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Tech, frontend, and how the web came to be the way it is. Mostly stories about things that misbehaved, and what they turned out to be.
total 56
What the model can't see
LLM debugging on the frontend is an observation problem, not a code-reading one.
5 minNothing on the web is ever removed
On deprecation as a social process rather than a technical one, and why the pile only grows.
2 minCascade layers settled an argument from 1998
Notes on specificity, and the twenty-five years spent working around it.
1 minEvery framework is a bet about what stays the same
A short piece on why frontend churn is not fashion.
1 minNobody can tell you what the tech debt costs
Rewriting a prototype that works, and other things with no stated problem.
3 minMost code only needs to work
What we say we want from software, and what businesses actually buy.
3 minThe complexity is not new, it is just visible
Twenty years ago the same problems existed. We ignored them.
3 minA sale is worth more than a thousand upvotes
What validation from an audience of enthusiasts actually tells you.
3 min