The Valley bubble
6 November 2026 | tagged as AI
Silicon Valley exists in its own reality bubble. It has no experience with being disliked by normal people. The Valley’s position will be damaged permanently, and tech will lose its centre of gravity.
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6 November 2026 | tagged as AI
Silicon Valley exists in its own reality bubble. It has no experience with being disliked by normal people. The Valley’s position will be damaged permanently, and tech will lose its centre of gravity.
29 October 2026 | tagged as AI Testing Viewports
Last week I did my first tests in nearly nine years and an article about meta viewports. While AI can write my article if I give it notes, it cannot do fundamental browser compatibility research. That’s it. That’s the entire blog post.
13 October 2026 | tagged as Testing
For the first time in nine years I created a test suite of two phones. A few things caught my interest - especially UC supporting zoom reflowing, my favourite mobile feature.
6 October 2026 | tagged as AI Monetisation
The tech giants are creating a system with the appeal of a 19th-century factory, complete with oppressed and estranged workers, without delivering the sole benefit: cheaper stuff. After each conversation about AI, ask what the true cost of the tokens would be. Nobody knows, but getting used to asking the question is is a good idea.
21 September 2026 | tagged as Personal
About twenty boxes of books were thrown onto the street from my apartment building. That made me sad, but I’m not going read 98% of them. But they were taken anyway, and quickly. Books aren’t dead. They’re just sleeping.
8 September 2026 | tagged as CSS
I plan to use style containers for centralised breakpoint definitions, combining style queries with CSS nesting. Also, I went down a rabbit hole. Do you know what a container is? And that size containers, the ones with the cqw goodness, are the exception rather than the rule in container land?
2 September 2026 | tagged as Viewports
Fifteen years ago I helped popularise the meta viewport width=device-width,initial-scale=1. Today I found out the second bit is no longer necessary. A retrospective.