Jonathan Stephens

I love that whenever this goes around, people reminisce about their communities over decades online, some finding each other from long lost forums and ICQ's after literally 30 years, etc.

Shouting out online friends they've had for 40 years, but whom they've never met.

Not explicitly applied to web, but the framing sent my thoughts towards Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

"The plans to demolish your house were posted, and accessible."

"...in a bottom basement filing cabinet."

More webby though: lack of acceptance of international phone numbers for services.

Didn’t Take Long To Reveal The UK’s Online Safety Act Is Exactly The Privacy-Crushing Failure Everyone Warned About

Well, well, well. The “age assurance” part of the UK's Online Safety Act has finally gone into effect, with its age checking requirements kicking in a week and a half ago. And what…

This is an important Exclusive on the little satellites that turned out to be massive multi-taskers, important to multiple industries, countries, & futures.

It'll cost more to kill them than maintain them. We don't get this info anywhere else. The 47 administration wants this plan to be a secret.

Budgets reveal priorities, budgets are manifestos; logistics, organizing and morale make history

Elon Musk brutally laying off 80% of Twitter’s staff and the site not falling over was a watershed moment in tech that changed the trajectory of the industry.

A four-panel comic strip titled "Jogging from the Perspective of Animals". Panel 1 shows a bear with a caption, "What are you running from, apex predator?" Panel 2 depicts a wolf with two captions, "Are you chasing prey? You need to conserve energy." Panel 3 shows the same wolf with a caption, "The hell is that guy doing". Panel 4 features a smaller, confused animal with the caption, "I don't know I don't understand". The comic humorously explores animals' confusion about why humans jog. Artist credit is given as "@Jake Likes Onions".

You have a dry warm place with meat, why pretend to hunt

This is basically what I do for most talks. Technical title, few buzzwords, leaning into the techbro vibe, all of that

Then I show up in a ballgown and talk about social skills and leading people with empathy and humanity

Because yes, that’s also technical skills, and tech can be feminine too 💅

It turns out a lot of companies have hard coded UI text even if they support publishing in any language or script. As someone who has advocated for accessible, adaptive, omnichannel, multi-device, and localized content for my whole career, it’s disappointing but not surprising to me that it happens

this is the same reason I detest “magic eraser” tech to remove people, utility poles, and other objects from photos. it’s the fetishization of a blemish-free aesthetic. the blemishes and the ephemera are what make it real

Stop.

Collect yourself.

Take a deep breath.

Exhale.

Unclench your jaw.

Stretch your fingers.

Relax.
Relate.
Release.

If just getting up is all you can do and thats okay too. But try to find something resembling your own peace. I hope you have a decent day.

p:has(img) + h2 { margin-top: 3rem; }

If this were the only use case for CSS :has(), I'd still be happy. Such a live saver! 👌 #CSS

Context: this is useful in generated content where the CMS wraps an `<img>` tag inside a `<p>`.

I hate living in a "World without Editors".
I especially hate having grown up with Grammar, Spelling, Copybooks and Editors only ton ow to live in a "World without Editors"

SKIRT. NOT SQUIRT!
GODAMNIT.

An interesting thing to observe here is that green tech tends towards more decentralised, democratic deployment (with nuclear as both the exception and contested case) whereas AI tends towards centralised, anti-democratic usage (especially in its political epistemology).

(Stunning thread, too.)

In the US AI buildout is so gigantic; contrib. more to US growth than consumer spending in 2025!

China's green boom is so gigantic that Clean-energy contributed more than 10% of China's WHOLE ECONOMIC GDP in 2024 for the first time ever
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reading on eink then shifting to the phone is a shocker

if apple had any innovation left, they’d be making the world’s best eink-type device

the youthz are OVER digital overwhelm and concerned about their eyes

Anyone talking about the 90s like it was a feminist haven free of a manosphere has clearly forgotten about what the 90s was actually like or never bothered to study it

High-resolution digital scan of Vermeer’s painting Girl with a Pearl Earring, showing ultra-detailed textures and brushstrokes and cracks on her left eye, with interactive zoom and partial 3D visualization options.

Girl with a Pearl Earring is a 108 billion pixels scan of Johannes Vermeer’s Girl with a Perl Earring painting, that lets you zoom to see super high level details, with a 3D view of certain parts. Quite amazing.

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How green stuff is farmed.

Every time a person over a certain age says “this generation doesn’t want to work anymore” I follow up with “Why do you think that is?” or “Well, look at what they have left to inherent.”

And its always interesting watching the person in question unravel those comments.

Quick thread about working on a treadmill. 🧵

When I first got the treadmill, I remember thinking "How on earth does anyone work like this?!". It’s so weird to be doing focused work while walking.

But I got used to it pretty quick. And these days, I find it easier to get into flow while walking!

epicycles a tool for making patterns out of nested circles

here's my tool for making these in the browser: vbuckenham.com/epicycles/

Real unmasking isn’t aesthetic.

It’s slow, sacred, gritty work.

It’s boundaries, regulation, refusal, adaptation.

Not “vibes” – sustainability.

Not products - authenticity.

Detail of a woodcut integrated in a typeset text to display visual damage on a funeral stone.

Detail of a woodcut integrated in a typeset text to display visual damage on a funeral stone.

Detail of a woodcut integrated in a typeset text to display visual damage on a funeral stone.

Engraved title page with typeset text in the middle. The engraving displays allegorical depictions and a historican scene at the bottom. The typeset text includes the title and the imprint.

Ingenious use of woodcuts that overlap typeset text in this 1588 edition, visually reproducing old inscriptions found on funerary stones, altars & Capitoline Tables, carefully rendering letters but also the erosion, fractures & surface damage of their material supports.

#rarebooks #bookhistory

Resting is actually a skill they should teach you. I would honestly pay someone to teach me how to rest properly

MVCs are cute.

Community flywheels are forever.

Well, not really forever, that would be a lie, but they sure do last longer.

Ship community experiments like features. Small bets. Fast feedback. Systemic wins led by community discovery.

The other thing I might pair this advice with is, as Netflix famously puts it: "farm for dissent".

If you're the person asking for feedback, be specific, if you can, about where and what parts you are particularly interested in feedback on, and *especially* if you're seeking out contrary views.

If you were alive in the 1980s, this is among the most wonderful & truly incredible things you have ever witnessed in your lifetime.

when you see somebody looking sad or bland and you smile at them and compliment them or just wish them a good evening or whatnot and their face lights up in real time right in front of you especially if the smile stays on as you pass each other by

The front page of the NYT. In a tiny space well below the 25 best restaurants in DC, a story on Trump's admission that sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein "stole" Virginia Giuffre. I've marked all that with a pink rectangle and arrows.

BREAKING!! Front page NYT!!!!