Oliver Turner

Working in the open solved *some* of this. If you knew where to look, you could see the work going on to build systems which were safe, secure, and scalable.

But too many people were infected with the meme that the state is too slow to be effective. So they panicked and caused damage.

Interesting point… Apple appears unable to integrate AI (albeit possibly for valid privacy reasons); Google simply can’t seem to execute these days; and The Browser Company decided to torch the good will of the very users who would have been their most enthusiastic adopters and most vocal advocates.

the brain that can see a face in a wall outlet was always doomed to hear the voice of God in a markov chain

This guy is an incredible gymnast,

YouTube video by Zoe Gardner Would a SAFE ROUTE WORK to stop Channel crossings?

Providing safe routes to reach the UK is the only logical, evidence-based way to stop people travelling through irregular means.

Last night Ben Kentish challenged me on @lbc.co.uk on how that would work & whether A MILLION BILLION PEOPLE might come😱 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Al4R...

Hi all! 👋 I was laid off and am looking for my next senior front end developer role.

I have 19+ years of experience working with small agencies and Fortune 500 companies and focus on writing clean, accessible HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

Resume: aubreysambor.com/resume/

Leads/reposts appreciated!

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Definitely not in React, but the value of collocating styles with mark-up is extremely evident in the frameworks — Vue, Svelte, Astro, etc — that do support the pattern

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If Frontend news very close to the platform (you know HTML, CSS & JS) are you thing, you should check it out. 👇

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How To Remember Anything Forever-ish an interactive comic on the art & science of memory

I've been working on learning French. 🇫🇷🇨🇦 As someone who has failed at learning languages a lot, I went in with a lot of apprehension. This time is a lot better! One reason is that I'm using spaced repetition. I'd read about it before, but this comic from Nicky Case is fantastic: ncase.me/remember/

I am—for obvious reasons—appalled by my prior ignorance of this sacred date, but immensely grateful to you for the introduction 🙏

Revealed, a Daily Puzzle Game | Britannica Uncover something interesting: Guess the topic using the fewest Reveals and Hints. Topics include People, Science & Tech, History & Society, and more.

Every morning, after a quick espresso, I visit this site and try to crack the puzzle in two guesses or fewer

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#jj-vcs For Busy Devs, Part 2: "How Do I...?"

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Hot dog spill shuts down highway in Pennsylvania commuters' wurst nightmare By Associated Press UPDATED: August 1, 2025 at 5:16 PM ET SHREWSBURY, Pa. (AP) - A truckload of hot dogs spilled across a Pennsylvania interstate Friday after a crash that briefly clogged the heavily traveled artery in both directions.

A writer waits a lifetime for a moment like this.

Names and dates on docs.* Every time. Don't forget.

*: Yes, in the body, even when there's a version system.

Ask yourself why you’re having to entreat the model to carry out the simplest possible request.

The point is assumed: the model has no conception of “compliance” so it will continue to “disobey”.

I’m objecting to the consequence.

Rueful belly laugh 🥲

Sorry, but can you explain how devoting limited resources (energy and land) to meet uncertain demand (OpenAI’s boss acknowledges there’s no path to profitability) using the current generation of GPUs (which will be rendered obsolete within a year or so) makes sense?

Incredibly, they managed to make it effective reading from the bottom up too

Nope, they will be redundant. No other application needs soon-to-be obsolete compute on the scale that has been built out.
Damage to local biospheres irreversible though, so that’s nice.

As someone who maintains (and cherishes) a lot of code (that was written years before better alternatives became viable) I would pay good money to hear you speak

Truly the distress flare of CSS debugging 🤬

It’s so weird that this has become a “heuristic” for AI slop. I use them all the time because they lend meaning.

Yes and… there’s something even more rewarding about updating a codebase written in transitional technologies like Handlebars and Sass to HTML and CSS

Wot no Lamot?

I remember this ad featuring in the pre-roll for something I saw at the Odeon Putney when I was about 10 and thinking it looked really cool…

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Spaced
What we do in the shadows
House of Cards (Original, obvs)
The Office (US version)

Plus 1 million for Chernobyl and Yes (Prime) Minister

Vibe code is legacy code Updates and articles from the Val Town team

Vibe code is legacy code

blog.val.town/vibe-code

sometimes in an interview someone will ask me for my “secret” for staying on top of crypto news, and the secret is literally just RSS

YouTube video by Val Town The Role of the Human Brain in Programming

The talk Steve references at the bottom is well worth your time.