Abandon the em-dash in your human writing?

The irony—and it’s a big irony—is that real writers use em-dash frequently, and for reasons. As a written signifier of verbal speech pauses, it means something different than what commas and semicolons mean. It connects while separating.

That’s why so many writers use em-dash when it is the best mark for the job. And chatbots use it because they were schooled on millions of writers.

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i built an entire x86 CPU emulator in CSS (no javascript)

you can write programs in C, compile them to x86 machine code with GCC, and run them inside CSS

https://lyra.horse/x86css/

A 2026 Piccalilli homepage redesign

We've got a brand new homepage that communicates exactly what we're about at Piccalilli: providing really high quality educational material for humans, written by humans to boost their career.

https://piccalil.li/blog/a-2026-piccalilli-homepage-redesign/