"HTML and CSS are totally commoditized, nobody needs to hire someone for that" —guy who is visually indistinguishable from every other guy who is making some kind of Tailwind-ass rent-seeking SaaS that is visually indistinguishable from every other one of those.
December 5, 2025 at 5:21 PM
"HTML and CSS are totally commoditized, nobody needs to hire someone for that" —guy who is visually indistinguishable from every other guy who is making some kind of Tailwind-ass rent-seeking SaaS that is visually indistinguishable from every other one of those.
Palmer Luckey has my full support in his endeavor to go beneath Earth's crust.
Palmer Luckey Wants to Take War Beneath the Earth's Crust https://gizmodo.com/palmer-luckey-wants-to-take-war-beneath-the-earths-crust-2000695764
Palmer Luckey Wants to Take War Beneath the Earth's Crust
"People think it's some kind of crazy, crazy, nutty thing," said Luckey.
gizmodo.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Palmer Luckey has my full support in his endeavor to go beneath Earth's crust.
oh hey new reason to dislike React Server Components just dropped
December 3, 2025 at 11:34 PM
oh hey new reason to dislike React Server Components just dropped
Could these rects BE any more rounded?
December 3, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Could these rects BE any more rounded?
I've been using "is this made by a startup that is likely to be acquired?" as a heavily weighted negative input to technology decision making for several years, and it's led to me avoiding entirely at least a handful of what would have been serious migration problems.
Little consultancy thing about risk.
Bun (bun.com) has been acquired by Anthropic. Great, right?
To me, that makes it *extremely* risky, not just because “AI bad” (it is)
The risk is although Anthropic have billions, they’re not even close to being solvent.
What goes when the cards are down?
Bun (bun.com) has been acquired by Anthropic. Great, right?
To me, that makes it *extremely* risky, not just because “AI bad” (it is)
The risk is although Anthropic have billions, they’re not even close to being solvent.
What goes when the cards are down?
December 3, 2025 at 11:48 AM
I've been using "is this made by a startup that is likely to be acquired?" as a heavily weighted negative input to technology decision making for several years, and it's led to me avoiding entirely at least a handful of what would have been serious migration problems.
With a record-setting 14 entries, we decided to split the celebration across two nights! Back tomorrow at 8 PM CST with the second half.
In one hour! Come celebrate the amazing entries to PiCoSteveMo 3 with us in the post-jam stream:
www.twitch.tv/basecase
And whether or not you can make the stream, please check out everyone's awesome games:
itch.io/jam/picostev...
www.twitch.tv/basecase
And whether or not you can make the stream, please check out everyone's awesome games:
itch.io/jam/picostev...
BaseCase - Twitch
programmer/designer
www.twitch.tv
December 2, 2025 at 4:09 AM
With a record-setting 14 entries, we decided to split the celebration across two nights! Back tomorrow at 8 PM CST with the second half.
In one hour! Come celebrate the amazing entries to PiCoSteveMo 3 with us in the post-jam stream:
www.twitch.tv/basecase
And whether or not you can make the stream, please check out everyone's awesome games:
itch.io/jam/picostev...
www.twitch.tv/basecase
And whether or not you can make the stream, please check out everyone's awesome games:
itch.io/jam/picostev...
BaseCase - Twitch
programmer/designer
www.twitch.tv
December 2, 2025 at 1:03 AM
In one hour! Come celebrate the amazing entries to PiCoSteveMo 3 with us in the post-jam stream:
www.twitch.tv/basecase
And whether or not you can make the stream, please check out everyone's awesome games:
itch.io/jam/picostev...
www.twitch.tv/basecase
And whether or not you can make the stream, please check out everyone's awesome games:
itch.io/jam/picostev...
It's the final day of PiCoSteveMo and there are some amazing-looking submissions rolling in!
itch.io/jam/picostev...
I'll be playing through all of them for the first time LIVE ON AIR tomorrow, Dec. 01 at 8PM CST, over at www.twitch.tv/basecase
itch.io/jam/picostev...
I'll be playing through all of them for the first time LIVE ON AIR tomorrow, Dec. 01 at 8PM CST, over at www.twitch.tv/basecase
PiCoSteveMo 3
A game jam from 2025-11-01 to 2025-12-01 hosted by BaseCase. PiCoSteveMo is a noncompetitive month-long jam where participants create a PICO-8 game inspired by a Stephen King work. This is the third i...
itch.io
November 30, 2025 at 1:24 PM
It's the final day of PiCoSteveMo and there are some amazing-looking submissions rolling in!
itch.io/jam/picostev...
I'll be playing through all of them for the first time LIVE ON AIR tomorrow, Dec. 01 at 8PM CST, over at www.twitch.tv/basecase
itch.io/jam/picostev...
I'll be playing through all of them for the first time LIVE ON AIR tomorrow, Dec. 01 at 8PM CST, over at www.twitch.tv/basecase
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I made a tiny game for PicoSteveMo with @dicey.bsky.social !
➡️ It's called King Stephen
➡️ You play as King Stephen (King of England 1135-1154)
➡️ It's a Reigns-like decision-making game
➡️ I did the writing + portraits
➡️ Made for a Stephen King game jam
➡️ It's very silly
dicey.itch.io/king-stephen
➡️ It's called King Stephen
➡️ You play as King Stephen (King of England 1135-1154)
➡️ It's a Reigns-like decision-making game
➡️ I did the writing + portraits
➡️ Made for a Stephen King game jam
➡️ It's very silly
dicey.itch.io/king-stephen
King Stephen by dicey
Thou shalt play as his majesty.
dicey.itch.io
November 29, 2025 at 6:37 PM
I made a tiny game for PicoSteveMo with @dicey.bsky.social !
➡️ It's called King Stephen
➡️ You play as King Stephen (King of England 1135-1154)
➡️ It's a Reigns-like decision-making game
➡️ I did the writing + portraits
➡️ Made for a Stephen King game jam
➡️ It's very silly
dicey.itch.io/king-stephen
➡️ It's called King Stephen
➡️ You play as King Stephen (King of England 1135-1154)
➡️ It's a Reigns-like decision-making game
➡️ I did the writing + portraits
➡️ Made for a Stephen King game jam
➡️ It's very silly
dicey.itch.io/king-stephen
Reposted by Casey Brant
I see AI slop in anything, I instantly disregard the whole thing. It's like finding a slug in your salad. If you can't write without an LLM, or you can't source art that isn't genAI, you can't be trusted to do anything. Sorry. Absolute deal-breaker.
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I see AI slop in anything, I instantly disregard the whole thing. It's like finding a slug in your salad. If you can't write without an LLM, or you can't source art that isn't genAI, you can't be trusted to do anything. Sorry. Absolute deal-breaker.
Reposted by Casey Brant
What a great headline
November 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
What a great headline
Reposted by Casey Brant
i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
November 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
Reposted by Casey Brant
It's that time of year again! Let's have a look at the deals we, and our much loved community are offering this year. It's the most important time of year for independents, so let's give them our support 💛
piccalil.li/links/black-...
piccalil.li/links/black-...
Black Friday deals 2025
It's that time of year again! Let's have a look at the deals we, and our much loved community are offering this year. It's the most important time of year for independents, so let's give them our support...
piccalil.li
November 28, 2025 at 12:08 PM
It's that time of year again! Let's have a look at the deals we, and our much loved community are offering this year. It's the most important time of year for independents, so let's give them our support 💛
piccalil.li/links/black-...
piccalil.li/links/black-...
Reposted by Casey Brant
The only legitimate software development methodology:
1. Think very hard about an implementation
2. Don't do anything
1. Think very hard about an implementation
2. Don't do anything
November 27, 2025 at 4:11 PM
The only legitimate software development methodology:
1. Think very hard about an implementation
2. Don't do anything
1. Think very hard about an implementation
2. Don't do anything
If you make a webpage where elements animate in from 0 opacity as you scroll down instead of just already being there, you have committed a Web Crime and you are under arrest.
November 27, 2025 at 12:44 AM
If you make a webpage where elements animate in from 0 opacity as you scroll down instead of just already being there, you have committed a Web Crime and you are under arrest.
<explaining something I know they won’t understand to a toddler voice> iCloud, the reason your storage keeps getting full is because you keep reverting the settings I set.
November 26, 2025 at 1:21 PM
<explaining something I know they won’t understand to a toddler voice> iCloud, the reason your storage keeps getting full is because you keep reverting the settings I set.
I'm just over halfway through, so it *might* take a terrible turn for the worse, but I suspect it's actually just an incredibly well-made course from front to back. I've been writing CSS for almost as long as CSS has existed, and I'm getting lots of new ideas to incorporate into my own practice.
I'm also contractually obliged to share that my course is part of the @piccalil.li Black Friday deal.
Get mine and get Mindful Design or JavaScript for Everyone with your 50% coupon and again, I'm contractually obliged to let you know I'll love you forever.
piccalil.li/complete-css/
Get mine and get Mindful Design or JavaScript for Everyone with your 50% coupon and again, I'm contractually obliged to let you know I'll love you forever.
piccalil.li/complete-css/
Complete CSS
A high quality, expansive CSS course that will elevate your CSS and core skills to a level you never thought was achievable.
piccalil.li
November 25, 2025 at 2:35 PM
I'm just over halfway through, so it *might* take a terrible turn for the worse, but I suspect it's actually just an incredibly well-made course from front to back. I've been writing CSS for almost as long as CSS has existed, and I'm getting lots of new ideas to incorporate into my own practice.
iOS, I literally never meant to type "Hi Mon," in Messages.
November 24, 2025 at 10:54 PM
iOS, I literally never meant to type "Hi Mon," in Messages.
man it would be sick as hell to be part of a profession that took generational knowledge transfer seriously
November 24, 2025 at 8:38 PM
man it would be sick as hell to be part of a profession that took generational knowledge transfer seriously
ugh "producing solution-shaped objects for problems they didn't (care to) understand" is such a good succinct summary of most of what I've been complaining about in this industry for so long
One of my ongoing frustrations with software engineering as a professional practice is that LLMs were in no way the thing that caused this (though they do exacerbate it). Every company I’ve seen in my career fetishized producing solution-shaped objects for problems they didn’t (care to) understand.
"writing code to solve a problem" used to have "understanding the problem" as a prerequisite. but vibecoding allows solution-shaped objects to be produced without any of the hard-won understanding. beware of solution-shaped objects.
November 24, 2025 at 5:55 PM
ugh "producing solution-shaped objects for problems they didn't (care to) understand" is such a good succinct summary of most of what I've been complaining about in this industry for so long
If people could just go ahead and have exclusively good takes or exclusively bad takes that would help me out a lot.
November 23, 2025 at 6:40 PM
If people could just go ahead and have exclusively good takes or exclusively bad takes that would help me out a lot.
Reposted by Casey Brant
become a systems thinker, they said
you'll have a better understanding of how the world works, they said
yeah and you'll also spend every waking moment in despair
you'll have a better understanding of how the world works, they said
yeah and you'll also spend every waking moment in despair
November 23, 2025 at 3:47 AM
become a systems thinker, they said
you'll have a better understanding of how the world works, they said
yeah and you'll also spend every waking moment in despair
you'll have a better understanding of how the world works, they said
yeah and you'll also spend every waking moment in despair
Chipotle is the most relatable fast food restaurant because like 20 years ago a designer fucked up and made the paper bags juuuust a little too small for the burrito bowls, and instead of designing new bags or new bowls they've just been dealing with it.
November 22, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Chipotle is the most relatable fast food restaurant because like 20 years ago a designer fucked up and made the paper bags juuuust a little too small for the burrito bowls, and instead of designing new bags or new bowls they've just been dealing with it.
Reposted by Casey Brant
The value of knowledge is in having done the work. The value of research is in having done the research. The value of a summary is in having summarized the information. The value of writing is in having done the writing.
Learning with AI falls short compared to old-fashioned web search theconversation.com/learning-wit...
Learning with AI falls short compared to old-fashioned web search
Doing the mental work of connecting the dots across multiple web queries appears to help people understand the material better compared to an AI summary.
theconversation.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:24 PM
The value of knowledge is in having done the work. The value of research is in having done the research. The value of a summary is in having summarized the information. The value of writing is in having done the writing.