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Cory Doctorow (eventually) talking about using LLMS: https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/19/now-we-are-six/#stock-buyback (If you don’t care about Cory Doctorow’s history of blogging, start reading at the point where he says, “Doubtless some of you are affron…

The inimitable Molly White published an article on Citation Needed (sign up!

Found via Julian Simpson’s Cartoon Gravity.

This whole essay is sobering and kinda depressing.

I appreciate Maggie’s nuanced take on using AI even as I’m trying to reconcile my own feelings.

I love little web toys like this one.

Watch the video first: https://www.youtube.com/watch?

An excellent, interactive resource for learning and refreshing CSS.

A truly awesome remake of the Sunscreen speech, including Robb’s video that he made from Keenan’s audio.

Cloudflare is offering a one-click block of LLM scrapers and spiders when you use their service.

A font resembling the display font for low-rez Nokia fonts.

Captures a lot of my current feelings about the hype cycle around AI.

Sébastien Benard, one of the devs on Dead Cells, with an interactive demo of all the things that go in to making a game have good feel.

This template pack contains a bunch of images in the right formats and sizes to help you make nice looking itch.io pages.

CLI tool for running and testing HTTP requests with a flat file config for asserting on the responses: https://hurl.dev/docs/asserting-response.html You can capture stuff from earlier responses to feed into subsequent requests like CSRF tokens and whatnot.

I’ve loved the stories of mythology since I was very young.

My son has been sick for a couple of weeks.

I love thinking about personal knowledge management but I don’t really know what it is.

We will not look back and regret this decision.

The inimitable Molly White with a hopeful message about what the web could be.

“The best thing for being sad,” replied Merlyn, beginning to puff and blow, “is to learn something.

I have ADHD.

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My ADHD sometimes drives me to listen to songs over and over again in a fit of hyperfocus.

I’m a huge fan of TiddlyWiki.

Jordan Mechner’s games were hugely influential on me growing up.

I noticed that Julia Evans posted an image of beta readers giving her feedback about her latest zine about git.

Given that YAML wants to be a programming language now it’s probably time to keep this webpage handy.

Whether it’s resumes or reports, budgets or broadsides, I’m pretty regularly sent working documents from a wide range of people, and over the years I’ve noticed some consistent patterns that lead those documents to be less effective than they should be.

Seriously, does anybody love git?

I know it doesn’t prevent some unprincipled company from scraping my site; indeed, I almost wouldn’t want it to since that would break the web.

It feels dangerous to hope for things.

This one goes out to my ADHD homies.

I’d wanted to do it for forever, and then I came across Sophie Koonin’s excellent write-up about how to get it working for static sites and I figured that the Internet had sent me a sign.

Very much inspired by the likes of Bret Victor’s Quotes page I finally published a page of interesting words.

I don’t know whether these billionaires know what a city is, but I do know that they have laid their hands on the city that’s been my home since 1980 and used their wealth to undermine its diversity and affordability, demonise its poor, turn its politicia…

This was the introduction to Godot that started it all for me.

Another article with lots of thoughtful seeds planted about AI tools and the places we’ve put ourselves in because of them.

I found this whole article very moving, from the parable of Ol’ John Henry up top to the notion that perhaps “web programming”, as we know it, is a blip of an industry that exists in the margin of tech/capital inefficiencies.

As an anti-JavaScript JavaScript developer these themes are present in my mind every time I put my fingers on a keyboard: how many megabytes of software am I going to ship today?

How to use Tailscale to link Docker containers together into a private network with magic DNS.

Great listing of topics with great explanations under each one.

Found again via a re-read of a random entry in my journal.

A thorough dive in to handling mouse input in Godot.

I do feel like React is overused and shouldn’t be the first tool people reach for in the toolbox, but this post is rather more nuanced than some of the others that I’ve seen making the rounds.

I like this one a lot.

Here’s a link to the game page on my site.

A witch's familiar trying to light a candle Link to the game: https://drhayes.itch.io/felis-lux Written in Godot over about fourteen hours for the Mini Jam, I ran out of time before being able to make more levels or provide better feedback.

I’m always curious about what people are doing and reading and thought I should put my bytes where my brain is and publish my current subscriptions.

It’s like eleven hours long but it’s really good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?