Lindsay Wardell

Let's talk a little more about Margaret Hamilton because she deserves it In 1961, Margaret Hamilton was tackling massive systems, having previously wrangled room-sized computers that blared like a foghorn whenever they crashed.

So there I was, right, protecting the world from devastation, you know? Uniting all people within our nation? And these two idiots come by, denouncing the evils of truth and love like they own the place. And I'm like, if you really want to extend your reach, do it from the stars above, not here.

This quiz sees me.

New AI gore: Pictures of plates of pretzels. I didn't realize pretzels were a moebius strip/gordion knot of dough with salt on it.

My wife writes about uplifting media on Substack and you should all go read it. Here's the latest one: rmwardell.substack.com/p/why-are-we...

Trade xkcd.com/3290/

For the Love of Language I love studying languages. Learning a new language takes time, and sometimes we assume we should be better at it. But learning to communicate with new groups helps us to understand and connect with the people around us.

Be a Samwise Gamgee. Support your friends, trust your instincts, be humble, lead with your heart, love potatoes, don't let one little spider ruin your day

Well I can die happy now

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Why I 🧡 the web: TinyWind is a "pixel pirate sailing game" with real wind physics. Even has a leaderboard. tinywind.io #games #pirates #javascript

9yo and i are keeping a loose tally of the culturally specific body language for telling the ref that you are an innocent man, falsely accused so far we have ☝️👐🤌🙏 and 🤷

Saving this for when I have to teach someone this lesson for the hundredth time.

Artemis III crew has been announced, with details of the 2-week mission. The plan: 1) Blue Origin lander launches to low Earth orbit 2) Space Launch System w/ Orion capsule & crew launches 3) Orion docks w/ Blue Origin 4) SpaceX Starship launches 5) Orion docks w/ Starship Launch target: late 2027

Chrome shipped an LLM Prompt API to the web platform. At Mozilla, we oppose this API. Here's why:

new blog post incoming

Does anyone have any ideas on how to identify artist signatures? I have this piece of Magic the Gathering art, but I want to know the artists that contributed.

New blog post, a brief reflection on my fifteen years of using the same Kindle, and Amazon's decision to no longer support it. www.lindsaykwardell.com/blog/kindle-... #blog

there is only one correct way to redesign GitHub and this is it

The post by mitchellh gave me the final push to finish my GitHub "obituary". I originally started writing it after the Zig to Codeberg move. It's just a retelling of how I remember OpenSource pre GitHub and what it gave us. lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/4/28/be...

What word is your spelling nemesis? This is a safe space.

The RAM shortage could last years

"fell for it again" award

Just sharing a few random thoughts in the middle of the night.... jmichaelstraczynski.substack.com/p/everyone-y...

Have you seen the new /pulls view on GitHub, yet? If you opt in to the new experience, your pull requests get WAY more organized, with everything from custom views to collapsible sections to filtering by org and repo.

Peak Windows.

oh, nothing, just me feeling the crushing weight of adulthood

We've been discussing this at work too. We all have AI tools we can talk to, if I want to talk to a human it's because I want a human conversation.

More context on this #Artemis II image: * This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right * The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon: ☀️🌍🚀🌕

Pulling out and connecting weird lil details until they provide an interesting picture is more interesting than a top-level summary that's the average of what everyone has ever said

If you haven’t done what you should have done years ago, get tf off of Vercel

When I role played as the computer at my starship bridge simulator job (we did Star Trek simulations for 5th and 6th graders), I would never use pronouns. “That is not a function of this computer.” “This vessel is under attack.” Etc. It helps keep the players as the main characters.

As humans cede more of our creativity to machines, it's more important than ever that we make art of any kind — painting, music, sculpture, dance, sport, and yes, code. How else are we going to process our grief at what we've lost? h/t to @whitep4nth3r.com and @lindsaykwardell.com

I wrote about some things I'm struggling with in the technology industry, preceded by an appreciation for folk music.

wrote a few words on why I think @npmx.dev might be going places

Congrats on the alpha launch @npmx.dev! Y'all are amazing ❤️ Let me tell you an open source story. A very personal one. A story of growth, downward spirals, and recoveries. Of a multitude of converging communities building tools for themselves. A story of collaboration and trust. And hope.

Going a bit more vulnerable today. In 2022, an hour before going on stage at Vue Global Summit, my spouse at the time told me she wanted to start seeing other people. I'm long since free from her, but I regret that I walked into it at all. www.lindsaykwardell.com/blog/an-hour... #blog

I am deeply aware I lucked out in career and spouse and spend a lot of time paying forward the luck, because why are we here if not to try to make the lives of others better.

Alysa Liu telling 60 Minutes “I love struggling, it makes me feel alive” is a legit revolutionary statement from a Bay Area native in a time when copious amounts of time and resources are being put toward convincing us to opt out of experiencing struggle, friction and self-actualization

Once, technology solved problems. People liked having problems solved, so they liked technology. Tech execs started to think of that sentiment as their due. So when they stopped solving problems, and people stopped liking them, they became outraged. "How dare you not love whatever we give you?"

Slop is the perfect word to describe the low-quality, high-volume, AI-generated content being thrown around. If you don't have time to write it, I don't have time to read it.

I had a moment of inspiration after fixing my 2013 Macbook Air, and wanted to capture a moment of learning in a new post. tl;dr: it's probably not a good idea to rely on AI if you're trying to learn something. www.lindsaykwardell.com/blog/keep-le... #blog

Doing some writing on things I've been noticing about AI. Plenty of people have said plenty about it, but I wanted to add my own voice to the mix. www.lindsaykwardell.com/blog/dont-re... #blog

Sometimes sharing things online is hard, because I just feel small. But from our perspective, so are stars. www.lindsaykwardell.com/blog/moments... #blog

Groundhog Day Meaning xkcd.com/3202/

Interesting point raised by a smart friend today: Traditional DevRel/tech community building are over, because AI kills loyalty to platforms / frameworks / etc. Not just because it lowers switching costs ... but because it destroys the self-identification people used to feel with their tools.

And they say Java is bad for long names!