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  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 🫠

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

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

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  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)

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  11ty or Astro?

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  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/

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

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

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

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  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

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

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  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?

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  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 🫩

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  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

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  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!

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  "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

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  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

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

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  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/

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

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  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

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  ok i promise, no more slop talk from me!

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

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

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

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  just dropped in Chrome Canary

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  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

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  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

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