The REPL: Issue 142 - June 2026

They’re Made Out of Weights Written in the spirit of They’re Made Out of Meat, a story I like a lot. A total ripoff, but it gets you thinking! How building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight It turns out that a simpler system consuming fewer resources is beneficial. Shocker. I guess I am now part of the old guard that wants server-rendered HTML. This blog has no JavaScript at all. 🤷🏻‍♂️ If You are Asking for Human Attention, Demonstrate Human Effort It’s rude to ask other folks to read and parse what your 🤖 spews out when you haven’t read it yourself, let alone thought it through. I’ve seen it happen. But most of the time, folks on my team edit, fix, and put in effort before passing along AI-generated output.