Smugness as a Service

My social media has taken a hard turn for the nerdier since Twitter shut down and everyone with a modicum of moral fibre stopped posting there. So even though I’m not really a Linux developer, I was recently exposed to the drama around Hyprland and its maintainer.

I recently stumbled over a reddit thread about children and parenting. Those threads pop up every now and then and I find them amusing and distressing in roughly similar amounts, because boy howdy are people wrong on the Internet, but also: that nagging dread that parents are always carrying in the back of their mind, that they’re being judged by...

I’ve been using Web Components lately. I quite like them.

My tech posts often come from kind of a negative place. I wish it wasn’t like that, but we all know how the mind works: writing with nuance and positivity is a lot harder than fired-up screeds of the “someone is wrong on the Internet” variety.

It seems to be open season on Tailwind CSS! Go and read this post by Tero Piirainen. Nothing I haven’t heard before, it hits basically the same notes as the other stop-using-utility-css posts: it implies that people mostly use Tailwind because of successful PR, and it assumes that its proponents are React-pilled newbies who just haven’t been...