Thilo Maier

Congratulations on your 10-year channel anniversary, @kevinpowell.co! Keep teaching us the cool things CSS can do. AI can write better code than I ever could, but it will never be the Meister from which I want to learn the craft.

Repo on @github.com and hosting on @railway.com is the new hot combo for more outages. 🤦‍♂️

OMG, my fu feed (what a name, BTW) by @mu.social has turned into a Twitter-style US politics cesspool 🤢 👉 🗑️

I am trying to let an agent write a @home-assistant.io automation to heat a room with an AC (based on a few inputs). And I just realised how hard it to establish a shared vocabulary between me and the agent to put me in a position that I can describe to the agent what I want.

Jay, top 10. Have not mentioned Svelte in a while 😅

It's stunning to see the leading supermarket chain in the Netherlands unable to get back online after they were knocked off the Internet 5 days ago. On normal days, you are almost guaranteed to see at least one of their blue delivery vans during the day. Their fleet has completely vanished.

The market for agentic IDEs seems to have collapsed under its own weight. How am I supposed to distinguish a vibed IDE from a thought-through agentic IDE when there are dozens of options? Every agentic IDE I have tested so far was an incoherent collection of overcomplicated features.

"Apply to attend this meetup" followed by a registration the size of a job application, followed by a wave of email SPAM in my inbox makes me wonder why anyone would want to go there? I'm looking at you, @zed.dev (Amsterdam meetup).

My feed is now mostly Vercel and Cloudflare employees.

I used to be so excited about the SvelteKit v1 and v2 releases. v3 is probably another topper. But with agentic coding, I feel no release excitement. The thing that keeps me busy (not excited) is how to not sink with my team in an ocean of technical debt in which little details don't matter. 😢

+++ The Venue +++ Everything happens in one place. Talks, coffee, dinner and conversations - no rushing between locations, just an evening focused on learning and meeting fellow frontend developers. See you at Fronteers Dark Mode? Fronteers Dark Mode Oct 2nd in Dordrecht 🇳🇱 🎟️ fronteersconf.org

If you work in a team that has a rough time finding an agentic workflow that produces something other than stress and technical debt, watch this video. @mattpocock.com is probably the only one you can trust on AI YouTube. Every example he showed gave me a déjà vu. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Llgi...

I tried Railway cloud agents and not bad for trying out what it feels like when you don't run your agents locally. But running agents on your own hardware in your local network is probably what you want when you are a heavy user. 👉 maier.tech/posts/pitfal...

I have been testing Railway's cloud agents with OpenCode. They work fine, but the promise of a throw-away agents does not materialize. The moment you require a custom setup, e.g. accessing a private registry, the config is a hassle. I would rather have a local box where I configure things once.

Why can't every website with logins have such a button? Some websites and services turn an account deletion request into a huge drama. Others let me self-delete my account in 2 seconds, which saves the mutual hassle.

Glad to read that someone rescues Tailwind Labs. AI was about to suffocate them. As much as I disliked Tailwind in the beginning, I came to terms with it and now use it on a daily basis. But it’s still a mystery to me how a layer nobody needed became the default. tailwindcss.com/blog/tailwin...

The reality of switching to an ethical stack of hardware and cloud services is quite sobering. medienbaecker.com/articles/mig...

Today I solved real-world problem with AI. During triage, I learned a lot about hydraulic disc brakes and why my Shimano MT-200 has a long dead zone. Went to my bike dealer and had the brake levers swapped with a model that builds up pressure a little faster. And now my brakes are 💪 🚲

Google playing along with the Lake Bullshit renaming is just a reminder that Big Tech does not have an ethical or moral compass. They will make a deal with the 👹 if it suits them. The EU needs to bring the 🔨 down on Big Tech. 🇨🇦 🇪🇺

It feels like 99% of YouTube thumbnails are now AI-pimped clickbait. This does not mean that such videos are of low content quality. But it's frustrating that even for the best educational videos my first reaction is often "WTF?!" because the thumbnail completely misrepresents the content.

This post explains really well what a harness is and how an open source customizable harness helps you reclaim control over your agentic workflow. earendil.com/posts/what-i...

Making agentic coding work for teams is a challenge. It's great to see Zed tackle this space. But I think that this way of working requires a major cultural shift for most teams: every ticket is a conversation way beyond "I implemented this, can you review?". This will be a hard sell.

If using AI in your team at work does yield the results you thought it would, read this thread 👇

Info email from a Dutch online retailer that lost personal and order data a few days ago: We are in no hurry to find out what information was stolen. We take no responsibility and blame our logistics partner. We do not offer our apologies and would like to point out that we are open for business.

This statement summarizes the impact of AI well. But it’s far from my reality. It’s so much easier to shun AI than engaging into a discussion how to move forward responsibly with something that won’t go away.

This is a fantastic talk.

If I was invested into big US frontier models, I would be worried now. 👉 nuxt.com/evals

When your hosting company buys ads on an NYC subway station and boasts about a viral video on a platform they should not be on, I am starting to get nervous that another great service might be off track and derail in the not so distant future. blog.railway.com/p/how-to-mak...

The ”State of Devs 2026” survey is currently open! It's run by the same folks who do the other “State of…” surveys, but this one is about us rather than the technology. Lots of interesting questions around AI, career trajectory, our goals, etc. Check it out:

New 🗒️: The official Svelte OpenCode plugin gives you all the Svelte agentic coding goodness without the configuration hassle. maier.tech/notes/how-to...

Skeleton v5 is now available! 🎉 🎨 Theme format overhaul 🔲 Corner Shape 🏷️ Brand Color 📏 Element Sizing ✂️ Masks 🧩 New form utilities 🪟 New Tailwind components 🆕 New Framework components 🛠️ Theme Generator updates Full details here: github.com/skeletonlabs...

Some late weekend thoughts: What can the bible tell us about vibecoding? lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/7/13/th...

It's frustrating to to see political leaders in the EU undermine a recent no by the European Parliament to pursue a fever dream of mass surveillance. Opportunistic behaviour is incredibly toxic no matter if it's at local government, national government or EU level. And I see so much of it lately.

"The Chat Bots, with their sycophantic tone of voice, are deliberately engineered to erase our own personalities, hard work and craft entirely from the equation." This is brutal to read. And very relatable.

Great talk on the AI bubble, why it will probably pop, and what we can do about it. youtu.be/uWnUnMphmPM

My experience with agents is that it doesn't make my work "faster". In the end it costs roughly the same amount of time, if not longer But my role has shifted from "builder" to "sculptor", which is a completely different job. I hated it at the very beginning tbh, but I'm getting better at it slowly

I look at the temperatures all over Europe and realize that when your high is 34 C you live in a relatively cool area 😳 #ClimateCrisis

Hi everyone! Alongside my contributions to Skeleton, I operate as a freelancer. I've just learned my current contract will end suddenly this week, so I'm actively seeking new opportunities. If you or your team are hiring, you can find my details here: - endigodesign.com - Email: chris@skeleton.dev

Recently, @pnpm.io v11.5.3 broke some of my deployments. In my post I explain the breaking change, why it was a good call by the PNPM team to mitigate yet another form of supply chain attack, and how I fixed my deployments. maier.tech/posts/why-pn...

Nobody has been getting more flak recently than @github.com for their continued outages. That's why I appreciate when they roll out small quality of life improvement like this little repository switcher.

Good humans, I wrote a book. Took me 10 yrs. Share it with anyone who wants to understand the minds they're designing for and the mind they're designing with. 40 chapters free to read. 📘 productdesignpsychology.com ❤️

If you are a Java backend developer, come work with me at ANP, the Dutch press agency, in The Hague. (fluency in Dutch required) www.anp.nl/vacatures/se...

Nobody has been getting more flak recently than @github.com for their continued outages. That's why I appreciate when they roll out small quality of life improvement like this little repository switcher.

First up: Fronteers Dark Mode in Dordrecht 🇳🇱 on October 2nd. With @cydstumpel.nl, @heydonworks.com, @csswizardry.com, @tunetheweb.com and @anjana.dev. And @jakearchibald.com as our MC. An amazing location and tickets only cost €99, and include dinner. Don't miss this! 🎟️ fronteersconf.org

We measured the LLM token cost of 5 frontend frameworks on identical components. Svelte wins, Angular costs 38% more — and your AI bill feels it. #webdevelopment

If you are a Java backend developer, come work with me at ANP, the Dutch press agency, in The Hague. (fluency in Dutch required) www.anp.nl/vacatures/se...

Double customer service anti-pattern: Step 1: Send me an unwanted customer satisfaction survey. Step 2: Tell me that my screen size is too small to see the unsubscribe page. It's wild what you can see in the wild.

That would give attackers time to use the vulnerability pnpm.io/blog/2026/06...

It looks like the latest @pnpm.io authentication settings changes have broken all my deploy pipelines both on GitHub and on Railway. I am all for hardening the dependency supply chain but I am also all for adding deprecation warnings while things are not broken yet. pnpm.io/npmrc

That's me uninstalling Cursor. www.bbc.com/news/article...