the webb blog

The trend of VC-backed tooling ending in abandonment rears its ugly head again. But hey, people gotta eat, right? The community will pick up the slack and steward the projects, right?

Design, the practice deemed worthless two decades ago via the tired meme “should designers code?” is now the only way to prove your humanity (and worth?) in the age of slop.

Every Apple launch brings out the same tired discourse, are y’all not tired? Or is the release cadence giving y’all life?

It took a long time to get this keyboard the way I wanted so here’s everything I learned to help you not deal with my nonsense.

Unforeseen gotchas galore, but I figured it out.

You’ve gotta tackle the spam/scam problem, the rest is easier.

We’re more powerful than you think, intrepid reader.

Hey Siri, play "If I Ruled the World (Imagine That)" by Nas and Lauren Hill.

The hardest part is getting your data out of Gel in a useable format, the rest is easy.

My favorite professional pics from the shoot (along with my own)

Technically it’s a big fancy wrapper around Postgres but that still counts!

New update!

What I imagine life would be like with F.U. money and no worries

Enjoy this dump of mostly nature photos

Stop wasting people’s time

Being the change you wish to see in the world, software-style.

cgit is basic but it works well…perfect.

Cool merch that brings with it some questions about the lore

In a world of platform lock-in, self-hosting communities sounds real good.

CSS is about structure and design, the code should reflect that.

Designers! Make it work!