Charles Villard

Charles Villard

@charlesvillard.co

Web developer https://www.charlesvillard.co

1K followers770 following475 posts

Charles Villard
@charlesvillard.co

Jo shouldn't need to make this, but here we are. We, yes, all men, love extolling getting comfortable being uncomfortable with the problems we solve. It's time we got comfortable being uncomfortable standing up for women in these situations, no matter how "valuable" who we stand up to might be.

Jo Franchetti @thisisjofrank.bsky.social

I gave a talk at EMF titled "Men in Tech #YesAllMen", in which I told my experience of being a woman in tech. I was afraid to publish it in case it affected my current or future employment. With all the current news I would like to add my 2¢. So here is the recording: youtu.be/WXL6K1lhvt0?...

youtu.beMen in tech #YesAllMen - EMF 2026YouTube video by Electromagnetic Field

Charles Villard reposted

Jason Lengstorf
@jason.energy

CASTING CALL: I had a team drop out, so I need 2 devs on short notice to join an episode of Web Dev Challenge in Portland on Oct 21–23 TimescaleDB and sensor data challenge. if that sounds like fun, grab a friend and slide into my DMs ASAP! 💜

Charles Villard reposted

jenn da joker
@jennschiffer.com

the projects that depend on ai will fail to meet deadlines and the people working on them will lose their jobs, not the execs who championed using these tools with no guardrails

404 Media@404media.co

Some employees who spend as much as $1,000 on Claude usage each month are scrambling to find ways to maintain access to the tool.

404media.coAccenture Tells Employees They Can Now Spend Only $29 on Claude Per MonthSome employees who spend as much as $1,000 on Claude usage each month are scrambling to find ways to maintain access to the tool.

Charles Villard reposted

Jason Lengstorf
@jason.energy

Replying to @jason.energy

we don’t need to explain atproto. we need to move the Overton Window to get people asking why it’s considered normal that a company can unilaterally control (and destroy) part of our identity and we just… let them

Charles Villard
@charlesvillard.co

The logic in this thread is solid, but it just makes me want - nay, need - to understand atproto more. I may not be the target audience for this shift in thinking, but I want to be ready to help support it.

Jason Lengstorf@jason.energy

I was thinking about atproto more and had a thought: no one needs to know or care about the protocol. we just need to normalize the idea that it’s bonkers to allow any company to own part of your identity it’s like how you used to lose your phone number if you switched carriers. that sucked

Charles Villard
@charlesvillard.co

On my life, I'll never get how a corp like @digitalocean.com reports $66m YTD operating income but won't pay the staff and writers of a publication they pledged to run out of the goodness of their hearts. No amount of "it's not creating sales" will cut it. investors.digitalocean.com/news/news-de...

investors.digitalocean.comDigitalOcean Announces Second Quarter 2026 Financial ResultsRaising 2026 revenue outlook RPO increased to $894 million , up 12x from a year ago Q2 2026 Revenue of $281 million grew 29% year-over-year Million+ Dollar Customer ARR grew 214% year-over-year to $25...

Charles Villard reposted

kat cosgrove
@kat.lol

Replying to @kat.lol

Idk dawg, I know this industry is big on moral flexibility and good at turning a blind eye to the political affiliations of leaders but it feels like openly calling for the extermination of an ethnic group should be a line in the sand

Charles Villard
@charlesvillard.co

Seve, you're great, but how dare you go dropping this in the @codetv.dev Discord and complain about your productivity. Mine's shot now, I have to play this! How can I not!

Seve Savoie Teruel@techsev.bsky.social

@grubb.wtf @masnick.com @danryckert.com So I took Dan's winning Space Ace run and turned it back into a FMV Game. reactvts.com/space-ace-bl... Works with Mouse, keyboard arrows + SpaceBar or Numpad

Charles Villard reposted

WebDesignMuseum
@webdesignmuseum.org

On July 4, 2007, Chris Coyier, a web designer, established the CSS-Tricks portal. The portal brings web designers daily news and tutorials from the world of web design. #WebDesignHistory

Charles Villard
@charlesvillard.co

My poor website is so neglected that some dependencies don't even install locally. Which makes this the perfect time for me to built something at AT Proto-driven as possible!

Charles Villard
@charlesvillard.co

AT Proto might be my next rabbit hole. My quote won't show it, but click into @davidpierce.xyz's post below and you'll see something you might not expect if you're a recovering Twitter refugee: anchor text on a link. It blew me a way for a second. Did we get markdown in Bluesky?! No. Not quite.

David Pierce@davidpierce.xyz

Today’s Vergecast: YouTube is taking over Hollywood. Movies directed by YouTubers are suddenly blowing up at the box office. Backrooms and Obsession are both smash hits, and The Amazing Digital Circus had a big debut... https://www.theverge.com/podcast/948659/youtube-backrooms-hollywood-vergecast

youtube.comToday’s Vergecast: YouTube is taking over Hollywood.
View full thread
Charles Villard
@charlesvillard.co

I know I'm gushing over something so seemingly small, and this is specifically a Bluesky thing, but as someone who remembers gushing over what nth-child can do, it feels like learning something new, freeing, and refreshing! Like I said earlier, feels like the start of a trip down a rabbit hole!

Charles Villard
@charlesvillard.co

AT Proto might be my next rabbit hole. My quote won't show it, but click into @davidpierce.xyz's post below and you'll see something you might not expect if you're a recovering Twitter refugee: anchor text on a link. It blew me a way for a second. Did we get markdown in Bluesky?! No. Not quite.

David Pierce@davidpierce.xyz

Today’s Vergecast: YouTube is taking over Hollywood. Movies directed by YouTubers are suddenly blowing up at the box office. Backrooms and Obsession are both smash hits, and The Amazing Digital Circus had a big debut... https://www.theverge.com/podcast/948659/youtube-backrooms-hollywood-vergecast

youtube.comToday’s Vergecast: YouTube is taking over Hollywood.
View full thread
Charles Villard
@charlesvillard.co

Turns out each facet has a byteSlice property, with byteEnd and byteStart as child properties. Each post's text is - yeah - a series of bytes! So, given that and a uri as a 'feature', any string of the post can in fact be a link. It's not something available in Bluesky directly (yet?) but possible!

Charles Villard
@charlesvillard.co

AT Proto might be my next rabbit hole. My quote won't show it, but click into @davidpierce.xyz's post below and you'll see something you might not expect if you're a recovering Twitter refugee: anchor text on a link. It blew me a way for a second. Did we get markdown in Bluesky?! No. Not quite.

David Pierce@davidpierce.xyz

Today’s Vergecast: YouTube is taking over Hollywood. Movies directed by YouTubers are suddenly blowing up at the box office. Backrooms and Obsession are both smash hits, and The Amazing Digital Circus had a big debut... https://www.theverge.com/podcast/948659/youtube-backrooms-hollywood-vergecast

youtube.comToday’s Vergecast: YouTube is taking over Hollywood.
Charles Villard
@charlesvillard.co

I immediately bugged the first person I knew who knew about the AT Protocol. @brittanyellich.com patiently humored my curiosity about how pasting links worked with a pat acknowledgement, until I pointed out that the anchor text from the post rendered in the preview.