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@arala22

Builder of things on the web. https://itsmeara.com

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Yup. What I’ve experienced so far is what I call The CEO AI Playbook: Mandate AI use across the company, pitch it as a chance to 10x your output, wait for people to automate their own jobs, lay them off, rinse and repeat until you have a “lean startup”. Damned if you do, damned if you don’t.

09.03.2026 15:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Nothing says premium website experience like waiting for text to fade in 200ms at a time as you scroll 🙄.

18.08.2025 05:09 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Construction Lines • Lea Verou I recently stumbled across The Oatmeal’s series on Creativity. While all of it is spot on, the part on erasers hit especially hard. “There is a lot of shame associated with backpedaling; things like q...

New blog post: Construction Lines

I turned 39 today.
My career turns 20 this summer.

Prompted by a recent career shift, I paused to reflect; and ask myself
“What has brought me the most joy — and why?”

lea.verou.me/blog/2025/co...

13.06.2025 15:30 👍 117 🔁 6 💬 18 📌 4
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If you load this page it contacts 82 IP addresses executing 256 separate HTTP transactions to download 18MB of data writing 64 cookies to your device to tell you “no”

24.05.2025 10:37 👍 14969 🔁 4470 💬 147 📌 241
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Introducing 🤯 flex-wrap: balance 🤯

Would you use this?

⚠️ Not a real feature yet, just something one of our engineers has been working on.

(You can try it out in the latest Chrome Canary with the experimental web platform features flag though!)

16.05.2025 17:07 👍 759 🔁 69 💬 75 📌 18
An article titled "How the Web Became Unreadable", posted on Medium. There is a soft paywall asking you to sign in, covering most of the article.

Screenshot found on Mastodon https://beige.party/@mayintoronto/114497234942335666

An article titled "How the Web Became Unreadable", posted on Medium. There is a soft paywall asking you to sign in, covering most of the article. Screenshot found on Mastodon https://beige.party/@mayintoronto/114497234942335666

14.05.2025 00:23 👍 17643 🔁 6387 💬 7 📌 247
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4 ways I use AI as an accessibility specialist As an accessibility specialist at Shopify, my mission is clear: to help create digital experiences that are inclusive and usable for Shopify merchants and buyers with disabilities. In the past, this i...

scottvinkle.com/blogs/work/4...

14.05.2025 20:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Vibe Coding is not an excuse for low-quality work A field guide to responsible AI-assisted development

addyo.substack.com/p/vibe-codin...

14.05.2025 15:06 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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SVG to CSS Shape Converter A simple tool to transform an SVG shape into a CSS shape. Get a modern and optimized code in no time!.

⚙️ New CSS Generator!

Save this link for the future. A tool to easily convert any SVG shape into a CSS one in no time. Powered by the new shape() function! 🤩

css-generators.com/svg-to-css/

✅ Single-element
✅ Responsive
✅ No more ViewBox headaches

12.05.2025 09:48 👍 141 🔁 33 💬 9 📌 2
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Sink A Simple / Speedy / Secure Link Shortener with Analytics, 100% run on Cloudflare.

this is extremely cool

- self hostable link shortener
- + @raycast.com extension
- + iOS app + shortcuts
- + browser extension
- built with @nuxt.com

sink.cool

👉 source code: github.com/ccbikai/Sink

11.05.2025 19:02 👍 120 🔁 10 💬 6 📌 0

Publish your sites directly from Figma!

Let AI write your blog posts!

Vibe code your authentication layer!

Eat protein paste instead of food!

Stop showering and shit your pants!

🎉 Path of least resistance 2025!

10.05.2025 08:49 👍 176 🔁 31 💬 4 📌 2

This is how I see it too. At every company I’ve worked at, we had all these ideas for things we wanted to do, but only like 20% of it got done because we had an engineering bottleneck.

If each dev is 2x as productive (let’s just say), I don’t think that means you’d want 50% fewer devs.

07.05.2025 20:00 👍 64 🔁 7 💬 6 📌 3
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The Hidden Cost of AI Coding AI coding tools boost productivity but may sacrifice the flow state and deep satisfaction developers experience when writing code by hand. What are we losing?

I feel this so hard - The Hidden Cost of AI Coding terriblesoftware.org/2025/04/23/t...

25.04.2025 15:42 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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CSS Utility Class Generator Turn your CSS custom properties into handy utility classes....

Sometimes I just want to quickly generate some Tailwind-ish utility classes from my CSS Vars, so I made this: codepen.io/itsMeAra/liv...

09.04.2025 05:51 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

More performant than other anim libraries out there! It beats Motion in 99% cases, WAAPI in lots of cases yet Julian added an api layer to facilitate its usage, and toes to toes with gsap - outperforming it in many cases like interacting with other libraries like three.js 🔥🔥

03.04.2025 15:41 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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in Chrome 135 - Tomorrow Mar 26, 2025
customize all the parts of a <select> with #CSS!

⤷ nerdy.dev/customize-a-...

24.03.2025 21:31 👍 405 🔁 70 💬 14 📌 16