Bryce Wray

Wiping away the tears...

I'm so gosh-darned excited! css-tricks.com/css-tricks-h...

CSS-Tricks has a new owner! Yes, I've got the keys to the castle, so to speak. And, even after 12 years of working on the site, I'll admit I'm a little overwhelmed and nervous about that. https://css-tricks.com/css-tricks-has-a-new-owner/

Startling stat — a police officer in a small Texas town handed arrested and handed over immigrants to ICE at such volume that the total number is the equivalent of 10% of his town's population. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/m...

“.. AI bubble across the entire infrastructure stack.” - FEDWATCH

I wish I'd realized when recording this that it would come out on the 10-year anniversary of my channel, but even if I didn't mention it, I guess it's still pretty fitting 😅 (plus it was posted to my second channel anyway, lol)

Why shouldn't Elon pay at least the same tax rate as a surgeon? Is a question you should be hearing more and more

Today we’re announcing that we (ran out of money and) have been acquired by [Large Company]. We at [Startup who will be culturally decimated by Large Company] look forward to continuing development on [Product that will be shuttered in two years].

No, Freedom Summer volunteers didn't take selfies or post tweets -- because that technology hadn't been invented yet. But when they were getting trained in Ohio before going down, they were *all over* the media of their day. Here's a paragraph on it (since cut from my book for space constraints)

New feature development for the innovative web browser ended last year. Now The Browser Company is telling users to try Dia, Arc’s replacement. www.theverge.com/tech/1016832...

I just had a scary trip to the local shop. People glowered at me, muttering "Happy now, PHP Boy?". One woman shielded her kids, shrieking "Don't go near the nasty developer, kids". And when I got home, someone had posted a ColdFusion manual through my letter box with a note: "learn to code, loser".

I know folks get real mad when I say this but in times of widespread security crisis, static sites sure are nice

Did you know? The first version of PHP was released closer in time to the funeral of Winston Churchill than to today

The fact that he didn't immediately get fried to ash by lightning after saying this is proof that there is no God.

Re the PHP flap today: my Apple Silicon Mac still has an older version of PHP that was auto-migrated from my previous Intel Mac. Since then, macOS has ceased providing PHP. I wonder if Apple will address this somehow, perhaps in a macOS dot-release.

Meta took down the No Kings instagram; TikTok banned the Musk documentary account for supposedly violating its political posting policies. A reminder that platforms are owned by the wealthiest of people, control the means of media distribution, & put their thumbs on the democracy scale as they wish

I double-checked this on a couple of Xitter stat sites and it's true. Average views of the main AfD account dropped 90% and average engagement dropped by 60%. This is commercial social media for you: bots, damn bots and Russian bots.

I cannot endorse this enough. Bravo. Anil Dash: We are going to kill “unalive” anildash.com/2026/10/06/k...

iCloud+ subscribers can now create up to 10 personalized email addresses per custom domain, up from 3. Details: https://9to5mac.com/...

System76’s COSMIC project now requires contributors to confirm that pull requests contain no LLM-generated code, comments, or descriptions. linuxiac.com/cosmic-stops... #COSMICDesktop #Linux #OpenSource #AI

Have found the linked patch for Linux-running Intel Macs to be amazingly helpful. Had limited success with Fedora but nearly complete success on CachyOS. (Patch is based on another, Omarchy-specific patch, so it makes sense that it works better in an Arch-ish distro.)

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We had to wait for the....NEW YORK POST to write about this. Y'all know there is so much more where this came from but journalists don't want to dig and people are terrified to speak to any journalist seeing the type of reporting they've been doing

From CloudCannon (@cloudcannon.bsky.social)’s David Large (@avidlarge.bsky.social ): cloudcannon.com/blog/grading...

It's annoying to keep hearing about cool CSS features only to find out browser support isn't great, so today I take a look at a bunch of features that have fantastic support, but people still turn to JS for instead. youtu.be/qu1jE41O_8o

Post > Eight years, and done • And I am aware this is not an airport.

you can do all the federal programs you like, if people dont know they exist you wont get credit. biden repaired and rebuilt things in all 50 states. they barely talked about it.

If you’re newly installing Fedora Linux: when prompted afterward to do the usual updates, **don’t** use the GUI method. Instead, open a terminal window and use `sudo dnf upgrade --refresh`. The GUI method currently has some glitches that popped up recently.

Bo French wants Texas to be the new Rhodesia. His opponent just wants to keep the heat on.

Linus Torvalds just showed the right way to use AI for coding and everyone missed it https://www.makeuseof.com/linus-torvalds-just-showed-the-right-way-to-use-ai-for-coding-and-everyone-missed-it/

Safely upgraded to macOS 27 and iOS 27. Next up: iPadOS 27. So far, loving what I’m seeing, and it seems to confirm the vast majority of what beta-testers have been reporting (positively) for the last three months.

New on the blog

Contrary to what you might see on @distrowatch.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy , a Fedora-based distro called RakuOS is getting almost daily ISO updates — and a growing amount of attention because it seems to resolve many issues that plague atomic and immutable distros. Worth a look, IMHO. rakuos.org

🧵A thread of note . . .

Post >> No longer a good sport • I still love watching sports in the abstract, but that’s where it stops.

RFK Jr complains that people in hospice aren't dying quick enough and therefore cost too much money

Former Target Vice-Chair Gerry Storch, on CNBC: "In some ways, tariffs have been good for retailers." They raised prices last year when tariffs hit -- and now that they're getting tariff refunds, they're sure not LOWERING prices. @cnbc.com

Something that is true is the GOP has gotten significantly crazier every term it’s been out of the Oval Office in my lifetime.

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For the next Republican National Convention, they should abide by this logic -- the vote of a single delegate standing in an empty but *very* large civic arena will count more than a thousand votes of people standing in smaller rooms.

Am I neglecting my open source projects? Is this still being maintained?? New on the blog: https://www.zachleat.com/web/is-this-still-being-maintained/

Teachers don't get laid off in the summer, their salaries are year round, Kevin. That's as dumb as "solar power doesn't work at night". Idiotic and willfully ignorant.

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I assure you the scratch marks will only be on the inside of that wall.

FLAG: Trump gets to keep tax immunity for himself, his sons, and the Trump Organization under the new 'deal' struck by Todd Blanche. The new order also reaffirms that Trump won't have to pay any taxes he might have owed the IRS.

The NY Post got hoaxed and reported that “thousands” of 9/11 families had signed a petition against Mamdani. After the hoax was exposed, they assigned a huge team of reporters to manufacture the fake story they already published and try to make it retroactively true. The crack team of reporters...

RFK Jr yelling at Dana Bash sounds like a rabid dog barking

📝 A quick post that's somewhat obvious, but I think it's important. A simple formula for keeping good things around. daverupert.com/2026/07/numb...