Matthew Warland

“I’ve reviewed over 50 sticky toffee puddings” is an incredibly powerful way to begin a video

10 years of this shit

HATCH THE FROZEN FLESH EGG

Fit width text in 1 line of CSS
`text-grow: per-line scale;`

nerdy.dev/css-text-grow

(prototype in Canary 165+)

America’s Polarization Has Become the World's Side Hustle The 'psyops' revealed by X are entirely the fault of the perverse incentives created by social media monetization programs.

“America’s Polarization Has Become the World's Side Hustle”

too many people just focus on supply side of foreigners using tech for disinformation. Its the demand side - American society is broken yet wealthy - that makes it a business model
www.404media.co/americas-pol...

ok one last post -- oldheads are always going to "why is the web dying.... how can we get the kids invested in the free and open web"

bro the kids can't read. that's why the web is dying. first things first

This is so awesome I love it

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing? 2? Questions I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up. Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Not that I'm the biggest fan of the American copyright system, this feels like a no-brainer. Effort will always be better than slop.

AI has a purple problem

Why does every website look like this? Where did this come from? Is Tailwind to blame?

I went to the sloppiest and purplest corners of the web to find out

www.youtube.com/watch?v=AG_7...

New! Cassetteboy vs Keir Starmer.

This took absolutely ages, so if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy we'd really appreciate it. Thanks!

can't bring back bourgeois 'good taste' wo bringing back the bourgeoisie, civil society, the public sphere, etc

slop is the aesthetic manifestation of more fundamental power relations/the reframing of everything around private wealth & responsibility

www.its-her-factory.com/2025/09/1996...

Bloody solar panels, cluttering up the countryside and preventing desertification while providing clean energy and growing food.

idk man i'm starting to get suspicious

The late DJ Chris Hill galvanised funkateers, brought Black music to the clubs – and got Mick Jones dancing The legendary Essex DJ, who died earlier this month, was a cultural influencer before there was such a thing. He democratised the dancefloor, fearlessly blended genres and understood the power of pers...

After losing JD Twitch last week another giant of eclecticism has left us. This is a great article from Gilles Peterson about who he was: www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...

Welp. That kinda backfired.

As America's most pro-business leader in a generation, I will choose one company each week and accuse them of witchcraft

Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) on Threads I tend to see a lot of things through the lens of history and the assassination of Charlie Kirk—especially the Trump administration’s response to it—has me thinking of one historical analogy in partic...

They were going to do it anyway.

A great video from @juliaioffe.bsky.social that a friend just sent me.

The takeaway: Forget about the pretenses and the excuses. Focus on the tyranny and the crimes because they're going to do it anyway.

52: Will the AI slopwave ruin music for good? Blobby.

Country music and Lo-Fi beats 100% had this coming: notagspodcast.substack.com/p/52-will-th...

the craziest part of superman (2025) is that jimmy olsen writes a world changing story directly in the CMS

i have the brain cells & masters in compsci to handle a nuanced discussion on the broad topic of artificial intelligence, but not the character count allotment on here. i will say, the “you’ll be left behind if you don’t use it” crowd is very goofy just like the “have fun being poor” web3 folks were

A screenshot of the 1.2a version of macromedia Dreamweaver, a visual website building tool.

A screenshot of the recent dogwater Figma release, "Figma Sites".

evil doesnt die. it reinvents itself

www.youtube.com/watch?v=arta...

Sometimes the org. chart ships you.

It looks like AI invented this.

through a certain lens, a design system is just very expensive way for developers to avoid needing to write CSS

"did you make that logo signifying Europe's grim duty to rearm in the face of a hostile United States and expanding Russia?"

"Sure did boss, made it real goatse just like you asked,"