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New Jun 11, 2025
The Continuum From Static to Dynamic
Dan Abramov in “Static as a Server”: Static is a server that runs ahead of time. “Static” and “dynamic” don’t have to be binaries that describe an entire application architecture. As Dan descri...
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New Jun 10, 2025
The Web as URLs, Not Documents
Dan Abramov on his blog (emphasis mine): The division between the frontend and the backend is physical. We can’t escape from the fact that we’re writing client/server applications. Some logic is...
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New Jun 6, 2025
Some Miscellaneous Thoughts on Visual Design Prodded By The Sameness of AI Company Logos
Radek Sienkiewicz in a funny-because-its-true piece titled “Why do AI company logos look like buttholes?“: We made a circular shape [logo] with some angles because it looke...
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New Jun 4, 2025
Notes from Andreas Fredriksson’s “Context is Everything”
I quite enjoyed this talk. Some of the technical details went over my head (I don’t know what “split 16-bit mask into two 8-bit LTUs” means) but I could still follow the underlying point. First off,...
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New Jun 2, 2025
Is It JavaScript?
OH: It’s just JavaScript, right? I know JavaScript. My coworker who will inevitably spend the rest of the day debugging an electron issue — @jonkuperman.com on BlueSky “I...
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New May 28, 2025
Tradeoffs to Continuous Software?
I came across this post from the tech collective crftd. about how software is in a process of “continuous disintegration”: One of the uncomfortable truths we sometimes have to break to...
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New May 25, 2025
Could I Have Some More Friction in My Life, Please?
A clip from “Buy Now! The Shopping Conspiracy” features a former executive of an online retailer explaining how motivated they were to make buying easy. Like, incredibly easy. So easy, in fact, th...
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New May 23, 2025
Webkit’s New Color Picker as an Example of Good Platform Defaults
I’ve written about how I don’t love the idea of overriding basic computing controls. Instead, I generally favor opting to respect user choice and provide the controls their platform does. Of course, t...
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New May 20, 2025
Product Pseudoscience
In his post about “Vibe Drive Development”, Robin Rendle warns against what I’ll call the pseudoscientific approach to product building prevalent across the software industry: when folks at tech com...
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New May 18, 2025
Multiple Computers
I’ve spent so much time, had so many headaches, and encountered so much complexity from what, in my estimation, boils down to this: trying to get something to work on multiple computers. It might be...