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Blogging vs. blog setups I definitely feel targeted by this 😅 via Maya

Simplify sharing with built-in APIs and progressive enhancement Andy Bell with a great example of creating a web component for a better article sharing experience. I’m gonna try adding this to my site.

Et tu, Grammarly?

Another uncalled-for blog post about the ethics of using AI

Keynote: AI without the BS, for humans - Scott Hanselman - NDC London 2025

Open Source, Open Mind: The Cost of Free Software - Dylan Beattie - NDC London 2025

How to Write Useful Commit Messages I’ve long been a fan of writing more detailed commit messages and this is an excellent write-up on how to do that.

Building Websites With LLMS I’ve mentioned the new view transitions API before, Jim Nielsen has a great post (with a fun bait-and-switch title) where he takes it to the next level and shows how you can use cross-document transitions to take a site with regular ole html pages and make it feel like a SPA or native app.

JavaScript Fatigue Strikes Back I think is a nice very high overview of the current state of the Javascript ecosystem. I also like this potential explanation for why there tends to be more churn than with backend frameworks: The problem was that, unlike Ruby, PHP, or Python, most JavaScript needs to run in the browser. Historically, this put an evolutionary pressure on JavaScript frameworks to be small and bereft of legacy code, rather than expansive and featureful. ...

My Life in Weeks by Gina Trapani. This is a pretty cool little project and I’ve long thought about doing something similar so it’s great that she put the source on Github.