By Sam Lambert | July 1, 2025Today we are announcing the private preview of PlanetScale for Postgres: the world’s fastest Postgres hosting platform.You can request access to PlanetScale for Postgres by...
Skip to main contentNewsThe interface design platform that was nearly acquired by Adobe for $20 billion a few years ago is about to start trading on the New York Stock Exchange.The interface design platform...
There is no JavaScript on this page. All the logic is made 100% with pure HTML & CSS. For the best performance, please close other tabs and running programs. View on GitHub, CodePen, benjaminaster.com ⚠︎...
CSS Minecraft (via) Incredible project by Benjamin Aster: There is no JavaScript on this page. All the logic is made 100% with pure HTML & CSS. For the best performance, please close other tabs and...
Jun 26, 2025RSS Server Side Reader May 20, 2025Open Source Can't Coordinate May 19, 2025Profiling...
Jun 24 2025 A new PNG spec was just released! Everyone, go update your 2003 forum avatars. Jokes aside, this is exciting news. PNG is back to its former glory after its progress...
Published on 23 June 2025 So, PNG Third Edition adds Coding Independent Code Points (CICP) for color space identification. What is CICP, why should you care, should you be using it and if so, how? Color...
25th May 2025 Anthropic publish most of the system prompts for their chat models as part of their release notes. They recently shared the new prompts for both Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4. I enjoyed...
Vercel Queues is a message queue service for Vercel apps, now in Limited Beta. It enables background task processing using an append-only log for reliability, with support for pub/sub messaging, streaming, and built-in OIDC authentication.
BotID is a new invisible CAPTCHA layer of protection that stops sophisticated bots before they reach your backend. It's built to secure critical routes like checkouts, logins, and signups or actions that trigger expensive calls like LLM-powered APIs.
Fluid compute now uses Active CPU pricing. Only pay CPU rates when your function is actively computing. Building on existing Fluid gains, this brings additional savings of up to 90% for workloads like LLM calls, AI agents, or tasks with idle time.
Jun 25, 2025 Free and open source, Gemini CLI brings Gemini directly into developers’ terminals — with unmatched access for individuals. Taylor...
AI coding agent, built for the terminal. Installation # YOLO curl -fsSL https://opencode.ai/install | bash # Package managers npm i -g opencode-ai@latest # or bun/pnpm/yarn brew install...
In which we once more delve into the world of user interface design. Autumn 2023 Three years ago, I wrote a rant about the problems of our current UI paradigm. The complaints I voiced were hardly new or...
Earlier this week, it was discovered that the Chicago Sun-Times and the Philadelphia Inquirer had both published an externally-produced "special supplement" that contained facts, experts, and book titles...
1st May 2025 Vibe coding does not mean “using AI tools to help write code”. It means “generating code with AI without caring about the code that is produced”. See Not all AI-assisted programming is vibe...
19th March 2025 Vibe coding is having a moment. The term was coined by Andrej Karpathy just a few weeks ago (on February 6th) and has since been featured in the New York Times, Ars Technica, the Guardian and...
This is a motherfucking website. Seriously, what the fuck else do you want? You probably build websites and think your shit is special. You think your 13 megabyte parallax-ative home page is...
This is still a motherfucking website. Seriously, it takes minimal fucking effort to improve this shit.7 fucking declarations.That's how much CSS it took to turn that grotesque pile of shit into this...
For real.Styling? You probably build websites using vim and you think that's hardcore. You think your 4.99KB motherfuckingwebsite(.com) is going to get you some award to put on your damn footer as a link....
Hey, dipshit! You know what loads faster than your bloated, overengineered mess? Plain, unadulterated HTML. And you know what doesn't break every motherfucking Tuesday? HTML that just fucking works....
An opinionated guide on why and when to use React (or similar JavaScript frameworks) for modern web development, especially for complex, interactive applications. Challenges the 'pure HTML' narrative.
How we’re responding to The New York Times’ data demands in order to protect user privacy
(openai.com)OpenAI is fighting a court order at the demands of The New York Times and plaintiffs, which involves retention of consumer ChatGPT and API user data indefinitely. Learn how we’re working to uphold user privacy, address legal requirements, and stay true to our data protection commitments.