So back to work after a week of vacation, my greatest wisdom from this time:
1. shut off your computer
2. go touch some grass
3. ???
4. Profit

Oh but we have, just update your pipelines to do `claude "correct the grammar and simplify the following text: $(make test)"`

Has the added benefit of killing two acres of Amazonas rainforest too!!

Hey everyone! While we're pleased with the reception of our IRCv3 upgrades, we realize that some people like older clients and don't want to upgrade.

We are currently testing a way for older clients to benefit from our new IRCv3 features. For more info, please visit libera.chat/news/downgra...

For the last couple months in particular I've been going "huh, it feels like everyone stopped talking about frontend code size, ssr, and such all of a sudden." This is my vindication

Smtp2go has pleasantly surprised me recently, and mailjet is fine.

This is unhinged!

(I'm sorry, I'll show myself out)

@katef.bsky.social this is the opposite of reassuring!

Work gender is Kiki, the rest is bouba. I don't make the rules

Shit, they finally launched a new colour?

MoQ Monthly #0 Mile High Video, Boulder interim, draft-17, Safari WebTransport, and the growing MoQ ecosystem

So there’s a new streaming protocol being standardized that can do sub-second latency from OBS to a browser, no proprietary infra required. It’s called Media over QUIC (aka "MoQ"). I work on it, and I started a newsletter about it. Issue #0: buttondown.com/moqmonthly/archive/moq-monthly-0/

guthib.com is always up

From the United Nations website: Ending World hunger by 2030 would cost just $93 billion a year — well under one per cent of the $21.9 trillion spent on military budgets over the past decade, according to UN estimates

Headline from Tech Crunch in the "AI" category: OpenAI raises $110 billion in one of the largest funding rounds in history. By Russell Brandom, 6:13 AM PST, February 27, 2026

It's so cool and fun and great when you're starting to put some of these numbers into perspective.

Wrbe apparently had this kind of money just sitting around the whole time and actively chosen not to use it. Great

And maybe I'm too much of a critic, but I don't think that will materially change either - what might change if LLM's succeed is how much people, and especially stakeholders, care. Which risks further devaluing a group of important and complex skills that isn't js

Gotta say, it took me a considerable amount of time before I realised that article wasn't written ~yesterday. And so far i personally haven't seen AI actually change that divide, it's often immediately obvious if someone who's written code with an LLM is js heavy or html/css heavy.

Compared to my other browser extension github.com/swantzter/cr... this new one is actually something you can leave enabled too!

Before switching to Firefox I had a plugin just like this in chrome (unfortunately now defunct, yay manifest v3) and it always surprised me when I least expected it, which was followed by a moment of joy at the silliness of it. I can highly recommend this plugin (and please give it a star rating)

GitHub - swantzter/crx-developers-developers-developers: developers, developers. developers! deVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS! developers, developers. developers! deVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS! - swantzter/crx-developers-developers-developers

Oh and of course if you don't want Microslop to define what's funny, you can sideload it into Microsoft Edge using the chromium.zip asset from the releases: github.com/swantzter/cr...

Hot mew release: a browser plugin that was too funny for Microslop, now available in the Firefox (addons.mozilla.org/addon/develo...) and Chrome (chromewebstore.google.com/detail/devel...) plugin stores.

It simply plays one of Ballmers famous "Developers" at you whenever you hover the word

Screenshot of issue 454 of the email newsletter last week in aws - the text in itself is irrelevant, the important bit is that the words are a comfortable reasonable size for reading on a phone screen - a comfortable 40-ish characters fit per line

Screenshot of issue 456 of the email newsletter last week in aws - the text in itself is irrelevant, the important part is that the font size is considerably smaller compared to issue 454. Now, a whooping 60+ characters fit per line and the font size resembles something you'd find in an old scientific journal or religious text printed on incredibly thin paper.

Hey, @quinnypig.com, since issue #456 of LWIAWS things have gone from a pleasant Monday evening read to "do I need to call my optometrist" with the font size, at least on Gmail on android. Is this an intentional change or something gone wrong related to that beautiful block of CSS?

I mean there's probably some selection bias in that too what with 93% of respondents identifying as men (which is another problem in itself), but still, jfc

So the State of JS survey results are out, and whilst the question about people who you want to highlight is just a dumb popularity contest, the fact that out of the 40 listed, only 4 aren't men (from a quick scan), first one appearing at place 22 is, whilst entirely unsurprising, sooo bad.

Can recommend, makes retuning to bed and realising just how comfy it is more rewarding!

That explains it 😅 or perhaps it's all just an attempt to bring the kick of movie trailers to the world of email newsletters 😉

Cool! Still getting a 404 email not found, but I'll let the changes propagate and check back in tomorrow for sharing :)

The link to the full post seems dead, or is that just me?

A retro computing manual featuring a white, toony anthro rabbit with his hand on an old mainframe console. The text reads: "Introduction to COBOL (Common Bunny-Oriented Language)."

Introduction to COBOL!

We still live in the dumbest timeline: my headphones has a security vuln and needs to be updated. A requirement for updates _to your headphones_ is being logged in. My password apparently no longer works, the password restet requires a security question like it's 2006 - that form is broken. Cool.

Oh and I can't just use the excellent NetGuard to banish the app from accessing the Internet, because apparently TETRIS, a single player game with no need to download any content, REQUIRES an ongoing Internet connection to work

Like I don't want to watch a video about temu, followed by a Google play-esque download screen for temu, followed by a black screen with another download temu button on it.

I just want to play some damn tetris to not have to think about the state of everything.

Of all the unimportant issues, what the fuck is up with mobile ads these days?
I just want to play some proper tetris with good touch controls, I would be willing to pay a one-time fee to do that ad free, but the official app only has 60-day ad-free passes. And every ad requires closing it 3 times??