James Moss

Coding used to mean "write every line."
Now it means "design the outcome."

YouTube video by Pleasant Green Don't Buy Stuff from Old AI People

There’s a whole army of old AI people trying to scam people. youtu.be/f9MbhNJ5EIU?...

I listened to this episode on a run last night, not being able to see what was being built made it really interesting. Joe was descending into madness with the event space fire threat in his town.

YouTube video by runevision Surface-Stable Fractal Dithering Explained

I'm really digging a retro, dithered gradient aesthetic recently. Also loving @runevision.bsky.social's surface-stable fractal dithering technique. I really want to redo my personal site with something like this soon. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPqG...

This aged like milk. I sprained my foot a few days after posting and today I’m sitting it out 🫣

2025 James agrees with you but cast your mind back to 2014. ES6 wasn't a thing, JavaScript as a language had been stagnant for 10+ years. We were craving some syntactic sugar and coffeescript delivered, especially for me as our company had just moved to RoR a year prior.

Four weeks to go until the Brighton Half Marathon. I'm looking to shave 25 minutes from last year's time. This says much about how slow I was last Feb and how much running I've done in the last 12 months. Lots of training still ahead of me though.

This makes it 10x easier to debug perf issues in code I've written 👏

But don't you love ruby? I guess coffeescript is missing all the nice iterators, and blocks, and the stdlib and everything that makes ruby nice. Wait, why did I use it again?

The aforementioned project was using coffeescript, gulp and bower. Truly the most cursed stack; what was I thinking in 2014? There was no readme. It took me 30 mins just to get the thing up and running for a two line change to manifest.json

Embark - New Tab Page - Chrome Web Store A minimalistic new tab page.

The silly little new tab extension I made for Chrome over 10 years ago has 25,000 users. I've just upgraded it to use manifest v3. Here's to another 10 years.

I like how “poop fart poop fart” has become the defacto example of a bad prompt.

I've been super excited for the new View Transition API to land in browsers for a while now. Matt's put together a great overview of what it is plus the challenges of using it with React and how the new <ViewTransition /> component can help.

💡 TIL about PointerEvent.getPredictedEvents()

Apparently, web browsers can predict where the cursor could potentially move next

Now supported everywhere starting Safari 18.2

this is really feeling like old twitter and I’m here for it

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