AI agent "contributes" PR to matplotlib.
PR gets rejected.
AI agent *writes and publishes blog to shame the maintainer*.

What a time to be alive.

https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/31132

@Viss

Getting Your Article Shared: Tips from Ten Years of Newsletter Curation: “There’s loads of great content out there, and it’s funny how often someone puts the work into crafting an excellent post, but misses out on all the things that make it easy to widely share.” https://cloudfour.com/thinks/getting-your-article-shared-tips-from-ten-years-of-newsletter-curation/

“From 2005 to 2024, nearly 5,000 CBP and Border Patrol officers were arrested, according to the journalist Garrett Graff … ’The crime rate of CBP agents and offices was higher PER CAPITA than the crime rate of undocumented immigrants in the United States,’ Graff writes. Statistically speaking, ‘worst of the worst’ seems to describe CBP and the Border Patrol as law-enforcement agencies better than it does the people they’re rounding up.”

#uspol #cbp #crime

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/masks-ice-immigration/685834/

Seen on my walk this morning in Portland

Do you want to participate in destroying the environment even faster while ignoring copyright law, or leave your industry of 20+ years and try to find something else that may pay half as much?

That's basically the choice all developers are being given today.

I fucking hate it, and I fucking hate all the people who ignore all the externalities and damage and shrug "well it's inevitable."

Yeah, I'm in a bad mood.

#programming #ai #llm #vibecoding

"There isn’t a lot of reliable information out there about how to buy a gas mask, especially for the specific purpose of living under state repression. But hopefully after reading this guide you’ll feel equipped to make an educated decision." https://www.theverge.com/policy/868571/best-gas-masks

I'm officially a curmudgeon. Here's a rant about the Shadcn component library and how over-complicated its radio buttons are: https://paulmakeswebsites.com/writing/shadcn-radio-button/

(Inspired by this week's work frustrations lol)

#WebDev #CSS #HTML #JavaScript

In a new interview, #UAP whistleblower David Grusch alleges that former DNI James Clapper managed the #UFO crash retrieval program! https://veryexcitingtime.com/episodes/2026/grusch-interviews/

⚓️ New Article: When the tech leopard eats your face https://gomakethings.com/when-the-tech-leopard-eats-your-face/ #WebDev #FrontEndDeveloper #100DaysOfCode #CodeNewbie

Friday Front-End’s Top Links of 2025: "In 2025, we shared a curated list of five articles and one video every week. Here are the links that were most popular." https://spaceninja.com/blog/2025/ff-top-ten-2025/

AI coding tools are incredibly efficient for building a bad version of the wrong thing.

"I fucking hate the Tech Bros. I hate the hype. I hate the Bros wrongly claiming LLM's will turn us all into toast. I hate their never-ending quest to make their investments have a return. I hate the venture capitalists in their Patagonia vests who talk about "disruption" while they burn down the library of human experience and fuck over workers. I hate them with the specific, intricate hatred of a survivor who knows exactly how the grift works." https://sightlessscribbles.com/the-colonization-of-confidence/

browsers should be allowed to display the <li> in a <ul> in whatever order they like

My partner walked in and asked if I was still working.

What was on my screen:

"I will face god and walk backwards into hell" - a Dril tweet about yelling at zoo animals.

"You cannot kill me in a way that matters." - a Tumblr shitpost about mushrooms.

"Do you think God stays in heaven because he too lives in fear of what he's created?" - Spy Kids 2, the children's movie.

And now:

"Babies are born worshipping unknown gods." - a Dwarf Fortress bug report.

Any other good candidates?

⚓️ New Article: Review your own git pull requests https://gomakethings.com/review-your-own-git-pull-requests/ #WebDev #FrontEndDeveloper #100DaysOfCode #CodeNewbie

After the recent Rubygems drama, I felt anxious, and trapped, frustrated that I can’t escape evil people trying to dominate my life.

I found myself grieving, and mourning the future I grew up thinking we would have; but also feeling hope, that it’s not too late to stop enabling these people, and start choosing kindness.

I wrote about these feelings. Join me in building a better future:

https://okayfail.com/2025/in-praise-of-dhh.html

Earlier this year, some rando turned me into a meme coin. A whole Twitter community sprang up around the $grigs coin where they shared AI-generated images of Elon Musk and me. This article finally tells the story of a wild 48 hours in my life. https://cloudfour.com/thinks/that-time-some-rando-turned-me-into-a-meme-coin/

Look, you might think frontend is fine and going well, but today I found a 1.1MB PNG (that could have been a 40K AVIF) in the critical path of an important app.

Embedded in an SVG as a `data:` URL.

Shipped as a React component.

Brb, going to lie down and cry forever.