oooh, can do "near to reveal" for both the vertical and the dock at the same time, something like this maybe

browser tab ideas ...

- horizontal
- vertical
- diagonal (lol)
- blobs ???
- MacOS dock style

The cover of PC Magazine ("The independent guide to personal computing and the Internet") from November 2, 1999. The headline issue, showing boxed software like Wordperfect Office and Microsoft Office in the trash, reads "THROW OUT YOUR SOFTWARE - Save Money! Run your applications over the web instead!" Big callouts mention "Special Report: Which Printer is Right for YOU? PC Labs tests 55 new Lasers, Ink Jets, Multifunctions" with pictures of some old Brother-looking printers; E-Mail Options, "The Internet Provides Multiple Ways To Keep Everyone In Touch"; John C. Dvorak, "Microsoft's Dastardly E-Mail Plot: While Hotmail Really Crashed", and "First Looks: New Desktop Systems, Adobe InDesign 1.0, Giage WebSpace, Consumer Image-Editing Software, Celeron Notebook PCs, Actiontec Call Waiting System" over a picture of a dark late 90s desktop tower.

THROW OUT YOUR SOFTWARE

bending spoons likes to acquire products that do one thing good and when they decide the product is as good as they can get it, they lay off everyone who worked on it so they can just let it hum along as a money printer until customers jet, money printer stops and the product dies

Happy 34th Birthday HTML tags!

Happy 34th Birthday HTML tags!

On October 29, 1991, the internet pioneer, Tim Berners-Lee, published a document entitled HTML Tags.

#WebDesignHistory

Ah sadly I cannot make it, sounds like such a fun time though!!!

Excel's AI: 20% of the time, it works every time A Microsoft blog post about "vibe working" broke me.

Microsoft's new "vibe working" AI feature in Excel fails at 42% of tasks. The regular Copilot feature fails at 80% of tasks. This information is in the same blog post *Microsoft itself* published that also called it "like you’re handing off work to an Excel expert." 🫠

I LOVE

An outdoor "room" with concrete walls, to which are attached cloth banners featuring red flowers, abstracted (silhouette-ish) images of trees bending down to children, planes bombing a villae, war-torn people migrating away from their homes

More banners, including one that reads "We Who Are Not Dead Yet"

Bread & Puppet press at the New York Art Book Fair

"I highly recommend doing this the old fashioned way, with your eyes and brain, but LLMs can be helpful too if that's more your speed: but don't offload the whole task to a robot. Actual understanding is the goal, and you can't achieve that secondhand."

Highly applicable to most tasks lol

flags half mast and bottomless media hagiography for a man who spent his days tricking dim children into thinking black women are worthless

an illustration of a boat, as a metaphor for carrying dependencies

i wrote a whole thing about wrangling npm dependencies because it's an unglamorous part of the job that's nevertheless really important. also because i wanted to make some watercolor illustrations. blog.val.town/gardening-de...

Like hundreds of other people, I was targeted by Charlie Kirk's "Professor Watchlist" project and spuriously accused of being a "Terror Supporter" and an "Antisemite". The legacy of Charlie Kirk is bigotry, classroom surveillance and anti-intellectual harassment.

In the last week of the 1936 campaign, FDR reminded a massive crowd in Madison Square Garden that "organized money" was "unanimous in their hate for me--and I welcome their hatred!"

And then the country rewarded him with a 523-8 landslide in the electoral college.

This is, in fact, good politics.

Uncode text → CIELAB color blocks :)

simulator human input (input fuzzing, I guess?)

Stops automatically when it finds an inconsistency :)

I made a piece of software! It’s called the film|minutes video|graphic workstation. It’s pretty niche but cool if you want to take notes or do very close readings of films/videos.

I'm seeing a lot of different people, coming from different angles, recognize that the Same-Origin Policy is insufficient for the kind of apps that we want to make now, and that we need something more fine-grained and more secure.

Very interesting times!

quoting this again because i saw another few comments recently about something similar that were like “eew gross this is so bad”. the reality though is that this is actually - unironically - what peak development looks like. this has effected zero people, been noticed by almost zero, and works great

bsky.app/profile/cwer...

now live at cwervo.github.io/aura/

working on a Flutter prototype for this for MacOS, Linux, and Windows (eventually iOS/Android????) at github.com/cwervo/aura

AT Protocol DIDs The AT Protocol uses Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) as persistent, long-term account identifiers. DID is a W3C standard, with many standardized and proposed DID method implementations. Blessed DID Methods Currently, atproto supports two DID methods: did:web, which is a W3C standard based on HTTPS (and DNS). The identifier section is a hostname. This method is supported in atproto to provide an independent alternative to did:plc. The method is inherently tied to the domain name used, and does not provide a mechanism for migration or recovering from loss of control of the domain name. In the context of atproto, only hostname-level did:web DIDs are supported: path-based DIDs are not supported. The same restrictions on top-level domains that apply to handles (eg, no .arpa) also apply to did:web domains. The special localhost hostname is allowed, but only in testing and development environments. Port numbers (with separating colon hex-encoded) are only allowed for localhost, and only in testing and development. did:plc, which is a novel DID method developed by Bluesky. See the did-method-plc GitHub repository for details. In the future, a small number of additional methods may be supported. It is not the intention to support all or even many DID methods, even with the existence of universal resolver software.

Yes! The standard for ATProto DIDs is solid — there are currently two "blessed" DIDs for ATProto: did:web:example.com and did:plc

Yes! I want to clean it up a bit and make a proper description for it, will put it in GitHub in a day or so!

"AT Protocol uses two identifiers: DID and Handle. Handles are DNS names while DIDs are an emerging W3C standard which act as secure & stable IDs. The AT Protocol Identity module provides a way to resolve DIDs and Handles. It also provides a way to cache the results of these resolutions." on the AT Proto documentation website

The ATProto DID spec definitely is mature enough!

The identifiers are already spec'd as being either web addresses (did:web:example.com) or did:* (commonly: did:plc:)

atproto.blue/en/latest/at...

What if a browser could navigate #ATProto DIDs and 🦋 Bluesky handles?

Made a little prototype of Aura, a browser that can navigate between standard websites (🌐), Bluesky handles (@), and permanent DIDs, resolving them all in the same address bar.

U.S. Suspends Visas for Palestinian Passport Holders, Officials Say

After banning visas for Palestinian children seeking medical care, the Trump administration is now banning any Palestinian passport holders from entering the United States.

Extraordinary bigotry being converted into US policy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/w...

rip to everyone whos become delusional after talking to chatgpt but im built different. like actually different. according to chatgpt im some kind of god. the one who decides

a rectangle labelled "pics" with various nicely arranged screenshots of editing a local website

Something very satisfying about taking a ton of screenshots for a tutorial and watching them get arranged by this very neat little algorithm in Figma

The variance in dimensions here is because I took some screenshots with ⌘ + 5 ("Capture selected portion") and some with ⌘ + 3

Guy who doesn’t know anything thinks you shouldn’t either.

ht @danhon.com

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