Alex Suzuki

👋 I'm going to take a break from social media for a while, at least until the end of 2026. All the best.

I'm trying to open the system web browser from an installed PWA (think target="_blank" on an anchor tag). Apparently that is not possible: web.dev/learn/pwa/wi... 😞 The URL under which the PWA is available has changed, and I want to direct users to the new place. Anyone know of a workaround?

Went to the cinema with my daughter on Saturday and watched "Spiderman: Brand New Day". It was surprisingly enjoyable!

It's crazy how shady meetup.com has become. Clicking on virtually any element of a meetup's page (e.g. Attendees) opens a blocking modal asking you to sign up for Meetup+. There's no option to close or cancel. But hey, at least you get some random AI-generated image slop with it...

I wrote an essay about why I'm done using AI for coding, even if it costs me my job and career: brettcodes.com/im-done-usin... The basic gist is: AI made me a worse, apathetic programmer. I think it's bad for humanity, the planet, and the craft of software engineering. And I'm done using it.

LLMs are revealing how much people really hated the actual work at their jobs

Hey @bsky.support @support.bsky.team your AI is falsifying election results again

So much of the AI stuff thrown at me is basically "X is dead - here's why you should mindlessly go all-in on Y". No thanks!

RIP Kavinsky who created “Nightcall”, which I discovered while watching Drive and has accompanied my many travels ever since. youtu.be/MV_3Dpw-BRY?...

IDK who needs to hear this, but you shouldn't buy promises of utopian futures with abundance and UBI from dudes who spend a considerable fraction of their time figuring out how not to pay their taxes.

I don’t hate AI. For instance, I find the math behind it very interesting. But I can’t square the hype with the fact that it hasn’t meaningfully improved my life, or that of my family and friends, and has the potential to be hugely disruptive to society. That makes it “net negative” for me.

“We are here to build things that people want and build them well. In the AI bubble, we are pressured to build things nobody wants, poorly. Pop the bubble.” 🔥

Rage Click detected by Sentry... interesting, first one for me. Couldn't figure out why the user did what they did though. docs.sentry.io/product/issu...

I'll be at MicroConf Europe in Iceland this September, if anyone I know here wants to have a coffee and talk about bootstrapping, running a small software business, or anything else really. ☕

Just published a blog post about the new CSS Anchor Positioning API! ⚓ I’ve been learning about it over the past few weeks, and it’s friggin’ great, but it also took me a minute to really get the hang of it. My goal in this post is to share the most useful bits, so you can start using it today. 🔥

Even if you don't know or care about the Zig programming language, I'd still recommend you watch this interview with its creator, super inspiring. More than ever, I want to port STRICH to Zig. It looks like a great match for my domain. youtu.be/iqddnwKF8HQ?...

I am so, so tired of reading LLM-generated or LLM-assisted articles. Just say what you want to say, in your _own_ voice. It’s *always* better.

I am attempting to launch a new No Build W3C Community Group. Sign up if you are interested in under-engineering on the web. www.w3.org/community/bl...

Whhhhhhhhhhhyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

AI is revolutionizing software and surely anytime now will bring an explosion of quality and productivity. Meanwhile, in a Google Doc far, far away...

Slowly preparing to move to a new office, closer to my home. I’m going to miss the 🌊 😩

Migrated STRICH's NPM deployment pipeline to staged publishing today. Doing my part! 🫡

The silver lining here is that Safari alternatives on iOS are actively being worked on (status described as “research prototype”). I’m not sure I’ve seen any official confirmation of that up until now.

It's the "Let's go, Justin!" that gets me every time www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzS9...

Hearbreaking. It’s all so f***ing depressing.

watching the tech industry burn out all the people i know who actually care about delivering things that aren’t perpetually broken, all at the altar of infinite velocity, is making me utterly utterly furious.

🚨 Cool Job Alert! Are you: - a front-end dev (Sass, Vanilla JS, React) - based in Austria / Vienna - ideally with some backend knowledge (Python, Django, APIs) - looking for work in a small, dedicated, remote team? Let's talk! (reposts for reach appreciated)

I am so looking forward to my first flight on an AI-built airplane. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/t... 😱🫠

Huh, #GitLab down for me this morning. Well, I wanted to go for a walk anyway. 🌳

One can hope!

🗡️ I am way more excited about the remake of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (announced today) than I am for Anthropic’s new Fable model. Am I even a productive member of society anymore…?

there is something so spiritually depressing about the assumed desire for these "cleaning up" photos to all have symmetrical framing and no distracting elements where everything is perfect and shiny all the time. anti-human

Some people are so incredibly opinionated, it's basically impossible to talk to them. Me: "you know, I kinda disagree on something you said earlier, and I'd like to ..." Him: "YOU CANNOT BUILD SERIOUS APPLICATIONS IN PYTHON!!!!1111!!!"

God-fucking damnit, if I hear the term "load-bearing" one more time... 😡

🖐️ Raise your hand if you had a modded PS2! I distinctly remember begging a friend, who was much more skilled with a soldering iron than I was, to install the modchip. I assisted with a razor to prevent soldering to the wrong pins.

I really enjoyed this one. shawnsmucker.substack.com/p/please-use...

“As the digital scan forms of many of those works enter the repositories of AI, the works, ideas and facts become plagiarized and misrepresented. As AI-generated plagiarized text and images expand across the internet’s digital world, the actual voice of human-generated content diminishes.” 😩

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I never type Alistair, but Alex... oh well! This technology is going to replace us.

In Cixin Liu's epic sci-fi book "3 Body Problem" aliens send futuristic computers ("sophons") to Earth to halt the advancement of human civilization. Sophons scramble physics to a point were deterministic science is no longer possible, and practitioners kill themselves out of despair. AI=Sophons...?

Currently being targeted by a phishing campaign, and sent out an email to some customers who might be affected. Wanted to verify the outgoing DKIM/SPF setup first, and came across this handy tool: www.learndmarc.com You send an email to it and it does a step-by-step verification - neat!

Google I/O for those that didn't watch.

"At the end of a day, I feel drained, not happy, not full of energy... I feel bad. Which is not how I felt when I used to just code all day. I felt energized like I didn't want to stop." - @asmartbear.com on using AI to code in the Indie Board Sessions podcast: podcasts.apple.com/ch/podcast/s...