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I haven't actually been to most of the places on this itinerary, but it seems like a hell of a good weekend. I love Chicago. If you haven't been and are thinking of going, I'd be happy to share my own recommendations, of course.

This whole read on the lh unit is worth it, but the Floating images alignment part, in particular, is kind of mind-blowing.

The first "real" iteration of my personal site was all hand-drawn and scanned into Adobe Dreamweaver, which at the time didn't seem so insane. I've tried to keep that spirit alive, and even on this version, I've got hand-drawn icons and emoji. But entire blog posts? And the comment section? I love it!

CSS is still on a hot streak! Or rather, the folks workin' hard on CSS are. This is so slick!

My job as a designer/developer is not to hype new tech, but to carefully protect my communities against it’s mis-use.

Attention was already a scarce resource before AI, and it is even more so now. Keeping AI generated content clearly labeled and demonstrating human effort helps show consideration for teammates, and keeps a touch of humanity alive in our work.

As of right now, I'm using Last.fm to display what I'm listening to in a little widget on my homepage, and I had no idea it was owned by Paramount Skydance, so needless to say, this makes me happy!

Because it feels like for all of the fighting and all of the progress, a few bullies can rile up a mob and take it all away.

Now, more than ever, I think the best thing you can do is reach out to someone who makes content that you appreciate, and let them know about it.

Yet another wonderful, interactive, deep-dive by Josh. 

I don't want to become my own C.P.A, exterminator, or nurse. Just as I don't want other folks to stop wanting photographers, or musicians. Even aside from the A.I. craze, I think people are hungry for human-centered, human-created things, so I do believe the crafts and niches humans have become really skilled at will go on being valued, and I want to be part of that. 

“You do not have to wait for someone to rebuild what you lost.
You are standing in it.”

“I’d rather have a human-to-human conversation with you, not a chat with Claude by proxy.”

“When you optimise a step that is not the bottleneck, you don't get a faster system. You get a more broken one.”

100%

“This is not your fault.”

I Love this. We internalize the failure of not beating the efforts of entire teams of experts who want to addict us to their products. Also, I know the casio watch isn't intended as the answer, but I have had one of those watches (or a very close model) since around 2014, and I love it.

A nice article on getting smooth transitions between your light/dark mode switcher. I immediately implemented the view transition approach! Also, what a lovely site Jon has!

“Be weird. It’s a good form of virtue signaling. It’s all bullshit...
It’s all made up. None of it is real. None of it matters. It’s all about control. 
So fuck that. Do what you want. Be weird!”

“Well, I want you to visit my website. I want you to read an article from a search result, and then discover the other things I’ve written, the other people I link to, and explore the weird themes I’ve got.”