Mastodawn

@flargh Agreed but RFK, Jr. took his shit to a whole new level. Not only did he essentially kill his own brother via his drug addiction, now his policies are leading to the deaths of children across America.

alwillis 1h ago

@jensimmons
There’s a setting that disables the new icons on drop-down menus in Tahoe but it doesn’t work so well in Safari:

“Safari is a heartbreak. It’s one of my favorite, most-used apps, and generally, one of Apple’s best exemplars of what makes a great Mac app a great Mac app. But with this setting enabled, only a handful of seemingly random menu items have their icons hidden.”
https://daringfireball.net/2026/03/what_to_do_about_those_menu_item_icons_in_macos_26_tahoe

What to Do About Those Menu Item Icons in MacOS 26 Tahoe

If this worked to hide *all* of these cursed little turds smeared across the menu bar items of Apple’s system apps in Tahoe, this hidden preference would be a proverbial pitcher of ice water in hell. As it stands, alas, it’s more like half a glass of tepid water.

Daring Fireball

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alwillis 17h ago

@petard I think Apple will do a mea culpa for their recent lapses in software quality at WWDC, then fix the issues in macOS 27: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/03/apples-worldwide-developers-conference-returns-the-week-of-june-8/

Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference returns the week of June 8

Apple today announced it will host its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) online from June 8-12.

Apple Newsroom

alwillis Mar 10

Someone had to point this out. https://vivianvoss.net/blog/the-flexbox-tax

The Flexbox Tax — Vivian Voss

Flexbox is not the problem. Using Flexbox for everything is. Nested Flexbox thrashing costs 3-15ms per frame. Grid costs less than one. The layout model you reach for matters.

Vivian Voss

alwillis Mar 6

Jess Rose Mar 4

Global remote, 🚨paid🚨 open source grant program from @igalia for folks to learn more about Linux, Graphics, JS DevTools, Multimedia + GStreamer or Web Standards.

- apply by April 3
- €7k for 450 hours over 3-6 months
- uni students or self directed learners

https://www.igalia.com/coding-experience/

#FediHire #Fossjobs

Igalia Coding Experience | Igalia - Open Source Consultancy and Development

Igalia is an open source consulting firm specialised in the development of innovative projects and solutions. Our engineers have expertise in a wide range of technological areas, including browsers and client-side web technologies, graphics pipeline, compilers and virtual machines. We have the most WPE, WebKit, Chromium/Blink and Firefox expertise found in the consulting business, including many reviewers and committers. Igalia designs, develops, customises and optimises GNU/Linux-based solutions for companies across the globe. Our work and contributions are present in many projects such as GStreamer, Mesa 3D, WebKit, Chromium, etc.

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alwillis Feb 22

@stephenrobles Great video on Claude Cowork!

Just wanted to say you don’t need to stop using Bear with AI: there’s an MCP for Bear: https://github.com/johnskish/bear-mcp-server

#mcp #bear #Mac

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alwillis Feb 19

Last thing that's really helped me: writing commit messages for code I've written. While I understand the importance of commit messages for future me, it's one of those tasks I've never liked doing. Having Claude Code do it for me has been a game changer and saves me a ton of time. (4/4)

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alwillis Feb 19

Even if you don't use AI for web development, it can be very useful for explaining CSS features you may not be familiar with or haven't used before. You tell it to explain container queries like you're 7 years old, and it can do it. Or in your native language if English isn’t your first language.

It doesn't have to write code to make web developers more efficient. (3/4)

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alwillis Feb 19

I've seen lots of advice that says to have AI do the stuff you either dislike or don't know how to do or have no interest in learning, which I agree with. They also say to treat AI like an intern who's really smart but doesn't know how you want things done.

Let’s remember: LLMs have been trained (for better or worse) on all the documentation from WHATWG, W3C, MDN, CSS Working Group, and know about web standards and accessibility. (2/4)

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alwillis Feb 19

@jensimmons Anyone new to using LLMs for web development may not realize you can control (for the most part) how the LLM writes code, what frameworks to use (or not use), and what your coding style is, which fonts to use, etc. One of Anthropic's prompts says it tells the agent "Distinctive, characterful font pairings — never Inter/Roboto/Arial". That's good advice. (1/4)