Sacha Greif

css-tricks.comCSS-Tricks has a new owner! | CSS-TricksYes, I've got the keys to the castle, so to speak. And, even after 12 years of working on the site, I'll admit I'm a little overwhelmed and nervous about that.

5 Nov 2024

Looking for devs to follow on Bluesky? I made Starter Packs of all the people mentioned in the latest State of JS/CSS/etc. surveys! - State of JS: go.bsky.app/8PEMiMq - State of CSS: go.bsky.app/4TsVohC - State of React: go.bsky.app/LG1peYB

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Geoff Graham

@geoffgraham.me

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I'm so gosh-darned excited! css-tricks.com/css-tricks-h...

I'm starting to reconsider my decision to leave X. I'm not sure the current situation where the rather large subset of the tech community with toxic opinions are left to propagate them among themselves is such a great outcome…

thefirmwarehub.comMake Firmware, Not War – The FM-1 Firmware HubA collection of open-source firmwares for the M-VAVE FM-1 on one page, always the newest release. No need to pick a side: one click each, and back.

Yeah yeah AI sucks etc. end of the world blah blah but in the meantime there are now 81 (!) custom firmwares for the M-Vave FM-1 synth. thefirmwarehub.com

"White" papers indeed…

It's crazy how normalized racism has become in just a few years. The Great Replacement theory is just acceptable mainstream politics now.

Claude just told me "I’ll read through the data myself first, without using the LLM". Wait… I thought YOU were the LLM…?

survey.devographics.comState of HTML 2026Take the State of HTML survey

Did you know the State of HTML 2026 survey is currently open? Go take it and brush up on new (and old) browser APIs! survey.devographics.com/en-US/survey...

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CSS by T. Afif

@css-only.dev

More range sliders with fancy shapes? Let's go! This time with a tooltip showing the value. curve, wave, zig-zag, arc ... Which one do you prefer? css-tip.com/shaped-range... 0% JavaScript and 100% CSS magic (border-shape, shape(), scroll-driven animations, and more!)

CSS by T. Afif@css-only.dev

Who said range sliders need to be straight and boring?! Hey CSS, distort the line! 〰️ css-tip.com/wiggly-range... Another funny demo powered by border-shape, scroll-driven animations, and more The HTML code? Only an input element (no extra code is needed)

the flying car changed my mind, I guess capitalism *is* the solution to all of humanity's ills

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VoidZero

@voidzero.dev

Around 70% of open source maintainers work alone or in small teams, and most are unpaid. @mirandaheath.website, Director and psychologist at the @stewardshiplab.org on the four drivers of burnout and what AI does to each. @viteconf.org 2026, 15 oct (TODAY) 2pm UTC. Free and online. viteconf.org

I've been doing "State of…" surveys for 10 years now, and it really feels like it somehow coincided with an era of web development, from the rise of React and Vite to the adoption of TypeScript. In 2026, it feels like we're now at the beginning of something entirely new and different altogether…

At an individual level, AI coding makes many things way faster and easier. Yet many are skeptical that it actually makes companies more productive. Are they wrong? Or are they right, and maybe AI is being misused by large companies?

My theory: going from 1 engineer to 2 is a big difference. But if you already have 1000 engineers and add another thousand, the productivity gains are not going to be as dramatic because of diminishing returns. In an enterprise context, AI coding is probably more like that second scenario?

And I'm guessing the reason why everybody is focused on these huge companies rather than individual makers who can now make apps, music videos, etc. that would've simply been impossible before is that this is where the money is.

@realinfowars.bsky.social

I just want to get acquired by Cloudflare too. Is that too much to ask?

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InfoWars

Welcome to the future of thinking. NERVE CENTER premieres next Thursday on InfoWars.

youtube.comClaude Opus 5.5 Made a Music Video About AI Taking Over | The End Of The ShowYouTube video by Imaginative Prompting

I have to say, these AI music videos are impressive. It would take a team of animators many weeks (months?) to create this kind of output, to say nothing of actually producing the music. Also, very fitting subject matter… www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKrV...

@jeffcannata.bsky.social I heard you were coming to Japan, if you ever happen to be in Kyoto I would love to say hello!

futurism.comParticularly Weak-Minded Americans Are Asking ChatGPT Which Candidate to Vote For, Which Sounds a Bit Like AI Is Just Voting Now Via Meat ProxiesVoters in the upcoming midterm elections are using ChatGPT to research candidates and figure out who to vote for.

Randomly stumbed on @futurism.com and it reads like if pro-AI people wanted to parody anti-AI views, except it's real, if that makes sense futurism.com/future-socie...

I am seriously reconsidering the role online surveys have to play in the era of AI.

My conclusion: in 2027, anything you produce must be more engaged, more direct, more impactful. In other words, more human.

survey.stackoverflow.coStack Overflow Developer Survey 2026More than 30K technologists from 169 countries have shared their thoughts with us, and now it’s time to share everything we’ve learned with you. So let’s dive into this year’s Annual Developer Survey.

P.S. link to the Stack Overflow survey: survey.stackoverflow.co/2026

I am seriously reconsidering the role online surveys have to play in the era of AI.

But none of that addresses my initial concern: at the end of the day, who is this all for? Are we collecting important data for researchers, academics, and regular readers; or are we leveraging AI to produce more and more content that will never be useful–except to be summarized by other AIs?

I'm pretty sure that if I don't course-correct now, within a year my own work on similar surveys will be dismissed as AI slop. In fact, it's already happened in a recent @front-end-fire.com episode, where a mistake *I* made was attributed to AI instead.

I am seriously reconsidering the role online surveys have to play in the era of AI.

Don't get me wrong, the report they produced is amazing. And the infrastructure they've developed shares a lot in common (data export, open-source question definitions, etc.) with the concepts I've used in the Devographics surveys myself (and even expands on them).

releases-2026.questions.survey.stackoverflow.coStack Overflow Dev Survey

They even give you access to their internal survey definition, through a custom-built tool: releases-2026.questions.survey.stackoverflow.co#q-JobSat And I have to assume this too was possible through AI-assisted coding.

I am seriously reconsidering the role online surveys have to play in the era of AI.

Stack Overflow's solution? *More* AI! They actually have "summarize with Claude/ChatGPT" quick links in this year's survey results.

But if your content needs to be summarized by Claude, why not just feature the summary from the start? Or maybe a summary of the summary, to be even more effective?

I am seriously reconsidering the role online surveys have to play in the era of AI.

The problem is that human curation is precisely what gives these reports their value. You invest the time to dig through the data because someone decided you needed to see these charts.

When faced with pages after pages of AI-generated conclusions, it's easy to start wondering what the point even is. And eventually, that attitude can even start contaminating how you feel about *human*-produced reports.

I am seriously reconsidering the role online surveys have to play in the era of AI.

It's now trivial to point LLMs at a dataset and ask them to spit out reports and visualizations that are way more elaborate than what could be reasonably expected from a human.

baldurbjarnason.comSoftware developers are not okayWriting at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland

As a solo entrepreneur, AI-assisted coding has been great, letting me outsource the parts of the stack I'd rather not deal with (back-end, etc.). Out there in the real world though, it seems like managers are doing a horrible job of setting sane boundaries. www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/05-soft...

I'm now at the point in my inevitable cognitive decline journey where I can stare at a new AI startup's homepage for 5 minutes straight and still have no idea what they do

An AI downside I don't see discussed much is how it devalues *non-AI* work. Things that would take weeks such as writing a report, coding an app, or drawing a detailed illustration now seem less impressive because of the possibility they might all be AI-generated–even when they aren't.

But this drives at something else: you can't rely on effort alone anymore to give value to any kind of intellectual output, because that effort has now effectively been reduced to zero. So your thing, whatever it may be, needs to stand on its own even more than before.

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If you’re in the Osaka area come check out the OKTech mini-hackathon this Friday! oktech.jp/events/31663...

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Front-end Fire Podcast

@front-end-fire.com

The State of Devs survey confirms it: we’re tired. 😩 Meanwhile, EmDash, Vinext & Vite+ hit 1.0, OpenAI dropped 30+ things at Dev Day, and AI agents still have a prompt-injection problem. Show link: front-end-fire.com/episodes/164/

A few years back we were all amazed at AI-generated art; whereas today the vast majority of it feels cheap, generic, and uncool. And we detect it pretty easily. I wonder if AI coding will follow a similar trajectory. Will we look back at over-complicated mid-2026 AI slop apps the same way?

2026.stateofdevs.comState of Devs 2026

@tolin.ski just a heads up that the State of Devs survey results are now available 2026.stateofdevs.com/en-US/ some of the questions were directly inspired by your own work on the topic of AI & developer mental state!

so apparently YouTube Music has decided that I'm really into rappers who hate vowels and push the distortion slider to 11, and I'm not sure how I feel about it…