Stephen Bell
@stephenjbell.bsky.social
Senior Design Technologist (front end dev) at a big nonprofit. Dad to two sets of twins. Canadian living in Oklahoma City. Love your neighbor.
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From xkcd:
Han: I'm captain of the Millenium Falcon.
Luke: What's that?
Han: It's the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs
Luke: No, what's a falcon?
Han: I'm captain of the Millenium Falcon.
Luke: What's that?
Han: It's the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs
Luke: No, what's a falcon?
November 5, 2025 at 8:07 AM
From xkcd:
Han: I'm captain of the Millenium Falcon.
Luke: What's that?
Han: It's the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs
Luke: No, what's a falcon?
Han: I'm captain of the Millenium Falcon.
Luke: What's that?
Han: It's the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs
Luke: No, what's a falcon?
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lil' treat for all you weekend builders: Svelte now has an official MCP server, courtesy of resident bot wranglers @paolo.ricciuti.me and @khromov.se 🤖
it gives your LLM access to docs and compiler-driven diagnostics — give it a spin and let us know how you get on!
svelte.dev/docs/mcp/ove...
it gives your LLM access to docs and compiler-driven diagnostics — give it a spin and let us know how you get on!
svelte.dev/docs/mcp/ove...
Overview • Docs • Svelte
Overview • Svelte documentation
svelte.dev
October 4, 2025 at 12:15 PM
lil' treat for all you weekend builders: Svelte now has an official MCP server, courtesy of resident bot wranglers @paolo.ricciuti.me and @khromov.se 🤖
it gives your LLM access to docs and compiler-driven diagnostics — give it a spin and let us know how you get on!
svelte.dev/docs/mcp/ove...
it gives your LLM access to docs and compiler-driven diagnostics — give it a spin and let us know how you get on!
svelte.dev/docs/mcp/ove...
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This only happens to you once
September 26, 2025 at 7:39 PM
This only happens to you once
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Seeing the Bill Watterson originals full of pencil lines of stuff that didn’t work, scuffs the eraser didn’t pick up, white out galore and more was something I needed to see to remind myself that nothing is perfect the first go and tweaks need to be made and you’re allowed to try again.
September 20, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Seeing the Bill Watterson originals full of pencil lines of stuff that didn’t work, scuffs the eraser didn’t pick up, white out galore and more was something I needed to see to remind myself that nothing is perfect the first go and tweaks need to be made and you’re allowed to try again.
I bet the people who made the iOS app with the level in it (Measure) were ticked off when the hardware folks added the giant protruding cameras to iPhones.
Like, “Oh no! Every level is 2 degrees off!”
Like, “Oh no! Every level is 2 degrees off!”
September 15, 2025 at 3:10 AM
I bet the people who made the iOS app with the level in it (Measure) were ticked off when the hardware folks added the giant protruding cameras to iPhones.
Like, “Oh no! Every level is 2 degrees off!”
Like, “Oh no! Every level is 2 degrees off!”
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we are sinking way too many labor hours into creating software to summarize zoom meetings and way too few into adding translation features to the Merlin app
i KNOW that's a blue jay what is she HOLLERING ABOUT
i KNOW that's a blue jay what is she HOLLERING ABOUT
September 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
we are sinking way too many labor hours into creating software to summarize zoom meetings and way too few into adding translation features to the Merlin app
i KNOW that's a blue jay what is she HOLLERING ABOUT
i KNOW that's a blue jay what is she HOLLERING ABOUT
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People from across the political spectrum need to join together to condemn political violence, no matter who the target it is. It’s never acceptable.
September 10, 2025 at 9:22 PM
People from across the political spectrum need to join together to condemn political violence, no matter who the target it is. It’s never acceptable.
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Thank god AI has finally solved the problem of there not being enough podcasts
September 10, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Thank god AI has finally solved the problem of there not being enough podcasts
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The transition from the world of typewriters to the universe of computers was meandering and lengthy. Traces of its many battles and decisions remain scattered across keyboards today—and no key better represents the complexity of that journey than the Return key.
The day Return became Enter
A deep dive into the convoluted and fascinating story of one of the most important keys on the keyboard
aresluna.org
September 4, 2025 at 6:49 PM
The transition from the world of typewriters to the universe of computers was meandering and lengthy. Traces of its many battles and decisions remain scattered across keyboards today—and no key better represents the complexity of that journey than the Return key.
Loudly, in my best Alex Trebeck voice:
September 4, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Loudly, in my best Alex Trebeck voice:
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Haven't realized this before but you can backtrack by one element in css with :has
August 21, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Haven't realized this before but you can backtrack by one element in css with :has
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What’s your favorite food fact that is true but sounds totally made up?
I’ll start: about half of the mushrooms produced across the United States of America each year (more than 300 million pounds of mushrooms in recent years) are produced in *one county* in Pennsylvania.
I’ll start: about half of the mushrooms produced across the United States of America each year (more than 300 million pounds of mushrooms in recent years) are produced in *one county* in Pennsylvania.
August 9, 2025 at 6:22 PM
What’s your favorite food fact that is true but sounds totally made up?
I’ll start: about half of the mushrooms produced across the United States of America each year (more than 300 million pounds of mushrooms in recent years) are produced in *one county* in Pennsylvania.
I’ll start: about half of the mushrooms produced across the United States of America each year (more than 300 million pounds of mushrooms in recent years) are produced in *one county* in Pennsylvania.
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Over the years, I’ve heard a lot of developers & other people wish that uBlock Origin was available for Safari. Now it is! Download for Safari 18.6 and Safari 26 beta.
apps.apple.com/app/ublock-o...
apps.apple.com/app/ublock-o...
uBlock Origin Lite
uBO Lite (uBOL) is a reliable and efficient content blocker.
The default ruleset corresponds to uBlock Origin's default filterset:
- uBlock Origin's built-in filter lists
- EasyList
- EasyPrivacy
-...
apps.apple.com
August 5, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Over the years, I’ve heard a lot of developers & other people wish that uBlock Origin was available for Safari. Now it is! Download for Safari 18.6 and Safari 26 beta.
apps.apple.com/app/ublock-o...
apps.apple.com/app/ublock-o...
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Mister Rogers never misses
January 2, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Mister Rogers never misses
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What do you do when ChatGPT tells people to go to your site and use a feature that doesn’t exist?? Good story and modern conundrum from @holovaty.com.
www.holovaty.com/writing/chat...
www.holovaty.com/writing/chat...
Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it exists | Holovaty.com
www.holovaty.com
July 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
What do you do when ChatGPT tells people to go to your site and use a feature that doesn’t exist?? Good story and modern conundrum from @holovaty.com.
www.holovaty.com/writing/chat...
www.holovaty.com/writing/chat...
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Most of the internet used to be like this. This is actually the default, it took companies enclosing the internet and adding weird, soul-killing incentives to make people behave the way they do now. In a way, there is truly nothing special about Wikipedia except that it survived longer.
“Wikipedia is this economic anomaly. In many ways, it’s sort of magical that people will just volunteer without explicit economic incentives to create artifacts that are meant to share knowledge with everyone in the world”
July 26, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Most of the internet used to be like this. This is actually the default, it took companies enclosing the internet and adding weird, soul-killing incentives to make people behave the way they do now. In a way, there is truly nothing special about Wikipedia except that it survived longer.
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I love CSS folks. They are soldiers of joy and delight. The world is burning and AI debates have people at each others throats and CSS peeps keep being like “check out this dancing turtle I made out of divs 🥰”
July 22, 2025 at 7:22 PM
I love CSS folks. They are soldiers of joy and delight. The world is burning and AI debates have people at each others throats and CSS peeps keep being like “check out this dancing turtle I made out of divs 🥰”
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"Consumer Watchdog found that the best deals were offered to the wealthiest customers—with the worst deals given to the poorest people, who are least likely to have other options."
fortune.com/2025/07/16/d...
fortune.com/2025/07/16/d...
Delta moves toward eliminating set prices in favor of AI that determines how much you personally will pay for a ticket
The airline touted a partnership with an AI-enabled revenue system as a step on the road to fully personalized ticket pricing, part of its goal to raise profit margins long-term.
fortune.com
July 16, 2025 at 11:40 PM
"Consumer Watchdog found that the best deals were offered to the wealthiest customers—with the worst deals given to the poorest people, who are least likely to have other options."
fortune.com/2025/07/16/d...
fortune.com/2025/07/16/d...
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woah
SVG filters provide a basic lighting system you can sync with a little JavaScript and use in your web apps 💡
... not as powerful as MacOS implementation but pretty cool
... not as powerful as MacOS implementation but pretty cool
July 8, 2025 at 11:29 PM
woah
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"I hypothesize a kind of subprime AI crisis is brewing."
OpenAI May Be in Major Trouble Financially
Recent indicators in the AI industry point to a growing crisis of profitability, with OpenAI caught right in the middle.
trib.al
July 8, 2025 at 10:25 PM
"I hypothesize a kind of subprime AI crisis is brewing."
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KFC Fire log. Smells like 11 herbs and spices fried chicken for your fireplace. Apparently isn't fake, can get it at Walmart.
July 6, 2025 at 11:07 PM
KFC Fire log. Smells like 11 herbs and spices fried chicken for your fireplace. Apparently isn't fake, can get it at Walmart.