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Exciting day, my #das_POD CD player came in. www.das-pod.com/en/home-en/

The replacement screen for my e-reader came in and gave me a smile :)

the tech industry is about to invent books

Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.

delete all Billionaires

TypeScript should be called ShapeScript.

Fantastic article by the great @debbiemillman.bsky.social And an excellent word for this era: SWOLLEN time.com/article/2026...

Didn't have Kylie Jenner launching nonce goggles on my 2026 bingo card but here we are

“A camel is a horse designed by a committee”. Well, the EU went a step further with the #PPWR and created a one-legged camel with 27 heads. If you're an artist/designer/maker/small business selling online, tell them how this affects you, let your voice be heard! ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet...

I regret to inform everyone that our dog escaped our property last night, broke in to our neighbours' house, and ate their dinner. I'm conducting an internal investigation to figure out how this happened, which will involve eating the rest of our neighbours' pantry until his motives become apparent.

AI Slop is the asbestos of our time.

You know, Pot/Kettle...

🎯

This is the way forward.

tailwind is a framework for creating the problem you are trying to solve; but now the styles are also incomprehensible

daringfireball.net/2026/05/what...

Findings from this week's UN report on AI vs climate: 🌿 80-90% is not in training models, but in day-to-day use. 🌿 Generating an image is 1450⨉ more energy intensive than text, generating video much worse. 🌿 We need to monitor water and land footprint, as well as carbon. unu.edu/inweh/news/e...

I've written detailed walkthroughs of two big things landing in Hanami 3.0. Mailers: discourse.hanakai.org/t/previewing... And i18n: discourse.hanakai.org/t/previewing... We'll be shipping a release candidate in a week or two. Keen for any feedback now, let's make these as solid as possible!

Bernie Sanders is een roepende in de woestijn met zijn kritiek op Ai. Het is moedig van hem dat hij als een van de weinigen de confrontatie aan gaat. Ai is schofterige diefstal van het werk van miljoenen mensen, journalisten, schrijvers, muzikanten, kunstenaars, etc. youtube.com/shorts/48X6Q...

"I’m unsure how we can turn things around. But it seems clear that the answer to having too little humanness on the Web isn’t to have less of it and shut down our websites. [..] If you run a personal website, don’t get discouraged, keep it up. And if you don’t run a website, then why not start one?"

Bridgetown 2.2 "Verdant River City" is out! It's a springtime bloom of new features: - Wikilinks in Markdown - Support for Falcon, the highly concurrent Ruby web application server - New sponsorship opportunities - Sneak peak at the Bridgetown Center program 👀

Super stoked for the new Lucky v1.5.0 release! Finally got it out and it's a huge weight off my chest. Also, the new Bun integration by default is so slick. Love it ❤️ Thanks @wout.codes 🙌

fuck sam altman forever for taking away the last places where we could engage in good faith: the creative arts, which should be a testament to human ingenuity. i am so mad that everything i read or listen to or admire is now tainted with doubt. do you understand? he is a thief of joy and i HATE HIM

It has been quiet on the outside, but quite busy on the inside here at Fluck. We wrote up where things actually stand: the foundations, the roadmap, when beta opens: fluck.site/blog/where-w...

Just released BunBunBundle, a zero-dependency bundler for #Ruby apps based on... #Bun. Works with #Rails, #Hanami, or any other rack-based app. codeberg.org/w0u7/bun_bun...

The increasing number of LLM Bots (aka "AI Agents") creating PRs on GitHub is worrying. They are taking away time from open-source maintainers who are already time-strapped. But what's the best strategy to fight them? Block and report? Or demand endlessly complex tweaks to exhaust their resources?

Engaging in mental gymnastics to justify what's convenient but unevidenced, unjust but personally beneficial, 'rewires your neural map' in ways that degrade your overall ability to understand and analyze the world around you, which is a precondition for intelligence and creativity.

You can fundamentally rewire your brain to properly understand CSS layout... for $34.50. Can’t say fairer than that! One day left.

Every Layout is a reference I use daily. Complete CSS was a great level-up. Mindful Design is priceless. Andy's work, and by extension the Piccalilli team, delivers knowledge that will be with you for the rest of your life, not just until the next framework appears. I can't recommend it enough.

spending over a decade getting pretty good at doing "generative things" only to land in the decade of generative slop is ... not ideal

Just in from #Adobe: “Your Creative Cloud Pro subscription will increase from €29.99 to €65.54 starting next month.” Just so they can push more AI crap on us I suppose? That's insane! Happy to finally pull the plug there.

One Hundred and twenty-one days to go before the launch of our new drop of art pieces. #art #design #mickwout #gallery #artproject #textile #porcelain #paper #humancondition #studiolife

Built with CUBE CSS, Every Layout and stuff learned in Complete CSS. It’s of course, lightning fast and the UI works with the browser. I love to see it. https://fluck.site/

Just what we need, more insanity.

For the past months I've been working on @fluck.site and finally I have something to show for it. Fluck is going to be open sourced in 2026. #indieweb

Just released Rosetta v1.0.0, an #i18n shard for #CrystalLang, about four years after its inception. Aside from a some QoL improvements it now also supports key nesting, a feature that was on the wishlist for a very long time. github.com/wout/rosetta

Worrying to see that so much of our internet, including critical infrastructure, is dependent on AWS. I get that cloud services are easier to maintain for global projects, but this level of concentration risk isn't healthy.

Hello Bluesky. I'm here because Meta doesn't want me. Looking forward to post unfiltered, unhinged and un-whatever stuff here. Tell your friends!

Ugh, Christian Nationalism is spreading like a disease. humanists.uk/2025/10/09/h...

If DDOS attacks are illegal, AI crawler spamming should be too. They’re wearing down the most useful parts of the web in their quest to produce the least useful.

I've got a 19-year history with Ruby on Rails but in less than two weeks my view on the framework has completely changed. Working with it just feels icky right now. A great time to embrace newer, more inclusive alternatives like @hanamirb.org and @luckyframework.org. I'm already enjoying the change.

#Rails folks, here's an open letter asking the Rails Core to cut ties with DHH and hard fork Rails to a new project with proper governance. You can sign with a pull request. Let's show that there's demand for this, and that the community won't appease racists […]

Just a reminder that tech is political and putting your money into projects run by problematic people says quite a lot.

The Ruby community has a DHH problem tekin.co.uk/2025/09/the-...