Links that are clickable
Links I find worth reading, with notes.
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OpenAI introducing ads to ChatGPT.
'I don’t even remember hating any other piece of technology I used.' - Things that make GitHub Actions painful to work with.
AI has made generating code cheap. Architecture, maintenance, and knowing what to build haven’t gotten easier.
Apple is bringing Google's Gemini to power Siri rather than building their own model.
Google warns that writing short LLM-optimized content can hurt search rankings. Their systems still reward depth.
WAICT is a W3C-backed spec for cryptographically verifying JavaScript integrity and consistency. It targets the supply-chain risk from third-party scripts.
Pedram Navid on running DevRel at Dagster: a three-pillar framework (awareness, engagement, education).
Schleswig-Holstein moved ~30,000 employees from Microsoft Exchange to Open-Xchange and Thunderbird in October 2025.
The story of Web Platform Tests (WPT), the ~2-million-test shared suite that transformed browser interoperability over the last decade.
A walkthrough of diff algorithm design decisions: API flexibility, multiple operation modes, and performance tradeoffs, using a Go diff library as the example.
A curated archive of 385 experimental mobile-first website designs, emphasising unconventional interactions and positive friction.
MCP server that lets AI agents control and inspect Chrome for debugging, performance analysis, and automation.
Tim Berners-Lee on releasing the web without patents or royalties.
An experimental re-implementation of SSH over HTTP/3 and QUIC with modern auth.
The Typst repo: markup-based typesetting with integrated scripting, incremental compilation, and a web editor.
An introduction to Typst, a Rust-based typesetting system with simpler syntax, faster compilation, and better error messages than LaTeX.
An extension to robots.txt letting site owners express preferences for how their content is used: search, AI training, or real-time AI applications.
A link containing a natural language query that will redirect to a best guess at the most relevant web destination.
Wasmer Edge now runs Python, including FastAPI, Django, and Streamlit, on WebAssembly infrastructure with near-native performance.
PayPal soon to allow P2P Bitcoin, Ethereum, PYUSD, transfers.
Can you host a website on a vape? I guess you can!
"I led design for NotebookLM, shaping the product’s core user experience, brand identity, and visual system from experiment to launch."
Another horrific, interactive project challenging you to prove you're human. Don't do it.
Discussion on the semantics of 'your' vs 'my' in UI language and its impact on user perception.
There's a hidden CSS property to create liquid glass effects in WebKit-based browsers.
GitHub have a new inference API they're rolling out with demos that run issues and PRs through GitHub Models for AI moderation.
I found a bug in Safari where changing CSS ruby-overhang values weren't triggering layout. It got fixed already, so that's cool.
'Files changed' view gets a new look and some new features.
Open-source book exploring case studies of large software systems and their structure.
History and culture of teletext services in the U.S./Canada.
A tool designed to surface HackerNews threads that flew under the radar.
Author here argues that most sites (or features) can be built with little to no JavaScript.
Cloudflare are promising 'One-Click to Make Your Site Conversational' with tooling that combines RAG and natural-language query support via NLWeb. This simplifies the process of adding an AI-powered search or chat layer to web projects because you don't need to build or manage multiple complex systems.
Interesting patent that suggests CPUs could reconfigure cores dynamically under software control.
Critique and reflections on leadership principles at Amazon and what they mean in practice.
Addy Osmani reflects on Chrome history and possible futures.
Debuggers vs traditional print-based debugging and how they improve introspection.
Passive feed consumption is the game mechanic here.
'Async' here is used by the author to describe handing off work to an AI agent and coming back later to evaluate the results.
Visual catalogue / topology of European public transit stations and transfers.
A font that's **2px tall** that's also somehow still (somewhat) readable.
A font that's **2px wide** but still (somewhat) readable.
The cost of creating code is approaching zero. Have costs of code shifted somewhere else?
How to apply performance practices; eliminating redundant calculations, using a compiled language, leveraging parallelism, and optimizing process management.
Another fancy way to group noisy PRs from the bot you hate to love.
Analyzing recent trends in web crawling, which now has a crucial and complex new role with the rise of AI.
Could this model offset some of the impact of AI scrapers/training?
Make your super safe code even safer for the laugh.
"With the rise of the internet came the need to find information more quickly. The concept of search engines came into this space to fill this need, with a relatively basic initial design."
Google is starting to roll out a new UI for exploring search console performance.
A Bloom filter is a data structure designed to tell you whether an element is present in a set. You can use Bloom filters for many use cases and they often have outsized performance impact on your projects when used appropriately.
IBM have built a new AI model for time series for forecasting, backfilling missing data, classification, and pattern detection.
Overview of modern bot detection techniques, covering everything from basic bot behavior and IP reputation to advanced fingerprinting (TCP, TLS, JavaScript), proxy detection methods, headless browser detection, CAPTCHA strategies, and behavioral analysis.
There's some fancy new stuff on the pull request files page. You can try out the public preview now.
"This post details the implementation of a system for detecting when servers are online, to avoid serving dead links and improve data quality, and for detecting when websites have significant changes including ownership transfers and parking."
The GitHub CLI now supports Git configurations used in triangular workflows. Explore triangular workflows, how they function, and how to set them up for your projects.
Front-end development tools and guides, including a color contrast checker, a CSS specificity calculator, an HTML form inspector, and a guide to CSS media queries.
Excellent diagrams illustrating that correlation is not causation.
The year 2038 problem (a.k.a. Y2038, Y2K38, or the Epochalypse) is a time computing problem that leaves some computer systems unable to represent times after 03:14:07 UTC on 19 January 2038.
"An annual publication for exploring the vast poetic web, featuring essays, musings and a directory with the personal websites of hundreds of designers, developers, writers, curators, and educators. Published since 2025."
The Explicit Resource Management proposal introduces a deterministic approach to explicitly manage the lifecycle of resources like file handles, network connections, and more.
We've got an important update for the Glitch community today: We'll be ending web hosting for your apps on Glitch. In this message, we'll explain what that means for you and for the Glitch community.
The feed offers a close-up look of how microfiche — the sheets of films that store multiple documents — are digitized and uploaded to the Archive.
The fall of the once-great Q&A platform has steeply accelerated with number of new questions asked slumped to levels last seen when Stack Overflow launched in 2009.
"I made a collection of 100+ CodePens related to ARIA. It's neither polished nor a collection of best practices. Just some examples for testing most (all?) properties, states, and roles. This could be something for your bookmarks." Manuel Matuzović
A comprehensive guide for exploring and learning about the theory, science, and perception of color and contrast.
Automating the easy things is how you build the skills, mindset, and muscle-memory to automate the hard things.
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An explainer for doing web development using only vanilla techniques. No tools, no frameworks — just HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
The 512KB Club is a collection of performance-focused web pages from across the Internet.
Brief, direct feedback from Steve Jobs.
Exa Websets [is] an embeddings-powered search engine designed to return exactly what you're asking for. For example, get results for complex queries like “all startups working on open-source developer tools based in SF, founded 2021-2025”.
Coordinating enhancements to inconsistent browser implementations.
And here's how it's done.
As of December 2024, release 2.0 of the Wasm specification is “official”!
Some aspects of life will never change.
Automattic laying off 16% of employees (280 people).