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it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI
January 9, 2026 at 5:07 PM
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Not All Browser APIs Are "Web" APIs

There's JS APIs in your browser that are little more than facades for cloud services. You might be sending your users' data to them.

polypane.app/blog/not-all...
Not All Browser APIs Are "Web" APIs | Polypane
When we talk about "the web platform", we often treat it as a unified, standards-based system: browsers implement features from the same specifications, even if…
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January 9, 2026 at 10:50 AM
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Petice za projednání problému světelného znečištění a rušivého světla v Praze a přijetí opatření, která zajistí ochranu zdraví obyvatel, životního prostředí a kvality nočního prostředí v souladu s dlouhodobě akceptovaným stavem vědeckého poznání a platnou legislativou.

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January 6, 2026 at 9:52 AM
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OWA has been singularly effective in winning letter-of-the-law chamge, and the action now lies with regulators. They meed reasons to believe *enforcing* the law is worth the effort, and your voice can make a difference. Read @open-web-advocacy.org's roundup to learn about the fights that matter:
OWA's 2025 in Review! A huge and special thank-you to all of our volunteers and donors.

We can't wait to see what we can do together in 2026!
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Open Web Advocacy 2025 in Review - Open Web Advocacy
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January 5, 2026 at 9:58 AM
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The story of Europe’s economic decline while US is 'soaring' is everywhere.

But it is wrong. It is a myth.

Europe delivers more leisure, longer life expectancy, less inequality than the US.

Gabriel Zucman dismantles the myths.
Decline, what decline? The myth of dying Europe
There is a widespread view that, by comparison with the USA, Europe is in economic and social decline. But, Zucman argues, it's not true
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January 2, 2026 at 7:44 AM
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New year, new web performance mystery (and it's a huge one):

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December 31, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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you’re right! it feels mostly awful to Go Online™, these days. the internet in a sad state, for reason after reason after reason. but there is a way to fix it; to trade the voidful howling for a quiet & joyful song.

here’s how to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want.
A Website To End All Websites | Henry From Online
How to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want.
henry.codes
January 1, 2026 at 7:27 PM
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Personally, I’m pretty sure the core skills in software dev are perishable.

This would explain why many senior devs see diminishing returns from LLMs over time. The skills necessary to spot when LLMs fuck up might be deteriorating over time.
December 30, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Beyond being simply unproductive, we are already seeing how AI tools agreeing and encouraging you to keep spiralling in the same thought patterns lead to real-world deaths.

Advertising them as an alternative to therapy is beyond irresponsible.
December 30, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Spent last two days recovering and rediscovering LAN in @diversight.ai office. Cables cut and rerouted to the new 10" rack. Fished new cable to the EdgeRouter. Also labeled most of the cables with socket number so it will be easier in the future to do something with it.
December 25, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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When I worked at IBM, at one point I was working on a feature to optimise AIX using dynamic cacheing. The feature did the literal opposite of what it was meant to -- slowed things down.
It still got shipped, because that was the target. It was just turned off and undocumented.
I see it everywhere in my current company. People are pushed to deliver more and more, especially productivity tools that don't go to production that no one actually cares about. 99% of those are vibe coded bullshit that doesn't work, but ticks off a task on a goal sheet for when bonuses are paid.
December 21, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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"If you're not seeing a jump in productivity, you must be working in a niche that's outside the model's training data distribution"

Like well-written code, for example.
December 15, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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i know a lot of the javascript community thinks that people who complain about frontend complexity are just being cynical but it turns out that caking on layer upon layer of abstractions can have real-world consequences
Researchers have found two new vulnerabilities in React Server Components while attempting to exploit the patches last week.

These are new issues, separate from the critical CVE last week. The patch for React2Shell remains effective for the Remote Code Execution exploit.
December 11, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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”What’s wrong with build tools? Other languages are compiled!”

Yes, but their compiler is official and always there.

The #JS ecosystem has devolved into a state where abstraction, the most fundamental software engineering concept, has been outsourced to third party tooling.

*That’s* the problem.
December 12, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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When you don’t code often, it’s easy to forget how useful @polypane.app is for web development. It highlights issues that might get overlooked on a first pass, and it makes testing and debugging a piece of cake. Forever grateful for your effort, @kilianvalkhof.com!
November 28, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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Build responsive and accessible websites in half the time? Yes please. 🙋‍♀️

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Get it for *22% off* this week only:
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Polypane Black Friday | Polypane
Get the browser for devs who care for 22% during our Black Friday sale. Available until December 1st.
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November 26, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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What's causing the Calendly booking page to load slowly sometimes?

We've investigate in our latest blog post: www.debugbear.com/blog/calendl...
November 26, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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In summary and in conclusion: every Vercel is a market failure.
November 25, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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If your immediate response is to suggest data pipes are fatter, video is to blame, images must be the highest resolution possible, font files are doing this, etc., then you might not understand who you’re actually serving and why this is a concern.

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How broken is today's frontend culture?

A friend points out that the median *mobile* page is now larger than a copy of DOOM (2.6 MiB vs. 2.48 MiB), the 75th percentile page is more than 2 DOOMs, and the P90 mobile page is 4.5x the size of DOOM:

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HTTP Archive: Page Weight
This report tracks the size and quantity of many popular web page resources. Sizes represent the number of bytes sent over the network, which may be compressed.
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November 24, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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Just ran into a group of kids in the park who were clearly rollin’ and they were discussing… AI. I’ve never been more depressed.

If this is what you’re gonna do when you do drugs please don’t do drugs.
November 24, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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The Servo project has defined sponsorship tiers for organizations and individuals donating money to the project. Contact us at [email protected] if you are interested. servo.org/blog/2025/11...
Servo Sponsorship Tiers - Servo aims to empower developers with a lightweight, high-performance alternative for embedding web technologies in applications.
The Servo project has defined sponsorship tiers for organizations and individuals donating money to the project.
servo.org
November 21, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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Modularity is the key to fast feedback cycles, short delivery lead times, reliable products and a sustainable pace of innovation.

Apart from that, it's not very important, really.

codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/11/20/m...
Modular Design: The Secret Sauce
In pretty much every Codemanship training course, I try to stress the fundamental importance of modular design in software development. When we fail to separate the different concerns in our design…
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November 20, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Just did some tweaks of k8s resource requests and went down from 24 nodes to just 9. I deserve cold beer tonight.
November 19, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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We need to stop referring to AI as a tool. A tool is something that helps you solve a problem or complete a task. AI creates more problems than it solves. It’s more virus than tool. Every time we call it a tool we’re insulting hammers and guillotines, which actually solve problems.
November 14, 2025 at 5:29 PM