Jeff Starr

HTML is Dead, Long Live HTML Rethinking DOM from first principles

#HTML is Dead, Long Live HTML acko.net/blog/html-is...

AI 2027 A research-backed AI scenario forecast.

Interesting "choose your own adventure" style forecasting the future of #AI : ai-2027.com

Disposable Code Is Here to Stay, but Durable Code Is What Runs the World Every day I seem to run into yet another post with someone solemnly opining that “writing code has never been the hardest part of software engineering. And hey, that’s smashing.

👉 Exactly: Disposable Code Is Here to Stay, but Durable Code Is What Runs the World www.honeycomb.io/blog/disposa... #AI #LLM

Lucia Falls (on the East Fork Lewis River) at Lucia Falls Regional Park (Clark County, WA).

Looking east along the East Fork Lewis River at Lucia Falls Regional Park (Clark County, WA).

Near Moulton Falls Bridge (over the East Fork Lewis River) at Moulton Falls Regional Park (Clark County, WA).

Moulton Falls Bridge (over the East Fork Lewis River) at Moulton Falls Regional Park (Clark County, WA).

☀️ Some recent photos from the East Fork Lewis River in Clark County, WA. #travel #outdoors #summer

Why I'm Betting Against AI Agents in 2025 (Despite Building Them) utkarshkanwat.com/writing/bett... #AI #LLM

Detecting code copying at scale with Vendetect Vendetect is our new open-source tool for detecting copied and vendored code between repositories. It uses semantic fingerprinting to identify similar code even when variable names change or comments ...

Detecting code copying at scale with Vendetect (free via GitHub) blog.trailofbits.com/2025/07/21/d...

Dual-OS computer setup, running Windows on main screen and macOS (back then it was called Mac OS X) on Macbook, with lots of SW action figures in various poses on desk, things hanging on the wall, etc.

Same as previous but viewing from front/center: Dual-OS computer setup, running Windows on main screen and macOS (back then it was called Mac OS X) on Macbook, with lots of SW action figures in various poses on desk, things hanging on the wall, etc.

My office setup from September 2009, just before Chris Coyier and I self-published our book, Digging Into WordPress.

Explore Latest WordPress Updates: Coding Standards & More Discover the latest in WordPress updates, coding standards, and performance tips for an optimized web experience! Stay ahead in web development.

Thanks to Dan Knauss for doing the math on my "404 Web" hypothesis about wasted resources, estimating that “the daily energy wasted on all 404s globally is somewhere in the realm of the daily energy used by 10 million people in the New York metro area.” 🤯 m0n.co/404-energy-w...

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.

Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives blog.cloudflare.com/perplexity-i... #AI #LLM

Full-breadth Developers The software industry is at an inflection point unlike anything in its brief history. Generative AI is all anyone can talk about. It has rendered entire product…

Familiar with "full-stack" developers? Now #AI #LLMs enabling "full-breadth" developers justin.searls.co/posts/full-b...

Meme: photo of a surprised cat with text overlay, "410 Gone"

The 404 #Web perishablepress.com/the-404-web/

Stack Overflow data reveals the hidden productivity tax of ‘almost right’ AI code Stack Overflow survey shows that as more enterprise developers actually use AI tools, their expectations aren't being met by reality.

Your #AI code is "almost right" 😂 venturebeat.com/ai/stack-ove...

Your public ChatGPT queries are getting indexed by Google and other search engines | TechCrunch Search engines are indexing links to ChatGPT conversations that have been made sharable with a link.

⚡️ Shocker: Your public #ChatGPT queries are getting indexed by #Google and other search engines: techcrunch.com/2025/07/31/y... #AI #LLM

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

Vibe code is legacy code blog.val.town/vibe-code #AI #LLM #vibecode

Photo (1 of 3 pano shot) of view from Golden Gardens park in Seattle, overlooking the water with blue skies in the distance

Photo (2 of 3 pano shot) of view from Golden Gardens park in Seattle, overlooking the water with blue skies in the distance

Photo (3 of 3 pano shot) of view from Golden Gardens park in Seattle, overlooking the water with blue skies in the distance

Started my days with this view while visiting #Seattle #GoldenGardens #travel #vanlife #nomad

Photo of all six SW vintage bounty hunter action figures

Bounty Hunters

From the SEO community on Reddit Explore this post and more from the SEO community

SEO Backlinking Resources Discussion - r/SEO

#SEO #SEO_for_AI #Reddit #Backlinks

www.reddit.com/r/SEO/commen...

Screenshot showing desperate advertisement trying to deceive the user into installing their "anti-virus" app.

Recent #Android intra-app advertisement. I'm surprised deceptive ads like this make it past #Google.

A Full Code Agent in 200 Lines—Here’s How In this post, we’ll build a lightweight code agent CLI, similar to Claude Code.

How to Build a Full Code Agent in 200 Lines cthiriet.com/blog/nano-cl... #AI #LLM

Issue #168 Loop WP Explore Marcus Burnette’s Unleash the Wappu! A community of cliques?...WordPress echo chamber vs editorial focus debate, and AI-driven future visions.

"Loop WP" (my newsletter about WordPress), Issue 168 is out now! This week, come with me as we explore Marcus Burnette’s Unleash the Wappu! A community of cliques?...WordPress echo chamber vs editorial focus debate, and AI-driven future visions.

There's a lot to discuss! 👇

AI is eating the Internet An exploration of the Internet to come

#AI is eating the Internet fika.bar/paoramen/ai-...

Roadmap to 6.9 WordPress 6.9 is scheduled to be released on December 2nd, 2025 with plans for a simplified editing mode in the Site Editor, improvements to template management, block leveling commenting, and more…

#WordPress v6.9 is happening this year make.wordpress.org/core/2025/07...

Photo taken near dusk, two large buildings in downtown Seattle, Elliot Bay visible in the distance

Photo taken near dusk, large geometric building in downtown Seattle, Elliot Bay visible in the distance

Photo taken near dusk of Seattle's landmark Space Needle and surrounding cityscape

Photo, looking down from hotel balcony, showing street surface with painted crosswalk lines repeating vertically in visually abstract pattern

Road report: heading back up north to beat the August heat ☀️ Will travel south into Oregon and California in September, Lord willing. For now, here are some more photos taken in downtown #Seattle WA. #travel #vanlife #nomad

It's time for modern CSS to kill the SPA Native CSS transitions have quietly killed the strongest argument for client-side routing. Yet people keep building terrible apps instead of performant websites.

"Build like it’s 2025 – not like you’re trapped in a 2018 demo of Gatsby" 😅 www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/i... #CSS

Matt Moss built a private photo widget for his girlfriend and it turned into the most downloaded app in America. Romance isn’t dead, it’s just VC-funded now. https://startupseries.io/how-matt-moss-birthday-gift-became-an-app-with-50m-users/

Matt Moss built a private photo widget for his girlfriend and it turned into the most downloaded app in America.

Romance isn’t dead, it’s just VC-funded now.

https://startupseries.io/how-matt-moss-birthday-gift-became-an-app-with-50m-users/

A bloated DOM tree can slow down rendering. Keep an eye on your element count, especially with page builders. Simpler often means faster. #WordPressDev #Performance #WordPress

iPhone 17: Produktion erreicht Meilenstein In Indien hat die Testproduktion des iPhone 17 begonnen, dieses Jahr mit einer wesentlichen Änderung – auch wegen Trump.

Is it just me, or are phone designs getting a bit too busy these days? 🤔 I miss the simple, minimalistic look! What do you all think? #industrial #design www.macwelt.de/article/2847...

Admin Materials and Surfaces · Issue #70913 · WordPress/gutenberg As we further develop the primitives that make up the overall admin system (#53322) it seems important to map out the main elements that compose it. This issue focuses largely on how things might w...

So it begins (or rather continues).. plans for complete overhaul of the #WordPress Admin Area: github.com/WordPress/gu...

Photo of my plant, named "plant". I do not know what kind of plant it is, but I love it dearly.

Thank you to my lovely daughter for taking care of my plant while I'm traveling 🥰

Giant One-Eyed Sphinx saying good morning as I left the hotel ☀️

Giant One-Eyed Sphinx saying good morning as I left the hotel ☀️