Brian LeRoux

Screenshot of the vancouver metro area rendered by the Stamen Design water color tileset, and it's gorgeous. it looks like a real water color painting

i just discovered Stamen's Watercolor tileset and it's just beautiful! I wish all maps where this beautiful.

Bring more whimsy and beauty to websites

Reductio ad absurdum - Wikipedia

Welcome to the Internet. Here's some stuff we've known to be bullshit for literally millennia maybe don't embarrass yourself.

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Love the reply personas who see any statement and immediately jump to 'so what you're saying is [completely deranged extrapolation].'

Nah dog, that's what YOU said.

Socials should require people to pass a logical fallacy quiz before unlocking the reply button.

Think ? In this timeline?! Nah

I agree. As always, 'it depends', and I wouldn't reduce to the absolute in any regard. Attribution bugs me as a very long term open source committer under various licenses too. I'm getting value out of it in narrow ways just like I get value out of deps and other problematic tools like cloud.

Fun slightly related example. I recently ported some of our test suites to the node native runner and sped things up considerably (seconds instead of minutes). Llms are useful but definitely not a replacement for thinking rationally about tradeoffs !

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(those who know me also know I've been saying as much since long before LLMs made it convenient 😅)

I definitely wouldn't suggest otherwise. I've been using Kiro which is pretty deep on a test driven approach to LLMs.

Ya for sure, as always, "it depends" ™️

Yeah exactly, definitely think a web server is a good example of something we still would be well served by reaching for an established package

Obviously we could reduce this to dangerous absurd extremes. But for a lot of high level packages (eg frontend) the benefits absolutely outweigh the drawbacks.

Working with LLMs has galvanized my view on dependencies.

Most tasks never needed external packages. But now we can generate vanilla solutions in mere seconds.

Deps were always convenience over necessity. Now they're not even convenient.

Try building without one even! Browsers are good now. (Have been for many years..)

Matt's Hidden Cats contains a lot of plants and video games!

you will often hear "but they have the best DX" justifying a scenario that proves otherwise

it's funny (and sad) how DX is so often confused with aesthetics the same as UX

a glow up for the input,
now with contextual color pools

rad work @trysound.io 🤘🏻

Really nice ham sando tho

Yesh, knowing nothing about it probably...

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Did ya run the math for AWS ?

gushing over the maintainability and simplicity of @jim-nielsen.com’s menu as a whole dang separate-standalone-HTML-page: blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/lots-of...

(via @dbushell.com)

you know what would solve all of my problems, i bet

a couple new domain names

Web renaissance is here if you want it.

For my time, server rendering with js relegated to progressive enhancement is the best way to build for a variety of reasons performance and user experience aside. But I ack we had a decade of vendor framework marketing saying otherwise.

Worth noting server rendering also solves this. Ack that a lot of libs can't render on the backend as a downside.

cool to see that part progressively improve and become more accessible over the decades tho, no doubt

initial authoring never was or is the bottleneck in software delivery fwiw

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