iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Brent Larson @nerdcowboy.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

and I think that concludes the hellsite transformation. one hellsite is enough for me ✌️

Brent Larson @nerdcowboy.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

too jumpy imo. especially the middle name when it jumps to a new line as you're typing—that's pretty jarring and unexpected.

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Brent Larson @nerdcowboy.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

you won't succeed if you don't fail fast. wait.

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Brent Larson @nerdcowboy.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Internal thinkers will hate this External thinkers will love this AI will hate external thinkers External thinker: "Ok, so i was thinking we should add this thing here…and that's how my grandma met my grandpa…anyways, you're such a good listener…what were we talking about again?"

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Brent Larson @nerdcowboy.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

i find myself writing something like this pretty frequently: "only focus on this task, we'll address other things later" and "don't delete any comments"

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Brent Larson @nerdcowboy.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

A to an extent. I think it was more interesting when they were new because it was all new information we had never had before. Now it's just a question of how much did it change year over year which is much less interesting.

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Brent Larson @nerdcowboy.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

tell me the bag designer is an alcoholic without telling me the bag designer is an alcoholic (or more likely the exec that told them it needed a bottle opener)

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Brent Larson @nerdcowboy.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Seems reasonable, but just for clarity—the benefit here is primarily simpler types?

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Ben Holmes @bholmes.dev · 29/07/2025

💡 Did you know @raycast.com had a color picker? Just selects a color and copies to your clipboard. Map to a shortcut like opt+P to pick from anywhere

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Eli Schutze @elibelly.dev · 21/07/2025

tfw the hover state kinda changes the story 😆 @theguardian.com

underlined headline that reads "Liverpool agree £79m deal for Elitike" except the underline visually makes it look like £7.9m

headline that reads "Liverpool agree £79m deal for Elitike"

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Brent Larson @nerdcowboy.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

your point is some right orgs are immoral, invalidating all giving, but people on the right say the same thing about left orgs. people give to what aligns with their morals, and the right does that a lot more. your opinion of their morals doesn't change how little the left gives.

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Brent Larson @nerdcowboy.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

fair critique, but it's not unique to conservative nonprofits. e.g. the red cross was once good, but now only pretends to help. the right will also say leftist charities aren't helping people. this is only a moral judgement. and the right will have an inverse moral judgement.

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Brent Larson @nerdcowboy.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

you're right. your response 100% exemplifies that you're better than those asshole christians

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Josh W. Comeau @joshwcomeau.com · 16/07/2025

🔥 My friends at DMNO have a new devtool: varlock. It’s a drop-in replacement for dotenv, and adds a bunch of cool stuff like validation and type safety. It stores the secrets themselves in password managers or encrypted vaults. The landing page also has a very cool RPG vibe 😄 varlock.dev

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Brent Larson @nerdcowboy.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

As church leaders/guests they would be expected to receive support, but chose to set an example instead. this is a rebuke to the able-bodied who chose to freeload. i.e. "unemployed freeloaders" maybe you meant facetiously that "all unemployed people are freeloaders" which this is def not saying

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Brent Larson @nerdcowboy.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

"For even when we were with you, we gave you this rule: 'The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat.'" 2 Thessalonians 3:10

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Alex Russell @infrequently.org · 27/06/2025

Went 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.org

Conferences, Clarity, and Smokescreens - Infrequently Noted

Alex Russell on browsers, standards, and the process of progress.

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Brent Larson @nerdcowboy.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Naming things may be hard, but it's not this hard: UI: tags API: categories Data API: keywords

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Brent Larson @nerdcowboy.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

amazing for writing tests and fixing types. mediocre at everything else, so i just let it do a first draft and then I clean it up.

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Brent Larson @nerdcowboy.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

i didn't last half a day. they could have built this into Arc and people would've loved it. it just feels like a prettier Chrome with an AI extension. big meh. would love to see Raycast buy them

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Brent Larson @nerdcowboy.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

when they started adding shielding to the speakers after people complained. roughly 2010 iirc

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Brent Larson @nerdcowboy.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

I'm absolutely right yet again! man, i just don't miss 🐐 i'd like to thank AI for always believing in me—even when I'm wrong or I delve into trivial things.

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Chris Coyier @chriscoyier.net · 04/06/2025

Ugjkagk i love the Microsoft Design blog header.

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Brent Larson @nerdcowboy.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

it's not imposter syndrome, you just got to the top of mount stupid and you looked down

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Brent Larson @nerdcowboy.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

been on both sides of this. don't really care much anymore. most a11y issues start with your design system. I think targeting by role is a good defensive measure, but when implemented by an inexperienced dev, it can solidfy bad code with bad tests (e.g. button that should've been a link)

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Brent Larson @nerdcowboy.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

i tell people I'm a professional turd polisher

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Keith Cirkel @keithamus.social · 28/05/2025

Hey friends, did you know you can make a modal <dialog> element dismissible by clicking outside (aka light dismiss) by adding `closedby=any` to it. That's it. That's all there is to it. <dialog closedby=any> developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W... Chrome 134+, Firefox 140+, coming soon to Safari.

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HTMLDialogElement: closedBy property - Web APIs | MDN

The closedBy property of the HTMLDialogElement interface indicates the types of user actions that can be used to close the associated <dialog> element. It sets or returns the dialog's closedby attribu...

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Brent Larson @nerdcowboy.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Fix this nonsense bsky.app/profile/know...

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Brent Larson @nerdcowboy.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

anything subjective in admissions like essays has always been backdoor discrimination. they just updated what they discriminate on based on who is power.

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Nathan Knowler @knowler.dev · 26/05/2025

This continues to be the most useless piece of UI on this site. The hit target is like half the size of the circle too.

Bluesky’s “scroll to top” / “newer skeets available” button: a circle with a upward chevron icon inside of it that has a blue circle badge.

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Brent Larson @nerdcowboy.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

developers are lazy and will choose the easy option when given the choice. i'm sure this only applies to development. not going to think about this any further.

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CSS by T. Afif @css-only.dev · 12/05/2025

⚙️ New CSS Generator! Save this link for the future. A tool to easily convert any SVG shape into a CSS one in no time. Powered by the new shape() function! 🤩 css-generators.com/svg-to-css/ ✅ Single-element ✅ Responsive ✅ No more ViewBox headaches

css-generators.com

SVG to CSS Shape Converter

A simple tool to transform an SVG shape into a CSS shape. Get a modern and optimized code in no time!.

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Brent Larson @nerdcowboy.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

the bottleneck for me has almost always been bureaucracy/politics and/or a system intentionally designed to be slow due to fear-driven development

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Brent Larson @nerdcowboy.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

AI doesn't solve bureaucracy. The biggest impediment to shipping isn't design or code—it's people.

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React @react.dev · 23/04/2025

Today we're sharing that View Transitions and Activity are ready to try in the experimental channel, along with docs and updates on other areas we're actively working on: react.dev/blog/2025/04...

react.dev

React Labs: View Transitions, Activity, and more – React

The library for web and native user interfaces

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dan @danabra.mov · 22/04/2025

⚛️📝 New on Overreacted: Impossible Components overreacted.io/impossible-c...

overreacted.io

Impossible Components — overreacted

Composing across the stack.

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Brent Larson @nerdcowboy.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

ya it's wrong, but it's consistently wrong everywhere, so now it's a standard

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Brent Larson @nerdcowboy.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

hmm…do they limit how many you can view? I just hit "Not Now" to their download app prompt and it loads for me

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dan @danabra.mov · 15/04/2025

⚛️📝 New on Overreacted: JSX Over The Wire overreacted.io/jsx-over-the...

overreacted.io

JSX Over The Wire — overreacted

Turning your API inside-out.

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Sarah Drasner @sarahedo.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Completely agree with this point: “Clever engineers write clever code. Exceptional engineers write simple code.” Back in when people wanted “ninjas”, I said I wanted to be/wanted to work with gardeners. Ninjas come in and leave a bloody mess in the morning. Gardeners patiently cultivate.

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Brent Larson @nerdcowboy.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

It's also a tactic to shift responsibility to the consultant, so they get fired when things blow up instead of the person who is actually responsible.

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