Valentin Jacquemin
jacquemin.ch
Valentin Jacquemin
@jacquemin.ch
October 12, 2025 at 3:14 PM
At 12'37" Zoe Si quotes out of a Skillshare Course some words that made me stop to write them down:

"It's okay to have imperfect work out in the world (but not sloppy!)"

– from: https://zoesi.substack.com/p/opus-cartooning-presentation

October 10, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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My website is for humans, and I don't want Google's AI ramen

localghost.dev/blog/this-we...
This website is for humans - localghost
I don't want Google's shitty AI-generated ramen
localghost.dev
August 8, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Just reached 600km at the end of July, in a good streak currently. #devswhorun
August 5, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Reposted by Valentin Jacquemin
The new issue of The HTML Review is here!

Twelve pieces of poetry, fiction, essays, and experiments, all of which use and explore the world wide web as medium.

The table of contents as always designed by my brilliant co-editor Shelby

thehtml.review/04/
the html review 04
thehtml.review
March 20, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Anyone who says React adds structure and prevents spaghetti code is lying (to you or themselves).

You know what stops spaghetti code? Good docs and developer discipline. That's bigger than tooling.

Stop throwing tech at people problems.
January 30, 2025 at 10:37 PM
"Writing forces the author to be clear, precise, and detailed... a peek behind the curtain at the customer problems we were observing in the early 2010s, and our vision for serverless compute"
allthingsdistributed.com/2024/11/aws-...
AWS Lambda turns 10: A rare look at the doc that started it
On AWS Lambda's 10th anniversary, I'm publishing the internal PR/FAQ that helped launch this groundbreaking service. This document provides insight into the customer problems we observed in the early ...
allthingsdistributed.com
January 30, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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Here's a story about why it is vital to ensure that basic services work for *everybody*.

shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/01...
The unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML
I've told this story at conferences - but due to the general situation I thought I'd retell it here. A few years ago I was doing policy research in a housing benefits office in London. They are singul...
shkspr.mobi
January 26, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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It's been a little over a week, those goals might be in jeopardy but maybe this video will help.

#GoodMorningWithMark 49: Ratio

#HelpWithYourGoals

www.youtube.com/shorts/dEZUj...
Ratio | #GoodMorningWithMark 49
YouTube video by Mark Techson
www.youtube.com
January 6, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Reposted by Valentin Jacquemin
Wasn’t sure this was gonna happen, but it’s still 2024 here for ~8 hours 😅

My annual portfolio refresh 💃 lynnandtonic.com
Lynn Fisher
Lynn Fisher is a web designer, CSS developer, and artist from Phoenix, Arizona.
lynnandtonic.com
December 31, 2024 at 10:21 PM
How cute is that!
December 27, 2024 at 1:38 PM
"htmx is not the only JavaScript library that takes this hypermedia-oriented approach (other excellent examples are Unpoly and Hotwire), but htmx is the purest in its pursuit of extending HTML as a hypermedia." – hypermedia.systems/extending-ht...
December 14, 2024 at 9:06 AM
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how do you all remember every UUID? I find it really hard. so I wrote them all down on every uuid dot com

the list has fast search across all 2^122 values (so you can find your favorites) - hoping to add some social features like "trending UUIDs" soon!
December 6, 2024 at 5:51 PM
"Don't you miss the days when the web really was the world's greatest decentralized network? Before everything got locked down into a handful of walled gardens? So do we." – activitypub.rocks
ActivityPub Rocks!
activitypub.rocks
November 1, 2024 at 11:54 AM