Josh

a point that I try to emphasize for independent creators or makers: humility, generally, does *not* pay. It's a trap. You have to put your name out there, and claim your wins.

People think conspiracy theory is a way of thinking, but it's really an argumentation defect where people get greedy with evidence, having to find a route, however ridiculous, from any new phenomenon to a core belief they are invested in defending.

“I know this” is a life on pause. “I don’t know this” is where the future lies.

This is enshittification: Surpluses are first directed to users; then, once they're locked in, surpluses go to suppliers; then once they're locked in, the surplus is handed to shareholders and the platform becomes a useless pile of shit. From mobile app stores to Steam, from Facebook to Twitter, this is the enshittification lifecycle.

DevRel has always been a role that defies simple definition. It’s not marketing, but it overlaps with marketing. It’s not sales, but it supports sales. It’s not customer success, but it builds relationships with users. And it’s certainly not engineering, though it requires technical skills.

It demands a rare combination of traits: technical... See more

Perhaps it's time we had real brutalist UX - websites that minimize the React cruft, and expose the material of the Web as much as possible, so that there is no room for bad work to hide.

Done properly, this would be a flex just as much as brutalist architecture was a flex for the architects.