The duality of language models in the browser đź”—
I have complex feelings about Generative AI but one area I find myself weirdly bullish on is small language models (SLMs) in the browser which are ava [...]
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10,000-watt GPU meet 40-watt lump of meat đź”—
The use of AI is leading to burnout among its greatest advocates as they hit the limit of their meta-cognitive abilities: “I end each day exhausted—no [...]
I don't want a screenshot of your Claude conversation đź”—
The number of screenshots of Claude conversations is going up in my life and it’s beginning to have an impact on my general mood. Most of the time it’ [...]
When moving fast, talking is the first thing to break đź”—
When you make speed and “moving fast” the biggest priority on a project or in an organization, the first thing to breakdown is talking to each other. [...]
Inverted themes with light-dark() đź”—
We rolled out adaptive light-dark() support on our design system themes and it’s been a delightful upgrade. Creating light and dark variable sets isn’ [...]
Ozempic dreams đź”—
It’s a secret to everyone! This post is for RSS subscribers only. Read more about RSS Club. I’ve heard the term “Ozempic face” for awhile. People hav [...]
Before I go: People like it when other people make things đź”—
I’ve watched a billion hours of YouTube and I’ve noticed a common trend: Whether that’s a drawing, a video game, a song, a cake, or a whole-ass off-gr [...]
People are not friction đź”—
The Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect of AI is a pretty well documented phenomenon: The Gell-Mann amnesia effect is a cognitive bias describing the tendency of [...]
Smaller and dumber đź”—
If I can make it smaller, I should. If I can make it dumber, I should. Smaller, dumber things have more applications, go more places, and require less [...]
Priority of idle hands đź”—
I had a small, intrusive realization the other day that computers and the internet are probably bad for me. I mean that beyond the general advice to t [...]
Magic Words đź”—
Skills are the newest hype commodity in the world of agentic AI. Skills are text files that optionally get stapled onto the context window by the agen [...]
Write about the future you want đź”—
There’s a lot that’s not going well; politics, tech bubbles, the economy, and so on. I spend most of my day reading angry tweets and blog posts. There [...]
I'm swearing off APIs entirely đź”—
I got a lot of ideas for side projects rattling around in the old tin can. As part of my “No new projects” initiative, I’m trying to jump on building [...]
Waiting for the power to go out đź”—
It’s a secret to everyone! This post is for RSS subscribers only. Read more about RSS Club. It’s expected to freeze this evening in Austin and we may [...]
The best version of my site so far... đź”—
You might have noticed that I did a big design refresh on my entire site… unless you’re on RSS I guess. I’ll talk about aspects in detail, but at a hi [...]
Focus rings with nested contrast-color()? đź”—
As I was playing around with contrast-color(), I got a wild idea that you could use contrast-color() to invert its return value by nesting it: contras [...]
Interpolate contrast-color() to manipulate lightness đź”—
In my first post on contrast-color() I demo’d using color-mix() to change a background-color on hover, but I will be honest… mixing black and white is [...]
Using your design system colors with contrast-color() đź”—
One predictable pain point with contrast-color() is that it only returns black and white named colors. From a design systems perspective, that’s not i [...]
Algorithmic hover states with contrast-color() đź”—
Firefox 146 added support for contrast-color() joining Safari 26 in the First Implementor’s Club. For those unfamiliar, contrast-color(<color>) is a [...]
Twenty Twenty-Five đź”—
2025 was… a year. And I made it to the end of that year. If you’re reading this, I imagine you did too and let’s celebrate that. But also not one with [...]