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London based software development consultant

  • Scroll-Driven Animations

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  • That is a good question. The beauty of the web is that readers can control their experience, be it with ad blockers, increasing the font-size, reader mode, or even changing the whole experience with user style sheets or Greasemonkey. This doesn't mean it's a waste of time to bother with pretty designs. People should build websites that they're proud of, and accept that people might override their design with one better suited to their needs or taste.

  • Scroll-Driven Animations

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  • Do we know the average user hits the back button when they encounter CSS animations? I was just a conference, and people were talking about browsing the web in reader mode, which I'd argue is more likely.

  • Scroll-Driven Animations

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  • Given this is achieved with CSS, there is no reason that users can't disable animations with a user style sheet. In fact this is what some users do, according to a CSS Working Group discussion about disabling view transitions.

    Some users do set transition-duration: 0 !important in user style sheets in order to prevent transitions, same with animation: none !important or so.

  • Web Development @programming.dev
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    Proxying GoatCounter Requests Through CloudFront

    nelson.cloud /proxying-goatcounter-requests-through-cloudfront-to-bypass-ad-blockers/
  • Programming @programming.dev
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    How Long Should a Function Be? (And Why It’s the Wrong Question to Ask)

    adamtornhill.substack.com /p/how-long-should-a-function-be-and
  • AI - Artificial intelligence @programming.dev
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    AI's Economics Don't Make Sense

    www.wheresyoured.at /ais-economics-dont-make-sense/
  • Opensource @programming.dev
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    Going Full Time on Open Source

    jdx.dev /posts/2026-04-17-going-full-time-on-open-source/
  • JavaScript @programming.dev
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    What's actually new in JavaScript (and what's coming next)

    neciudan.dev /whats-new-in-javascript

  • Open source Vercel alternatives?

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  • Could you give more context about what Vercel features you need - is the site statically generated, or do you also need Vercel Functions?

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    Is React still worth learning in 2026?

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  • Great question. Are you framing this in terms of employment opportunities, the end user experience, or both?

  • An Interactive Cover Component

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  • Agreed though the article has this disclaimer:

    Before we dive into the code, I think it’s worth pointing out that the goal is largely to be immersive and expose some lore. I think this design and effect fit because of the theme and because it’s not for critical content. My point is that it’s just an aesthetic component for a game that makes this acceptable — I don’t think this is necessarily a good user experience for your every day website where there are stakes.

  • Open source Vercel alternatives?

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  • Claude Code Found a Linux Vulnerability Hidden for 23 Years

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  • Though that quote is followed by this, which indicates at least five of those vulnerabilities were real:

    I searched the Linux kernel and found a total of five Linux vulnerabilities so far that Nicholas either fixed directly or reported to the Linux kernel maintainers, some as recently as last week:

  • Your Engineers Aren't Lazy, Your Codebase Is Punishing Them

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  • Your comment reminded me of this article, The Software Quality and Productivity Crisis Executives Won’t Address, which discusses the lack of technical leadership when it comes to tackling technical debt, and that the solution is usually a rewrite.

    Instead, most organisations don’t tackle technical debt until it causes an operational meltdown. At that point, they end up allocating 30–40% of their budget to massive emergency transformation programmes—double the recommended preventive investment (Oliver Wyman, 2024).

  • Agentic slop PRs

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  • I have noticed the repository lacks CONTRIBUTING.md. If you want to set some rules about contributing, I would have added them there, instead of creating a Markdown file specific for agents. I'm very much of the philosophy that you should write documentation for humans, which has the added bonus that it will also be consumed by agents.

  • npm's Defaults Are Bad

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  • It's definitely got the worst defaults compared to the alternatives.

    pnpm, Bun, and Deno have all made better choices about their defaults. pnpm blocks postinstall scripts, Bun requires explicit opt-in for them, Deno’s permission model is restrictive by design.

  • Code Review Is Not About Catching Bugs

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  • I agree but it depends on how teams create and refine their tickets. For example, you could have high level tickets, and someone picks one up and creates an implementation that's not an appropriate fit for your architecture.

  • The diminished art of coding

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  • Thank you for not assuming my motivations. Could you please elaborate on what you mean by "oneshotted"? I share a lot of articles, so I'm not surprised you recognise my username.

  • The diminished art of coding

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  • I don't specifically seek them out. I follow quite a few different programming blogs, and I am just sharing what people are posting about, and it just so happens a lot of people are posting about this topic.

  • Why AI Coding Agents Love Elixir (And You Should Too)

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  • What's to stop people outside the Elixir community voting posts down?

  • Why your next mobile app is probably headless

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  • Headless does not mean “no screen anywhere.” It means you are not required to use the company’s app or site to finish the job.

    You might say: “Book a flight and a hotel in Tokyo.” A helper (with hooks into services, e.g. MCP or other agent APIs) talks to airlines and hotels for you. You might never see their homepage or their “join our club” popup.

    Whilst I can see where the author is going with this, I can't see some tasks, particularly booking concert tickets, being done by AI agents. Whilst it may be convenient for end users, it's also open to exploitation by scalpers.

  • Why AI Coding Agents Love Elixir (And You Should Too)

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  • I can't tell if the downvotes are people hating Elixir, AI coding agents, or both. 😕

  • BaseWatch — Track CSS & Browser Feature Support, Get Baseline Alerts

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  • Looking at the credits at the bottom of the site, it was built by someone whose first language appears to be Italian.

  • BaseWatch — Track CSS & Browser Feature Support, Get Baseline Alerts

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  • When did we start judging developers on their graphic design skills? 🤔