BREAKING: In just the 16 months since Trump was reelected, the collective fortune of billionaires has grown by $1.96 trillion.
More than half of that growth comes from just the top 15 billionaires, who alone grew their collective wealth by over $1 trillion.
TurboTax and H&R Block spent $7 million lobbying the Trump administration to kill Direct File.
Both companies donated to Trump's 2024 campaign and inauguration committees.
Disney's new CEO, whose pay package is worth nearly $45M, just announced 1,000 layoffs.
Reminder that Disney paid an effective federal income tax rate of ZERO in 2025 and aims to buy back $7B of its own stock in 2026.
This is what corporate greed looks like.
"Being the Human in the Loop" - @kevlin.bsky.social. Typing isn't the bottleneck. Be the driver, not the road. Watch youtu.be/vpYJMr1pJRY
New article where I offer definitions & a mental model how to think about harness engineering as coding agent users. Building blocks at our disposal, dimensions and goals to consider; emerging practices, open questions; and of course, what role do humans play martinfowler.com/articles/har...
Introducing EmDash — the spiritual successor to WordPress
Serverless. TypeScript. Securely sandboxed plugins via Dynamic Workers.
O que acontece quando há governos que acham que devem decidir o que as pessoas podem dizer, ouvir, fazer.
(Quando era miúda e dava esta música, eu achava que a pessoa caía de gatas pelo cansaço de fazer o dito ato, que eu não sabia o que era, e ninguém me explicava)
Trump can always be trusted to say the quiet part out loud because he's too dumb to know what's supposed to be quiet.
The CloseWatcher API landed in Firefox 149, making it easy to listen for platform-specific 'dismiss' signals. Here's how it works:
Offline with no CRDTs?!
At #FOSDEM earlier this month our colleague Alex Feyerke got to introduce local-first pioneers @couchdb.bsky.social and @pouchdb.bsky.social in the @localfirst.bsky.social devroom, a space dedicated to all things sync, P2P and conflict resolution.
📼 Check out Alex’ talk
A personal stereo cassette player from the 1980s that is shaped like a pizza wedge
A landline phone (first introduced in the 1980s) that's shaped like a McDonalds cheeseburger
who did it better
An Oklahoma man tried to talk about a data center coming to his community. Police arrested him when he went a few seconds over his time limit.
www.404media.co/man-opposing...
Local-first Conf is back, and this year Ink & Switch will be hosting a one day "Lab Day" adjacent to the event. See you there!
Seems like corporations can choose not to kneel to power after all
www.anthropic.com/news/stateme...
I am extremely honored, and equally perplexed, that my book has received the Stein Rokkan Prize.
Thank you so much to everyone who helped out with this project along the way. So much of the book is the result of feedback by kind people who took the time to listen and read. Thank you.
Try it, it's one line change:
FROM platformatic/node-caged:25-slim
Same Node.js, same APIs. Just smaller heaps. Keep in mind that this is an experimental feature.
Beautiful chart from 1985 portuguese national TV 🤩
More than 30 years ago, a botched standoff in Idaho and a conflagration at a cult compound in Texas sparked hostility toward federal law enforcement by the right.
Now President Trump is deploying agencies as an armed presidential force of sorts. https://wapo.st/49CyfaX
Got three job rejections in one day so: I am asking for help finding a new full-stack web development job. My website/portfolio is available at casey.kolderup.org. I'm a great team member and I've worked at small startups and medium-sized companies with success working across teams and disciplines.
So someone with inside information on government policy decisions is personally involved with platforms that allow people to bet on government policy decisions?
The corruption is endless.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/u...
I am on the edge of my seat hoping Temporal squeaks into ES2026 as I predicted - it's been a long journey with so much work by so many people inside ECMAscript and out - but developers can start relying on it this year
I want this next generation of software development tools to run on my own computer. Vim and Emacs helped democratize software development and made it accessible. We shouldn't allow this AI wave to take us backwards.
I really hope the open source community can keep pace.
Hello Tim Cook I worked at Tumblr when you gave us 48 hours to get rid of all the consenting, adult boobs. Up all night at your whim, out of the blue. But you're still cool with Twitter and its CSAM and revenge porn and whatever the fuck this is? Why do you even HAVE guidelines?
did what he said and set aside time to read it this weekend, you should too if you’ve not already
youtu.be/3C1Gnxhfok0?...
Been working on this one for a while — it's a little bit of history of a key foundation of internet technology, and a little bit of an explainer about how people _actually_ invent things. This is the amazing (true!) story of how Markdown took over the world. www.anildash.com/2026/01/09/h...
We’re entering the age of AI slop that people believe en masse.
This post is 100% fake and probably AI generated. All made up. Yet massive number of upvotes, views and shares.
Journalist @caseynewton.bsky.social got in touch with the “whistleblower.” The guy faked all “evidence” with AI…
The biggest divide in America today is not between “right” and “left,” or between Republicans and Democrats.
It’s between democracy and oligarchy.
The old labels — “right” and “left” — prevent most people from noticing they’re getting the shaft.
Know the truth.
