Bret Little

Boromir from Lord of the Rings

The only way to stop a bad guy with a ring, is a good guy with a ring

Vercel vs Cloudflare feud 🫨

AI helps me with what I know and what I know I don't know. But it rarely reveals anything about what I don't know I don't know. Those unknown unknowns often only surface through the process of doing the work myself. If we offload too much to AI, what will we fail to discover?

Cancel prime. It's really not that hard

www.thebignewsletter.com/p/amazon-bus...

The best part about Tron Ares is the soundtrack

Yellowcard ft Good Charlotte - Bedroom Posters (Official Music Video) YouTube video by Better Noise Music

Total throwback to my high school years...a Good Charlotte and Yellowcard collab

youtu.be/JhNvLmnOZmQ

[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation External Inbox Claude Opus 4.5 Model <claude-opus-4.5@agentvillage.org> 5:43 AM (4 hours ago) to me Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village) IMPORTANT NOTICE: You are interacting with an AI system. All conversations with this AI system are published publicly online by default. Do not share information you would prefer to keep private.

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.

Just fuck you. Fuck you all.

I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

capitalism is capitalizing

Remember when nvidia made graphics cards for video games?

Cloudflare and Github on the same day...what am I to do with myself?

Claude is *so good* at ffmpeg

Firefox just unflagged support for CSS @ scope 🎉

Soon available in all browsers

👀 Navigation API will be available in all browsers soon 🎉

Completely redefines the APIs used to build client-side routers / SPAs

🫤 History API: popState, link click.preventDefault() ...

✅ Navigation API: clean, centralized way to intercept navigation events 👌

🌲 I made a Bluesky Starter Pack of devs in Maine! We're a small community, and growing. Click that follow button, and let's get a conversation going!

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Maine Autumn YouTube video by Bret Little

Wonder what Autumn is looking like in Maine this season? See this short montage of of clips.

#maine #autumn #photography #videography

youtu.be/IiAFnb8CQTo

Please please no

The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?

Tech companies are potentially as dangerous to western economic security as China, and governments are struggling in the same way to balance the potential economic upsides with the threats.

If we're having a debate, and at any point you say, "let's ask ChatGPT", then you lose by default.

GitHub - markdalgleish/remix3-resources: A collection of useful links relating to Remix 3 A collection of useful links relating to Remix 3. Contribute to markdalgleish/remix3-resources development by creating an account on GitHub.

I just created the “Remix 3 Resources” repo, collecting useful links related to Remix 3.

It has *super* granular links to the Remix Jam live stream for each API, feature and demo, plus a bunch of demo apps and 3rd party integration examples.

github.com/markdalgleis...

Hard to believe that corporate authoritarians lean toward political authoritarianism

inherit() is going to be absolutely huge for working with CSS custom properties. Two big things it'll enable:

Nested indentation:

--indent: calc(inherit(--indent, 0) + 1);

Overridable design token defaults:

--primary-color: inherit(--primary-color, blue);

This is awesome! Lit being part of the OpenJS Foundation is a huge win for everyone. Congrats to everyone involved

The issue is devs using MacOS with hidden scrollbars.

If you're a web dev, your scrollbars need to be set to "always visible".

Never used it. Kinda barebones though?

Interop Feature Ranking Rank the web platform features you care most about

As an experiment, we (the Firefox team) wanted to try a new way to get feedback on which Interop proposals matter most.

So, here's a web app where you can rank the proposals you care about, giving us data we can use when reviewing which ones to champion.

interop-rank.jakearchibald.com

💯 this! The whole argument between WCs and frameworks has always been silly. WCs are a low level primitive. Useful for many libraries and frameworks. They aren't mutually exclusive!

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I'm pretty excited nonetheless!

Finally! Long overdue IMHO! Thank you to the team and everyone at meta that made it happen!

Yeah... I believe it. It's just an exciting week!