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Every line of code is a liability, and now with the power of AI, I can create 8000 new liabilities per day!

View Transitions are enabled by default in Firefox Nightly, so they're on their way to stable. Give it a test with your current transitions, and give me a shout if anything doesn't look right.

Duplication Is Not the Enemy We’re taught to eliminate duplication at all costs. But the wrong abstraction is far more expensive than a little copy-paste. Here’s why.

Hot take: Stop following DRY so religiously.

I've seen more codebases destroyed by premature abstraction than by duplication. Sometimes copy-paste is the right answer.

New post: terriblesoftware.org/2025/05/28/d...

Duplication Is Not the Enemy We’re taught to eliminate duplication at all costs. But the wrong abstraction is far more expensive than a little copy-paste. Here’s why.

Fantastic explanation of the challenges of developing in a codebase over time

My fave line: “Every new requirement makes it slightly worse, but never quite bad enough to justify a complete rewrite.”

terriblesoftware.org/2025/05/28/d...

Val Town for Glitch Users Updates and articles from the Val Town team

Val Town has always been inspired by @glitch.com - they paved the way for zero-config instantly-edited websites. It's a bummer that what brought so many people joy and was a great community for diverse communities is coming to an end

So: where does Val Town fit into this?

blog.val.town/glitch 💜🐟

i'm tired of being told to stop doomscrolling. i'm just scrolling, it's not my fault there's doom on there

“Just use Vite”… with the Workers runtime The Cloudflare Vite plugin integrates Vite, one of the most popular build tools for web development, with the Workers runtime. Today, we are announcing the 1.0 release and official support for React R...

Super excited to see @cloudflare.social launching v1 of their @vite.dev plugin, with first class React Router v7 support.

Huge shout out to James Opstad for working with us to ensure support on top of our recent Vite Environment API work.

blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-...

Dominik on stage at React Paris, with a slide reading "Please try out betas & pre-releases"

"Stable doesn't mean bug-free, or battle tested, it just means we can't change the API anymore".

As an open-source maintainer, this quote by @tkdodo.eu resonates profoundly.

Help out maintainers and try out beta/RC versions while you still can influence them. 🙏

Decentralisation is hard

Who knows anything about anyone, let alone themselves

youtube.com/shorts/yX5pr...

Are you ready? Today marks the start of ‘The Bellingcat Open Source Challenge’! Five days a week, for the entire month, find a new a new open source exercise on challenge.bellingcat.com

💅 e18e community starter pack
go.bsky.app/JoSyk5A

If you need some non-election material to distract you, Leslie Lamport just dropped a new book on TLA+ lamport.azurewebsites.net/tla/science-...

I had to read it twice.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/arti...

Those words are in quotes because that notion is kind of ridiculous. We all deserve it. None of us needs to earn it. When you are in your right might and capable of kindness you really should be kind. We didn't just fall out of a coconut tree or whatever

CrowdStrike xkcd.com/2961

complaint driven development

Probably for non weapon uses

ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary...

Smudge, going full nap

The weekend is here! Celebrate with a nap.

Wordle 880 2/6

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