Daniel Saunders
@daniel-saunders.com
Designer for the web / reader of tomes / amateur. Los Angeles. He/him. Omnia sunt communia.
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Daniel Saunders
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· Jul 18
Daniel Saunders • Designer & Developer in LA
The personal site of designer, front-end developer, reader, and writer Daniel Saunders.
daniel-saunders.com
Please accept this interruption in your doom-scrolling and allow me to share a new redesign of my personal website, lovingly crafted with Astro, using fonts and a layout that I'm pretty excited about. Might even lead to me writing more than one post a year! daniel-saunders.com
Expropriate the trillionaire infants while they're helpless
"At least $5.9 trillion will be inherited by billionaire children over the next 15 years, the bank calculates."
Billionaires are inheriting record levels of wealth, UBS report finds reut.rs/3MFJWnW
December 4, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Expropriate the trillionaire infants while they're helpless
Chat what is rise and grind hyperproductivity capitalism as a personality
“When participants used ChatGPT to draft essays, brain scans revealed a 47% drop in neural connectivity across regions associated with memory, language, & critical reasoning.
Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage.”🧪
Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage.”🧪
December 4, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Chat what is rise and grind hyperproductivity capitalism as a personality
Lo, he comes on AWS descending
December 3, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Lo, he comes on AWS descending
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Happy Tuesday! Have some pie for breakfast, you deserve it. 🥧 ☕ 🦉
![SURE, THERAPY IS NICE, BUT HAVE YOU EVER TRIED:
[Picture of cherry pie] Giving yourself an extra little treat
[Laura Palmer screaming] Screaming so loud it echoes across dimensions
[Picture of Nadine] Remembering who TF you are]
[Dale Cooper] A 3 coffee day
[Pine trees] Bonding with the spirits in the trees
(BOB holding a cup] Drinking more water](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tcvpjkdcsdotgvcgdf6epyoe/bafkreidx3qi3e3zahnq67dev5x7y76e23qx6qixjn3bgb5y35odrtszxae@jpeg)
December 2, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Happy Tuesday! Have some pie for breakfast, you deserve it. 🥧 ☕ 🦉
Time to procrastinate important end of the year tasks (at least for 3 days) by naively brute forcing algorithms and data structures I have never studied! But hey a solve is a solve
I've completed "Secret Entrance" - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/1
I've completed "Secret Entrance" - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/1
Day 1 - Advent of Code 2025
adventofcode.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Time to procrastinate important end of the year tasks (at least for 3 days) by naively brute forcing algorithms and data structures I have never studied! But hey a solve is a solve
I've completed "Secret Entrance" - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/1
I've completed "Secret Entrance" - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/1
Pedantry at its fineëst
When a cancelled performer reënters the culture, we expect them to offer us a great work, channelling their newfound clarity into the finest art they’ve ever made. With his new comedy show and début novel, has Louis C.K. met the bar?
www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
Louis C.K.’s Next Chapter
In a new standup special, and a début novel, the comedian navigates murky, post-#MeToo terrain: not quite exiled, not quite welcomed back.
www.newyorker.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Pedantry at its fineëst
While you all were simping for turkey, we were reveling in the glories of Levantine Thanksgiving
November 28, 2025 at 4:23 PM
While you all were simping for turkey, we were reveling in the glories of Levantine Thanksgiving
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A bit of a vulnerable post by me but we need your help to get us through what has been a more difficult period than 2020.
It would be really appreciated if you could read and share in your networks too 💛
bell.bz/its-been-a-v...
It would be really appreciated if you could read and share in your networks too 💛
bell.bz/its-been-a-v...
It’s been a very hard year - Andy Bell
Unlike a lot of places in tech, my company, Set Studio/Piccalilli has no outside funding. Bootstrapped is what the LinkedIn people say, I think. It’s been a hard year this year. A very hard year...
bell.bz
November 27, 2025 at 4:23 PM
A bit of a vulnerable post by me but we need your help to get us through what has been a more difficult period than 2020.
It would be really appreciated if you could read and share in your networks too 💛
bell.bz/its-been-a-v...
It would be really appreciated if you could read and share in your networks too 💛
bell.bz/its-been-a-v...
I love it when normal people make fun of tech/web stuff, even though it's what I do. Because usually they are right, most of it is cringe and full of itself
November 26, 2025 at 3:05 PM
I love it when normal people make fun of tech/web stuff, even though it's what I do. Because usually they are right, most of it is cringe and full of itself
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he’s the creator of Flask. he’s literally the creator of Django. you dipshits he invented Zoop. better watch how you talk to the actual inventor of Peebo
Wow 80% bad-faith responses, and people lecturing the creator of Flask here and the creator of Django/datasette in the comments on why AI is useless for software engineering...
Is this platform still massively against AI or has it moved more towards acceptance?
November 26, 2025 at 1:17 PM
he’s the creator of Flask. he’s literally the creator of Django. you dipshits he invented Zoop. better watch how you talk to the actual inventor of Peebo
Whether or not this feature is being used for AI, it sure has made me way lazier in what I let in and keep around in my email.
I just turned it off, which removes the multi-inbox auto sort thing, and what was 10 unread emails jumped to 19K 😳
I just turned it off, which removes the multi-inbox auto sort thing, and what was 10 unread emails jumped to 19K 😳
November 26, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Whether or not this feature is being used for AI, it sure has made me way lazier in what I let in and keep around in my email.
I just turned it off, which removes the multi-inbox auto sort thing, and what was 10 unread emails jumped to 19K 😳
I just turned it off, which removes the multi-inbox auto sort thing, and what was 10 unread emails jumped to 19K 😳
People are rightfully dunking on this, but "Economist writer thinking capitalism is synonymous with human nature and not a historically contextual mode of production" is like their whole thing isn't it
November 24, 2025 at 5:32 PM
People are rightfully dunking on this, but "Economist writer thinking capitalism is synonymous with human nature and not a historically contextual mode of production" is like their whole thing isn't it
The 20 year olds in this article are like "Orthodoxy is so masculine bro" and they converted because they got scared of a woman preaching at a Methodist church
“Orthodox Church Pews Are Overflowing With Converts”, exaggeration from beginning to end www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/u...
Orthodox Church Pews Are Overflowing With Converts
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:09 PM
The 20 year olds in this article are like "Orthodoxy is so masculine bro" and they converted because they got scared of a woman preaching at a Methodist church
Youtube Music's "Forgotten Favorites" list will literally be one of my most-listened-to albums of all time and something new I added two weeks ago
November 19, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Youtube Music's "Forgotten Favorites" list will literally be one of my most-listened-to albums of all time and something new I added two weeks ago
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Can we fix this problem that did not happen with something that does not exist?
November 6, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Can we fix this problem that did not happen with something that does not exist?
I love that they used the Yuri Gagarin "GLORY" poster like it's not the coolest fucking image ever.
Well done, New York!!
Well done, New York!!
November 5, 2025 at 3:46 AM
I love that they used the Yuri Gagarin "GLORY" poster like it's not the coolest fucking image ever.
Well done, New York!!
Well done, New York!!
As a true Angeleno, I have waited until game 7 of the World Series to start caring. (I hope the Jays win so we don't get 24 hours of fireworks!)
November 1, 2025 at 7:29 PM
As a true Angeleno, I have waited until game 7 of the World Series to start caring. (I hope the Jays win so we don't get 24 hours of fireworks!)
I shocked myself by unexpectedly beating Silksong. I honestly had no idea I was on the final boss
November 1, 2025 at 7:09 PM
I shocked myself by unexpectedly beating Silksong. I honestly had no idea I was on the final boss
You mean the insolent, emotionally stunted men who have made careers out of trolling their own communities are increasingly comfortable showing their true fascist colors since Jan 2025? What a surprise
Just in case you were wondering, Mr. Tailwind CSS himself is all cool with the fashy vibe. (This comes as no surprise to anyone paying any attention for the last several years…he's always palling around with best buddy DHH.)
October 2, 2025 at 7:35 PM
You mean the insolent, emotionally stunted men who have made careers out of trolling their own communities are increasingly comfortable showing their true fascist colors since Jan 2025? What a surprise
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HITLER
CONCERNS
what are you people doing dude
CONCERNS
what are you people doing dude
Microsoft is cautiously onboarding Grok 4 following Hitler concerns
Microsoft is cautiously onboarding Grok 4 following Hitler concerns
Grok 4 is going into private preview, for now
buff.ly
August 7, 2025 at 4:15 PM
HITLER
CONCERNS
what are you people doing dude
CONCERNS
what are you people doing dude
We are rapidly approaching the Luddite uprising / Butlerian Jihad for AI because the grifters peddling it are transparently contemptuous of actual skilled labor. You think people who have invested their whole lives in a profession are just going to walk away?
man anxiously, desperately trying to sell snake oil insists that the people who refuse to drink snake oil are the real weirdos www.businessinsider.com/github-ceo-d...
GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out.
Thomas Dohmke wrote that humans are often resistant to change. He said that's okay, but these people should probably find another profession.
www.businessinsider.com
August 6, 2025 at 5:49 PM
We are rapidly approaching the Luddite uprising / Butlerian Jihad for AI because the grifters peddling it are transparently contemptuous of actual skilled labor. You think people who have invested their whole lives in a profession are just going to walk away?
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Anyway, when all of this started, I kept saying that you have to always look at these new technologies through the contempt that the tech world has for labor, and their campaign to destroy anything they can get their hands on for a bit more money. Human deskilling, not flourishing, is their goal.
August 3, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Anyway, when all of this started, I kept saying that you have to always look at these new technologies through the contempt that the tech world has for labor, and their campaign to destroy anything they can get their hands on for a bit more money. Human deskilling, not flourishing, is their goal.
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Niemöller was asked by his concentration camp cellmate why he had ever supported Hitler and the Nazis. Reportedly, this is what he had to say for himself:
August 3, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Niemöller was asked by his concentration camp cellmate why he had ever supported Hitler and the Nazis. Reportedly, this is what he had to say for himself:
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I actually think that it is fine for the left to say that actually, biologically essentialist views are not a project that we are interested in engaging seriously with, and that is the case both for race essentialism and sex/gender essentialism.
August 1, 2025 at 11:17 PM
I actually think that it is fine for the left to say that actually, biologically essentialist views are not a project that we are interested in engaging seriously with, and that is the case both for race essentialism and sex/gender essentialism.