If you needed a win as badly as I have lately, mark this one down: CSS-Tricks is returning as an independent publication.

Spread the word.

https://wil.to/posts/taking-back-css-tricks/

This hurts, because, it's true: "Silicon Valley will spend millions developing a glove that translates sign language into speech (badly), but they won't spend ten minutes adding Alt-Text to their images. They will build a headset that describes the room to me (poorly), but they won't use semantic HTML headings so I can actually navigate a webpage."

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Carl_Zimmer/117345065655681591

“The Anthropic scientists [..] said that their A.I. had taken “the first steps of a biological discovery on its own.””

[Mario Rodríguez Mestre, a computational biologist] “disputed that claim. “They are the same systems we have been studying for years,” he said. And they are the same enzymes, he said, that he had described to Anthropic’s A.I.”

—

AI companies stealing people’s work and claiming that their AI is making new discoveries. How long before humanity stands up to these companies?

I would have tagged them here, but just in case there was any doubt left as to the nature of the company’s boot-licking aspirations:

https://bsky.app/profile/digitalocean.com/post/3miukpxmyn625

Digital Ocean ended their $50/month sponsorship of GNOME and FlatHub and went radio silent on CSS-Tricks right around the time they found a spare three million dollars to burn on “sponsoring” a high-profile racist’s dotfiles repo.

Impossible to see this as anything but a statement of their values.

https://geoffgraham.me/why-css-tricks-has-been-quiet/

From release notes of LibreOffice 26.8:

”[It] contains no generative AI features. Documents are not transmitted to remote services for processing (…). This is a deliberate position.”

https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/08/26/libreoffice-26-8/

OH: Neues Regierungs-Framework – Angular Merkel.

#entropialeaks

"98% of readers prefer imperfect-yet-authentic human writing; most will stop reading, block you, and downvote you if they suspect AI

[..]

TL;DR Readers really despise and distrust articles that seem shaped by AI. They not only stop reading, but also block and punish the author."

☝🏻

Report: How developers react to AI-scented blog posts
https://writethatblog.substack.com/p/dev-reaction-to-ai-blog-posts

Bookmarked.

For those trying to migrate their GitHub Pages (i.e. Jekyll SSG) to Forgejo/Codeberg Pages and struggling with the absolutely subpar documentation:

Here is the crucial snippet for your workflow YAML that makes things "just work":

- uses: actions/checkout@v5
- uses: https://github.com/actions/jekyll-build-pages@v1
- uses: actions/git-pages@v2

#github #forgejo #codeberg #pages #jekyll

Three points on Rust not having namespaces, 10 years after the first proper "domains as namespaces" proposal:

1. The egomaniacal posturing of the people in charge is absolutely bonkers, as well as the damage they have caused.

2. It's a failure of Rust's governance structure that these people have not been removed from any decision-making processes.

3. Shipping even the worst namespacing proposal back then would have been better than 10 years of inaction.

#rust #cargo #crates #cratesio

OH: "Ein geigespielender Atommüllzug, ein sogenannter Fidel Castor."

#entropialeaks

If you are confused why your Codeberg Pages domain setup has stopped working a few days ago:

The IP addresses have changed, and they seemingly forgot to tell anyone.

(See https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/Documentation/pulls/556.)

#codeberg #pages #dns

facts 🗣️🗣️🗣️
say it louder for the mfers in the back

@shibbles at @webdirections

New comiCSS cartoon: Sheriff
https://comicss.art/comics/190/

Today's comic is about the web and fonts. Can you find all the differences?

#css #webdev #font #comic

@mick @codinghorror @Daojoan With people like you, Hitler would have won the war.

"we're using tailwind to solve our CSS problems" very cool i'm using cigarettes to solve my stress problem

OH: "Naja, man sollte von sozial schwachen Menschen wie Christian Lindner keine Glanzleistungen bei einer Gruppenarbeit erwarten."

#entropialeaks #fdp

Go language design is a great case study of non-experts trying to do things that go way over their heads.

#golang

“Like watching Norman Bates talk to his mother.”

OH: "Der Ausdruck 'Traumjob' assoziiert eine unangemessene emotionale Bindung zum Arbeitsplatz."

#entropialeaks