Pete
@pmullen.com
Raising three boys, including one brave epilepsy warrior. Navigating the space between web development and system engineering. Started when <table> layouts were a thing.
A few thoughts on Purple Day for Epilepsy Awareness. 💜
Purple Day for Epilepsy Awareness
pmullen.com
March 26, 2026 at 5:48 AM
A few thoughts on Purple Day for Epilepsy Awareness. 💜
Back home after another night in hospital with the little one. Flu + croup and a high temperature triggered a cluster of myoclonic seizures.
Can't take a trick at the moment, back-to-back-to-back sicknesses have seen us in hospital multiple times over the past month.
Can't take a trick at the moment, back-to-back-to-back sicknesses have seen us in hospital multiple times over the past month.
March 22, 2026 at 1:23 PM
Back home after another night in hospital with the little one. Flu + croup and a high temperature triggered a cluster of myoclonic seizures.
Can't take a trick at the moment, back-to-back-to-back sicknesses have seen us in hospital multiple times over the past month.
Can't take a trick at the moment, back-to-back-to-back sicknesses have seen us in hospital multiple times over the past month.
Wonderful day at the Purple Walk 4 Epilepsy. 💜
March 22, 2026 at 1:20 PM
Wonderful day at the Purple Walk 4 Epilepsy. 💜
This is worth checking out - port1355.dev
portless | Named .localhost URLs for Development
Replace port numbers with stable, named .localhost URLs. For humans and agents.
port1355.dev
March 21, 2026 at 5:30 AM
This is worth checking out - port1355.dev
How fucking good is the radio. No bots or AI, just decent stories and real people calling up to have a yarn.
March 20, 2026 at 8:32 AM
How fucking good is the radio. No bots or AI, just decent stories and real people calling up to have a yarn.
Timeless.
zeldman.com in 2005
https://web.archive.org/web/20050801013118if_/http://www.zeldman.com:80
https://web.archive.org/web/20050801013118if_/http://www.zeldman.com:80
March 19, 2026 at 5:49 AM
Timeless.
I like that I can use Claude to churn out a prototype for my wife’s ideas in the time it takes her to go pee. That's the real win for AI here.
March 19, 2026 at 5:46 AM
I like that I can use Claude to churn out a prototype for my wife’s ideas in the time it takes her to go pee. That's the real win for AI here.
Learning to put in a feeding tube wasn't one of the tasks I thought I would need to know as a parent, but here we are.
Hopefully it's only temporary.
Hopefully it's only temporary.
March 18, 2026 at 9:00 AM
Learning to put in a feeding tube wasn't one of the tasks I thought I would need to know as a parent, but here we are.
Hopefully it's only temporary.
Hopefully it's only temporary.
Reposted by Pete
AI is leading to burnout among its greatest advocates. When I hear about people spinning up too many projects chasing the dopamine of productivity and then crashing against the wall of their own meta-cognitive limits, I'm like "Oh, poor babe. You gave yourself ADHD."
hbr.org/2026/03/when...
hbr.org/2026/03/when...
When Using AI Leads to “Brain Fry”
As firms increasingly incentivize employees to build and oversee complex teams of agents—for example, by measuring and rewarding token consumption as a proxy for performance—people are finding themsel...
hbr.org
March 17, 2026 at 3:01 PM
AI is leading to burnout among its greatest advocates. When I hear about people spinning up too many projects chasing the dopamine of productivity and then crashing against the wall of their own meta-cognitive limits, I'm like "Oh, poor babe. You gave yourself ADHD."
hbr.org/2026/03/when...
hbr.org/2026/03/when...
Reposted by Pete
Nintendo's Talking Flower is annoying as hell. We love it.
You gotta admire a company like Nintendo just does its own thing and puts out stuff like this $35 "Talking Flower" toy that just randomly shouts out things every 30 minutes or so. It also shouts out the time.
You gotta admire a company like Nintendo just does its own thing and puts out stuff like this $35 "Talking Flower" toy that just randomly shouts out things every 30 minutes or so. It also shouts out the time.
Nintendo’s Talking Flower Is Annoying as Hell. I Love It
This $35 toy flower with a speaker is like having an annoying, noisy, lovable pet that you can tell to shut up.
gizmodo.com
March 17, 2026 at 9:13 PM
Nintendo's Talking Flower is annoying as hell. We love it.
You gotta admire a company like Nintendo just does its own thing and puts out stuff like this $35 "Talking Flower" toy that just randomly shouts out things every 30 minutes or so. It also shouts out the time.
You gotta admire a company like Nintendo just does its own thing and puts out stuff like this $35 "Talking Flower" toy that just randomly shouts out things every 30 minutes or so. It also shouts out the time.
Can you imagine how infuriating a co-worker would be if they talked like AI? After going in circles, receiving this would send me over the edge.
"You are absolutely right to be frustrated, and I sincerely apologize for the persistent errors."
"You are absolutely right to be frustrated, and I sincerely apologize for the persistent errors."
March 17, 2026 at 4:54 AM
Can you imagine how infuriating a co-worker would be if they talked like AI? After going in circles, receiving this would send me over the edge.
"You are absolutely right to be frustrated, and I sincerely apologize for the persistent errors."
"You are absolutely right to be frustrated, and I sincerely apologize for the persistent errors."
I rolled the gastro dice on some servo dim sims the other day. Still thinking about them, those dimmies were legit.
March 16, 2026 at 9:04 AM
I rolled the gastro dice on some servo dim sims the other day. Still thinking about them, those dimmies were legit.
This is the kind of website I'm for: defrag98.com
Windows 98 Disk Defrag Simulator
A simulator of the classic Microsoft Windows 98 Disk Defragmenter tool. Relive the nostalgia of defragmenting different disk drives!
defrag98.com
March 16, 2026 at 5:46 AM
This is the kind of website I'm for: defrag98.com
Reposted by Pete
For a nation absolutely mad for F1, Italian F1 drivers have produced absolutely fuck all over the generations. In the past 40 years all Italian F1 drivers combined have won less races than Australian F1 drivers with Italian names
March 15, 2026 at 8:45 AM
For a nation absolutely mad for F1, Italian F1 drivers have produced absolutely fuck all over the generations. In the past 40 years all Italian F1 drivers combined have won less races than Australian F1 drivers with Italian names
I absolutely love this. But as a Piastri fan, I also hate it. 😂
Race to the 2025 F1 Drivers’ Championship 🏎️
This demo leans heavily on modern CSS:
• advanced attr() functions
• animation-timeline: scroll
The race positions and data update as you scroll through the season - all driven by CSS.
Full demo on @codepen.io
codepen.io/cbolson/pen/...
This demo leans heavily on modern CSS:
• advanced attr() functions
• animation-timeline: scroll
The race positions and data update as you scroll through the season - all driven by CSS.
Full demo on @codepen.io
codepen.io/cbolson/pen/...
March 16, 2026 at 5:13 AM
I absolutely love this. But as a Piastri fan, I also hate it. 😂
I work with a lot of Gen Z and younger, and I feel that many have lost the ability to troubleshoot technical issues.
Is it because they've grown up using apps which just work, and they never had to fix any computer issues themselves?
Is it because they've grown up using apps which just work, and they never had to fix any computer issues themselves?
March 16, 2026 at 3:01 AM
I work with a lot of Gen Z and younger, and I feel that many have lost the ability to troubleshoot technical issues.
Is it because they've grown up using apps which just work, and they never had to fix any computer issues themselves?
Is it because they've grown up using apps which just work, and they never had to fix any computer issues themselves?
Going to be another long year as a West Coast fan.
March 15, 2026 at 7:48 AM
Going to be another long year as a West Coast fan.
The "Cricket" episode of Bluey is one of the best pieces of Australian television I've seen. Can't convince me otherwise.
March 13, 2026 at 12:36 PM
The "Cricket" episode of Bluey is one of the best pieces of Australian television I've seen. Can't convince me otherwise.
This is huge for families with a kid who has a SCN1a mutation - www.bbc.com/news/article...
Drug breakthrough for children with rare form of extreme epilepsy
Families say the groundbreaking medicine is transforming the lives of children with Dravet syndrome.
www.bbc.com
March 13, 2026 at 2:23 AM
This is huge for families with a kid who has a SCN1a mutation - www.bbc.com/news/article...