Dan Okkels Brendstrup
@bewildergeist.bsky.social
Web fanboy. A decade in the frontend dev trenches, now teaching new web developers how to navigate this crazy world we’ve built out of JS.
Also 🦣 https://indieweb.social/@bewildergeist
Once 🐦 https://twitter.com/bewildergeist
Also 🦣 https://indieweb.social/@bewildergeist
Once 🐦 https://twitter.com/bewildergeist
All the money in the world could not make me want to trade places with this guy. (Either of them, for that matter).
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 2:25 PM
All the money in the world could not make me want to trade places with this guy. (Either of them, for that matter).
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"Company X releases a new browser"
is not correct.
"Company X puts their closed AI agent that seemingly helps you but records everything to show you ads in the future when their business model collapses into Chromium and has no plans to maintain the engine."
is more like it.
is not correct.
"Company X puts their closed AI agent that seemingly helps you but records everything to show you ads in the future when their business model collapses into Chromium and has no plans to maintain the engine."
is more like it.
October 23, 2025 at 2:34 PM
"Company X releases a new browser"
is not correct.
"Company X puts their closed AI agent that seemingly helps you but records everything to show you ads in the future when their business model collapses into Chromium and has no plans to maintain the engine."
is more like it.
is not correct.
"Company X puts their closed AI agent that seemingly helps you but records everything to show you ads in the future when their business model collapses into Chromium and has no plans to maintain the engine."
is more like it.
I did not expect to snortlaugh out loud to a quiz about JavaScript dates, but here we are. This is hilariously well done.
We’ve built the web on the craziest possible language.
12/28, no notes.
We’ve built the web on the craziest possible language.
12/28, no notes.
July 11, 2025 at 7:58 PM
I did not expect to snortlaugh out loud to a quiz about JavaScript dates, but here we are. This is hilariously well done.
We’ve built the web on the craziest possible language.
12/28, no notes.
We’ve built the web on the craziest possible language.
12/28, no notes.
“And so, we rewrote the rules of web development around entirely different needs, almost overnight. Not content, not speed, not interoperability, not discoverability. Just code.”
Ouch, yeah:
www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/j...
Ouch, yeah:
www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/j...
JavaScript broke the web (and called it progress)
We replaced simple websites with complex apps nobody asked for. Now it takes a complex build pipeline just to change a headline.
www.jonoalderson.com
June 20, 2025 at 10:53 AM
“And so, we rewrote the rules of web development around entirely different needs, almost overnight. Not content, not speed, not interoperability, not discoverability. Just code.”
Ouch, yeah:
www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/j...
Ouch, yeah:
www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/j...
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AI art really is the aesthetic of new fascism
May 3, 2025 at 8:26 PM
AI art really is the aesthetic of new fascism
“A grand unified vision isn't manifesting, but a million different nightmares are.”
As we hit the First Hundred Days milestone for Trump, I have some thoughts:
campaign-trails.ghost.io/the-worst-hu...
campaign-trails.ghost.io/the-worst-hu...
The Worst Hundred Days
As Donald Trump lumbers towards the first major milestone of a new presidency this week, hitting the marker of the First Hundred Days, it's worth taking a moment to marvel at just how badly he's doing...
campaign-trails.ghost.io
April 28, 2025 at 10:15 PM
“A grand unified vision isn't manifesting, but a million different nightmares are.”
@redwoodjs.com Heads up: Submitting the newsletter signup on rwsdk_com throws a 405 error from kwesforms_com.
April 25, 2025 at 6:19 PM
@redwoodjs.com Heads up: Submitting the newsletter signup on rwsdk_com throws a 405 error from kwesforms_com.
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The biggest delta I see from 20 years ago- this world we evolved to didn’t leave enough space for the dreamers.
That spot in our humanity that draws, reads each others zines, lays on the floor and listens to music with friends. We made everything so gamified we lost track of these crucial pieces.
That spot in our humanity that draws, reads each others zines, lays on the floor and listens to music with friends. We made everything so gamified we lost track of these crucial pieces.
April 20, 2025 at 7:45 PM
The biggest delta I see from 20 years ago- this world we evolved to didn’t leave enough space for the dreamers.
That spot in our humanity that draws, reads each others zines, lays on the floor and listens to music with friends. We made everything so gamified we lost track of these crucial pieces.
That spot in our humanity that draws, reads each others zines, lays on the floor and listens to music with friends. We made everything so gamified we lost track of these crucial pieces.
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my hope is that AI can empower the Dumbest, Least talented slobs i know to replace everything i ever loved with One Million Years of Content
April 8, 2025 at 3:07 AM
my hope is that AI can empower the Dumbest, Least talented slobs i know to replace everything i ever loved with One Million Years of Content
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ChatGPT ass presidency
Incredible. The Trump administration calculated "tariff rates" by taking the US trade deficit with the respective country and dividing it by the country's exports to the US. And then the tariff rate of the US is often just set by cutting that made-up "tariff rate" in half.
April 4, 2025 at 8:28 PM
ChatGPT ass presidency
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Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
April 3, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
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The answer to “why are they doing this?!” is always “for multiple reasons ranging from nakedly stupid to calculatedly evil in service of a feckless coalition of the greedy and malicious.” The endless search for a unified psyche here is such a self-inflicted DDOS 🫠
April 3, 2025 at 2:52 AM
The answer to “why are they doing this?!” is always “for multiple reasons ranging from nakedly stupid to calculatedly evil in service of a feckless coalition of the greedy and malicious.” The endless search for a unified psyche here is such a self-inflicted DDOS 🫠
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Historians of white supremacy passing the flame to historians of the Great Depression in the world's saddest Olympic torch relay.
April 2, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Historians of white supremacy passing the flame to historians of the Great Depression in the world's saddest Olympic torch relay.
All true — except the “charismatic” part:
“One lesson of the 2020s is that things many people had assumed had been consigned to history – among them epidemics, nationalism, territorial land grabs and charismatic tyrants – have returned in force.”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
“One lesson of the 2020s is that things many people had assumed had been consigned to history – among them epidemics, nationalism, territorial land grabs and charismatic tyrants – have returned in force.”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Europe doesn’t need Trump to form a western alliance – and one is already taking shape | Martin Kettle
Britain, France and Germany are closing ranks to bolster Nato as the unreliable US president marches to his own drum, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle
www.theguardian.com
March 20, 2025 at 12:12 PM
All true — except the “charismatic” part:
“One lesson of the 2020s is that things many people had assumed had been consigned to history – among them epidemics, nationalism, territorial land grabs and charismatic tyrants – have returned in force.”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
“One lesson of the 2020s is that things many people had assumed had been consigned to history – among them epidemics, nationalism, territorial land grabs and charismatic tyrants – have returned in force.”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This is it, unfortunately. The nitwit just wants to "make map go bigger", consequences be damned.
It's darkly funny how some people will try very hard to make Trump's motives make sense, some actual geopolitical rationale for trampling all over self-determination and pissing off our best allies, and then he just comes right out and says he wants Canada and Greenland so the maps look prettier.
March 13, 2025 at 9:16 PM
This is it, unfortunately. The nitwit just wants to "make map go bigger", consequences be damned.
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Now imagine what the language models in our heads would be able to create if they had access to all of humanity’s knowledge for free!
a man with glasses is surrounded by a glowing circle and the website pmitf.com is displayed below him
Alt: Eric Wareheim in a turtle neck against a dark background and touching his forehead as visual effects explosions are superimposed over him.
media.tenor.com
March 13, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Now imagine what the language models in our heads would be able to create if they had access to all of humanity’s knowledge for free!
The AI robots are trolling each other now.
I had Claude help me write a script to anonymize data in a staging db, and it chose to replace all video links with a... quite specific YouTube link.
Then I had GitHub Copilot review my subsequent pull request, and it spotted the Rickroll right away.
I had Claude help me write a script to anonymize data in a staging db, and it chose to replace all video links with a... quite specific YouTube link.
Then I had GitHub Copilot review my subsequent pull request, and it spotted the Rickroll right away.
March 13, 2025 at 8:57 PM
The AI robots are trolling each other now.
I had Claude help me write a script to anonymize data in a staging db, and it chose to replace all video links with a... quite specific YouTube link.
Then I had GitHub Copilot review my subsequent pull request, and it spotted the Rickroll right away.
I had Claude help me write a script to anonymize data in a staging db, and it chose to replace all video links with a... quite specific YouTube link.
Then I had GitHub Copilot review my subsequent pull request, and it spotted the Rickroll right away.
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its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further
March 8, 2025 at 12:13 AM
its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further
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America is under siege by a surprising force: losers.
America Is Under Siege by a Surprising Force: Losers
We’re not talking about this enough.
slate.com
March 10, 2025 at 7:38 PM
America is under siege by a surprising force: losers.
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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it, and those who can remember the past are like, what the hell, man?
January 22, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it, and those who can remember the past are like, what the hell, man?
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Something that’s very clear is that Trump is old and checked out. He wants to play the role of president but has zero interest in doing the job and is happy to outsource the real work to Musk, Vought and a crew of feral zealots.
February 26, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Something that’s very clear is that Trump is old and checked out. He wants to play the role of president but has zero interest in doing the job and is happy to outsource the real work to Musk, Vought and a crew of feral zealots.
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Striking how easily you can get millions of people to vote for a boot on their own face just by lying to them about the boot going on someone else's face.
February 26, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Striking how easily you can get millions of people to vote for a boot on their own face just by lying to them about the boot going on someone else's face.
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I guess my point is that we’re all looking around trying to figure out why we live in a profoundly value-less amoral world right now and there’s a lot of people to blame for that but high up on that list are people who decided that any genuine moral viewpoint is biased
February 26, 2025 at 2:58 AM
I guess my point is that we’re all looking around trying to figure out why we live in a profoundly value-less amoral world right now and there’s a lot of people to blame for that but high up on that list are people who decided that any genuine moral viewpoint is biased