Mastodawn

Every enterprise app feels like typing on a mushy membrane keyboard. You click a button and get a gentle animation, a swooshy transition, a soft bounce, and zero clear feedback that anything actually happened. The entire B2B software industry optimized for how tools feel during a fifteen-minute sales demo instead of how they perform across an eight-hour workday, and the result is professional software with the tactile precision of poking a marshmallow.

Joey Oct 16

JA Westenberg Oct 16

Reading a tech startup's "Our Story" page:

"We were frustrated with existing solutions" = We've never worked in this industry
"We asked ourselves: what if..." = We had a shower thought
"After months of research" = We Googled it
"We're disrupting" = We're copying but with React

Joey Aug 5, 2025

JA Westenberg Aug 5, 2025

Plato warned us. Over two thousand years ago, he told the story of prisoners chained in a cave, mistaking shadows on the wall for reality. They saw outlines and echoes, never the fire or the forms behind it. And when one prisoner escaped and saw the sun, he came back to free the others.

🧵

1/12

Joey Aug 5, 2025

Aaron Gustafson Aug 4, 2025

On the 20-step problem and the economics of agentic AI.

https://utkarshkanwat.com/writing/betting-against-agents/

Why I'm Betting Against AI Agents in 2025 (Despite Building Them)

I've built 12+ AI agent systems across development, DevOps, and data operations. Here's why the current hype around autonomous agents is mathematically impossible and what actually works in production.

Utkarsh Kanwat

Joey Jun 25, 2025

Thorsten Leemhuis (acct. 2/4)Jun 25, 2025

PNG is back!

https://www.programmax.net/articles/png-is-back/ (by Chris Blume)

A new PNG spec was just released! […]

[…] After 20 years of stagnation, PNG is back with renewed vigor!

What's new?

* Proper HDR support (future‐proof, too!)

* Finally recognizes APNGs (animations!)

* Officially supports Exif data

* General tidying up—fixing errata, clarifications, etc.

#png

Joey Jun 4, 2025

henry ✷Jun 4, 2025

put some thoughts together on the LLM trend and its implications for labor rights. there's a lot to be said about the lofty claims of pro-LLM technologists, but this presumes their promises of efficiency, etc. are true.

https://henry.codes/writing/economics-and-labor-rights-in-ai-skepticism/

Economics & labor rights in AI skepticism | Henry From Online

The personal site & portfolio of creative web developer Henry from Online

Joey Apr 15, 2025

Baldur Bjarnason Apr 15, 2025

We're in for a rough ride as an industry: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/notes/2025/we-are-in-for-a-rough-ride/

We're in for a rough ride as an industry

Web dev at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland

Joey Mar 25, 2025

European News 🇪🇺Mar 25, 2025

European universities offer ‘scientific asylum’ to US researchers fleeing Trump’s cuts

Academics from US hoping to escape funding freezes and ideological impositions are being actively recruited

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/25/europe-universities-us-researchers-trump-administration-science

European universities offer ‘scientific asylum’ to US researchers fleeing Trump’s cuts

Academics from US hoping to escape funding freezes and ideological impositions are being actively recruited

The Guardian

Joey Mar 8, 2025

jenn schiffer Mar 8, 2025

in a world where men have offered to pay me to insult them, i am expected to pay to give ai agents access to my brain and all its appliances?? get real

Joey Mar 5, 2025

5/365 — These Hamburg sunsets have truly been spectacular.

#spring #hamburg #photography #sunset

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