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When I worked at IBM, at one point I was working on a feature to optimise AIX using dynamic cacheing. The feature did the literal opposite of what it was meant to -- slowed things down.
It still got shipped, because that was the target. It was just turned off and undocumented.
It still got shipped, because that was the target. It was just turned off and undocumented.
I see it everywhere in my current company. People are pushed to deliver more and more, especially productivity tools that don't go to production that no one actually cares about. 99% of those are vibe coded bullshit that doesn't work, but ticks off a task on a goal sheet for when bonuses are paid.
December 21, 2025 at 11:49 AM
When I worked at IBM, at one point I was working on a feature to optimise AIX using dynamic cacheing. The feature did the literal opposite of what it was meant to -- slowed things down.
It still got shipped, because that was the target. It was just turned off and undocumented.
It still got shipped, because that was the target. It was just turned off and undocumented.
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"If you're not seeing a jump in productivity, you must be working in a niche that's outside the model's training data distribution"
Like well-written code, for example.
Like well-written code, for example.
December 15, 2025 at 6:01 AM
"If you're not seeing a jump in productivity, you must be working in a niche that's outside the model's training data distribution"
Like well-written code, for example.
Like well-written code, for example.
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i know a lot of the javascript community thinks that people who complain about frontend complexity are just being cynical but it turns out that caking on layer upon layer of abstractions can have real-world consequences
Researchers have found two new vulnerabilities in React Server Components while attempting to exploit the patches last week.
These are new issues, separate from the critical CVE last week. The patch for React2Shell remains effective for the Remote Code Execution exploit.
These are new issues, separate from the critical CVE last week. The patch for React2Shell remains effective for the Remote Code Execution exploit.
December 11, 2025 at 10:51 PM
i know a lot of the javascript community thinks that people who complain about frontend complexity are just being cynical but it turns out that caking on layer upon layer of abstractions can have real-world consequences
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”What’s wrong with build tools? Other languages are compiled!”
Yes, but their compiler is official and always there.
The #JS ecosystem has devolved into a state where abstraction, the most fundamental software engineering concept, has been outsourced to third party tooling.
*That’s* the problem.
Yes, but their compiler is official and always there.
The #JS ecosystem has devolved into a state where abstraction, the most fundamental software engineering concept, has been outsourced to third party tooling.
*That’s* the problem.
December 12, 2025 at 1:25 AM
”What’s wrong with build tools? Other languages are compiled!”
Yes, but their compiler is official and always there.
The #JS ecosystem has devolved into a state where abstraction, the most fundamental software engineering concept, has been outsourced to third party tooling.
*That’s* the problem.
Yes, but their compiler is official and always there.
The #JS ecosystem has devolved into a state where abstraction, the most fundamental software engineering concept, has been outsourced to third party tooling.
*That’s* the problem.
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When you don’t code often, it’s easy to forget how useful @polypane.app is for web development. It highlights issues that might get overlooked on a first pass, and it makes testing and debugging a piece of cake. Forever grateful for your effort, @kilianvalkhof.com!
November 28, 2025 at 8:55 AM
When you don’t code often, it’s easy to forget how useful @polypane.app is for web development. It highlights issues that might get overlooked on a first pass, and it makes testing and debugging a piece of cake. Forever grateful for your effort, @kilianvalkhof.com!
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Build responsive and accessible websites in half the time? Yes please. 🙋♀️
Polypane is the browser built for developers.
✅ Sync scrolling & interactions
✅ 80+ accessibility tests
✅ Social media previews
Get it for *22% off* this week only:
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Polypane is the browser built for developers.
✅ Sync scrolling & interactions
✅ 80+ accessibility tests
✅ Social media previews
Get it for *22% off* this week only:
👉 polypane.app/black-friday/
Polypane Black Friday | Polypane
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polypane.app
November 26, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Build responsive and accessible websites in half the time? Yes please. 🙋♀️
Polypane is the browser built for developers.
✅ Sync scrolling & interactions
✅ 80+ accessibility tests
✅ Social media previews
Get it for *22% off* this week only:
👉 polypane.app/black-friday/
Polypane is the browser built for developers.
✅ Sync scrolling & interactions
✅ 80+ accessibility tests
✅ Social media previews
Get it for *22% off* this week only:
👉 polypane.app/black-friday/
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What's causing the Calendly booking page to load slowly sometimes?
We've investigate in our latest blog post: www.debugbear.com/blog/calendl...
We've investigate in our latest blog post: www.debugbear.com/blog/calendl...
November 26, 2025 at 3:55 PM
What's causing the Calendly booking page to load slowly sometimes?
We've investigate in our latest blog post: www.debugbear.com/blog/calendl...
We've investigate in our latest blog post: www.debugbear.com/blog/calendl...
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In summary and in conclusion: every Vercel is a market failure.
November 25, 2025 at 12:46 AM
In summary and in conclusion: every Vercel is a market failure.
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If your immediate response is to suggest data pipes are fatter, video is to blame, images must be the highest resolution possible, font files are doing this, etc., then you might not understand who you’re actually serving and why this is a concern.
bsky.app/profile/did:...
bsky.app/profile/did:...
How broken is today's frontend culture?
A friend points out that the median *mobile* page is now larger than a copy of DOOM (2.6 MiB vs. 2.48 MiB), the 75th percentile page is more than 2 DOOMs, and the P90 mobile page is 4.5x the size of DOOM:
httparchive.org/reports/page...
A friend points out that the median *mobile* page is now larger than a copy of DOOM (2.6 MiB vs. 2.48 MiB), the 75th percentile page is more than 2 DOOMs, and the P90 mobile page is 4.5x the size of DOOM:
httparchive.org/reports/page...
HTTP Archive: Page Weight
This report tracks the size and quantity of many popular web page resources. Sizes represent the number of bytes sent over the network, which may be compressed.
httparchive.org
November 24, 2025 at 12:11 AM
If your immediate response is to suggest data pipes are fatter, video is to blame, images must be the highest resolution possible, font files are doing this, etc., then you might not understand who you’re actually serving and why this is a concern.
bsky.app/profile/did:...
bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Just ran into a group of kids in the park who were clearly rollin’ and they were discussing… AI. I’ve never been more depressed.
If this is what you’re gonna do when you do drugs please don’t do drugs.
If this is what you’re gonna do when you do drugs please don’t do drugs.
November 24, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Just ran into a group of kids in the park who were clearly rollin’ and they were discussing… AI. I’ve never been more depressed.
If this is what you’re gonna do when you do drugs please don’t do drugs.
If this is what you’re gonna do when you do drugs please don’t do drugs.
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The Servo project has defined sponsorship tiers for organizations and individuals donating money to the project. Contact us at [email protected] if you are interested. servo.org/blog/2025/11...
Servo Sponsorship Tiers - Servo aims to empower developers with a lightweight, high-performance alternative for embedding web technologies in applications.
The Servo project has defined sponsorship tiers for organizations and individuals donating money to the project.
servo.org
November 21, 2025 at 6:15 AM
The Servo project has defined sponsorship tiers for organizations and individuals donating money to the project. Contact us at [email protected] if you are interested. servo.org/blog/2025/11...
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Modularity is the key to fast feedback cycles, short delivery lead times, reliable products and a sustainable pace of innovation.
Apart from that, it's not very important, really.
codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/11/20/m...
Apart from that, it's not very important, really.
codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/11/20/m...
Modular Design: The Secret Sauce
In pretty much every Codemanship training course, I try to stress the fundamental importance of modular design in software development. When we fail to separate the different concerns in our design…
codemanship.wordpress.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Modularity is the key to fast feedback cycles, short delivery lead times, reliable products and a sustainable pace of innovation.
Apart from that, it's not very important, really.
codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/11/20/m...
Apart from that, it's not very important, really.
codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/11/20/m...
Just did some tweaks of k8s resource requests and went down from 24 nodes to just 9. I deserve cold beer tonight.
November 19, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Just did some tweaks of k8s resource requests and went down from 24 nodes to just 9. I deserve cold beer tonight.
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We need to stop referring to AI as a tool. A tool is something that helps you solve a problem or complete a task. AI creates more problems than it solves. It’s more virus than tool. Every time we call it a tool we’re insulting hammers and guillotines, which actually solve problems.
November 14, 2025 at 5:29 PM
We need to stop referring to AI as a tool. A tool is something that helps you solve a problem or complete a task. AI creates more problems than it solves. It’s more virus than tool. Every time we call it a tool we’re insulting hammers and guillotines, which actually solve problems.
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"Most shareholders can sell their stocks far more easily than most employees can find another job. In every substantive sense, employees of a company take more risks than do the shareholders. Also their contributions of knowledge, skills, and entrepreneurship are typically more important…"
From a banger paper written in the wake of Enron. The last thing Ghoshal wrote before he died.
20 years later, spot on. Link is PDF.
www.corporation2020.org/documents/Re...
20 years later, spot on. Link is PDF.
www.corporation2020.org/documents/Re...
October 28, 2025 at 2:24 AM
"Most shareholders can sell their stocks far more easily than most employees can find another job. In every substantive sense, employees of a company take more risks than do the shareholders. Also their contributions of knowledge, skills, and entrepreneurship are typically more important…"
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JavaScript top-level await is no longer considered 'baseline' due to a pretty big Safari bug caniuse.com/mdn-javascri...
The module graph fails in cases where two modules import a third at the same time. Demo: random-stuff.jakearchibald.com/bug-repros/t...
It's best to avoid the feature for now 😔
The module graph fails in cases where two modules import a third at the same time. Demo: random-stuff.jakearchibald.com/bug-repros/t...
It's best to avoid the feature for now 😔
JavaScript operator: await: Use at module top level | Can I use... Support tables for HTML5, CSS3, etc
caniuse.com
October 26, 2025 at 8:17 PM
JavaScript top-level await is no longer considered 'baseline' due to a pretty big Safari bug caniuse.com/mdn-javascri...
The module graph fails in cases where two modules import a third at the same time. Demo: random-stuff.jakearchibald.com/bug-repros/t...
It's best to avoid the feature for now 😔
The module graph fails in cases where two modules import a third at the same time. Demo: random-stuff.jakearchibald.com/bug-repros/t...
It's best to avoid the feature for now 😔
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reading slaughterhouse 5 for the first time and i was absolutely knocked senseless by this passage, which is so true and relevant that it feels like it was pulled from a history book
October 26, 2025 at 6:01 PM
reading slaughterhouse 5 for the first time and i was absolutely knocked senseless by this passage, which is so true and relevant that it feels like it was pulled from a history book
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ChatGPT’s new Atlas browser doesn’t just see what you read — it remembers it.
@eff.org’s Lena Cohen showed me it even logged “memories” of her looking for *abortion care* and her doctor’s name. Out-surveils even Chrome.
My @washingtonpost.com column: wapo.st/49bOcVC
@eff.org’s Lena Cohen showed me it even logged “memories” of her looking for *abortion care* and her doctor’s name. Out-surveils even Chrome.
My @washingtonpost.com column: wapo.st/49bOcVC
Column | ChatGPT just came out with its own web browser. Use it with caution.
OpenAI’s Atlas promises AI-powered convenience. The price? Letting ChatGPT track and store “memories” of what you do online.
wapo.st
October 22, 2025 at 4:19 PM
ChatGPT’s new Atlas browser doesn’t just see what you read — it remembers it.
@eff.org’s Lena Cohen showed me it even logged “memories” of her looking for *abortion care* and her doctor’s name. Out-surveils even Chrome.
My @washingtonpost.com column: wapo.st/49bOcVC
@eff.org’s Lena Cohen showed me it even logged “memories” of her looking for *abortion care* and her doctor’s name. Out-surveils even Chrome.
My @washingtonpost.com column: wapo.st/49bOcVC
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"AI" is not a "normal technology". it is a *political project*. its proponents are extremely explicit about their goals with it. the people claiming we should just treat this political project as "normal technology" are shilling.
October 22, 2025 at 12:40 AM
"AI" is not a "normal technology". it is a *political project*. its proponents are extremely explicit about their goals with it. the people claiming we should just treat this political project as "normal technology" are shilling.
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This hits a lot of the notes I've been shouting from the rooftops: the frictionlessness of both producing and consuming slop, and the value of labor as friction that lets us slow down and think. Rather than "unlocking creativity" it's rendering our collective creativity down into a big vat of slop.
Hi. I wrote an essay about AI slop: How it feels like an invasive species for the internet. How its boosters describe building a future that’s devoid of craft. How frictionlessness can be nihilistic & how this stuff seems to leach part of our shared humanity out of the world. I hope you'll read it.
AI’s Invasive Species
The slop is winning.
www.theatlantic.com
October 21, 2025 at 12:55 PM
This hits a lot of the notes I've been shouting from the rooftops: the frictionlessness of both producing and consuming slop, and the value of labor as friction that lets us slow down and think. Rather than "unlocking creativity" it's rendering our collective creativity down into a big vat of slop.
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the aws outage should be evidence that running half the internet on a single company's servers is a terrible idea but i fear nothing will change
October 20, 2025 at 4:09 PM
the aws outage should be evidence that running half the internet on a single company's servers is a terrible idea but i fear nothing will change
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The main achievement of the tech industry has been increasing the flow of money from people who make or do things to people who already have more money than they could spend in a hundred lifetimes
“Average musician makes $12 a month on Spotify. The fact that they are not even able to sell a record and it’s taken from them by rich motherfuckers on streaming platforms who get paid royally by record labels,Ticketmaster, merch companies. They’re all fucking getting paid, except for the musician.”
Garbage’s Shirley Manson Speaks Out Against Music Industry Economics: “This Is An Alarm Call”
Just before they kicked off their current run of dates, the ’90s alt-rock greats Garbage announced that it would be their final North American headline tour. When the band played at Denver’s Mission B...
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October 19, 2025 at 4:36 PM
The main achievement of the tech industry has been increasing the flow of money from people who make or do things to people who already have more money than they could spend in a hundred lifetimes
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There is a lot of chatter about the CSS resets recently. Here is my take. Enjoy 🫶
“The CSS Reset, again”
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#css
There is a lot of chatter about the CSS resets recently. Here is my take. Enjoy 🫶
“The CSS Reset, again”
pawelgrzybek.com/the-css-rese...
#css
The CSS Reset, again | pawelgrzybek.com
Apparently you are not a real CSS dev if you don’t maintain your own CSS reset. Challenge accepted! Not a typical reset, but for sure a bunch of opinions.
pawelgrzybek.com
October 18, 2025 at 1:00 PM
✨ New post
There is a lot of chatter about the CSS resets recently. Here is my take. Enjoy 🫶
“The CSS Reset, again”
pawelgrzybek.com/the-css-rese...
#css
There is a lot of chatter about the CSS resets recently. Here is my take. Enjoy 🫶
“The CSS Reset, again”
pawelgrzybek.com/the-css-rese...
#css
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I dug into progressive image rendering and found a bunch of common assumptions aren't quite true.
➡️ JPEG & WebP progressive-renders worse in Safari
➡️ AVIF _does_ support progressive
➡️ But JPEG XL in Safari doesn't
➡️ JPEG XL decodes much slower than AVIF
⬇️ and more
jakearchibald.com/2025/present...
➡️ JPEG & WebP progressive-renders worse in Safari
➡️ AVIF _does_ support progressive
➡️ But JPEG XL in Safari doesn't
➡️ JPEG XL decodes much slower than AVIF
⬇️ and more
jakearchibald.com/2025/present...
The present and potential future of progressive image rendering
Exploring progressive image rendering across JPEG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, and JPEG XL.
jakearchibald.com
October 16, 2025 at 10:16 AM
I dug into progressive image rendering and found a bunch of common assumptions aren't quite true.
➡️ JPEG & WebP progressive-renders worse in Safari
➡️ AVIF _does_ support progressive
➡️ But JPEG XL in Safari doesn't
➡️ JPEG XL decodes much slower than AVIF
⬇️ and more
jakearchibald.com/2025/present...
➡️ JPEG & WebP progressive-renders worse in Safari
➡️ AVIF _does_ support progressive
➡️ But JPEG XL in Safari doesn't
➡️ JPEG XL decodes much slower than AVIF
⬇️ and more
jakearchibald.com/2025/present...