Honestly, I probably have more fun than anyone else with the Friday 10.
| Some thoughts after the first few weeks of my lyric guessing game.
The question of purity tests
| When people argue about "purity tests" in politics, it’s to dodge accepting uncomfortable compromises.
CSS guide: parents should tell children where to sit
| The principle that reshaped how I wrote CSS.
Interactivity without JavaScript
| Bejofo reworks their JavaScript game to run without JavaScript, which is an interesting experiment — and reinforces my biggest concern about modern web development hosting infrastructure.
We’re outsourcing to AI
| What happens when a business starts outsourcing the busy-work? Is that even useful? Or is it just another cash drain?
The blog post image conundrum
| I’m always having a debate with myself about how to handle images for blog posts — and whether they need images at all.
Static no longer
| I've gone and done it. I took my nice, static site and turned it dynamic. Wow, what a headache.
Should we even call it AI?
| Words matter, but sometimes more to rhetorical approaches than to any real understanding.
Why does work expand?
| Ever heard that “work expands to fill the time available”? Let's dig into why that’s only half the story — and what Parkinson’s Law gets wrong about how real work (and real people) actually operate.
On Zombies
| Writing a game in Javascript, HTML, and CSS as "vanilla" as I can manage.