Summary: author is a fan of the new sizes="auto" and loading="lazy" browser features.

thanks, i couldn't bother reading the thing due to the ridiculous chest-thumping and self-aggrandizing.

There's two ways of setting a tone. One is to make the reader think/conclude a certain feeling. The second method is to tell them to feel the thing you want them to feel.

This article tells me to hype myself up, which had the exact opposite effect

He does ramble on and on about how awesome he is, and is enamored of the sound of his own voice.

I will say, it's now a little easier to understand why `srcset` and `sizes` are the way they are

Not everything you disliked reading is just probably AI slop https://piccalil.li/about/:

> Workers first, AI technologies, dead last

> AI and LLMs are rooted in theft, exploitation, dishonesty and are over-promoted with ill-intentions for workers. Instead of running towards AI, we’re focusing on what’s actually important: content that helps people to succeed that is never produced by AI tools.

The style is definitely the over hyped and well expanded tone that AI is trained to mimic for sure though.

Also, at a moment when "AI" appears in practically all tech marketing, in this environmental impact report they manage to not mention at all the impact of their ChatGPT integration or their plans for an upgraded Siri.

From the company that popularized completely unrepairable earbuds with non-replaceable batteries.

What other company has ever sold wireless earbuds with a replaceable battery?

Fairphone. https://www.fairphone.com/fairbuds

Fairphone has the Fairbuds

They missed out on the massive trademark lawsuit over “Fairpods Pro”.

On a couple of different Ghost sites I maintain, I got suspicious sign-ups from travel-related domains that require email verification.

I suspect they might have used OpenClaw to accomplish the email verification step (no evidence) and were setting themselves up for later comment spam.

Even if you aren't using OpenClaw, it may be using you!

It appears Cloudflare is responding to a legal requirement to implement this IP blocking.

https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/cloudflar...

That's apparently mostly from Google to be the default search engine in Firefox. Diversifying their income streams is a good move.

The MZLA company that makes Thunderbird is also working on improving self-funding by launching a Thunderbird-branded webmail service.

Also need a split keyboard so a cat can sleep in between the halves.

Frustrating that FedRAMP is both a pain to get compliant with and also apparently is not a strong signal of actual security.

I see you've never worked in a compliance environment before.

And may such evil days never come to past

How is the original author making out in the new arrangement?

Jason Evans worked for Facebook for almost two decades, starting in 2009 - https://jasone.github.io/2025/06/12/jemalloc-postmortem/

He's doing just fine. If you're looking for a story about a FAANG company not paying engineers well for their work, this isn't it.

X already owned it.

Yeah well Google owns my Gmail address, but they'd sure ruin my life if they gave it to someone else. It's not acceptable.