27 Aug 2026 · nolan · Comments for Read the Tea Leaves
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
<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>About "AI Tiredness" , i facing too, even i stop open youtube because of too many youtubers make content about AI</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->
27 Aug 2026 · nolan · Comments for Read the Tea Leaves
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
<!-- 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
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 · nolan · Comments for Read the Tea Leaves
<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Good read. Interesting times </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->
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
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
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
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
<!-- 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
🤖 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 · nolan · Comments for Read the Tea Leaves
[…] about. Recently for example, my passion was explaining all the ins and outs of CSS performance: how shadow DOM works, how the browser’s style engine works, the traps of CSS-in-JS, […]
26 Aug 2026 · christiano · Christiano Anderson
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 · nolan · Comments for Read the Tea Leaves
[…] The asteroid currently hitting frontend web development Nolan Lawson: the agent could mess up accessibility, it could cause an infinite loop that blocks users, etc. […]
25 Aug 2026 · nolan · Comments for Read the Tea Leaves
[…] The asteroid currently hitting frontend web development Nolan Lawson: the agent could mess up accessibility, it could cause an infinite loop that blocks users, etc. […]
25 Aug 2026 · tante · Smashing Frames
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
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
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 · otoolep · Comments for Philip O'Toole
[…] like really Slack, Flowdock, Hipchat and their ilk — I’ve written about it before. I couldn’t do my job without them. But it’s time to confront the damage these tools are […]
25 Aug 2026 · cullum · Cullum Smith's Blog
Free, open-source apps that I use on GrapheneOS
25 Aug 2026 · vgel · Theia Vogel's website & blog
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
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
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…
24 Aug 2026 · nolan · Comments for Read the Tea Leaves
<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>What a silly article and I didn't even read it. Backend is more deterministic and easier for AI to take over, expected some data-in and some data-out, the strength about backend is that nobody knows that exists and C-level peeps don't understand it neither. nobody can see or understand errors in the backend.<br><br>The frontend is harder, dealing with way too many complex things, screen sizes, colors, resolutions, and the hardest one the…
24 Aug 2026 · nolan · Comments for Read the Tea Leaves
In reply to <a href="https://nolanlawson.com/2026/08/23/the-asteroid-currently-hitting-frontend-web-development/#comment-238429">Sander van Dragt</a>. I did cover this a bit in a previous post (<a href="https://nolanlawson.com/2026/05/25/using-ai-to-write-better-code-more-slowly/" rel="ugc">"Using AI to write better code more slowly"</a>), but I don't totally disagree with you. Agents can be used as more than shortcuts: they ca…
24 Aug 2026 · nolan · Comments for Read the Tea Leaves
[…] How I use AI agents to write code – Nolan Lawson […]
24 Aug 2026 · jordi · Jordi Villar
Software Engineering fundamentals matter more than ever — The welding analogy is the part I keep coming back to, he learned to build things in his 20s that he couldn’t lift or get out the door of the shop, and the lesson was that how something goes together is the whole game. That maps cleanly onto agents crossing the “can it be done” line, because “can it be done” turns out to be the small part of the job. The seams, the API boundaries, the choices about what should stay stable and …
24 Aug 2026 · nolan · Comments for Read the Tea Leaves
In reply to <a href="https://nolanlawson.com/2026/08/23/the-asteroid-currently-hitting-frontend-web-development/#comment-238430">Sander van Dragt</a>. <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>And of course it posted right after asking me to login again. Apologies for the double post, what a login hell. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->
24 Aug 2026 · nolan · Comments for Read the Tea Leaves
<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>I had written a long response to ask why your conclusion is that the skill of frontend development is being challenged after proving to me how much learning you unlocked with a single prompt for someone not aware of what you were asking. Use llm agents as a personalised mentor not as a stack overflow replacement if you're looking for long term learning, is my advice. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->
24 Aug 2026 · nolan · Comments for Read the Tea Leaves
<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>thanks for an interesting article. As a web developer who did not have the understanding that you received from the long agent I was a bit surprised with the conclusions you’ve drawn. <br></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>I feel you’ve put what is a reasonably deep technical question (for the average web developer) to the ai agent, I learned a whole lot from the answer, and got a lot of context to follow up…
24 Aug 2026 · jcs · Notes - joshua stein
I saw this SCSIknife Multi used in CuriousMarc's video ( https://youtu.be/85mLokY_oe0) https://www.tindie.com/products/jurassicomp/scsiknife-desktop-zuluscsitm-compatible-emulator/ I like that the single form factor has all 3 connectors (50-pin, 2.5" portable, and DB-25) populated so it can be used on anything without having to buy separate devices.
24 Aug 2026 · capjamesg · with words, wonder
When I got out of bed this morning, I felt a chill from the autumn air that had been flowing through the room since yesterday evening. The air was cooled by midnight and would soon be warmed by the burgeoning sun rising over the hills. The seasons are changing. I can feel it. I opened the window and looked onto the white horizon sky; so intense was the white sky it took me a few moments to notice the faint blues that were already above me and extended across most of the rest of the sky. I love t…
24 Aug 2026 · capjamesg · with words, wonder
I wrote this a few days ago, inspired by Things I Want to Remember by A Graceful Life. I planned to add more to the list but I didn't end up finishing it. With that said, I do want to publish what I have, as a little snippet of four things that caught my eye on one evening last week. Ironically, I cannot remember on which day I wrote the things I want to remember, but it would have been either Thursday, Friday or Saturday. ⁂ ⁂ ⁂ Things I want to remember from today: The way tiny flies, so …
24 Aug 2026 · capjamesg · with words, wonder
When I started to study art history, I had a feeling that I may no longer spend as much time reading about and experimenting with technology. This has turned out to be true in many senses: I have spent countless hours reading textbooks and literary texts, and writing essays. I forgot how much I enjoyed writing essays. This year I have spent a lot of time thinking about art. I have spent many weekends in art galleries, a kind of building that has a magnetism comparable to that I used to feel writ…
24 Aug 2026 · capjamesg · with words, wonder
I have been saving a lot of links to things I have read and appreciated this month. And since it is Blaugust and many of my friends and other writers whose works I enjoy are blogging, I have been reading more blog posts too. I thought I would share an excerpt of what I have read and seen on the web this month here, both for future reference and in case you would like to explore some links. This list is by no means complete, and I am limiting myself to one post per author. Blog posts and articles…
24 Aug 2026 · mre · Matthias Endler
Someone recently asked me what advice I’d give to a young developer today. My answer had surprisingly little to do with code. Here’s what I’d focus on: Learn How to Build Products Even if LLMs write most of the code, there is still a need for problem solvers who can understand user needs, design solutions, and iterate based on feedback. No matter the technology, this skill will always be valuable. Learn How to Learn If information is free, the ability to think critically and make decisions…
24 Aug 2026 · jo3_l · Joe's Blog
Reminiscing about my summer in NYC interning at Bloomberg
23 Aug 2026 · nolan · Comments for Read the Tea Leaves
Front end development is dead.
23 Aug 2026 · nolan · Read the Tea Leaves
A lot of the educators I admire in the frontend web space seem to be either bowing out or dialing back their efforts: Axel Rauschmayer, Salma Alam-Naylor, Josh W. Comeau, to name a few. Other well-known luminaries like Kent C. Dodds, Addy Osmani, Rachel Nabors, and Lydia Hallie have pivoted from talking about frontend development […]
23 Aug 2026 · azhenley · Austin Z. Henley's Blog
https://austinhenley.com/blog/aiadoption.html
23 Aug 2026 · JamieTanna · Jamie Tanna | Software Engineer
A busy week at work, juggling a few fairly complex things that have meant I've been a bit brain busy outside of work Wrote a couple of blog posts, Why I still hand write my commit messages being the main one, which got picked up later in the week, and ended up being on the front page of Lobsters for just shy of 48 hours! I also discovered the selfh.st newsletter - thanks for featuring me! GitHub's outage on Monday was pretty counter-productive, and meant a large gap in being able to do anything …
23 Aug 2026 · JamieTanna · Jamie Tanna | Software Engineer
Sometimes, you create a branch off another branch, do some work on it, and want to know what the original branch was pointing at. For instance, if you're looking to clean up your Git history , but don't want to rebase off origin/HEAD as you know there are some gnarly conflicts you may have to deal with, you want to know the last known "good" commit. I'd previously look down my commits, work out what the first commit was that didn't look like one of mine on this branch and refer to that SHA. Inst…
23 Aug 2026 · dredmorbius · Doc Edward Morbius ⭕
Other than arc-flash suits, yes, there are specific anti-Taser clothes: https:// parabellumdefense.com/what-clo thing-stops-a-taser/ For the more industrial look: https://www. envirosafetyproducts.com/colle ctions/electrical-safety-clothing