An absolute banger of an article from Ethan Marcotte… I think it’s long past time I start discussing “artificial intelligence” (“AI”) as a failed technology. Specifically, that large language models (LLMs) have repeatedly and consistently failed to demonstrate value to anyone other than their investors and shareholders. The technology is a failure, and I’d like to invite you to join me in treating it as such. If I tried to pull out my favorite bits and comment on them, I’d be literally quoting the whole article.

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A call to action. Yelling into the void. Written out of ❤️ in response to hate.

Something I’ve seeing more and more of with my clients is code that’s repeated in multiple places, but written in a way that it has to be manually duplicated every time. It’s particularly prevalent in JS-heavy apps. Let’s dig in! HTML Components Sometimes, it’s two UI components that do the same thing, but with minor differences. For example, imagine A/B testing two different landing pages, with different heading text, but everything else is the same.

While working on Kelp, my UI library for people who love HTML, I learned something new-to-me: Setting overflow: hidden prevents the position: sticky property from working. It doesn’t even matter if the hidden overflow is in the scroll direction. Setting overflow-x: hidden to prevent horizontal scroll prevents sticky headers from sticky with vertical scrolling. I also learned that overflow: clip solves this very problem! The overflow: clip property produces the same visual effect as overflow: hidden.

Yesterday, I received this unsolicited email from a basic white dude named Stephen… Having your second identity on your home page be a “disorder” is cringe and not professional. Maybe your therapist tells you to announce your “disability”, and maybe this is normal within your friend group, but outside of these two slivers of society, that was created in the last 10 years for some really bad reasons, others with many other life experiences see this use of ADHD as a cry for pity and/or a use of victimhood to excuse yourself from being a white male with lots of advantages and abilities.