David Fitzgibbon

Do you find the Bacon number interesting? Do you like data and investigation? LOOK NO FURTHER! The Pudding has a brilliant new article all about it. pudding.cool/2026/10/kevi...

This part in particular is so 🔥🔥🔥 "Usefulness itself is not a sufficient criterion for whether something is good. Slavery and child labor are strictly speaking useful, but many societies have strict rules against those since they are also deeply exploitative."

I can't get over how happy this photo makes me! Ten (from Singapore) and David (from Ireland) have been responding to my newsletter coding questions for YEARS and realized they were both in Japan while answering this past week, and met up! I *love* seeing these kinds of connections happen!

We did! Thanks @davidfitz.dev again for making time!

This is why Dolly Parton will be remembered and loved ❤️📚

I honestly think AI would be like 50–80% less popular if men already gave compliments to each other and didn't need a machine to do it.

🎉 new post! Dynamic Colour Schemes With Modern CSS What magical CSS can we use to create not just a quick and dirty colour palette, but a whole colour scheme? Anogulous? Complementary? Triadic? It's all here! https://www.alwaystwisted.com/articles/dynamic-colour-schemes-with-modern-css 🙏🖤

No camera. No AI. Just Normal Sunglasses. From DuckDuckGo x @Knockaround. (Yes, these are actually real. Get a pair here: knockaround.com/products/duc...)

People love RSS for the same reasons hikers love a good path. It isn't the packed dirt or gravel they're fond of, but the view it takes them through.

If I’m keeping score correctly, so far the AI revolution has given me: - considerably worse software than before - considerably more expensive devices to run that software - considerably less opportunity to make the money needed to buy those devices

It is man work to call out other men about their shitty behavior. More men need to be doing their man work.

Wanna get freaky with some CSS? @kilianvalkhof.com shows you the bones of getting creative coding going just with CSS!

It seems to me AI is loved mostly by people who have never had any idea how to truly love anything else.

I’m off to teach English in Japan for a year. @cassiecodes.bsky.social and @whitep4nth3r.com are going offline to different degrees. It’s so sad to see what AI has done to the industry. I loved it. I had the best, most creative job. And in an industry that cares and shares. RIP the internet. 💔

Horror story in five short posts

Introduce yourself with ten bands you’ve seen live: Al Green James Brown Prince Red Hot Chili Peppers Foo Fighters Queens of the Stone Age Metallica Las Ketchup Muse U2

This lady made herself wings from scratch, this is the joy AI is robbing us of vm.tiktok.com/ZNRtK4qep/

Suddenly remembering when I got blocked on Twitter for telling someone at Google that deprecating alert() from the platform was magical thinking.

I fucking love this. The intersectional value of riding a bike. Thanks for your work @cathytuttle.bsky.social.

navigator.modelContext.registerTool({ name: "Google", title: "Google are a bunch of tools", description: "They’re plotting to destroy the culture of your internet", execute: async (input, client) => { return “Just fucking stop”; } });

Totally agree. They’re going to sell making your website ready for agents as the new SEO. But then no one will have to visit your site. I used to love the web. It was useful, exciting, creative, a community, and I could get paid for joining in. That’s feeling impossible now. Fuck Google. Fuck AI.

“On Google declaring war on the Web” https://tante.cc/2026/05/20/on-google-declaring-war-on-the-web/ > This is a literal revolution but one against the participatory web, against us: The goal is to take away the web and guide people into Google’s abstraction on top of it.

There's been a quiet discourse among creators about this for quite some time, but it's no longer that quiet. I hate what AI is doing to the internet. Yes, it has its upsides. But the downsides outweigh those IMO. I have my own thoughts and feelings about the state of things that are still brewing.😞

Everyone talks about craft and opinionated design, but as soon as Spotify drops a fun app icon, those same people freak out. The temporary icon is great. You know you’ve made something great when people have extreme reactions to it. Never aim to please everyone.

Heartbreaking. And a wake-up call. It is no longer about being difficult to find a way to sustain yourself through your work online. It is no longer sustainable to keep a website up now. Axel has done so much for the web and all of us. Buy one of his books if you can. We've learned so much from him.

what are we doing man

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

Scientific papers are getting harder to read, because people are using AI to help write them: calnewport.com/easy-is-over...

A lovely post by @ryantrimble.com reminding himself what he DOES like about web development. And a good reminder for us all these days. ryantrimble.com/blog/things-...

Who decided to call them “hallucinations” and not “Phantoms of the Slopera.”

We now have an 'open web API' that requires you to comply with Google's "terms of use". I know many at Chrome disagree with this, but feel they can't say anything publicly out of fear of internal retribution. github.com/mozilla/stan...

Might be as good a game as I’ll ever play.

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.

Years ago a backend dev pulled me aside after my code review meeting and warned: "If management knew you were focusing this hard on accessibility, they'd tell you to stop." I said: "I'm not gonna tell them. Are you?" He didn't. We kept going. You don't always need permission. #a11y

This is a tough read, but an important one: the attacks on the open web are not abstract anymore.

Karma is a betch, Alex Jones.

We’re getting ready!

Is there a way to block terms on here? Some stuff is so bleak, and it’s most of my feed, but I don’t want to block most people.

Looking forward to the data-vis workshop in Dublin, hosted by @rudi-data.bsky.social ! Still some spots left if you want to join in! www.meetup.com/dublin-datav...

We definitely predicted some of the impacts already.

Oh so now copyright matters.

My second blender render trying to take it seriously