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Jonny Buchanan

@jbscript.dev

Programmer/web developer from Norn Iron living in Australia. I make the Control Panels for the Twitters and the YouTubes, whaddya gonna do? ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ ๐ŸŒ https://jbscript.dev ๐Ÿ› ๏ธ https://soitis.dev

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Remember when web standards didn't style themselves as the alternative/solution to some side-beef with something that was popular in userland for good reason?

Good times

05.03.2026 08:50 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Utility-first CSS frameworks, such as Tailwind, work well for prototyping and smaller projects. Their benefits quickly diminish, however, when used in larger projects involving more than a couple of developers.

Utility-first CSS frameworks, such as Tailwind, work well for prototyping and smaller projects. Their benefits quickly diminish, however, when used in larger projects involving more than a couple of developers.

I love a good Conclusion From Nowhere, like this one in an article about CSS @scope

05.03.2026 08:37 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

(no I did not see the combo breaker)

27.02.2026 07:31 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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It's 100% Mitski day on YouTube for those who celebrate/subscribe

27.02.2026 07:30 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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So many people are cooked

27.02.2026 00:03 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Google search result: No results found for "intense neurodivergence and spite"

Google search result: No results found for "intense neurodivergence and spite"

Literally unusable

25.02.2026 10:51 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
The Harry Hill Show - Stewart Lee
The Harry Hill Show - Stewart Lee YouTube video by HARRY HILL

Monday is now New Licky Day www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhJx...

24.02.2026 16:21 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I like new episodes of The Harry Hill Show. I also like new episodes of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. But which is better? There's only one way to find out...

23.02.2026 10:44 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Now I'm going to have to watch him getting booed at the London Paralympics multiple times today

19.02.2026 01:27 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

CXOs turning a big dial taht says "AI" on it and constantly looking back at nothing but other CXOs and company press releases to try and figure out if they're "behind"

The more things change...

18.02.2026 05:44 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Is there a Kernighan's Law equivalent yet for people generating code they're incapable of reviewing?

17.02.2026 08:15 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Twitter is cooked because they tried to bring the Dim theme back and the additional hues put them over capacity

16.02.2026 13:35 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

As someone who uses the platform on the regular, it would be so nice if HTML had a good built-in way to template chunks of HTML with rendering logic by now

16.02.2026 07:15 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I've fallen into a timeslip and ended up in a 2026 Hacker News thread with people arguing separation of technologies is good actually and typing the definitions of MVC and MVVM at each other

16.02.2026 07:06 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

better than all the rest taiwanese cooking wine

15.02.2026 02:32 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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People literally describing what engineers on good product teams are already doing (good product teams because they _get_ to do it) as The New Way revealed by LLM usageโ€ฝ

15.02.2026 00:12 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

One of us

14.02.2026 16:26 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It can't be overstated how useless it is now

14.02.2026 16:10 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

If you want to mix ads in with stuff - or you want to direct people to content on which more ads or more profitable ads will be shown - you want their experience to be a random mix of algorithmic swill so it doesn't stick out so clearly

14.02.2026 16:07 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Reverse chronological sort is literally the easiest thing you can do, far less intensive than whatever they're doing to calculate the remaining (useless) "Relevance" and "Popularity" filters

14.02.2026 16:05 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
<ExtensionOptions
  iconPath="/images/control-panel-for-youtube.svg"
  name="Control Panel for YouTube"
  safariToolbarIconPath="/images/control-panel-for-youtube-toolbar-icon.svg"
/>

<ExtensionOptions iconPath="/images/control-panel-for-youtube.svg" name="Control Panel for YouTube" safariToolbarIconPath="/images/control-panel-for-youtube-toolbar-icon.svg" />

We ๐Ÿ’– @astro.build

Astro is life

13.02.2026 22:38 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

[object Object]

13.02.2026 19:43 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The notification pip on the Chat nav item will be there forever, so I might just hide it

13.02.2026 13:16 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Green username with clear AI psychosis is so hot right now

12.02.2026 21:01 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

They just aren't prompting the Bluesky user correctly or providing the correct Markdown files

12.02.2026 20:35 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Jus' me and my 3 amigos

12.02.2026 19:31 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Meanwhile they're now also serving about 14,000 lines of Tailwind to every single X user on top of React Native for Web's own stylesheets

12.02.2026 19:27 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Questions like this make me glad every child and now-former-child in my house voluntarily watched the first umpteen seasons of The Simpsons (and no more!) on the USB drive permanently plugged to the TV while they were growing up, so this elder millennial doesn't have to worry about that at home ๐Ÿ˜ฐ

12.02.2026 16:25 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Waiting for the first Hacker News user to go "what if _people_ are just storing chunks of context in Markdown files in their heads?"

And the next one to treat that as a truth universally acknowledged

10.02.2026 12:54 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

When did the "high agency" people realise how they looked and fall back to "ambitious"?

09.02.2026 02:04 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0