Building a website with web technology?! (Looks excellent!)
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Building a website with web technology?! (Looks excellent!)
Walking the walk with https://webdayout.com/ ๐ https://adactio.com/notes/22110
Yes, many do. Canada for example.
FUCK YES!
it definitely has a long way to go but I appreciate the ambition however disingenuous it may be
Building Something Big: On the pros and cons of the indie path. allenpike.com/2025/buildin...
arewedecentralizedyet.online ht @tbray.org
It very much is
Splitting IaC and application code between roles sounds great - until you try it with Serverless. With serverless, ๐ถ๐ป๐ณ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐๐๐ฟ๐๐ฐ๐๐๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐ถ๐ ๐ฝ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฏ๐๐๐ถ๐ป๐ฒ๐๐ ๐น๐ผ๐ด๐ถ๐ฐ. If developers donโt own their own IaC, youโre just adding friction.
Real devs fake the cloud first. Fight me ๐๐พ
model training and bad techno go brrrrr
nothing stalls out the trough of disillusionment quite like a rate cut just wait !
As always, good thoughts from @martinfowler.com ... no notes ! (Ht @tbeseda.com) martinfowler.com/articles/202...
I share your rage. Being a Canadian I just bottle it up of course and maybe apologize as I try to walk by.
my fav is when they stop to look at their phones (continuing to block the sidewalk but now not moving at all)
I do like the idea that owning a skill saw happens to also mean I'm a professional cabinet maker even if not in any way true. I guess gatekeeping cuts both ways. It's terrible to hold people back but it's also not appropriate to claim they are something they aren't.
I need a DC Comics/Star Trek crossover so Batman can meet some Klingons and learn to use a Bat'leth. And then he'll start calling it his Bat-Bat'leth.
I need two octatracks got it
I have the mixer ! ๐ซฃ It really is gorgeous kit
Fine I'll get an OT also
just one more synth bro
maybe I just need an op-xy
if only!
Doesn't require to be initially rendered by a server. But it will work there too. And because of how we built it the server render part can happen in any runtime not just node.
I like how we solved all this with enhance but I ack it's gotta be bought into enhance.dev/docs/convent...
wait
In so many ways we are our decisions. No, in fact, you are not absolutely right. And something repeating that at you only cements extremely unhelpful bias against you really doing the work to make actually *good* decisions.
*is the most
"you are absolutely right" if the most succinct growth hack bias exploitation ever
good thing this system is federated/distributed amirite
no you're wrong
yeah I'm spoiled VanJS has against all odds remained very legit over the years
my extremely not spicy take is that irl events and personal network are crucial (again)
some solid writing/thinking here; worthwhile ideas even if not everyone is ready to hear them
just hit the aws service quota request limit while requesting a service quota limit increase
Css only scroll spy? Yes pls. Brilliant, as usual, by @sarasoueidan.com www.sarasoueidan.com/blog/css-scr...
Watching the US wonder what possible reason there could be for the massive, precipitous drop in numbers of tourists to the USA from Canada is absolutely the gift that keeps giving. โThe weather? Exchange rates? Who can even say!โ newhampshirebulletin.com/2025/08/14/n...
And here it is, my lil crochet version of T. ocellus from Alien: Earth ๐ Pretty much life size too, though I don't really know how many eyes it's supposed to have. I counted 7 tentacles and assumed same number of eyes. Though mine has 6 because I wanted to keep an even number ๐คทโโ๏ธ
Who is free in the bay area this afternoon and wants to be inspired by computing's past while chatting about the future of the web? Join me at the Computer History Museum around 3-5pm today! [1/7]
THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: A LINK TO THE PAST
Science! Daresay actual engineering. What a concept
Funding Open Source like public infrastructure dri.es/funding-open...
NIN was epic
Final Order Cut-off is TOMORROW for ๐ง๐๐ ๐๐ซ๐ฃ๐๐ก๐ฆ๐: ๐ ๐๐๐ง๐ง๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ง๐ #1 from Wes Chatham, Francesco Pisa and me! Get those pre-orders in!
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PhDs suck at CSS too.
We only rate dogs. This is the goth cousin of Mike Wazowski from Monsters Inc. Please understand it's not just a phase, and only send dogs. Thank youโฆ 12/10 (credit u/vincidelaunc)
NICE! love to hear it / lmk if you have thoughts on what we could do to make things easier/better
I've been trying to give web components a real shot. I used to think the API 100% sucked but I've mostly come around on it. Thinking of them as "enhanced elements" rather than bespoke components has helped make their use-case click (thanks enhance.dev, great resources there @brianleroux.bsky.social)
absolutely bizarre how the software job market has been disrupted. volatility off the charts. only conclusion I have is your network is now everything. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
this is great www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
can't imagine hiring will accelerate when the bubble inevitably pops either; disappointing to see msft who worked so hard to restore good standing in tech behaving this way
Markets, I tell ya. Efficient? No. Reliable? Not really. Rational? Absolutely not!
Amzn beat earnings estimates by 27% (huge profits) so naturally stock is down 7%.
Remember when Adobe decided to go up against the hot up-and-coming design tool...Sketch? In fairness, at that time the wisdom was "everyone wants a native app". The popular opinion was, as it so often is, so completely wrong. Anyhow, congrats Figma. Always bet on the web!
Well played ๐
That's pretty ๐
kinda cool kinda eerie that LLMs and LISP are both very list oriented
same thing happened with xmlhttprequest โฆ maybe it all does boil down to message/branding/marketing. depressing thought for anyone claiming we do systems design w actual engineering.
I'm picking up what you're putting down but imo might be we want to work more closely w the materials and devices of today than the desktop metaphors of the past
web components became ubiquitous in all browsers in 2020 (or perhaps early 2021) for an industry that prides itself on being ahead of the curve it's odd how often key (frankly basic) fundamentals like HTML can get missed for half a decade or more
Deskilling? IMO adopting fundamental basics like how HTML has worked since 2020/2021 is upskilling!
could have sworn this was part of the "never web components" clique but it's nice to see them catching up
I suspect this crosses more into framework than primitive territory but yeah could be cool ๐
AWS has all those primitives. To build you'd compose them with Cloudformation
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friends with boats was totally gateway drug to me buying a boat gonna cut out the middle man on this venture
depends on white russian balmer peak
its would take a lot of salads to justify this purchase! but yes
yes, you're right
thinking about how I want to grow lettuce indoors and therefore how I need a 3D printer
Never write your own Date Parsing Library (I wrote my own Date Parsing Library) www.zachleat.com/web/adventur...
This one never got much attention but maybe useful reference. I think it's ok to write code if you're a programmer but I'm a weirdo that way. www.npmjs.com/package/spac...
dumb kid; an all time great game !
Blown away by your response to Kiro. 100k+ joined our preview in week one, more than we expected. We've added a waitlist. To those waiting โ thank you for your patience. Using Kiro? Your feedback means everything. Read the full update on our blog: bit.ly/4o31OHE
ugh i ate too many blueberries (worth it)
if you are in growth plan or above you can use these โฆbut otherwise the actions menu is currently considered internal. we're def talking about how to open all this up. www.sanity.io/docs/studio/... (ht @mark.computer )
idk but i know who to ask ! brbโฆ
"dont get left behind" - someone still on twtr
wow Kiroโฆ definitely interesting
love to see it! ๐
While coldstarts are still free, I reran my benchmarks with aws-lite.org It's 15% faster than all my optimizations so I updated my recent article to include it: speedrun.nobackspacecrew.com/blog/2025/07... h/t @brianleroux.bsky.social
TIL Pixel (Android?) now has a native Debian container + terminal you can use instead of 3rd-party apps like Termux.
Pretty obviously we should not give authoritarian regimes who rely on propaganda access to the best natural language machines in an age of disinformation. But markets dgaf. The people should.
I think it's ok to recognize markets have no concepts or incentive of principle absent regulation.
Canadian healthcare is far from perfect and we will always need to fight for it. But I'm proud of what we do have. share.google/zYpOslyyMeei...
Oh look, my queues upgraded themselves and now I can delete code. Cloud remains the quiet achiever of tech.
I did not have a new SQS Queue type on my bingo card, but here we are and they're very cool. SQS Fair Queues automatically balance multiple tenants (identified by their MessageGroupID), filtering out noisy neighbors. Love it when foundational services keep improving! aws-news.com/article/2025...
I liked it but gotta be honest I was expecting something actually spicy so it was sorta confusing
Saw the new Superman and it was a silly fun summer comic book action movie. How anyone got mad about that is beyond me. Also Superdog? Cmon.
Have you given awslite a try? Been working well for us for a long time now and totally stable. No patching needed!
Ah yes, the guy who compared Wework to AWS stratechery.com/2019/the-wew...
aww yis
Jemaine Clement as Judge Dredd, LFG
He's remembered!
wondering if history repeating itself has anything to do with the victorious writing it
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David Darnes 