cowboy who stubbed his toe:

The 'kin' of ‘napkin’ means "little."

‘Nap’ comes from ‘nape,' which means “tablecloth.”

So a napkin is a little tablecloth.

10/10, no notes.

💯 Scott Young, on giving advice:

"The metamorphosis of the internet means the path I took to get here literally doesn't exist anymore."

www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2026/04...

A demonstration of the same gradient defined as a light blue to fuschia gradient, with 5 different color interpolation methods. From left to right, srgb, which kind of muddies the blended colours in the middle to a light pastel purple, lch, which moves seems to move to the blue colour quicker, not creating the purple muddiness, oklch, which does move through the purple but in a more subtle way, oklab, which remains more pink than anything, and hsl, which adds a very dark almost internet blue at the centre of the gradient

we don't talk enough about how cool the color-interpolation-method is in CSS gradients

all of these slices have the same gradient:

linear-gradient(#00ffff 0%, #ff00ff 100%)

each one is just using a different colour interpolation

This is:

1. Deeply moving.

2. The first time I've ever seen a real-life astronaut be anything other than serious or happy in space. Obviously they have been (they're human), but folks on earth have only ever seen this in movies or on TV.

Imagine watching your tears of grief float around you.

The front cover of a paperback copy of the Dutch version of J.R.R. Tolklien's The Hobbit, circa 1960. Eight cheerful-looking cartoon figures with long grey beards surround a smaller, waving beardless figure in the middle.

have you guys seen the Dutch cover of The Hobbit cuz I hadn't

recent Axios story on maternal health policy referenced "findings" that a majority of people trusted their doctors and nurses. On the surface, there's nothing unusual about that. What wasn't originally mentioned, however, was that these findings were made up. Clicking through the links revealed (as did a subsequent editor's note and clarification by Axios) that the public opinion poll was a computer simulation run by the artificial intelligence start-up Aaru. No people were involved in the creation of these opinions. The practice Aaru used is called silicon sampling, and it's suddenly everywhere. The idea behind silicon sampling is simple and tantalizing. Because large language models can generate responses that emulate human answers, polling companies see an opportunity to use A.I. agents to simulate survey responses at a small fraction of the cost and time required for traditional polling.

As I’ve said a million times, I’m not particularly against smart uses of AI

This is the stupidest use I’ve seen yet though

Microsoft homepage in 1994

On 4 April 1975, Microsoft was founded.

Microsoft homepage in 1994

Bending a straight line using pure CSS?! 👀

Another cool demo in progress powered by border-shape. It's coming to @developer.chrome.com next week! 🤩

CSS nesting is now Baseline 🎉

Write nested selectors directly in CSS — just like Sass, but natively.

.card {
color: black;
&:hover { color: blue; }
.title { font-weight: bold; }
}

No preprocessor needed.

Learn more 👇
developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/...

Made with svelte and threlte #wow

Artemis II Resource Reels - YouTube

I found myself very confused trying to find decent highlights footage of the NASA Artemis II Mission.

Finally after asking around on Mastodon, I found the NASA Johnson channel which has this playlist that looks like it'll keep populating with daily highlights:

youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Enjoy!

Incredible footage from a United Airlines flight of the Artemis II launch.

I’m already playing 2027 simulator. It’s more bleak, but there’s a dog in that one.

The Jetsons lied to us

Looks very *rural*

When I'm writing the first draft, I'm constantly reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles. Jordan Peele

This is a good reminder for any creative process.

Strongbad’s children’s book from HomestarRunner.com:”Some people are being fangoriously devoured by a gelatinous monster. Hilary’s legs are being digested.”

Some people are being fangoriously devoured by a gelatinous monster. Hilary’s legs are being digested.

One of my favourite facts is that the spiky tail of a stegosaurus didn't used to have a specific name, until Gary Larson published this Far Side cartoon, at which point "thagomizer" was adopted by paleontologists.

Your reminder that John Cena holds the record for granting the most wishes for the Make-a-Wish Foundation by a considerable margin.

By submitting Your Content on or through the Services, you grant Vercel a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, fully paid, sublicensable and transferable license to use, copy, modify, adapt, reproduce, distribute, display, publish, store, perform, and create derivatives of Your Content to provide and improve the Services, develop new products and services, secure and protect the Services and third parties from fraud, abuse, malware, malicious files or content, viruses and the like.

Look mom! Another reason to stop using Vercel.

vercel.com/legal/terms#...

(Is this even legal?)

In my opinion it’s unethical to use generative AI to resurrect dead actors. The only ethical use is to recreate actors who are alive but annoying to be around

Unpopular opinion: The VR bubble was more fun than the AI bubble. It was all about sharing space with people you couldn't always physically be around, having immersive adventures and going places only limited by people's imagination.

That's Awesome™

The five stages of losing our craft | Debugging Leadership Last Tuesday I was on a coaching call with an engineering manager. Let's call her Sarah (because that's her name). She was describing a situation I've now heard about forty times in the last twelve mo...

Lots of feels here

andrewmurphy.io/blog/the-fiv...

The trolley problem in two panels. trolley is approaching a switch. on one track is the roadrunner; there is nothing on the other track. standing to the side holding the lever is the coyote. In the second panel the coyote has thrown a switch and the trolley has moved sideways off the tracks and has run over the coyote. the Road Runner stands there going MEEP, MEEP!

Trolley Problem

Despite its growth-including on the social media platforms X (Twitter), Telegram, the Russian-based VK, and Bluesky-the network remains user-unfriendly across all domains and subdomains. For example, it has no search function, a generic navigation menu, and dysfunctional scrolling on many sites and pages. Webpage layout issues and obvious mistranslations persist on the network's sites as well, contributing to appearances that the network is not primarily intended for human consumption. Given what appears to be its small human audience and the massive footprint of the network, we believe the network isn't targeting humans, but an automated audience: web crawlers involved with search engine optimization and scraping algorithms that collect data for training datasets such as those used for large language models. This targeting strategy is a stark departure from other pro-Russia information operations, and one with serious social, political, and technological consequences for the world.

Tricking AI chatbots by lying about hot dogs sounds fun! Now read about a Russian operation with an annual publishing rate of at least 3.6 million pro-Russia articles. It is not designed for access by human eyes which implies it is there to influence AI chatbots
thebulletin.org/2025/03/russ...

“This Is Not The Computer For You” · Sam Henri Gold Sam Henri Gold is a product design engineer building playful, useful software.

This is the best product review I’ve read: samhenri.gold/blog/2026031...

It doesn’t matter if you’re interested in the MacBook Neo or not; this is the kind of essay that makes you think about the potential of technology and the joys of exploration.

Screenshot from the TV show “the good place” with the caption “You think generative Al use is like having a Janet when in reality, it's like having a Derek.”

Derek.