First day as Apple CEO:

- default text sound is: UwU
- introducing the iBopIt (also makes UwU noise)
- skafari browser, clicks play trumpet sounds
- messages for android

711: Where did Oh My Zsh Come From? And Using Rails in 2026 We’ve got Robby Russell, maintainer of Oh My Zsh, on the show to talk about why Chris has it installed, what makes a good Zsh plugin, Oh My Zsh plugins Robby recommends, what it’s like …

Fun conversation with @chriscoyier.net and @davatron5000.bsky.social. Worth a listen if you’ve ever installed Oh My Zsh and never questioned it since.

👉 shoptalkshow.com/711/

That sounds like a beautiful trip. Thanks for sharing.

Yarp. VC, the SaaS-pocalypse, wholesale firing of devrel, COVID decimation, dangerous interstate anti-trans laws, and the lack of affordable trains for travel... to name a few more.

lol, yeah i was gonna say "this is almost a niche american problem, europe and china are fine"

Jim, per usual, resonating on a good frequency.

We desperately need something else.

two images of the human body's circulatory system. One of them with good cable management

The human circulatory system, before and after proper cable management.

Digital painting. A Dreamcatcher readies his equipment in a city backstreet

Dreamcatcher

Blue shell the billionaires.

Probably this one...

bsky.app/profile/dava...

Sour Patch Kids and milk is a strong Do Not Recommend

If the hardcore band’s guitarist looks like this you’re about to die in that pit

Screenshot of mobile bsky not loading

Screenshot of Lord of the Rings. The main character says "All right, then. Keep your secrets."

Totino’s Reginos

Design and Engineering, As One · Matthias Ott We inherited our product processes from a 19th-century steel works. Frederick Winslow Taylor separated thinking from doing, managers from makers, designers from builders – and a hundred years later, m...

A wonderful celebration of Design Engineering by @matthiasott.com

matthiasott.com/articles/des...

This and more drafts.csswg.org/css-link-par...

🫡 Dreams really can come true.

Yeah, if you're grasping at straws trying to debug a mystery and it seems like a plausible straw... sure. Because we're doing divergent thinking. I'm certain I've done that. But if someone's just hitting the "I'm feeling lucky" button, I love it less. And I'm probably guilty of that as well.

This is a nice page to send people that _hopefully_ helps them understand. stopsloppypasta.ai/en/

Totally! The other day I had this interaction

"Did you run npm install?"
"I don't know."
[in my head] "What do you mean you don't know? Did you type it or not?"

Then I realized he truly didn't know because it was probably all through Copilot in YOLO mode and collapsed in a <thinking> step.

I don’t want a screenshot of your Claude conversation The personal blog of Dave Rupert, web developer and podcaster from Austin, TX.

📝 The number of screenshots of Claude conversations is going up in my life...

daverupert.com/2026/04/clau...

Make `currentColor` work on `<img src="foo.svg">`, you cowards!

Not gonna lie, I almost messaged you crying because I thought I lost my stashed changes in gnarly rebase. I have them now... but not sure how. Which is cool.

One day I'm going to fix the UI for rebase conflicts. But until then I'll just stare at this screen and wonder what "Current" and "Incoming" mean.

Chief Sloptimization Engineer

Career Goals: Become a Slop Leader.

I made a powerpoint slide with a bunch of bubbles and arrows on it... what do you mean by "it's entirely unenforceable" and "it's an aggregious oversimplification of the problem"?

When moving fast, talking is the first thing to break When you make speed and “moving fast” the biggest priority on a project or in an organization, the first thing to breakdown is talking to each other. Talking takes time. Consensus is expensive and…

“The job of Engineering Management is no longer pushing tickets across the board to make executives clap, it’s helping organizations row in the same direction together. It’s relentlessly focusing on your users over lines of code and cool project codenames.” – @davatron5000.bsky.social

Look Who's Farting starring Kirstie Smelly and John Tootvolta