Carlos Espada

Stop generating, start thinking - localghost Instead of wanting to learn and improve as humans, and build better software, we’ve outsourced our mistakes to an unthinking algorithm.

I've been on a bit of a social media hiatus, but I've written a new post about something that's been on my mind a lot lately localghost.dev/blog/stop-ge...

Super-Mediocrity March will be the third anniversary of the beginning of my journey with Large Language Models and generative “A.I.” At the time, we were all being dazzled – myself included &#8211…

It's becoming ever clearer that, far from leading to "super-intelligence", scaling LLMs is more likely to end at "super-mediocrity" - producing outputs that are closer to the average of their training data.

For software developers, this has implications.

codemanship.wordpress.com/2026/02/25/s...

Removing list styles without affecting semantics. - Manuel Matuzovic I'm a frontend developer in Graz, specialized in HTML, accessibility, and CSS layout and architecture.

Regarding the problem of Safari removing the role of lists when using list-style: none, I really like @matuzo.at's idea, which only requires CSS and still maintains the role="list"

www.matuzo.at/blog/2023/re...

That's exactly how I feel. I just hope that the gamble we're taking pays off. I'm confident it will.

Another one here, you'll never walk alone

I just said that to a colleague 😅

@jim-nielsen.com is on fire. Lately, every thought he expresses, no matter how small, seems to perfectly dissect reality and express in precise words what is on my mind 🎩❤️

blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/saying-...

Thank you for writing this ❤️

Imagine your car pulling over mid-drive to ask, “How’s your experience so far?” Ridiculous…until you realize that’s exactly how many apps behave now. How we normalized being interrupted by the products we bought to do work. Backseat Software: blog.mikeswanson.com/backseat-sof...

By far the best browser right now 😍

GitHub - dweekly/ai-content-disclosure: Explainer: AI Content Disclosure for HTML — element-level markup for AI authorship transparency Explainer: AI Content Disclosure for HTML — element-level markup for AI authorship transparency - dweekly/ai-content-disclosure

Proposal: Element-level AI content disclosure in HTML

"One of the motivations is the EU AI Act Article 50 requirement for machine-readable marking of AI-generated text (effective August 2026)."

#ai #semantics #html #a11y

github.com/dweekly/ai-c...

📝 You know how you can just do things? Well you can just say no to the data.

blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/say-no-...

So your option is better. Ultimately, what matters is how useful it is to users, semantics should be at their service. Thank you for the explanation!

And another question: would it be necessary to use aria-hidden=“true” (and focusable="false") in the SVGs of secondary actions to prevent the icons from being announced by screen readers?

Thank you for writing articles with such knowledge and attention to detail 😍

One advantage could be to use <h3> to give the <article> an accessible name via "aria-labelledby", thus making the product list navigable using landmark regions.

A question about the code: would it make sense for each <li class="list-item"> to be an <article> and for the secondary actions to be grouped in a <ul> instead of being inside <div class="list-item-secondary-content-area">? Do you think it would be a better option when using assistive technologies?

YouTube video by Wey Wey Web Dynamic CSS secrets by Lea Verou

This from @lea.verou.me may help you "fully understand the why behind Registered Custom Properties and the Computed Value Time Behavior superpower" 😉

In her course "Dynamic CSS with Custom Properties (aka CSS Variables)" she explains it beautifully 😍

www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-5q...

Is “ethical AI” an oxymoron? The current wave of generative AI has unpleasant side effects: large-scale copyright infringements, environmental impact and bias. For most uses today, it makes sense to me to default to not using AI.

✏️ New post: Is “ethical AI” an oxymoron?

hidde.blog/ethical-ai/

Go European - Chrome Web Store Suggests European website alternatives to non-European websites.

The Go European extension (for Chromium-based broozers) will suggest European competitors to Big Tech sites as you visit them chromewebstore.google.com/detail/go-eu...

YouTube video by NPR Music Doechii: Tiny Desk Concert

Pues Doechii tiene una barbaridad de directo como este, si te mola ese estilo es una maravilla
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-91v...

A huge thank you for writing this ❤️🔝

AI optimism is a class privilege I think I have an idea why we're so extremely divided on AI: it's because we have an intuitive sense of who it stands to benefit, and who stands to pay the costs. I think whether you see reason for op...

I have a lot of thoughts on AI.

I've been working on this post for a couple of months now. It's very personal, characteristically lengthy, and sure to be at least somewhat controversial. Take it (or don't) as you will.

joshcollinsworth.com/blog/sloptim...

This country has in its hands an instrument of incalculable power for good. An instrument that can be given to spreading among the nation the true knowledge of each other. Helpful rather than hurtful to the interests of mankind. These newly acquired skills of mankind will move at a breathtaking pace. Broadcasting, which we begin to see now as a worldwide international service, is a step into the future even more dramatic than the devеlopment of flying. Broadcasting without its responsibilities is nothing. It’s not a way of thought, it’s not a way of culturе, it’s not a way of life. It’s there to serve thought, so that people think for themselves. It’s there to serve culture in such a way that people will turn more and more to active participation in the arts. Go to the theatre, attend concerts, read books, use their hands. And help to build a community in which broadcasting is only a very small part of a full and satisfying life. It has helped something living in us to keep alive. And it has reminded us in its graver moments that life won’t last. And that for this very reason, there are things more important than success or power.

In the early 1940s, Directors General of the BBC, Cecil Graves and William Haley spoke about the revolutionary technology of radio and television broadcasting.

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Now read that again, this time replacing ‘broadcasting’ with ‘AI’ and imagine how different things could be.

#ai

📝 “Growth” is an interesting word. In the natural world, you tend to it. In the business world, you “hack” it, “engineer” it, and do everything you can to otherwise accelerate, manipulate, and manufacture it into existence.

blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/grow-li...

You Can’t Make Something Accessible to Everyone This post’s title is unpleasant, but it’s important to acknowledge the reality of the human condition and limitations in technologies. Even purpose-built assistive tech. Broadly, when someone says som...

424-word hot take: “You Can’t Make Something Accessible to Everyone”
adrianroselli.com/2025/12/you-...

#accessibility #a11y

Here’s a question I get a lot:

> “Now that AI can generate front-end UIs for us, what’s the point of learning CSS ourselves?”

I think there are lots of reasons, including that you can use AI much more effectively if you understand CSS yourself.

But is that actually true? Let’s discuss. 🧵

✏️ Who wins when we filter the open web through an opaque system? hidde.blog/filtered-ope...

new blog post… I remembered @baldurbjarnason.com's many warnings over recent years and tried put them into the 'open web'/LLMs context.

Messages like this help keep the Internet we love alive. Thank you for writing it, and keep up the good fight 💪❤️

For anyone who wants to learn about CSS or JavaScript or who has a project to develop: I can't think of a better choice than Andy and his team. The quality and results are 100% guaranteed 🔝😍

Why use React? Or, more precisely, why use React *in the browser*?

I wanted to write about this for a long time, but @adactio.com did it first and definitely better. Web frameworks should be invisible to the user, they serve us developers. Users don't care, and shouldn't pay the price neither.