like we've had so many things in browsers locked down for mostly hypothetical security reasons, and somehow we're still allowing companies to pull the stuff toolbar extensions used to do in 2005
putting this into the same category as linkedin scraping your chrome extensions with javascript to profile you
aka "wait, why are you able to do that"
mike-sheward.medium.com/deleteduser-com-a-15-pii...
Turns out a lot of companies just overwrite deleted users' email with a "deleteduser.com" email address and all you need to do to get a stream of personal data is register that domain and set up an catchall email address
i should be smarter than to expect tech workers to read books but at least a small, passing knowledge in lord of the rings would've saved you here
something kind of endearing in the fact that someone can sincerely gain employment in a company named palantir
*palantir*, working for **palantir**
and then be like uhhhh i dunno man i didn't think the corporation known as ***palantir*** would be thaaaaaat evil there weren't any signs yknow
it's always going to be strictly worse to have a machine, or program, that can do or be anything you want, and then make it do 10,000 things fairly poorly, when you can instead make it do one thing extremely well
that the entire tech industry has forgotten how to do this is a bit of a problem
it's fascinating how everyone can immediately understand why it's a bad idea to make a computer that's people-shaped when it's a real robot (see all the QRTs with variations on the statement "we have cars")
but when it's a large language model, everyone just assumes it can do everything perfectly
“The poet John Keats described ‘neg capability’: the ability to remain ‘in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, w/o any irritable reaching after fact &reason’…neurosci increasingly…[shows that]capacity to tolerate ambiguity—to sit w/not knowing—appears central to flexible, creative &resilient thinkng”🧪
when i have to go to one job board, i have to maximize my browser window or else it breaks, and if i go to another job board, i have to unmaximize it and then make it take up 1/3rd of my screen or else it breaks
these aren't small organizations either. this is just how it's like now
i think every company, simultaneously, jumped the gun in thinking large language models could replaced their least respected kind of team members (frontend designers), and it's increasingly becoming clear that frontend design might actually be the most llm-proof skillset by a significant margin
having to cycle through a dozen websites to find volunteer work and i'm struck by how websites in 2026 are unusable in extremely basic ways
like, css breakpoints that don't work, clickable elements that can't be clicked on, popups that can't be closed, box-shadows being in places they shouldn't be
It's a screenshot of some HTML source code. It starts like this, but I can't put the whole thing here because Bluesky only allows 2000 characters of ALT text. <body id="collection-6193b5f4318251055941e884" class="tweak-blog-alternating-side-by-side-width-full tweak-blog-alternating-side-by-side-image-aspect-ratio-11-square tweak-blog-alternating-side-by-side-text-alignment-left tweak-blog-alternating-side-by-side-read-more-style-show tweak-blog-alternating-side-by-side-image-text-alignment-middle tweak-blog-alternating-side-by-side-delimiter-bullet tweak-blog-alternating-side-by-side-meta-position-top tweak-blog-alternating-side-by-side-primary-meta-categories tweak-blog-alternating-side-by-side-secondary-meta-date tweak-blog-alternating-side-by-side-excerpt-show image-block-poster-text-alignment-center image-block-card-content-position-center image-block-card-text-alignment-left image-block-overlap-content-position-center image-block-overlap-text-alignment-left image-block-collage-content-position-center image-block-collage-text-alignment-left image-block-stack-text-alignment-left form-field-style-solid form-field-shape-square form-field-border-all form-field-checkbox-type-icon form-field-checkbox-fill-solid form-field-checkbox-color-inverted form-field-checkbox-shape-square form-field-checkbox-layout-stack form-field-radio-type-icon form-field-radio-fill-solid form-field-radio-color-normal form-field-radio-shape-pill form-field-radio-layout-stack form-field-survey-fill-solid form-field-survey-color-normal form-field-survey-shape-pill form-field-hover-focus-outline form-submit-button-style-label tweak-global-animations-enabled tweak-global-animations-complexity-level-detailed tweak-global-animations-animation-style-fade tweak-global-animations-animation-type-fade tweak-global-animations-animation-curve-ease tweak-blog-masonry-width-full tweak-blog-masonry-text-alignment-left tweak-blog-masonry-primary-meta-categories tweak-blog-masonry-secondary-meta-date ...
Good morning from the <body> tag on a typical Squarespace website and its one hundred and forty eight classes, which is obviously a completely normal and sensible way to build good websites that work very well and are unlikely to cause any problems for generations of future maintenance engineers.
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it's fascinating seeing so many brands think they can make "fashion brand" glasses for this reason. just totally unaware that the only reason the zuckerbergs have a market is because they look like any other normal pair of thick nerd glasses
i'm not saying that this is anywhere near the root cause of the job market right now
but i will say that hiring managers choosing to be *this* asleep at the wheel, in this exact moment, is probably making it even worse
-> so they temporarily close the listing, start interviews, and it turns out every applicant was lying through their teeth about everything so they found nobody qualified
and then instead of learning anything from this they go "oh well" and try again with the same a.t.s. that caused this
this is tangentially related to the other thing i've learned, which is how many constantly-open job listings are a result of hiring managers refusing to not use exploitable a.t.s. systems that keep rejecting real people while making it easy for a.i. generated applicants to slip through ->
something noticeable doing job searching rn is how many expected qualifications exist not for the job, which otherwise does not need it, but for the hiring manager who wants to cut down on applicants
see also non-tech customer service jobs suddenly requiring i.t. bachelors degrees
I will never stop laughing about that thread by Jonny where someone in his comments is saying that he just needs to use better prompts and jonny is trying to get the guy to understand that the code he’s posting is the _Claude source code_
a lot of white collar work is just lying in ways big or small, and a lot of people get paid very good money for it
not a coincidence that they're the ones most likely to tell you, a person who wants a real job that requires human perception, to "not be left behind"
being trapped in job market hell rn i'm struck by cover letters in 2026
generated by an llm who will invent certifications you don't have; scanned by an llm who will misinterpret keywords for no reason; a non-optional document, that you must submit, despite not being written or read by a person
having had this same frustration for years, the executives pushing it generally don't see a difference
they've been confidently lying their way into huge salaries, and they think everyone who makes less money is worse at lying. a computer that lies for them is simple efficiency, in their mind
the use case for these begins and ends at you being able to take photos/videos without, immediately, looking like you're doing that. that is the core utility. if there is a second use case, nobody's found it yet, likely because they're too busy looking for women to film
i've seen guys irl with the zuckerbergs on, and i cannot stress enough how nobody who wants these are anywhere in the ballpark of socially well-adjusted or even particularly fashionable
they only want glasses that could conceivably look like normal glasses, otherwise it's harder to get creepshots
oomf was in a state of collapse
Say what you will about nerds, but back when only nerds made websites, they worked. You'd fire up your computer, go to a website, and it was actually there
people can try to blame a.i. for this, but this kind of guy has always been here. a decade ago these same guys would've been getting paid six figures to import twelve javascript libraries, so they can write three fewer functions
vibe coding merely gave them the out they've always been looking for
this is what happens when an industry boots out all the people who cared enough to talk back against obviously flawed tech, only leaving behind the deeply incurious, who don't analyze their work meaningfully enough to notice the magic code machine isn't actually making faster, better code
the modern developer is ignorant to basic concepts about their own job, because that would require the desire to learn things they don't immediately need, and they fundamentally do not like coding or computers enough to care
if you understand this, the current tech industry starts to make sense
volunteer work requires someone who can train the volunteers, and apparently even the nonprofits have chosen to boot all their onboarding guys for that sort of thing
