Reposted by Daniel Knobloch
Angertainment is a great way to describe the emotional experience most social media platforms are optimizing for.
January 17, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Angertainment is a great way to describe the emotional experience most social media platforms are optimizing for.
Reposted by Daniel Knobloch
DRAM prices mooning will hurt everyone and might cause a consumer tech recession on its own in the next 12 months even without the AI bubble popping.
Hyperscalers are going to jack up prices for cloud resources, electronics manufacturers (Apple, Samsung, etc.) will raise prices, this is gonna hurt.
Hyperscalers are going to jack up prices for cloud resources, electronics manufacturers (Apple, Samsung, etc.) will raise prices, this is gonna hurt.
December 15, 2025 at 5:41 AM
DRAM prices mooning will hurt everyone and might cause a consumer tech recession on its own in the next 12 months even without the AI bubble popping.
Hyperscalers are going to jack up prices for cloud resources, electronics manufacturers (Apple, Samsung, etc.) will raise prices, this is gonna hurt.
Hyperscalers are going to jack up prices for cloud resources, electronics manufacturers (Apple, Samsung, etc.) will raise prices, this is gonna hurt.
Reposted by Daniel Knobloch
I'm learning about prediction markets and I think America has a gambling problem.
December 12, 2025 at 9:08 PM
I'm learning about prediction markets and I think America has a gambling problem.
Reposted by Daniel Knobloch
What will you do when these goons come to kidnap your neighbors?
Think about your plan. Connect with the people in your community.
Think about your plan. Connect with the people in your community.
“She has marks on her neck and wrist from where agents restrained her. Agents cut off her wedding ring and held her in leg shackles at Whipple Federal Building for about five hours.”
Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.
Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.
Federal agents arrest citizen observer watching ICE detain neighbors on her north Minneapolis block
Susan Tincher, a 55-year-old American citizen, appears to be the first observer arrested by federal immigration enforcement officers since the agency launched an immigration surge in the Twin Cities l...
www.mprnews.org
December 10, 2025 at 12:30 AM
What will you do when these goons come to kidnap your neighbors?
Think about your plan. Connect with the people in your community.
Think about your plan. Connect with the people in your community.
Reposted by Daniel Knobloch
Sheep Grazing near Minnehaha Creek (1890s)
Source: Hennepin County Library.
Source: Hennepin County Library.
December 4, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Sheep Grazing near Minnehaha Creek (1890s)
Source: Hennepin County Library.
Source: Hennepin County Library.
Reposted by Daniel Knobloch
Just saw an extended version
November 20, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Just saw an extended version
Reposted by Daniel Knobloch
Every day I work at Big Tech I understand this guy more and more
November 11, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Every day I work at Big Tech I understand this guy more and more
Reposted by Daniel Knobloch
Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!
The Majority AI View - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
anildash.com
October 17, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!
Reposted by Daniel Knobloch
Truly, SS7 is the surveillance gift that keeps on giving: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The surveillance empire that tracked world leaders, a Vatican enemy, and maybe you
Inside the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe.
www.motherjones.com
October 14, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Truly, SS7 is the surveillance gift that keeps on giving: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Reposted by Daniel Knobloch
At a critical moment, the tech press are failing to connect the dots between Apple and Google's craven capitulations and the authoritarianism they have nurtured within their own ecosystems:
infrequently.org/2025/10/the-...
infrequently.org/2025/10/the-...
The App Store Was Always Authoritarian - Infrequently Noted
Apple bent the knee for months, leaving many commentators to ask why. But the reasons are not mysterious: Apple wants things that only the government can provide, things that will defend and extend…
infrequently.org
October 12, 2025 at 12:18 AM
At a critical moment, the tech press are failing to connect the dots between Apple and Google's craven capitulations and the authoritarianism they have nurtured within their own ecosystems:
infrequently.org/2025/10/the-...
infrequently.org/2025/10/the-...
Reposted by Daniel Knobloch
George was just trying to get to work.
ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.
This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.
ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.
This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.
"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."
@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized
@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized
October 10, 2025 at 7:02 PM
George was just trying to get to work.
ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.
This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.
ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.
This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.
Reposted by Daniel Knobloch
I do find it extremely annoying as a user (and a developer) to keep running head first into the realisation that the worlds richest company, makes the worlds worst browser. On purpose and at the expense of everyone else.
October 4, 2025 at 12:59 PM
I do find it extremely annoying as a user (and a developer) to keep running head first into the realisation that the worlds richest company, makes the worlds worst browser. On purpose and at the expense of everyone else.
Reposted by Daniel Knobloch
So Apple is censoring another ICE-spotting app, and I think we need to talk about the coverage, as much as Apple's groveling pre-compliance.
@404media.co broke this, specifically @josephcox.bsky.social, and unlike some previous coverage, it includes this:
404media.co/apple-banned-an-….
@404media.co broke this, specifically @josephcox.bsky.social, and unlike some previous coverage, it includes this:
404media.co/apple-banned-an-….
October 9, 2025 at 12:27 AM
So Apple is censoring another ICE-spotting app, and I think we need to talk about the coverage, as much as Apple's groveling pre-compliance.
@404media.co broke this, specifically @josephcox.bsky.social, and unlike some previous coverage, it includes this:
404media.co/apple-banned-an-….
@404media.co broke this, specifically @josephcox.bsky.social, and unlike some previous coverage, it includes this:
404media.co/apple-banned-an-….
Reposted by Daniel Knobloch
OK @kevinpowell.co has written what has to be one of the best (if not THE best) practical article to #CSS colors I have read in a while. piccalil.li/blog/a-pragm...
Easy to read, practical examples, and *perfect* for someone like me who's fallen behind and hasn't kept up with all the new stuff.
Easy to read, practical examples, and *perfect* for someone like me who's fallen behind and hasn't kept up with all the new stuff.
A pragmatic guide to modern CSS colours - part one
Whether you've got a firm grasp on modern CSS colour capabilities, or you're thinking 'I struggle to understand why I should use modern CSS colours at all', then the first part of this article series,...
piccalil.li
October 7, 2025 at 2:53 PM
OK @kevinpowell.co has written what has to be one of the best (if not THE best) practical article to #CSS colors I have read in a while. piccalil.li/blog/a-pragm...
Easy to read, practical examples, and *perfect* for someone like me who's fallen behind and hasn't kept up with all the new stuff.
Easy to read, practical examples, and *perfect* for someone like me who's fallen behind and hasn't kept up with all the new stuff.
Reposted by Daniel Knobloch
put another way: i don't want your data—not just from an ideological "users should be in control" perspective, but from a pragmatic "this makes my app harder and more expensive to run" perspective
we've been so focused on making it easy to scale up that we've accidentally made it hard to scale down
we've been so focused on making it easy to scale up that we've accidentally made it hard to scale down
i like making little web apps for myself/family/friends. the most annoying parts — the parts that drastically increase the scope, from "a bunch of HTML, CSS & JS files" to "a web server and database" — are auth+persistence. so i am very excited about atproto including a user-owned solution for both.
October 5, 2025 at 3:47 PM
put another way: i don't want your data—not just from an ideological "users should be in control" perspective, but from a pragmatic "this makes my app harder and more expensive to run" perspective
we've been so focused on making it easy to scale up that we've accidentally made it hard to scale down
we've been so focused on making it easy to scale up that we've accidentally made it hard to scale down
Reposted by Daniel Knobloch
this is wild: while Stephen Miller's guy was in Minnesota for his uncle's funeral, somebody was able to see his entire phone and take pictures of his Signal group chats talking about military deployments to Portland, and brought them to the Strib (gift link: www.startribune.com/trump-offici...)
October 4, 2025 at 1:12 AM
this is wild: while Stephen Miller's guy was in Minnesota for his uncle's funeral, somebody was able to see his entire phone and take pictures of his Signal group chats talking about military deployments to Portland, and brought them to the Strib (gift link: www.startribune.com/trump-offici...)
Reposted by Daniel Knobloch
Fuck apps - build websites.
New from 404 Media: Google removed an ICE-spotting app too. Called Red Dot, an immigration support group on the ground in Chicago told me it was using it. Google now removed, just like Apple did with ICEBlock after DOJ pressure. Google calls ICE vulnerable group
www.404media.co/google-calls...
www.404media.co/google-calls...
Google Calls ICE Agents a Vulnerable Group, Removes ICE-Spotting App ‘Red Dot’
The move comes as Apple removed ICEBlock after direct pressure from U.S. Department of Justice officials and signals a broader crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.
www.404media.co
October 3, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Fuck apps - build websites.
Reposted by Daniel Knobloch
Developers! If you want to distribute software "applications" that don't depend on the whims of multi-billion dollar organisations romantically linked to illiberal regimes across the globe, there's a brand new vague-but-exciting technology you can use, called "the Web"! pwa.dev
PWA
Progressive Web App
pwa.dev
October 3, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Developers! If you want to distribute software "applications" that don't depend on the whims of multi-billion dollar organisations romantically linked to illiberal regimes across the globe, there's a brand new vague-but-exciting technology you can use, called "the Web"! pwa.dev
Reposted by Daniel Knobloch
Tim Cook's 24 karat golden trinket at the Oval was an embarrassment, but more than that, it was a token of policy corruption. What Apple wanted from the WH was exactly what it got this weekend: blatantly corrupt pressure to undercut rules that create fairness:
on.ft.com/46tYoXZ
on.ft.com/46tYoXZ
Brussels told to prove digital rules do not ‘punish’ US tech or fix them
Donald Trump’s ambassador to EU says no US president can ‘allow these kinds of infringements’ on American companies
on.ft.com
September 29, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Tim Cook's 24 karat golden trinket at the Oval was an embarrassment, but more than that, it was a token of policy corruption. What Apple wanted from the WH was exactly what it got this weekend: blatantly corrupt pressure to undercut rules that create fairness:
on.ft.com/46tYoXZ
on.ft.com/46tYoXZ
Reposted by Daniel Knobloch
i just want software that leaves me the fuck alone you know what i mean?
September 27, 2025 at 12:19 AM
i just want software that leaves me the fuck alone you know what i mean?
Reposted by Daniel Knobloch
"so, um, this law you passed...yes, we know we're not complying, and, well, you see, it's *inconvenient* that we keep getting caught trying to mislead you. Could you scrap it? Cheers."
-- Cupertino
www.france24.com/en/live-news...
-- Cupertino
www.france24.com/en/live-news...
Apple asks EU to scrap landmark digital competition law
Apple asked the European Union to scrap its landmark digital competition law on Thursday, arguing that it poses security risks and creates a "worse experience" for consumers.
www.france24.com
September 25, 2025 at 3:49 AM
"so, um, this law you passed...yes, we know we're not complying, and, well, you see, it's *inconvenient* that we keep getting caught trying to mislead you. Could you scrap it? Cheers."
-- Cupertino
www.france24.com/en/live-news...
-- Cupertino
www.france24.com/en/live-news...
Reposted by Daniel Knobloch
so is it safe to `npm update` yet or are we just not anymore?
September 25, 2025 at 5:57 AM
so is it safe to `npm update` yet or are we just not anymore?
Reposted by Daniel Knobloch
We’re live!! My brand-new course, “Whimsical Animations”, is now available. 🥳🎉
whimsy.joshwcomeau.com
I’m so excited to share all of my animation tools and techniques with y’all. 😄
whimsy.joshwcomeau.com
I’m so excited to share all of my animation tools and techniques with y’all. 😄
Whimsical Animations
Learn how to create charming interactions and delightful touches using the magic of CSS, JavaScript, SVG, and Canvas. I’m sharing all my tricks in this one!
whimsy.joshwcomeau.com
September 24, 2025 at 2:56 PM
We’re live!! My brand-new course, “Whimsical Animations”, is now available. 🥳🎉
whimsy.joshwcomeau.com
I’m so excited to share all of my animation tools and techniques with y’all. 😄
whimsy.joshwcomeau.com
I’m so excited to share all of my animation tools and techniques with y’all. 😄
Reposted by Daniel Knobloch
September 19, 2025 at 9:47 PM