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Chilling with Coco. #NotMyCat
Chilling with Coco. #NotMyCat
Adding and deleting categories coming to WordLand, probably later today. These are the same categories you can edit in the WordPress user interface. But I learned that you need to be able to add categories when you're writing. You want this functionality to be close-by.
Cool native HTML elements you should already be using · Harrison Broadbent
dialog, details, datalist, progress, optgroup, and more:
If this article helps just a single developer avoid an unnecessary Javascript dependency, I’ll be happy. Native HTML can handle plenty of features that people typically jump straight to JS for (or otherwise over-complicate).
In the way
This sums up my experience of companies and products trying to inject AI in to the products I use to communicate with other people. It’s always just in the way, making stupid suggestions.
Ten years ago today I coined the shorthand “js;dr” for “JavaScript required; Didn’t Read”. - Tantek
tantek.com/2025/069/t1/ten-years-jsdr-javascript-required-didnt-read
Practice Progressive Enhancement.
Build first and foremost with forgiving technologies, declarative technologies, and forward and backward compatible coding techniques.
All content should be readable without scripting.
If it’s worth building on the web, it’s worth building it robustly, and building it to last.
Way over yonder in the low-key
Build It Yourself | Armin Ronacher’s Thoughts and Writings
We’re at a point in the most ecosystems where pulling in libraries is not just the default action, it’s seen positively: “Look how modular and composable my code is!” Actually, it might just be a symptom of never wanting to type out more than a few lines.
It always amaz...
“Wait, not like that”: Free and open access in the age of generative AI
citationneeded.news/free-and-open-access-in-the-age-of-generative-ai/
Anyone at an AI company who stops to think for half a second should be able to recognize they have a vampiric relationship with the commons. While they rely on these repositories for their sustenance, their adversarial and disrespectful relationships with creators reduce ...
Teacher, it’s too difficult
Refurbished a Game Boy
I'm trying to do things that get me out of the house and reduce the amount of time I look at torture rectangles (aka screens with internet). This Refurbish a Game Boy workshop from Craftsman Ave. felt like a perfect opportunity. Not only would I get some quality time in a (q...
Fog from liquid nitrogen ice cream.
Text notebooks with editable outputs
“Notebooks” are a programming environment where you can run code in the same file as you see the output. You can edit your code and run the edited code again as many times as you want. Notebooks are made of cells. A cell can either be code, non-executable text – for example, ...
Looking for help with wpcom API in Node.js app.
Matt Mullenweg
• Matt
Dalio & Benioff in Singaore
With the world changing so quickly, it’s hard to find alpha, but the best way is by following the brightest thinkers. This CNBC interview with Ray Dalio and Marc Benioff is good, but it’s way better if you go to the livestream about 25 minutes in and see the full discussion without the editing. You … Continue reading Dalio & Benioff in Singaore →
Kicking off St. Patrick’s weekend with a spice bag and Murphy’s!
Kicking off St. Patrick’s weekend with a spice bag and Murphy’s!
Manuel Moreale — Everything Feed
• Manuel Moreale
A moment with snow and trees
I wasn’t planning to find snow this weekend but snow we indeed found. Dog was having a blast.
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Hmm, my last post is poorly truncated on Bluesky because I hadn’t considered the title, link, and new summary taking up more than 300 characters. Going to keep my extra summary text shorter in the future.
Adding an edit button to my static site on mobile
jamesg.blog/2025/03/15/adding-an-edit-button-to-my-static-site-on-mobile
AI's impact on the open web
This is an excellent post by Molly White about the potential conflict between making the world’s knowledge more accessible through AI and the risk of destroying the foundations for open content on the web:
The true threat from AI models training on open access material is n...