At some point soon (if not already) businesses are going to lose customers from the degraded experiences that no-human-has-reviewed-LLM-generated code spits out. And then what?

Same pattern, every team.

Designer annotates everything.

Design system specifies focus states, heading structure, the lot.

Engineering ships something broken anyway.

Not an awareness problem. A skills gap the industry built deliberately.

Rant here - gbbns.co/journal/acce...

#Accessibility

Advocate: J.K. Rowling uses Harry Potter wealth to fund anti-transgender organization.

You absolutely cannot separate the artist and the art without contributing to the persecution of trans people. Boycott everything Potter.

A Generation Got Told to 'Just Try Harder.' The Neuroscience Just Said 'That Was Never Going to Work. 400 people with ADHD told me what advice destroyed them. The research just said "yeah, we knew."

Yes, it’s a Substack article. It may also be the best ADHD article I’ve ever read. If it might help someone I’m willing to put it out there.

Donate to Help Matthew Graduate From MIT, organized by Irene Dong Hello everyone, my name is Irene. I'm writing this on behalf of my friend, fellow MIT studen… Irene Dong needs your support for Help Matthew Graduate From MIT

OK so this young trans gentleman was cut off by his parents, has been unable to get MIT to up his financial aid, has been working multiple jobs while maintaining an A- average AT MIT (no one does this), but he is gonna need to actually pay his tuition to graduate: www.gofundme.com/f/help-matth...

The most disturbing aspect of the AI era is realizing how many people have only ever valued others for their labor and not their humanity.

Can confirm. Being a very senior high performer who went all-in on AI and working on AI projects def does not make anyone immune to layoffs.

Insulet Corporation is hiring: Associate UX Designer - Acton, Mass. or San Diego, CA (Hybrid). Acton, MA, USA. Full-time.

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#DiversifyTech #WomenInTech

:nod-crying-bufo:

The paralympics have been so fun to watch, just amazing athleticism on display

holy shit

having used claude extensively for the past couple of months, i think there is still a lot of value to understanding your code and steering it intentionally. the amount of incidental complexity claude accumulates otherwise (which mostly results in bugs that it can't ever fix reliably) is staggering.

I started a new chapter of my Agentic Engineering Patternw guide about anti-patterns - things NOT to do

So far I only have one: Inflicting unreviewed code on collaborators, aka dumping a thousand line PR without even making sure it works first simonwillison.net/guides/agent...

Ugh I hate interviewing in tech so much, it’s so exhausting and I’m not looking forward to it at all

Uh hello have you forgotten Kix?!? Perfectly round balls! big cereal was sending a message

Now I know how I’ll be spending my funemployment!

Ahhhhhh the FOMO!

It was so amazing to work with you, Brian! Hopefully we both land somewhere great

Block was a really great place to work for the past four months. Unfortunately, I’m part of today’s 40% layoff.

If you need an old hand at web stuff, who has staff software engineering experience at multiple international corporations, hit me up. ❤️

Getting laid off sucks, but I just realized that I have never taken more than 2 weeks off between jobs before, and I’ve always juggled interviews with actually working. So, silver lining, I’ll get a nice long break for the first time ever, and I’ll be able to focus on studying for interviews

That’s the biggest bummer for me, I truly loved working at Square! I loved the amazing people, I was doing really good work, getting great perf reviews. Sadly I guess that isn’t enough these days. Time to join you in retirement maybe

I lucked out that I was able to scavenge amongst my son’s collection for the whole thing, so there are some wacky colors under the surface

Some of them are from before I added the clouds

Happy to share more pictures if that’s helpful!

Hi friends I just got laid off along with 40% of Block. No idea what comes next, but if you have need for a Principal Frontend Engineer hit me up!

THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS. not just in communities, but companies too. I have never in my long career worked with anyone who deliberately *made the choice* to be a “low performer” without curiosity/discipline/agency, it’s always been beaten out of them

Props to @scott.hanselman.com for naming the elephant in the room in big tech.

AI coding tools boost senior engineers but create challenges for juniors who lack context to judge outputs. Cutting junior hiring for near-term gains weakens the future pipeline. We’ll need apprenticeship-style paths.

Oooh this is super exciting to see Container Timing come to life! This will be so helpful for measuring user-triggered page updates!

Accessibility: Yellow, Purple and the Myth of “Accessibility Limits Color Palettes”

I won't have time to debunk the old "yellow is not accessible" myth in my axe-con talk.
But, you are lucky: I already wrote a whole article on how accessibility does NOT limit color choices.
stephaniewalter.design/blog/yellow-...

#Accessibility #AccessibleColors #YellowColor

I say it with the American “k”, but when spell it, I hear Sir Patrick Stewart’s voice in my head so that I remember the ch sound