you know it's December when Hulu and Hbo both want you to watch Elf 200 times

today has been like: Oops! All Disappointment

this call is being recorded. anything you say can and will be used for AI training purposes

this article and the quoted research is *wild*.

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Are Overemployed ‘Ghost Engineers’ Making Six Figures to Do Nothing?

"We have data on the performance of >50k engineers from 100s of companies. ~9.5% of software engineers do virtually nothing: Ghost Engineers.”

i've personally worked with "ghost engineers" who get paid double what i make and contribute absolutely nothing. but management is usually aware of them and even complicit in protecting them. surveillance is going to change nothing (except of course violate the privacy for those who are actually contributing)

today i finally updated chrome. i was holding off bc i knew they had added AI bullshit to dev-tools.

Chrome for Developers

What's new in DevTools, Chrome 131 | Blog | Chrome for Developers

Debug CSS with Gemini, annotate findings and get insights in the Performance panel, spot excessive layout shifts and non-composited animations, and...

it's so in your face — "Ask AI" is literally the first option when you open the context menu maybe it's just me, but this thing makes me not even want to open chrome dev-tools.

are there any hosting providers that you know for certain are not problematic in some way?

📝 new blog post: "Your CSS reset should be layered".

Your CSS reset should be layered

Layers are widely available, why not put your reset inside one?

i've been wanting to publish this one ever since i built my own CSS reset. i was waiting until layers were "baseline widely available"

a sign that your CSS might be too powerful is when it breaks all the existing tooling over the last few days i've noticed: - nested cascade layers break vscode's syntax highlighting - emojis in custom properties break biome's and vscode's CSS parsers in different ways - cyclic space toggles break browser devtools