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• Post #4372622

  noted: have you seen the price of Raspberry Pis?? https://dbushell.com/notes/2026-08-04T05:12Z/ the PC and self-hosted hobby is dead, guess who ruined it 🫠

• Post #4041560

  https://blog.codeberg.org/protecting-our-floss-commons-from-llms.html 👏 TL;DR: keep your slop on GitHub

• Post #3866051

  blogged: Choose your own dark mode https://dbushell.com/2026/07/16/choose-your-own-dark-mode/ what hex would you roll with?

• Post #3819944

  blogged: Astro is fine I guess https://dbushell.com/2026/07/10/astro-is-fine/ I built and shipped a damn fine website (to localhost)

• Post #3646815

  11ty or Astro?

• Post #3627336

  I've got an absolute beast of a blog post in the pipeline, but for now here's something stupid: https://dbushell.com/2026/07/06/behold-the-perfect-algorithm/

• Post #2856810

  AI grifters being fiercely booed by college graduates gives me hope for the future https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwWaoyIy5e8

• Post #2856809

  blogged: Web whetstones https://dbushell.com/2026/05/18/web-whetstone/ how to stay sharp as a web developer?

• Post #2856808

  i'm just never updating software again https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/rotten-macos-icon-design/

• Post #2856807

  is Penpot seriously glitchy for anyone else? whenever I move anything with the keyboard, e.g. Shift + Arrow keys the bounding box / rendering goes haywire

• Post #2856806

  im gonna have to do a Figma presentation on Thursday and that is heartbreaking for a guy like me

• Post #2856805

  my favourite new Proton Mail bug is iPhone notifications for spam 🫠 to email addresses I have notifications disabled 🫠 🫠 @protonprivacy someone vibe coding over there, again?

• Post #2856804

  blogged: Google just spat in my face https://dbushell.com/2026/05/20/google-just-spat-in-my-face/ — go on then, one last blog before my holiday 🫩

• Post #2856803

  I know this is the commercial arm of the BBC but painting Google as the victim of manipulation is disgraceful journalism https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20260519-google-tackles-attempts-to-hack-its-ai-results

• Post #2856802

  reading: "On Google declaring war on the Web" https://tante.cc/2026/05/20/on-google-declaring-war-on-the-web/ and what Google think you'll be willing suffer: "Ad Infini­tum" https://matthiasott.com/notes/ad-infinitum never too late to degoog!

• Post #2856801

  "skill" and "skillset" in the context of LLMs is absolute doublespeak, this is DESKILLING now I'm seeing (once) respected web folk, many considered educators, promote Google's "modern web" shite

• Post #2514734

  hmm... yeah i don't like it 🙃 https://denodell.com/blog/browsers-treat-big-sites-differently but also i think browsers should have enforced XHTML - we'd have flying cars by now

• Post #2453729

  proton: You have a meeting in 1 minute me: spills coffee down my T-shirt

• Post #2248866

  this is why we're seeing so much performative slop from those working at big tech if you ain't in, you're out https://blog.cloudflare.com/building-for-the-future/

• Post #2105252

  what have we become https://webmatrices.com/post/how-a-roblox-cheat-and-one-ai-tool-brought-down-vercel-s-entire-platform

• Post #2105248

  blogged: Alternative thoughts https://dbushell.com/2026/04/28/alternative-thoughts/ — hold on tight folks, the wheels are beginning to fall off, gonna be a bumpy ride

• Post #2095658

  ok i promise, no more slop talk from me!

• Post #2095656

  reading: NHS Goes To War Against Open Source https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/nhs-goes-to-war-against-open-source/ Sigh.

• Post #2095655

  noted: how the Prompt API will transpire: https://dbushell.com/notes/2026-05-04T05:42Z/ sigh, can we not?

• Post #2095653

  YOLO'd a Proxmox 8 > 9 upgrade with my virtual OPNsense router still running recklessly even by my standards

• Post #2095652

• Post #2095650

  just dropped in Chrome Canary

• Post #2095649

  it saddens me that general dissent is about process and implementation detail and not, ya know, the absolute moral bankruptcy that is ignoring the victims of this vile tech

• Post #2023322

  hey look! that thing Google wants to standardise as a web platform API made the news! https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/may/05/canadian-ashley-macisaac-fiddler-musician-singer-songwriter-sues-google-ai-sex-offender-ntwnfb

• Post #1958733

  I'm literally unscrewing lightbulbs to renew their DHCP lease smart home was a mistake