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Under the hood of MDN's new frontend https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/blog/mdn-front-end-deep-dive/ - in which it is revealed that using React to serve essentially static content "accumulated quite a lot of technical debt", and is better replaced by ... Web Components and CSS, AKA "the web platform". And also the revolutionary new concept of "Shipping only what's required". https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/blog/mdn-front-end-deep-dive/

Under the hood of MDN's new frontend | MDN Blog

You may have spotted that MDN has a new frontend. There's plenty happening under the surface, so let's unpack the technologies we chose, the architectural decisions we made, and why we did a rebuild at all.

MDN Web Docs

Evil Jim O’Donnell 13h ago

London Web Standards 20h ago

@zachleat - It’s 10PM do you know where your JavaScript is?. Talk from #SotB26 is now live.
https://2026.stateofthebrowser.com/speaker/zach-leatherman/

Evil Jim O’Donnell 20h ago

Sue Smith 1d ago

The "bring back buddy" issue on the claude code repo is an entire social study in itself https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/45596

Bring Back Buddy — A Consolidated Plea from the Community · Issue #45596 · anthropics/claude-code

The Situation On April 9, /buddy vanished from Claude Code v2.1.97. No changelog mention. No farewell. One day we had a companion — the next, Unknown skill: buddy. Thousands of developers opened th...

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Evil Jim O’Donnell 1d ago

Simon Mavi Stewart 1d ago

If you've ever been in a conversation with me (IRL!) about the turmoil that #AI is causing our industry, you'll know that I have a theory about what's going to happen, based largely on observations and y2k. For some of us, it's optimistic.

I thought I'd put that into a blog post: https://www.rocketpoweredjetpants.com/2026/04/were-going-to-make-out-like-bandits/ #softwareengineering

We're Going to Make Out Like Bandits

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Evil Jim O’Donnell 1d ago

This has taken me down a bit of a 90’s nostalgia rabbit hole.

Tori Amos
Ani DiFranco
Belly
PJ Harvey
Garbage

Evil Jim O’Donnell 1d ago

Enjoying the new Tori Amos single.

https://youtu.be/r4orh6GpD0c

Tori Amos "Shush" - (In Times Of Dragons)

YouTube

Evil Jim O’Donnell 2d ago

Kristine 2d ago

Your personal energy source is:
#poll #life #energy

Caffeine. The domesticated pesticide

40.1%

Anxiety. Clean, renewable, unlimited

27.2%

Spite. Not proud of it but the data is compelling

18.8%

Dopamine. Approve me please

13.9%

Poll ended at Apr 13 at 8:29am.

Evil Jim O’Donnell 2d ago

Angus McIntyre 2d ago

The reason why the Artemis mission has everyone so fascinated is because it is a showcase for the efforts of people who are very, very good at their jobs, at a time when the news cycle is dominated by people who are not merely terrible at their jobs, but awful human beings as well.

Evil Jim O’Donnell 3d ago

Till Grallert 3d ago

Despite the west’s inherent racism and unwillingness to acknowledge the humanity of POCs and especially Arabs, the victims of Israel’s massacre of civilians across Lebanon on 8 April had names, life-stories worth telling, beloved ones, bickering neighbours …

L’Orient Le Jour is collecting their names and faces: https://today.lorientlejour.com/article/1502922/names-and-faces-of-those-killed-by-israel-in-its-april-8-massacre.html

#Lebanon #CrimesAgainstHumanity #warCrimes #israel

Names and faces of those killed by Israel in its April 8 massacre

What happened on Wednesday, April 8, 2026, in Lebanon was a massacre.On the first day of the cease-fire between Iran and the United States, Israel carried out 100 airstrikes in 10 minutes on...

L'Orient Today

Evil Jim O’Donnell 3d ago

Keith (Keithius)4d ago

Matilda sometimes likes to pull up the edge of the rug in the hallway… and I caught her doing it today, and she just turns to me as if to say “…what?”

And then she runs off into the bedroom (her little white tail flashing all the way).

#Bunny #HouseRabbit #BunniesOfMastodon

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