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27 Aug 2026 · nolan · Comments for Read the Tea Leaves

Comment on The asteroid currently hitting frontend web development by Nolan Lawson

In reply to <a href="https://nolanlawson.com/2026/08/23/the-asteroid-currently-hitting-frontend-web-development/#comment-238445">DHPersonal</a>. Yeah, I definitely think things will change dramatically when the bubble pops. What I don't believe is that LLMs or AI agents will dissolve into the ether when that happens. I've already gotten a lot of value out of open-weight models: Kimi K3 for example is pretty adequate for routine coding tasks in my experience. And m…

27 Aug 2026 · nolan · Comments for Read the Tea Leaves

Comment on The asteroid currently hitting frontend web development by DHPersonal

In reply to <a href="https://nolanlawson.com/2026/08/23/the-asteroid-currently-hitting-frontend-web-development/#comment-238444">DHPersonal</a>. <!-- wp:paragraph --> Sorry, that should be “public <em>opinion </em>of AI” in my previous post. <!-- /wp:paragraph -->

27 Aug 2026 · nolan · Comments for Read the Tea Leaves

Comment on The asteroid currently hitting frontend web development by DHPersonal

<!-- wp:quote --> <blockquote><!-- wp:paragraph --> It’s destabilizing to imagine your career going along a certain trajectory, serenely landing at retirement, and then to see everything upset just a few years from your goal. <!-- /wp:paragraph --></blockquote> <!-- /wp:quote --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> If it can be disrupted once then it can be disrupted again. Everyone is so quick to say “AI is here to stay” when it wasn’t here just a few years a…

27 Aug 2026 · tante · Smashing Frames

“AI” centralization

So it seems like NVIDIA has agreed to buy Hugging Face. NVIDIA is the company building most of the chips used in “AI” data centers and Hugging face runs probably the biggest repository for data sets and open weight “AI” models in the world (Hugging Face also offers inference but not at relevant rates and […]

27 Aug 2026 · dredmorbius · Doc Edward Morbius ⭕​

How people can help Nepal’s flood-affected communities The Prime Minister’s Disaster Relief Fund, administered by the Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers, is the government’s official mechanism for channeling relief and rehabilitation funds to affected families. By law, the fund can only be used for rescue, treatment, relief, rehabilitation and infrastructure restoration — not administrative costs — and its accounts are audited annually. https:// kathmandupost.com/nat…

27 Aug 2026 · capjamesg · with words, wonder

Reading as participation in the indie web

In the past, I have used the shorthand “if you have a website, you’re in the indie web community.” I have used this because I don’t think there are, or should be, any other qualifying factors (i.e. using particular tools, having a certain site layout). While I think this shorthand is useful in ensuring people don’t feel like they have to do things a certain way to participate in the indie web, it misses one constituency that I don’t think are talked about enough: readers. Before some…

27 Aug 2026 · capjamesg · with words, wonder

Moods, places; translations

I was listening to Lorde’s Melodrama, an album I haven’t listened to for some time. Her music continues to echo through my week. It is hard to believe that I got to see her perform live a few days ago; the electricity of the performance still sticks with me: the moments we all sung with all the passion we had. Do I listen to the same song over again because I want to feel it more? I thought about this while sitting on a bench looking out onto green bushes and idly watching as the world went …

27 Aug 2026 · capjamesg · with words, wonder

Midnight scrapbooking

A warm glow from the still-on kitchen light passed through the hallway, illuminating the floral book, opened, on my lap. The night’s task: to start making the book my own. My impulse to create new things – music, stories, memories – is not dampened by the absence of daylight. Every few months, I sit at my piano, playing whatever music I am in the mood for; sometimes, I write a story under the cover of moonlight and my fairy lights. Tonight, I felt it was a good moment to start my new scrap…

26 Aug 2026 · nolan · Comments for Read the Tea Leaves

Comment on The asteroid currently hitting frontend web development by mbavio

<!-- wp:paragraph --> On the matter of education, I feel something similar to what I feel about AI writing: even if AI could definitely surpass the abilities of most humans, I still find joy on reading (and learning) from real people with real life stories. <!-- /wp:paragraph -->

26 Aug 2026 · JamieTanna · Jamie Tanna | Software Engineer

Determining if your branch is part of a GitHub Stacked PR

🤖 This post includes some LLM-derived content 🤖 Since the availability of GitHub's Stacked PRs finally landing for repositories that use a Merge Queue, I've been "kicking the tyres" with some of my contributions to Renovate . They're working mostly well so far, but I'm finding it a bit annoying trying to remember if I'm on a branch that's part of a stack. I'd started wiring this into my zsh config, still using Grml's zsh config as a base, and found it was a bit awkward. I decided to outsou…

26 Aug 2026 · christiano · Christiano Anderson

Streaming Online Radio with Shortwave on GNOME

As an expat living in Germany, online radio has become a good daily companion. I enjoy listening to news from my home country (and connect to my mother tongue), practice German language or just discovering music and stories from a random place around the globe. I found a GNOME app that is a genuine gem: Shortwave , which can be installed via Flathub. Shortwave is an online radio app for GNOME that has a great and clean design, cool features and a built-in search that makes finding radio stations…

26 Aug 2026 · capjamesg · with words, wonder

Edinburgh Summer Sessions

You feel like you have joined a community in a festival line. Everyone is together, waiting for music — we all came here with a common purpose, a purpose that we can see, a purpose that we can feel. We came here because we are human. Many people are dressed up, in all colours — blues and pinks and browns and purples. Time feels amorphous — isn’t is always? — where minutes pass like seconds and seconds pass like minutes. We are all surrounded by conversation, in the tone only made possi…

26 Aug 2026 · capjamesg · with words, wonder

How I organise my bookshelf

Eula wrote a response (“Collecting reference books for creativity”) to my post on inspiration from physical artefacts and organising them. Ironically, I didn’t appreciate the continuity between these posts until now. I digress. In her blog post, Eula wrote about how she organises her bookshelf, which made me think about how I organise mine, too. At the moment, I have one bookshelf which I am actively outgrowing. My bookshelf has three shelves, and I keep more books on the top. My books are…

25 Aug 2026 · jcs · Notes - joshua stein

joshua stein

A small board sits between the ADB trackball (originally made by Logitech btw) and the logic board which has a USB port that currently houses a Logitech wireless receiver (but could support any USB mouse). It translates USB mouse HID input to ADB mouse packets. For the mouse scroll wheel, it sends ADB keyboard Page Up and Page Down keys.

25 Aug 2026 · jcs · Notes - joshua stein

joshua stein

And now for my next trick... Your browser doesn't seem to support HTML video. You can download the video instead.

25 Aug 2026 · JamieTanna · Jamie Tanna | Software Engineer

My new workflow for local code review with `tuicr`

I spend a fair bit of my life reviewing code. Even if you discount the increase in code review that comes from increased usage of the output from Large Language Models, I'm still doing a lot of code review. Not only am I doing internal code review at work, but as a maintainer on Renovate and oapi-codegen , I spend a lot of time reviewing community contributions, as well as those from our collaborators and maintainers. You can see how GitHub breaks this down on my GitHub profile : If you ignore m…

25 Aug 2026 · JamieTanna · Jamie Tanna | Software Engineer

Updating dependent branches when rebasing, automagically

I'm regularly rewriting my history, often with the lens of improving my commit messages . On the Renovate project, we use a Merge Queue with Squash Merge, which means that if I do want to have atomic commits, I need to split them across PRs, which adds a bit of noise to manage them. Alternatively, I could bypass branch protection requirements to do a rebase merge, but that's the only way to do a rebase merge with a Merge Queue. Now that GitHub has launched stacked PRs , it's now possible to get …

25 Aug 2026 · tante · Smashing Frames

Doku “Crypto-Hype – Milliardenfalle Memecoins”

So ganz ist der Crypto Betrug ja nie weggegangen, er hat sich nur verschoben. Heute vor allem hin zur Bestechungsmethode für die US Regierung und illegales Glücksspiel (“Prediction Markets”). Aber vor einigen Monaten wurde ich doch nochmal zu einem Crypto Thema interviewed. Es geht dieses mal vor allem um die Memecoins. Man kann sich den […]

25 Aug 2026 · nolan · Comments for Read the Tea Leaves

Comment on The asteroid currently hitting frontend web development by Kavitha

In reply to <a href="https://nolanlawson.com/2026/08/23/the-asteroid-currently-hitting-frontend-web-development/#comment-238433">Nolan Lawson</a>. <!-- wp:paragraph --> As technology continues to evolve, user experience has become more important than ever. Students who develop design thinking, research, and creative problem-solving skills today are preparing themselves for exciting opportunities in tomorrow’s digital world. <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:pa…

25 Aug 2026 · edsu · inkdroid

waczdoc

A few days ago I wrote about a new tool called wacz-pdf , which will read a WACZ file and write out each web page as a PDF file. I got some quick feedback from Henry Wilkinson who suggested that it could be useful to allow a user to extract a Markdown file instead of a PDF. He also pointed out that the defuddle JavaScript library could be useful for doing it. defuddle is open source, and is part of the browser extension that Obsidian uses to save things from the web. Claude chewed on this idea f…

25 Aug 2026 · cullum · Cullum Smith's Blog

GrapheneOS Apps

Free, open-source apps that I use on GrapheneOS

25 Aug 2026 · vgel · Theia Vogel's website & blog

Poincaré

wind bursts across central washington's columbia plateau, rustles through the sagebrush patches like mold on yellow dirt and the wine-blue grape clusters ripened to mush on the vine and the cantilevered seven ton white blades perched above the cliffs, fiberglass-composite stylites who have been waiting for weeks to receive this. tendon cables groan as the blades turn in the wind, their generators dumping power into the western electrical grid. the market anticipates and responds instantly, dolla…

25 Aug 2026 · capjamesg · with words, wonder

Wonders of Web Weaving, Episode 16

The sixteenth episode of Wonders of Web Weaving is out: In Episode 16, I chat with Nic, the author of nicchan.me about, among other things, using the web as a design tool, web accessibility, learning from others' code, and more. I hope you enjoy the episode! Wonders of Web Weaving also has an RSS feed you can use to follow along from wherever you get your podcasts.

24 Aug 2026 · nolan · Comments for Read the Tea Leaves

Comment on The asteroid currently hitting frontend web development by Nolan Lawson

In reply to <a href="https://nolanlawson.com/2026/08/23/the-asteroid-currently-hitting-frontend-web-development/#comment-238434">Quebo</a>. At the micro-level I might agree with you, but once you start talking about Kubernetes, backoff, retries, auto-scaling, load, database transactions, queues, microservices, race conditions, etc., I think the backend is full of a lot more things that can go catastrophically wrong and cause an incident. In a typical software company, I&#03…

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