Artem Sapegin

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I’m a coffee first frontend engineer at Stage+, creator of React Styleguidist, and award-losing photographer. Learning to cook at https://tacohuaco.co.
My sitehttps://sapegin.me/
My bloghttps://sapegin.me/blog/
My bookhttps://sapegin.me/book/
My photoshttps://morning.photos/

I’ve started posting my photos again, this time on Substack — follow me if you’re there:

https://substack.com/@sapegin

The effect of AI on my blog: from 900 clicks per month down to 200 in the last two years...
If you put the Apple icons in reverse it looks like the portfolio of someone getting really really good at icon design
I noticed that in general, the new iOS/macOS look disregard many accessibility settings or make them unhelpful. For example, reduced transparency makes everything black and super high-contrast on iOS, which makes it worse for my eyes.

> This year in iOS 26, some UI elements use the HDR screen to make some elements and highlights brighter than 100% white.

Ooooh, that's why it looks so bad and annoying... Even turned on Reduce white point doesn't help...

https://willhbr.net/2025/10/20/light-mode-infffffflation/

Light Mode InFFFFFFlation — Will Richardson

Back in the day, light mode wasn’t called “light mode”. It was just the way that computers were, we didn’t really think about turning everything light or dark. Sure, some applications were often dark (photo editors, IDEs, terminals) but everything else was light, and that was fine. What we didn’t notice is that light mode has been slowly getting lighter, and I’ve got a graph to prove it. I did what any normal person would do, I downloaded the same...

It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons by @nikitonsky :

https://tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-icons/

It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons

Looking at the first principles of icon design—and how Apple failed to apply all of them in macOS Tahoe

tonsky.me

Or do whatever works for you. Arrow keys are good enough for this use case, and I can remember them. I have fzf installed for many years and hardly used it because it takes more mental effort and not worth it most of the time.

https://mastodon.cloud/@mitchellh@hachyderm.io/115967643910475565

Mitchell Hashimoto (@[email protected])

Nobody should be using up arrows to get previous commands in a terminal or shell. You have to move your hand and its linear complexity in keystrokes. Use ctrl+p (for low n) or ctrl+r. Use a real shell or history manager (fish, fzf, atuin) for ctrl+r.

Hachyderm.io

Congrats to the @jquery team for launching version 4.0! https://blog.jquery.com/2026/01/17/jquery-4-0-0/

#JavaScript #jQuery

jQuery 4.0.0 | Official jQuery Blog

jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library

Ghostty is getting an updated AI policy. AI assisted PRs are now only allowed for accepted issues. Drive-by AI-written PRs will be closed without question. Bad AI drivers will be banned from all future contributions. If you're going to use AI, you better be good. https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/pull/10412
Updated AI usage policy for contributions by mitchellh · Pull Request #10412 · ghostty-org/ghostty

Follow up to #8289 The rise of agentic programming has eliminated the natural effort-based backpressure that previously limited low-effort contributions. It is now too easy to create large amounts ...

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In the last few years, I stopped receiving almost any pull requests to my open source projects, and I enjoy this invisibility quite a lot.