I've been thinking lately how toast messages are just log messages. No programmer would be ok with logs disappearing and having no way to view them again. We should normalize some kind of UI that shows a steam of log messages instead of toasts.
With human programmers you can guess where they're going to struggle and which parts you've got to really pay attention to. With generated code, some simple file could suddenly have unnecessary over-engineered outdated brittle functions. I saw guards for browser bugs that haven't existed in 10 years
After a 2 day AI hackathon (mandatory) I got to spend all day reviewing generated code. It was exhausting. Not because it was all bad but because you just couldn't know where it would veer into nonsense.
The “Calvin’s dad explains two types” meme, inspired by a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon. Clockwise from top left: 1) Calvin’s dad walks into frame to find Calvin trying to operate a record player. The dad says: “There are only two industries left in America: gambling, and fraud.” 2) The dad shows where the record goes, and how to turn on the player, while Calvin watches. Dad says “Derivatives? Gambling. AI? Fraud. Video games? Gambling. Social media? Fraud.” Calvin says “yeah”. 3) With one hand open palm up, Calvin’s dad cheerfully explains to Calvin out of frame below him, “The stock market looks like gambling, but it’s actually fraud.” 4) In bed in a dark room, Calvin clutches at his pillow, eyes wide in existential terror. There is no text in the panel.
Oh I know that place! It's just south of East Weston!
Just realized that by mandating AI use in daily coding work, our leadership is telling us, "don't care about the product so much!"
Coining a new phrase: "data driven dumbassery."
You know what it means.
The autism community has been quietly revolutionizing workplace communication for years — turns out clear expectations, sensory awareness, and direct feedback work magic for neurotypical brains too. Your son's teaching you management gold.
Worth your time:
leehanchung.github.io/blogs/2026/0...
Barnyard Commandos toy, circa 1990. An absolute unit of a ram with a rocket launcher on its back.
This sheep is definitely an undercover Barnyard Commando. I mean, there's even military vehicles in the background!
I once heard that the original GitHub (pre-M$) had an engineering maxim "write JavaScript like it's 2015."
This is clearly not the case anymore, as I suffer from their React-focused AI-slop interface. Not to mention whatever tomfoolery is happening on the backend causing such constant instability
For the love of the web, yes! We need some clean way of polyfilling CSS.
I think we also need a "some JS" mode with limited web APIs so that users get these polyfills (and web components!) without enabling tracking JS. medium.com/itnext/brows...
"speed ≠ quality
output ≠ thinking
fidelity ≠ usefulness"
👏👏👏
Are there any job boards that allow you to filter out AI companies? I'm getting real sick of having to research companies and job positions to see if they're gonna force me to use AI.
I built a visual explainer of the CSS Cascade, the algorithm that determines the "winning value" from a list of competing declarations.
It's built on work by @bram.us and @miriam.codes.
cascade.arpit.codes
I wrote about how it came together on my blog: arpit.blog/notes/2026/0...
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I don't have words for the disgust, anger, and shame I feel about this.
I'm stuck trying to make AI crap features work with AI slop code in React version-whatever-with-breaking-changes, and some people get to actually make the web better.
This. Is. Awesome.
My first thought when I saw web components come out (in the Polymer says) was that it sucks they're reliant on JS. This would be a game-changer.
Instead of introspection, this fucker wakes up and thinks, "how can I maximize my sociopathy?"
Highlighting or drawing attention to the element that has been scrolled to. Maybe a form field failed validation, so it's scrolled to and an outline is blinked once it's in view
<button> outside of forms, though invoker commands help now.
"Autism will never fit in the disease model, because it is not a disease; it is part of the human condition."
“These tools, and the companies that manufacture them, have tremendous costs — to our labor, to our environment, to our futures. And as we’ve been seeing, those costs also include actual human lives.”
Good and important read by @ethanmarcotte.com.
ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/propel...
An 'Al bubble' is the biggest concern of credit investors for the first time ever, according to a survey among Bank of America Corp.'s clients. "Few worry about geopolitics or a central bank policy error," BofA strategists including Barnaby Martin wrote in a note on Tuesday. Some 23% of survey's investment-grade respondents saw the threat of an Al bubble as their top concern, up from 9% in BofA's previous survey in December. Worries over a potentially unsustainable surge in investment and valuations of AI companies overtook 'Bubbles in Credit' as the top concern, according to the survey. Anxiety over trade tensions and a global recession had also been seen as the biggest perceived risk during 2025.
Bank of America’s big credit investors are now most worried about the threat of an AI bubble, specifically unsustainable investments and over-valuations.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
I was disappointed to read Cory Doctorow's post where he got weirdly defensive about his LLM use and started arguing with an imaginary foe.
@tante.cc has a very thoughtful reply here:
tante.cc/2026/02/20/a...
A few further comments, 🧵>>
"We need new models of professionalism that do not center novelty, but consequence." blog.ronbronson.com/design-as-re...
The legitimately innovative thing about AI is that it is a completely bottomless pit. It's swallowed up:
- all energy sources
- all our data
- all investment dollars
- all new jobs
- all capex
- all attention
- and now, all hardware components
with absolutely no end in sight. Nothing will satisfy.
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the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.