Morgan Roderick

I use Fastmail for my personal domain, which has addresses for my family. I’ve been considering moving to Proton, for increased privacy

Let’s try again. Are you considering moving to a different provider for email, who doesn’t read your email or train their LLMs on your data? If so, which ones are you considering?

You’re right, I apologise.

Why is your email with Google? Surely, you care about privacy?

Painting of poet, artist, and social reform advocate Victor Hugo. Care of Musee National du Chateau, Versailles, France. Dressed formally, his elbow resting on a leather-bound volume, his right hand tucked, Napoleon-style, into his waistcoat, Hugo stares directly into the viewer’s soul.

“A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.” — Victor Hugo

Not even going to comment on how crypto people keep pushing the idea of “stablecoins as payments” use case: completely ignoring the reason anyone sensible won’t stop using credit cards:

Because credit cards offer chargebacks, and pay perks.

Crypto offers neither and is a risk

You guys see where this is going? Right?

A witty graphic comparing casinos to vibe coding with LLMs

This is one of the greatest things I’ve ever read in my entire life about any topic ever anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

You can also do this directly in Spotlight. Just type "33c" and it'll show the conversion instantly

I put together a whole page of resources and pointers on these topics, and cannot recommend "Life of a Pixel" often or highly enough:

infrequently.org/links/#web-p...

Princess 👸

YouTube video by codebar Nurturing the Designer and Developer Relationship with Rob Otim | codebar Festival 2025

New on the codebar youtube - "Nurturing the Designer and Developer Relationship" with Rob Otim 👀

In this talk, Rob shares his thoughts on how designers and developers can work better together ⬇️ youtu.be/Hs9jn1GQbTU

Track AI Agents, Bot Traffic, and LLM Referrals | Dark Visitors Grow your business with realtime visibility into the hidden ecosystem of crawlers, scrapers, LLM assistants, and AI agents browsing your website

darkvisitors.com might help you block the LLM crawlers

Element* even

I guess what I think is interesting is the practice of upgrading the html with a custom event, if/when JavaScript has loaded

Not exactly a dropdown menu, but still. I made this a few years ago: plete.dev

Doers and Dreamers - Aaron Quint | Kingston NY Happenings The easiest way to find fun and interesting things to do in the Kingston area!

kingstonhappenings.org/doers-dream-...

This is one of them. You should be able to track him down 😄

It seemed they were happy there

Friends of mine ended up in Kingston, NY.

I don’t know their Bluesky handles

Did you guys notice how quickly we got to okaying discrimination against women, people of color and LGBTQA+ people, Christi-fascists in the government, erasure of public health, not being able to trust government statistics, autocratic use of power and undermining elections?

Transmisogyny is just this bizarre clusterfuck where people treat you like a woman, in that they talk over you, call you overly emotional, sexualise you, judge you harshly on how well you embody femininity, disbelieve you when you say you've been mistreated, all the while insisting that you're a man

a web that isn't human-first is a web I want nothing to do with. I'm not going to "optimize the graph" of assertions, or whatever. I'm not a content farm for your algorithm. i'm here to build real relationships with real people - and if that's not what the web is for anymore, I'll be somewhere else.

Journal: Progressive web apps


If you’thinking of making a native app, think again.


🔗https://adactio.com/journal/22074

Aubrey isn't just a kick-ass developer. She's an amazingly kind, thoughtful human being. I cannot overstate how incredible of an asset she would be for your team!

Create a larger, invisible hit area around the element, making it easier to click without layout shift!

How? Use a pseudo element with `position: absolute` + `inset: -{value}px`

Demo to play with: codepen.io/una/pen/gbaWdmy

(Tip from dmytro on X, who I can't find on Bsky: x.com/pqoqubbw/sta...)

I'd take a few, if we lived on the same continent :)

Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives Perplexity is repeatedly modifying their user agent and changing IPs and ASNs to hide their crawling activity, in direct conflict with explicit no-crawl preferences expressed by websites.

I've enjoyed reading blog.cloudflare.com/perplexity-i... today. Glad that Cloudflare are doing investigative work for everyone.

Final alternativo de Idoru, do lendário @greatdismal.bsky.social

I like the robots.txt part. Was thinking about building just this myself