Oliver Ash

Really fun to build custom/personal iOS apps using AI. I have 2 so far: one that shows the status of my train as a live activity on the lock screen, and another for measuring phone signal during my train journey (surprisingly I couldn’t find a good app on the store for this).

TS7.1 content mappers are actually pretty great, using them for css modules and graphql files jovidecroock.com/blog/typescr...

Apropos of nothing, if you're considering switching from a recently deprecated browser and want to try Firefox, I just landed `Copy Tab URL` in nightly - it's not bound by default but a quick visit to `about:keyboard` will let you set it, and also take a glance at the other neat shortcuts we have.

Do yourself a favour, go and see Wildwood whilst it’s on the big screen. 10/10!

Google Docs spell check is guilt tripping me.

My thoughts on the current state of AI driven software development, why I'm no longer concerned about a runaway intelligence explosion, and what I think is a far worse outcome we could be walking into maevyn.codes/decoherence

Just watched Forgotten Island with my 8-year-old son. It felt like a long series of AI-type TikToks. I’m dumbfounded over the high ratings. Maybe I’m just getting old but my son felt the same!

Slack pro tip: in settings, change Enter key to start a new line instead of send. (Use Cmd+Enter to send instead.) I like it because it encourages more thoughtful dialog.

Instagram has decided to show me endless videos of Stardust Racers and Velocicoaster—the world’s best rollercoasters. I have no complaints. 😀

After a decade at Cloudinary, I am looking work. I'm a web developer who's done a lot of devrel, too. I'm good at the front of the front end, great at browsers and standards and deeply understanding and explaining technical topics, and the stem of my T-shaped skills is: "images, on the internet".

lazygit keeps getting better. 🔥 github.com/jesseduffiel...

I like to make a distinction between writing code and typing code. Write the code in your mind, then get AI to *type* (not write) it for you.

In London? Like the web? Come along *this evening* from 7pm to Shoreditch where the lovely @londonwebstandards.org are hosting some of the prime movers shaking up mobile browser competition (also, me? weird). Tickets (free!) and details here: londonwebstandards.org/events/lws-o...

ECMAScript excitement 😉 This week @tc39.es advanced these proposals 🎉 4️⃣ Dynamic Code Brand Checks 4️⃣ Iterator Chunking/Includes/Join 3️⃣ Thenable Curtailment 2️⃣.7️⃣ default in export * from "mod" 2️⃣.7️⃣ export defer 2️⃣.7️⃣ JSON.parse options 2️⃣ BigInt from Exponential 2️⃣ Composites 1️⃣ Pulling in AbortController

This was a *THRILLING* interview. Cory has so much to say on AI, workers rights, software freedom, and so on. It's refreshing to hear nuanced, realistic views beyond "ai good" and "ai bad". Give it a listen!

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

slop grenade™

Today is my first day at @bloomberg.com 😊

Two a11y engineering roles (one of them early career!) at Apple in London in the team my daughter manages. These sound like excellent roles to share with UK a11y folks. jobs.apple.com/en-gb/detail... jobs.apple.com/en-gb/detail...

“There is nothing preventing a GUI from being fully keyboard-driven4 just like — or even better than — a TUI.” Correct. Both can and should be keyboard accessible. ckardaris.com/blog/2026/08...

I really don't know why, but when I land on a web site that has a little bit of unintentional horizontal play, it distresses me, and instead of reading the article or page, I end up searching for why the page has overshot the width of my page. Such a terrible habit. Stupid developer brain.

Am I the only one who thinks, actually the alert system should be used for something more useful than "you're about to die lol"? Sure it's common sense that the country is dry and fire is bad, but people are still using BBQs and camping stoves and smoking cigarettes so it's clearly not so common. 🤷🏻‍♂️

This is the most important video I've ever made. In this, I explore the negative and positive mental health effects of AI coding, with data and expert commentary. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPUn...

@jonkuperman.com is the best! go work with him!

Yep. If code was never the hard part, software wouldn’t be so goddamn buggy and broken. If “code” only ever meant thoughtlessly churning out the next endpoint, you missed the point entirely. blog.senko.net/code-was-nev...

jj absorb now lets you interactively choose which hunks from the source to consider for absorption. This is useful when you only want to absorb part of a commit without first splitting it. Any hunks that are not selected or cannot be absorbed remain in the source commit.

I’m exploring the mental health effects of AI coding. This is a super quick (blazing fast), anonymous survey. Please fill out and share so that the responses will be well rounded. forms.gle/dpD8Tk1QnXAz...

I'm looking for a new role as a lead frontend/TypeScript engineer. 👋 13 years of experience and I formerly led the web team at Unsplash. My CV: drive.google.com/file/d/1Hp7w... If you know of any roles, please reach out. I'd really appreciate if you could share. Thank you!

I'm so burnt out from AI era velocity, slop posts, bots and the attention economy, that I've recently got a balance phone. It's black & white, doesn't allow social, and has reduced motion on by default. It's wonderful. But actively avoiding being online does leave me feeling weird about my job.

@acemarke.dev Crazy idea but I wonder if it would make sense to have a compiler for selectors that automatically memoizes, like how React Compiler. So you don't have to manually optimize e.g. with `createSelector`. Is this something you've thought about before?

@en-js.bsky.social 👋 If you were building an SPA today in React (e.g. a dashboard), how would you do state management? Imagining that much of the state needs to be shared by many components. Context + React Compiler? 1 or many useSyncExternalStores? State library? Etc.

New blog post: I'm just so bored of AI https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/07/im-just-so-bored-of-ai/ I'm just so bored of talking about AI. It's like listening to vapers tell me how delicious their flavoured poison is. Did you ever meet someone at university who'd just tried drugs for the first …

Past 10pm and it’s still 30 degrees in the house. 😭

The problem with being a person who is good at something like content operations, is that if I do my job well, everything runs smoothly and my work is invisible. I'm not particularly career-minded, and just like things to be good, but I wish for this type of impact was more valued.

When I struggle to structure my thoughts about what's happening I turn to writing. Today about the recent US Anthropic ban news, what it says about power and dependency, and what it should mean for Europeans and citizens of the world. It's a long one. lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/6/13/am...

Where’s the holistic AI productivity data? For most of my career I ran a very small company. When you run a tiny company your resources (both time and money) are limited, and you want to use... https://rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2026/06/11/wheres-the-holistic-ai-productivity-data/

Ever struggled to get heading tags right in includes/components? headingoffset could be the answer…

i wrote a post about the growing divide between AI skeptics and AI enthusiasts. wins and costs are both real, but too often fall on different groups of people. when you're only experiencing half the story, it's too easy to write each other off. charitydotwtf.substack.com/p/ai-enthusi...

@ped.ro 👋 I love floating notes in Raycast, but I'm constantly confused as to what has focus: - When notes has focus, cursors still appear in other applications. - When notes has focus, the menu bar isn't dimmed so it looks like another app is focused. I'm curious if this has come up before?

AI has meant prolific CLIs now ship updates daily, which leads to update fatigue. if you have a CLI telling me every single day that my CLI is out of date, you're doing something wrong leave me alone or update in the background

They should just take that co-authored by Claude bullshit off It’s not like my code before was co-authored by VS code or eslint

@samhh.com @mlegenhausen.bsky.social This looks interesting… foldkit.dev

if you are someone who makes anything, anything at all, with your own real brain and hands, I respect you so so much and am begging you to keep doing it.

Wrote a bit about why LLM-written text is so painful, even when the content itself is fine, and the importance of using your own voice jola.dev/posts/the-so...