american, horrified by the current regime.
internet-taught web developer. not a designer.
they/them
"citizens united" stole our voices.
The death penalty makes murderers of us all.
The White House says Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick properly divested from Cantor Fitzgerald by transferring leadership to his sons.
Anyway GOP officials called Lutnick about a Cantor-funded PAC planning to spend $1.75M on Ken Paxton and the PAC reversed course, but that’s probably just how independent companies behave when the former owner gets a phone call.
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/24/texas-crypto-howard-lutnick-republicans
The mediocrity of well-paid people whose only job is to make the line go up is really something to behold.
This newsletter hit my spam box so I'm sharing it to counteract that atrocity. Many good thoughts and links here.
https://newsletter.ownyourweb.site/archive/own-your-web-issue-18-curators/
Dark patterns galore—with receipts. That Privacy Guy: Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop.
https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/anthropic-spyware/
#privacy #ai #anthropic #claude #antipatterns #ClaudeDekstop
h/t José Ramón Padrón
Anthropic's Claude Desktop silently installs a Native Messaging bridge into seven Chromium browsers, including browsers Anthropic's own documentation says it does not support, and browsers the user has not even installed.
Live HTML in `<canvas`> is now a thing in current Chrome (with a flag enabled), and people are doing wild stuff with it to “bring fun back to the web”! Whereas I have just used it to enhance a tool we use at @igalia, because I am a boring stick in the mud. But an occasionally productive one.
(If you’re only now hearing about this, an explainer with many examples: https://frontendmasters.com/blog/the-web-is-fun-again-first-experiments-with-html-in-canvas/)
"If you are planning a project today, what’s the launch date? [..] that might be six months to a year from now. Rather than tying yourself to what’s Widely available today, you can probably include anything that will be Widely available on that date." @rachelandrew
https://rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2026/03/20/look-into-the-future-of-the-web-platform/
It's fun to have friends that make fonts because when my wife is using the Cricut for a little project and needs some font inspo, I look like a goddam hero.
If you need some slam dunks to earn points with your partner:
- Simple Type by @simplebits https://simplebits.shop/collections/fonts
- Loud Room by @jasonsantamaria https://shop.loudroom.com/
- Beasts of England @simonwalker https://beastsofengland.co/
Molly White
Aral Balkan
zeldman
Eric A. Meyer
David Bushell 🪿
Sara Soueidan
Dave Rupert