Was not expecting to see a new Motion City Soundtrack song, let alone a new album. It's good to see Justin has recovered enough to be dancing about again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkwP8KsnvrI

This resonates with me. Great writing by @Robb.
https://front-end.social/@Robb/114618156886513987

On Tuesday, I read @Robb article, Looking Elsewhere. It deeply resonated with my craftsman soul. I go through his article and add my thoughts, reactions, head nods, and commentary.

https://jeffbridgforth.com/looking-elsewhere-a-reflection/

put some thoughts together on the LLM trend and its implications for labor rights. there's a lot to be said about the lofty claims of pro-LLM technologists, but this presumes their promises of efficiency, etc. are true.

https://henry.codes/writing/economics-and-labor-rights-in-ai-skepticism/

📢 A bunch of unresolved thoughts and feelings on AI, the web, and making things. Writing this mostly for future me:

https://jasonsantamaria.com/blog/large-language-muddle

Back when I was finding my feet in tech everybody was buzzing about building positive change. Somewhere along the way, something changed. Fortunately for us though, tech is not the first industry forced to defend itself against dubious practices.

What might we learn if we were to look elsewhere?

https://robbowen.digital/wrote-about/looking-elsewhere/

new year, new website :) with thy surest steel gathered to thy side, turn to face these new nightmares, these...True Terrors (of the New Dark Web)

plenty to do but i'm thrilled to publish this 🤍 thanks a lot if you end up taking a look, but hark! go heedfully:

https://henry.codes

scroll with caution & with care!

🌆 v0.1.17 of Synthwave '84 is now available on the VS Code Marketplace

Fixes the glow in VS code v1.95.0

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=RobbOwen.synthwave-vscode

Phew, looks like the lights are back on - I've just published a community fix to Synthwave '84 to the marketplace. The glow should be working again in VS Code ^1.94.0.

Coincidentally, in updating the theme I noticed that it has recently passed 2 million installs...which absolutely blows my mind

Honouring a timeless tradition by getting sick the day after a contract finishes

hey boards of directors or whatever: for a shockingly low fee, you can hire me to tell your Allbirds J. Haircut CEO that he is embarrassing himself with a level of focus, intensity, and cringe rarely seen outside of a kid at recess Naruto-running full speed into a wall then loudly blaming the wall

New post: The Interminable Pursuit of an Anticapitalist Web

Nice light read.

https://www.scott.is/writing/about/the-interminable-pursuit-of-an-anticapitalist-web

Go home WordPress, you’re drunk.

Transcending the "are we the baddies" phase in favour of fast-tracking "for me, it was Tuesday" levels of cartoon villainy

#WordPress dot org has just claimed Advanced Custom Fields as their own. Screenshot from the official #ACF Twitter account
https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-custom-fields/

Hey, everyone! “Design for Real Life” is now available online, in full, for free, at https://dfrlbook.com. It’s all the same content Sara Wachter-Boettcher and I wrote in 2016, but now it’s free for everyone. (If you’d like your own paper or electronic copy, there’s a “Buy the book” page on the site.) Read, share, spread the word—thanks!

Due to all the #WordPress drama I thought I'd list out some alternative CMSs that I think will fit the criteria people have when looking to jump ship.

Edit: This article got way more attention than I was expecting! I've made a few editorial changes to include ones suggested by others, as well as some context which you should be aware of before diving into them:

https://darn.es/wordpress-alternatives/

It was a great honour to play a part in refreshing the online presence of these legendary foundries, and a pleasure to work with @thetypefounders and @pixelambacht on another project together. Check out the new site at https://P22.com

Happy Thursday! Please have some often-odd and sometimes-sleazy, Norwegian jazz-funk to start the day:

https://album.link/s/2rqDOzIStz7SBh4Q02NbsK

A slide from my WDC talk.