For fucks sake, can fraud and market manipulation be illegal again?

Is it any surprise that nobody is willing to actually fight this regime?

We trained an entire generation that standing up to bullies just gets you punished.

Our school system entirely abandoned doing the right thing.

And now the answer to fascism is "what are we supposed to do?"

comic with 6 panels in a 3x2 grid. Both rows follow a similar pattern with two characters looking forward to a conference lineup and schedule and then their reaction to it. Top row: the conference content is colorful and full of different languages and technologies, character 1 says 'Dude! Look at that line-up and all those topics! I can't go this year and I'm already getting FOMO!' and character 2 replies 'so much FOMO!'. Bottom row: the conference content is basically monochrome with AI repeating as topic and just a few different things; character 1 says 'Man, I think I'm getting old! Look at that line-up and all those topics... but I'm not feeling any FOMO!' and character 2 replies 'It's not you who's getting old'

New comiCSS cartoon: Conference FOMO Then and Now
comicss.art/comics/247/

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The actual process of writing the code yourself is more important than the code you write.

This is a call for your creativity! 🫵

Everyone seems to be so excited about HTML-in-Canvas, and understandably so. Have you seen all the impressive demos developers have been sharing?

We've started collecting some examples:
github.com/GoogleChrome...

Add your own demos!🎨 🎉

I’ve witnessed more outages in the last 6 months than in my entire career before that combined. I wonder what changed 🫠

Crazy there’s not a single electable leftish party.

The left panel is titled AI - MASTER OF ENGINE & CREATION and features a sophisticated, human-like android robot with detailed internal circuits and a glowing brain. Floating text around the robot says - REWRITING GAME ENGINES with a small video screen, GENERATING REALISTIC VIDEO/IMAGES with code on a screen, and CONFIDENCE - 100%. The right panel is titled AI - FRONT-END CSS FAIL and shows a cluttered desk with a distressed small robot next to a frustrated human man pointing aggressively at a computer screen. The computer displays a chaotic webpage full of broken layout elements and a giant black void called a gaping hole. The small robot has a speech bubble that says - I'M DONE! THE FEATURE IS COMPLETE. Floating text phrases on the right side are - BESPOKE INTERACTION NIGHTMARE, CSS IS HARD, YOU'RE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT, CAN'T RENDER, LLM CAN'T MATH. The human has a mug with </> and nerdy.dev written on it.

Why does AI suck at front-end?

🗑️ trained on garbage
👀 it can't see
❓ it doesn't know why
🏞️ no environmental control

there's no human v20.2.1 to target. we're a LLM combinatorial explosion

⤷ nerdy.dev/why-ai-sucks...

I’ve posted it before, but it feels evergreen

The two hardest problems in Computer Science are

1. Human communication
2. Getting people in tech to believe that human communication is important

bless the CSS people. my tech news feed is all AI but the CSS people are still styling and just doing their thing because its fun and they love it and they make neat things. my heroes.

right now everything in the world is telling you to go faster, ship more, add that feature, start another project

so i'm actively working on feeling ok not doing any of that

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you're probably underestimating how crazy things are

Announcing the Zero Token architecture. Instead of burning AI tokens, you learn to think for yourself, and complete tasks using your brain.

It might seem inevitable that AI will revolutionise the world but I think it is worth remembering that they say that about literally everything.

I have an artificial intelligence joke but I only care about the outcome and not the craft of telling jokes.

This week everyone who is 10x faster due to using AI finished all the work they had planned for 2026 and 2027.

AI promised supreme productivity, but it’s actually straining workloads for employees—time spent emailing has doubled, and focused work sessions fell by 9% | Fortune Workers who use AI are spending up to 346% more time on their daily tasks, from messaging to business management: “The data is unambiguous: AI does not reduce workloads.”

> There wasn’t a single activity category where using AI actually saved users time

fortune.com/2026/03/13/a...

you know how everything is made out of plastic and feels like crap but still technically works

we've been headed this way with software for a while but at least we used to be embarrassed by it

now people are proud of how much they don't care

Some of us only do this for the challenge. Try to take that away and you're going to loose the good ones.

"Hey Terminator, go back in time and take out Sarah Connor"
"Ok, done! Sarah Connor terminated"
"No she wasn't. Her son is still here"
"You're absolutely right! I have no idea who Sarah Connor is"
"Then why did you say you terminated her?"
"You're right to call me out on that..."

YES.

software projects are like, I'm 80% through the work that is the 20% that comes after the first 80% that takes 20% of the time, now, about that estimate...

Sounds like a bunch of stuff you’re unfamiliar with.

This is the team creating opencode, on of the most popular coding agents.

You are not being left behind.

The people claiming to be 10x more productive with AI are either very inexperienced or lying to you.

us: we are struggling to figure out the best way to use coding agents, we don't have clarity yet

everyone else: our team is moving at speeds unheard of, all our PRs are ai generated, we've cleared 6 years of backlog

man we must really suck huh

i really don't care about using AI to ship more stuff
it's really hard to come up with stuff worth shipping

i want to ship the same amount of stuff with higher quality both in product and code

"Junior and mid-level engineers will now require more senior engineers to sign off any AI-assisted changes”

This is the part that turns me into the Joker. They have outages, they're making more engineers spend time on reviews and STILL nobody's asking "is this actually a net productivity gain?"

Abstract illustration of a CSS animation in the shape of a series of square that get incresingly rotated. The text reads: CSS animations as state machines.

I feel like this is either very dumb or very clever. Either way, I blogged about it:

Using CSS animations as state machines to remember focus or hover states in CSS only.

patrickbrosset.com/articles/202...

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