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Great grand father of responsive web design. Web Daoist. Organiser of the Web Directions conferences webdirections.org Built the streaming service for conferences conffab.com post clips to Bluesky from any webpage webdirections.org/bluesky-poster
I experimented with WebMCP on my personal website, exposing two tools an AI assistant can call directly from the browser: searching an article and subscribing to my newsletter. It’s a small prototype, but it hints at how websites are fast becoming AI-interactive surfaces. ricmac.org/2026/03/11/w...
Yesterday, I published a new blog post on how I handle contact forms on my static site using Cloudflare Workers and reCAPTCHA v3.
It covers spam protection, validation, and sending emails without needing a traditional backend.
nooshu.com/blog/2026/03...
They have these little hooks on the seat in front of you for this very purpose!
Markets are of course a rational mechanism for information discovery.
The MacBook Neo will be the last great Apple product. The last product that carries Steve Jobs' DNA.
Did it leave you in an 808 State?
the Ars article is actually great. it gets into all the criticisms and caveats and links to several good critiques
In 2013 Aaron Swartz committed suicide for facing 35 years in prison for mass downloading scientific articles.
13 years later, Meta is almost getting away with an infraction orders of magnitude larger.
The law didn't change.
torrentfreak.com/uploading-pi...
“We’ve learned and struggled for a few years here figuring out how to make a decent phone. PC guys are not going to just figure this out. They’re not going to just walk in.”
—Palm CEO Ed Colligan, November 16, 2006
At least have the courage to say ‘we lack the moral backbone to push bask against the times we live in and made a cynical cowardly decision.’
Disability accommodations are a rare thing that actually trickles down. You like curb cutouts? Auto-opening doors? Jar openers? Ramps? Hand rails? YOU’RE WELCOME
Even as an abled person you use disability accommodations every single day.
Supporting accommodations actually helps everyone.
Why cling to the hope you can eke out a career doing grunt work when you can free yourself to do high value creative work at a scale unimagined 5 years ago?
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There's a chap on TikTok who has built a custom instrument out of a hurdy-gurdy and a Singer sewing machine (plus an attached theremin) which he uses for Daft Punk covers and they are genuine bangers www.tiktok.com/@singersound...
![A Bit on the [geolocation] Element](https://img.youtube.com/vi/hffXUYIrGMk/hqdefault.jpg)
A few min on <geolocation> in HTML/CSS/JS.
1. I like how explicit it is for users & how it helps "recover" from incorrect permissions.
2. It's *super interesting* how it checks the contrast accessibility and just makes the button not work if you dink it up.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hffX...
Trust me I watch more presentations in more detail that pretty much any one on earth. These are absolute momentum killers.
Also leave your intro to the MC and to your final slide. Think about how comedians work. They don’t start with ‘I’m x and…’ they finish with that. Nothing loses an audience more quickly than ‘as [the MC] said. I’m x from y. We are a…’. Folks aren’t here to hear about that or you.
Well you know mine: do not. Under any circumstances. Ever. Live code. Or live demo.
I've written a post containing some tips for giving better presentations!
None of these tips can replace great content, but they will help you start strong and keep the energy going all the way through to the applause at the end.
philna.sh/blog/2026/03...
Do you have any more tips to share?
A section of the OpenAI Symphony readme that says “tell your coding agent to build symphony in a programming language of your choice” with a link to a detailed spec
We have reached a moment where instead of releasing software you simply release the detailed spec for software and tell people to prompt their agent to build it themselves
From the README of OpenAI’s new Symphony orchestrator: github.com/openai/symph...
I saw somebody talking about bad maintainability of LLM-generated software earlier and they're totally right, it's probably not easily maintainable as we currently think about it. The question is what "maintainability" means in a world where you feed the spec to the machine and it builds it again
what could it have been
www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/paper...
As much as I hate to say it, but if you don't incorporate AI in your work as a web developer at all, it will be really hard to stay competitive.
And I'm saying this as someone who's absolutely not happy about the environmental, cultural, and socio-political consequences of this AI hype.
Over the weekend I played with using OpenClaw (Opus 4.5) and my new MissingBenefit.com MCP server to conduct mock benefit entitlement sessions.
The results were... well, have a look at the video my blog post.
loosemore.com/2026/03/02/o...
Did you know the global software developer population's much *larger* than it was in 2022?
Did you know tech layoffs were in full swing when ChatGPT launched?
Did you know AI companies are hiring engineers in large numbers?
A quick fact-check:
codemanship.wordpress.com/2026/03/02/i...
I make a free programming tool. It gives your LLM a living memory, and it can to dig into a codebase and build a deep understanding of how and why anything was done before doing beginning something new.
It also nudges you into better habits while coding with an LLM overall.
Learn more/try it out.
Writing a book on what it's really like to emigrate from the US.
(I moved to Australia in 2018.)
What aspect would you be most interested in and want me to include?
Wrote some thoughts on why on device agentic AI is proving so elusive: martinalderson.com/posts/why-on...
Grace Jones' concert on Saturday was a load of fun–incredible band, all the bangers, a real show, and Ms Jones' voice and game were strong. Get along and see her if you can.
One ‘better’. They’ll be buying stuff for you