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Design fads(opens in new tab)

Not surprisingly, Apple is pulling the plug on their silly VR goggles or whatever they’re called. At least they didn’t rename the company after the goggles. But, Apple did sacrifice the usability of their main products, phones and computers, for ...

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I see the Build Awesome campaign is back! I’m not sure I understand what “Build Awesome” is beyond a rebranding of Eleventy. The new name was mocked by those I follow. Brennan Kenneth Brown called it The End of Eleventy ...

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I can’t believe we’re still not past the performative slop stage. Absolute tripe that nobody will ever give a second glance. It exists solely to impress AI-pilled peers and employers. Paraded one day, discarded the next to rot away in ...

Announcing PAI 5.0(opens in new tab)

Announcing PAI 5.0/images/announcing-pai-5-life-operating-system-header.jpg/images/announcing-pai-5-life-operating-system-header.jpg Hey all, Kai here. Super happy to announce that PAI 5.0 is out today. Daniel's been deep in this one for a while and there's a lot to walk through. Repo: github.com/...

Django Chat Podcast: E201(opens in new tab)

This week, I joined Will Vincent and Carlton Gibson on the Django Chat podcast for DjangoCon Europe Recap + Other News. You can also watch it on DjangoTV via YouTube. On this episode, we discussed DjangoCon Europe, which Carlton had ...

Inspired(opens in new tab)

In appendix A of the book Root cause: Stories and lessons from two decades of Backend Engineering Bugs, author Hussein Nasser has these wonderful words to say about me: Daniel Stenberg is a Swedish engineer and the creator of curl ...

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CSS has a safe keyword. Ion Prodan has a good demo: safe in flex and grid alignment. I keep forgetting this exists. Pray I remember next time. Other than horizontal scrolling, like a carousel with scroll snap which is not ...

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“The Sloppelganger Just a normal, professional website, made of normal human website parts. Only the most capable and skilled of teams could have delivered such a neutral yet saccharine tone with such unnaturally high-fidelity imagery. You’re only leaving because the ...

GitHub is sinking(opens in new tab)

TL;DR: GitHub used to be cool and now it’s a lame slop graveyard. GitHub is racing towards the mythical zero nines of uptime. Users are starting to notice that GitHub is now a Microsoft product. Eww! Official uptime paints a ...