DigitalOcean has $3 million for DHH and nothing for CSS-Tricks
A week and a bit on UpCloud, deleting my DigitalOcean account after more than 10 years, and what DigitalOcean is doing to CSS-Tricks, one of the best places on the whole internet.
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You Are The Driver (The AI Is Just Typing)
I've been using AI coding agents daily for a few months, and the thing that shifted my thinking was a simple reframe: LLMs automate typing, not thinking. The craft is still yours.
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Making my blog feel like other people are here
I wired my homepage up with playhtml so dragging a sticker, waving the hand, or starting a song all happen for everyone who's on the page at the same time. Notes on what I built and why I keep chasing this "we're all here together" feeling.
CSS @scope: Scoped Styles Without Shadow DOM
How to use the new @scope at-rule for targeted, proximity-aware CSS styling
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What I think about "pacing" the frontier
Dario, Sam, and Elon agreed to slow down AI on the same Saturday, a month before Anthropic's IPO. I think it's a business story.
Leaving DigitalOcean, one site at a time
DigitalOcean is giving $3 million to the foundation behind DHH's Omarchy. I'd already moved my sites off it that weekend, so here's how the move went.
What's missing from atmoBB
I built a forum on atproto and skipped notifications. Turns out the whole network skipped them too.
Why I'm canceling 1Password
1Password is giving $300,000 to the foundation behind DHH's Omarchy. I don't want my subscription paying for that, so I'm leaving.
I built an avatar builder three times Leaflet ↗
One of those times was also an entire plugin system but that got ripped out ðŠĶ Now it's a cute little standalone site!
The Manager's Job Is Presence
(and Other Things AI Won't Do for You)
ðŽ I Love Boosters
Why I love the For You feed
The best algorithm on Bluesky runs off somebody's gaming PC.
Claude is not a compiler, and neither am I
The way I actually write code now, and the piece that finally described it back to me.
Making my blog feel like other people are here
I wired my homepage up with playhtml so dragging a sticker, waving the hand, or starting a song all happen for everyone who's on the page at the same time. Notes on what I built and why I keep chasing this "we're all here together" feeling.
Trialing Happyview Leaflet ↗
Before starting on the forum aspect, I needed to know if I was going to be responsible for all of the atproto again (hopefully not) and wanted to try Happyview
How did we end up here?
The Graham Platner campaign didn't collapse out of nowhere. It collapsed on schedule.
Generative OG Images
I made all my posts standard.site compatible last weekend, which means I can write in pckt.blog, Leaflet, or Offprint and have the post show up on keith.is. This is my first one from pckt ð ð ð!! I'd been using a combination of Tina, and just writing in my editor. Then I went to share one of those posts on bluesky to see the cool new embed and saw that.... and my old OG image. I think I spent fifteen minutes on it once when I migrated from eleventy to Astro, gave it some bright colors and a shap...
your app can run its own pds Leaflet ↗
The screenshot loop
A small workflow that turned UI work with Claude from a slog into something that actually converges. Take a screenshot, compare to the brief, fix the biggest gap, repeat, and let the agent run the loop.
ask me anything: private data on pollen.place Leaflet ↗
pollen just got an AMA feature, and it works differently from everything else on the site. everything else â posts, reblogs, follows, reactions â is written directly to your PDS.
Pulling Leaflet posts into Astro as a content source
A custom content-layer loader that fetches Leaflet documents from the ATProto PDS and renders them as first-class blog posts
Peaches
A ginger cat showed up shivering against my fence. I named him Peaches like two minutes after meeting him. I knew that was dangerous. And yet.
the media problem Leaflet ↗
right now you can upload blobs to the PDS with no limitations. that'll have to change some day