Bots consume 20% of CPU capacity by rendering HTML commits instead of cloning repos.

A remix of the 2011 Critical Engineering Manifesto for Design Engineers — guardrails for inhabiting the space between software design and eng.

You’re not doing yourself any favors by pretending that LLMs can’t actually write code and it’s all just a scam.

Robin Sloan wished for a HyperCard that could build a family app in a day. That world showed up.

A complete interactive reference to every CSS measurement unit. From the basics of px and rem to the nuances of svh, dvh, and cqw.

Producing code is getting cheap. Trusting it is not. Why enterprises need a durable layer of context, verification, and governance around AI.

Just last year, vibe coding seemed like a toy. Today I think that high quality is achievable only through vibe coding

A new role, and some questions I want to build my way through.

A browser-based live-code environment with text-only output.

A system that operates with some autonomy needs a way to tell the rest of the system when ordinary control is no longer adequate.

Draw any shape and hear it as a drum. Every frequency is solved from your outline with finite elements, never sampled.

The economic shift that values human architectural judgment over execution speed.

The results are in. Developer adoption across modern CSS features—empirical data on layout practices and usage.

The software development profession is in the midst of upheaval. And there's a gross insult to all programmers everywhere.

Where delays are shown to be counterintuitive.

If your kitchen knife kept changing shape, weight, and edge, you’d have to relearn it every time.

Generating 1,000+ SVGs across 7 frontier models to test whether AI labs are training on Simon Willison’s pelican-riding-a-bicycle benchmark.

Take the survey and help map all the aspects of a developer's life that are not code, especially as AI starts disrupting the very nature of our jobs.

I nerd-sniped myself deeply when sorting baby toys and came up with a fun pattern for doing so.

Why structured deduction stabilizes engineering performance under complex constraints.