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Today I finally made the shift from ChatGPT to Claude. GPT largely remains a sycophant, and Claude appears to be leagues ahead in terms of code generation. Let's see if there's any noticeable difference in the upcoming weeks.
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Kiddo woke me up for a middle of the night potty break, asked me if I "never had a toolbox" (?!) while I settled him back down, and now I'm wired and reading the Bluesky outrage postmortem.
I do love a good postmortem. There's another referenced at the end:
pckt.blog/b/jcalabro/a...April 2026 Outage Post-Mortem - Jim's PcktHey all! I'm Jim, and I do system-y things at Bluesky. I'm here to give you some details about what happened on Monday of this week that caused Bluesky to go do...
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not Meat!nixCraft
cyberciti.bizThe Facebook and Instagram owner Meat will lay off about 10% of its global workforce, or close to 8,000 employees, in that initial round. Layoffs linked to AI-driven push. AI is responsible for job losses. Nobody is safe in IT & other office jobs www.reuters.com/world/meta-t...3
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I forgot one of the most important recommendations for tracking (and predicting) your child's sleeping pattern:
App - HuckleberryAndrew James
ajames.devIn honour of my kid turning one at the weekend, here’s my list of recommendations that saw us through. Hopefully it’ll help any new parents out there!
Sleepwear - MORI
Book - Maybe (Chris Haughton)
Food - Nuby bottles
Toys - Lovevery
Music - Brent Holmes0
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"A recent change to CSS fixes this: position: sticky now plays nice with single-axis scrollers, allowing you to have sticky elements that track different scroll containers on different axes." www.bram.us/2026/03/30/c...
Yay to more practical #CSS upgrades!CSS position: sticky now sticks to the nearest scroller on a per axis basis!If you’ve ever tried to build a data table with a sticky header and a sticky first column, you know the pain. You’d think a simple position: sticky with top: 0 and left: 0 would be enough, but the rea...
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