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dead framework theory | AI Focus
This is depressing.
The Main Thread Is Not Yours — Den Odell
Every millisecond you spend executing JavaScript is a millisecond the browser can’t spend responding to a click, updating a scroll position, or acknowledging that the user did just try to type something. When your code runs long, you’re not causing “jank” in some abstract technical sense; you’re ignoring someone who’s trying to talk to you.
This is a great way to think about client-side JavaScript!
Also:
Before your application code runs a single line, your framework has already spent some of the user’s main thread budget on initialization, hydration, and virtual DOM reconciliation.
Sessioning
Sessioning
Wednesday session
Wednesday session
It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons @ tonsky.me
I’m avoiding Mac OS Tahoe because of the disgraceful liquid glass debacle, but it looks like the rot goes even deeper. Here’s a detailed look at the sad state of iconography in application menus.
I know that changes in an OS update can take time to get used to, but this isn’t a case of “one step forwards, two steps back”—it’s just a lot of steps back with no forwards.
Tuesday session
Tuesday session
> His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead. — James Joyce, The Dead
His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.
— James Joyce, The Dead
(Tá sé ag cur sneachta anois—go bog—i mBrighton)
(Tá sé ag cur sneachta anois—go bog—i mBrighton)
I may have found my people.
I may have found my people.
Monday session
Monday session
2025
Here’s the new year, same as the old year. Well, not the same, but pretty similar.
At the end of 2024, I wrote:
It was a year dominated by Ukraine and Gaza. Utterly horrific and unnecessary death courtesy of Putin and Netanyahu
See what I mean?
2025 added an extra do...
Playing tunes in a kitchen on a Saturday night.
Playing tunes in a kitchen on a Saturday night.
A Website To End All Websites | Henry From Online
Hand-coded, syndicated, and above all personal websites are exemplary: They let users of the internet to be autonomous, experiment, have ownership, learn, share, find god, find love, find purpose. Bespoke, endlessly tweaked, eternally redesigned, built-in-public, surprising UI and delightful UX. The personal website is a staunch undying answer to everything the corporate and industrial web has taken from us.
> The past is a foreign country that we should impose tariffs on. — Matt Webb
The past is a foreign country that we should impose tariffs on.
The Case for Blogging in the Ruins
Start a blog. Start one because the practice of writing at length, for an audience you respect, about things that matter to you, is itself valuable. Start one because owning your own platform is a form of independence that becomes more important as centralized platforms become less trustworthy. Start one because the format shapes the thought, and this format is good for thinking.
New year’s day session.
New year’s day session.
It’s surreal to see my name on this list: https://www.instagram.com/p/DS7VZUqiImo/
It’s surreal to see my name on this list:
2026: The Year The Bubble Bursts
2026: The Year The Bubble Bursts
Athbhliain faoi mhaise daoibh, a cairde!
Athbhliain faoi mhaise daoibh, a cairde!
Reading Daughters of Sparta by Claire Heywood.
Reading Daughters of Sparta by Claire Heywood.
More mandolins
More mandolins
Found myself unexpectedly with a day to spend in Phoenix, so I went to the excellent Musical Instruments Museum and ogled the mandolins.
Found myself unexpectedly with a day to spend in Phoenix, so I went to the excellent Musical Instruments Museum and ogled the mandolins.
The Future of Software Development is Software Developers – Codemanship’s Blog
codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/11/25/the-future-of-software-development-is-software-developers/
The hard part of computer programming isn’t expressing what we want the machine to do in code. The hard part is turning human thinking – with all its wooliness and ambiguity and contradictions – into computational thinking that is logically precise and unambiguous, and that can then be expressed formally in the syntax of a programming language.
That was the hard part when programmers were punching holes in cards. It was the hard part when they were typing COBOL code. It was the hard part when they were bringing Visual Basic GUIs to life (presumably to track the killer’s IP address). And it’s the hard part when they’re prompting language models to predict plausible-looking Python.
The hard part has always been – and likely will continue to be for many years to come – knowing exactly what to ask for.
Music in 2025
I really like it when people post their end-of-year music round-up. Colly, Jon, and Naz have all posted about music they listened to in 2025.
I recognise almost none of the albums that they’ve listed. That’s because my musical brain has been almost entirely conquered by Iri...
Good night!
Good night!
Books I read in 2025
I read 28 books in 2025. Looking back over that list, there are a few recurring themes…
I read less of the Greek mythology retellings than last year but I seem to have developed a taste for medieval stories like Matrix, Nobber, and Haven.
I finally got ‘round to reading so...
Painting heaven and hell
Painting heaven and hell
On the road in Arizona.
On the road in Arizona.
Nollaig shona daoibh go léir, a chairde!
Nollaig shona daoibh go léir, a chairde!