at a background color and pick black or white for the text — whichever one provides more contrast? Now, the `constrast-color()` function in CSS does just that. webkit.org/blog/16929/c...webkit.orgHow to have the browser pick a contrasting color in CSSHave you ever wished you could write simple CSS to declare a color, and then have the browser figure out whether black or white should be paired with that color? 1650297
Reposted by Morgan RoderickOlle @olleolleolle.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/06/2025Ruby. We do meetups abooooout monthly if you count Copenhagen and Malmö Ruby Brigades both. If you're in the region, reach out, don't miss the meetups. #malmorb #ruby #copenhagenrb 011
Reposted by Morgan RoderickSimon Willison @simonwillison.net · 25/05/2025When lawyers first started getting yelled at by judges for citing hallucinated case law 2 years ago I naively assumed word would get around and they would all learn not to This new DB has 116 cases from 12 countries where this happened, 20 from just this month! simonwillison.net/2025/May/25/...simonwillison.netAI Hallucination CasesDamien Charlotin maintains this database of cases around the world where a legal decision has been made that confirms hallucinated content from generative AI was presented by a lawyer. That's … 515049
Reposted by Morgan RoderickOrion Kidder @orionkidder.bsky.social · 25/05/2025Periodic reminder:Substack profits off Nazi pages bc they don't want to be "in the censorship business,"but they also won't host adult content,so they ARE in the "censorship business." They just think Nazis are better than pornographers. This is why I will never give Substack a single shiny nickel. 81322619
Reposted by Morgan RoderickLéonie Watson @tink.uk · 26/05/2025If you're curious how AI is redefining #accessibility, why not come to AI and Accessibility Day hosted by We Are Developers on 5 June: www.wearedevelopers.com/events/acces... You can use code A11YDAY_Leonie for 15% off too. #AI #a11ywearedevelopers.comWeAreDevelopers Accessibility & AI Day • 5 June 2025 • OnlineDiscover how AI is redefining Accessibility at this masterfully curated single-track event with industry-leading experts. 174
Reposted by Morgan RoderickBenjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 26/05/2025Alison Gopnik describes AI as "Stone Soup" and anytime you can reference a vaguely socialist folktale from Eastern Europe and apply it to Silicon Valley technology I am here for it. buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com/p/ai-is-ston... 49127
Reposted by Morgan RoderickAlex Russell @infrequently.org · 24/05/2025Because @zachleat.com and @aluhrs.com made me look, I'm sharing the pain. Behold the power of a fully operational Next.js + Tailwind web page! 3MB (11.4 unzipped) of critical-path JS to display 1.4KB (2.8 unzipped) of text, an image, and a below-the-fold video: www.webpagetest.org/video/compar...webpagetest.org 107011
Reposted by Morgan RoderickJeremy Keith @adactio.com · 23/05/2025Journal: Tools A large language model is as neutral as an AK-47. 🔗https://adactio.com/journal/21926 163