Eric Bailey

Apple could surprise remove Liquid Glass the same way it surprise added U2 to everyone's devices and I'd be first in line to call things even.

One of the under-discussed trends in UX is the shift in product design borrowing addictive elements from gambling, to straight up making gambling products.

Post-ZIRP, the psychological toolkit that was once used for growth (goosing MAU metrics) is now being deployed for revenue extraction purposes.

hear me out: 1005rem

it's wild how the positive use cases are like "save 5 minutes reading a long doc" and "write a generic email faster" and the negative use cases are "get encouraged to dive deeper in psychosis, misogyny, or suicidal thoughts" and we're still on the fence about overall value

Yeah, same. I also think we need something that isn't just passive archiving after the fact.

I'm more convinced with each passing day that web infrastructure and history needs means of existing outside of corporate ownership.

Silicon Valley sets its sights on building the perfect baby | Fortune Tech-savvy parents to be are using IVF and screening embryos to build families in ways that were unimaginable a few short years ago.

How does this article not mention eugenics even once?

'Sloppy' Code and Accessibility Issues: The Trouble With Trump's Silicon Valley-Inspired Web Design Project “Some of these sites feel like another round of ‘move fast and break things,’” a former federal web designer told NOTUS.

In September, I (and many other accessibility advocates) reviewed the America by Design website, finding sloppy AI-generated code and accessibility bugs.

@notus.com wrote on it, and also spoke to many amazing folks from @alt18f.bsky.social and @ethanmarcotte.com

www.notus.org/trump-white-...

Yeah, the virtual cursor might not scroll the page. It's kinda wonky and undetectable by design, unfortunately.

Ahh, gotcha. Yeah, from AT's perspective that is a link without an accName. Would it be possible to shift the `visibility: hidden` declaration to the anchor element instead?

visibility: hidden; should remove it from the accessibility tree, so it'll only "appear" when that's conditionally removed and the ATree updates. I'd chalk this up to a false positive on the tool's part.

I hope this email finds you worthy of love.

This is a textbook definition of coercive control . This is describing straight up dominance

These people have sold their humanity to support their addiction to power and they've built an entire system around justifying it at our expense

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follow me for other hot takes such as "thing bad" and also "thing that seems good also bad"

It's interesting, and by interesting I mean really sad that companies are moving away from investing in design systems at the same moment token specs are starting to get formally standardized.

Part of what we lost when newsrooms shifted from dedicated beat reporters to freelancers is the ability to push back/question.

News sites uncritically reprint marketing and propaganda, lending it authority it doesn't deserve and actively contributing to misinformation.

As with Elon, so with Sam.

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Why use React? Or, more precisely, why use React *in the browser*?

I wanted to write about this for a long time, but @adactio.com did it first and definitely better. Web frameworks should be invisible to the user, they serve us developers. Users don't care, and shouldn't pay the price neither.

Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.

If your entire economy is based on middle class spending then maybe you shouldn't have actively destroyed the middle class

I'LL ALLOW IT!

That joke is just for my Medieval scholar friends.

Maybe the brain scorpions was the basil we smelled along the way.

When has the tech community done anything but deflect about its issues?
From eugenics to gender issues to its implication in the current strain of technocultic fascism which has taken over/is attempting to take over huge swathes of the world, tech does not do self reflection.

“These "solutions" are fundamentally inequitable. They build a world of digital and physical segregation disguised as progress. And we users are expected to be thankful and grateful.” #a11y nimerblogs.blogspot.com/2025/08/cong...

I bet crocodiles would be so freakin' stoked to learn that we call their special move a death roll

The line and the stream. — ethanmarcotte.com “Artificial intelligence is the future,” they tell me. The thing is, futures are tricky.

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“Artificial intelligence isn’t going anywhere. It’s the future.”

I hear that line a lot. The thing is, futures are tricky.

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