Today
- April 7, 2026 It’s a small thing, yet it says a lot, that OpenAI’s Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age is presented only as a PDF that looks terrible, with amateurish justification and a footer image that’s too lo-res and blurry for clear printing. I’ll note also...
- We rolled out adaptive light-dark() support on our design system themes and it’s been a delightful upgrade. Creating light and dark variable sets isn’t difficult, but delivery has trade-offs. Most apps that do this probably ship both sets of token values in a single stylesheet....
- Modern hardware is remarkably fast, but software often fails to leverage it. Caer Sanders has found it valuable to guide their work with mechanical sympathy - the practice of creating software that is sympathetic to its underlying hardware. They distill this practice into...
- Google's Gemma 4 family of open models is now available through the Gemini API and Google AI Studio. Built from the same research behind Gemini 3, these models bring advanced reasoning, native function calling, multimodal understanding, and 256K context windows to an open,...
- Introduction Buttons that scale on hover with CSS feel dead. No overshoot. No bounce. No life. Spring physics fix this. The button pops past its target scale and settles back. Feels like it has weight...
- What is a skinned mesh? A mesh is the surface of a 3D object. Made of tiny triangles. A static mesh is something that never moves. A rock. A wall. A tree. A skinned mesh is a mesh with a skeleton insi...
- The Problem You have a video on a server. You want users to watch it. But you do not want them to download it. Or share direct links. Or scrape it with bots. If you just put the file at cdn.example.co...
- The Problem When using TanStack Table with TanStack Virtual and many columns that extend beyond the viewport, scrolling horizontally causes the header cells to appear transparent. Body row content ble...
Yesterday
- April 6, 2026 A new edition of my pop-up AI newsletter just landed: where is it like to be a language model? The discussion here is bolstered by an actual experiment, a programmatic probe of many language models. It was my first time doing something like that — fun! The...
- Did you know that Jesus gave advice about prototyping with an LLM? Here’s Luke 14:28-30: Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. Won’t you first sit down and estimate the cost to see if you have enough money to complete it? For if you lay the foundation and are not able to...
- In an earlier blog post we found out that Pystd's simple sorting algorithm implementations were 5-10% slower than their stdlibc++ counterparts. The obvious follow up nerd snipe is to ask "can we make the Pystd implementation faster than stdlibc++?" For all tests below the data...
- With enough work you can build a search system with just grep. But it’s not for the faint of heart....
- Simon Willison wrote about how he vibe coded his dream presentation app for macOS. I also took a stab at vibe coding my dream app: an RSS reader. To clarify: Reeder is my dream RSS app and it already exists, so I guess you could say my dreams have already come true? But I’ve...
- Announcing noagendanomeeting.net — a single-page site advocating that every meeting deserves an agenda, and most meetings deserve to be a document instead....
- Dominic Nguyen (Founder of Storybook and Chromatic) joins me to talk about Storybook MCP the long journey of design system quality. We get into what it actually feels like to be “scaredcited” right now, and Dom shows off the newly-released […]...
This week
- I like reading system prompts, either when they’re published as part of open-source software, exfiltrated via crafty prompting, explicitly shared, or (in the case of last week) accidentally leaked. They’re often the best manual for how an app is intended to work. We’ve touched...
- The Problem Vite SPA serves one index.html for all routes. Social crawlers (X, Discord, Slack, LinkedIn, etc.) read the first HTML response and don't run JavaScript. So every shared link shows the sam...
- It’s a secret to everyone! This post is for RSS subscribers only. Read more about RSS Club. I’ve heard the term “Ozempic face” for awhile. People have opinions about that one, but I tend to feel like we should be comfortable with bodies changing. There’s also “Ozempic butt” and...
- I’ve watched a billion hours of YouTube and I’ve noticed a common trend: Whether that’s a drawing, a video game, a song, a cake, or a whole-ass off-grid house; I’ve learned that it’s fun to watch people make something. Since the beginning of humanity, the act of slapping two...
- AI Assisted/Agentic programming are pretty common place at this point. The growing sentiment seems to be that if you can't find some sort of benefit in your workflow, it's more of a skill issue than a problem with the tools. Whether you believe this to...
- Two years ago I published “Apple, please fix the Safari Reading List” which suggests some improvements and highlights one critical bug that Apple should fix to make Safari Reading List usable. Having a robust system to keep things for later is crucial for my workflow....
- I’ve been reading (slowly) David Pogue’s Apple: The First 50 Years, and really enjoying it. I’ve previously read quite a few books about Apple’s history, but Pogue has put together something really special with this one. This morning I came across this sidebar about the...
- You may be seeing posts claiming METR’s widely-cited 2025 study has been followed up with new research showing an 18% productivity boost. That’s not what the article says. METR: We are Changing our Developer Productivity Experiment Design In 2025, METR found experienced...
- I recently read the quote, ‘The best architecture that isn’t implemented is just an expensive drawing,’ and I couldn’t agree more. I wish I came up with it. When organisations hire for architecture roles they always look for extremely technical and knowledgeable people. While it...
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