Email from GitHub:

"We’re updating how GitHub uses data to improve AI-powered coding tools. From April 24 onward, your interactions with GitHub Copilot—including inputs, outputs, code snippets, and associated context—may be used to train and enhance AI models unless you opt out."

Yikes! What an invasive and unwanted feature, even if I opt out (which I have).

Looking more and more like I will end up in Codeberg (https://codeberg.org/) sooner than I thought.

Good read: The 49MB Web Page

"I went to the New York Times to glimpse at four headlines and was greeted with 422 network requests and 49 megabytes of data. It took two minutes before the page settled. And then you wonder why every sane tech person has an adblocker installed on systems of all their loved ones." - https://thatshubham.com/blog/news-audit

I noticed the same on the Hartford Courant a few years ago:

https://mastodon.social/@hectorjcorrea/110236478973531659

Good piece by @mahryekuh on how complex frontend development really is:

https://marijkeluttekes.dev/blog/articles/2026/03/16/why-frontends-fail-when-you-approach-them-like-a-backend/

Many gems on that piece, like this:

"user experience (UX) is contextual; what works for one site might not for another"

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/116237286336865985

So awesome that Mastodon has been around for 10 years.

I am late comer to this party (been here 3-4 years only) but I am so happy Mastodon has stuck around and grown in popularity.

Mastodon has also set a very high bar, in the future it would be very hard for me to even consider to move to any social media platform riddled with surveillance and advertising. Great job @Gargron

This is a good piece by @samhenrigold on the new MacBook Neo, I really liked this bit:

"Nobody starts in the right place. You don’t begin with the correct tool and work sensibly within its constraints until you organically graduate to a more capable one."

I think it applies so much to programming at large. I always encourage people to start simple: simple tools, simple processes, simple setup _before_ automating and adding abstraction and complexity layers.

https://samhenri.gold/blog/20260312-this-is-not-the-computer-for-you/

RE: https://layer8.space/@killyourfm/116163522779434708

This is really neat!

About time!

"When you run a command in Ubuntu 26.04 LTS using sudo and enter your password, you now see asterisks appear as you type. Previously you’d see nothing but a gaping black void reflecting your own uncertainty back at you."

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/02/ubuntu-26-04-sudo-password-asterisks

"The Web is over thirty years old. It is reasonable to expect a simpler writing system for the web." - @rsdoiel

https://rsdoiel.github.io/blog/2026/02/21/a_simple_web_we_own.html