Alex

`session.upload_progress.enabled = Off` is a stopgap, so at least it isn't as demonic as like, heartbleed remediation was, but enjoy figuring out whether your router has been weaseled or whatever I want to say that only the PHP team could cause a heap UAF, but someone else will live down to that

New on the blog: The Boots Theory of Software Architecture How misaligned priorities can impoverish development kevlinhenney.medium.com/the-boots-th...

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.

Loved this

The data centre boom is the exact opposite of everything the energy transition should stand for. It is the opposite of clean, of climate justice, of community benefits, of electrification and technological efficiency. www.foodandwaterwatch.org/2026/09/11/b...

My almost-2-year-old calling everyone "sir" cracks me up every time.

I'm back to programming in Java since the summer, and there are two things I noticed: 1. No one actually does OOP 2. I miss Clojure's simplicity

Sometimes you look at an old HTML document and see some weird tags and snippets from bygone eras. I've complied many legacy HTML bits I've noticed and documented what they were and why there were present. Many of them are rather obscure. Satisfy your curiosity: vale.rocks/posts/html-r...

notes.jordanscales.com/coffee

Those who cross Altman will die!

public libraries ftw

Also noslopgrenade.com

Don't be a meat proxy gruhn.me/blog/2026-08...

Been rocking Niri as a window manager lately. Loving the simplicity of the mental model, but missing an easy way to set "default" placements and workspaces and remember those.

🏝️ Hashi - 2026-08-01 Solved in 01:08 Play at hashi.giacomocavalieri.me

Just in case you still use any Basecamp products, DHH is crashing out about his AI product gently pointing out that it’s bad for him to have extermination fantasies about the Roma people.

I've been playing Cursed Words on my day off. A boggle-style roguelike, gradually escalating into totally incomprehensible chaos? It is so much fun!

I saw this referred to as the Strait of Warm Ooze. Very good.

f'n lmao

Goddamnit right in the feels shawnsmucker.substack.com/p/please-use...

this little article is sixteen years old today: alistapart.com/article/resp... feels deeply weird that it’s that old. the pub date feels like it’s two lifetimes ago and two weeks ago, all at the same time.

A link to the study

"It's 2026 and women are still asked to teach others to think a little bit and not be a prick" ohhelloana.blog/woman-in-tech/ 😔

TIL crows only *look* black to us — they’re actually very colorful in ways human eyes are unable to perceive. 🤯 Remember that next time people can’t see your “colors”. Some colors just require different eyes.

CSS nesting is now Baseline 🎉 Write nested selectors directly in CSS — just like Sass, but natively. .card { color: black; &:hover { color: blue; } .title { font-weight: bold; } } No preprocessor needed. Learn more 👇 developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/...

It should be obvious by now, but we really should be less dependent on oil.

New — an analysis of hundreds of thousands of interactions between chatbots + users who reported experiencing psychological harm / delusions after intensive AI use found that chatbots often reinforced delusional beliefs and claimed to be sentient: futurism.com/artificial-i...

there was also a Stanford study that found that a surge in AI slop by lazy people actually created significantly more work for others who had to decipher and correct it this "I'm being efficient" (but not really) vibes well with the American obsession with artifice and appearing productive

Replacing old code with new code, only to end up keeping the old code around for compatibility reasons, is like when you say goodbye to someone and then walk in the same direction as them.

Seems worth noting that ChatGPT Health failed to identify medical emergencies more than half the time in a recent study. The company that made that product just signed a deal with the "Department of War" and said trust us, it's all very safe and ethical.

Wow...

Here's some more bsky.app/profile/skwi...

With the increase in AI assisted or authored coding, I think/hope we will see an increased interest in specification/QA tooling and processes.

*my biggest and most exhausted sigh* "As AI Enters the Operating Room, Reports Arise of Botched Surgeries and Misidentified Body Parts" www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Hey, writing community. Is it just me, or is it getting harder to find a publisher who takes a firm stance on AI and doesn't try to lock you into Amazon exclusively? I just want my book to be published with a real ISBN and real artwork. It's a mix of weird fiction and fantasy. Who should I query?

The company I'm currently working at is hiring Haskell engineers, as well as SREs. It's a nice place to work at, but you have to be UK-based as far as I know. Please message me for details if you're interested! #fedihire

Configuring Neovim is my happy place...

"some tools emphasise gamification at the expense of education, meaning that children focus more on winning points than mastering concepts" cc @alfiekohn.bsky.social

"Software is no longer seen as an asset, as something to care for, to maybe even take pride in. It’s a throw-away product. Like a napkin. Just get one quick, wipe your mouth and throw it away. Like a novelty t-shirt." tante.cc/2026/01/15/s...

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.