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I've been hearing from more and more friends who are having AI forced upon them and rammed down their throats at work. Goals and bonuses tied to using AI at work AI working groups 1x1 meetings where "how are you using AI in your work right now" is .. ...

Today is Indigenous Peoples' Day) here in the United States. I am not Indigenous, but as a white person living on stolen land, I have a strong obligation to learn more about the original caretakers of the places I call home. Just last week, I learned ...

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 .. ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 good advice all the time, but if you live in the US, where the US government just shut down, even more so. It's highly likely that a lot of essential services (ones that provide food to low income folks and aid to people with disabilities) .. ...

In my consulting work, I've worked with a wide range of developer-focused tools. WordPress, React, Vue, Next, HTMX, PHP, Python, Rails, Java, .NET, a variety of static site generators, and more. I can pretty confidently state that modern tools ...

For years, I've been saying that JavaScript is the CO2 of the web. On Saturday, Cory Doctorow described AI as modern asbestos, and I'm blown away by just how accurate of a description that is. AI cannot do your job, but an AI salesman can 100% ...

My friend Sam just released a new video about things you can do in your every day life to resist fascism and systems of oppression. Some quick notes from my first watch There's a scale of resistance. Most folks start at step 1. Ideally, you work your ...