Robin

Learned the following in econ class forty years ago:

Of any assistance given to somebody by anybody, the one with the highest marginal utility to the beneficiary is cash.

Vermont joins lawsuit against USDA over food stamp funding - VTDigger “The president has created a new crisis,” Attorney General Charity Clark said Tuesday. “The best case scenario is that (he) comes to his senses … and does what Congress asked him to do.”

When I said she did, that's what I meant

vtdigger.org/2025/10/28/v...

I guess we're belligerently and joyfully different here in Vermont, but the Republican Governor instructed the Republican Attorney General to join this suit! She did.

Saturday #dadjoke 😁😄

Republican state senator faces calls to resign after posting racist messages in group chat A first-term Republican state senator from Orleans County is facing pressure from members of his own party to resign after a story published by Politico Tuesday detailed his involvement in a racist te...

State legislator is Sam Douglas of Orleans County, VT.

We are blessfully different up here as the entire state GOP, including the GOP governor, has asked him to resign.

www.vermontpublic.org/local-news/2...

Go big or go home!

Pope Leo holding a t-shirt that says Da Pope, like they do in Chicago.

Effin' a right!

Another vote of AdBlock Plus, free version.

😁

Please - stop doing the screenshot no link thing on Bluesky. This platform does not punish you for posting a URL. You picked up the habit from Meta apps? Stop doing Mark Z's bidding. Link ESPECIALLY to authors, reporters, bloggers, etc. where you quote the work.

Can confirm, 75% cut.

I've said this before and I'll say it again: I'll take simple, readable #CSS code over clever-looking one any day.

I'm more impressed with simplicity that achieves the same result than I am with "cool, complex" solutions that produce the same results.

List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours without preparation.

1. Beef Bourguignon
2. The simplest DOM possible
3. Vanilla JavaScript

I use them when cooking dinner.

Chop the onions, into the bowl.
Chop the garlic, into another bowl.

Repeat with all the ingredients and cook the dinner likity-split!

Seriously needed!

Essential reading, with a nicely accessible plain English presentation.

It’s getting to be that time again: The 2025 Fall Foliage Prediction Map. [smokymountains.com]

oli.css oli.css - a modern no-class framework a modern no-class framework [early alpha]

oli.css #smashingconf

olicss.com

This is fairly well done in this vein too:

kelpui.com

It's called carryover cooking, very smart. It happens with everything not just your grill.

Stowe

bsky.app/profile/cfer...

and his site

gomakethings.com

taught me quite a bi

Be Loud For America! 🇺🇸

~ JB Pritzker 9/2/25

Another great list of examples to throw into the anti-JS pile. If you’re a web developer who hasn’t paid attention to CSS in a while, give this a read!

https://lyra.horse/blog/2025/08/you-dont-need-js/

corn mush = polenta
spelt = farro

A notional design studio. — ethanmarcotte.com A design language, if you can keep it.

🦊

I wrote about the administration’s “national design studio,” and how its shoddy construction isn’t a mistake. It’s a clear signal of priorities, and ones we need to actively, urgently rebuke. ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/a-noti...

Linux only :( but Terminator.

Project Manager extension

Want to build faster websites? Here's how:

- Learn how browsers parse, layout & paint
- Treat JS as a tool, not the foundation(!)
- Favor static HTML or server side rendering at all times
- Use Core Web Vitals alongside other metrics to learn shortfalls, improve and iterate

Then keep doing that.

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