Mat “Wilto” MarquisWith the launch of the new Piccalil.li homepage comes with an opportunity to hone your craft, take the next steps in building your career, and support independent publishing. For the next few weeks, use the code `NEXTLEVEL` at checkout and you’ll get 20% off JavaScript for Everyone.
Listen, I don’t like the tech industry — I never have. This _industry_ is extractive, at its core; the vine that doesn’t care about the life of the tree it climbs and strangles. Nowhere is that more clear than with LLMs, burning the web and world for the illusion of competence and drop-shipped code.
Johannes OdlandBut for two decades now I’ve watched us shape standards, create tools, solve impossible problems and share it all freely with each other; seen us build countless creative, expressive, brilliant things for the people that use the web. I’ve never been here for the tech industry. I’m here for us.
I believe in the web, I believe in craft, and I believe in the things we can build by supporting each other — never has that spirit felt more threatened by the _industry_.
If you feel the same way I do: support independent publishers. Keep building, keep improving, and keep sharing, in your own voice.
Eric A. Meyer@Wilto Co-signed so hard I left a furrow in the table.