Why haven't I heard about Adyen until now?! www.adyen.com/en_AU
27.02.2026 11:01
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you know you've been out of the web-dev game too long when you only just learn about <details> and <summary> web.dev/learn/html/d...
It's 2026 and I still see WordPress websites everywhere - I get it, they're easy.
But I can't believe how we're still serving the bloat (plugins, unused scripts) and open access to out-dated self-hosted versions of jQuery and other assets.
Even if this was pointed out - would the site owners care?
I spent 6 months of spare-time/evenings vibe-coding intensively a full web application. Over 100k lines of code and almost a thousand files. I then spent a couple of hours this weekend effectively replicating 80% of it's core functionality in a browser extension. #Conflicted.
Screenshot of the YCombinator News site - known as HackerNews, using a custom stylesheet with dark background. The Karma number is clearly manipulated.
This is how I view HackerNews
Over-stated and overly dramatic, but there's an undeniable thread of potential inevitability here: shumer.dev/something-bi...
A browser plugin (albeit a good one) just cost me $$$ in LLM credits to solve what didn't need solving. #dammit
[Follow-up] - I finally wrote a thing: www.seriocomic.com/rhetoric/reb...
I've done a LOT of dev work in the past six months, enjoyed working with Claude (Desktop + CLI), so have a bunch of Webmin, Docker, bare-metal options to go with and Claude to hold my hand when I make mistakes - but here I am again, posting on the thing that works, even though it's not mine.
BlueSky is ideally what I would like, but without the social/federated noise. LinkedIn is where I would like, but I would feel constrained. Notion is an option because it's got ALL my Docs (nothing else came close). Old seriocomic.com site is still there - but I don't feel like reanimating it.
So I've gone through the "I want write some not-quite-blog" thing again. But I want to _own_ the code as well as the words - so I tried self-hosting Grav (not my style), Astro (way too complex with workers), Ghost blog (too opinionated), and the closest I've come to is HTMLy. [Thread...]
This SubStack article tries to answer: weareinternetpeople.substack.com/p/why-is-eve...
Recently noticed a large increase in the number of personal blogs powered by SubStack - admittedly, biased towards HackerNews where this observation arose, but after investigating the platform, I'm not sure I understand the appeal (apparently monetisation and subscription management)?
"Home-cooked software doesn’t need product-market fit—it just needs to fit you." - mrkaran.dev/posts/ai-hom...
Except when you _want_ to make it for others 🤨
1 day to build a working function
2 months to solve for all the edge cases
Nuts!
Claude (Sonnet 3.7 > 4.0 > Code) - lines of code: 160k (as in 'thousands')
me: 12 (as in 'twelve')
did a random check on a domain - saw that the 1st archive snapshot was 9999 days ago - thought "that's not right"... but...
"whatchya doin?"
- making stuff...
"yeah, but whatchya really doin?"
- watching LLMs make stuff for me while I sit back in my faux glory...
First time "vibe-coding" (VS Code, Github CoPilot using Sonnet 3.7 + Agent). Pretty impressed! Testing guard-rails are needed, as is constant revision, documentation. But the sheer amount of code and functionality created (tested and working) is significant 🤖🦾
He did it because those tux-wearing bastards never once said "thank you."
Political tipping point for @bsky.app as heavy-weight (ex)politicians like @hillaryclinton.bsky.social join the community (as is their right) - Twitter became a political echo-chamber based on post/feed algorithms, not sure how Bluesky will manage/adapt to maintaining civility in #free-speach
zuck wearing a shirt that says "aut zuck aut nihil"
jay graber, bluesky ceo, wearing a shirt that says "mundus sine caesaribus"
I still have bookmarks in my sidebar (why uses top/menu bars!?) from 2019. I have them staring at me with the same urgency as lint on the floor the robot-vacuum missed...
Managing virtual environments for Python coding is gotten to the point where I'm lost every time - was it PyEnv? HomeBrew? Conda? which version... where... global? Did I alias Python3/pip3 to python/pip???
It puzzles me to see so many "top" SEO's that are completely happy/oblivious to have suboptimal handles on BlueSky - why are they so content to have @generic_name_here.bsky.social when they could (should?) have @their_custom.domain ??
Surprising (in a good way) discovery/bonus of replacing my House to Shed (100m) #Wi-Fi Link - the new TP-Link EAP211-Bridge (replacement for my Pharos units) also comes with their own Wi-Fi Radios - extending my Wi-Fi to a previously annoying black-spot. www.omadanetworks.com/au/business-...
Great recap with examples on investing in your "own space" on the net by @den.dev : den.dev/blog/be-a-pr...
Dust gathers on a few ideas I'd like to write about, but don't have any single "home" for them - some are SEO specific, so might be worth a LinkedIn post, some are tech related where I used to blog, and I feel the socials are just too ephemeral...
The amount of shenanigans this change to Apple Wi-Fi privacy for my DHCP reserved IPs has caused is somewhat annoying: support.apple.com/en-au/102509