dbushell.com (notes)

Blake fears: I have heightened fears about being replaceable or less valuable in my job.

Rather, I became a physicist to stare at large databases of histograms produced by a Lovecraftian-autocomplete of dubious correctness and say “yeah that’s probably ok I guess” to add to humanity’s knowledge frontier.

I updated my static search fallback to use the no-AI version of DuckDuckGo (sigh).

TetraLogical have released an Accessible Components Library.

Origami (Weird Web October) by Dan Q is really cool!

It’s official, Deno is as dead as a dodo.

Kilian Valkhof would like to have a universal pseudo selector in CSS and so would I.

The “Declarative Partial Updates” that Dave Rupert writes about in “Recursion is DEAD and HTML killed it” have me intrigued.

I receive plenty of email harassment.

“The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, [web developers are surveyed,] leaving memories that become legend.

brew uninstall deno If you’re reading this my website is now built and deployed with Node.

It’s safe to say that Apple broke copy/paste on macOS 27.

I don’t mean to immediately renege my plan to largely ignore AI stuff but “The AI Artist Paradox” by Heydon is solid logic I appreciate.

My latest post “Shin honkaku” has a fancy new typographic header.

A few people suggested Radicle so I listed it as a GitHub alternative.

I’m considering if I should replace my AI policy with simple: “No, never.”

The plan was to read Seishi Yokomizo but two different authors caught my attention: The Moai Island Puzzle - Alice Arisugawa The Devotion of Suspect X - Keigo Higashino Moai Island was great.

Let me make it clear: without people at the top of their game sharing their experience and knowledge — regardless of whatever “game changing” technology is in place — we are pulling up the ladders and committing our industry to stagnation and death.

Apple’s daily harassment beat me into submission.

Not long ago I was fooled into thinking Digital Ocean had done right by CSS-Tricks.

Aha!

Three reasons why “AI” companies like Anthropic are fearmongering: It’s free advertising.

I finished the two remaining Yukito Ayatsuji books: The Labyrinth House Murders The Clock House Murders Neither were as good as the Mill House.

I’m closing down Attic but my Croissant project is staying online!

My AT Protocol side project Attic is closing down!

Mullenweg with more free time is not good for WordPress.

I can’t believe I just unsubscribed from Smashing Magazine’s RSS feed.

Question for Svelte enjoyers!

216,000,000 Spy TVs | The LG Smart TV Problem (Gamers Nexus, YouTube) We all know that smart TVs phone home but it’s far more invasive (and illegal) than you could possibly imagine.

After discovering shin honkaku detective fiction and The Tokyo Zodiac Murders, I’ve read: Murder in the Crooked House (Sōji Shimada) The Decagon House Murders (Yukito Ayatsuji) The Mill House Murders (Yukito Ayatsuji) Shimada’s second book (translated into

Shop Talk Show is the only web dev podcast left.

Over the bank holiday weekend I read The Tokyo Zodiac Murders by Sōji Shimada.

Software developers haven’t all switched to using agents for their coding, but they do seem to have all switched to error-prone, backwards-facing, nondeterministic chatbots for what now passes as web dev “education”.

I’m away until September!

I’ve been trying real hard to like Penpot but it doesn’t like me back.

Regional and Cultural Tells In Digital Textual Communication — Declan Chidlow notes a few cultural quirks.

Slop watermarks are unpopular with “writers” as Pivot to AI notes.

Slop watermarks are coming to Claude and all LLMs, thanks EU!

I jumped in at the hour mark of Miriam Suzanne’s chat with Brad Frost around the time they discuss the true costs of AI.

I had this drafted on my big blog under the title “Abattoirs of taste” which I felt was too killer to waste, so I’m dropping it here unfinished.

WordPress if famous for its backwards compatibility.

This story is wild.

I read: “We Stopped Using RSC on TanStack.com” and it’s incredible.