Going to events is good, actually. 😊 So don’t wait until the last minute – get your tickets now for

Web Day Out Brighton, 12 March 2026
https://webdayout.com

and

beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf, 27–28 April 2026
https://beyondtellerrand.com

“All the designers listen to the developer talks and all the developers listen to the designer talks. And that’s where you discover you have an interest in something you didn’t think you had an interest in.”

@adactio in a lovely conversation with @marcthiele about the magic of @btconf and the joy and challenge of running community events:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQi6sweF_c4

That also means that I have about a year to open my final diploma project one last time and record a proper video of all the interactions in the prototype – because I will never be able to open it again after that. The beauty of proprietary file formats. Hm.

“Please note that access to your Animate files and project data will end on 1 March 2027. To ensure a smooth transition, we encourage you to export your Animate FLA and XFL files to other formats such as SWF, SVG and MP4 files before this date.”

R.I.P., #Flash. 🪦

Alright my web friends! 👋 Hands up who has experienced a surge in (LLM) bot traffic recently and maybe even had to take steps against them? I’m writing a blog post about this atm and it would be great to hear whether others are experiencing the same with their #blogs and personal #websites. #RT == 💚

Don’t buy more soft synths you don’t really need. Don’t buy more soft synths you don’t really need. Don’t buy more soft synths you don’t really need … 🎹

https://www.humblebundle.com/software/make-music-change-lives-software

Really looking forward to going to the gym today. Not only because it is about time again (ahem …) but also because I get to listen to Chris and Dave on the @shoptalkshow talk to @adactio about the Web – and Web Day Out! 🤩

https://youtu.be/iNTBEwTdd9I?si=PsDpyGwzQI231o9C

😬 Native Instruments GmbH is in preliminary insolvency
https://cdm.link/ni-insolvency/

Heading out of the weekend with … pancakes for the family. 😂🥞

Also, I’m working in stereo over here! 😂

I used to have time to make adorable dog-, heart-, or poop-shaped pancakes. But now that the kids have reached a reasonable size, they’re eating so fast that I. Need. To. Keep. Them. Pancakes. Coming. 😅

(Don’t tell @jaffathecake that I put sparkling water into the pancake batter … 🤫)

Heading into the weekend with pancakes for the family. 😋🥞

Buying just another cheap plastic Amaran light didn't feel right and I also didn't want to spend a fortune for a “real” Aputure light. So I went with the Godox LE300Bi. Seems like the best budget COB LED light at the moment. A really solid metal enclosure, bi-colour 2800–6500K with decent color accuracy, app-controlled, and with an acceptable noise floor. Should be a much better light overall. 🤞
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffLKPrC4xe4

After (only?) about 5 years, my Amaran 200d led light suddenly went dark. I ordered a replacement power adapter but that didn’t solve the issue. 😔 Any recommendations for a light that lasts a tad longer?

Would have loved to see a chapter on CSS again, though #Web #Almanac

Oh yesss! 🤩 The 2025 #Web #Almanac has just been released. Can’t wait to read a bit …
https://almanac.httparchive.org/en/2025/

And of course, he stands in front of the Declaration of Independence. You can't make this up.

🎻 The best recording ever of Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1 is from 1962. The GOAT Jascha Heifetz with unparalleled precision, clarity, and musicality. And that transition from the first into the second movement… 🤯

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lw7o3mURxqw

The only downside of listening to Aesop Rock’s incredibly punchy and clear beats a lot is that all the rest suddenly start to sound muddy as … mud. 😅

I mean:
https://youtu.be/CD4p4i0HTck?si=rrC_EtFKpW--MPjQ

That rare feeling when a device is so easily maintainable that you can just open it and fix it yourself. Withered technology ftw! 🎉 (Still a bit of a weird, flimsy construction of that knob…)

Thanks to everyone who replied! 🤗

Well ……… good morning! 😂☀️

“At this point they had to convince Claude—which is extensively trained to avoid harmful behaviors—to engage in the attack. They did so by jailbreaking it, effectively tricking it to bypass its guardrails.”

Reminds me of this great interview with Eliezer Yudkowsky:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Nn0-kAE5c0

“Share information, freely. Blog.”

👏, @Jayhoffmann
https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/information-is-still-free/

(Nothing to see here, @davatron5000)

“The actor achieved what we believe is the first documented case of a cyberattack largely executed without human intervention at scale—the AI autonomously discovered vulnerabilities in targets […]. Most significantly, this marks the first documented case of agentic AI successfully obtaining access to confirmed high-value targets for intelligence collection, including major technology corporations and government agencies.”

This is fine. 🔥
https://www.anthropic.com/news/disrupting-AI-espionage

I really wonder how long it takes a beginner like me to go from beer belly to get ripped again with Tai Chi. I bet that by the end of November, my family won’t even recognize me.

This piece by @WeirdWriter just hits different. So good.

“The "problem" was that creating art—real, human, meaningful writing—is slow. It is expensive. It is unpredictable. And it is diverse. It requires dealing with people. People with traumas, people with political opinions, people with voices that don't fit into a corporate style guide. […]
So the Tech Bros, in their infinite mediocrity, decided to bypass the human element entirely.”

1/2

“They built a machine that scrapes our work—our pain, our joy, our very souls—without consent, grinds it into a mathematical slurry, and extrudes it as a flavorless, inoffensive paste that can be sold by the bucket.

They built a machine to gentrify the English language.

And the horror of watching my friend lose his soul almost eats me alive.”

The Colonization of Confidence.

https://sightlessscribbles.com/the-colonization-of-confidence/

Note to self: if you block all the bots™, remember to not block archive.org_bot. Especially if you even wrote a Craft CMS plugin that notifies the Wayback Machine to crawl new posts on your site … 🤦‍♂️