Matt Mullenweg on WordPress security: One problem we’ve had on WordPress.com is we do all these amazing things and don’t tell anyone about it My favorite example of this is the global CDN that Automattic operates in its own data centers. There are a lot of ways to measure the impact of this, but one way is […] #
Simon Willison on “vibe coding” with LLMs: Most of the work we do as software engineers is about evolving existing systems, and for those the quality and understandability of the underlying code is crucial. For experiments and low-stake projects where you want to explore what’s possible and build fun prototypes? Go wild! But stay aware […] #
Jeff Atwood, founder of Stack Overflow and Discourse: The American Dream contains the path of hate, and the path of love. Throughout our history, one hand is always fighting the other. Which path are we choosing? Our family pledges half our wealth toward an American Dream founded on love. I didn’t know Warren Buffet was no longer giving his […] #
Marco Rogers: Companies that want to reduce the cost of their frontend tech becoming obsoleted so often should be looking to get back to fundamentals. Your teams should be working closer to the web platform with a lot less complex abstractions. We need to relearn what the web is capable of and go back to […] #
NASA’s image of the day is a gold mine for new wallpapers. #
AI’s depiction of my dog in a fancy old style military uniform. We have a picture like this in our house that we bought a few years ago, except that it looks a bit more like our dog. #
