🐴 Alex Trost

I made this "ad" for one of Cursor's recent features. It finally solves the terrible problem of knowing CSS.

Incredible Facebook slop ad I just got

don't be nice.

It’s very simple and it’s been said over and over but I guess it needs saying continuously: if you deem one group too small to have equal rights you are enabling fascism, not fighting it. The people saying Dems are GREAT on trans rights are not paying attention and/or saying stuff like this.

What unit do devs use the most often in production? @trost.codes took his best guesses! (Shoutout to @projectwallace.com for the stats)

i don't mind people using agents to create PRs, but please at least write the description and replies yourself 🙏

📝 Why CSS-Tricks Has Been Quiet Lately (cc: @digitalocean.com @css-tricks.bsky.social ) geoffgraham.me/why-css-tric...

It might be too early to really get into it, but I thought everyone should know that CSS-Tricks is mostly in limbo (again). @digitalocean.com, pay your staff (or at least respond). geoffgraham.me/why-css-tric...

As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.

I can't play an instrument, so I figured out music theory in JavaScript instead. I now understand why there are 12 notes and why notes in the same key sound good 🎶 I've written up my findings with code examples you can run and hear.

Looking for help to update my desk organization. Does anyone have recommendations on desk organizer things? Laptop stands, pencil holders, you name it, I'm interested. Please share!

Public Service Announcement - these pill bottle timers are fantastic if you're the type of person who takes pills and then forgets if you've taken said pill.

I have so much trouble going through courses that contain a lot of stuff I already know. I never know what parts are safe for me to skip. Reading through things I already understand provides zero dopamine and makes me check out. I wish I could filter for the unknown!

The Full Stack season 1 finale is tonight! 8 teams started, 3 teams remain — and tonight, only 1 team can win watch live at 6pm Pacific: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EnK...

What do a port of Kubernetes to TypeScript and a high-priority bug in the kubelet have in common? They both feature in @samwho.dev's guide to probing, out now. We're experimenting with what next-generation k8s education looks like, and we hope you love it.

I had optimized my website for developer relations stuff, but now I've left that world and get to redesign it however I want. Time to do a bit of rebranding, I suppose.

Just a little something I am working on... 😊

We’re not sad because we ‘realized that knowledge work is mostly pointless [because AI can do it]’ We’re sad because everywhere we look people are fine, enthusiastic even, with garbage in nearly every aspect of their life. www.noemamag.com/why-is-every...

Very excited for this new Phoebe Bridgers album.

These won't start hitting YouTube until next week, but figured I'd give an early release for people following this account, since they've been answering the questions that have helped make this happen 🙂 My very first guest was @nerdy.dev

One of these days I'm going to watch all the videos in my YouTube Watch Later list.

This might be the most beautiful thing I've read in my life. What a privilege to be alive in 2026. ordinaryabundance.com

Just a random shout-out to @polypane.app. I've been working on a website with a fairly complex layout and I can't image developing anything without it. Too many features to list. Just try it. You'll love it.

As a rule, things are never on sale when you actually need to buy them.

I don't know if I'm in a weird bubble of AI these days, but it's such a breath of fresh air stumbling(!) across words written by humans online.

I don't post much here, and I do consider that a moral failing.

macromedia shockwave, print ad (1999) archive.org/details/eu_W...

About a year ago, I started to work with @nuevotokyo.bsky.social on what would become VWFNDR™ + MBL: a camera app for Android (soon iOS) made with @nuxt.com and Capacitor. We released it to the public in May. Today, two months later, we just crossed 100K downloads and 1M photos taken. Thanks 🖤🟥

The Full Stack premieres this Thursday at 12pm PT on @codetv.dev’s YouTube channel — join to watch these teams of builders compete to create real products over the course of 6 episodes hosted by @kelseyhightower.com and presented by @awscloud.bsky.social

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

More and more people I deeply respect and have learned a lot from over the years feel like they are speaking into a void, to the point where they are losing motivation to continue making content, which got me to write my first post on my site in over a year... www.kevinpowell.co/article/tell...

It's not fun to make tech content as much anymore, too. I'm doing some because I actually like it, but it feels like I'm shouting into a slop-driven void nearly everywhere. It's really tiring. I get so much joy reading individual blogs and newsletters still (like yours!), at least.

>I desire to connect with people. I long for the days where I was vulnerable and shared my struggles with engineers who charitably stepped up to support me. I miss taking what I learned from those struggles and sharing them back out as a blog post or presentation All of this.

Welp it's official, I'm on the hunt for my next role. I learned a lot in the past 8 months, and I'm ready to get back out there for my next role. If you're looking for someone for devrel/devrel-adjacent roles, I got over a decade of experience in developer relations and ready help your team!

NEW SERIES DROPS TOMORROW — join the watch party tomorrow at 3pm Pacific @itsthatladydev.bsky.social hosts a new series that explores just how much AI has impacted "build vs. buy" conversations around SaaS by putting devs to the test to build popular SaaS tools, presented by @replay-io.bsky.social

If you have a developer education budget at work, I would really encourage you to use it on your favourite developer educators. A lot of us are deciding whether or not to keep doing this stuff, and that support would help send a signal that we should keep going. ❤️

It's the best.

What do you all use to track your book reading? I've been using literal.club off and on for a couple years, but haven't really stuck with it. Trying to get back into reading atm and figure I'll give it another try. literal.club/trostcodes

Someday soon I'll likely tell someone that I'm a pretty big fan of InfoWars. Didn't have that on my bingo card.

Watched Hoppers last night. It's funny how all children's movies feel like wOkE pRoPaGaNdA because of extreme messages like "we're all in this together" and "humans are animals." Good movie.

Introducing Cursor Camp, a website to hang out with other cursors. Out now :) > neal.fun/cursor-camp/

🎉 Registration is now open for my latest course, Whimsical Animations! This course will teach you everything you need to know to design and build stunning, creative animations and interactions. It’s time to make the web less generic and boring! 😄

I personally almost immediately click away. I rarely—if ever—read through the post. And I do take note of the author, unsubscribe from their RSS feeds, and stop reading their content. This may sound drastic but if the author is using AI to write their posts they're likely to continue doing it.