mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Web components at Microsoft. Co-host at ShopTalk. Previously Luro and Paravel. Blogger.
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Eveyone's saying building a Gundam is getting too complicated these days. But you don't need a Psycommu device, beam saber, or Minovsky particle field generator. You can just build a simple 18m tall space mech.
📝 The number of screenshots of Claude conversations is going up in my life...
It's fun to have friends that make fonts because when my wife is using the Cricut for a little project and needs some font inspo, I look like a goddam hero.
If you need some slam dunks to earn points with your partner:
- Simple Type by @simplebits@mastodon.social https://simplebits.shop/collections/fonts
- Loud Room by @jasonsantamaria@typo.social https://shop.loudroom.com/
- Beasts of England @simonwalker@typo.social https://beastsofengland.co/
Not enough hours in the day…
… to the extent that I need like whole ass days within the hours.
Why finish blog posts when you can work on 20 at the same time and have them be ~60% complete?
ANNOUNCEMENT: Dave Shoe-pert LLC is now Dave AI Compu-pert LLC. 📈
[stocks go up, ticker machine explodes, no one can explain why]
📝 New post about generative AI, friction, and people.
Cool personal website
A div is not a button. Yes, I agree. In fact, what my team has learned is that even if you go thru allllll the effort to make a custom-element (a spicy div) exactly like a button there’s still out-of-the-box browser behaviors that are impossible to replicate and they also keep evolving (popover/invokers). This API fixes that gap, updates with the browser, and should fix some of referencetarget-like issues (eg proxy attributes).
Good post on de-frameworking your frontend from Nuxt/Tailwind to #webcomponents by @wbrowar@hachyderm.io https://wbrowar.com/article/code/refactor-kids-money
🌱 Rolled out a tiny update to my "Link" post template. I used to do `h1 > a[href]` (like Tumblr or DaringFireball) but now I'm copying @ashur@front-end.social's novel treatment of making blog post replies look like social media replies.
I like it a lot. Feels very natural. The placement may change, maybe it makes more sense below the title and in the post body (for RSS). But it's been years since I've done a proper link post, and now this makes me want to to again.
Uninstalled 40 vs-code extensions. Please clap.
📝 A post about small language models in the browser.
https://daverupert.com/2026/05/small-language-models-in-the-browser/
📝 When moving fast, talking is the first thing to break
This will probably come up in therapy today. https://codepen.io/davatron5000/pen/KwNKwYy??editors=0010
hey assholes, the charts are going the wrong way. https://webaim.org/projects/million/
When I grow up I want to be a human in the loop.
Cool tech alert: Password protected content for static sites using WASM from @TheIdOfAlan@hachyderm.io
Coffee continues until morale improves
Random Thoughts:
- I think the case could be made that billionaires and venture capital are inflationary and need to be regulated.
- I think the incentives are off for AI. If AI companies charge per-token, the AI company has every incentive to use as many input/output tokens as possible (or that their infra can support).
- If AI makes you 10x more productive, then that's 10wks worth of work per week. On a team of 10ppl, that's 100wks (2 man-yrs) of work per week. No org is setup to handle that.
A wonderful celebration of Design Engineering by @matthiasott@mastodon.social https://matthiasott.com/articles/design-and-engineering-as-one
📝 New post: 10,000-watt GPU meet 40-watt lump of meat
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https://daverupert.com/2026/04/if-i-could-watt-10-000-florps/
Interesting breakdown on the economics of AI and the actual hard costs of a million inference tokens.
