Rich is a real treasure in the web development sphere, and this was a personal highlight for me. Thanks Rich Harris for flying all the way to Paris to answer my nerdy questions!

'how should you manage content' seems like a narrow question about technical merits but is really about data sovereignty and resilience and which constituencies get prioritised, so this was a good opportunity for me to ramble about things close to my heart

between the french elections, the tories' absolute pasting, the wilting of the trump campaign, and today's scenes of normal british people outnumbering invertebrate xenophobes a zillion to one, it's starting to feel like humanity might do okay after all? not used to this

this runes walkthrough is probably the smoothest a live coding demo has ever gone for me:

i get asked this question "(how) should i write my own framework?" a ton but i think this is the first time i've properly shared my thoughts on the record. we cover a lot of other ground too! really fun (for me) conversation

every damn day

The Call for Proposals closes on September 14th. There are still three weeks left to submit your proposals.

this was hard! you can see the before/after in the PR in simon's thread. a cool thing about using WAAPI to drive everything is that even impossible-to-implement-with-CSS transitions, like this typewriter effect, are perfectly synchronised with everything svelte-5-preview.vercel.app/#H4sIAAAAAAAAE…

imagine if we got rid of all the advertisement and big business marketing shit off the internet and things looked like this instead