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Trying to check in for my flight last week in the iOS app and got a helpful default Vercel 500 error page nestled inside the native UI. Is this micro frontends? 🦋

On a larger PR today GitHub took fully five seconds to pop up the "add comment" dialog...

new Date("wtf") How well do you know JavaScript's Date class?

I made a quiz about the JS Date parser is. It's very easy and you will score very high.

jsdate.wtf

The rise of Whatever This was originally titled “I miss when computers were fun”. But in the course of writing it, I discovered that there is a reason computers became less fun, a dark thread woven through a number of eve...

down with Whatever eev.ee/blog/2025/07...

Every Tailwind V4 app is using them. Super helpful for ensuring that component class rules can always be overridden by utilities. E.g. `class="Button p-4"` — the `p-4` will always take precedence over any default padding `.Button` sets. Obviates the need for the otherwise ubiquitous tailwind-merge

> The lazy, dumb, lying robot asshole keeps making the same mistakes over and over again, never improving, never genuinely reacting, always obsequiously pretending to take your feedback on board.
👏

Some of the most chilling 2 minutes you've ever seen. Look at what's being said, openly, on one of the most popular TV channels in Israel.

History is happening in front of our eyes. Don't look away.
Please help share this widely.

Read the full story here: zeteo.com/p/inside-the...

I built a big internal app for a client using Hono + JSX + (a tiny bit of) HTMX. It was honestly incredibly productive—colocation is amazing when you're working as a solo dev.

I wrote about that architecture from first principles:
oliverjam.com/articles/sim...
oliverjam.com/articles/pro...

Did you see the React Router RSC Preview? Ryan F wrote a batch loader to do exactly this (inspired by the original GQL dataloader).
remix.run/blog/rsc-pre...

It relies on AsyncLocalStorage to provide request-scoped context

If you’ve sent me a text and I didn’t respond please know that I didn’t forget you, you’ll live on in my subconscious as a vague sense of dread forever

The recent court documents showed that Google's internal testing demonstrated that significantly worse search results would not harm their business operations. This apparent immunity to quality concerns stems from the company's dominant market position, which the recent federal court ruling addressed. "Since Google doesn't have any real competition, it can make the best information hard to find, forcing users to stay on Google for longer and interact with more ads," Papadimitriou said. "This is dangerous for consumers, most of whom think the best results appear first." The strategy appears to be working from a business perspective. The study suggests that poor organic search results actually benefit Google's bottom line in two ways: they make paid advertisements more valuable to users seeking accurate information, and they force users to refine their searches multiple times, exposing them to more advertising in the process.

For everyone who was like “Google search is getting worse,” we were absolutely right.

Some might say I'm being too harsh on Figma but I actually think I'm not being harsh *enough.*

For better or worse, Figma is the industry-default design tool. When they select their priorities, it communicates to designers *what they should consider important* both as a role model and as a tool.

Pope Francis wanted to ensure that a new pope yielded the same result. This means the papacy is idempontiff

I just published a fun post about CSS borders: oliverjam.com

long stretch of worked roman stone on Hadrian's Wall.

If you ask someone today to name the builder of Hadrian's Wall, they would give you a funny look. But historical memory is odd, and right up to the 1800s we forgot who built it.

Until in 1840 John Hodgson, an obscure Northumbrian clergyman, published the LONGEST footnote in history... 1/22

Are 'CSS Carousels' accessible? – The personal website of Sara Soueidan, inclusive design engineer

[New blog post]

Are CSS Carousels accessible sarasoueidan.com/blog/css-car...

In this post, I share some important insights from examining the accessibility of CSS-only carousels that use new features introduced in the #CSS Overflow Module Level 5 spec.

#a11y

I really wish I could describe GenZ what it felt like growing up in a miracle. My grandfather on my mother's side was a dentist. He had a grand encyclopedia collection and it was just this incredible thing. You could pick up a random book and go to a random page and just be regaled with information

I made a website. It's called "one million chessboards." It has a million chessboards on it.

moving a piece moves it for everyone, instantly. No turns. You can move between boards.

that's it. Have fun!

onemillionchessboards.com

I wrote something about how we're seeing the rise of the online "alpha male." This is someone who speaks in clipped imperatives, squeezes into tight suits, and performs for our feed. They present a vision of masculinity shaped by politics, tech, and 100 years of cultural history 🧵

Kurt Vonnegut tells his wife he's going out to buy an envelope: "Oh, she says, well, you're not a poor man. You know, why don't you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I'm going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope. I meet a lot of people. And see some great looking babies. And a fire engine goes by. And I give them the thumbs up. And I'll ask a woman what kind of dog that is. And, and I don't know. The moral of the story is — we're here on Earth to fart around And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And what the computer people don't realize, or they don't care, is we're dancing animals. You know, we love to move around. And it's like we're not supposed to dance at all anymore."

Kurt Vonnegut man

GATTACA

WAS

A DYSTOPIA

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST, PEOPLE

Jadzia Dax and Kor hugging: "Curzon, my beloved old friend." "I'm Jadzia now." "Jadzia, my beloved old friend!"

It's also the day for my favorite meme!

If this aging Klingon warrior can get it right, so can anyone.

What a great conference (and a great set of Olivers). I highly recommend #SotB2025 to anyone who loves the web

It was so nice catching up again after so long! Let’s not wait 5 years before next time

The apple settings menu with a new item in the sidebar called "image creation tools are here" and a CTA that says "open image playground"

There is absolutely no world in which this is a "setting"

What ontological universe is Apple living in? If only we had some existing design pattern like "notifications" or "banners" to show users what's new??

Ghost: Independent technology for modern publishing Beautiful, modern publishing with newsletters and premium subscriptions built-in. Used by Sky, 404Media, Lever News, Tangle, The Browser, and thousands more.

I want to talk about my move from Substack to Ghost for a second, and what it's been like working with a nonprofit tech company that actually lives its values.

Especially if you're a writer still on Subtack, please read. 1/x

First of all, about the org: They are a nonprofit, I just met employee +

Specifying details in an unambiguous fashion is also called... programming.

The answer was not the point. The answer was never the point. The process of searching is the process of learning.

Instead of joining Chinese apps as an alternative to TikTok, Gen Z users should simply stop dancing and having fun and become mildly depressed 37 year old Bluesky users talking about Star Trek Deep Space 9