Josh Collinsworth
Design engineer; writer; maker of https://quina.app and https://playhondo.com; frontend/CSS lover; React critic; dad; lifelong Nintendo fan; progressive; basically the Bluesky stereotype. Currently @ Deno; prev. Shopify. https://joshcollinsworth.com
- Reposted by Josh Collinsworthproduction of The Muppet Show should not be dependent on petty vulgarities like “ratings” or “revenue.” it should be preserved as a vital function of american culture. it should have a taxpayer-funded budget rivaling the CIA
- I've been trying out agentic app building with Claude Code ("vibe coding," some might say) for the past few days. From a passionate dev who just recently crossed that line, I'd like to say: please, please do NOT feel like you're way behind or being displaced if you haven't done this. You're fine.
- Welp guess I have to play through this game for like the 20th time now.
- Hollow Knight is now available on Nintendo Switch 2, Playstation 5 and Xbox Series X|S with higher frame-rates, higher resolution and additional effects! Free upgrade for all Nintendo Switch, PS4 and Xbox players. Additional updates across all platforms. Read the patch notes: tinyurl.com/236k78mb
- Reposted by Josh CollinsworthSir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue
- Nintendo un-releases Metroid Prime 4
- Apropos of nothing: I'm still mad about how bad Metroid Prime 4 was.
- Who named it the Federal Reserve Board and not The Economy Pack
- Reposted by Josh CollinsworthThis has been a long time coming. Super proud of the team - we completely rewrote Deno Deploy in the last year. It's better in every single way than the original. Not to toot our own horn, but I think it's the best place to deploy your Deno/Node.js apps (and frameworks!) Try it at deno.com/deploy!
- Deno Deploy gets new features as it gains GA status. ⭐ Runs any node.js app or framework ⭐ Tunnels ⭐ Postgres databases ⭐ Built-in traces, logs, metrics deno.com/blog/deno-de...
- HUGE day for Deno! 🎉 - The all-new, completely rebuilt Deno Deploy is now in GA - If that weren't enough: we're ALSO launching Deno Sandbox! Deno Sandboxes are on-demand, isolated safe zones that run on Deno Deploy. Perfect for running any untrusted code (like from an LLM, or from end users).
- It's wild that he kidnapped another nation's President exactly one month ago, and he's done so many other awful, batshit things since then I feel like we've already forgotten.
- Do you ever think about how Mario 64 has three different main level themes that are just slightly different arrangements of the exact same song, and if not can you please tell me how
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NINTENDO BUILT THIS THING IN 1996… WITH 4MB OF RAM- Project Genie is an an experimental research prototype that Google gave @jaypeters.net access to this week, though he may not be using it in exactly the way Google intended. Here's Jay's version of something like Super Mario 64: www.theverge.com/news/869726/...
- I am very ready for the era of black websites with dim gray text to be over.
- The triumph and embarrassment of solving a problem in 5 minutes on Monday morning, after you spent most of your Friday afternoon fighting it and getting nowhere
- I don't know how to explain this but in the Midwest there are 49 days in February.
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- Reposted by Josh CollinsworthHey, um… get off X. They monetize societal division and amplify hate. Posting content there gives people a reason to stay and you enable their brainwashing and revisionism. One of the greatest things you can do right now is help unplug the billionaire machine and eject from the attention economy.
- Wowsers look at what happened to posts on Twitter/X about London crime after monetisation of posts was introduced… economist.com/britain/2026...
- There should be a real UI/UX Hell, and every stakeholder involved in putting a sticky video at the top of articles deserves to go there.
- I've been replaying Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance (the GameCube one) on Nintendo Switch Online, and I gotta tell ya: The story about a ragtag group of basically ordinary people that dares to defy an evil, insane, racist king who's invading their homeland hits a little different in 2026.
- It's always struck me how little empirical evidence there is that AI actually saves time, given how widely accepted the idea seems to be. No company has more motivation to prove it than Anthropic—yet their own study confirms the speed gain is not only insignificant, but carries *steep* penalties.
- Friday spicy take: lot of the OS packages that are better/lighter/more secure/more accessible versions of existing things are not actually accomplishing anything, because those packages don't work with the frameworks people are using…and so they only get used by devs who don't need them.
- Reposted by Josh Collinsworth2006: Less is more, don’t repeat yourself 2016: Beautiful code prevents technical debt 2026: trillions of lines of generated spaghetti code that generate other spaghetti code will save us
- Classic blunder. By passing a double law, Democrats would be setting Republicans up perfectly to issue their own triple dog dare law.
- My most lukewarm UI take is that when you click to open a new app, it should get priority ONLY if you don't do anything else before it opens. If you move to a different app while that one's loading, it should just open in the background and not suddenly yank you out of whatever you were doing.
- Reposted by Josh Collinsworthby popular request i have turned the meme into a blog post, which explains how it works, links to the template file and includes a selection of examples from the thread #KirbyFraming
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- Love it when I find out I already built the functionality I need into a component in a forgotten moment of foresight.
- If I have to search the web to figure out how to disable a feature in your app, you've utterly failed at design.
- Baseline Limited availability Baseline Newly available Baseline Widely available Baseline Everywhere but runs like absolute ass in Safari
- Reposted by Josh Collinsworthupdated this post about how AI is firstly an anti-labor technology with the recent news that Pinterest is announcing layoffs under the hand-wavey justification that they'll be "focusing on AI". henry.codes/writing/ai-a...
- 📝 this thread, now a bit more permanently, on the blog: henry.codes/writing/ai-a...
- Reposted by Josh Collinsworthanyone do this one yet?
- Reposted by Josh Collinsworthannouncement 1.1
- Pretty cool [sarcastic] how Safari completely ignores website theme color now, and can unilaterally decide to make the menu bar transparent instead, so it shows stuff that should be offscreen, and which *is* offscreen in literally every other browser (like these buttons). 🙃 Great work, Apple.
- So basically "hey, bro, we're fine with everything you're doing! Just next time maybe loop us in, and don't do it where white people might be, ok? Sound good?"
- Dems coalescing around 5 restrictions on ICE, I'm told: DHS required to cooperate with state probes (big) CBP stays at border warrants for arrests IDs, bodycams ICE out of churches, schools "That package unites a lot of Dems," Sen Chris Murphy tells me on the pod: newrepublic.com/article/2057...
- @thinkygames.com Are you aware that your website blocks zoom? (On Android, at least.) This makes puzzles like today's, which require closely inspecting an image, needlessly difficult on mobile; I have to open the image in its own tab to zoom in. I suspect maybe this is caused by a bad meta tag.
- Didn't need another reason to hate OpenAI/ChatGPT. I've got a whole cabinet full of 'em at home. But sure, why not, let's pick up one more.
- I haven't figured out how to explain this yet but: I think a lot of problems stem from a cultural misunderstanding that language is the immutable law that defines reality, when the relationship is actually the opposite; reality is the constant, and language is a flawed, variable shared model of it.
