Jeffrey Yasskin

I'm on Chrome, so probably discount me, but it's a terrible UI pattern. Checkboxes serve the same use cases, and don't rely on color changes to identify which state means "yes". Like with Toast, just because Native made a UI mistake doesn't mean it needs to be in HTML.

Port of Portland is talking about building 11,000 new car parking spaces. They have a survey where you can tell them this is a bad idea. Or maybe they should try increasing the number of TriMet bus lines to the airport (currently 0), or make biking to the airport safe: app.maptionnaire.com/q/oh2

welp, finished migrating to zen-browser.app as my new main browser because I'm a sucker for new things and this thing is genuinely nice, and not VC, and not genAI, and as far as I can tell not built by fucking nazis so it's like hey cool

You have until Sunday SUNDAY Sunday to order a Biology is Bigger than Binaries shirt. I don't have room in my house for piles of shirts so our shirts are always time-limited.

Designed by @franzanth.bsky.social, supports @skypeascientist.bsky.social, looks cool as hell.

Get one: SquidFacts.net

What The Hell Is Going On, a thread:

I’ve seen some thinkpieces and posts about Portland protests that fail to understand the long-term hyperspecificity of Portland culture/humor, and frame it as a sort of shitposting meme-pilled ironic thing. Which is wrong.

So I’m gonna give you my breakdown.

Ahead of the case caption, a handwritten note: "Trump has pardons and tanks . . . . what do you have?" Judge Young's reply: "Dear Mr. or Ms. Anonymous, Alone, I have nothing but my sense of duty. Together, We the People of the United States –- you and me -- have our magnificent Constitution. Here’s how that works out in a specific case –- "

AAUP v. Rubio is out, and look at how it starts. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

(I did post these to the survey itself, so that they count officially. Just sharing potential inspiration for folks who follow me.)

... concrete changes to ensure that kind of crash doesn't happen again. Necessary changes might be outside the transportation system.
* for health, that the level of unhealthy emissions from vehicles (particulates, NOx, VOC, etc) are so low we can't measure them.

My wishes:
* that everyone has freedom, not just car owners: I and my kids (grandkids by then?) can get from point A to point B faster and cheaper by bus/rail than by car.
* for safety, that every death or serious injury on the roads is met with an NTSB-aviation-style investigation and ...

# of paragraphs for news orgs to mention there's no discernable need to deploy troops to Portland, Oregon

The Guardian: 1st paragraph
BBC: 4th paragraph
AP: 5th paragraph
Time: 6th paragraph
Politico: 8th paragraph
NPR: 9th paragraph
CNN: 10th paragraph
NBC: 12th paragraph
Fox News: never mentions

I clearly don't understand these communities: they want to bring about the millennium asap. The antichrist has to happen for the millennium to happen, but Thiel's argument assumes they want to delay the antichrist, which will delay the millennium? Halp?

We call it "AI" while it doesn't work. Once it works, it gets a more precise name.

Codeaholics Sep Meetup with W3C TAG, Wed, Sep 17, 2025, 7:00 PM | Meetup This month we have 8 members of W3C TAG in the town to join us in a different format that you haven't seen in Codeaholics for a while. There will be a panel setup at the st

The W3C TAG is going to Hong Kong in 2 weeks for a face-to-face meeting, and as part of that, a local developer group is hosting us for a developer meetup: www.meetup.com/codeaholics/...

I hope to see lots of folks there! Please repost this and let more people know about it.

#WebStandards

𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 (@straphanger@urbanists.social) Attached: 1 image Back to school is coming fast! In #Paris, they have la rentrée sorted. There are now 300 "rue aux écoles," streets closed to cars, but open to people—up from 185 last year. That ...

Wishing my city could be more like Paris: urbanists.social/@straphanger...

Talos Principle and Outer Wilds. Heaven's Vault is linguistic like it seems Sennaar is. Maybe Subnautica if she can handle getting snuck up on and eaten.

YouTube video by Google Nederland Introducing the self-driving bicycle in the Netherlands

@contraireclaire.bsky.social Relevant to your interests: youtu.be/LSZPNwZex9s?...

Raising Luminaries Bookshop Sign up for Ignition Notes to get Family-Friendly Action Toolkits for kids Raising Luminaries is an Asian American & Autistic-run community inclusive for *all* families raising the next generation...

I heavily used the lists of books that turned into bookshop.org/shop/raising....

A parent reading “The High Cost of Free Parking” by Donald Shoup to their three-year-old.

Throwback to the time my three-year-old insisted that the bedtime story be “The High Cost of Free Parking.” RIP Donald Shoup. @jyasskin.bsky.social

Update on my life: Last year, I joined my kids' school's PTA, because they needed a treasurer and I'm good enough with numbers. It was a straightforward, self-contained job: balancing the checkbook for an organization that only did a few fundraisers each year.

I don't want to install a fucking app for a website. I already HAVE an app for looking at websites, it's called a browser and it works on all websites.

I don't want a video explaining how to do the thing. I want step-by-step instructions in a plain text document, on a single page, ideally that I can see all of without scrolling while using a reasonably big font.

i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?