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Harry B-L
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Frontend-focussed Sr Software Engineer | Always learning | TS, C#, Go, Python
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haul-pebert.bsky.social
I'm officially a curmudgeon. Here's a rant about the Shadcn component library and how over-complicated its radio buttons are: paulmakeswebsites.com/writing/shad...

(Inspired by this week's work frustrations lol)

#WebDev #CSS #HTML #JavaScript
The Incredible Overcomplexity of the Shadcn Radio Button
Radio buttons are built into web browsers. Why are we using a UI library that wraps another UI library that rebuilds radio buttons from scratch? Why does rendering a radio button require multiple depe...
paulmakeswebsites.com
January 18, 2026 at 6:39 PM
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scott.is
in short: framework-free is great. web components are sick. saving locally is a viable option even for 'finished' products. starting a project thinking about your backend provider before anything else is fucking lame. react is for babies. web technology doesn't have to be complicated.
January 20, 2026 at 1:00 PM
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scott.is
i've built out a little homebrew 'suite' of tools to replace the saas shit i've been using for basic day-to-day shit and honestly i think i've got this 'build a jank proto' tooling nailed right now. here's what coding myself out of endless $9/mo subscriptions taught me about building prototypes.
January 20, 2026 at 12:49 PM
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patak.dev
Woah. jQuery migrated to ESM!
Come on other big libraries! No excuses now.
January 18, 2026 at 6:18 PM
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justinfagnani.com
jQuery support standard JS modules. jQuery!

If they can do it, other big libraries can do it too.

blog.jquery.com/2026/01/17/j...
jQuery 4.0.0 | Official jQuery Blog
jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library
blog.jquery.com
January 18, 2026 at 5:55 PM
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fasterthanli.me
conversation I had today:
- is it a nonprofit?
- …not on purpose, no
January 15, 2026 at 8:56 PM
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iamreddave.bsky.social
Cheeseburgers are not natural.
My Graph is up on Reddit www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeau...
January 8, 2026 at 10:08 AM
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kettanaito.com
Check out this great write-up about visual regression testing in Playwright 👇

It features a neat built-in API I've learned about recently myself.
patricktree.me Patrick Kerschbaum @patricktree.me · 8d
Today, I'm writing about the flakiness of visual regression tests due to rendering differences across machines, and how I made the snapshots stable with Playwright Server in Docker
image showing the same text rendered by MacOS and Ubuntu, and a "difference image" highlighting the differences
January 13, 2026 at 3:11 PM
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hikikomorphism.bsky.social
If you can substitute "hungry ghost trapped in a jar" for "AI" in a sentence it's probably a valid use case for LLMs. Take "I have a bunch of hungry ghosts in jars, they mainly write SQL queries for me". Sure. Reasonable use case.

"My girlfriend is a hungry ghost I trapped in a jar"? No. Deranged.
August 13, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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moctezumaiii.bsky.social
I think the AI field is gonna need better PR than "ethical necromancy"
August 13, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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patak.dev
The contrast in discourse between the tailwind funding debacle and this report from @igalia.com is bleak. I would love to see 100 threads and YouTube videos about it, too. If you care about the future of the web and open source sustainability, these are the stories we should talk about.
patak.dev patak @patak.dev · 8d
64% of WebKit non-Apple contributions, 20% of Chromium non-Google, 27% of Servo, 39% of test262, and it goes on.

And doing all this as a worker-owned, employee-run cooperative. The world would be a very different place if companies like Igalia were the norm rather than the exception in tech.
igalia.com Igalia @igalia.com · 8d
We analyzed Igalia's contributions to some of our favorite open-source projects on the web and elsewhere and summarized them in this blog post! Check it out: www.igalia.com/2026/01/05/D...
January 13, 2026 at 8:56 AM
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patak.dev
the wonderful feeling of seeing your peers blossom
January 13, 2026 at 7:57 AM
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strateture.bsky.social
I don't know when this happened, but I sure am happy that I learned about it before putting the new event page online. Thanks for the hint, @kevinpowell.co and @piccalil.li!
www.alanwsmith.com/en/37/wa/jz/...
Fix Your robots.txt or Your Site Disappears from Google
a post from alan w. smith
www.alanwsmith.com
January 11, 2026 at 12:58 AM
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chriscoyier.net
I like this setting for VS Code from Ben Frain. JUST show the vertical line for the current indentation, not all of them

```
"workbench.colorCustomizations": {
"editorIndentGuide.background1": "#00000001",
"editorIndentGuide.activeBackground1": "#ff9900"
}
```

benfrain.com/vs-code-high...
January 10, 2026 at 5:19 PM
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reactrouter.com
We just published 6 CVEs identifying security vulnerabilities in React Router and Remix v2

We recommend updating to the latest appropriate versions:

React Router v7 -- 7.12.0
React Router v6 -- 6.30.3
Remix v2 -- 2.17.2

Details, links, and package ranges are listed below
January 8, 2026 at 8:41 PM
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bell.bz
JavaScript
leftoutside.bsky.social Left Outside @leftoutside.bsky.social · 16d
What's your favourite thing that's been made by an absolute cunt?
January 5, 2026 at 8:07 PM
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bell.bz
Microslop
vxundergroundre.bsky.social vx-underground (automated mirror) @vxundergroundre.bsky.social · 15d
Microsoft is so fucking stupid.

Microsoft renamed Microsoft Office to Microsoft 365 Copilot App

I'm not joking
January 6, 2026 at 8:25 AM
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esghound.com
Elon Musk chatbot repeatedly making CSAM on demand should be one of the single biggest stories right now and it's effectively a collective shrug instead
Ashley St. Clair @stclairashley Just saw a photo that Grok produced of a child no older than four years old in which it took off her dress, put her in a bikini + added what is intended to be semen. ChatGPT does not do this. Gemini does not do this. Another girl who appears to be just 11 or 12 with a brain tumor, Grok removed her shirt completely. Stating that the people producing the prompts are the only ones responsible puts an undue burden on victims, most of which have no idea this is happening. This problem + exploitation of children could be fixed in a matter of minutes by the MechaHitler team.
January 5, 2026 at 10:31 AM
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zoegrunewald.bsky.social
There are MANY issues with Starmer’s messaging. But I always thought this govts best and easiest bet was to become THE government of the rules and fair play. Led by a former lawyer, lean into fairness, equality, law and order, justice for workers, respect for international law.
January 5, 2026 at 9:01 AM
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danielsohege.bsky.social
For many of those seeking asylum a mobile phone isn't just a lifeline to keep in contact with loved ones, it's an essential resource in accessing information and resources. State mandated theft is another example of Labour's dehumanisation of people seeking safety
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
UK’s plans to seize asylum seekers’ phones condemned by campaigners
People who are sent to Manston processing centre will be eligible for searches for electronic devices from Monday
www.theguardian.com
January 5, 2026 at 7:32 AM
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zackpolanski.bsky.social
Darren Jones saying repeatedly the Labour Government won't comment on a hypothetical.

It's not hypothetical - Trump is saying very loudly repeatedly what he's done and boasting about it.

And yet the UK Government won't even say it's a breach of international rules. Shameful.
January 5, 2026 at 8:10 AM
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astrokatie.com
For all that the media has spent years freaking out about what social media does to our brains, I don’t understand why there appears to be little effort to grapple with the fact that these chatbots are, for some not insignificant portion of the population, literally psychosis machines
January 4, 2026 at 1:32 PM
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kuntieplopkins.bsky.social
This is illegal, I have emailed my MP & reported him to the police. I suggest you do the same.

www.thenational.scot/news/2573810...
Tommy Robinson calls on United States to invade UK after Venezuela attack
TOMMY Robinson has called on Donald Trump to invade and “free” the UK from the “tyrannical dictator” Keir Starmer following the United…
www.thenational.scot
January 4, 2026 at 3:37 PM
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zackpolanski.bsky.social
Starmer and Farage both drape themselves in flags but once again it's really clear where their loyalty really is.

It's Trump first. They will always be on the side of the super rich and powerful - no matter how heinous the crime.

This is not patriotism. It's subservience.
January 3, 2026 at 9:35 PM
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zackpolanski.bsky.social
The PM and Foreign Secretary should be condemning this illegal strike and breach of international human rights law.

After years of arming a genocide and worshipping the “special relationship”, Trump now believes he can act with impunity.
davidleavitt.bsky.social David Leavitt @davidleavitt.bsky.social · 18d
Trump just kidnapped President Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela
January 3, 2026 at 11:27 AM