Follow the money
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/sep/06/fix-victoria-ai-ads-flooding-social-media-election-who-is-behind-them

I made something #electronics #clocks #arduino

A friend refers to the "a pedestrian was struck by a car" construction as the "exonerative" tense, and that shall be its name henceforth and hereafter.

Plan for today.

CSS attr() now works on all properties in Firefox 155. Here's how it works, and how to get the most out of it:

Had my eyes dilated for a checkup at the optometrist. It’s like the reverse of getting a new prescription.

@sundogplanets I'm a particular fan of Hajime Narukawa's AuthaGraph projection, which divides the globe into 96 equal triangles, maps them onto a tetrahedron then unfolds them into a rectangle!

As you might imagine, it looks bizarre when you're used to the Mercator, but it does preserve the true size ratios between land and water far better than most other projections.

what if instead of computer vision we went into the forest to look at birds

Playing around with an idea: responsive code.

The build script creates up to 5 versions of each code sample using Prettier, and a container query displays the right one.

Brotli means the filesize overhead is very small.

Live demo: https://jakearchibald.com/2026/css-custom-property-compute-time/

This guy's DIY audio visualizer

UN votes to adopt new world map that shows Africa’s true scale https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/04/un-vote-world-map-mercator-equal-earth-africa

Fuck you very VeriMuch, VeriSign.

https://neil.fraser.name/news/2026/09/03/

If anyone ever needds a 'do blind people even computer?" answer: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/UWNT4WTlvoI
Short, to the point, and it's even a video. That ticks all boxes for people to actually take it in in 2026, right? :) #accessibility #tech #youtube #shorts #selfPromo #advocacy #screenReader

Coles sees no value in continuing its work with Palantir. https://www.itnews.com.au/news/coles-to-end-data-analytics-work-with-palantir-628693

RE: https://floss.social/@igalia/117207992981255894

Before adding a suggestion, remember to check:

- Interop 2026 focus area descriptions: https://github.com/web-platform-tests/interop/blob/main/2026/README.md

- Proposals already submitted for 2027 (upvote & comment if you agree): https://github.com/web-platform-tests/interop/issues/?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20label%3Afocus-area-proposal

- CanIUse, MDN, or WPT for current support

A UK man was acquitted of terrorism charges after delivering his own closing argument:

The devil exists amongst those who deliberately starve children to death because they rationalise that those children will only grow up to be terrorists. It exists among those who bomb tent encampments and literally burn children and their parents alive. It exists amongst those who call Palestinians “human animals” the same phrase used by Himmler, the head of the SS about Jewish children in a speech on October 4, 1943 to senior SS Generals.

https://greghadfield.medium.com/tony-greenstein-the-most-important-half-hour-of-my-life-d03f7877a492

1/2 🧵

#GoodNews #Politics

"You can not separate the beliefs of the founder from the from mission of the foundation which you are supporting financially.

If the goal was to support the open source projects that Omarchy is built on you are more than capable of contributing directly to them. "

2/2

Major versions of Firefox now land every two weeks, so Firefox 155 dropped today with web platform features including:

🎉 Fully typed CSS attr()
🎉 CSS progress()
🎉 CSS alpha()
🎉 Promise.allKeyed() and allSettledKeyed()
🎉 Wasm wide arithmetic
🎉 Lots of new WebTransport stuff

…And more!

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Releases/155

The existence of Animal implies the existence of #Muppets called Vegetable and Mineral