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I’m redesigning this site bit by bit. This is just a temporary, wireframe-like UI, so sorry for any jank!

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  • protein vape when

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  • there's no better edit than after you push to main

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  • I’ve got this little apple shortcut that dumps a note in obsidian to stop me posting from the hip as much

    I might have to turn it into a @strange.website / @robbowen.digital style site

    An obsidian note, titled 2025-08-25 19-22-23 The note reads: “~~crypto~~ ~~NFTs~~ AI will fix this”

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  • what can i say, i'm a good html programmer

    An open <details> element with two closing </summary> tags, wrapping the word, "summary"

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  • This healed me and infuriated me in equal measure. Regardless of what you think of AI (derogatory for me), GPT 5 really is a piss-poor release https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/better-offline/id1730587238?i=1000723042058.

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  • Like a parent encouraging their child to eat more veg, I like to "hide" other stuff in my writing.

    For example, Complete CSS is a soft skills course, but I hide a lot of that in a really nice build-along project.

    I'm drafting an article that does very similar about a hover effect technique.

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  • happy new deftones album day to those who celebrate

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  • chat is this good https://fortune.com/2025/08/18/mit-report-95-percent-generative-ai-pilots-at-companies-failing-cfo/.

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  • We asked if you wanted to see short courses on @piccalil.li and you said yes.

    I'd better get cracking then

    An Obsidian note, titled "navigation patterns short course" It just has headings: - What is it I'm trying to teach? - What problems are we solving for people? - What's the over-arching context(s)? - Patterns I want to cover in the course - Patterns people want to see in the course - Module and lesson structure - Studio production requirements - Launch day target and high level estimation At the end it says January 2026

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  • What terminal are you using these days? I'm thinking of going back to "pure" vim, but I fell out with iTerm

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  • Handy! https://web.dev/blog/baseline-devtools-css?hl=en.

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  • I can't seem to find the answer: when are the CSS working group meeting to discuss masonry/item-flow?

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  • Having time to actually sit and make demos for an article again is good. I'm focusing on nice touches recently, but this one I'm working on is all about avoiding jolty/glitchy hover states

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  • “use it or be left behind”

    A clip of an OpenAI chart for "tokens processed". The data starts in May and ends at the end of July. It shows a massive drop around June 7

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  • surely the most shameful of labels to have

    A clip of a bluesky label that reads: "User - Frequent AI Imagery"

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  • @csswizardry.com got me with a nerd snipe, so I tidied up @piccalil.li's PWA stuff as a nice little Friday afternoon thing

    Install piccalil.li today!

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  • I really like how @simplebits.com operates

    simplebits.com

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  • yOu'Re aBsolUteLy rIgHt

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  • remembering the good old discourse days

    A cartoon metronome. On one side it says "Should designers code?" and on the other, "is CSS a programming language"

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  • @wil.to's draft for his newsletter, GOING OUT LATER, sums up AI stuff incredibly well in the Q&A

    Sign up to get it piccalil.li/javascript-f...

    How does AI impact the course? How is JS knowledge going to remain useful in this AI world and how does this course play into that? First and foremost: it isn't involved in the creation of the course, full stop. I can't claim to know the future any more than anyone else, but I *can* tell you what I worry about; I'm great at that. I worry that increased reliance on these tools will eventually do away with the most frustrating part of the process of learning JavaScript: actually learning how JavaScript works. We can pretty easily recognize the output of these tools as "minimally viable" — a convenience for producing prototypes, or a way of abstracting away some of the day-to-day repetition of our work. The results of those tools still need *considerable* oversight from someone with enough experience to recognize the potential failings of that output. By abstracting away the frustrating parts of our work, you might never gain the real-world experience you would need to provide that oversight, and without that, well — anyone can press a "generate some JavaScript" button. Why should it be you? The ability to type fast has never been the mark of a strong developer, and that's certainly not our *value*. A developer's value, as a professional, is in their ability to solve problems in measured, performant, reliable, and forward-thinking ways. *Experience* is what makes a great JavaScript developer, not the volume of their output. I can't say where the field of JavaScript development is headed, but I know this much: there will always be value in skill and experience. I don't do push-ups because I like to do them; I do them to get stronger. I wouldn't say I'm writing this course out of spite — not exactly — but I'll say this much without a moment's hesitation: I'm here to help you learn JavaScript, because I want to help you get stronger, more experienced, more knowledgeable, more skilled, more *valued*. That's what I want for you, and for us, as an industry.

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