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Mike Jeffery
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Web Developer. Music guy. Curious about how things work.

Focused on:
· Web Components
· Design Systems
· Accessibility

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🌍 North Reading, MA, USA
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Have you ever been stuck in a cycle where you're trying to do to much and you're getting nothing accomplished?

Hi, I'm Mike. Welcome to my life lately!
September 16, 2026 at 11:33 AM
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ohhelloana.blog
“It’s not a failure when someone doesn’t take your advice”. Lots to reflect from Joe’s talk.
I’ve explored the “talking about risk” from the dev perspective but talking about fear and frustration is more complicated as that’s also part of company culture. #SmashingConf
September 8, 2026 at 11:09 AM
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@davatron5000.bsky.social I kinda need to know about the guitar pedal rabbit hole you were in during the last shoptalk.
September 6, 2026 at 7:38 PM
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zeldman.bsky.social
It’s not the US vs Canada. We ♥ Canada. It’s Diaper Donnie and his morons against the world.
September 6, 2026 at 1:24 PM
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wil.to
Next week, dorks. Get ready.
A copy of Multipage #2 open to a one-page homebrew TTRPG called "the people destroying the web have names and addresses." Full text of the page available upon request.
August 26, 2026 at 9:24 PM
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chriscoyier.net
I actually strive for perfect clarity with my color theme pickers.

codepen.io/editor/chris...
August 23, 2026 at 2:51 PM
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zeldman.bsky.social
In their rush to feed large language models and “improve the quality of AI writing,” AI companies are secretly destroying rare books.

theweek.com/culture-life... #DestroyingRareBooks #AIcompanies #AlexandriaLibrary2026
AI companies are destroying rare books
Spines are being sliced and copyright is being threatened in the rush to feed large language models
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August 11, 2026 at 12:45 PM
mikejeff.com
I get to visit Montreal today. Gonna wear my Expos cap.

Where's the real good poutine?
July 25, 2026 at 12:30 PM
mikejeff.com
I wish there was a way to unfollow a whole-ass starter pack... Wait. Is there?

Does anybody know how to unfollow a whole starter pack?

I'll be your best friend!
Steve Martin: If I Had One Wish (SNL)
ALT: Steve Martin: If I Had One Wish (SNL)
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July 7, 2026 at 1:19 PM
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carnage4life.bsky.social
Ford has rehired hundreds of senior engineers after replacing them with AI backfired and has cost the company billions of dollars.

AI adoption is blamed for Ford being the most recalled automaker in the U.S. with 51 recalls covering over 11 million vehicles in the first half of 2026 alone.
June 28, 2026 at 2:53 AM
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Who wants to start a band?
heydonworks.com Large Heydon Collider @heydonworks.com · Jun 22
The HTML cat is out of the Web Audio bag. I've finally released HYPERBLAM.

It’s my system for sampling, processing, and sequencing sound and music directly in HTML.

hyperblam.how
Hyperblam Docs Home
Documentation for HyperBlam. Make HTML make music.
hyperblam.how
June 23, 2026 at 3:40 PM
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heydonworks.com
The HTML cat is out of the Web Audio bag. I've finally released HYPERBLAM.

It’s my system for sampling, processing, and sequencing sound and music directly in HTML.

hyperblam.how
Hyperblam Docs Home
Documentation for HyperBlam. Make HTML make music.
hyperblam.how
June 22, 2026 at 9:11 AM
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about1em.bsky.social
Protip: make overly pessimistic predictions and people will be happily surprised.
June 13, 2026 at 2:42 PM
mikejeff.com
Sucks that every tech podcast has turned their focus almost solely on AI.

Drop me a recommendation for something tech and/or web dev/design focused that doesn't care about AI.
June 7, 2026 at 5:14 PM
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Indie game idea: 8-bit Megaman style platformer with soundtrack performed by John Frusciante.
June 3, 2026 at 7:32 PM
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webdevs.firefox.com
Ever struggled to get heading tags right in includes/components? headingoffset could be the answer…
June 2, 2026 at 1:27 PM
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brucel.bsky.social
All Chromium browsers are the same? O RLY ?!?!? Take a look at Google and Vivaldi's roadmaps.
May 26, 2026 at 2:38 PM
mikejeff.com
The energy here lately is truly energizing, as bleak as it feels sometimes. Some actions I've taken in the past week:

1. Bought a course made by real humans.
2. Downloaded a more private browser
3. Signed up for more private, secure email.

Remember that small actions add up!
A still from "South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut." The main kids, Cartman, Stan, and Kyle along with many of the supporting cast of school aged kids stand in solidarity around a flag. They are standing on a snowy landscape with hills and pine trees in the background. The black and red flag features doodles of Terrance and Phillip and the words "La Resistance" in white lettering.
May 20, 2026 at 1:05 PM
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Is #cssday being offered online this year? I couldn't find the option for online tickets on the website yesterday.

CC: @cssday.nl
May 12, 2026 at 10:46 AM
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Name your top 15 TV shows ever, gut instincts only:

Lost
Breaking Bad
Mad Men
Seinfeld
The Office
HIMYM
GoT
Andor
Star Wars: Rebels
Sons of Anarchy
Walking Dead
Peacemaker
Star Trek: Enterprise
ER
Myth Busters
tillybridges.bsky.social Tilly Bridges @tillybridges.bsky.social · May 2
Name your top 15 TV shows ever, gut instincts only (i’m leaving all Star Trek out so you get more variety):

The Good Place
Over the Garden Wall
Pluribus
Severance
Silo
The Twilight Zone (og)
Deadwood
Quantum Leap
Heartstopper
The Expanse
Haunting of Hill House
Deadloch
Kaos
Hazbin Hotel
The Pitt
adampknave.com Adam P Knave @adampknave.com · May 1
Name your top 15 TV shows ever, gut instincts only:
Leverage
Farscape
Person of Interest
Cheers
Scrubs
M*A*S*H
Halt & Catch Fire
Taxi
Elementary
The Shield
Killjoys
Terriers
Expanse
Magicians
Veronica Mars
May 11, 2026 at 11:59 PM
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zeldman.bsky.social
The first nine tracks of my LP-in-progress are available for free streaming and downloading. Likes and reposts appreciated.

sonica.music/8yxbzc5igk8j

#soundtrack #electronic #triphop #acidjazz #funk #hiphop #beats #chords #melodies #albums #composinginpublic
Zeldman One — sonica
Sonica
sonica.music
May 8, 2026 at 2:04 PM
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edzitron.com
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AI Isn’t Too Big To Fail, And Saying It Is Only Exists To Endorse Bad Behavior That term “moral hazard” is important because (as discussed earlier) it’s the reason why the Bear Stearns bailout was likely an accelerant of the great financial crisis. Big banks correctly assumed they’d get bailed out, and acted as such. The 2008 bailout existed to stabilize the financial system, and succeeded in doing so by actually targeting the sources of the instability - liquidity, toxic assets, massive job-creators and so on and so forth. While we can (reasonably!) debate about how necessary it was in certain aspects (and the idea that a billion dollars of bonuses went to executives is fucking vile and everybody involved should be in prison, and no, they weren’t returned), it at least had an end point and eventually ended up with a narrow profit of $1 billion, per ProPublica. Put another way, the assets in question gained value, and entities borrowing from the Fed actually had to pay it back. If we assume that the AI bailout would be for OpenAI and Anthropic, it’s unclear what it is we’d be bailing out. Both of these companies lose billions of dollars a year and have no path to profitability, meaning that the money invested would have no real path to a return on investment. And let’s be really frank for a second: there is nothing “systemic” or even essential about generative AI. It does not have the returns or the efficacy or the outputs that mean that common jobs - other than “jobs at AI startups” - are now existentially tied to its existence. The collapse in value of AI startups wouldn’t be changed by a bailout unless the US government literally invested in worthless startups as a means of propping up venture capital, and said “bailout” would number in the hundreds of billions of dollars, and while I know you’re gonna say “ohhhh Trump is so corrupt oooh Trump will do this Trump will do that,” this is not a rational or logical or even historically-accurate thing to say. Tr… Saying AI Is “Too Big To Fail” Is A Crutch To Avoid Thinking About Bad Things While I think a level of doomerism and depression drives the feeling that AI is “too big to fail,” I think an alarming amount of people use this logic as a means of avoiding thinking about bad things happening at all. If OpenAI isn’t too big to fail, that means that it either has to work out how to become profitable, or default on hundreds of billions of dollars of contracts with Oracle, Microsoft and Amazon. As a result, it’s convenient to just say “oh the government will bail them out,” because otherwise you have to accept that a company can grow very large, very quickly, mostly through outright deceit and overstatements of revenue and efficacy of its products. It also means that Anthropic and virtually every other AI startup are headed for the woodshed. There are no signs that these companies are becoming more profitable, and far more that they’re burning more every year rather than less, which again is deflected by saying “they’re in growth mode, and they’ll just “hit the profit lever” to work it out.” I also want to be clear that I’m not minimizing the carnage that will happen as a result of either or both of these companies collapsing. Hundreds of billions of dollars of equity investment have gone into AI startups, and those investments are likely to be somewhere between 0% and 10% of their current value by the time everything is done. Venture firms heavily-levered in these assets will face furious Limited Partners, something I warned about in the Enshittifinancial Crisis, who believed their funds were worth far more than they were thanks to the inflated investments in doomed LLM wrappers and associated startups. The toxic assets in the Great Financial Crisis were very, very different to equity investments in startups, and the only reason they were purchased was because the banks would’ve run out of money. A venture capital firm running out of money is a tragedy for its partner… Without real, measurable productivity gains (outside of people saying “IT’S WRITING ALL MY CODE,” which doesn’t actually seem to be doing anything, economically speaking?)AI's economic effects are incredibly siloed - a process of banks and financial institutions sending money to NVIDIA or construction companies, or venture capitalists, in a roundabout way, sending money to Microsoft, Amazon, Google or Oracle. People aren’t making more money because of AI, new jobs aren’t being created because of AI, and the only people that seem to get “the benefits” are the already-rich or those co-opted to serve their needs. Eventually, I see Large Language Models as a forgotten category somewhere deep within Google Cloud, AWS and Microsoft Azure, or an on-device doohickey that particularly-dedicated software engineers play with. This feels unthinkable given the prominence of AI today - and by “prominence” I mean everybody talking about it and shoving it in your face rather than anything about efficacy or usefulness. Everything you see about AI today is a direct result of infinite resources and gullible investors, much like the Great Financial Crisis. The difference is that the only people that are truly gambling their futures on it are venture capitalists, private creditors and Business Development Companies like Blue Owl, and even then, the risk of an AI bubble bursting is horrible for them but not one that triggers a global financial crisis. What people aren’t really talking about is how bad this will be for the tech industry’s reputation. Silicon Valley and its associated tendrils have made one of the most horrible, ugly, upsetting and demoralizing plays in the history of capitalism - a violative, forced intrusion of Large Language Models sold through outright lies about “agents,” laundered through a captured media, pumping a stock market that feels more and more disconnected from real life every day. The tech industry likely doesn’t think about the outcomes of the bubbl… When this collapses, I believe people will be joyous. I believe they will be ecstatic. And when they’re finished celebrating, they’ll see their 401Ks and the stock market bathed in blood. And they’ll blame Sam Altman, Satya Nadella, Dario Amodei, Andy Jassy, and every other rotten executive that lied their way through the AI bubble. I think this might genuinely be what turns society against the tech industry, and I think that’s entirely fucking deserved considering the wretched state of our so-called innovators. Fuck these people.
April 3, 2026 at 12:25 AM
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Really feeling the #enshitification of the internet these past few days. The #AI bots should be the ones jumping through hoops, not humans. If I have to "identify the pictures of bikes" every time I want to order tacos, I'll just go back to speaking to other humans.
April 1, 2026 at 11:33 AM
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michaelwarren.dev
repost if you think that designers and devs forming an integrated partnership ends up resulting in a better product than the typical “hand it off to the devs” approach
March 23, 2026 at 12:00 AM
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Gas is so expensive that the pump counts cents by 3's.
March 22, 2026 at 9:41 PM